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Strap in for a new round of competitive VR gaming in Renegade Royale

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Dark Horse Books presents Renegade Royale, the follow-up to Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein, and Sam Beck’s GLAAD Media Award-nominated queer VR gaming graphic novel, Renegade Rule. Kahn and Silverstein return to write the sequel with Sam Beck illustrating, and Jim Campbell lettering. The team returns in the new volume, out Summer 2025. 

Since their defeat at the VR gaming championship for Renegade Rule, the team members of the Manhattan Mist haven’t lost an ounce of momentum. So when a new brawl mode is introduced to the game—along with a sponsored inaugural competition—they’re in it to win it (again)! But in this tournament, only one player can be crowned champion. Get ready for a burgeoning romance between two team members, all-new character classes, and new rivals who will push Tonya, Sasha, Amanda and Jessie to their very limits. Whether or not the Mist can make some time between jokes, swears, and stolen glances to make one of their own a VR gaming champion remains to be seen!

Renegade Royale (paperback, 120 pages, 6.625” x 10.1875”) will be available wherever books are sold on July 29, 2025. It is now available to preorder from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $19.99

Renegade Royale

Alex Vede’s Riptide takes readers to chilling depth

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Ahead of Alex Vede’s Dark Horse Books debut with Yucatan 1512 (May 2025), Dark Horse has unveiled another planned release: Vede’s original graphic novel, Riptide. Vede helms this exploration of oceanic mystery and deception as writer and artist with his signature style of immersive landscapes, taking readers on a journey through the Cold War era and into lost cities beneath the sea.

The secretive NARWAL organization is hiding powerful secrets during the most contentious point of the Cold War. One marine biologist, Max, is drawn into the mysteries surrounding whale communications that mention the legendary Ceto—an advanced underwater civilization believed to be a myth. If Max is forced to choose between his loyalty to humanity and the opportunity to bring about peace with the last inhabitants of the lost city of Atlantis, will he risk everything and save both species?

Ancient grudges and a forgotten nemesis threaten to undermine the world we know, but the depths of the ocean just may hold the key to a new beginning—or a grisly end to everything.

This epic bid for survival, Riptide, a 240-page (6.625” x 10.1875”) paperback, arrives in bookstores on August 19, 2025, and comic shops on August 20, 2025, for $24.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local comic shop or bookstore.

Riptide

Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In gets an updated and expanded edition

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Dark Horse Books presents Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, an updated and expanded art book-sized hardcover edition of the long out-of-print collection written by cult film host, author, and actor Joe Bob Briggs. This expanded and newly designed edition includes a new cover by Wallace McBride, interior artwork illustrated by Mike Norton and colored by Bill Crabtree, and an introduction by Stephen King.

Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In features Briggs’ first columns for The Dallas Times Herald, essays on beloved horror classics like Basket Case, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Evil Dead, his famous B-movie reviews, fan letters and his replies, and Briggs’ adventures as the world’s foremost expert on drive-ins. This hardcover book is presented in a prose format with illustrations based on the text interspersed throughout the text.

Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In (200 pages, hardcover, 9″ x 12″) will be available in comic shops and bookstores on October 15, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things from Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $54.99.

Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In

Travel abroad for a murder mystery with I Am Their Silence

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Dark Horse Books presents I Am Their Silence, a new murder mystery graphic novel from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Jordi Lafebre. Written and illustrated by Lafebre, lettered by Cromatik, Ltd., and translated by Montana Kane, this story tackles themes of mental health, trauma, and the complexities of family dynamics.

Eva is a brilliant psychiatrist, but when she finds the Monturos family patriarch dead the night before a party discussing the family’s future and their wine-making empire, Eva is catapulted into a web of intrigue and deception. With her name on the suspect list, Eva transforms into an amateur sleuth out of obsession more than self-defense.

Guided by the voices of her dead relatives, who seem to haunt her wherever she goes, Eva journeys through Barcelona to uncover the real killer, all while dealing with the Monturos family’s trouble and, seemingly, her own.

I Am Their Silence was originally published by Darguad in France, where it was a finalist for the Association of French-Language Comics (ACBD) Grand Critics Prize in 2024 and an Angoulême Official Crime Thriller Selection in 2024.

I Am Their Silence (hardcover, 112 pages, 7” x 10”) will be available wherever books are sold on July 1, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $24.99.

I Am Their Silence

Continue the Quest and Enter the Shadows of Blue Mountain in Elfquest: The Original Quest: Book 3 – Wolf Blood Caged

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Coming soon from Dark Horse Books, the latest collection of one of the most influential fantasy series of all time, ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 3—Wolf Blood Caged is now available for pre-order from book and comic retailers. Now is an excellent time for new readers to discover ElfQuest, and for longtime fans to revisit a classic, as the whole series returns in these beautiful new editions. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 arrives in bookstores on March 4, 2025, and Book 2 on May 27, 2025. From creators Wendy and Richard Pini, ElfQuest: The Original Quest is being newly released in a four-volume series showcasing the entire story, now in full color for the first time at Dark Horse.

ElfQuest is a New York Times bestseller that weaves together the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders—the feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves, seemingly the last of their kind. Their journey to find a home in a dangerous world is a story about inclusiveness, self-discovery, finding community and overcoming the forces of bigotry and hate—all wrapped in a visually stunning high-fantasy adventure. Wendy Pini’s artwork blends eastern and western artistic conventions into a new and unique style.

“Blue Mountain, lair of the Bird Spirits.” With these words, Cutter and Skywise imagine their quest to find other elfin allies may be close to completion. The companions have no idea their hopes will be upended. Imperious Lord Voll rules Blue Mountain and the hawk-riding elves who dwell within, and he wishes no intrusion upon his Gliders’ isolated way of life. Even Voll’s presence pales before the hostility of the true power in the mountain—the treacherous, seductive Winnowill. She will stop at nothing to prevent the Wolfriders from threatening her invisible hold on the Gliders.

Continue the Quest of a lifetime when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 3—Wolf Blood Caged hits bookstores and comic shops on August 19, 2025. This 192-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book features a cover that complements the rest of the Original Quest set, and is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, from TFAW, Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore.

ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 3—Wolf Blood Caged

Revel Guts’ queer fantasy saga Sparks continues with Royalty

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Dark Horse Books and Revel Guts continue to bring the hit queer fantasy webcomic to print in Sparks Volume 2: Royalty. A new life begins for fate-entwined satyrs, Philo and Atlas, and along with it rises a string of new challenges and mysteries. Fans of series such as Naruto and Heartstopper will want to add this new fantasy series to their collection.

After a shocking graduation day full of surprises, Philo and Atlas arrive at the palace to begin their new lives. Philo is quickly taken under the wing of the Arch Mage’s flirtatious younger brother, Pallas, and is shown the ropes of daily royal life. Meanwhile, Atlas begins his brutal apprenticeship and uncovers some unsettling truths about his future. All is not what it seems as shadowy figures continue to pull the strings behind the scenes.

Will Philo and Atlas be able to navigate this twisted web and find their way back to one another? And just why is the Arch Mage so interested in Philo…?

Sparks Volume 2: Royalty (176 pages, 5.125” x 7.25”, paperback) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on July 15, 2025. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, TFAW, and wherever books and comics are sold. The book will retail for $19.99. 

Sparks Volume 2: Royalty

The Richard Corben Library adds Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories to the collection

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Dark Horse Books presents Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories, the next volume in the Richard Corben Library. This masterpiece, written and illustrated by the celebrated artist, Grand Prix at Angoulême award-winner, and Will Eisner Hall of Fame member Richard Corben, collects a trilogy of werewolf stories in a beautiful hardcover edition. This volume includes a new introduction by Hayao Miyazaki, a postface by project art director José Villarrubia, a cover gallery, original lettering scripts, and more.

Rowlf is a postmodern take on Beauty and the Beast that mixes high fantasy with dystopian science fiction. The Beast of Wolfton and its sequel, The Spirit of the Beast, are ironic love stories of a werewolf family saga. The book closes with a poignant free adaptation of one of the Japanese legends by Lafcadio Hearn called The Story of Oteg.

Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories (128 pages, hardcover, 6.625″ x 10.1875″) will be available in bookstores on August 4, 2025 and in comic shops on August 5, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $39.99.

Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories

The EC Archives expand with The Complete Moon Girl

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Dark Horse Books presents The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl, written by Gardner Fox and Dorothy Roubicek and illustrated by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. This hardcover volume collects Moon Girl #1-8, all Moon Girl stories published in other EC titles, and EC Comics’ first horror story “Zombie Terror” featured in issue #5, scanned from the original comics and digitally restored in this new edition. It also includes a foreword by Grant Geissman, designer and content curator of The Complete Moon Girl.  

The Complete Moon Girl collects the amazing adventures of Claire Lune and Lionel Manning—Moon Girl and the Prince—who together fend off invaders from other planets as well as fight crime, and who “dedicate themselves to the task of creating a better world.”

The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl (368 pages, hardcover, 8.1875” x 10.9375”) will be available in bookstores July 1, 2025 and comic shops on July 2, 2025. It is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $59.99.

The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl

Ready those Proton Packs The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History arrives Summer 2025

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Dark Horse Books presents The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History, a new full-color art book chronicling the history of the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. Written by Troy Benjamin and Craig Goldberg, The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History will be available in both a hardcover edition and a deluxe edition in Summer 2025.

A global phenomenon, Ghostbusters made the trans-dimensional sidestep to animation with 1986’s The Real Ghostbusters. The Saturday morning cartoon was an incredible success and was acclaimed for its storytelling, fantastical animation, and a voice cast that became as synonymous with the characters as the live-action actors who originated them. A simultaneous toy launch from Kenner ectoplasmatically energized the property with some of the most memorable, most beloved, weirdest, and best-selling toys in popular culture.

Fans can now get a behind-the-scenes look at their favorite animated series in The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History. This franchise overview combines rare and never-before-seen visuals, including conceptual artwork, storyboards, script excerpts, internal memos, packaging art, unseen prototypes, abandoned concepts, and brand-new stunning photography with new and exclusive interviews in the hardcover edition.

The art book will also be available in a deluxe edition, which includes an exclusive firehouse-inspired slipcase, a folio enclosing two acetate “animation cel” replicas, and a unique firehouse flagpole ribbon bookmark.

The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History (9” x 12”, 240 pages, hardcover)will be available in bookstores on July 8, 2025 and in comic shops on July 9, 2025. It is now available to pre-order for $49.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, TFAW, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore.  

The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History Deluxe Edition (9” x 12”, 240 pages, hardcover)will also be available in bookstores on June 17, 2025 and in comic shops on June 18, 2025. It is now available to pre-order for $99.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, TFAW, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore. 

There is more to explore with visionary artist Lauren Marx in Sacred Decay

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Dive deep into a gallery of texture and intensity in Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx—Second Edition, from Dark Horse Books in partnership with celebrated artist Lauren Marx. Hailing from Saint Louis, Missouri, Marx showcases a timeless and thought-provoking art style full of birds, beasts, fish, and plants, which are intertwined and blended into a deeper exploration of the cycle of birth and destruction. After multiple printings, a new edition will arrive in 2025, featuring additional materials to celebrate the unique art of Lauren Marx!

Marx utilizes an impressive eye for detail to depict fruiting fungus, halos of moths around macabre animals, and darkly exquisite designs of life and death. This second edition of the celebrated collection features new cover art, an expanded sketchbook section, and an all-new introduction by Lauren Marx herself.

Ensure the second edition of Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx has a prominent spot in your art library by pre-ordering the hardcover volume now for $44.99. The 144-page (9.5” x 12”) hardcover art book will be available in bookstores on July 22, 2025, and comic shops on July 24, 2025. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx
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