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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

Dark Horse Books Presents Ripperland

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Jack the Ripper has returned to stalk the streets of London once more in the new LGBTQ+ mystery thriller comic, Ripperland. The series, released initially in four single issues, will now be collected in one complete paperback volume. It is co-written by multi-award nominated creators Steve Orlando and John Harris Dunning , with art and cover art by Alessandro Oliveri, colors by Francesca Vivaldi, and letters by Fabio Amelia.

The year is 2188, and Jack the Ripper has returned to London. For the last century, a shattered post-Brexit England has operated as a massive Victorian theme park in exchange for American military and financial protection. But when an American mogul’s grandson is killed in the heart of London, the delicate status quo is threatened. Is the killer a brilliant maniac? Americans taking advantage of their superior technology? Or the English Underground Resistance, wishing to throw off the yoke of American oppression and rejoin the modern world? American Special Agent Jesse Holden and local British Police Detective Edwin Fogg must overcome their clashing ideologies in order to find the truth in the foggy streets of 22nd-century London.

The Ripperland (136 pages, 6.625 x 10.1875”) paperback collection stalks the shelves of bookstores on September 9, 2025 and comic shops on September 10, 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.

Ripperland

Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s Bandette is back at Dark Horse!

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Teen burglar Bandette is back, continuing the three-time Eisner Award-winning story of the world’s greatest thief in Bandette Volume 5: The Wedding of B.D. Belgique. Writer and artist team Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover continue to weave the adventures of Bandette, the thorn in the side of both the police and the criminal underworld in this new volume. Collecting episodes 19-22 of the digital comic, originally serialized by the creators themselves online, this fifth volume will be available in a hardcover edition from Dark Horse Books in July 2025.

Bandette has taken her city by storm, breaking hearts and stealing masterpieces with an oddball group of associates and enemies. When a mysterious new villain known only as the Voice makes their debut, Bandette sets her sights on stopping them! But the Voice always seems to be one step ahead, so Bandette decides it’s time to bring in reinforcements. Calling on friends and enemies alike, Bandette and crew discover that the key to taking down the Voice is locked on the other side of the altar, and it’s time to get ready for the wedding of B.D. Belgique.

Join Bandette for her greatest heist yet, Bandette Volume 5: The Wedding of B.D. Belgique. The 144-page (6” x 9”) hardcover collection will be available at bookstores on July 15, 2025, and comic shops on July 16, 2025, for $17.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore or comic shop.

Bandette Volume 5: The Wedding of B.D. Belgique

Mike Allred’s Madman is getting Collected in Six new Omnibus Paperback Editions

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Dark Horse Books presents Madman Omnibus Editions, new paperback editions collecting Mike Allred’s homage to superhero fiction, metaphysical philosophy, 1950s sci-fi films, pop music, and more. From Madman’s first appearance through his mysterious origins to his adventures throughout time, space, and pop-art absurdity, follow Frank Einstein’s superhero alter ego Madman as he adventures through Snap City and encounters many zany and timeless characters and villains in this true humorous and heartfelt comic book classic!

Madman Omnibus Volume 1 will be available in stores on June 24, 2024 and will include stories written and illustrated by Allred with colors by Laura Allred and Han Allred. It also collects Madman’s adventures from 1990 to 1996, reprinting “For the Record,” Madman (original series) 1–3, Madman Adventures 1–3, and Madman Comics 1–10, Mike Allred’s never-before-published first foray into comics called THEY!, and featuring bonus pinups and art by some of comics’ greatest talent like Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Frank Frazetta, Emily Carroll, and more!

Madman Omnibus Volume 1 (6.625” x 10.1875”, 680 pages) will be available in bookstores June 24, 2025 and comic shops on June 25, 2025. It is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $49.99.

Madman Omnibus Volume 1

The Art of Star Wars Outlaws is now available to pre-order

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The previously announced The Art of Star Wars Outlaws book is now available for pre-order from Dark Horse Books. Developed by Massive Entertainment in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars Outlaws gives players the opportunity to explore iconic and new locations across the galaxy, as Kay Vess—a scoundrel seeking freedom from her past with her companion Nix. As the unlikely duo embark on a galaxy-spanning series of high-stakes missions with the ever-watchful droid ND-5 by their side, they constantly risk running afoul of rival syndicates or falling into the clutches of the evil Galactic Empire.

The Art of Star Wars Outlaws explores the creation of this underworld adventure with an expertly designed assembly of thrilling imagery and intimate insights from the game’s creators. Readers can acquaint themselves with charming rogues, plunge into alien environments, examine exotic tools and weapons, and see how Kay Vess was made to defy the odds.

The Art of Star Wars Outlaws hardcover volume will be available for purchase in bookstores July 8, 2025 and comic retailers on July 9, 2025 for $49.99. The 9” x 12”, 224-page volume is now available for pre-order from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.

The Art of Star Wars Outlaws

Dark Horse Books presents As the Paths Converge: Sojourners’ Saga Book Two

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Coming soon from Dark Horse Books, Chad Corrie’s young adult fantasy series continues in As the Paths Converge: Sojourners’ Saga, featuring cover art by Dan Burgess and appendices to enrich the reading experience. Known for his adult fantasy trilogy, The Wizard King, Corrie’s newest series is perfect for fans of the Grishaverse, The Bone Witch trilogy, and the Throne of Glass series. 

Sarah and Elliott wake to a grim morning: a fallen city, a slain army, and a congregation. And yet, each still must go on, no matter the cost.

For Elliott has a mission he must undertake, a sacred vow to perform for his fallen comrades-in-arms. And Sarah must continue her sojourn, now seeking a new congregation along with the Veiled City.

And yet, the longer they wander, the more they find their paths crossing, leading them on a journey that will take them into an even more uncertain and dangerous future. For elsewhere, the embers of a final grand campaign are flaring into life.

Hope and duty. Conviction and faith. All will be put to the test…as the paths converge.

As the Paths Converge: Sojourners’ Saga Book Two TPB (352 pages) will be in bookstores on May 13, 2025 and in comic shops on May 14, 2025. It is now available to pre-order for $19.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore. 

As the Paths Converge: Sojourners’ Saga Book Two TPB
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