SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET – AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! ~ Oni Press has announced Dark Regards #1 – THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK! From the mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill and breakout artist Artyom Topilin comes the SHOCKINGLY TRUE, TERRIFYINGLY HILARIOUS, AND ONLY MODESTLY EXAGGERATED tale of how one stand-up comedian forged a secret online identity as America’s first true black metal icon . . .and started an international incident that almost wiped Gary, Indiana off the map!

Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his first band set out to rock their high school auditorium in a fury of heavy metal hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a new life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scene – a career where getting laughed at on stage is the entire point and not just a tragic consequence. But when Dave’s metal ambitions are re-awakened by the über self-serious, “Satanic” genre of Norwegian black metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a band to match that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten rock ‘n roll fantasy. But when Dave’s internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint – a metal band “so extreme that you must remove all sharp objects from the immediate area” when their music is played – spreads all the way to Europe, his story will spiral dangerously out of control as Norway’s most extreme black metal butchers come to reap their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave holds dear in the crosshairs (of their axes, which, truth be told, don’t actually have crosshairs, but, hey, it’s a metaphor).

FOR REAL: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THE DOSE OF HELLFIRE THAT IS DARK REGARDS #1 – laying siege (the old-fashioned medieval way with cool, long ladders and boiling oil and maces and stuff) to comic shops everywhere on May 13th with Artyom Topiin, Andrew Krahnke, Scott Sugiuchi, Brian Level and an ultra-special top-secret one WE CAN’T TALK ABOUT YET from Dave Hill himself.