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Dark Horse announces Minor Threats: The Cleaner

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Gerry Duggan, Mark Torres, Patton Oswalt, and Jordan Blum return to the world of Minor Threats with Minor Threats: The Cleaner! This pulse-pounding four-issue noir series will be written by Duggan, Oswalt, and Blum, illustrated, colored, and designed by Torres, and lettered by Nate Piekos. Issue #1 will feature cover art by Scott Hepburn, Torres, Subversive Girl, Declan Shalvey, and Jae Lee. The Cleaner originally appeared in the anthology, From the World of Minor Threats: Welcome to Twilight, but this new series is perfect both for readers familiar with Minor Threats and those who are new to the universe.

Twilight City is a hard place to live—and an easier place to die. But some bodies never make the headlines. When the capes make a mess too big to bury, they call one number: THE CLEANER.

By day, David O’Halloran is a struggling small-business owner. By night, he’s the spandex world’s last call for cleanup—disposing of the un-disposable with precision, secrecy, and a price. But when his path crosses with the deadly and dazzling Diamond Dahlia, everything changes. She has a secret past with the legendary vigilante The Insomniac, and it’s about to erupt onto the blood-slicked streets.

Minor Threats: The Cleaner #1 (of 4) will be available in comic shops on November 11, 2026. It is now available for preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.

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Putty Pygmalion

It’s new comic book day! What are you all getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

Publisher’s Weekly – HarperAlley Expands into Adult Graphic Novels, Manga, and Manhwa – The more the merrier.

The Hollywood Reporter – Patton Oswalt Comic Book ‘Minor Threats’ Heading to Television at Netflix – Nice! This is a fun comic series and should translate well.

The Beat – Alternative publisher Silver Sprocket introduce monthly Membership subscription service – This is such a great idea.

Hugo Awards – Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Statement – Oh, Hugos…

Reviews

The Beat – Gleem
The Beat – Putty Pygmalion

Preview: Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #3

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Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #3

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum (A/CA) Scott Hepburn
In Shops: Jun 05, 2024
SRP: $4.99

Loretta Follis has been a mother, a grandmother and an infamous supercrook named Toy Queen… but tonight she’s become a target. When a group of ruthless teen heroes come to her apartment complex to capture her as bait for her daughter Frankie, Loretta decides to pick up her Jack-in-the-Box gun for one last fight. It’s octogenarian supervillain vs tween sidekick psychopaths in brutal winner takes all. The body count will rise in a story we call “Last Stand at La Leyenda.”

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #3

Preview: Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

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Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum (A/CA) Scott Hepburn
In Shops: Apr 03, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The hit superhero saga that’s Watchmen meets The Wire returns from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum and superstar artist Scott Hepburn. Frankie Follis AKA the costumed criminal Playtime has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero The Insomniac and its greatest villain The Stickman are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel her consigliere is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown. In the vein of Sin City, Black Hammer, and The Boys, this noir-ish superhero caper, focuses on a lower-class kind of criminal, similar to the Coen Bros most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains.

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

Preview: Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

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Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum (A/CA) Scott Hepburn
In Shops: Apr 03, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The hit superhero saga that’s Watchmen meets The Wire returns from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum and superstar artist Scott Hepburn. Frankie Follis AKA the costumed criminal Playtime has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero The Insomniac and its greatest villain The Stickman are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel her consigliere is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown. In the vein of Sin City, Black Hammer, and The Boys, this noir-ish superhero caper, focuses on a lower-class kind of criminal, similar to the Coen Bros most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains.

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

From the world of Minor Threats, Barfly buzzes into shops in July!

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Dark Horse Comics is buzzing with some exciting news: the world of Minor Threats continues expanding with a new spinoff series, Barfly! Comic book legend Kyle Starks joins Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum on writing duties on a feel-good, coming-of-age series about an insect monster-man searching for his identity in the criminal underworld of Twilight City. Ryan Browne, co-creator of the critically-acclaimed series Eight Billion Genies, will provide artwork for Barfly, with letters handled by Nate Piekos. The first issue will also feature a main cover art by Minor Threats co-creator Scott Hepburn, with three variant covers featuring art by Browne, Martín Morazzo, Dan Hipp (1:10 ratio), and one more to be revealed at a later date. The series is set to begin this July.

Back in Twilight City…

The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags… but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly, is a loser–a lifelong minion who lives to serve his criminal master. But what happens to a henchman when he no longer has anyone left to hench for? 

From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly #1 (of 4) flies into comic shops on July 10, 2024. It is now available to pre-order from your local comic shop for $4.99.

The C-Class supervillains finally take over in Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn’s Minor Threats II: The Fastest Way Down

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Everyone’s favorite c-list supervillains return in April 2024 in Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down! The hit superhero saga from Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn picks up right where it left off with the same creative team: written by Oswalt and Blum, illustrated by Hepburn, colored by Ian Herring, and lettered by Eisner-nominated letterer Nate Piekos. Joining the squad on issue #1 are variant cover artists: Michael Allred, Joëlle Jones, Hepburn (foil variant), David Mack (1:10 retail incentive variant), Martin Simmonds (1:25 retailer incentive variant), and one more variant cover artist who will be revealed at a later date.

Frankie Follis, AKA the costumed criminal Playtime, has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero, The Insomniac, and its greatest villain, The Stickman, are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel, her consigliere, is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown.

Minor Threats ll: The Fastest Way Down #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on April 3, 2024. This issue and all its brilliant variant covers are now available to pre-order for $4.99 at your local comic shop.

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I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp

It’s a new week and while today is a holiday here at GP HQ, we’re not slowing down. Expect a packed day of news, reviews, and more! Let’s kick it off with new and reviews from around the web you might have missed.

The Beat – More on Image, sales charts, and the future of comics – Thoughts? Does anyone but insiders care?

Reviews

The Beat – I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp
Comic Bastards – Kali
The Beat – Minor Threats Vol. 1
Collected Editions – Superman Adventures Vol. 2

It’s A Quick End to a Long Beginning for Minor Threats

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Minor Threats, the first creator-owned comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K on Hulu, receives a new paperback collection in Minor Threats Volume 1: A Long End to a New Beginning. Artist Scott Hepburn, colorist Ian Herring, and letterer Nate Piekos, round out this super-creative team. The collected volume will also include pin-up artwork from Mike Mignola, Kevin Maguire, Francesco Francavilla, and Tess Fowler.

It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses…but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks, and they’re about to get much worse. The psychotic Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a terrifying police state–desperate to capture the Stickman and stop the Insomniac from “crossing that final line” in which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to pull jobs or even walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to put together a ragtag team of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves, leading her on a dark journey into the criminal underbelly she’s tried so hard to escape.

Minor Threats Volume 1: A Quick End to a Long Beginning TPB explodes into bookstores June 20 and into comic shops June 21, 2023. The book collects 136 pages and measures 6.625 x 10.1875”. It is now available to pre-order for $19.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore.

Minor Threats Volume 1: A Quick End to a Long Beginning TPB

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Nightwing #96

It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below. While you wait for comic shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Kotaku – Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations – Interesting and a very principled stance.

Kotaku – Dead Space Studio Is Making An Iron Man Game With Marvel – You have our attention.

The Beat – Reuben Awards 2022 name Edward Sorel as Cartoonist of the Year – Congrats!

Reviews

ComicBook – Batman: One Bad Day – Two-Face #1
The Beat – Fantastic Four: Full Circle
ICv2 – Miles Morales: Stranger Tides
CBR – Minor Threats #2
CBR – Nightwing #96

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