Grendel: Devil’s Crucible – Sedition #3
Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Matt Wagner
Colorist: Brennan Wagner
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Matt Wagner
As Grendel’s Hounds of Orion formulate a battle plan, danger is encroaching. Anti-Grendel Squads are searching them out, and it’s only a matter of time before the two enemy forces collide.
A new home filled with the ghosts of Shiba Inu. What could go wrong?
When high schooler Kori Momose goes apartment hunting to be closer to her new school, she comes across a one-bedroom unit at a shockingly cheap price. What’s the catch? The ghost of a Shiba Inu dog named Mu is bound to the apartment! But for a girl as icy and awkward as Kori, is sharing a life with the fiery Mu too tall an order? A funny and heartwarming odd couple comedy begins right here!
As Kori settles into her new home, her efforts to cohabitate with Mu, her ghostly Shiba Inu, consistently go awry. She soon discovers that there’s something more to Mu’s rejection. With this new information, can Kori learn to live with Mu’s shenanigans? And can Mu break through Kori’s cold exterior? A funny and heartwarming odd couple comedy begins right here!
Story: Esu Omori
Art: Esu Omori
Translation: Casey Loe
Letterer: Steve Dutro
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Grendel: Devil’s Crucible – Sedition #2
Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Matt Wagner
Colorist: Brennan Wagner
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Matt Wagner
After an attack by the Hounds of Orion, the Necro-Lords are on high alert—and desperate for revenge! Grendel’s hounds will have to regroup and bring in more allies to stay ahead of their bloodthirsty foes, who are closing in faster than anyone could guess!
Matt Wagner’s hellish vision of a future earth destroyed by vampires continues!
Grendel: Devil’s Crucible – Sedition #1
Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Matt Wagner
Colorist: Brennan Wagner
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Matt Wagner
The Hounds of Orion have two new weapons in their arsenal: The Grendel Prime himself, back from a five-hundred-year absence, and a clone of the fierce, long-dead Grendel warrior Christine Spar! Now it’s time to take the fight to the Necro-Lords, as Matt Wagner’s epic “Devil’s Crucible” series of Grendel miniseries continues!
Dark Horse Manga has announced a new, expansive lineup of Manga coming to English audiences in Fall 2026 and beyond.
Suicide Island
In a story evoking both Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale, a young Japanese man, Sei, is transported to the mysterious, remote Suicide Island after a failed suicide attempt—where he must live the rest of his days or figure out how to die! With society turning its back on many suicidal citizens, the island fills up with haunted, driven characters, often in conflict with each other and sometimes barely holding onto sanity!
This series is created by mangaka Kouji Mori, with translations by Kumar Sivasubramanian and lettering by Eisner Award-nominated Steve Dutro.
Suicide Island Volume 1 (232 pages, 5.125×7.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on December 8, 2026, for $14.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.
Babanba Banban Vampire
An unassuming worker in a long-established public bathhouse is really the lustful 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori! The heir to this esteemed Koi No Yu Bathhouse, Rihito Tatsuno, is a fifteen-year-old virgin—who is about to fall in love for the first time with a girl in his class! Ranmaru begins to weave a desperate plan to prevent Rihito from losing his virginity and to make him fall for Ranmaru instead, so the bloodsucker can eventually have pure, eighteen-year-old virgin blood for his own vampiric self!
This hilarious, BL manga series from Hiromasa Okujima has already been adapted into an anime and a live-action film! Translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and lettered by Eisner Award-nominated Steve Dutro.
Babanba BanBan Vampire Volume 1 (208 pages, 5.125×7.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on November 10, 2026, for $13.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.
Asobi Asobase
Hanako, Olivia, and Kasumi are three Japanese schoolgirls who love to play games—so they create a special club for themselves to challenge each other to intense, over-the-top games and dares! As they struggle with their own unique personalities, they also struggle to make their group an official club in the eyes of the student council.
From mangaka Rin Suzukawa, this omnibus series collects several original volumes into one trade paperback, with translations by Jongwoo Kim and lettering work by Thiago Péres, Lucas Saguista, and Naaice. Original Japanese volumes 1, 2, and 3, and part of Volume 4, are collected in the first Asobi Asobase Omnibus.
Asobi Asobase Volume 1 (564 pages, 5.75×8.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on November 17, 2026, for $29.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.
Forget-Me-Not
Stroll along the banks of the canals in beautiful Venice, Italy, and you’ll see the slacker—a young woman noodling on her guitar, pecking a bit at her laptop, and maybe getting a little reading in. But watch your step in this ancient town, because some of the other people you might run into—the ragged derelict, the drunken streetwalker, even that clean-cut gondolier—they’re all her, too! She’s Mariel Imari, of Italian and Japanese descent, whose skill at disguise comes from being part of a famous dynasty of detectives.
But Mariel hasn’t yet cracked the one case that would allow her to inherit her grandfather’s estate—Forget-me-not, the painting stolen from the mansion 22 years ago, which she needs to recover as a condition of his will. You see, Mariel is brilliant, but Mariel is also a bit lazy and slovenly and bored…and about to be a bit embarrassed, too, when her sisters show up from Japan, under the impression that Mariel is rich! Will Mariel ever catch the master thief standing between her and an aristocratic lifestyle? Does she really want to?
Created by mangaka Kenji Tsuruta with translation by Dana Lewis and lettering by Susie Lee.
Forget-Me-Not Volume 1 (256 pages, 5.25×10.25”) arrives in bookstores and comic shops on January 5, 2027, for $29.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.
No one in the small town of Dunwich knew who young Wilbur Whateley’s father was—or that the hideous outcast boy was the most dangerous sorcerer alive. Now, Dark Horse Manga will bring Gou Tanabe’s adaptation of the cosmic horror tale to English audiences in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition. Adapted into English by Zack Davisson, translator of the two-time Eisner Award-winning Showa: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki, and lettered by the Eisner-nominated Steve Dutro.
The horror was born before dawn on February 2, 1913—the feast of Candlemas, although the people of Dunwich call that ancient festival by a different name. Of unknown father, Wilbur Whateley was not christened—yet he descended still from a once-proud Puritan family that left Salem in 1692 to found Dunwich, Massachusetts.
Dr. Henry Armitage, head librarian at Miskatonic University, drives the dusty, rutted roads out to Dunwich to meet the child prodigy with whom he has been corresponding on the most abstruse and disturbing lore. Dr. Armitage can hardly believe the sight of the priceless hoard of occult books rotting away in the Whateley farmhouse—nor that of the dark, goatish Wilbur, for whom those books have been his only education.
Young Wilbur is not content with his homeschooling—to complete his studies, he needs something Miskatonic possesses, the Latin edition of the Necronomicon. And if they’re too snooty to lend their precious copy out to a country boy like him, Wilbur has other means to get it. Wilbur Whateley was born into this world with a great and horrific purpose—to open a doorway for those not of this world to return to Earth!
Eldritch chills and psychological thrills await in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition when the 650-page (7×10”) hardcover arrives in bookstores and comic shops on September 29, 2026, for $49.99. Pre-order now from Dark Horse Direct, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop.
Synthetics Volume One #4
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tony Parker
Colorist: Carrie Strachen
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Tony Parker
In this riveting sci-fi series, the Earth is dying, and humanity has less than twenty years left! Dr. Hernando Montoya, owner of the labs at Vita Nova, is trying to avoid extinction and save Earth by creating the world’s first synthetic human life. “We are now crossing the Rubicon in the quest to create synthetic humans . . . and officially felons in the eyes of the law,” Montoya admits. Will he be able to save life on this planet?
Synthetics Volume One #3
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tony Parker
Colorist: Carrie Strachan
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Tony Parker
Nick and Denny found the facility that was leaking neural slices to the black market, but with the employee responsible dead on arrival, they may need to dig deeper to find a new lead. Meanwhile, indie journalist Blake Wohl blackmails Dr. Hernando Montoya with an ultimatum: Either give Blake exclusive rights to livestream the birth of the Synthetics or spend what time remains on this Earth in prison.
Synthetics Volume One #2
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tony Parker
Colorist: Carrie Strachan
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover artist: Tony Parker
A new apocalyptic sci-fi epic from J. Michael Straczynski and Tony Parker!
Nick and Denny finally have a thin lead in their case, but following this trail of breadcrumbs could lead them somewhere unexpected. Meanwhile, Blake Wohl has their own lead on what could possibly be the story of a lifetime. And as Hernando and Yuri feel danger closing in and the fate of the world at stake, they must accelerate the Synthetics timeline and simply hope that their hard work isn’t undone!
Synthetics Volume One #1
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tony Parker
Colorist: Carrie Strachan
Letterer: Steve Dutro
Cover Artist: Tony Parker
A new apocalyptic sci-fi epic from Joseph Michael Straczynski!
On a dying Earth filled with expanding dead zones, humans form rage gangs to vent their anger at futures lost or escape into the cyber-void to avoid thinking about what’s coming. Our only hope of survival rests with a new kind of human. Will their appearance in a desperate world be met with acceptance—or destruction? Are they angels, devils, or the latest iteration of a Frankenstein’s monster?
