Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs
(W) Tananarive Due (A/CA) Jose Villarrubia, Kelsey Ramsay
In Shops: Nov 20, 2024
SRP: $3.99
Literary horror icon and multi-award-winning novelist Tananarive Due (The Reformatory) and hot newcomer Kelsey Ramsay present Moon Dogs-following East African werewolves secretly living in Miami, as this minority within a minority is caught in a burgeoning war that threatens both lycanthrope and human lives.
Powerhouse comic book writer Vita Ayala is partnering up with on-the-verge star artist Skylar Patridge for The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers, a brand-new action-adventure comic that twists the genre in a way that’s never been done before. Fans of Indiana Jones, The Mummy, and Tomb Raider will enjoy this thrilling, fresh take that re-envisions this style of storytelling with new energy and perspective. Hitting shelves in January 2025, this marks the final installment in The Horizon Experiment series of one-shots.
The Horizon Experiment centers on original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre or inspired by a famous pop culture character, with each unique comic putting a diverse spin on a fan-favorite story. The initiative is led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning creator Pornsak Pichetshote and award-winning editor Will Dennis.
The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers is a reverse Indiana Jones story that follows Puerto Rican archeology grad student Ines Guarua, who plans to steal an important cultural artifact from a famous museum in order to bring it back home to where it belongs, in the heart of the rainforest. If she fails, then a curse may bring about the destruction of Puerto Rico. This leads Guarua on a quest to smuggle other artifacts from museums and institutions to return them to their native cultures. Finders//Keepers flips the script on traditional action-adventure tales in a fun and exciting way, opening up a new path for protagonist Guarua for potential future stories.
Like the other titles in The Horizon Experiment, this one-shot serves as the equivalent of a pilot for a creator-owned series, with the potential of continuing should there be demand for more. Along with a cover featuring art by Patridge, the issue will feature variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, part of a series of connecting variant covers across all five Horizon Experiment one-shots.
The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 15:
Get a sneak peek at The Horizon Experiment’s connecting variant covers reveals stunning artwork by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, highlighting the original protagonists from the series of five one-shots. Led by award-winning creator Pornsak Pichetshote and editor Will Dennis, The Horizon Experiment features all-star talent from across entertainment re-envisioning popular genre fare and iconic characters through a diverse lens for the comic book series. The debut issue, The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian, written by Pichetshote and illustrated by superstar artists Terry and Rachel Dodson, hits shelves in September.
Lotay is known for not only her gorgeous cover art, but also for her groundbreaking work in comics, film and editorial illustration, including being the artist on Image Comics’ Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis. She won an Eisner Award in 2023 for her work on comic book series Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder for Best Digital Comic alongside writer Scott Snyder, and in 2024 for SOMNA: A Bedtime Story for Best New Series alongside co-creator Becky Cloonan, which were also edited by Dennis, a frequent co-collaborator.
The Horizon Experiment series kicks off on September 25 with The Manchurian, a scintillating thriller full of secrets and scandal, featuring a Chinese super spy inspired by James Bond. Future issues include a horror tale led by a female Muslim exorcist The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned (by Sabir Pirzada and Michael Walsh), East African werewolf horror The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs (by Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsey), “Evil Dead for blerds” horror-comedy The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters (by J. Holtham and Michael Lee Harris), and “reverse Indiana Jones” action-adventure The Horizon Experiment: Finders / Keepers (by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge). The five issues will be released on a monthly basis, starting in September.
The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 25:
The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 23 (FOC September 30):
The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 20 (FOC October 28):
Tananarive Due, who has earned an American Book Award, NAACP Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, amongst many accolades, has teamed up with rising star Kelsey Ramsay—one of the most sought-after artists in comics—to create the lycanthrope-centered thriller The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs. Marking Due’s first solo full-length writing project in comics, as well as Ramsay’s first Image Comics series, the horror one-shot features stunning colors by José Villarrubia and sharp letters by Jeff Powell. Hitting shelves in November, Moon Dogs is the third comic in The Horizon Experiment series of one-shots, all centering on original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre, led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian and Infidel creator Pornsak Pichetshote.
Co-edited by Pichetshote and award-winning editor Will Dennis, The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs follows a Black family of lycanthropes of East African descent—who call themselves Moon Dogs—as older sister Nala, her parents, and her boyfriend try to protect her teen brother Kai as he gets caught in the middle of a burgeoning war between a savage pack of werewolves and the Miami police force. After a violent attack, Miami locals are starting to learn that werewolves are not just a myth, and Nala’s family—who are minorities within a minority—find themselves drawn into a very dangerous situation.
The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs explores themes of privilege, power, and oppression, highlighting sharpened conflicts over identity and community in society, told through the lens of a werewolf story. Like the other titles in The Horizon Experiment, this one-shot serves as the equivalent of a pilot for a creator-owned series, with the potential of continuing should there be demand for more. Along with an original cover by Ramsay and Villarrubia, the issue will feature variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, part of a series of connecting variant covers across all five Horizon Experiment one-shots.
The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 20:
DSTLRY has announced You Won’t Feel a Thing, from legends of horror Scott Snyder and Jock. Set to debut this November, the announcement was made at San Diego Comic-Con during the Building New Worlds with DSTLRY panel.
This brutal noir reunites modern legends Scott Snyder and iconic artist Jock, the creative team behind Wytches. You Won’t Feel a Thing is edited by DSTLRY Founding Editor Will Dennis. Dennis previously worked with Snyder and Jock on DSTLRY’s White Boat and Gone, as well as Book of Evil for comiXology and Wytches for Image Comics.
You Won’t Feel A Thing follows Jack Bernard, an ailing, retired detective whose past comes back to haunt him. Decades ago, Jack was one of the most accomplished homicide detectives on the force, so dedicated that it cost him his family and personal life. Now Bernard wastes away in a retirement home with a brain tumor slowly sapping his mind of all memories. But when a disturbing serial killer case from his past reemerges, Jack must persevere, weaving together his remaining memories to stop a killer that only he believes exists. This sobering murder mystery explores the anguish of a man whose mind has turned against him as the body count threatens to rise.
Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian and Infidel creator Pornsak Pichetshote is collaborating with an all-star creative team from across entertainment—including comics, literature, film and television—for The Horizon Experiment, a series of five one-shot comic books, all featuring original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre and inspired by pop culture icons, where each character’s unique background allows the stories to go into new directions.
Co-edited by Pichetshote and acclaimed editor Will Dennis, the series kicks off with The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian, written by Pichetshote and featuring illustrations by superstar artists Terry and Rachel Dodson, a thriller featuring a Chinese super spy inspired by James Bond. A first look at a selection of pages from the one-shot showcase the first scintillating sneak peek at the scandal and secrets within the story. The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian #1 hits shelves on September 25 from Image Comics; the other four one-shots will be released one-by-one on a monthly basis. Starting with The Manchurian, the series will feature connecting variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay.
Along with The Manchurian, The Horizon Experiment series will also feature a one-shot by Pakistani-American writer Sabir Pirzada, known for writing on beloved franchises like Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel, and who will be debuting his first Image Comics graphic novel Dandelion on June 19. Pirzada is teaming up with Eisner-winning horror artist Michael Walsh for the one-shot, The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned, introducing the world to Inayah Jibril, Professor of Ethnography and the Occult. A love letter to classic horror from Dracula to John Constantine, the book follows a Muslim exorcist, in a new interpretation of horror tropes.
These two upcoming one-shots will be joined by Tananarive Due’s The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs, which follows a family of Black Lycanthropes of East African descent who find themselves caught in a burgeoning war when the truth starts to come out that werewolves aren’t just a myth. Co-author of the graphic novel The Keeper, and an acclaimed fiction writer who has won an NAACP Image Award, World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, and much more, Moon Dogs marks Due’s first solo full-length writing endeavor in comics. She’s joined by breakout artist Kelsey Ramsey on Moon Dogs in her first Image Comics series.
J. Holtham, an African-American playwright, TV writer, and producer on the Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, will be joining the creative team by debuting his first creator-owned comic The Horizon Experiment: Motherf#cking Monsters, joined by African-American cartoonist Michael Lee Harris, creator, writer, and artist of Black Hitler and Choco Leche. Motherf#cking Monsters is Evil Dead for blerds. A nerdy Black kid from Brooklyn and his friends stumble upon demon-worshipping frat assholes trying to take over the world in this love letter to Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright, set to a Wu-Tang soundtrack.
The final one-shot, The Horizon Experiment: Finders / Keepers, marks beloved creator Vita Ayala’s return to creator-owned work. Known for their work on iconic franchises such as X-Men, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, and more, their Image Comics one-shot will be a reverse Indiana Jones adventure that follows archeology grad student Ines Guarua, who steals artifacts from museums to return them to their native cultures. Vita is teaming up with fan-favorite comic artist and creator Skylar Patridge for this original action-adventure.
The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 25:
DSTLRY has announced Life an innovative six-issue series that unites co-writers Brian Azzarello and Stephanie Phillips for the first time. Joined by artist Danijel Žeželj and colorist Lee Loughridge, the team constructs an interlocking flip book, anchored by two violent stories that collide on a desolate prison planet. Life is edited by industry legend Will Dennis. Life #1 will be on sale later this summer in print and digital.
Life presents a grim future where the most depraved prisoners face a new extreme punishment—artificial immortality that lasts the length of their combined sentences. After centuries pass, the forgotten prisoners encounter a ship filled with intergalactic thieves eyeing the planet’s long-abandoned mines. Unbeknownst to the pirates, their target is far from deserted, haunted by the remaining prisoners now mutated into grotesque monsters.
Each story—that of the prisoners and thieves—initially unfolds independently through each end of Life’s innovative flipbook design. The stories crash and catalyze in surprising ways, as Phillips and Azzarello peel back the layered connections between the two groups and their looming brutal confrontation.
As a flip-book, each issue of Life features full cover art on front on and back with spot gloss on robust stock. The debut issue of Life features 56 pages while subsequent issues will have DSTLRY’s standard 48 pages with exquisite interior paper quality.
DSTLRY has debuted new variant covers for The Blood Brothers Mother #1, the kickoff of a biting western tale of revenge by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning creative team behind Vertigo crime classic 100 Bullets.
Legendary creative team Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, and editor Will Dennis return with a carnage-filled western saga, bringing their honed characters, dialogue, and textured illustration to a genre steeped in American iconography and bloodshed.
The Blood Brothers Mother follows three children—their step-father gunned down by their recently paroled father; their mother kidnapped; their family torn asunder. The kids set off to rescue her across the wild Texas frontier, where they’ll face the harsh elements of an unforgiving landscape, deadly animals hungry for blood, merciless bounty hunters, and so much more.
Along the way, they’ll learn the real cost of revenge—not just in lives, but in how it stains a soul. While revenge may be satisfying in the moment, it leaves a yearning behind that lasts a lifetime. And once you taste it, nothing else is ever so sweet.
The creator-owned western launches this May as the esteemed duo seek vengeance with a pair of open order covers by Risso and new incentive variants by Rafael Albuquerque, Howard Chaykin, and Junko Mizuno, all of which will also be available as variants for the digital release on dstlry.co:
DSTLRY has announced a biting new series from the legendary creative team and Eisner-award-winners Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: The Blood Brothers Mother. The team is responsible for some of the most revered, incisive, and chaotic crime epics of the 21st century, including 100 Bullets, Moonshine, and Flashpoint: Batman.
The creators reunite with veteran editor Will Dennis, who edited the pair’s noted collaborations. The trio returns with a carnage-filled Western saga, bringing their honed characters, dialogue, and textured illustration to a genre steeped in American iconography and bloodshed. The comic will hit comic book stores in May 2024.
The Blood Brothers Mother follows three children—their step-father gunned down by their recently paroled father; their mother kidnapped; their family torn asunder. The kids set off to rescue her across the wild Texas frontier. Throughout their journey, they’ll face the harsh elements of an unforgiving landscape, filled with wild animals—and men—hungry for blood. Merciless bounty hunters and more pursue the children as they embark on a relentless quest to rescue their family. One of the children also hides a secret bound to complicate their passage.
Along the way, they’ll learn the real cost of revenge—not just in lives, but in how it stains a soul. While revenge may be satisfying in the moment, it leaves a yearning behind that lasts a lifetime. And once you taste it, nothing else is ever so sweet.
DSTLRY has announced the launch of White Boat, a new horror series from multiple Eisner-award-winners Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla launching March 2024.
White Boat revolves around a titular mega-yacht that the super-rich use to traverse the globe—floating islands where your every desire can be fulfilled. And getting invited on board should be a dream come true…that is until the crew traps and transports you to a remote island where secret cults have existed for millennia, working on something called “The Human Project.” Does the White Boat ship you to paradise or sink you into hell on earth?
White Boat is a white-knuckle descent into Lovecraftian maritime madness. DSTLRY Founding Editor and frequent Snyder collaborator Will Dennis joins as editor.
White Boat will be available for pre-order and will hit shelves at local comic shops and digitally via http://www.dstlry.co in March 2024. The series will feature multiple covers, including limited edition variants and special incentives for collectors.
