Space Hero Saturdays TALES TO OFFEND "Lance Blastoff on the Dinosaur Planet"

Here's what a veteran of Don the Con's Space Force might be like...

...when he goes "independent contractor" after his tour of duty!

Lance Blastoff was Frank (Do I really have to tell you?) Miller's "redneck space hero" satire.

Though this tale first appeared in Dark Horse Presents #100 (1995), we're running the reprint from Dark Horse's Tales to Offend (1997) since it's in glorious full color by Marie Severin.

(The first appearance was b/w)

27 years later, he's the very embodiment of Don the Con's "Deplorables" set in an EC-style future!

He smokes!

He drinks!

He swears!

He lies to women...and they love it!

He's Lance Blastoff, and he says, "Get it while you can get it, then get going while the going's good!" Lance Blastoff: Role model for the next millennium!

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Tales to Offend

The Kool Comic featuring Lance Blastoff by Frank Miller

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MYST "Passages"

One of the most popular video games of the 1990s was never played in an arcade...

...because it was conceived and designed, from the beginning, for use on then-new desktop home computers!

The puzzle-solving game was a phenomenon of the time, with the title (and sequels) becoming the best-selling computer game series until after The Sims debuted a decade later!

This never-told tale from Dark Horse's Myst #0 (1997) is the prequel to the comic book series which itself is a prequel to the events of the game...

Written by Chris Ulm and illustrated by Kirk Van Wormer, the tale expands on the backstory already presented in the game and associated novel, The Book of Atrius.

It lead into the mini-series Myst: The Book of the Black Ships...which was cancelled after only one issue due to creative differences between Dark Horse and the game's creators at Cyan, Inc.

But You'll See It Here...in March!

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MYST Reader

Omnibus of All Three Novels

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...as the Red Death closes in around his castle, Prince Prospero decides to do the only thing he can do...PARTY ON!

                         

Adapted and illustrated by comics legend Richard Corben, this somewhat-snarly, but extremely-kool version of the gothic classic appeared in Dark Horse's multi award-winning 2013 one-shot Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and the Red Death!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics SERAPHIM 26661336 WINGS

For our final (for now) "diseased future world" posting...

....we offer a most unusual manga by two masters of anime...Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii and Perfect Blue’s Satoshi Kon, who wrote and illustrated Seraphim 266613336 Wings, the story of a future dystopic Earth devastated by the “Angel Plague,” a pandemic that induces apocalyptic visions in the afflicted, even as it ossifies their bodies into angelic-looking forms, complete with wings!

The graphic novel is the first chapter of a never-completed mini-series, due to creative differences which the untimely passing of Satoshi Ken kept from ever being resolved.

Nonetheless, it's a fascinating look at incredibly-detailed world-building and, since this volume ends on a cliffhanger, it leaves many loose ends and unexplained aspects that the creators obviously planned to explain, there's lots of things to speculate about (which I feel is the hallmark of successful storytelling)!

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Seraphim 266613336 Wings

by Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Part 1

We've re-presented various adaptations of "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe...

 ...until we're blue in the face, but this one has to be the most popular (and award-winning) one of all!

Will it truly be "great fun"?

For whom???

Find out next Monday...

Adapted and illustrated by comics legend Richard Corben, this somewhat-snarly, but extremely-kool version of the gothic classic appeared in Dark Horse's multi award-winning 2013 one-shot Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and the Red Death!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

The ComicCraft New Year's Day Font Sale!

If you're into comics, one of the coolest things you can do today is go to ComicCraft's website and participate in their annual New Years' Day font discount sale!

These guys provide fonts to DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW, etc, so you're getting state-of-the-art  software used by the pros at an amazingly-low price for your website, blog, or print project!

(We use them for most of our logos)

"Comicraft fonts are created BY Comic Book Letterers FOR Comic Book Lettering, and every New Year we give our faithful customers -- and even casual browsers who stumbled into our store because it's throwing down outside -- a one-day-only opportunity to rummage through Comicraft's remainder bin and snap up Comicrazy for a mere twenty dollars and fourteen cents rather than $395! And, yes, yes, yes, and thrice YES, EACH of our fonts will be on sale for $20.14, even the ones that usually cost $19! We're Cray Cray Crazy, we know!"

Note: the sale ends at Midnight in your time zone, not at Midnight in California, where ComicCraft is based, so place your orders accordingly!

BLACK BEETLE #1 Goes to Second Printing!

He's a NEW pulp-style character so popular that his #1 is already being reprinted...

...and #2 is due out on Feb 20th!

 So what are you waiting for, Bunkie?

The Black Beetle is Not Just "Noir"...It's SUPER Noir!

It's not often you get to define (or redefine) an entire genre...

...but multi-award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla has done just that, with Dark Horse Comics christing his new pulp-style retro-hero series Black Beetle as "Super Noir"!

So, what are you waiting for?

Get out there, and buy it...NOW!

The Shadow and Ghost star in a RetroBlogs™ Crossover Event!

To celebrate the return of both The Shadow and Dark Horse Comics' Ghost...

...to thrill current readers, RetroBlogs™ has re-presented the never-reprinted crossover tale starring the deadly duo in our own kool crossover!

Part 1 is at Crime & Punishment™, and the conclusion can be found on Heroines™!

The Shadow can be found in his own title from Dynamite Entertainment!

Details HERE!

Ghost has been appearing in the anthology Dark Horse Presents, and returns in her own title later this month!

Details HERE!

Buy them at your local comic shop!

Captain Midnight Returns!

The anthology comic Dark Horse Presents #18 will feature a new tale of...

...Captain Midnight, apparently based on his Fawcett Comics incarnation...

...but, according to the promo copy, updated to the present!

And, it features a painted cover by Steve Rude!

Available in November!

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