Dark Horse Books to Bring Retroverse, Blood Oath and New America To Print in 2024

A New Raft Of Comixology Originals Jumping To Print Next Year

Dark Horse Comics will bring Retroverse, the horror sci-fi series written by Cullen Bunn (Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Blue, Magneto, The Sixth Gun, The Damned, Harrow County) and illustrated by John Bivens, Blood Oath, the dark vampire crime story co-written by novelist Rob Hart (The Paradox Hotel, The Warehouse) and acclaimed writer Alex Segura (Secret Identity, Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow) with art by Joe Eisma, and Curt Pires’ (YOUTH, Lost Falls, Memoria, You’ve Been Cancelled, Indigo Children) dense, action-packed political thriller New America with art by Luca Casalanguida to print for the first time in 2024…

Retroverse

Written by Cullen Bunn

Art by John Bivens

• · After a wild, drunken party, 19-year-old Kacy wakes up in an alternate universe—one where she has been dead for thirteen years. She must navigate the heartbreaking waters of a world that seems to have turned out much better without her in it. And she must do so while wielding newly-discovered terrifying abilities against alien horrors.
• Retroverse [152 pages / color / MSRP $22.99/$29.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-506737225 / on sale 6 February 2024 bookstores and 7 February 7 2024 comic shops / Dark Horse Books] is available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local comic shop. Retroverse was first released as a 5-issue series from Comixology Originals and is available to read digitally at amazon.com/comixology.  

Blood Oath

Written by Rob Hart and Alex Segura

Art by Joe Eisma

• It’s 1922 in New York. The peak of Prohibition. Hazel Crenshaw just wants to be left alone, to tend to her farm, to care for her younger sister, and to run her business. But her business is inescapably tangled up with the New York gangs that will eventually coalesce into the mafia, and a new, unknown partner. When the Crenshaw farm is attacked, Hazel must not only defend her home, she must cope with the realization that her flirtation with the other side of the law might also put her in the crosshairs of something else—something much more sinister…
• Blood Oath [152 pages / color / MSRP $22.99/$29.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-506737157 / on sale 20 February 2024 bookstores and February 21, 2024 comic shops / Dark Horse Books] is available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local comic shop. Blood Oath was first released as a five issue series from Comixology Originals and is available to read digitally at amazon.com/comixology.

New America Vol. 1

Written by Curt Pires

Art by Luca Casalanguida

• New America Vol. 1 follows the formation of a secessionist state within America and the trials and tribulations both personal and political of the people leading and living in this newly emergent country.
• New America [152 pages / color / MSRP $22.99/$29.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-506737201 / on sale 5 March 2024 bookstores and 6 March 2024 comic shops / Dark Horse Books] is available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local comic shop. New America was first released as a four issue series from Comixology Originals and is available to read digitally at amazon.com/comixology.

About Dark Horse Comics 

Founded in 1986 as an offshoot of his comics retail chain, Mike Richardson, launched Dark Horse Comics with the goal of creating a welcoming environment for comics professionals. The company strives to be an example of how integrity and innovation can broaden a unique storytelling medium and transform a company with humble beginnings into an industry giant. Dark Horse has published modern masters such as Yoshitaka Amano, Margaret Atwood, Brian Michael Bendis, Paul Chadwick, Geof Darrow, Colleen Doran, Janet Evanovich, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Faith Erin Hicks, Kazuo Koike, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Kentaro Miura, Moebius, Chuck Palahniuk, Eric Powell, Stan Sakai, and Gerard Way, as well as Hall of Fame legends Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Richard Corben. The company also set the industry standard for quality licensed comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books, based on properties such as Star Wars, Stranger Things, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Dragon Age, James Cameron’s Avatar, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Halo. Dark Horse established an entertainment division in 1989, finding immediate success with company-owned projects The Mask and TimeCop. Current hits from Dark Horse Entertainment include The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and Resident Alien on SyFy. Additionally, Dark Horse has a long tradition of establishing new creative talent throughout all of its divisions.

In 2022, Dark Horse Media, LLC was established as the parent company of all three divisions, and became part of Embracer Group AB, forming the tenth operative group, strengthening the company’s transmedia capabilities.