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Dark Horse Comics’ ‘The Nosferatu Wars’ due in 2012

Gerard Iribe — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:03:46 +0000

When Steve Niles (Criminal Macabre, 30 Days of Night) premiered artwork from his upcoming collaboration with artist Menton3 (Monocyte, Proof: Endangered, Crawl to Me) via his Twitter feed, speculation and anticipation spread like wildfire across the Internet. Today, Dark Horse is proud to announce that this new vampiric tale will premiere in Dark Horse Presents! The Black Plague was a time of death and misery . . . except for the undead. For vampires, the Black Death was a welcome relief from being hunted and a time of incredible growth for the undead. On the night of their wedding, two vampire lovers are torn apart and separated for five hundred years, setting off a sequence of events that will bring the modern world to its knees!

STEVE NILES AND MENTON3 DEBUT

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED NOSFERATU WARS

**IN DARK HORSE PRESENTS!**

“I haven’t been this excited about working on something in a long time. Menton3 is the perfect artist and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be doing this at Dark Horse,” Niles said. “This year I’m making a big push to become 100 percent creator owned. Nosferatu Wars will be a big part of that, I hope.”

Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith redefined the vampire genre with the groundbreaking comic series 30 Days of Night in 2002. Ten years later, Niles is poised to make history again, as he and Menton3 blow the sparkle off of the undead in Nosferatu Wars, premiering in Dark Horse Presents later this year!

Wrightson and Niles Forge ‘Frankenstein Alive, Alive!’

Gerard Iribe — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:30:53 +0000

Today at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, IDW Publishing announced an all-new horror series with acclaimed creators Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson. FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE will launch in 2012, picking up right where Mary Shelley’s classic tale ends. “This is an idea that’s been rattling around somewhere in the back of my mind for a good many years,” said Wrightson. “I mentioned it to Steve and we started talking. In about two minutes I realized that not only were we on the same page, we shared a vision. I’m very excited to see this finally happening. It’s going to be lot of fun.”

A lifelong Frankenstein fan, Wrightson’s work on this monster has garnered universal praise for over 25 years. Now, Wrightson and Niles are collaborating on the next chapter in the life of Frankenstein’s monster. FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE turns this classic tale around, by telling the story from Frankenstein’s perspective in this 13-issue series.

“The fact that I grew up worshipping Wrightson’s Frankenstein and now I’m working on a sequel with him is mind-blowing,” said Niles. “This is the project of a lifetime for me.”

FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE ($3.99, full color, 32 pages) will be available in stores in 2012.

Giant Monster Is A Smashing Good Time

Gregg Senko — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:53 +0000

Sometimes a good book comes along that laid low on the publicity front. For whatever reason, usually money, these publications don’t receive a great deal of advertising flare and as a result, take on stealth-like characteristics on store shelves. These tend to rely solely on word of mouth, and if the word is mum, there is the unfortunate occurrence that a good story can fall into obscurity. Just before Christmas, I passed on one such hardcover called Giant Monster. The title made no bones about its content as the cover featured a massive footprint with the bloodied, crushed remains of some poor soul. My hands already full with more than I wanted to spend, I passed on this curiousity-arousing book, but had the sense to pick it up on a recent return visit.

As you’ve probably guessed, Giant Monster is not a new release, but by golly this story is just too darn good not to talk about. Brought to us from BOOM! Studios, Giant Monster features some vividly gritty artwork by Nat Jones and a basic yet entertaining story by Steve Niles. Some of you may be familiar with arguably his most popular work, the vampire fright fest known as 30 Days of Night. You can pretty much guess from the title what Giant Monster is about, but there’s a little more to it…okay, not much but that’s what makes this book work, courtesy of Jones and Niles. The story follows space shuttle commander Don Maggert in his departure from an international space station back down to earth. Now Don’s been successful in his career but his marriage leaves something to be desired. Poor guy. Things are about to get a whole lot worse for the astronaut.

After a crash landing in the salty abyss, our giant monster surfaces and the rest is just ‘tears everything to hell’ history. Think of Godzilla but faster and with a lot more blood. The book is a fun, gory read with the anti-hero bashing cities and dining on their citizens. Not car, nor boat, nor plane is safe from this angry red behemoth though the military will try their all to bring down the beast. Strikingly violent, action-packed and even a little tongue-in-cheek at times, Giant Monster is certainly a worthy buy that had this writer reading its pages with anxious delight.

Order Giant Monster today!