Dark Horse, the legendary comic book publisher of titles including Black Hammer, Hellboy, Sin City and The Umbrella Academy, will publish Ask For Mercy Volume 2, Elephantmen 2261 Volume 2, and The All Nighter Volume 2 in Winter 2023, marking the first time that the books will be available in print for customers in comic shops, bookstores, and libraries.
ASK FOR MERCY Volume 2— Collects Seasons 3 and 4 of the digital Comixology Originals series —November 2023—for the First Time in Print!
- The action-packed and artistically stunning horror fantasy series Ask For Mercy includes Ask for Mercy: A World of Disquiet where Mercy and Ratmir find themselves on Earth in 2023… but why are the streets deserted and what is hunting down humans in the city center of Leeds? and Ask for Mercy: The Circle of Time which follows fan favorite characters Becky and Ratmir. While lost in the Forest of Silence we learn more about their origins. Can they get out alive and if they do where will they head next?
- Written by Richard Starkings the creator/writer of Elephantmen; co-creator, with Abigail Jill Harding, of Ask For Mercy! and co-creator, with Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane, of The Beef. In the course of a distinguished career in comic books, Richard edited a line of original titles for Marvel UK in the 80s, founded the Comicraft design and lettering studio in the 90s and established the foremost source for comic book lettering fonts at comicbookfonts.com. He has worked as a lettering artist on just about every mainstream comic book you might care to mention, including hand lettering Batman: The Killing Joke, and has written comic strips for The Real Ghostbusters, Zoids, Transformers and Doctor Who. With Comicraft’s Secret Weapon, John Roshell, Richard created the indispensable guide, Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way as well as the Artist Retrospectives Tim Sale: Black And White and J Scott Campbell: Time Capsule.
- Art by Abigail Jill Harding is a young English illustrator and comic book artist from Yorkshire, whose first professional comics work appeared in Elephantmen #72, written by Richard Starkings whom she met at a signing at Travelling Man in York. Abigail graduated from York College with a BA honours in 3D Art and Design in 2015 but continued to concentrate on her illustration work and did small comic projects. Abigail had been showcasing her mixed-media skills at the yearly Leeds Comics Arts Festival, Thought Bubble and it was the short strip she contributed to the festival’s 2015 print anthology that caught Richard’s eye. Since then she has done cover work for Titan Comics, Image Comics, Boom! Studios and IDW.
- Ask For Mercy Volume 2 [296 pages / color / on sale November 21, 2023 in bookstores and on sale November 22, 2023 in comic shops / MSRP $29.99 pbk / ISBN: 9781506741390] joins the next wave of books from the Dark Horse Books and Comixology Originals print program. It is available for pre-order now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and indie bookstore.
- ELEPHANTMEN 2261 Volume 2—Collects Seasons 3 and 4 of the digital Comixology Originals series—December 2023—for the First Time in Print!
- The anthropomorphic pulp science-fiction thriller reaches a boiling point in this new collection of two complete graphic novels.
- In “Theo Laroux Meets The Elephantmen!”, British documentarian, Theo Laroux, is in Los Angeles to interview the Elephantmen! As he learns more about Hip Flask, his girlfriend Miki and the relationship between Sahara and Obadiah Horn, he unwittingly discovers some information that will affect the lives of all the Elephantmen!
- In “Under Each Skin”, Duplicants. Synthetics. Robots. Hip Flask and Jack Farrell find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue surrounding the appearance of a girl by the name of Alonia and the disappearance of a former associate of Jack’s, a girl by the name of Scarlet.
- Written by Richard Starkings the creator/writer of Elephantmen; co-creator, with Abigail Jill Harding, of Ask For Mercy! and co-creator, with Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane, of The Beef. In the course of a distinguished career in comic books, Richard edited a line of original titles for Marvel UK in the 80s, founded the Comicraft design and lettering studio in the 90s and established the foremost source for comic book lettering fonts at comicbookfonts.com. He has worked as a lettering artist on just about every mainstream comic book you might care to mention, including hand lettering Batman: The Killing Joke, and has written comic strips for The Real Ghostbusters, Zoids, Transformers and Doctor Who. With Comicraft’s Secret Weapon, John Roshell, Richard created the indispensable guide, Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way as well as the Artist Retrospectives Tim Sale: Black And White and J Scott Campbell: Time Capsule.
- Art by Axel Medellin is a comic book and concept artist. He’s worked for Heavy Metal, Zenescope, Image Comics, Boom! Studios, Legendary and Opus Comics. He has been the artist of the long running Elephantmen series.
- Elephantmen 2261 Volume 2 [248 pages / color / on sale December 5, 2023 bookstores and December 6, 2023 comic shops / MSRP $24.99/$33.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-506735412] joins the next wave of books from the Dark Horse Books and Comixology Originals print program. It is available for pre-order now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and indie bookstore.
- THE ALL NIGHTER Volume 2—Collects issues 6-10 of the digital Comixology Originals series—December 2023—for the First Time in Print!
- In the wake of Ian’s disappearance, tensions are running high at the diner. Alex and Joy are stuck covering shifts when they’d rather be out fighting bad guys. To make things worse, people start disappearing just as a new superhero team arrives in town–could the two be related? What if they’re dealing with something bigger and more dangerous than super villains–and what if Alex’s decision to become Nightshock put it all in motion?
- Written by Chip Zdarsky, the award-winning illustrator and co-creator of Sex Criminals for Image Comics. Chip has also written Spider-Man: Life Story and Daredevil for Marvel Comics, and is currently writing Batman for DC. His Comixology Originals series AFTERLIFT co-created with Jason Loo won an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic and is now available in paperback from Dark Horse Books. He loves long walks in the park while listing his projects.
- Art by Jason Loo Canada’s comic darling best known for his creator-owned comic book series The Pitiful Human-Lizard. The Toronto-based superhero series gained nationwide attention through CBC News, CBC Arts, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and BlogTO. Jason is also the co-creator and artist of the Eisner Award-winning digital comics series AFTERLIFT. His other works include Star Wars Adventures, Razorblades, and some Marvel titles like X-Men Unlimited, Fantastic Four, and Lucky the Pizza Dog.
- The All Nighter Volume 2 [144 pages / color / on sale December 19, 2023 book stores and December 20, 2023 comic shops / MSRP $22.99/$29.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-506736488] joins the next wave of books from the Dark Horse Books and Comixology Originals print program. It is available for pre-order now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and indie bookstore.
