Category: Dark Horse

Grendel Tales – Four Devils, One Hell

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Too many devils are looking to rule the underworld. Some of them have to head for higher ground. The gambler, the detective, the madman, the artist — four displaced devils each in search of a hell to call his own. But while each follows his own path, they all end up on the night train to New Orleans. Four devils are fighting for one town, and an unknown threat with a thirst for power is lurking amongst them, unwilling to give up his town. There’s always somethin’ hot goin’ down in the Big Easy, but forecasts are predicting an all-time high!

Freaks of the Heartland (2004)

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Trevor Owen has a younger brother who lives in the barn behind the house, too monstrous to be let into the house. The boy’s only six years old, but he towers over his older brother, and possesses monstrous strength. For years, Trevor has looked after his baby brother, keeping him from the light, but now that’s all about to change. His family’s profane secret is about to be revealed, uncovering the horrible truth of the small mid-western town the boys have grown up in.

Stranger Things: Tomb of Ybwen (2021)

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It’s January 1985 the Hawkins crew survived their battle with the mind flayer, but Will and Joyce are still reeling from the recent death of Bob Newby. Will’s friends have been too busy with their girlfriends to notice how much he is struggling. After he and Mr. Clarke discover a mysterious map Bob left in a box of old nerdy memorabilia, Will rallies the crew to investigate.

Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander (2018)

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Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander is a 2018 historically inspired comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller. It acts as a prequel and sequel to the events chronicled in Miller’s earlier series 300, a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.

Parts of the series were loosely adapted for the 2014 film 300: Rise of an Empire, a sequel to the 2006 film adaptation of 300. However, the comic series was not actually published until 2018, four years after the film’s release.

Pumpkinhead (1993)

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The plot revolves around the town doctor’s son named David, who is in love with a woman named Mariah, who was born in the backwoods. David and Mariah plan to run away together, however Mariah was supposed to replace the backwoods witch named Haggis after her death. A “tragic” fate would eventually meet Mariah that connected to a town newcomer named Angus Brenner and a troubled priest named Father Gibbon, which would eventually lead to Pumpkinhead being conjured again.

The Mask Returns (1994)

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It doesn’t matter who you are. Once you put on The Mask, you’re a homicidal lunatic with a bad taste for bad jokes and seriously deranged violence. And nothing — but nothing — can kill you!

When her boyfriend Stanley died, Kathy thought the weird mask had been lost forever. Now gangsters are dying like flies, victims of everything from comic-book bombs to crossbow shafts, and she knows that somehow it’s back. Only Kathy can stop the rampage, but first she has to get around the gangwar erupting around her, the new Mask — whoever he is — and the worst bad-guy of all, Walter!

Just Another Saturday Night (1997)

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Just Another Saturday Night was first published in Sin City #1/2 (August 1997), a limited mail-in comic available only through a special offer in Wizard #73. It was later reprinted in a mass-market edition as Just Another Saturday Night (October 1998).

It is the story of what Marv was up to on the night John Hartigan met back up with Nancy (from That Yellow Bastard). Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking the Projects, surrounded by dead young guys, unable to remember how he got there. He lights one of the dead guys’ cigarettes and thinks back; since it is Saturday, he deduces he must have been at Kadie’s watching Nancy dance…

Aliens: Earth Angel (1994)

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Into the age of diners, black leather jackets, and Buddy Holly comes a monster worse than any that ever made popcorn fly in front of a drive-in screen — the Alien. Legend creator John Byrne has long been a fan of the Aliens films and he jumped at the opportunity to tell his story of the first Alien invasion, the one that took place in 1950’s suburban America! When you Byrne an Alien, you gotta figure it’s gonna give off some heat!

Propeller Man (1993)

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The future. A tired world of economic collapse and ecological disaster. In this corporate-dominated world, a living weapon escapes to blaze a trail of destruction as it searches for its creator. A solitary figure watches from the rooftops. Propellerman. Does the creature provide some clues to his missing memory?

Duckman V1 1 (1990)

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Story and art by Everett Peck. He’s been up–he’s been down–he’s fallen asleep with the TV on! New, hot from this previous engagement in Dark Horse Presents, the tough duck private dick, stars in his first feature length special. The story wouldn’t be complete without Cornfed, Fluffy, and Uranus hanging around waiting for the next dose of abuse from their feathered “friend.”