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Character » Black Beetle appears in 8 issues.

A "neo-noir" hero of Colt City.

Francavilla's Black Beetle Gets An Ongoing

Posted by Babs (17348 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

If you're a fan of DARK HORSE PRESENTS, you may recall having read a few stories centered around a character called The Black Beetle. The stories were beautifully drawn and really captured a "neo-noir" feel, and the new character was successful introduced to new readers. In fact, those of you that read those issues must have really enjoyed Francesco Francavilla's Black Beetle since he's coming back to Dark Horse in his very own series. This is great news for Francavilla, who was really excited about bringing the character to life in the pages of DARK HORSE PRESENTS, according to an interview we did with him back in February.

Issue #0 of The Black Beetle's self titled, creator owned series will arrive in stores this December, collecting the three part story that was previously published in DARK HORSE PRESENTS. This is great news for readers who have not yet read the character's previous appearances, but would like to dive into his adventures in Colt City as he does his best to deal with the "Hollow Lizard," an ancient artifact that is being sought out by Hitler's allies. The first three issues are sure to give new readers a glimpse at the Black Beetle's adventures, as well as a grasp of the character, who he is, and what his motivations are. It's nice to see this noir-character get his own series, let us know if you are looking forward to the ongoing and whether it's a character you enjoyed reading in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.

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#1 Posted by GR2Blackout (2555 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Cool.

#2 Posted by Fhiz (259 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

This is both great news, and terrible news. Great because Francesco is the man, terrible because the likely hood of him and Scott Snyder teaming up again just went way down :(

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#3 Posted by Jonny_Anonymous (15625 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Awesome, great news!!

#4 Posted by Video_Martian (5631 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

oh yeah, that reminds me... BRING BACK TED KORD!!!!!!!!!

#5 Posted by Hit_Monkey (293 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

YES. I'm really looking forward to this.

#6 Posted by Jonny_Anonymous (15625 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio
@mr.obvious: get out of here with that crap
#7 Posted by longbowhunter (3585 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Francavilla is one of my top five favorite artists working in comics today. Glad this is moving beyond DHP.

#8 Posted by jointron33 (654 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

sigh.......y is darkhorse doing wut dc is doing in terms of beetles?

#9 Posted by Utandi (218 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Looks great.

#10 Posted by Video_Martian (5631 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@Jonny_Anonymous: LOL

#11 Posted by blur1528 (1015 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Done! Love that I don't have to track down those Dark Horse Presents now.

#12 Posted by JohnnyWalker (821 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@mr.obvious: cross your fingers for earth 2. main universe never gonna happen.

#13 Posted by Video_Martian (5631 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

@JohnnyWalker: that's possible, although with jaime i'm not exactly sure...

#14 Posted by kennyshat (831 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Goddammit... Another book just for added to my pull. Meh, budgets are for chumps anyway

#15 Posted by DarthShap (854 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Err...DC lawsuit?

#16 Posted by Panelbomber (17 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Ah yea. totally interested in this given Francavilla and the story style

#17 Posted by Twentyfive (2145 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

Darkhorse: ......have the lawyer at the ready........

#18 Posted by MadeinBangladesh (2233 posts) - 8 months, 20 days ago - Show Bio

im new to comics but this looks cool

#19 Posted by TheGardener (16 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

I absolutely love Francavilla's work. I will pick this up for sure.

#20 Edited by That60sGuy (208 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

I like these noir style "pulpish" characters and the art here will obviously be awesome... but I'm sticking to The Spider and Lobster Johnson for my noir/pulp fix!

#21 Posted by NewKid (312 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

nice.

#22 Posted by ThomasElliot (260 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

@mr.obvious said:

oh yeah, that reminds me... BRING BACK TED KORD!!!!!!!!!

I wish!

#23 Posted by RedheadedAtrocitus (5838 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

I'm so much a fan of noir and neo-noir that I almost feel completely compelled to get this. After all, from the pulls I do of Dynamite already it seems only right. Of course, if Ig et this too I must also have room for Lobby Johnson. Hmm, decisions, decisions...

#24 Posted by BradyDale (55 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio

Wait... Dark Horse Presents still exists? Man, that's great, but I had no idea.

Maybe if DH would quit being ridiculous and join Comixology I would know this.

#25 Posted by Jonny_Anonymous (15625 posts) - 8 months, 19 days ago - Show Bio
@BradyDale: they have there own digital thing going so I doubt we'll see that any time soon
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