Dark Horse Comics wants you to stay home, stay safe, and read comics during this time of social distancing and are offering access to over 100 free digital titles from their most popular comics and graphic novels. Home to the iconic Hellboy, Cullen Bunn’s Harrow County, and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Dark Horse Comics has quite the lineup of free comics!
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy has been a cornerstone of the Dark Horse Comics lineup since the early 1990s and the artist’s stark, yet compelling, pulp-action style has spilled over into a number of titles such as the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, The Goon, and the Shelley-inspired Frankenstein Undone. Among Dark Horse’s over 80 first issue comics and a selection of full graphic novels are such Mignola masterpieces as B.P.R.D: Plague of Frogs Expanded Edition, collecting Hollow Earth & Other Stories, The Soul of Venice & Other Stories, and Plague of Frogs. Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction features scripting by John Byrne with all four issues of Seed of Destruction, a cover gallery, and reprints of the first Hellboy stories ever published. And occult-investigator Sir Edward Grey stalks London's most famous serial killer in the Victorian-era thriller Witchfinder: The Reign of Darkness #1.
Aliens and Stranger Things headline the numerous free Dark Horse titles based on popular sci-fi films and best-selling video games and offerings include the claustrophobia-inducing Aliens: Dead Orbit from Godzilla: Half-Century War artist James Stokoe, Alien Versus Predator: Thicker than Blood, and Aliens: Resistance and Aliens: Rescue from xenomorph expert Brian Wood. Award-winning comics writer Jody Houser presents a terrifying tale “based on Will's unseen journey during season 1 of hit Netflix show Stranger Things” with the Demogorgon haunting the twisted Upside Down in Stranger Things #1 and in the dark intrigue of first prequel comic series for Stranger Things, Six. Starcraft, the real-time strategy game-turned-franchise from Blizzard is an ideal arena for storytelling and Dark Horse is offering two additional Houser-led titles, StarCraft: Soldiers #1 and StarCraft: Survivors #1.
And Dark Horse has the kids covered with an archive of Disney favorites, retellings of classic tales, and Itty Bitty Hellboy. Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven return in Disney Frozen: Breaking Boundaries #1 and Disney Frozen: True Treasure #1 with art by Kawaii Creative Studio, the artists behind the Frozen film graphic novel adaptation. Disney delivers the classics with Disney Treasure Island, inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson novel and starring Mickey Mouse and Disney Moby Dick with Scrooge McDuck, Donald, and nephews “out on the high seas in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick who stole Captain Quackhab's lucky dime.” The legendary Snow White is more than the quintessential damsel-in-distress in the inventive, first-person perspective retelling of Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #1 from Dark Horse Comics’ free collection for kids. And do not miss Itty Bitty Hellboy, from creators of Tiny Titans, Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, a comic for all-ages with Mike Mignola’s characters reimagined in a most amusing style.
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Source: Dark Horse