This week Dark Horse Comics announced that Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell’s illustrated adaptation of the American Gods author’s Norse Mythology will publish this October. With a creative team including Hellboy’s Mike Mignola, award-winning artist Jerry Ordway, and renown storyteller and literary wizard, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology brings the quarrelsome and enchanting Asgardian pantheon to comic readers this fall. Marvel at the adventures of fiery-tempered Thor, All-Father Odin’s terrible sacrifice and rebirth, and the beguiling magic of Loki Laufeyson, alongside Nordic gods, monsters, dwarves, and giants, when the ongoing Norse Mythology comic series launches this October.
Rising like the immortal Einherjar from the eternal battlefields of Valhalla, Norse Mythology, based on critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller, gets a new release date after widespread delays and cancellations across the industry. 2017’s Norse Mythology introduced a modern retelling of the legendary tales of Asgardian gods from Scandinavian lore by author of the macabre and miraculous, Neil Gaiman. The best-seller and winner of the Audie Award for Narration By The Author, Norse Mythology shed new light on ancient tales with Gaiman’s lyrical prose, and, often devilish humorous, portrayals of “Hymir and Thor’s Fishing Expedition,” “Mimir’s Head and Odin’s Eye,” “The Children of Loki,” “The Death of Balder,” and calamitous “Ragnarök: The Final Destiny of the Gods.”
This October, Dark Horse Comics presents a new comic book adaptation of Norse Mythology, led by author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning artist and writer, P. Craig Russell. The ongoing series, based on the best-selling and innovative Norse Mythology, features an incredible lineup of artists and contributors including Mike Mignola, Jerry Ordway, Dave Stewart, Lovern Kindzierski and Galen Showman, with cover art by P. Craig Russell and David Mack for a total of 18 anticipated issues. P. Craig Russell, Gaiman’s co-conspirator on Norse Mythology, is famous throughout the comic world for his art nouveau-inspired stylings and take on Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung for Dark Horse, as well as his work on Gaiman’s own cult-hit Sandman and the eerie Coraline.
In “An Introduction” to 2017’s Norse Mythology, author Neil Gaiman writes, “My first encounter with Asgard and its inhabitants was as a small boy, no more than seven, reading the adventures of The Mighty Thor as depicted by American comics artist Jack Kirby, in stories plotted by Kirby and Stan Lee.” This youthful introduction to the exhilarating worlds of myth and legend led to a lifelong enthusiasm for folklore and fable, and ultimately shaped Gaiman’s artistic aesthetic and the writer’s exceptional and celebrated fiction. Of the upcoming Dark Horse Comics illustrated-edition of Norse Mythology, creator Neil Gaiman maintains, "I fell in love with the Norse gods from reading about them in comics as a boy, so it's only fitting that they return to the medium that started it. I cannot wait to see P. Craig Russell and his collaborators tell the old stories for a new generation.”
Norse Mythology, the Dark Horse Comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s best-seller hits stores and digital shelves October 7, 2020.
Source: Dark Horse