The Hellboy Universe, not to be confused with its second cousin Steven Universe, is expanding once again. Dark Horse Comics has announced Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time, a four-issue miniseries by Mike Mignola and Bruce Zick that will explore a previously “uncharted corner of the Hellboy Universe,” per PR from the publisher.
“This is an idea that had been banging around in the back of my head for a very long time,” said Mignola via a press release. “I’m not at all a science fiction guy—unless, of course, it’s that kind of VICTORIAN science fiction where guys tamper with forces they don’t understand and jump themselves into nowhere in a bubble-helmet diving suit made out of leather and heavy metal rivets. And, of course, you need a haunted polar bear.”
Added Zick, “I have always loved building new worlds, whether as a concept artist for Disney and PIxar, or a creator of comics for Dark Horse. And now, I get to design a crazy fantastic reality based on the fearless imagination of Mike Mignola and his Hellboy Universe. Mike is a pure genius storyteller and when he pitched this new story to me I felt that I would need to use everything I’ve learned over my entire career to make his idea come to life as something we’ve never seen before. When you follow Captain Henry and his newfound Time Traveler sidekick, you begin in Victorian England, then to a Ghost realm and finally to a retro/tekno/dimension that descends into a nightmare realm of monsters, ghosts, and a terrifying Time King. Not to mention a peppering of familiar faces from the pages of Hellboy–including Hellboy himself.”
In the series, Edward Grey, the Witchfinder, and the Whittier family, are attempting to send someone into the realm beyond to free their uncle. Unfortunately, he gets a little lost in time, and discovers that the only thing worse than the monsters he runs into, is time itself.
“Captain Henry is a soldier and fortune hunter in the grand tradition of heroic and mythic figures, and if you look closely you just might find him familiar in a surprising and unexpected way,” continued Zick. “One really fun part of building this world was exploring a new mythology for time traveling, from the origins of the science, to the fearless adventurers and their fabulous Time Machines.”
Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time #1 hits stores on October 22 from Dark Horse. It will feature covers by Zick with variant covers by Mike Mignola, Troy Nixey, Ben Stenbeck, and Michael Wm Kaluta.
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