Kristin Kreuk is making her comic book debut in haunting style, and Black Star already sounds like one of those books that pulls you in with atmosphere and then hits you with pure nightmare fuel. More than 15 years after Smallville, Kreuk is diving back into comic-inspired storytelling with a gothic horror tale that looks ready to bring darkness, mystery, and big emotional stakes to the page.
Co-written with Peter Mooney and Eric Putzer, and brought to life visually by Joe Bocardo, Black Star drops readers into the brutal early nineteenth-century fur trade, where Dashiell Carlyle discovers magical abilities in the middle of a violent world already teetering on the edge. But the real hook? The secret order offering a better future may be hiding something far more terrifying beneath the surface. Gothic horror, dark humor, magic, war, and moral danger? Yeah, this one has serious must-read energy.
COVER A: MARTIN SIMMONDS
COVER B: JOE BOCARDO
COVER C: ROBERT HACK
COVER D: ALISON SAMPSON
COVER E: MARTIN SIMMONDS FOIL
COVER F: JOE BACARDO VIRGIN CARDSTOCK
COVER G: MARTIN SIMMONDS VIRGIN
(W) Kristin Kreuk, Peter Mooney & Eric Putzer
(A) Joe Bacardo
FC • 32pp • $4.99 • On Sale July 29, 2026
PRE-ORDER NOW FROM YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP OR FORBIDDEN PLANET FOR UK & EUROPE
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