Image Comics to Reboot The Darkness With Original Creator Marc Silvestri

The Darkness is undoubtedly 1 of the astir palmy indie comics of the 1990s, spawning respective ongoing series, galore spinoffs and crossovers, and adjacent a brace of well-regarded video games. Fans volition beryllium blessed to cognize that The Darkness is making its instrumentality to the stands conscionable up of the franchise's 30th anniversary, and archetypal creator Marc Silvestri is backmost connected board.

IGN tin exclusively uncover that Image Comics and Top Cow are rebooting The Darkness with a caller ongoing bid that kicks disconnected successful December 2025. The caller publication volition beryllium written by Silvestri. Ed Benes (Justice League of America) volition gully the archetypal issue, with inks from Matt “Batt!” Banning, Sal Regla, and John Livesay, colors by Arif Prianto, and letters by Troy Peteri. Raymond Gay (Gunslinger Spawn) volition instrumentality implicit creation duties opening with contented #2. The archetypal contented features covers by Silvestri, Benes, and David Mack.

Check retired the slideshow assemblage beneath to spot screen creation and aboriginal interior pencils for The Darkness #1:

The caller bid isn't a continuation of the existing The Darkness mythos, but volition present a caller instrumentality connected the adventures of mafia hitman-turned-supernatural avenger Jackie Estacado, opening with his root story.

Here's Image's authoritative summary of the caller series:

In a satellite consumed by shadows...one antheral becomes The Darkness. Jackie Estacado is back! Thrust into a supernatural warfare betwixt the acheronian and the airy successful a no-holds-barred escapade wherever the borderline of our world grinds against supernatural forces grappling for power implicit each different and the waking world.

Mafia Hitman Jackie Estacado was some blessed and cursed connected his 21st day erstwhile helium became the bearer of The Darkness, an elemental unit that allows those who wield it entree to an otherworldly magnitude and power implicit the demons who dwell there. Forces successful the satellite emergence up to look Jackie and the evil his acquisition represents. There is 1 tiny occupation successful this story…evil is good.

“The Darkness has ever been 1 of my favourite characters, and I’ve wanted to travel backmost to it for a agelong time,” said Silvestri successful a statement. “Fans person been asking for years erstwhile Jackie would return, and present we get to present thing genuinely special. This is going to consciousness familiar, but it’s going to instrumentality you places you’ve ne'er been before.”

“This isn’t conscionable a nostalgia trip—it’s a reinvention,” added Silvestri. “We’re going backmost to what made The Darkness specified a hit: Its grit, its danger, its consciousness that powerfulness ever comes with a price. But this time, we’re turning everything up to eleven. Jackie’s satellite is going to grow successful ways readers ne'er expected.”

The Darkness #1 volition beryllium released connected December 10, with a last bid cutoff of November 10. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

In different comics news, Dark Horse is releasing The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope - The Manga, and Absolute Batman #12 provides twisted caller root stories for respective iconic DC villains.

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