Black Star
Will be published approx. on 16. March 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-80618-286-2 (ISBN)
Description
Smallville star Kristin Kreuk and the Critical Role team unite to create a supernatural gothic horror involving a clandestine group of magic users.
Cast aside for his magical ability, Dashiell Carlyle is welcomed into the mysterious Order of the Black Star to pursue a better tomorrow - but utopia comes at a deadly cost.
The debut comic series by acclaimed actress Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Reacher, Murder in a Small Town). Co-written with Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Mistletoe Murders) and screenwriter Eric Putzer, and illustrated by artist Joe Bocardo (Nightwalkers, The Hexiles), this incredible collection of the comic book series is a Northern Gothic noir steeped in horror and dark humor.
Amidst skirmishes between two warring factions in the early nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers he has magical abilities... and that he's not alone. Thrust into a secret order with designs to use their magic to build a new and better world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia may come at a horrific cost.
It's a violent world: gritty, bloody, and dark. But that's balanced with a sense of discovery and awe. The storytelling's propulsive, and the morality grey. It's The Revenant meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. It's a love letter to a frozen corner of the world that few know. It's weird and wonderful, and something wholly its own.
Collecting Black Star #1-5.
Cast aside for his magical ability, Dashiell Carlyle is welcomed into the mysterious Order of the Black Star to pursue a better tomorrow - but utopia comes at a deadly cost.
The debut comic series by acclaimed actress Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Reacher, Murder in a Small Town). Co-written with Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Mistletoe Murders) and screenwriter Eric Putzer, and illustrated by artist Joe Bocardo (Nightwalkers, The Hexiles), this incredible collection of the comic book series is a Northern Gothic noir steeped in horror and dark humor.
Amidst skirmishes between two warring factions in the early nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers he has magical abilities... and that he's not alone. Thrust into a secret order with designs to use their magic to build a new and better world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia may come at a horrific cost.
It's a violent world: gritty, bloody, and dark. But that's balanced with a sense of discovery and awe. The storytelling's propulsive, and the morality grey. It's The Revenant meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. It's a love letter to a frozen corner of the world that few know. It's weird and wonderful, and something wholly its own.
Collecting Black Star #1-5.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Titan Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 258 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80618-286-2 (9781806182862)
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Persons
Eric Putzer, a Canadian writer and Canadian Film Centre alumnus, served as co-producer on CBC and The CW's Burden of Truth.
Peter Mooney is a Canadian actor and writer. He's stared in numerous television series including Rookie Blue, Burden of Truth, Camelot and Mistletoe Murders, and feature films including We Were Wolves and The Prodigy. As a writer, his short films Method and Parachute premiered at the Toronto and Tribeca film festivals respectively.
Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actor and producer who has worked in television and film for over two decades. Known for series such as Smallville, Beauty and the Beast, Burden of Truth, and Murder in a Small Town, she is also an avid reader and creative collaborator interested in storytelling that explores identity, memory, and human connection.
Joe Bocardo (Cadiz, 1980) Resident in Seville since 1994. Illustrator of comics such as Phantasmagoria and Barbarian Blood, both published by Karras Comics and scripted by El Torres. He has worked with Scout Comics with books like The Recount, The Shepherd, and the miniseries The West Moon Chronicle, and more recently illustrated the comics Nightwalkers and The Hexiles. He is also the most handsome artist in his area and the one who poses best in photos while looking at the infinite.
Peter Mooney is a Canadian actor and writer. He's stared in numerous television series including Rookie Blue, Burden of Truth, Camelot and Mistletoe Murders, and feature films including We Were Wolves and The Prodigy. As a writer, his short films Method and Parachute premiered at the Toronto and Tribeca film festivals respectively.
Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actor and producer who has worked in television and film for over two decades. Known for series such as Smallville, Beauty and the Beast, Burden of Truth, and Murder in a Small Town, she is also an avid reader and creative collaborator interested in storytelling that explores identity, memory, and human connection.
Joe Bocardo (Cadiz, 1980) Resident in Seville since 1994. Illustrator of comics such as Phantasmagoria and Barbarian Blood, both published by Karras Comics and scripted by El Torres. He has worked with Scout Comics with books like The Recount, The Shepherd, and the miniseries The West Moon Chronicle, and more recently illustrated the comics Nightwalkers and The Hexiles. He is also the most handsome artist in his area and the one who poses best in photos while looking at the infinite.