Smallville star Kristin Kreuk has stepped into the world of comic books again. But in a wholly different way.
Black Star is the debut comic from 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). Issue #1 also features a fantastic cover by the Eisner award-nominated Martin Simmonds!
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.
A Northern Gothic Noir twinged with horror and dark humour, 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.
Black Star #1 hits comic shops on July 29th.
Watch the trailer:
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