Black Star: Preview the Gothic Horror Series From Smallville's Kristin Kreuk

Smallville's Kristin Kreuk is not lone the prima of 1 of the astir palmy comic publication TV shows of each time, but she's present making the leap to penning comics with a caller gothic fearfulness bid called Black Star.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview of Titan Comics' Black Star. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Black Star is simply a five-issue bid co-written by Kreuk, Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue), and screenwriter Eric Putzer, and illustrated by Joe Bocardo (Nightwalkers). Here's the authoritative logline for the series:

Amidst skirmishes betwixt 2 warring factions successful the aboriginal nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers helium has magical abilities… and that he's not alone. Thrust into a concealed bid with designs to usage their magic to physique a caller and amended world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia whitethorn travel astatine a horrific cost.

It's a convulsive world: gritty, bloody, and dark. But that's balanced with a consciousness of find 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 emotion missive to a frozen country of the satellite that fewer know. It's weird. And wonderful. And thing wholly its own.

Art by Joe Bocardo. (Image Credit: Titan Comics)

“Black Star was calved portion Peter, Eric, and I were filming 'Burden of Truth' successful Winnipeg,” said Kreuk successful property release. “We were inspired by the city’s lore and, due to the fact that we worked truthful good together, began spending our spare clip connected acceptable (and then, for years afterwards) processing our ain instrumentality connected the past and magic we imagined pulsing beneath its surface, shaping the rhythms of the metropolis and the battles raging conscionable beyond our view.”

“Sometimes radical travel to my hometown and they can’t spot past its unsmooth edges oregon inhospitable weather. But it was wide Kristin and Eric could spot close into the strangeness that makes Winnipeg truthful unique,” said Mooney. “This isn’t truthful overmuch an alternate history, but an omitted section that’s been mislaid to time. It’s bizarre and fantastical and wholly imagined — but it goes a agelong mode towards explaining wherefore the metropolis is however it is today.”

“There’s an intimacy to comics that nary different signifier rather achieves; the scholar controls the rhythm, the breath, the revelation,” added Eric Putzer. “In a communicative astir powerfulness and quality nature, we felt that intimacy indispensable to marque the scholar an progressive portion of the exchange.”

Black Star #1 volition beryllium released connected July 29, 2026. You tin preorder a transcript astatine Forbidden Planet oregon astatine your section comic shop.

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