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Beasts of Burden: The Presence of Others' first issue from Dark Horse comics ended on a cliffhanger, where we were unsure of the father's fate at the hands of the crypt spirits.  Writer Evan Dorkin (Blackwood) settles the matter rather quickly, beginning the second comic with dad resting on the ground surrounded by his children[...]

Beasts of Burden: The Presence of Others is the comic I didn't know I needed; a blend of horror, the supernatural, and a character line up of dogs and cats working together to take down the monsters of the occult.  I was immediately dragged into an action packed issue that filled the pages with adventure[...]

Beasts of Burden is returning with a new volume in May at Dark Horse Comics, from the creative team of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson (for part one) The new installment will be called Beasts of Burden: The Presence of Others and will be split into two parts, with the first hitting stores on May 1,[...]

After resting, the dogs of Burden Hill investigate the runes on the trap. Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #1 cover by Benjamin Dewey This is my first time reading a Beasts of Burden comic, but Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #1 does a solid job of introducing the reader to the broad ideas of[...]

Check out previews for Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men #1, Black Hammer: Age of Doom #4, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 12: The Reckoning #3 below. BEASTS OF BURDEN: WISE DOGS AND ELDRITCH MEN #1 A heroic pack of canines known as the Wise Dogs set off on a mission to clean up[...]

Dark Horse announced a new Beasts of Burden series coming this summer, from the creative team of co-creator Evan Dorkin, artist Benjamin Dewey, and letterer Nate Piekos Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men will be a four-issue mini-series, with Rafael Albuquerque providing a variant cover for issue #1 Here's the synopsis from the press[...]

The book, revealed in an EXCLUSSSIVE interview with AV Club, will be an unofficial spinoff of Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts of Burden series In the interview, Dorkin explains what inspired the new book: The initial inspiration was '70s/'80s horror-comedies from back when I was a teenager Movies like Fright Night, Re-Animator, Night of the Creeps and[...]

A few changes 'twixt solicitation between solicitation and publication… Astonishing Ant-Man #6 will be drawn by Annapaola Martello, rather than Ramon Rosanas. Illuminati #5 will be drawn by Kev Walker, rather than Shawn Crystal. Karnak #5 will be drawn by Roland Boschi, rather than Gerardo Zaffino. Robin: Son Of Batman #10 solicited as from Patrick Gleason and Mick Gray, The Son of Batman faces the Son of Lu'un Darga! Damian, Maya, Goliath and their new friends seek out[...]

Talking to Comics Alliance, Evan Dorkin remarked upon the future of his Beasts Of Burden comic, an intense action adventure with dogs and cats as the lead characters, created with Jill Thompson for Dark Horse Comics In that it doesn't seem to have a future He said, Beasts of Burden is in a coma, Jill [Thompson] hasn't turned in a new[...]

And they were all right handed…or else that would leave me with 2 arms that don't know how to draw! And as one backer noted, Jill, did you accidentally disclose you're working on a new Beasts of Burden!!! It did seem that way…. The Scary Godmother fashion doll kickstartered by Jill Thompson in 2013, is a little on the[...]