Exclusive Reveal: Mike Mignola Reunites with Chris Roberson and Michael Avon Oeming to Explore Psychedelic 60s Spy-Fi Action in GHOST OF A GHOST

We are excited to exclusively share with Daily Dead readers that Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson (Hellboy Universe writer, iZombie creator) are teaming up with Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming for the new comic book miniseries Ghost of a Ghost. To be published by Dark Horse Comics, the new 4-issue limited comic book series spun out of Giant Robot Hellboy and stars superspy Agent Jian. Written by Mignola and Roberson, with art by Oeming, colors by Taki Soma, and lettered by Clem Robins, the new series "chronicles Agent Jian’s psychedelic 1960s adventures":

"Fans first met superspy Agent Jian in Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo’s 2023 Giant Robot Hellboy, where she was exposed to enkeladite – the radiated substance known to cause sometimes monstrous mutations. Now, she’s working with a mysterious spy ring and using her newfound powers to keep enkeladite from falling into the wrong hands – but just whose hands are the wrong ones is harder to determine than she thought."

“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion that he wants to explore,” explains Chris Roberson. “In some cases, the original inspiration is mostly mine and other times it’s mostly Mignola’s, but this one was a fully formed Mike Mignola idea from the beginning. At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he’d introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it. But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before.”

“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” says artist Michael Avon Oeming. “We’re bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you’re going to love it.”

Ghost of a Ghost #1 will be released on September 23rd, featuring a cover by Oeming and a variant cover by Dave Johnson. Future issues in the series will include variant covers by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho. For the latest on Ghost of a Ghost and all the great titles from Dark Horse Comics, you can visit them at: https://www.darkhorse.com/