Last year, comics legend Mike Mignola announced that he’d be taking a break from the world of comics after the poignant end to his work on Hellboy in Hell. Io9 has reported that Mignola is teaming up with Helena Crash artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for a new graphic novel.
Being released by Dark Horse later this year, Mr. Higgins Comes Home will be Mignola’s first major comics work since he ended Hellboy in Hell (although the Hellboy universe, often dubbed the Mignolaverse, has continued unabated at Dark Horse, with Mignola still co-writing and offering guidance for books in the franchise)—and this new tale is deliberately set outside of the continuity and lore of that setting.
The graphic novel, written by Mignola and with art from Johnson-Cadwell, is a send up of classic vampire stories, as two Vampire hunters convince the titular Mr. Higgins to return to the scene of his wife’s tragic death and confront the dark mysteries of what happened to him at the sinister Castle Golga.
