Black Star #1 Preview

 

Cover A: Martin Simmonds

As a woman flees the police, another follows her. Her pursuer wonders why history keeps repeating itself. She wishes Humanity could change for the better. But as tragic events play out in modern Winnipeg, a confrontation and a transformation occur in the past. How are these two events linked? And why can't the Canadian city shrug off the cycle of violence that haunts it?

Here's all the info from Titan Comics:

 

Black Star #1 (OF 5) Preview

Writers: Kristin Kreuk, Peter Mooney & Eric Putzer

Artist: Joe Bacardo

Cover Artists: Martin Simmonds, Joe Bacardo, Robert Hack & Alison Sampson  

Publisher: Titan Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages, Full Color

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: July 29, 2026

 

 

A Northern Gothic Noir 

tinged with Horror and Dark Humor 

 

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)

 

Amid 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.

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are more cover options:

 

 

Cover B: Joe Bacardo

 

 

Cover C: Robert Hack

 

 

Cover D: Alison Sampson

 

 

Also Available: 

 

Cover E: Martin Simmonds Foil

Cover F: Joe Bacardo Virgin Cardstock

Cover G: Martin Simmonds Virgin

 

 

Pre-Order Now From Your Local Comic Shop Or Forbidden Planet For UK & Europe.

 

 

Thanks to Titan Comics for sharing this preview with us. 

 

For more from the creators, see my earlier preview of Black Star #1.