After concluding the critically lauded "Hellboy in Hell" last year, Mike Mignola took an indefinite break from drawing comics to focus on painting and co-writing the various books that make up the Mignoalverse. While he hasn’t returned to drawing just yet (aside from a variant cover for “B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know” #1), he announced a new, non-Hellboy-related graphic novel, a “Mr. Higgins Comes Home”. Mignola is writing and created the cover with colorist, Dave Stewart, while Warwick Johnson-Cadwell from "Helena Crash" is on interior art. The book centers around two vampire hunters who wish to make Mr. Higgins face the dark truths of his past at the ominous Castle Golga.
This will be Mignola first time back solo in the writer’s helm since the “Hellboy in Hell” finale. Mignola describes the new story as "a very affectionate (and obvious) nod to the old Hammer Dracula films and my favorite vampire film of them all, Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers."
Mignola had this to say about Johnson-Cadwell:
“I’d been a fan of Warwick’s work for a very long time,” Mignola told io9 in a provided statement. “I met him recently, discovered he had a fondness for sad werewolves, and that got the ball rolling for Mr. Higgins.”
While this is Johnson-Cadwell’s first work with Mignola, he does have an extremely tangential connection: he drew one of the Hellboys for our “31 Days of Hellboy” event in 2014.
It should also be noted that this new tale exists entirely separate from the Mignolaverse which, itself, has featured various vampires over the years.
"Mr. Higgins Comes Home" will arrive in comic book stores on October 25, and eventually reach larger bookstores on the ever appropriate October 31.
