Well this is all kinds of awesome. It looks like Dark Horse, who have recently been getting into the webcomic reprinting game with books like “Adventures of Super Hero Girl,” “Bucko” and the upcoming “Sin Titulo” collection will be collecting Victor Santos’ excellent webcomic “Polar” this December.
Released online by Santos, whose work you may know from “Mice Templar” after Mike Oeming, “Polar” is a silent black and white (and sometimes color) noir comic that makes “Sin City” look rather sunny. It’s a bit like Cooke’s “Parker” books and is as gritty as they come, spanning quite a few chapters now in its release. It’s definitely worth a read-through, if you’ve never taken the time.
All of this awesome is going to be scooped up and placed in a hardcover for your enjoyment by the good folks at Dark Horse, though, and this is something to get excited about it. What makes the printing interesting is that the comic is going to now feature dialogue. Like, people talking and stuff. You know the kind. “Polar” was originally released online as a silent comic, which actually made it that much more intense due to the action and setting presented via Santos’ wonderfully stylistic art; it’ll be interesting to see what words on top of all of that add to the work.
If you’ve never seen “Polar” before, head on over to PolarComic.com and give it a look. For the full press release from Dark Horse, please see below.
Dark Horse Press Release
As announced at San Diego Comic-Con, Dark Horse Comics is proud to bring Polar, the lauded silent webcomic by Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich), to print—available for the first time ever with dialogue!
A guns-blazing espionage action-adventure in the grand tradition of Jim Steranko and Frank Miller, this graphic novel is a brutal, fast-tempo story of revenge that Newsarama says is “as ice-cold as its name.” Though Polar was originally released as a silent webcomic, Santos has crafted a script as hard boiled and intriguing as his art for this hardcover collection.
“Polar began as a tribute to the greatness of graphic storytelling. Watching it improve and evolve into the version readers will see in the book printed by one of my favorite publishers, I can only say: Mission accomplished, old soldier,” said creator Victor Santos.
Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world’s most deadly spy—the former agent known as Black Kaiser—is a wanted man that’s wanted . . . dead! On a collision course with his former employer, the Damocles Agency, Black Kaiser goes head to head with a stab-happy, psychotic torture expert and a seductive but deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him, and he’s not in the habit of dying.
Additional praise for Victor Santos’s Polar:
“A beautiful, if bloody, webcomic . . . an engaging experiment in color, style, and wordless storytelling.”—CBR’s Robot 6
Polar: Came from the Cold is on sale December 11 in stores everywhere.
For more on Polar, check out the exclusive news on Comics Alliance.
Visit PolarComic.com to check out more on Victor Santos.
About Dark Horse
Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Brian Wood, Gerard Way, Felicia Day, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Neal Adams, and Jim Steranko, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, Timecop, and SpyBoy. Its successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Mass Effect, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, EVE Online, Halo, Serenity, Game of Thrones, and Domo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading publishers of both creator-owned content and licensed comics material.
