This January Dark Horse Comics will publish Falconspeare, an original graphic novel featuring Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s characters Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. This eerie Victorian-style mystery delivers horror, humor, and the kind of off-kilter, charming twists that fans of Mignola and Johnson-Cadwell’s previous collaborations Mr. Higgins Comes Home and Our Encounters With Evil: Adventures Of Professor J.T. Meinhardt And His Assistant Mr. Knox have come to expect. Monster hunters extraordinaire Professor Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms. Van Sloan have teamed up to slay spooks and investigate the uncanny before, but now they’ll tackle a question that’s haunted them for years: What happened to their friend and vampire slayer extraordinaire, James Falconspeare?
Falconspeare is on sale in bookstores in two weeks on January 25 and will be in comic shops on January 12. Like the previous graphic novels, Falconspeare features the signature loose, expressive style of cartoonist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell in a standalone story that builds on the characters’ previous adventures. It is set outside both the Hellboy Universe and the Outerverse
The reviews for this team’s previous work, Mr. Higgins, is fantastic and I’m sure it’ll translate to this new story.
Charmingly illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell, MR. HIGGINS is both a timeless fable and a cheeky send-up of Victorian vampire tropes, and it’s utterly delightful.—SYFY WIRE
Funny, scary… tragic and absurd. In short, it’s a perfect comic book to curl up with on Halloween, or any other day that you’re feeling up for that peculiarly All Hallow’s Eve blend of scares and laughs… and just a tiny hint of tragedy.— DREAD CENTRAL
Be sure to keep an eye out for my review with cartoonist Warwick Johnson Cadwell and my review of the story, coming soon!
