Dark Horse and Matt Kindt spit up Hairball, a new house cat horror series

Hairball #1 cover art
Hairball #1 cover art (Image credit: Dark Hose Comics / Flux House)

When you've been reporting comic book news for as long as New🐠sarama has, publisher announcements become very fam🦋iliar.

Then𝓡 one day you see something you've never seen before. 𒈔December 15 was one of those days...

"Timed to National Cat Lover's Month..." begins Dark Horse Comics' announcem🐈ent of a new horror limited series titled🅠 Hairball.

Well, okay then!

Hair💖ball is a supernatural thriller by the creative power trio of write🗹r Matt Kindt, artist Tyler Jenkins, and colorist by Hilary Jenkins (Fear Case, Apache Delivery Service). The four-issue series launches in April and is described as "Junji Ito meets Hayao Miyazaki meets Stephen King."

The series is a co-production of Flux House, Kindt's new boutique imprint that Dark Horse says will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of Kindt, wi꧂th crime, science fiction, and humor stories, "all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways."

In Hairball a young girl⛄ named Anna begins to suspect that all her dysfunctional family's mounting problems - including her parents' fighting and the strange whispꦑering in her ear at night - may or may not be caused by an unlikely culprit: the family's black cat Bestie.

"As she tries her best to rid herself of this creature, she finds that it's not so easy to kill," reads DHC's description. "But just maybe, the cat is the only thing standing between her and an even gr🎶eater evil that threatens to destroy her life."

"I've written stories of international intrigue and locked room murder mysteries, but in twenty years of making comics, I've rarely been compelled to create a horror story," says Kindt. "And for good reason. I was actually sick to my stomach when I finished writing the end of issue #1. I grossed myself out. I knew that I'd need someone fearless to d🌄raw it. (There was no way I was going to.) I knew that Tyler was the perfect artist and co-creator for the story. And when Tyler and Hilary started sending his pages in, it was just as horrible as I'd imagined —in the very best way."

"The best horror stories peel back and slowly reveal the horrors of everyday life," adds Jenkins. "At its heart, Hairball is a story about a family, one that treats each other horribly. Is there a reason for their terrible behavior? Could the cause of all their prob⛦lems really be Bestie?"

Hairball #1 goes on sale in April with a cover by Kindt and a variant cover by Martin Simmonds. National Cat Lover's Month is being celebrated right now. Though Hairball doesn't ꦅsound like it's in love with cats... we're just saying. 

Hairball will try to claw its way into Newsarama's list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror comics of all time.

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