Mignola, Roberson, Oeming Team on Ghost of a Ghost
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and iZombie creator Chris Roberson (also a veteran Hellboy writer) are working with artist Michael Avon Oeming (Powers) on Ghost of a Ghost. Published by Dark Horse, the 1960s psychedelic style spy/sci-fi story spins out of a Hellboy miniseries. The four-issue limited series begins in September 2026.
The book stars Agent Jian, a character that Mignola and Duncan Fegredo introduced in 2023’s Giant Robot Hellboy. She was exposed to a radiated material called enkeladite that gave her powers, and now she is working with a spy ring to protect the enkeladite before it ends up in the wrong hands. Deciding who to keep the ring from proves more difficult than she anticipated.
“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion that he wants to explore,” Roberson said. “In some cases, the original inspiration is mostly mine and other times it’s mostly Mignola’s, but this one was a fully formed Mike Mignola idea from the beginning. At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he’d introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it. But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 will feature a cover by Oeming and a variant by Dave Johnson. Variant covers on future issues will be rendered by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” Oeming said. “We’re bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you’re going to love it.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 debuts in comic shops on September 23.
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Mignola, Roberson, Oeming Team on Ghost of a Ghost
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and iZombie creator Chris Roberson (also a veteran Hellboy writer) are working with artist Michael Avon Oeming (Powers) on Ghost of a Ghost. Published by Dark Horse, the 1960s psychedelic style spy/sci-fi story spins out of a Hellboy miniseries. The four-issue limited series begins in September 2026.
The book stars Agent Jian, a character that Mignola and Duncan Fegredo introduced in 2023’s Giant Robot Hellboy. She was exposed to a radiated material called enkeladite that gave her powers, and now she is working with a spy ring to protect the enkeladite before it ends up in the wrong hands. Deciding who to keep the ring from proves more difficult than she anticipated.
“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion that he wants to explore,” Roberson said. “In some cases, the original inspiration is mostly mine and other times it’s mostly Mignola’s, but this one was a fully formed Mike Mignola idea from the beginning. At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he’d introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it. But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 will feature a cover by Oeming and a variant by Dave Johnson. Variant covers on future issues will be rendered by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” Oeming said. “We’re bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you’re going to love it.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 debuts in comic shops on September 23.
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