Top Cow Productions has announced that The Darkness/Pitt #1 has sold out at the distributor level. The series was in development for five years and the publisher had held back from release until all principal work on it had been completed. The series marks the first Pitt series in a decade and creator Dale Keown’s return to the character for which he is best known.

In the three issue limited series, Jackie Estacado, mafia hitman and current bearer of The Darkness, encounters an alien infection which turns in monstrous zombie like beings. Meanwhile, Pitt, an alien/human hybrid warrior, and his teen half-brother Tim arrive in New York tracking down this same problem.  

The Darkness/Pitt #2 is scheduled to be in stores on September 23, 2009.