There are always plenty of good reasons to partake in the annual Free Comic Book Day event, but Dark Horse is making an especially strong case for FCBD 2024. This year, Dark Horse is releasing a horror-themed FCBD special that features new Hellboy and Stranger Things stories.
IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of the Stranger Things story, dubbed “Deliver Me From Evil.” Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Stranger Things: Deliver Me From Evil is written by Derek Fridolfs (Back to the Future: Biff to the Future) and illustrated by Jonathan Case (Batman ’66), with letters by Nate Piekos (The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys). Here’s Dark Horse’s official description for the issue:
Um . . . stories from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, AND Stranger Things? Yes, please! In Hellboy, “The Fortune Teller,” Hellboy consults a crystal ball-reader for help solving a murder, but things go off the rails when she gets distracted reading Hellboy’s own future. Then, in Stranger Things, “Deliver Me From Evil,” Argyle and Jonathan swap fantastical and scary tales as they make one last pizza delivery for the night.
FCBD 2024: Hellboy/Stranger Things will be released on Saturday, May 4, 2024. You can use the official FCBD Store Locator to find out which comic shops in your area will be participating in the event.
In other FCBD news, DC will be using the event to kick off their Absolute Power crossover event, as Amanda Waller and her allies take down every metahuman on the planet.
Also on the Stranger Things front, we’ve learned that the first episode of the upcoming final season is called “Chapter One: The Crawl,” and will release on Netflix alongside all (or at least most) of the other episodes on the same day. It’s also pegged to be a shorter season than the last, with a “Return of the King-ish” ending that David Harbour has warned is “very, very moving.”
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