This week Dark Horse Comics publishes a terrific collection you will not want to miss. Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites Hardcover collects all of the stories featured in various Dark Horse anthologies as well as the four-issue mini-series. The amazing story is by multiple Eisner award winner Evan Dorkin and the truly beautiful art is by the wonderful (and also a recipient of many Eisner’s) Jill Thompson. By way of preview, Dark Horse has sent over the cover and a complete 8-page Beasts of Burden story that will be included in the collection. Check out the preview and then call your local comic shop to have them reserve you a copy of Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites Hardcover!
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Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites HC
Writer: Evan Dorkin
Artist: Jill Thompson
Genre: Horror, Action/Adventure
Welcome to Burden Hill — a picturesque little town adorned with white picket fences and green, green grass, home to a unique team of paranormal investigators. Beneath this shiny exterior, Burden Hill harbors dark and sinister secrets, and it’s up to a heroic gang of dogs — and one cat — to protect the town from the evil forces at work. These are the Beasts of Burden Hill — Pugs, Ace, Jack, Whitey, Red and the Orphan — whose early experiences with the paranormal (including a haunted doghouse, a witches’ coven, and a pack of canine zombies) have led them to become members of the Wise Dog Society, official animal agents sworn to protect their town from evil. This turns out to be no easy task, as they soon encounter demonic cannibal frogs, tortured spirits, a secret rat society, and a bizarre and deadly resurrection in the Burden Hill cemetery — events which lead to fear and heartbreak as our four-legged heroes discover that the evil within Burden Hill is growing and on the move. Can our heroes overcome these supernatural menaces? Can evil be bested by a paranormal team that doesn’t have hands? And even more importantly, will Pugs ever shut the hell up?
Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of Beasts of Burden — a comic-book series that will capture readers’ hearts and haunt their dreams.
Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk and Cheese) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) first introduced these very special investigators in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and the other Dark Horse Book of . . . anthologies, for which they won coveted Eisner Awards for Best Short Story and Best Painter. Those first tales are collected here, along with the comic series Beasts of Burden issues #1–#4.
Publication Date: June 23, 2010
Format: FC, 184 pages, HC, 7 3/4″ x 11″
Price: $19.99