SuperHeroHype is excited to debut a Beyond Mortal preview for Dark Horse Books’ new superhero graphic novel from Cullen Bunn (Shock Shop, Harrow County, Lamentation) and Danny Luckert (Shock Shop).
The superhero story is mixed with cosmic horror as it focuses on a group of superheroes that need to work together in order to “save the world from elder gods that want to take over the Earth.” It’s the first book in a new series of comics and graphic novels that will establish a new superhero universe by Cullen.
The Beyond Mortal TPB is now available in bookstores and will arrive in comic shops tomorrow, July 24, 2024. It is 144 pages long with dimensions of 6 5/8 x 10 3/16”. It is now available to order for $19.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore.
Beyond Mortal has drawn praise from the likes of Patton Oswalt and Joe R. Lansdale.
“Oh, wow. I haven’t enjoyed a superhero story like this since Jack Kirby and the early Marvel stories. It’s golden,” said Lansdale (The Donut Legion, The Bottoms). While Oswalt proclaimed, “Horror, heroism, and high art — Beyond Mortal is bursting at the seams with awesomeness!”
Check out the exclusive Beyond Mortal preview below:
“Comic book readers are familiar with the world of Bronze and Modern Era comics… stories of gleaming steel metropolises populated by daring superheroesbattling for truth and justice… facing down power-mad masterminds and would-be world conquerors. But unknown to the league of heroes who protect the innocent, this world has a cancer growing at its heart. A pantheon of elder gods is starting to awaken. These timeless forces of super-nature once claimed dominion over a primordial Earth… and they have returned to reclaim what is theirs, ” reads the official description.
“Super-powered heroes—and villains—find themselves struggling against unimaginable horror to save the planet. It is a hopeless battle. The unstoppable force of the Leviathan will collide with the immovable object of the world’s most powerful superheroes in an unflinching tale of ultimate horror and ultimate sacrifice. “
