Dark Horse Announces Reprint Timed
with the Release of
Volume 2 in Spring of 2013!
MILWAUKIE, OR—Dark
Horse Comics gives one of its most beloved creator-owned series in its vast
archives a long-overdue deluxe treatment! Demand has proven to be much higher
than Dark Horse could have anticipated, with the first printing selling out
before hitting the shelves of comic shops today.
Rick Remender, Tony Moore,
and Jerome Opeña’s Fear Agent was a
critics’ darling long before the X-Men joined the Avengers. Published first by
Image Comics, Fear Agent came to Dark
Horse in 2007 and stayed through the series’ end in late 2011. It follows the
adventures of Heath Huston, a first-class drunk, an interplanetary alien
exterminator, and the last of the Fear Agents, the band of Texans who once
defended Earth from an onslaught of aliens seeking its annihilation. After our
“hero” has been stripped of all that he loved—his home, his family, and his
world—Huston spends his hours putting himself in constant danger for low wages
and little thanks, with a bottle of whiskey to keep him company.
This epic tale is told in
three major parts: Heath’s origin as a young father fighting an alien invasion,
his time as a middle-aged, broken-down alcoholic alien exterminator, and his old
age, as the last man alive who can stave off robotic conquerors.
“Fear Agent was a six-year-long labor of love that Tony, Jerome, and
all the collaborators dumped themselves into, and it’s extremely gratifying
that the series is breaking through to a new audience. It’s nice to know Heath
Huston will live on.”
—Rick Remender
“I’m
truly overwhelmed by the response to this hardcover edition. We put a lot of
blood, sweat, and tears into the pages of Fear
Agent over the years, so it’s great to not only see it collected into such
a handsome tome, but to see that our man Heath is still finding his way into
new readers’ hearts, as well.”
—Tony
Moore
“The Fear
Agent library selling as well as it has been is amazing! It’s gratifying to
know that work we all did years ago is still exciting readers and hopefully
finding a new audience as well.”
—Jerome Opeña
This deluxe hardcover library, the
first of two, collects issues #1–#15 of the acclaimed Fear Agent comics,
along with half of the Tales of the Fear Agent side stories, covers,
pinups, and artists’ sketch galleries.
To celebrate this landmark
release, Dark Horse will make the first two collections available digitally for
the first time, with the first issue available for free download! Visit
Digital.DarkHorse.com for more details.
Make your way to your local comic shop today, or order now
from Amazon
or Barnes
& Noble, as quantities are extremely limited!
Dark Horse is going back to print
immediately, with a new volume shipping from Diamond on March 27, 2013, and
arriving at retail on April 3.
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