Announcing BUCKO! A Hipster Murder Mystery Tour!
ANNOUNCING BUCKO
A HIPSTER MURDER MYSTERY TOUR!
APRIL 2, SEATTLE, WA–Announced at Emerald City Comicon, Dark Horse Comics will collect
the funniest new webcomic of 2011, Bucko!
Written by
twisted masterminds Jeff Parker (Thunderbolts, Mysterius the
Unfathomable) and Erika Moen (DAR), this collection includes tons of
extras, including brand-new strips, commentary, and info on the real-life
inspirations for Bucko.
“My main
discovery in working on Bucko is finding out that many people
are fascinated by the same weird mess that Erika and I are. And that nothing is
off limits when it comes to humor and story if you pedal into it full steam
with no hand brakes like we did,” said Jeff Parker.
After
discovering a dead body in an office bathroom, hung-over job interviewee Rich
“Bucko” Richardson becomes suspected of the murder. What he thinks is a quest
to find the real killer turns into a weeklong romp through the wilds of
Portland, Oregon, complete with bike-mounted cover bands, steampunk Makers,
Juggalos, SuicideGirls, meth heads, so much absinthe, and an entire city made
of books. After taking the Internet by storm, Parker and Moen’s dirty, funny
murder mystery is now the most hilarious book in comic shops!
“This was a
really unique collaboration, in that Parker would only give me one page of
script at a time, so as the artist I had no idea which characters were going to
stick around or what was coming up in the story next. I was reading this story
with the same surprise as our audience,” stated Erika Moen. “If you
are looking for something irreverent, something tastefully obscene, something
that pokes fun at sacred alterna-culture cows, then it is possible you will
like this. But you might not. That’s cool too.”
Bucko is
on sale September 19, 2012!
For additional
information, check out Comics Alliance.
About Dark Horse Comics
Since 1986, Dark
Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation
can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown
company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and
creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In
addition to publishing comics from top talent like Frank Miller, Mike Mignola,
Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way, Will Eisner, and best-selling prose author Janet
Evanovich, Dark Horse has developed such successful characters as the Mask,
Timecop, and the Occultist. Additionally, its highly successful
line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star
Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, Mass
Effect, Serenity, and Domo. Today, Dark
Horse Comics is the largest independent comic-book publisher in the United
States and is recognized as both an innovator in the cause of creator
rights and the comics industry’s leading publisher of licensed material.
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