Dark Regards Is a Comic With a Truly Ludicrous Back-Story

Dark Regards is easy the astir intriguing caller indie comics to travel on successful rather immoderate time. It's a publication whose back-story is arsenic chaotic and brainsick arsenic the comic itself. But you tin beryllium the justice successful our exclusive preview of Dark Regards #1.

Check retired the slideshow assemblage beneath for an exclusive look wrong the caller series, but beware of immoderate NSFW connection ahead!

Dark Regards is the brainchild of comedian/writer/musician Dave Hill and creator Artyom Topilin (Cruel Universe, I Hate This Place). The four-issue bid is inspired by Hill's ain experiences forming a fictional Satanic metallic set called Witch Taint and the unexpected spiral of chaos that ensued.

Here's Oni Press' authoritative statement of the series:

Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his archetypal set acceptable retired to stone their precocious schoolhouse auditorium successful a fury of dense metallic hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a caller beingness for himself arsenic a rising prima successful the New York drama country – a vocation wherever getting laughed astatine connected signifier is the full constituent and not conscionable a tragic consequence. But erstwhile Dave's metallic ambitions are re-awakened by the über self-serious, “Satanic” genre of Norwegian achromatic metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic change ego and a set to lucifer that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten stone 'n rotation fantasy. But erstwhile Dave's internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint – a metallic set “so utmost that you indispensable region each crisp objects from the contiguous area” erstwhile their euphony is played – spreads each the mode to Europe, his communicative volition spiral dangerously retired of power arsenic Norway's astir utmost achromatic metallic butchers travel to reap their revenge . . . and enactment everything and everyone Dave holds beloved successful the crosshairs (of their axes, which, information beryllium told, don't really person crosshairs, but, hey, it's a metaphor).

“A fewer years back, I sat down successful my underwear precocious 1 nighttime and decided to fto my obsession with Norwegian achromatic metallic tally chaotic by emailing a Norwegian achromatic metallic grounds label, telling them each the bands connected their statement sucked contempt the information that I had ne'er listened to immoderate of them, and suggesting they motion my highly utmost achromatic metallic set Witch Taint, which had yet to grounds immoderate euphony and didn't adjacent beryllium beyond the set sanction I'd conscionable made up connected the spot,” said Hill successful a statement. “This archetypal email led to months of correspondence with the grounds statement that I ne'er intended for anyone to see. But the Internet being the Internet, yet a batch of radical saw it and things got nuts. Now, beyond my wildest dreams, this communicative has go my archetypal comic publication bid Dark Regards, written by maine and illustrated by the astonishing Artyom Topilin. If you don't devour each azygous issue, you are fundamentally insane.”

Dark Regards #1 is priced astatine $4.99 and volition beryllium released connected May 13, 2025.

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