On Tuesday, April 28th (bookstores) & Wednesday, April 29th (comic shops), Dark Horse Comics is releasing NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path Vol. 1 TPB!
An exquisitely hand-painted tale from Dan Brereton‘s Eisner-nominated supernatural-noir comics series NOCTURNALS.
Take a look at the preview, then pick up your copy on New Comic Book Day at your LCS or online retailers!
Here’s a look at the cover, storyline, and preview pages for this week’s
new release from Dark Horse Comics on New Comic Book Day…
NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path Vol. 1 TPB
Writing by Dan Brereton
Illustrated by Dan Brereton
Letters by Lois Buhalis
Covers & Cover Artists:
Dan Brereton (Cover A)
Genres: Fantasy · Horror · Occult & Supernatural
Format: FC, 136 pages; Miniseries
Age range: 14+
SRP: $19.99
Publication Date: April 28th, 2026
Collects Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1–#4.
While the town sleeps, evil rises.
A war is being fought for the soul of Pacific City. It’s a war fought by monsters, both human and supernatural. But luckily, some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals—a band of misfit vigilantes led by Doc Horror, his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl), and an armed revenant known as the Gunwitch—are all that stand against the eldritch criminal underworld of Pacific City.
The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld. But when the Nocturnals investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
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