Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is reteaming with acclaimed artist Rachele Aragno (Yuletide, Mel: The Chosen) to return to the world of Leonide The Vampyr with a new two-part comics event, debuting this spring from Dark Horse Comics. Written by Mignola with art by Aragno, colors from Dave Stewart, and letters from Clem Robins, Leonide The Vampyr: The House of Yonda will give readers new insight into Leonide’s origins and send her on an unpredictable new adventure.
Both issues will feature covers by Aragno, with an issue #1 variant by Mignola and #2 variant by Márk Lászlo.
“I’m madly in love with Leonide and her story,” Aragno said in a statement. “When Mike and I created her, I didn’t believe she could have such a vast world behind her, filled with stories, ancestors, and a gothic castle. I could draw her for hours, guided by Mike’s words, which gives power to everything he does. These two comics will reveal a new backstory for this little vampire that will help us understand and love her even better.”
“Readers loved Leonide in her first two one-shots, and in this two-parter they’ll be pulled into her web even deeper,” added Dark Horse Comics editor Katii O’Brien. “Mike and Rachele blend horror and fairytale seamlessly, and deliver a story that is as terrifying as it is charming.”
Leonide first appeared in Mignola and Aragno’s 2022 one-shots Leonide The Vampyr: Miracle at the Crow’s Head and Leonide The Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows, where the young vampyr charmed and terrorized unsuspecting villagers, pursued by an undead priest on a quest to save the world from her bloodthirsty machinations.
Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda begins after Leonide is chased off by her latest targets. An unwitting good Samaritan finds her unresponsive, and takes her wagon to a doctor…but when the wagon arrives, the drivers are mummified and the girl is missing, with only a seed left in her place.This two-part story will follow a search for the missing girl’s ancestral home, and expose her shocking family history.
Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda arrives in comic shops on March 18, 2026.
