Mark Millar is returning to Dark Horse Comics with a new series, Star-Crossed, featuring art by Italy’s Corrado Mastantuono (Topolino, Nick Raider) colors by Niso Mastantuono, and lettering by Clem Robins. The five-part sci-fi adventure is a follow-up to the writer’s 2019 series Space Bandits and Sharkey the Bounty Hunter, that’ll see the protagonists of both comics clash after the former’s heroines rob the universe’s richest woman.
When the universally famous Space Bandits robbed the richest women in the universe, they expected a little trouble and a bounty on their heads. But they didn’t expect the number to be so high, and every single bounty hunter in the galaxy to be on their tails wherever they go.
The book marks the first new Millar series from Dark Horse since Nemesis: Forever, which wrapped up with issue #5 on January 7. Between the announcement of that series and this one, Millar (who is not quoted in the press release), took his latest projects, Psychic Sam and Conquered, to Kickstarter instead.
Dark Horse has continued to reprint the writer’s earlier creator-owned work though, something that attracted controversy last year, when they announced a Library Edition of Chrononauts. Colorist Matt Hollingsworth disclosed he does not receive royalties from the series, and claimed “Millar doesn’t consider colorists worth paying royalties to, or at least didn’t when I colored this,” while asking fans to boycott the book.
Star-Crossed #1 will be released on July 8, with covers by Mastantuono and Stuart Immonen, available in color and black-and-white, as well as a variant by Jae Lee and June Chung. You can check those out in the meantime below. Reprints of Space Bandits and Sharkey‘s trade paperbacks, both of which were originally released by Image, will presumably follow. Lee and Chung’s new series, M1: Monster Racing League will begin at Image beforehand on June 10.
