Chris Roberson and Michael Avon Oeming have teamed up for The Shadow of the Golden Crane, a new standalone B.P.R.D. mini-series at Dark Horse Comics.
In a press release from Dark Horse Comics, writer Chris Roberson said, “As far back as Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 we have teased the idea that there is some connection between Susan Xiang, an agent of the B.P.R.D. with psychic abilities, and an organization called the Golden Crane Society, a secret society that protected the people of China from otherworldly threats for centuries. Susan was raised on stories of the Golden Crane, and when she was seven there was an incident involving her uncle and some jiangshi (Chinese “hopping vampires”) that we have so far only caught glimpses of. In The Shadow of the Golden Crane, we follow Susan and her fellow B.P.R.D. agents Hellboy and Victor Koestler as she uses her abilities to unlock the secrets of the Golden Crane Society. In each issue Susan relives the experiences of a different group of Golden Crane members at different points in history in a variety of locations in China and beyond, so that each chapter is essentially a standalone story that makes up one part of a larger narrative. And in the end, Susan discovers that she and her family might be more closely connected to the legacy of the Golden Crane than she ever imagined.”
The Shadow of the Golden Crane #1 (of 4) arrives on January 15, 2025.
