Check out this sneak peek at Dark Regards #1 by Dave Hill and Artyom Topilin from Oni Press.
DARK REGARDS #1
WRITTEN BY DAVE HILL
ART BY ARTYOM TOPILIN
COVER A BY ARTYOM TOPILIN
COVER B BY ANDREW KRAHNKE
FLYER VARIANT (1:10) BY SCOTT SUGIUCHI
ALBUM COVER VARIANT (1:20) BY BRIAN LEVEL
SECRET VARIANT (1:50) BY DAVE HILL
ON SALE May 14th, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PAGES | FC
FOC: 4/21/2025
Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his first band set out to rock their high school auditorium in a fury of heavy metal hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a new life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scene—a career where getting laughed at on stage is the entire point and not just a tragic consequence. But when Dave’s metal ambitions are reawakened by the über self-serious “satanic” genre of Norwegian black metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a band to match that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten rock ’n’ roll fantasy. But when Dave’s internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint—a metal band “so extreme that you must remove all sharp objects from the immediate area” when their music is played—spreads all the way to Europe, his story will spiral dangerously out of control as Norway’s most extreme black metal butchers come to reap their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave holds dear in the crosshairs (of their axes, which, truth be told, don’t actually have crosshairs, but, hey, it’s a metaphor).
