{"id":1667,"date":"2011-11-26T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T19:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2011-11-26T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T19:52:59","slug":"hard-copy-dark-horse-unleashes-mike-mignola%e2%80%99s-year-of-monsters-publishing-schedule-revealed-for-yearlong-variant-cover-program-launching-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: DARK HORSE UNLEASHES MIKE MIGNOLA\u2019S YEAR OF MONSTERS!                  PUBLISHING SCHEDULE REVEALED FOR YEARLONG VARIANT-COVER PROGRAM, LAUNCHING IN JANUARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on an announcement made at this year\u2019s New York Comic Con, Dark Horse<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BPRDHEPCH__1_FC_VARIANT_FN_copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1674\" title=\"BPRDHEPCH__1_FC_VARIANT_FN_copy\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BPRDHEPCH__1_FC_VARIANT_FN_copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a> unveils the schedule for Mike Mignola\u2019s 2012 Year of Monsters program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The program kicks off in January with a highly anticipated Lobster Johnson miniseries, The Burning Hand. Following up on the critically acclaimed 2007 series The Iron Prometheus, this new story pits the 1930s vigilante against one of the more terrible villains of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>These special variant covers will be available to any retailer who orders five or more copies of the standard cover. These are sure to be sought-after items with a broad appeal to fans of Mike Mignola\u2019s work, as well as monster fetishists of all types!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Mignola got into the comics business with the simple goal of drawing monsters for a living,\u201d said Dark Horse managing editor Scott Allie. \u201cMike celebrates 2012 by pitting his greatest characters against his favorite monsters on these special covers, unrelated to the stories inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the first half of the year can be found below. Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand #1 arrives in stores on January 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>January\u2014Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand #1<\/p>\n<p>February\u2014B.P.R.D Hell on Earth: The Long Death #1<\/p>\n<p>March\u2014B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Pickens County Horror #1<\/p>\n<p>April\u2014Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand #4<\/p>\n<p>May\u2014B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Transformation of J. H. O\u2019Donnell<\/p>\n<p>June\u2014Baltimore: Dr. Leskovar\u2019s Remedy #1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on an announcement made at this year\u2019s New York Comic Con, Dark Horse unveils the schedule for Mike Mignola\u2019s 2012 Year of Monsters program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88,100,85,14,419],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-comic-book","tag-dark-horse","tag-dark-horse-comics","tag-james","tag-mike-mignola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}