Dave Hill's Dark Regards Coming From Oni Press
By Liam McGuire
April 22nd, 2025
Oni Press is debuting a brand-new series, Dark Regard,s that showcases the twisted story of a stand-up comedian who becomes a black metal icon, while nearly wiping a city off the map in the process.
Dark Regards comes from comedian and musician Dave Hill, with I Hate This Place artist Artyom Topilin drawing the comic. The story is an unpredictable affair blending music, horror, and more! The story features main cover art by Topilin, with variants from Andrew Krahnke, and incentive covers by Scott Sugiuchi (1:10), Brian Level (1:20), and a human blood variant from Dave Hill (1:50). Check out the main cover and text solicit below.
SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET — AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! AT LAST—THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK!
From the honestly pretty impressive mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and breakout artist Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) comes the SHOCKINGLY TRUE, TERRIFYINGLY HILARIOUS, AND ONLY MODESTLY EXAGGERATED tale of how one stand-up comedian forged a secret online identity as America’s first true black metal icon... and accidentally started an international incident that almost wiped Gary, Indiana, off the map!
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).
Dark Regards #1 arrives at CaptCan Comics on May 14th, 2025. Pre-order the series now to ensure you don’t miss out.