Dan Brereton

2025 was a creatively forthcoming year for me - and Nocturnals. The spooky train isn’t pulling into the yard quite yet - more coming this Spring and Fall! In the meantime your #lcs has the run of Sinister Path & #budsartbooks has signed copies of the new ‘Nocturnals: Halloween Noir’ in stock.

You seem to have unearthed the point of origin, A+

SATURDAY 1/24 I’ll be a guest of @zeppelincomics.bsky.social in beautiful downtown Benecia, CA - 3-7pm

I’ll be hanging with the folks at @zeppelincomics.bsky.social Saturday Jan 24 3-7, or whenever they kick me out! Signing, Sketching and Kvetching- Hope to see you in beautiful downtown Benicia, CA! ( no that’s not the cover of one of my Batman books, but I have done a few : )

Base cover of Nocturnals: The Sinister Path issue #4, illustrated by Dan Brereton

Variant cover of Nocturnals: The Sinister Path issue #4, illustrated by Adam Hughes

Variant cover of Nocturnals: The Sinister Path issue #4, illustrated by Sveta Shubina

Nocturnals: The Sinister Path comes to its conclusion this week with issue #4! Details: https://bit.ly/3KxYohn

In this final issue, the Hemlocks and the Nocturnals meet in the woods to do battle...

By @danbrereton.bsky.social, Lois Buhalis. With covers from Brereton, Adam Hughes, Sveta Shubina

The end of the Nocturnals autumn tale comes to your #lcs today! If you’re like me, you enjoy Yuletide, but still pine for Halloweentime.

Happy Holidays to All- and boy o boy, can we just maybe have a better New Year?

I’m assuming it was a painless and joyful act - Bret is one of the greats!

Issue 4

Adam Hughes variant

Sveta Shubina variant

Nocturnals: The Sinister Path concludes with the current issue just released this week at your local comic shop. They’re all out now - 4 chapters, 5 variant covers - this Autumn’s tale is done.

Trump dementedly follows advice from a posse of little Nazi goose-stepping crooks, using his unbridled greed as a tool. They won’t last. When we vote as Americans who revere Democracy, we’ll wash them out of office on a blue wave, onto the street, into the courtroom and right into the penitentiary.

As a liberal, mostly I just can’t stand bullying, dishonesty, selfishness, intolerance, greed, derision and hate. MAGA loves when we cry -it makes them feel powerful. But if you want to talk about powerful, know that after we cry, we wipe the tears, and get to work. We solve, fix and win.

MAGA gravitates toward the less than mediocre, the subhumane, the least honest, most predatory, thoroughly corrupt, mostly uneducated, purely ignorant, highly misanthropic and completely self-obsessed. Their ears are attuned to the dog whistle, eyes affixed on greed, hearts submerged in fear.

Trump sure likes crooks and convicted creeps, he pardons enough of them. Kinda makes you see right through his claims of innocence, and surrounding himself with “only the best people”. I guess he means the best crooks . But if he has to pardon these people, they don’t seem like the best crooks.

NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path #3 hits shops this week - with a variant cover by the legendary Bret Blevins! Also pick up the 31st Anniversary Art Book, NOCTURNALS: Halloween Noir from @budsartbooks now! #darkhorsecomics #budsartbooks

Not even a little bit - but my guess is it’s just an enticement to get folks to try it

We kinda know where the Proud Boys ended up … with $30k signing bonuses

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Nobody has ever had to accept that description. A lot of us turned it into a badge later on, and I understand that. But I never thought of myself as a nerd, scrawny or a fan boy. But I’ve been called all that-and much worse. was also called a ”brain” by people in school- I didn’t accept that either!

They do fit perfectly over the eyes of dead Nazis …

NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path OGN hit in 2017. We reached fewer than 2k readers. Dark Horse is now reaching thousands more, with 8 new covers, 8 new story pages. I’m beyond thrilled- it means so many people will discover it as new.And yes, I’m painting the follow up now, already penciled.

Kickstarter is a fantastic tool! But not the ultimate answer all the time. Making a fully-painted graphic novel at 96 pages (plus two covers) from scratch requires a year of work+.Can a KS raise enough to afford me a living wage, production costs, printing & fulfillment?

Where did you get “17 years” from?

All the talk about the GOP, and the current occupant, saying ‘let’s see those files released’- perturbs me greatly. Because it means we’re not really going to see THOSE files. Justice seems so far away…

Marvel Comics Exec Editor Says No Point Fighting AI In Creative Fields: "The Software Is Undeniably Dangerous, It’s Also Pretty Fun To Use" In a bit of irony coming from the home of Ultron, Marvel Comics' Tom Brevoort says artists should focus on guiding AI, not stopping it.

It’s totally deniable. Id never use it and won’t ever use it . See, AI denied. So easy. boundingintocomics.com/comic-books/...

Opinion | The US has drafted a coin featuring Trump. Here’s a better way to immortalize him — Guardian US It is our solemn duty to ensure he is remembered for all he has done and may still do to destroy US democracy

It would be the most worthless, costly minting yet. Utterly grotesque.

Really enjoyed PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Love a good yarn about a tough, smart blonde and her big monster pal, navigating a deadly terrain infested with deadly creatures.

It’s a bit condescending for my taste. I could personally poke a lot of holes in the statement. People who term you a “misfit, weirdo, nerd”, etc, don’t know us and have their own issues. We don’t have to accept that, I never did. Reading comics, or anything, was a big positive!

YouTube video by MSNBC Lawrence: Trump is living in fear tonight of just how bad election night will be for him next year

November off to such a great start …

Fall Continues! NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path issue 2 -and @oeming.bsky.social variant!- now available, with #3 hitting 11/19, with gorgeous variant by the legendary #bretblevins from @darkhorse.com & your #LCS

Another 'X-Men' Star Swears They're Not Back for 'Avengers: Doomsday' — Gizmodo Plus, Simu Liu hypes it up as 'a love letter to the entire genre of superhero movies'.

So actor Simu Liu just expressed how he sees the kids who grew up reading comics, that we were, in fact, “the misfits and the weirdos and the underdogs that grew up reading comic books”.

And, apparently we “didn’t fit in.”

Anyone else feel like he has no idea what he’s talking about?