Kristin Kreuk Unveils Horror Comic-book ‘Black Star’

Beloved superhero tv star Kristin Kreuk is co-writing a Northern Gothic horror comic book for Titan Comics. 

The actor, well known for her role as Lana Lang in Smallville, will co-write the new five-issue comic series Black Star with Peter Mooney and Eric Putz. The tone is described as a Northern Gothic noir supernatural mystery shrouded in dark humor.

 A description of the story goes as follows:

“Amidst skirmishes between two warring factions in the early nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers he has magical abilities… and that he's not alone. Thrust into a secret order with designs to use their magic to build a new and better world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia may come at a horrific cost.”

It's a violent world: gritty, bloody, and dark, but that's balanced with a sense of discovery and awe. The storytelling’s propulsive, and the morality grey. It's The Revenant meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. It's a love letter to a frozen corner of the world that few know. It's weird, wonderful, and something wholly its own.

Kreuk opened up during a press release about the story's creation, saying, “Black Star was born while Peter, Eric, and I were filming Burden of Truth in Winnipeg.… We were inspired by the city's lore and, because we worked so well together, began spending our spare time on set (and then, for years afterwards) developing our own take on the history and magic we imagined pulsing beneath its surface, shaping the rhythms of the city and the battles raging just beyond our view."

Peter Mooney added, “Sometimes people come to my hometown and they can't see past its rough edges or inhospitable weather. But it was clear Kristin and Eric could see right into the strangeness that makes Winnipeg so unique… This isn't so much an alternative history, but an omitted chapter that's been lost to time. It's bizarre and fantastical and entirely imagined — but it goes a long way towards explaining why the city is how it is today."

"For a comic book artist, working on a series as ambitious and well-written as Black Star is a gift," Artist Joe Bocardo said. "But if you also work on it with a talented and friendly team that gives you creative freedom, then it's not a gift; it's a privilege."
Comic-fans will be blown away from the dreamy artwork of Joe Bocardo as the story twists and turns with its horror.