Tag: James Tynion IV

With Tales of Dark Romance in Comics, Love Hurts More Than It Heals

Love isn’t always soft, and comics know it. These dark romance comics lean into obsession, grief, and corrupted devotion, spotlighting new releases and older cult favourites that treat heartbreak as a weapon and a revelation.

Broken Heart Through Sun - Dark Romance in ComicsIn the name of dark romance in comics, some creators enjoy exploring its edges through works released for the season of hearts. When there’s no anti-Valentine’s icon the way Christmas has Krampus, these tales lean on the human condition instead. Rather than crafting a saccharine Harlequin fantasy, what’s presented here cuts deeper.

In the real world, love comes with sacrifice, compromise, and the understanding that some connections aren’t meant to last. That emotional friction becomes fertile ground for storytelling. The result is a slate of works that challenge the idea that love must be soft, safe, or everlasting. What’s offered here are current and upcoming titles that dare to be different, stories where affection and obsession blur, where devotion turns corrosive, and where heartbreak is as transformative as it is devastating.

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The Red Book: Deadly Tales from Russia and Beyond

Dark Horse’s The Red Book #1 turns familiar Russian and Asian enigmas into a quietly unsettling anthology, balancing historical detail with creative ambiguity.

Cover of The Red Book from Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics continues its exploration of
UFO lore with The Red Book, the third instalment from James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming. Following Blue Book and its sequel Blue Book: 1943, this new entry shifts focus to Russia and Asia, presenting cases steeped in myth and mystery. Many of these events are already familiar in the West thanks to media fascination, yet Tynion and Oeming elevate them—not by forcing a shared narrative, but by subtly implying a deeper, unseen connection.

The issue opens with the Tunguska explosion of 1908, suggesting that perhaps something arrived with it. I particularly liked how this moment is revealed—it puts the reader into a viewpoint that slightly recalls Star Trek’s opening line: “Space, the final frontier.” But instead of seeking out new life and new civilizations, what’s presented here is what can come crashing to Earth. Although this intro is very short, that’s because there’s not a lot to say about this incident!

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