Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum and Scott Hepburn’s Minor Threats line will expand yet again in November with From the World of Minor Threats: The Cleaner.
Dark Horse announced the four-issue noir series at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. The title will be written by Gerry Duggan, Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, with art, colors, and design by Mark Torres and letters by Nate Piekos. The character first appeared in the anthology From the World of Minor Threats: Welcome to Twilight in a story by Duggan and Torres.
“When Gerry and Mark introduced The Cleaner in Welcome To Twilight, we knew there were more bodies buried in that fertile ground,” said Blum. “Along with those rotting heroes and villains was a deeply human, personal, twisted, pulpy, gorgeous story that Gerry and Mark Torres needed their own series to tell. The Cleaner is one of the best examples of what a Minor Threats story can be, a point of view in the genre of spandex we’ve never seen, grounded by an emotional hook that pulls you deep into their world.”
Twilight City is a hard place to live, and an easier place to die — but some bodies never make the headlines. When the capes leave behind a mess too big to bury, they call one number: the Cleaner. By day, David O’Halloran is a struggling small-business owner; by night, he’s the spandex world’s last call for cleanup, disposing of the undisposable with precision, secrecy, and a price. When his path crosses with the deadly and dazzling Diamond Dahlia — who has a secret past with the vigilante the Insomniac — everything changes.
Minor Threats: The Cleaner #1 arrives in comic shops Nov. 11, with covers by Scott Hepburn, Torres, Subversive Girl, Declan Shalvey and Jae Lee.