Darkest Dungeon Is Getting an Expansion from a Dark Souls Veteran

Vault Comics will publish a series of canonical graphic novels expanding the mythology of the video game, where players try to save the world from an ancient evil unleashed by their ancestor’s quest for knowledge and power. Horror writer John Lees and Maan House, who drew Titan Comics’ adaptation of Dark Souls, are working with Darkest Dungeon creative director and Red Hook Studios co-founder Chris Bourassa to develop the series.

“I learned to draw from studying the carefully crafted panels of the Bronze Age Batman books, and later, the exuberant splash pages of the Image Comics revolution,” Bourassa said in a statement. “Darkest Dungeon was born of a deep love of this medium, and from day one, I've always dreamed of seeing it on the page.”

The crowdfunding campaign will include rewards for comics collectors along with fans of the game who haven’t read many graphic novels. The goal is to introduce new readers to the game’s dark world and characters, while giving long-time fans more insights into its mysteries.

“When I got to know Chris Bourassa, I learned that X-Men was one of his biggest inspirations, and suddenly it all clicked: Inside the grueling and grim (but often wickedly funny) world of Darkest Dungeon, there was comic book DNA,” Vault chief creative officer Adrian Wassel said in a statement. “Now we get to tell a new story — with the heroes everyone knows — in the comic book medium that’s been swirling around inside the games' blood this whole time.”

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