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Toshiro is a new graphic novel from Dark Horse by writer Jai Nitz (Dream Thief) and artist Janusz Pawlak. According to Nitz, it’s a mash-up of “Victorian steampunk, alternate history, Lovecraftian monsters, and the magic of Tezuka’s Astro Boy.” The story involved a mechano-samurai named Toshiro who travels back to a Victorian clockwork world, fighting Lovecraftian terrors.

The book comes out in June, but to give it a bit of promo, the Nitz/Pawlak team has re-imagined The beat Herself as a victorian sufragette in this exclusive piece.

I can’t say for certain that had I been born 110 years ago that I would have been marching for the vote, access to reproductive care and other basic rights that women didn’t have in 1914.

But I’m pretty sure I would have.

So consider this my new profile pic!

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Continuing on with Baltimore Comic-Con announcements, Dynamite have announced yet another new series, building up what is rapidly becoming a huge list of new projects from the company. This weekend saw the company reveal that Jai Nitz and José Malaga will be the creative team for a five issue miniseries called Grimm: The Warlock, based on the TV show.

This follows previous Grimm comics at Dynamite which were planned out by show creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and released for Free Comic Book Day. Grimm is a police procedural show with heavy elements of fantasy – the main characters have to deal with crimes committed by supernatural monsters and fairytale creatures, known on the show as Wesen.

The miniseries will see the Grimm team looking into allegations of match-fixing at a basketball which keeps Portland’s team out of the playoffs. Whilst looking into it, they encounter small-town hostility building up, which then ultimately will probably lead them to a tangle with some kind of monster. If I’d have to guess, I’d wager perhaps a warlock?

Nitz, speaking on the news, quoth:

I wanted to show parts of Portland that would be impossible to film for the show for logistical reasons, but would be amazing in the comic and the mythos in general.  I wanted to capture some of the dark grandeur of the show along with the humor of the actors in particular.  That’s the fun of comics.  We don’t have a special effects budget or limit.  We can do anything you can imagine with pencil and paper.  It’s fun to push the limits of an already established show on the page.

The first issue of Grimm: The Warlock is solicited for December. Dynamite released some of Malaga’s art in preview: