A year after confirming the first comic series based on The Witcher, Dark Horse and CD Projekt RED announced at New York Comic Con that the video game's legendary monster hunter Geralt is back for a sequel.

Writer Paul Tobin and artist Joe Querio will return for The Witcher: Fox Children, in will which Geralt boards "a ship of fools, renegades and criminals, where some passengers are more dangerous than others, but one is hiding a hideous secret!"

Based on the bestselling fantasy novels and short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski, the hack-and-slash role-playing franchise has sold more than 8 million copies since its debut in 2007.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrives Feb. 24 on Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4. The Witcher: Fox Children debuts April 15.