Top Cow is planning to relaunch one of its most popular characters, The Darkness, with the news coming straight from Top Cow COO and President Matt Hawkins.Hawkins tweeted a Darkness sketch by artist Tom Grindberg, who will be illustrating the book with Hawkins serving as writer.RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: David Hine Destroys Jackie Estacado In “Darkness Fallsâ€Hawkins assured fans that the original Darkness, Jackie Estacado, will be back, but "maybe not in the role you expect." Also returning is Sara Pezzini -- known best to readers as Witchblade.
The Darkness, created by Marc Silvestri, Garth Ennis and David Wohl in 1996, started out as a supporting character in the pages of Witchblade. He became so popular that Top Cow spun him off into his own series later on that same year. In a short period of time, artist Silvestri and writer Ennis had a hit on their hands.
Darkness was one of the hottest selling books at Top Cow, a division of Image Comics, launched by Silvestri in 1997. The highest-selling book that year was Darkness #11, which had 11 variant covers and sold around 357,006 copies. The series had two times the number of sales of the first issue of Marvel's post-Heroes Reborn Avengers relaunch.
The new The Darkness series will hit stands sometime in 2019.
(via Newsarama)