Best Dark Horse Comics Series

Hellboy: Seed of Destruction launched Mike Mignola career-defining creation, a folklore-drenched series about a demon raised to be a hero that established one of the richest mythologies in comics.

Sin City by Frank Miller is the definitive Dark Horse crime comics series, a hardboiled noir anthology that pushed black-and-white art to its expressive limits and defined an entire aesthetic for the genre.

Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai is one of the longest-running and most consistently excellent independent comics ever published, a samurai rabbit adventure steeped in Japanese history and storytelling tradition.

Bone was originally self-published before being collected by Scholastic, but its roots in the independent spirit of Dark Horse era comics make it an essential entry on any list of the best alternative publishing has produced.