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Dark Regards from Dave Hill of Tasteful Nudes and Artyom Topilin , to Oni Press in May 2025
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Oni Press is to publishDark Regards#1 , " the straight level of the viral hoax so insane it could only be told as a comic book from writer - comedian - actor - musicianDave HillfromTasteful Nudesand artistArtyom TopilinofCruel Universe , I detest This Placeas what they call a " shockingly true , terrifyingly screaming , and only modestly exaggerated " tale of how one stand - up comedian spurt a orphic on-line identity as America ’s first true pitch-dark metallic element ikon . . .and commence an outside incident that almost wiped Gary , Indiana off the map .
" Back in 2018 , Dave Hill sat down with mark intellectual Malcolm Gladwell to in conclusion come clean about his duple life . A brilliant comedian , writer , satirist , and musician , Dave has done everything from play sell - out show with Bill Murray and Tenacious D to write the composition call forJohn Oliver’sLast Week Tonighton HBO , " saidHunter Gorinson , president and publisher of Oni Press . " But he ’d never before reveal the details of how he ’d orchestrated a old age - foresightful internet hoax by posing as the frontman of a fabricated band , only to accidentally concern off an international track of havoc that include kidnappings , attempted human sacrifice , and the vandalizing of the last freestanding Bob ’s Big Boy restaurant in the Midwest . Call it a guilty conscience . . . but , to this day , Dave still has only told half the history . Now , at last , the raw craze of theDark Regardscan finally be told – and , as visually reconstruct through the superb art of illustrator Artyom Topilin – rest assured : only the amusing leger medium can totally captivate the depraved intensity of what Dave hath figure out on us all . "
" Two decades ago , Dave Hill and his first band coiffe out to rock their high school day auditorium in a fury of fleshy metal red region . They fail miserably . Years later , Dave has made a raw life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scenery – a career where getting laughed at on phase is the entire point and not just a tragical consequence . But when Dave ’s metal ambition are re - awakened by the über self - serious , " hellish " writing style of Norwegian dim metallic element , Dave produce a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a stripe to couple that , together , reignite the electric arc of his forgotten rock ‘n’ roll ' n bowl illusion . But when Dave ’s internet - fueled rumors of Witch Taint – a metal stria " so extreme that you must bump off all sharp objects from the straightaway country " when their euphony is playact – spreads all the way to Europe , his taradiddle will spiral hazardously out of control as Norway ’s most utmost black metal butchers come to harvest their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave hold up costly in the crosshairs ( of their axis vertebra , which , the true be told , do n’t actually have crosshairs , but , hey , it ’s a metaphor ) . "
" Like all the best black metal bands , Witch Taint existed entirely in my mind at first , mostly because I did n’t believe anyone could handle it , " said Dave Hill . " But it could not be contained . And now the mighty Witch Taint has no choice but to destroy the universe . Or at least the suburbia . "
It is out on the 13th of May , with top byArtyom Topiin , Andrew Krahnke , Scott Sugiuchi , Brian Level , and an ultra - special top - secret one fromDave Hillhimself .
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