Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Dark Horse’s Dr. Horrible trade paperback collection recently sold out and is being rushed back to print! Featuring the whip smart writing skills of Zack Whedon and the awe-inspiring artistic work of Joelle Jones, Jim Rugg, Farel Dalrymple, Eric Canete, the $9.99 collection features a genius Kristian Donaldson cover as well as 80 pages of the best comical comic spinoff of a hilarious musical ever! While this news assuredly comes as no surprise to legions of faithful and impassioned Whedonites, it’s always nice to celebrate a tremendous creative endeavor’s success. So please, raise a glass to the creative team behind this book or Bad Horse will have to… well, it’ll be bad. Trust us! (He’s evil, you know?!)

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Based on the Emmy Award-winning web series Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, this collection of stories written by Zack Whedon (Deadwood, Fringe) chronicles some of the earliest adventures in the lives of archenemies Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible.

This anthology solves many unanswered questions left over from the show. For instance: What event inspired Dr. Horrible to become the world’s greatest criminal mastermind? Why is Penny, the beautiful girl from the Laundromat, still single? How can you, the reader, be like blustering do-gooder Captain Hammer? And why is Horrible’s sidekick, Moist, so . . . um . . . well, you’ll find out!

* Collects the first issue of Dr. Horrible with all three digital comics from MySpace Dark Horse Presents.

* Includes a never-before-seen sixteen-page story, about the top secret organization The Evil League of Evil.

* Dark Horse’s Dr. Horrible iTunes app rose to number one in twenty-four hours, Beating out the Bible and Dr. Seuss!