Dark Horse Comics Announce Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Digital Comic

Dark Horse Comics have announced they are partnering with Team Ninja in creating a Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z digital comic. Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will have 3 vignettes by writers Tim Seeley and Josh Eamons and art from Rafael Ortiz. each of the comics will be free to download or you can wait for a colour print to be released in 2014 when the game comes out.

Press Release

OCTOBER 10, NEW YORK, NY – Dark Horse Comics is thrilled to announce its latest team up withfamed developers Keiji Inafune and Team NINJA!  Fans will be introduced to the world of YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z with an all-new digital comic revealing essential pieces of this stylized living comic book!

The YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z web comic will deliver three exciting vignettes by writers Tim Seeley and Josh Eamons and art from Rafael Ortiz. 

The three YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z comics will be available for free download at the Dark Horse Digital Store, www.digital.darkhorse.com, as well as through the Dark Horse Comics app (available through iTunes & Google Play)

An all-new, full-color print comic will also be available when YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z arrives in early 2014. 

In YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z, players will battle fierce zombies as YAIBA, a cyborg ninja who will do anything to get revenge and stay alive. Cleaved in two, he is brought back to life with cyber-technology. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyborg arm, he slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon.

Step into YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z where stunning graphics depict a world gone mad. Hordes of undead can only be stopped by YAIBA's willingness to use any means necessary to get the job done. Will he kill by turning his cyborg arm into a razor chainsaw for slicing up undead - or just rip off an opponent's arms to use as zombie nunchucks? Both possibilities fill YAIBA's heart with twisted laughter - and the desire to kill more and more zombies!

For more information about YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z be sure to check out www.YaibaNGZ.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tecmoeurope and Twitter https://twitter.com/tecmokoeieurope

A unique collaboration project between Team NINJA and comcept founder Keiji Inafune and published by Tecmo Koei America, YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z will be available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Steam (PC) in early 2014. This title has not yet been rated by the ESRB.

About Dark Horse

Founded in1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent such as Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Brian Wood, Gerard Way, Felicia Day, Guillermo Del Toro and comics legends such as Will Eisner, Neal Adams, and Jim Steranko, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties such as The Mask, Ghost, Timecop, and SpyBoy. Its successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Mass Effect, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, EVE: Online, Halo, Serenity, Game of Thrones andDomo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading publishers of both creator-owned content and licensed comics material.

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