Production on Season 2 of Netflix's The Witcher is in full swing, and casting news like the hiring of Kim Bodnia to play Vesemir continues to make headlines because of how much more popular and mainstream that show has made the franchise. However The Witcher has permeated plenty of other mediums prior to its streaming success, including video games by CD Projekt Red and comic books from Dark Horse Comics.
The entertainment news site comicbook.com released an exclusive story today announcing that Dark Horse is making a new run of Witcher comics called The Witcher: Fading Memories that will be released in four parts starting on June 17, 2020. In Fading Memories, Geralt of Rivia will be investigating a series of disappearances in the town of Towitz after monster threats have "seemingly vanished,"according to the official summary of the new series.
Fading Memories is being written by Polish scriptwriter Bartosz Sztybor, who has won multiple awards at the Lodz International Festival of Comics and Games according to Europe Comics; and drawn by Iranian illustrator Amad Mir, who worked on the French comic Zarathustra according to the same site. It is one of a number of series created by Dark Horse Comics including The Witcher: House of Glass and The Witcher: Fox Children in conjunction with CD Projekt Red, also the developers of Cyberpunk 2077.
It makes perfect sense for Dark Horse to be cranking out more Witcher-related content right now considering how hot the property is thanks to Netflix's adaptation. The show dominated seemingly all Internet discourse for months after its first season released in December 2019, in no small part thanks to memes surrounding the earworm "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher."
The cover of the upcoming series, drawn by Evan Cagle, showcases an older, listless Geralt in front of a compelling background that seems to show the titular 'fading memories' in the abstract. This portrayal will undoubtedly be quite different from Henry Cavill's use of the character he portrayed to root for his favorite Super Bowl team.
With a currently unknown release date for season two of The Witcher on Netflix, the Dark Horse Comics series coming this summer should be a good way to tide fans over in the meantime. Before then they can break out The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and explore the history of The Order of Witchers all over again.
The Witcher: Fading Memories #1 will be released on June 17, 2020.
Sources: comicbook.com, Dark Horse Digital Comics, Europe Comics (Bartosz Sztybor), Europe Comics (Amad Mir)