Mike Mignola and Rachele Aragno Reunite for Leonide The Vampyr: The House of Yonda, The New Two-Part Comics Event Explores Leonide’s Horrifying Heritage
Legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is teaming up with fan-favorite artist Rachele Aragno (Yuletide, Mel: The Chosen) to return to the world of their critically acclaimed Leonide The Vampyr with a new two-part comics event, debuting on March 18, 2026. Written by Mignola with art by Aragno, colors from Dave Stewart, and letters from Clem Robins, Leonide The Vampyr: The House of Yonda will give readers terrifying new insight into Leonide’s origins and send her on an unpredictable new adventure. Both issues will feature covers by Aragno with issue #1 variant by Mignola and #2 variant by Márk Lászlo.
“I’m madly in love with Leonide and her story,” says Rachele Aragno. “When Mike and I created her, I didn’t believe she could have such a vast world behind her, filled with stories, ancestors, and a gothic castle. I could draw her for hours, guided by Mike’s words, which gives power to everything he does. These two comics will reveal a new backstory for this little vampire that will help us understand and love her even better.”
“Readers loved Leonide in her first two one-shots, and in this two-parter they’ll be pulled into her web even deeper,” adds Dark Horse Comics editor Katii O’Brien. “Mike and Rachele blend horror and fairytale seamlessly, and deliver a story that is as terrifying as it is charming.”
Fans first encountered Leonide in Mignola and Aragno’s 2022 stand-alone comics Leonide The Vampyr: Miracle at the Crow’s Head and Leonide The Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows, where the young vampyr charmed and terrorised unsuspecting villagers, pursued by an undead priest on a quest to save the world from her bloodthirsty machinations. Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda begins after Leonide is chased off by her latest intended victims. An unwitting good samaritan finds her unresponsive and whisks her away by wagon to a doctor, but when the wagon arrives, the drivers are mummified and the girl is missing, with only a seed left in her place.This two-part story will follow a search for the missing girl’s ancestral home and expose her horrifying family history.
Here’s what Critics have to say about Leonide The Vampyr: Miracle at the Crow’s Head and Leonide The Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows:
“A delightfully macabre experience.”—COMICBOOK.COM
“Not to be missed.”—COMICS BEAT
“You may just fall in love with the vampire child just as the townsfolk did, but luckily we’re safe behind our comic and not in a seaside town on the edge of bad tidings.”—AIPT COMICS
“Pure spooky delight… A delightful and charming follow-up to the newest addition to Mignola’s creative stable, A Christmas for Crows takes what worked so well with the previous entry and wraps it up in tinsel – and a sense of melancholy closure.”—MONKEYS FIGHTING ROBOTS
“Mike Mignola is a horror legend. His whole career has been spent playing with cryptids, freaks, and monsters, and Hellboy is one of the greatest horror comics of all time. Here, he gets to play around with a new world and remix vampire mythology alongside Rachele Aragno, a terrific artist.”—DEN OF GEEK
“Oh, this story is glorious. Creepy, murky, and mysterious, but in a classic way. It reads like an old movie script, the intonations, the moods of the characters, the gloomy black and white setting, the rot, the salt.”—FANBOY FACTOR
“Aragno delivers some beautiful art.”—SUPER POWERED FANCAST
“Shiveringly spectacular.”—LEAGUE OF COMIC GEEKS
Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda #1 is due out on March 18, 2026 from Dark Horse Comics. Follow Dark Horse Comics on social media for more news, announcements, and updates.
