Dark Horse Comics and Electronic Arts have announced the September 9 release of the first issue of Mirror’s Edge: Exordium ($3.99), a six-issue limited series that presents the backstory of Faith, the protagonist of the upcoming Mirror’s Edge Catalyst video game.

Matthew Vaughn’s surprisingly successful film adaptation of Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar’s The Secret Service comic book series tops an interesting week of releases that also include the teen comedy The DUFF , and a host of TV offerings including the first season of Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain , a complete hi-def collection of Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds, and a full slate of anime.

Superheroes dominated the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels chart for May, with twelve superhero titles on the list, compared to eight in April and two in May, based on info provided exclusively to ICv2.com by Nielsen BookScan.

Dark Horse has promoted two Editors to Senior Editor, four Associate Editors to Editor, and two Assistant Editors to Associate Editor.

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Dark Horse has announced several high profile hardcover releases for October.

Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, whose Daytripper graphic novel won an Eisner in 2011, are back with Two Brothers ($24.99), a 232-page black-and-white hardcover graphic novel.

In October Dark Horse Comics will publish Bob Powell’s Complete Jet Powers Hardcover ($49.99), a 200-page full color collection of all of Powell’s early 1950s aviation comic Jet Powers.

These are estimates of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2015.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during April 2015.