Baldur's Gate 3 is moving from statues and vinyl figures into an entirely different collecting lane. Dark Horse Comics and Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast announced a new ongoing comic series at New York Comic Con, confirmed via Dark Horse's own official newsfeed post dated October 9, 2026.
The series opens with a six-issue arc following Astarion Ancunín, written by Alyssa Wong with pencils by Vincenzo Carratù, inks by Elisabetta D'Amico, colors by Valentina Taddeo, and letters by Buddy Beaudoin.
Baldur's Gate III issue 1 hits comic shops February 24, 2027 at $4.99, and it's available for preorder now through local comic shops, with a sneak peek running inside Dungeons & Dragons issue 2 on January 6, 2027.
Here's what's confirmed about Astarion's opening arc, the creative teams lined up after it, and how this fits alongside the Baldur's Gate collectibles already on shelves.
Dark Horse's official announcement confirms Astarion's six-issue arc, a February 24, 2027 shop date, a $4.99 cover price, and five variant covers from artists Gerald Parel, Scott Fischer, Angela Wu, and Tyler Walpole, plus one blank character-creation cover.
The series marks several Baldur's Gate 3 characters' first-ever comics appearance, with Dark Horse specifically naming Astarion, Shadowheart, and Karlach among the fan-favorites featured across the run.
Dark Horse's own synopsis has Astarion enjoying his freedom after escaping Cazador Szarr, only for Waterdeep to be rocked by a spree of gruesome ritual murders that puts him on the hunt for a killer before he becomes the next victim.
Framing the character's first comics outing as a murder mystery rather than a straight adventure tie-in gives the opening arc a distinct hook separate from simply retelling scenes from the game, and it lets new readers follow along without needing to have finished the game first.
Alyssa Wong, known for Star Wars: Doctor Aphra and Deadpool, writes the arc, with Vincenzo Carratù handling pencils after previous work on Hulk: Smash Everything and Dracula: Blood Hunt.
Elisabetta D'Amico inks, Valentina Taddeo colors, and Buddy Beaudoin letters, rounding out a team with prior genre-comics experience across Star Wars, Marvel, and horror titles.
Dark Horse has already confirmed the next twelve issues, numbered 7 through 18, follow Karlach into the Nine Hells, written by Becky Cloonan with art by Francesco Scimonelli.
Beyond that, Dark Horse has stated future arcs will revolve around Wyll, Shadowheart, Gale, and Lae'zel, framing the whole series as a rotating spotlight on different companions rather than one continuous storyline following a single player character.
Baldur's Gate 3 collectibles so far have leaned heavily on figures and statues, including Sideshow's own Astarion statue line and Funko's SDCC and NYCC exclusive Pops tied to the game's cast.
A Dark Horse ongoing comic is a genuinely different medium from any of those, giving the same characters an actual narrative arc rather than a single static pose, which makes it a complementary pickup rather than a competing one for collectors who already own the statue or a Pop.
Astarion has consistently been one of Baldur's Gate 3's most discussed companion characters since the game's release, making him a strategic pick to anchor the first arc of a brand-new ongoing series built around broad name recognition.
That same popularity is likely why Sideshow and Funko both chose Astarion for earlier collectible lines, which means this comic arrives as the character's third major collectible or media touchpoint for EVORETRO's audience rather than his first. Each format gives a slightly different reason to pick the character up again.
Plenty of video game licenses get a short, self-contained comic mini-series timed to a launch window and then nothing further. Dark Horse structuring this as an open-ended ongoing, with a rotating cast of player characters already mapped out past issue 18, signals a longer-term commitment to the license than a one-and-done tie-in would.
That structure also means collectors chasing a complete run should plan for a series that keeps going well past Astarion's six issues, rather than treating this as a short, easily completed set.
February 24, 2027, in comic shops.
Alyssa Wong, with art by Vincenzo Carratù.
Six issues.
Issues 7 through 18 follow Karlach, written by Becky Cloonan.
If Sideshow's Astarion statue is already on your shelf, this ongoing comic gives the character an actual story to go with the pose. Keep issue 1 shelf-ready from day one with EVORETRO's current-age comic bags.
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