Dune: House Corrino #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDune: House Corrino #3 (May 29, 2024) is the narrative hinge of BOOM! Studios' concluding chapter in its multi-year comic adaptation of the entire Prelude to Dune trilogy — the first time the 2001 novel Dune: House Corrino, itself drawn from Frank Herbert's own posthumous notes, had ever been adapted into sequential art. Within the series arc, this issue is where the smoldering tensions of the opening two chapters erupt into overt violence: Tyros Reffa, the Emperor's secret half-brother, makes his failed assassination attempt against Shaddam Corrino IV at the Imperial Opera House on Kaitain, a pivotal scene that sets the clock running on every power structure in the Imperium. Simultaneously, the Bene Gesserit's moves to suppress Chobyn's invisible-spacecraft technology, the Fremen's brutal punishment of the merchant Rondo Tuek by Stilgar, and the continuing surveillance of Lady Jessica's pregnancy all converge, making issue #3 the point at which the series' many interlocking subplots first collide into a single, propulsive momentum toward the events of Frank Herbert's original Dune.
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The series was formally announced in February 2024 and launched in March 2024, deliberately timed to coincide with the theatrical release of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two, capitalizing on a period of peak mainstream Dune interest. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson — the same co-authors who wrote the original 2001 novel, which itself debuted at #8 on the New York Times Best Seller list and drew on notes Frank Herbert left at his death — personally scripted the comic adaptation, continuing a partnership with BOOM! Studios that had already produced a 12-issue House Atreides series (2020–2021) and a 12-issue House Harkonnen series (2023). Simone Ragazzoni, who had previously worked on Power Rangers Universe for the same publisher, handled interior art, joined by colorist Dan Jackson and letterer Ed Dukeshire, with Lea Caballero credited as an additional artist specifically on issue #3. The series also carried additional artistic weight on its covers: Raymond Swanland (known for Magic: The Gathering) provided the main cover for #3, with variant covers by Veronica Fish, Justine Florentino, and Jahnoy Lindsey.
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- Released May 29, 2024, by BOOM! Studios; written by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson; interior art by Simone Ragazzoni with additional art by Lea Caballero; colors by Dan Jackson; letters by Ed Dukeshire.
- Issue #3 is part of an eight-issue limited series adapting the 2001 novel Dune: House Corrino — the third and final book in the Prelude to Dune trilogy — marking the first-ever comic adaptation of that novel.
- Central story beat: Tyros Reffa, illegitimate half-brother of Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV and secret son of Emperor Elrood IX, attempts to assassinate Shaddam at the Imperial Opera House on Kaitain using his Jongleur theater troupe as cover — the attempt fails.
- A major secondary plot involves the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood working to erase all evidence of Chobyn's invisible spacecraft technology, a storyline with significant implications for the broader balance of power on Ix.
- Fremen naib Stilgar's violent punishment of the merchant Rondo Tuek is depicted, showcasing the escalating Fremen resistance against Harkonnen domination on Arrakis.
- The Bene Gesserit's close watch over Lady Jessica's pregnancy — which will produce Paul Atreides, the future Kwisatz Haderach — is an ongoing thread, tying the prequel directly to the events of Frank Herbert's original 1965 novel.
- The series launched on the back of BOOM! Studios' already-established Dune comic line; Dune: House Corrino #1 sold out at the distributor level and received a second printing dated April 17, 2024, ahead of issue #3's release.
- Cover art for issue #3: main by Raymond Swanland; variants by Veronica Fish (Cover B), Justine Florentino (1:25 incentive), and Jahnoy Lindsey; the issue carried Diamond/Lunar order codes MAR240108 through MAR240113, including FOC Reveal and Unlockable Variant editions.
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