Jim Henson Presents #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJim Henson Presents #3 represents a meaningful mid-series milestone in what is—as of 2025—the most ambitious comics anthology yet produced under the Henson/Archaia banner, bringing together five distinct creative teams across four stories in a single issue. Its most culturally adventurous contribution is the inclusion of a Yoruba folktale framework adapted through The StoryTeller format, extending the anthology's mandate beyond the Western fantasy canon that has defined earlier Henson comics. The issue also continues the most sustained comics exploration of SkekGra the Heretic (from The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) yet attempted in print, deepening lore that was largely left unexplored even in the Netflix series. Taken together, the issue demonstrates how the anthology format can hold genuinely diverse narrative traditions—African oral folklore, Goblin City introspection, Doozer domestic comedy, and Dark Crystal mythology—within a single pamphlet.
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Jim Henson Presents is a four-issue limited series produced by BOOM! Studios under its award-winning Archaia imprint in partnership with The Jim Henson Company, launching in January 2025. The anthology concept grew out of Archaia's long track record of Henson-licensed material, including multiple StoryTeller and Labyrinth series, and was structured so that different creative teams rotate through franchises across every issue rather than running siloed title-by-title. Issue #1 sold out at the distributor level upon its January 8, 2025 debut and earned a second printing with new cover art by Danny Luckert, providing the commercial context in which issue #3 arrived on April 30, 2025 as the penultimate chapter of the run.
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- Released April 30, 2025, as issue #3 of a four-issue limited series published by BOOM! Studios under the Archaia imprint in partnership with The Jim Henson Company.
- Contains four stories spanning four Henson properties: The Dark Crystal, The StoryTeller, Labyrinth, and Fraggle Rock.
- Dark Crystal segment 'The Heretic and the Wanderer' (part 3): written by Seanan McGuire, art by Countandra — a multi-part serial tracing the origin of SkekGra, the Heretic Skeksis, set before the events depicted in Age of Resistance.
- StoryTeller segment: written by Shobo, illustrated by V.V. Glass — adapts a Yoruba folktale featuring Ijapa the Tortoise, one of the most geographically and culturally specific folkloric sources tapped by the series.
- Labyrinth segment: written and illustrated by Kyla Vanderklugt, offering an introspective character study of Jareth the Goblin King — Vanderklugt also separately adapted the Labyrinth novelization for BOOM! around the same period.
- Fraggle Rock segment: written by Aabria Iyengar (known for her actual-play RPG work), illustrated by Jared Cullum — centers on the Doozers in a baking-and-architecture competition.
- Cover A by Miguel Mercado; variant covers by Derek Kirk Kim (Cover B), Cory Godbey (Covers C and E, connecting variants), Naomi Franquiz (Cover D, 1:20 incentive), and an unlockable virgin variant (Cover F, also Mercado).
- The series as a whole spans Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The StoryTeller, and Farscape across its four issues, with different franchise combinations rotating each installment.
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