Jim Henson Presents #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJim Henson Presents #4 serves as the closing chapter of a four-part anthology miniseries that gathered five distinct Henson universes under a single cover for the first time in comics form — Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The StoryTeller, and Farscape — representing one of the broadest multi-property celebrations of the Jim Henson Company's creative legacy ever attempted in a periodical comic. The issue's centerpiece, the conclusion of Seanan McGuire and Countandra's 'The Heretic and the Wanderer,' delivers the full origin of Skekgra (the Heretic), expanding the canonical backstory of a character fans first encountered in the Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and giving comics readers context that the television medium left largely implicit. As the series finale, this issue also marks the culmination of the anthology's experiment in rotating creators and tonal registers — from Fraggle Rock's gentle humor to Farscape's adult edge — demonstrating that the Henson properties could sustain a versatile, multi-voice anthology format without losing their distinctive characters.
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The series was produced by BOOM! Studios under its Archaia imprint in partnership with The Jim Henson Company, with solicitations first appearing in late 2024 and the debut issue shipping January 8, 2025; BOOM! and Archaia had already built a long-running relationship with Henson properties dating back to Fraggle Rock and Dark Crystal comics from around 2010. Issue #1 sold out at the distributor level almost immediately, prompting a second printing with new cover art by Danny Luckert, a strong vote of confidence that informed the completion of the four-issue run through May 2025. The series was coordinated around a rotating stable of writers and artists — including Shannon Watters (Lumberjanes), Seanan McGuire, Corinna Bechko, Christine Larsen, Aabria Iyengar, and Kyla Vanderklugt — assembled under the editorial structure BOOM!/Archaia had refined across years of Henson anthology and miniseries work. The complete series was subsequently collected into a hardcover edition scheduled for November 4, 2025.
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- Issue #4 (of 4) shipped May 21, 2025 under BOOM! Studios' Archaia imprint, concluding the limited series.
- The primary story is the final chapter of 'The Heretic and the Wanderer,' written by Seanan McGuire with art by Countandra and colors by Valentina Pinto — a multi-part Dark Crystal origin arc tracing how Skekgra became the Heretic seen in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
- A StoryTeller segment by Christine Larsen — creator of the graphic novel series ORCS! — appears in the issue, marking one of her contributions to the Henson comics universe.
- Writer Corinna Bechko contributes a Fraggle Rock story featuring Uncle Travelling Matt as the central character.
- Writer Aabria Iyengar (known for actual-play RPG productions) and artist Max Sarin contribute a gelfling romantic interlude centering on the characters Tavra and Onica from the Dark Crystal mythos.
- The issue shipped with six covers: Cover A by Miguel Mercado (main), Cover B by Derek Kirk Kim, a 1:10 connecting variant and its virgin version by Cory Godbey, a 1:20 full-art variant by Becca Carey, and an unlockable virgin variant by Miguel Mercado.
- The full four-issue run was collected in a 176-page hardcover (ISBN 9798892155588) published by Penguin Random House/BOOM!, on sale November 4, 2025.
- The series spans five Henson properties across its run: Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The StoryTeller, and Farscape — with writers including Brennan Lee Mulligan, Darcie Little Badger, Lilah Sturges, Shannon Watters, Jill Tew, Shobo, Kyla Vanderklugt, J.M. Lee, and others across all four issues.
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