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Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk Makes Comics Writing Debut With Black Star
Kristin Kreuk is co-writing a new comic book called Black Star for Titan Comics.
Kristin Kreuk (Smallville’s Lana Lang) is writing an upcoming comic book!
Kristin is a writer and co-creator on Black Star, a new Titan Comics series that she is writing with collaborators Peter Mooney and Eric Putzer. It’s described as “a Northern Gothic noir steeped in horror and dark humor.” The series will be illustrated by artist Joe Bocardo.
Below, you can find the press release with more details; additionally, we have some preview imagery courtesy of Titan Comics! The images can be found first, and underneath, the release with more details about the comic, which will hit stores and digital devices on July 29. Be sure to get your copies and support Kristin’s latest venture — it’s a great way to say “thank you” for 25 years of Smallville enjoyment! (Fun fact: Titan published the Smallville: The Official Companion books through Season 7, with four of those books written by the author of this article! If only they’d still do 8-10…)
March 9, 2026 – Globally renowned publisher Titan Comics are thrilled to be publishing Black Star (in stores and digital devices July 29, 2026) a debut comic series by acclaimed actress Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Reacher, Murder in a Small Town). Co-written with Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Mistletoe Murders) and screenwriter Eric Putzer, and illustrated by artist Joe Bocardo (Nightwalkers, The Hexiles), this five-issue series is a Northern Gothic noir steeped in horror and dark humour.
Amidst skirmishes between two warring factions in the early nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers he has magical abilities… and that he’s not alone. Thrust into a secret order with designs to use their magic to build a new and better world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia may come at a horrific cost.
It’s a violent world: gritty, bloody, and dark. But that’s balanced with a sense of discovery and awe. The storytelling’s propulsive, and the morality grey. It’s The Revenant meets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. It’s a love letter to a frozen corner of the world that few know. It’s weird. And wonderful. And something wholly its own.
“Black Star was born while Peter, Eric, and I were filming “Burden of Truth” in Winnipeg.” said Kristin Kreuk. “We were inspired by the city’s lore and, because we worked so well together, began spending our spare time on set (and then, for years afterwards) developing our own take on the history and magic we imagined pulsing beneath its surface, shaping the rhythms of the city and the battles raging just beyond our view.”
“Sometimes people come to my hometown and they can’t see past its rough edges or inhospitable weather. But it was clear Kristin and Eric could see right into the strangeness that makes Winnipeg so unique,” said co-writer Peter Mooney. “This isn’t so much an alternative history, but an omitted chapter that’s been lost to time. It’s bizarre and fantastical and entirely imagined — but it goes a long way towards explaining why the city is how it is today.”
“There’s an intimacy to comics that no other form quite achieves; the reader controls the rhythm, the breath, the revelation,” said co-writer Eric Putzer. “In a story about power and human nature, we felt that intimacy necessary to make the reader an active part of the exchange.” –
“For a comic book artist, working on a series as ambitious and well-written as Black Star is a gift,” said artist Joe Bocardo. “But if you also work on it with a talented and friendly team that gives you creative freedom, then it’s not a gift; it’s a privilege.”
“Set in the eerie, snow-blanketed wasteland of early 19th Century Winnipeg, this is magic as you’ve never seen it before,” said Titan Comics editor, Jake Devine. “Hopeful yet bleak, miraculous yet insidious, and only time will tell if the prize is worth the cost. Readers are going to be swept away by Joe Bocardo’s mesmerising artwork as it envelops them in a story filled with awe and tragedy.”
Titan’s Black Star comics is set to launch with Issue #1 in stores and on digital devices July 29, 2026.
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Kristin Kreuk Joins The 25th Anniversary Smallville Convention
Kristin Kreuk has been added as a guest for Creation’s Salute to Smallville 25th Anniversary convention.
This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the premiere of Smallville and Creation Entertainment is celebrating with the Salute to Smallville convention November 7-8 in Nashville, Tennessee. While the guest list is already very packed with such folks as Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Laura Vandervoort, John Glover and many more, there was a certain name not announced yet who was a vital part of Smallville’s beginnings. (Hey, who remembers Smallville: Beginnings?)
That name would, of course, be Kristin Kreuk, who played Lana Lang for seven seasons of Smallville with a five-episode arc to wrap up her character in Season 8. This means the original cast trio of her, Tom, and Michael will be reunited only a few weeks after the series turns 25.
Gold Admission Passes – which will include exclusive entry to a big panel on the Sunday morning of the convention – are still available but they’re going fast. If you want to see that panel, though, that’s the way to do it; additional tiers of admission passes will be offered at a future date. Creation has also added several photo opportunities including Kristin in case you’d like to take a photo with her. The event will include panels and Q&A’s, cosplay, trivia, autographs, and the best part – the opportunity to spend time with hundreds of other people who love Smallville just as much as you do. For some fans, it’s become an annual tradition.
The hope is for the anniversary convention to be huge. It’ll be the third year, and that means every year gets better, and better, right?
DISCLAIMER: When KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne isn’t busy preparing the site for the upcoming anniversary, he makes websites and graphics for Creation Entertainment. He also co-emcees the Salute to Smallville shows with House of El’s Derek Russell.
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