It’s been nearly three years since we last checked in with the gang in Hawkins, Indiana, from the Netflix series Stranger Things. The first half of Season 4 is scheduled to debut May 27, so we’ve got at least a few more months to spend thinking about what these kids look like now they’ve all finished puberty.
Dark Horse Comics has been filling the Stranger Things content void since 2018 via a series of miniseries. The latest, Kamchatka, focuses on the goings-on at the Russian camp from Season 3, where they are holding a Demogorgon, and Chief Hopper, prisoner.
Here’s the pitch to issue #1: A Russian scientist is kidnapped by Soviet troops, leaving nothing for his two teenage children but a mysterious case and a whole lot of questions. While their father is dragooned into weaponizing a monster brought back from the US, the two teenagers embark on a harrowing and perilous journey to find him, with help from an unlikely ally: an old bad@$$ KGB spy.
Cover by Marc Aspinall 
Cover by Diego Galindo 
Cover by Ashley Witter 
Cover by Julie Dillion
The series is written by Michael Moreci, whom you may know from comics like Vault’s Barbaric, The Plot and Wasted Space.
Check out our first look at the covers to issue #3 below, along with some basics about the comic.
Writer: Michael Moreci
Penciller/Inker: Todor Hristov
Colorist: Dan Jackson
Lettering: Nate Piekos
Cover Artist (A): Marc Aspinall
Variant B: Diego Galindo
Variant C: Ashley Witter
Variant D: Julie Dillion
Summary: As a Soviet double agent breaks his cover to help a leading scientist’s two children escape from the KGB, he takes a journey into his past to make amends for his biggest regret. Meanwhile, the Demogorgon’s keeper uses her “pet” to test the scientists’ loyalty.
Sale price: $3.99
On sale: 5/25/2022
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
