Marvel Announces New Cloak & Dagger Digital Comic Series

Ahead of tonight’s premiere of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger on Freeform, Marvel Comics has announced a new digital comic series for the superhero duo. The new limited series will run six issues and will be written by Dennis Hopeless (Spider-Woman) with art by David Messina. The first issue is now available via the Marvel Comics App or on ComiXology and Kindle.

After meeting as runaways, vigilante teenagers Tyrone (“Cloak”) Johnson and Tandy (“Dagger”) Bowen were illegally experimented on and gifted with mysterious powers. As the living personifications of light and dark, their complementary abilities force them to rely on each other as they team up to save innocent people on the streets of New York, and around the world. The in-continuity digital series has been specifically designed to welcome new readers while giving long-time Marvelites the chapter in the duo’s story.

“With Cloak & Dagger, we’re telling the story from two very different perspectives at the same time,” writer Dennis Hopeless told Marvel.com in an interview. “Tyrone and Tandy are fundamentally intertwined characters, but they see the world through different lenses. It’s been a lot of fun playing with that shifting perspective. We let the reader into each of their heads, sometimes even showing the same scene from two different angles. Just like in life, it’s the differences that propel the drama.”

You can see a trailer for the series below, along with cover art from the first issue.