Frank Miller is in one of the most prolific periods of his long comics career right now. The creator of iconic stories like The Dark Knight Returns and 300 is spinning up new projects and revisiting classic franchises, all while maintaining his own publishing company, Frank Miller Presents.
We were lucky enough to attend a roundtable interview at the Lucca Comics & Games Festival in Italy, where Miller reflected on his career and the current state of the industry, while also giving some updates on upcoming projects like Sin City: Blood & Dust and Invasive Species. Read on to see the highlights from that fascinating conversation.
Miller released a number of Sin City comics in the '90s and early '00s. But even with the Sin City movies drawing wider attention to the franchise, it's been quite some time since Miller has told any new stories in this seedy, noir-infused universe.
That's finally going to change soon. Miller has spent the past several years working on a new book first announced as Sin City 1858 and now called Sin City: Blood & Dust. As the title suggests, Blood & Dust is a prequel set in the Wild West era and detailing the original founding of Basin City. It's a massive undertaking for Miller, as unlike many of his current projects, he's writing and drawing the entire thing himself. But it's one that seems to be coming along nicely.
"I'm not sure exactly when the release date is planned for right now, but the project is very well along," Miller said. "I mean, I'm most of the way through it, and it's certainly all planned and plotted very carefully. And I've drawn, I'd say, about two-thirds of it. And so everything else should flow pretty quickly."
When asked how he's feeling about the project so far, Miller said, "Very good. Very good. It's certainly a departure. If you're going to take a break from a series for a long time, you might as well come back with a very different one."
Sin City: Blood & Dust is just one of several projects Miller is currently developing. He was asked if there were any particular books in the works he was especially excited to show to readers. Miller singled out Invasive Species, a new Dark Horse Comcis project that was announced at SDCC 2026 this past summer.
Invasive Species is a sci-fi comic that pairs Miller with artist Ryan Benjamin and colorist Alex Sinclair. Details about the book's plot were scarce before now, but Miller shed more light on it during the panel, revealing it to be a microscopic invasion story inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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