The latest practice research project from the Comics Studies Creative Research Hub is ‘Adapting Darkness’, which is part of the ‘Comics and Literature’ research theme and is based around the creation of responses to Lord Byron’s apocalyptic poem ‘Darkness’ (1816). There will be several outputs from this work, including a comic, Darkness, which presents adaptations of the poem. Three of the stories, with artwork by Zu Dominiak, Elodie Dow, and Garry McLaughlin, are adaptations based in the same script written by Professor Christopher Murray. The aim is to explore how three artists with very different styles would respond to the same script. There is also an adaptation in the form of a wordless woodcut sequence by artist Katy Stone, based on an outline by Murray, and a humour strip response to the poem drawn by Andy Strachan based on Murray’s script, and a story by Murray and drawn by Clio Ding that features Byron’s daughter, and the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, as she has an unsettled dream about the rise of the computer age. Gary Welsh provides the artwork for a cover based on the style employed by the Classics Illustrated series of comics published by Gilberton, which adapted literature into comics. Welsh also draws the essay comic ‘Adapting Darkness’, which explores the process of adapting this poem. The comic also contains a story, ‘Pall of a Past World’, a science fiction response to ‘Darkness’ written and drawn by Norrie Millar. There are also short essays about Lord Byron and ‘Darkness’ by the University of Dundee’s Professor Daniel Cook. This comic will be accompanied by a companion volume, The Darkness Scriptbook, which features all the scripts written by Murray for this project alongside the process work (layouts and sketches) created by the artists. The comic will be launched soon. Details to follow.