It showed Sirrus and Achenar, with their first introduction to evil, becoming members of the Black Ships Pirates who ravaged the Mechanical Age. The first issue, titled 'The Joining', was written by Chris Ulm and drawn by Doug Wheatley. Myst: The Book of Black Ships was a scheduled four-issue comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics that attempted to shed light to the events that happened before Myst, and explain all the malevolent actions of the two brothers, leading to their imprisonment in Atrus' books.
