After Dark Horse Comics published Edginton and D'Israeli's Scarlet Traces in 2002, they released an updated version of Kingdom of the Wicked on December 1, 2004.

As a young child he was bedridden and to amuse himself began writing stories centered around an elaborate fantasy world named Castrovalva.

The new prologue shows how, after Chris left, a monster in the shape of a boy arrived to begin terrorizing the populace.

Now, several years later, he is known as the greatest children's writer in the world, besieged by offers of movie rights, sequels, art galleries, and the like.

A brief afterword states that Chris took nine months to regain consciousness, and never told anyone of the events, but the final page shows him working on a script entitled "Kingdom of the Wicked", implying his next book will be based on what he saw, and the final panel shows Chris and the Dictator, both as small boys again, running through a restored Castrovalva to play with Fuzzbox, Flashheart, and the other friends who died in the war.