Virus is a Dark Horse Comics comic book, written by Chuck Pfarrer, drawn by Canadian artist Howard Cobb and first published in 1992.

The story is about an alien life form which takes over a Chinese Navy research vessel and reconfigures it—using both the damaged electronics and the dead bodies of the crew, it propagates itself by making various "creatures" created out of both organic and inorganic parts.

Pfarrer said in an interview that when he wrote the original story as a script in the early 1990s, the special effects for a film adaptation wouldn't have been possible, so he sold the script to Dark Horse as a comic.

[citation needed] It was adapted into the 1999 science fiction horror film Virus, directed by John Bruno.

[1] Pfarrer then took Virus to producer Gale Anne Hurd and the two of them returned to Universal who were now eager to do the film.