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"Curse of the Gesu" Story and art by Yuzo Takada.
One day Yakumo, a high-school student in Tokyo, met a girl named Pai. Pai was not human. She was Sanziyan-unkara, an immortal being with mysterious powers. Yakumo promised that he would find a way to make Pai human. Together, they set out to Hong Kong on a great adventure that was to begin a modern legend! Now, the adventures of Pai and Yakumo continue!Yakumo returns to Japan believing that he can resume his old life as a high-school student, an existence he had left behind -- ignoring Pai's warning that to do so will subject everyone he knows to the evils of hell itself.
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Cover by Greg Ruth. Written by Caitlin R. Kiernan. Art by Steve Lieber. For nearly as long as she can remember, Dancy Flammarion has fought monsters, cutting a bloody swath through the demons and dark things of the world, aimed like a weapon by forces beyond her control or questioning. But now, for the first time, Dancy finds herself alone-and the wolves are closing in.
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Written by Mark Verheiden. Art by Chris Marrinen and Brian Garvey. Cover by Dave Dorman.
Reporter Dennis Hough sees a golden opportunity (not to mention dollar signs) when he's asked to help with a governor's re-election campaign. The only catch is...Hough must deliver the American as the governor's new spokesman, and the American has joined s mysterious cult and disappeared!
FC. Cover price $2.50.
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Written by MIKE BARON. Art by STEVEN BUTLER, MATT HALEY & VAL MAYERIK. Cover by BUTLER.
All hail Badger, the multi-faceted hero with multiple personality disorder! He pops out his head for the first time in years in this secret, never-before-revealed origin story, featuring the return of Ham the Weather Wizard, Badger's medieval Welsh druid buddy. The pair are trapped in a modern-day American mental hospital...or are they? It looks as though the inmates are making their bid to run the asylum! With one thinking he's more men than man and the other going through a Middle Ages life crisis, this comic's sure to stand out from the rest of your collection!
Cover price $2.50.
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Written by Chris Warner. Art by Chris Warner and Tim Bradstreet.
Barb's back and hotter than a fistful of napalm! Hard on the heels of the smash film starring "Baywatch" bombshell Pamela Anderson, Barb Wire rocks your world with new adventures of Steel Harbor's baddest bounty-hunting beauty.
Someone is gunning down gangsters with lethal impunity in "Metal City," threatening to light the fuse to another apocalyptic street war. The killer is a mysterious woman named Death Card -- she's a drop-dead knockout who's good with guns and has a fondness for powerful motorcycles. Sound like anyone we know?
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by MIKE MIGNOLA, CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, TOM SNIEGOSKI, and RYAN SOOK; covers by MIKE MIGNOLA
Hellboy's departure from the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense has left the other supernatural members questioning their futures. But when a vision appears to Abe Sapien warning of danger for the missing Liz Sherman, he takes a very irregular group of agents on a mission that could lead them right through the center of the earth. Written by the author of Hellboy: The Lost Army, Chris Golden, Buffy/Angel writing partner Tom Sniegoski, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Drawn by Spike and Dru and Spectre artist Ryan Sook, B.P.R.D. begins a new direction in the Hellboy group of comics.
FC, 32pg (1 of 3) . . . $2.99 Cover price $2.99.
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Creator Paul Chadwick draws on his own real-life Hollywood experiences for this story in which Concrete joins the effects crew of The Rulers of the Omniverse. Alliances are forged and broken, egos are bruised, millions of dollars are spent, and somehow a movie is made. But for Concrete the real concern is whether someone is trying to sabotage his performance - and if they are, will his failure result in somebody's death?
By Paul Chadwick.
Printed on recycled paper. Cover price $2.50.
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Story and art by Paul Chadwick.
So, you think you know it all? You think you know the story of Concrete's origin? Well, you don't know the whole story. For the first time, creator Paul Chadwick reveals the events around the transformation of speechwriter Ronald Lithgow into the seven-foot tall Concrete in their entirety, with the kinds of subtle, moving touches that could only come from his pen.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.
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ANDREW COSBY (W) and J. ALEXANDER (A) FOR MATURE READERS. FC, 32pg, $2.99
The United States' borders and ports are locked down against a terrible threat. However, the barbed wire and infantries are not positioned to keep an enemy out, but to protect the rest of the world from a vampire plague that's spread over every inch of the country. Andrew Cosby, the creator of UPN's Haunted and the Sci-Fi network original series Eureka, and producer of the film version of Matt Wagner's Mage, teams with rising star and Eisner Award-nominee J. Alexander (Queen and Country) for a vampire epic of global proportions. Most of the living have fled the U.S., but a group of scientists remain behind, working on a cure. Now that they've succeeded, a military operation is launched from the President's current offices in the U.S. Embassy in London, to save the cure from the encroaching undead?but the real motivations of the military remain in question.
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Written by KEITH GIFFEN. Art by ALEXANDER MORRISSEY & BRUCE PATTERSON. Cover by ART ADAMS. They're not out to save the world...they just want to survive it! The four member team of Division 13 debut in their own series as they storm Block 13 to rescue the Vortex-infected prisoners there - but they find only wreckage, devastation and chaos. And the excitement triples with the unexpected arrival - and first appearance - of LAW!
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Written by STEVEN GRANT. Art by KENT BURLES and ALAN J. BURROWS. Cover by DOUG MAHNKE.
The sleepy little town of Moorehigh is about to wake up to its worst nightmare: Evan Rendell, a.k.a. Dr. Giggles, is coming home to settle some old scores. Adapted from writer/director Manny Coto's script by Steven Grant and artists Kent Burles and Alan J. Burrows.
