The explosive anthology miniseries concludes! In writer/artist David Lloyd's "The Big Snooze," a mutt with a nose for trouble takes a bite out of crime--literally; in "The Initiation" (written by Joe R. Lansdale and Rick Klaw, with art by Tony Salmons), a trio of teens faces their biggest fears outside the local convenience store; and in "Electric Chinese Death" (written by Richard Bruning, with art by Mark Chiarello), a pair of mob enforcers wander into the wrong part of Chinatown.
Painted cover by Dave Gibbons. Mature Readers. FC, 32 pg. Rebax Format. Cover price $2.95.
Damien breaks out of the military base and chases the freakish Crassus through the swamp. There they find a lavish estate where a decadent jet-set crowd pays for the privilege of an exhibition of...the grotesque.
Written by Dave Louapre, with art by Vince Locke. Photo cover by Stan Gaz and Richard Bruning.
Suggested for Mature Readers. New Format. Cover price $1.95.
Damien Kane was going on twenty-four when the pains began. His eyes would feel like orbs of molten metal in their sockets; the muscles in his abdomen would stretch and shriek like tortured cats. Damien did what anyone would do under the circumstances - he called the only family he'd known since his parents died, the U.S. Army. They flew him to an Army base in Louisiana where he was met by Doctor David Manguy, the man who'd brought him into the world. Manguy took Damien to a secret cryogenic crypt in the basement of his laboratory and showed him the twisted remains of two deformed creatures who had been cobbled together by the insane genius Anton Arcane as part of yet another experiment in the pursuit of immortality. The guards in Manguy's lab called these monsters the Un-Men.
Dr. Manguy told Damien to call them Mom and Dad. Manguy told Damien the horrifying truth: Biology is destiny. Damien's genetic structure had remained stable for a long time, but now his body felt it was time for a change. Now Damien embarks on a journey beyond the borders of the human condition and into the Wasteland where freaks are family, and where the Un-Men live out an uncertain existence. Written by Dave Louapre, with art by Vince Locke. Photo cover by Stan Gaz and Richard Bruning.
Suggested for Mature Readers. New Format. Cover price $1.95.
Mildred the Mother takes center stage as the Witches continue their attempt to exact vengeance for a brutal murder. In Victorian England, a young Sir Richard Francis Burton learns the ways of sorcery and of life, but the path he chooses may not suit the Witches' purposes. This issue features the art of Michael Zulli.
Written by James Robinson with Alisa Kwitney, and framing sequence art by Teddy Kristiansen. Painted cover by Michael Kaluta.
Suggested for Mature Readers. New Format. Cover price $2.95.
Mildred the Mother takes center stage as the Witches continue their attempt to exact vengeance for a brutal murder. In Victorian England, a young Sir Richard Francis Burton learns the ways of sorcery and of life, but the path he chooses may not suit the Witches' purposes. This issue features the art of Michael Zulli.
Written by James Robinson with Alisa Kwitney, and framing sequence art by Teddy Kristiansen. Painted cover by Michael Kaluta.
Suggested for Mature Readers. New Format. Cover price $2.95.
WRITTEN BY DEVIN GRAYSON; PAINTED ART BY JOHN BOLTON AND SEAN PHILLIPS; PAINTED COVER BY BOLTON
In the powerful conclusion, Meg's online deathmatch goes disastrously wrong. With her fantasy life now as shattered as her real life, she must decide if either of them is worth living any more.
Prestige Format. MATURE READERS FC, 48 PG. (3 OF 3) Cover price $5.95.
WRITTEN BY DEVIN GRAYSON;PAINTED ART BY JOHN BOLTON AND SEAN PHILLIPS; PAINTED COVER BY BOLTON
A VERTIGO 3-issue miniseries begins. Meg Chancellor discovers herself ? by becoming someone else ? in the seductive escapism of a fantasy-based online world.
MATURE READERS FC, 48 PG. (1 OF 3) PRESTIGE FORMAT Cover price $5.95.
WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY; ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE LEIALOHA; COVER BY PASCAL ALIXE.
The stunning miniseries based on the character from THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END continues. Separated from the beautiful Calcinia by the magical wiles of her jealous would-be groom Lord Bulgus, Petrefax continues alone on the quest to find a wizard who can literally save Calcinia's soul. But Bulgus has laid a deadly roadblock in the young undertaker's path.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (3 OF 4) Cover price $2.95.
WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY; ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE LEIALOHA; COVER BY PASCAL ALIXE.
The stunning miniseries based on the character from THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END continues. Separated from the beautiful Calcinia by the magical wiles of her jealous would-be groom Lord Bulgus, Petrefax continues alone on the quest to find a wizard who can literally save Calcinia's soul. But Bulgus has laid a deadly roadblock in the young undertaker's path.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (3 OF 4) Cover price $2.95.
WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY; ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE LEIALOHA; COVER BY PASCAL ALIXE.
The popular SANDMAN PRESENTS line ? based on characters and concepts from THE SANDMAN ? expands into untraveled worlds of magic with SANDMAN PRESENTS: PETREFAX. This 4-issue VERTIGO miniseries showcases Petrefax, the young undertaker from the WORLDS' END storyline, as he strikes out from the Necropolis in search of journeyman work ? only to find he's got a full-time job just staying alive! Written by Mike Carey (SANDMAN PRESENTS: LUCIFER) with stunning, intricate art by Steve Leialoha (NEVADA) and beautiful covers by Pascal Alixe (THE BATMAN CHRONICLES, GEN13), PETREFAX takes us to Malegrise, a land with the look of 18th-century England and a culture of magic all its own, where nearly every citizen is a sorcerer.
When the beautiful, stubborn Calcinia Smith tries to escape a forced marriage by using gypsy magic to feign her death, she becomes trapped in a physical limbo ? her soul intact, but her body dead and deteriorating fast. Hired to embalm her, Petrefax is now the only one who knows her secret ? and the only one who can keep her "alive" with his skills. Pulled into Calcinia's cross-country quest to escape her fate, Petrefax must contend with supernatural monsters, bigoted aristocrats, and the sorcerous wrath of her jilted groom in a rousing tale that finds humanity in magic, and humor in the trappings of death.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (1 OF 4)" Cover price $2.95.
WRITTEN BY MIKE CAREY; ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE LEIALOHA; COVER BY PASCAL ALIXE.
The popular SANDMAN PRESENTS line ? based on characters and concepts from THE SANDMAN ? expands into untraveled worlds of magic with SANDMAN PRESENTS: PETREFAX. This 4-issue VERTIGO miniseries showcases Petrefax, the young undertaker from the WORLDS' END storyline, as he strikes out from the Necropolis in search of journeyman work ? only to find he's got a full-time job just staying alive! Written by Mike Carey (SANDMAN PRESENTS: LUCIFER) with stunning, intricate art by Steve Leialoha (NEVADA) and beautiful covers by Pascal Alixe (THE BATMAN CHRONICLES, GEN13), PETREFAX takes us to Malegrise, a land with the look of 18th-century England and a culture of magic all its own, where nearly every citizen is a sorcerer.
When the beautiful, stubborn Calcinia Smith tries to escape a forced marriage by using gypsy magic to feign her death, she becomes trapped in a physical limbo ? her soul intact, but her body dead and deteriorating fast. Hired to embalm her, Petrefax is now the only one who knows her secret ? and the only one who can keep her "alive" with his skills. Pulled into Calcinia's cross-country quest to escape her fate, Petrefax must contend with supernatural monsters, bigoted aristocrats, and the sorcerous wrath of her jilted groom in a rousing tale that finds humanity in magic, and humor in the trappings of death.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (1 OF 4)" Cover price $2.95.
WRITTEN BY WARREN ELLIS;ART BY DARICK ROBERTSON AND RODNEY RAMOS; COVER BY MATT WAGNER
"Streets at Night," Part 3. Tag along for an episode of real-time writing as Spider thrashes the pavement on his walkabout, reciting his latest column. Through seedy downtown alleys, and at every junction, corner and churchyard, he maps the human topography of the City ? the lives upon which it's built.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. Cover price $2.50.
WRITTEN BY WARREN ELLIS;ART BY DARICK ROBERTSON AND RODNEY RAMOS; COVER BY MATT WAGNER
The second of three self-contained issues finds Spider Jerusalem getting a whole new take on the world, courtesy of the untreated mental patients spat back into the street by a collapsing healthcare system. Living lives so unpleasant they feel driven to come up with reasons why the world is the way it is, these conspiracy theorists reveal their secret, berserk hypotheses on the new world order.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. Cover price $2.50.
WRITTEN BY WARREN ELLIS; ART BY DARICK ROBERTSON AND RODNEY RAMOS; COVER BY JIM LEE
The third of three self-contained issues featuring covers by Jim Lee finds Spider Jerusalem sharing the tricks of his trade. Spider Jerusalem decides to teach his "filthy assistants" the fine journalistic art of "monstering" ? to hound, abuse, interrogate and otherwise ruin the life of a public figure in the name of journalism. And in The City, there is no shortage of people who need monstering...
MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG." Cover price $2.50.
Written by Warren Ellis; art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos; cover by Jim Lee
The second of three self-contained issues featuring covers by Jim Lee showcases the columns of Spider Jerusalem. "21 Days in the City" features Spider's ? and writer Warren Ellis's ? anger-charged prose in a series of excerpts from Spider's newspaper columns, all illustrated by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos. The result is a twisted trip through Spider's mind, and a disturbing look at life in the City (and the world) of the future.
MATURE READERS FC, 32 pg." Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Darick Robertson. The New Scum 3: New President, script by Warren Ellis, art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos; It's part interview, part interrogation and part steel-cage wrestling match in this self-contained chapter of ''The New Scum''; Underground journalist Spider Jerusalem goes head-to-head with the President of the United States!; Will they be carried out on stretchers--or become best friends?
36 pgs., full color. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Frank Quitely. What Spider Watches On TV, script by Warren Ellis, art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos
In this self-contained issue, journalist Spider Jerusalem watches TV, alternating between (1.) violent reactions to what's considered entertainment in his City, and (2.) an apathetic state bordering on decomposition.
36 pgs., full color. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Frank Quitely. On The Stump, script by Warren Ellis, art by Darick Robertson and Kim DeMulder
In the first of three self-contained issues, Spider is drawn into The City's corrupt political arena, leading to a terrible confrontation with the President of the United States...in a men's room; And Spider is assigned an assistant to keep him in line--but she's not what he expects.
36 pgs., full color. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
