Signed by Ian Edginton
A love from Blade's past returns, but is it to rekindle a lost passion or to destroy him? A tale of love lost, offering a glimpse into Blade's youth with ominous implications for the future!
Written by Ian Edginton. Art by Nick Napolitano and Steve Moncuse. Cover by Doug Wheatley and Steve Moncuse.
Cover price $1.95.
Signed by Laurence Campbell
Written by ADAM GLASS & MIKE BENSON Penciled by LAURENCE CAMPBELL Cover by JAE LEE Cuba. P
layground of the Caribbean. Sunny beaches. Swank casinos. Dames. Gangsters. And Deadpool - who is trying to stay one step in front of Outlaw as he searches for a mysterious scientist in the thick of the jungle. Meanwhile, in Washington, DC. a power struggle is under way at the highest levels of government that will turn Deadpool's world upside down. And maybe the rest of the world, too. Betrayal. Double crosses. And a shocking secret from Deadpool's past are revealed!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory Cover price $3.99.
Signed by Mark Buckingham
Cover by Steve Epting and Bill Reinhold. Seismics [Earthquake Logic: Part 3], script by Warren Ellis(story) and Evan Skolnick (script), pencils byMark Buckingham (pages 1-10) and Gary Frank (pages 11-20), inks by Kev F Sutherland
After being literally stabbed in the back, Doc recovers enough to use his Catastrophe Magic to free himself and meet the leader of the Coven; By unbalancing their power structure, he destroys the Coven. Doctor Strange pinups by Steve Pugh, Blevins, and Omaha.
36 pgs. Cover price $1.95.
Signed by Mark Buckingham
Cover art by Mark Buckingham. The Disciple's Tale [The Homecoming, Part Two], script by J.M. DeMatteis, pencils by Pascual Ferry, inks by Kev F Sutherland
Baron Mordo reveals that he is dying of cancer and wants to make amends for planting a psychic construct in 8 year old Stephen Strange's mind that plagued him with invisible demons for many years.
36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.
Signed by Mark Buckingham
Cover pencils by Mark Buckingham. Walking Into Yesterday [The Homecoming, Part Three], script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Mark Buckingham, inks by Kev F. Sutherland
Doc returns to his Nebraska boyhood home and discovers a single mom he once knew; After spending several blissful days with Amanda and Jessica, he discovers he has cancer, and that it is Baron Mordo's fault.
36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.
Signed by Mark Buckingham
Cover pencils by Mark Buckingham. Journey to the East [The Homecoming, Part One], script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Mark Buckingham, inks by Kev Sutherland
Doc and Wong have yet another fight (you would think they were married!), so Doc heads to Tibet to 'find himself'; There he discovers that Baron Mordo has interfered with his life ever since he was a child.
36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.
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Challenge 1: No Brainer: Revelation - Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro.
Beginning the final chapter in the epic saga of North America's newer, tougher manga sweetheart! The countdown begins to her final confrontation with the man who took her surrogate father from her; who abused his son Kaos (thus creating the infamous leader of Barjack); and who has no pity on the living or the better off dead!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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Journey 1: Beyond the Yellow Door: Judgement Day - Story and Art by Yukito Kishiro. Alita has committed a capital offense: using a hand gun. She did it to save the Scrapyard from annihilation, but the Factory is unforgiving...and Alita is sentenced to death! The season of revenge comes to America's newer, tougher manga sweetheart!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
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Struggle 1: Running Wild - Story, Art and Cover by Yukito Kishiro.
Lying on a field, Alita regains consciousness to find a boy beside her. They climb up to the roof of the old factory and together watch the utopian city in the sky. Just as Alita realizes that she was struck unconscious by a beastly monster, the monster again attacks Alita and the boy! Unexpectedly, Alita is torn between an instinct to destroy the monster and a desire to hide her bounty hunter identity from the boy. A tale of beauty and beastliness!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
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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 art by E. T. Bryan. "Unfortunate Encounters," script by E. T. Bryan (creator & co-writer) and Elizabeth Bryan, art by E. T. Bryan
Stormfairy gets dropped into a toxic waste dump by an Imp and is changed into a Gremlin; Six months later humans attack the toxic waste dump because they think the Gremlin activity spotted there is the result of terrorist activity. Gremlin Trouble illustration by E. T. Bryan. Gremlin Trouble back cover illustration by E. T. Bryan.
36 pgs., B&W. Cover price $2.95.
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By KOSUKE FUJISHIMA.
Keiichi Morisato has his hands full with two lovely goddesses hanging around the house. But trouble always comes in threes, and sure enough, goddesses are no exception! The goddess Skuld is having some trouble debugging the mighty astral computer that maintains reality, and in the process, Keiichi is suddenly dragged through an array of alternate universes, and his house is full of "bugs"! Only a game of cosmic Twister can save the universe, and if they fail...Keiichi may never see the goddesses again!
Cover price $2.50.
Cybercrime special-ops unit Section 9 has been mobilized to protect a key witness in a trial involving defective micro machines. And the witness definitely needs protection-from remote-controlled corpses packing serious hardware! And if the identity of these dead assassins' pilots isn't enough of a mystery for Section 9, how about the unexpected appearance of long-missing special agent Motoko Kusanagi!
Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the 'lost' Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface. This deluxe-format issue concludes 'Fat Cat,' the first of four Ghost in the Shell tales.
Cover price $2.99.
MASAMUNE SHIROW
Cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki remains hot on the trail of the shadowy terrorists making life hell for Poseidon Industrial. Motoko deploys a cyborg surrogate, Chroma, for on-the- ground operations to pick up needed information, but while waiting for an e-brain private eye to pony up the data, Chroma is jacked into a no-holds-barred virtual combat game? at least she hopes it's virtual! The synapse-frying followup to the manga/anime heavyweight champion, Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface crushes to powder any previous notions of what is or is not a comic book with its dizzying storyline and cutting-edge, digitally enhanced visuals, unlike anything comics have ever offered. Special deluxe format with no interior advertising!
FOR MATURE READERS Cover price $3.50.
Chapter Six: Removed! - Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
Commander Gyro has gone renegade, and the Council of Zoalords plans to put him in his place! Plus, Mizuki learns a terrible secret, and Gyro gets his mutated paws on the ultimate weapon!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.
Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
When Sho and Mizuki find refuge from their pursuers in a secluded cave, Aptom appears and tells Sho the awful truth about the death of his father!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
After all they've been through, you can understand why Sho/Guyver goes off with Mizuki, the "girl of his dreams," to reassure her everything will work out. But while he's gone, Commander Gyro takes the opportunity to personally attack the rest of Sho's friends! Will he return in time to help Murakami -- the prototype for Gyro's Zoalord body - defend them all? And will Sho finally be able to transform into the Guyver again?
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
To prevent Valkus and the other Zoalords from catching on to his secret agenda, Commander Gyro sets out to personally destroy his prototype (reporter Murakami) and the Guyvers! It's the original bio-boostin' power hero in the manga that made him famous!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
Sho still can't transform into the Guyver! But a brief respite gives Murakami an opportunity to tell our intrepid group of friends the bizarre story and sinister purpose behind the origin of life on Earth! It's the original bio-boostin' hero in his own hit manga series!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
Story and Art by Yoshiki Takaya.
Traumatized by the knowledge that he killed his father, Sho is unable to transform into the Guyver! This leaves only Murakami to defend our battered group of friends against the deadly Enzyme II Zoanoids! Is Murakami's battle-form powerful enough to stand a chance against Chronos' best and grotesquest? It's the original bio-boostin' power hero in the manga that made him famous!
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.75.
