#1-8
Story and Art by Ted Naifeh. A new series from Courtney Crumrin's Ted Naifeh!
Within the fairy-tale kingdom of Atraesca lies the prestigious Princess Academy, where young royals from all the five kingdoms come to get their education. But they've never before seen the like of Princess Ülga of Grimmeria. Armed with axe and sword, riding her war mammoth through the city gates, Ülga has come in search of schooling. But this barbarian princess might just end up schooling the people of Atraesca before that happens!
28 pages, full color. Cover price $2.00.
#1-4 + 1B Dynamic Forces Signed Edition
by Ben Templesmith
With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the "Gosiodo" ? machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It's up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back... before there's nothing left to fight for. A stunning new series by Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night)!
Mature Readers FC, 32pg $3.99 Cover price $3.99.
#1 - 2
"Rapture" - By popular demand, the Sliders are back in this all-new two-issue limited series! Having barely survived their battle with the Draconians, the team is jaded and ill at ease. Now is not the time for a new threat to the quantum field -- the very source of the Sliders' means of transport. Will they be trapped forever in the weird and desolate world they've landed on? And is there really a traitor among them, as upcoming episodes of the Fox TV series imply?! This miniseries promises to reveal all!
Script by D.G. Chichester, with art by Bernard Chang and Dick Giordano. Cover by Dennis Calero.
FC, 32 pgs. Cover price $2.50.
#1 - 6
Cover art by Carlos Ezquerra.
Brief history of the Stainless Steel Rat novels and information on original printings of the 2000 A.D. adaptations, script by Nick Landau, art by Carlos Ezquerra. The Stainless Steel Rat starring The Stainless Steel Rat, script by Harry Harrison (original novel) and Kelvin Gosnell (adaptation), art by Carlos Ezquerra. Superbean, script by QIRQX IV, art by Mike McMahon.
52 pgs. $2.25. Cover price $2.25.
#1 - 4
"March of the Dead" - Did the Germans fight World War I with a secret weapon? According to this saga, they mobilized voodoo soldiers incapable of only one thing...dying. The allies' only hope for salvation lay in Julian Drake, a mystic rotting away in prison for being the wickedest man alive. Written by Aubrey Singer and Rob Stofega. Pencils by Dave Matthews. Epic Comics.
Cover price $2.50.
#1 - 7 + Special #1 + 3
Story by Roger McKenzie. Art and cover by Pat Broderick. In the future, super-powered techs maintain a solar-powered energy system. Given solar powers after an accident, Mark Dancer is placed in charge of the staff of the Daybreak power station, including the elephantine Doctor Gibraltar and Scooter the robot.
32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $1.50.
#1-4
Written by Joe Hill and Michael Benedetto. Art and Cover by Gabriel Rodriguez.
Joe Hill's nerve-shredding re-imagining of Tales from the Darkside never made it to your TV set...but the dead are restless and refuse to stay buried! This summer, IDW releases DARKSIDE, a four-issue comic-book adaptation of the episodes written by Hill and illustrated here by Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez! Three stories of the macabre and malevolent! One coulda-been, shoulda-been TV epic on paper with pictures that don't move! Step out of the warm, sunlit world you think of as reality and get ready to take a chilling walk... on the DARKSIDE.
28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.
#1-3
Written by Simon Reed. Art by Mike Ploog. Painted by Simon Bisley.
Two brothers on a trek across Scotland find themselves faced with more than just a stroll across the Highlands. After travelling for miles, lost in the mist, they chance upon shelter not knowing what lay before them. The darkness descends and the moon rises, an invitation for all manner of creatures! This is a tragic tale of two brothers being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and how their lives were changed forever. The human spirit is thicker than blood, and this is their tale!
24 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.
#1 - 5
WRITTEN BY FIONA AVERY; ART BY CARLOS D'ANDA; COVERS BY D'ANDA AND CARLOS MEGLIA
A new take on the 'Cats by the hot creative team of Fiona Avery (Tomb Raider, Witchblade) and Carlos D'Anda (ROBOTECH, BRASS)! The Berserkers, once defeated by the Thundercats, have returned ? and they want vengeance! They capture Thundercats ally Hachiman, the powerful Samurai warrior, and hold him for ransom. But when the Thundercats get involved, it turns out that this is exactly what Hammerhand, leader of the Berserkers, was hoping for!
FC, 32 PG. (1 OF 5) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
Botcon Incentive Cover. Simon Furman (w); EJ Su (a); EJ Su, Milx, James Raiz, Ed McGuinness (c)
The new era for Transformers begins now! After too-long an absence, the Robots in Disguise are back in comics form! This is the beginning of an all-new storyline and continuity that relaunches the Transformers from the ground up. If you've always been curious about these giant, transforming robots, this is the perfect jumping-on point! In this specially priced introductory issue, legendary Transformers writer Simon Furman is joined by artist EJ Su in presenting 'Transformers: Prelude to Infiltration,' the opening salvo in an upcoming six-part saga that returns the Transformers to glory. In this 16-page tale, runaway Verity Carlo absconds with a mini-computer that just might hold bigger secrets than she's prepared to handle. And when she's made aware of a larger conspiracy that involves gigantic alien robots, well, the skeptic in her refuses to believe what she's been told. Until she has no choice but to believe if she wants to survive at all... also contained in this 0 issue are interviews with the Transformers comics creators and a hint of what's to come in our new, ongoing Transformers series in January '06. Plus, more variant covers than you can shake a Decepticon at!
*Covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio. Cover price $0.99.
#1 - 2
Cover pencils by Terry Tidwell, inks by Butch Burcham. Untitled story, script by John Wooley, pencils by Terry Tidwell, inks by Butch Burcham; Origin of the Twilight Avenger, a deliberate homage to the mystery-man characters of the 1930s, complete with jodhpurs, and gas-gun. Twilight Avenger back cover pinup by Butch Burcham.
28 pgs., full color. $1.75. Cover price $1.75.
