NOCTURNALS: CARNIVAL OF BEASTS (ONE-SHOT) story DANIEL BRERETON art DANIEL BRERETON, VIKTOR KALACHEV & RUBEN MARTINEZ cover DANIEL BRERETON
Celebrate the return of Nocturnals with three rings of savagery in NOCTURNALS: CARNIVAL OF BEASTS. In the fully painted 'Beasts', Doc Horror unleashes an inner demon while settling an old score with a viper's nest of disturbed scientists. 'The Scrimshaw Crown' follows amphibian girl, Starfish, tracking a haunted sea monster. In 'Candy Butchers,' Halloween Girl, the Gunwitch and Polychrome encounter toothsome carnies.
64 PAGES FC $6.99 Cover price $6.99.
Cover by Miran Kim (mixed media) and Jack Rowan (photo). "Falling," script by Stefan Petrucha, art by Charles Adlard
Mulder rushes to the woods to look for a crashed UFO, only to have a group of children mistake him for an alien.
36 pgs., full color. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.
The Source of Strife. Story, art and cover by Evan Dorkin, plus color by Paty Cockrum.
In the year 2074, a young crew of intergalactic space slackers has comedic misadventures as they try to scam their way across the galaxy. Ron, Halby, Blue, Harlie, and Datsun find themselves on the run from bounty hunters, mob enforcers and corrupt government agents.
24 pages, Full Color. Cover price $1.95.
I Hate This Job. Story, art and cover by Evan Dorkin, plus color by Paty Cockrum.
The first solo series from Dorkin, later an indie/mainstream star with Milk & Cheese and Dork. In the year 2074, a young crew of intergalactic space slackers has comedic misadventures as they try to scam their way across the galaxy.
24 pages, Full Color. Cover price $1.95.
Story by Greg Williams and Robb Horan. Art and cover by Greg Williams, credited as The Dark One.
Fantasy adventure with bad-girl art, as Nikki, a California coed, becomes an Amazon warrior queen in outer space. Nikki meets the tiger-woman warrior Ryntha, and its love at first sight; the spigmodites are ravaging the Praktillian cities.
32 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $2.50.
WRITTEN BY KURT BUSIEK; ART AND COVER BY CARLOS PACHECO AND JESUS MERIÑO CLIFFHANGER.
The miniseries mixing World War I weaponry with ancient magic concludes! Wounded, trapped behind enemy lines, and shaken to the core by what he's experienced, Fletcher Arrowsmith must guide his friends to safety, facing vampires and worse. But after witnessing the horrors of war, does Fletcher even want to survive? His ideals and illusions shattered and the ugly truth about the war revealed, Fletcher has to find a reason to keep going...or give up and die.
FC, 32 PG. (6 OF 6) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
(W) Bill Williams (A) Matthew Weldon.
Mel was a cloaked super-powered representative of a superhuman group entrusted with protecting all Mankind. After being forced to retire, Mel meets Jessie, who agrees to take her place as a costumed heroine. Mel becomes a mentor to the new cape in town as Jessie joyously engages the role of heroine, meeting the other super-types in the big city of Seaholm and beyond.
Rating: Teen
Cover by Dennis Calero (W) Ande Parks (A) José Luis
The Demon has been to hell. Now he's back, ready to take revenge on the person who sent him there: Sara Pezzini. As the Demon continues to taunt and test Sara with a horrific series of murders, Sara's fragile grip on her home life starts to slip. Meanwhile, the Witchblade screams for justice against another sadistic criminal who has been set free. Sara must struggle to control her own desire for vengeance. When ghosts from the Witchblade's bloody past invade Sara's home, she may finally lose control altogether. The road to hell beckons, with the Demon as Sara's personal guide.
Cover price $3.99.
Cover by Alex Ross (W) Arvid Nelson (A) Roberto Castro
The legendary ape-man starts having second thoughts about his newfound Martians 'pals', the devious Therns, who just so happen to be the bitter enemies of John Carter. But all that might not matter - Carter is paying the Therns a little visit, and he and the ape-man are on a collision course that will change the face of two planets forever. Jane, the ape-man's wife, goes looking for proof of the Therns' treachery, and she ends up finding more than she bargained for. The sky erupts with fire in Lords of Mars #4 - War in Heaven!
Cover price $3.99.
Standard Edition Cover by Patrick Rolo. 2nd printing
The official comic of the hottest fighting arcade game on the market today! Virtua Fighter is the flagship release for Sega's newest home game platform, Sega Saturn, and Virtua Fighter #1 is the game's companion comic book! Learn what brings eight fighters from different corners of the world to a bizarre metropolis known as Virtua City, the center of a brooding and dark secret of world domination. Are the Virtua Fighters the saviors against a secret society's evil plans, or are they mere pawns in their malicious schemes?
Written by Mark Paniccia. Art by Patrick Rolo, Moose Baumann, Scott Reed, Abraham Madison, Vinton Heuck and John Miller.
Cover price $2.95.
Photo cover. by Marv Wolfman & Matt Broome; Colored by Digital Broome.
The Mummy comes to Chaos! and it's time for you to unwrap the suspense! It began thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, and now a new year begins in 1927, when the inimitable Rick O'Connell returns with his new wife, Evelyn, her brother, Jonathan and the man named Ardeth Bay to face a menace even more deadly than Imhotep, "The Mummy." But can they stop what lurks beneath the "Valley Of The Gods?" An action-packed, all-original comics novel in three thrilling chapters. Also, introducing the menace of "The Scorpion King," played by the WWFs The Rock ? a powerful force of nature featured in the upcoming blockbuster movie, The Mummy Returns!
Cover price $2.99.
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(W) Bonnie Burton, Sandy King Carpenter, Alison Ross, Stephanie Hans, Ming Doyle. (A) Jessica Hickman, Tanja Wooten, Stephanie Hans, Ming Doyle, Stacie Ponder. (CA) Renae Deliz.
Womanthology: Space, the follow up to the hit Kickstarter project, Womanthology: Heroic, starts off with the first of five out-of-this-world issues: Moon. Each issue contains three 6-page stories, plus pinups, how-tos, and more, by women of all ages and experience. Check out a haunted space station, a snarky robot, and so much more in this debut issue.
Cover price $3.99.
WRITTEN BY WARREN ELLIS; ART AND COVER BY BRYAN HITCH AND PAUL NEARY.
It's the explosive conclusion to the Authority's first mission as an army of superpowered terrorists approach Los Angeles! They're traveling at 700 miles per hour. They're only five miles from L.A. Now, only seven people stand between one of the most horrible threats ever seen on Earth and one of America's biggest cities in an unbelievably violent and destructive confrontation.
FC, 32 PG Cover price $2.50.
WRITTEN BY WARREN ELLIS; ART AND COVER BY BRYAN HITCH AND PAUL NEARY.
In Part 1 of the 4-part "Swiftships," something from Jenny Sparks' past comes screaming into 1999! It arrives on plumes of fire: something that was supposed to have died fifty years ago, in a hyper-bacterial hell, something that, nearly a hundred years ago, was Jenny Sparks' first "case" as a superhuman adventurer. Now Jenny and the Authority must face this deadlier-than-ever menace and, this time, she's playing for keeps.
FC, 32 PG.$2.50" Cover price $2.50.
Astra, the youngest member of the First Family, wants to experience more than just a life of high-flying adventure in "Everyday Life." Part 1 of 2, continued next issue. Appearances by the Silver Brain, the Gorilla Swarm, the Anti-Bodies.
Script by Kurt Busiek, pencils by Brent Anderson, inks by Will Blyberg. Cover by Alex Ross.
Cover price $2.50.
WRITTEN BY KURT BUSIEK; ART AND COVER BY CARLOS PACHECO AND JESUS MERI¥O CLIFFHANGER!
The fantasy-adventure takes a new and dangerous twist as the first ARROWSMITH miniseries blazes toward its explosive conclusion! Fletcher Arrowsmith has been hearing about atrocities since the war began. Now he finds out the truth. Caught in the middle of a horrifying attack with a deadly, sorcerous super-weapon, he learns the full horror that comes with the carnage, both in terms of human life and even greater, more dangerous losses. Even if he lives through, it, he'll be forever changed - and so will the world!
FC, 32 PG. (5 OF 6) $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Calamari Rising!"
Collects Wormwood: Calamari Rising (2007) #1-4. Story and art by Ben Templesmith.
Just when Wormwood thought he could finally have that quiet drink without worrying about the world coming to an end, or a friend with a parasitic infection trying to kill him, The Brotherhood of the Calamari decide to crash the party. Since their last meeting, they've tracked him across the thousand million dimensional possibilities of existence-and this time the entire Squideeverse is with them. Wormwood is going to learn the hard way he can't keep running from his problems as his oldest foe now threatens his favorite watering hole, Earth, with absorption into the Calamari group mind. Complete with additional sketches and doodlings from the twisted mind of Scream Award-nominated writer/artist (and 30 Days of Night co-creator) Ben Templesmith.
Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.
