Previews for Dark Horse Comics Titles Released Wednesday November 11th 2009
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The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday November 11th 2009.
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Comics
- B.P.R.D.: 1947 #5
- Citizen Rex #5
- Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #8
- Rapture #5
- Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die (one shot)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars #10
TPBs & HCs
- Dr. Grordbort Presents: Victory
- Electropolis TPB
- The Escapists TPB
- Insomnia Café HC
- Oh My Goddess! Volume 13 TPB
- Turok, Son of Stone Archives Volume 4 HC
- Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai
Comic Previews
B.P.R.D.: 1947 #5
Writer: Mike Mignola, Josh Dysart
Artist: Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $2.99With lots of casualties on both sides, the battle with the vampires is over. Now Broom has to enlist an old friend in a bizarre exorcism to save the soul of one of the soldiers. But the exorcist himself isn’t happy about the little demon Broom has adopted and has a lesson to teach Broom about battling the forces of darkness.
Citizen Rex #5
Writer: Mario Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez
Artist: Gilbert Hernandez
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $3.50If you think Citizen Rex has been wild so far, you won’t believe what Mario and Gilbert Hernandez have planned next!
Everyone who’s anyone in our fair city is attending the ultra-exclusive Blanc Masque gala, forcing all of the story’s competing interests into one building as plans are put in motion and deals are struck. Sergio becomes a spy, a rebuilt Rex leads a unit of floppy-bots on a frontal assault of high society, and all hell breaks loose in the private meeting room at midnight! Plus, Rex’s motives revealed, and Sergio remembers how he lost his shoes.
“Comics must be hardwired into the Hernandez Family’s DNA.”-Comic Book Resources
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #8
Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Duncan Fegredo
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $2.99The conclusion to Wild Hunt!
Hellboy finally confronts the truth about his heritage — a moment that the mysterious Osiris Club has been anticipating for over a century, and believes heralds the final days of man!
Rapture #5
Writer: Michael Avon Oeming, Taki Soma
Artist: Michael Oeming
Colorist: Val Staples
Cover Artist: Michael Oeming
Alternative Cover artist: Matt Wagner!
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $2.99After the collapse of society, the world is slowly beginning to discover new champions, who bring with them the hope of salvation. One of those champions, Evelyn Town, struggles with her newfound power. To complicate matters, she finds herself in conflict with a vicious and cruel champion who has been twisted by power — except this champion is a small child!
Now, after sacrificing everything to find him, Evelyn stands accused by her lover, Gil, of being just as evil as the child champion she opposes. Gil’s love for Evelyn has transformed into hatred as his newfound powers have begun to corrupt him.
Will these former lovers use their powers to destroy each other, or will their passion bring them together to save the world?
Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die (one shot)
Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Jim Hall
Inker: Alex Lei
Format: FC, 40 pages
Price: $3.50After Order 66, the Jedi purge led by the dark and fearsome Sith Lord Darth Vader, most of the remaining Jedi are hiding to survive — but not all. Sha Koon, niece of the esteemed Plo Koon, has narrowly escaped the attack on the Jedi Temple, and has been left full of questions about the dark side. Sha Koon will not hide; she will find another way to continue being a Jedi — one that will place her directly in the path of Darth Vader and the Emperor!
* The Jedi purge continues!
* This issue follows events in Revenge of the Sith!
Star Wars: The Clone Wars #10
Writer: Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching
Penciller: Brian Koschak
Inker: Dan Parsons
Colorist: Michael E. Wiggam
Format: FC, 40 pages
Price: $2.99Hero of the Confederacy part 1
Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight and hero of the Republic, is challenged by a fledgling hero of the Confederacy!
The Confederacy is being provided with newer and more advanced ships from a world that has claimed neutrality in the Clone Wars. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi fly to Valahari to negotiate with the planet’s rulers, but as events unfold, they find that diplomacy may have to give way to war!
* Obi-Wan and Anakin have dinner with Count Dooku?!
* This series is a complement to Lucasfilm’s The Clone Wars TV show!
TPB & HC Previews
Dr. Grordbort Presents: Victory
Writer: Greg Broadmore
Artist: Greg Broadmore
Publication Date: November 11, 2009
Format: FC, 64 pages, HC, 8 1/2″ x 12″
Price: $14.95Dr Grordbort Presents: Victory — Scientific Adventure Violence for Young Men and Literate Women, the year’s foremost journal of progressive armaments and weaponry! Behold the latest line of defense captured in action! Filled to the brim with firsthand tales of exploration and progress from the great heroes of our time, picture strips of unimaginable escapades on the frontier, never-seen-before portraits of dazzling damsels and monstrous villains, and laudable accounts of man and robot pitted against our greatest enemy (the uncivilized world), Victory is an onslaught of action-packed scientific adventure in full-spectrum color — containing facts that every boy and literate girl should know.
Written and illustrated by Weta Workshop Conceptual Designer Greg Broadmore, this book sumptuously details a science-fiction history that never was. Hearkening back to the classic sci-fi serials of yesteryear, it reveals the backstories and mythos of Weta Limited’s highly limited ray gun collectible line.
* Weta Workshop is the New Zealand effects studio famous for its Oscar-winning work on King Kong and The Lord of the Rings.
*Greg Broadmore was the lead designer for the blockbuster film District 9!
Electropolis TPB
Writer: Dean Motter
Artist: Dean Motter
152 pages
FC
TPB, 6″ x 10″
$14.95Menlo Park is a reprogrammed janitor robot working as a private eye on the neon streets of Electra City, a town designed to generate and conduct massive amounts of electricity. Sixteen years after the apparent suicide of his human partner atop the world’s tallest tower, a blond femme fatale gives Menlo some new information about the cause of death. As Menlo and his assistant, Anesta, reopen the case, their journey takes them from Electra’s high society to its dark underbelly.
Clues from zeppelin pilots and shadowy architects alike reveal a connection between Menlo’s partner’s death, a mysterious object called the Astrolabe, and the origins of the city itself.
* A perfect companion to Mister X: Condemned! Visionary artist Dean Motter revisits his unique brand of “antique futurism” in a story full of familiar faces, including a crucial cameo by Mister X himself!
* “The characters are fun, the atmosphere engaging and the artwork gorgeous.” — The Fourth Rail
The Escapists TPB
Writer: Brian K. Vaughan, Michael Chabon
Artist: Jason Shawn Alexander, Steve Rolston, Philip Bond, Eduardo Barreto
160 pages
FC
TPB, 6″ x 9″
$14.95Inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan’s love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new — and old — Escapist!
* Now back in print in a more affordable softcover edition!
Insomnia Café HC
Creators: M.K. Perker
Writer: M.K. Perker
Artist: M.K. Perker
80 pages
B&W
HC, 6″ x 9″
$14.95Peter Kolinsky was among the world’s foremost experts on rare books, with a top position at a prestigious auction house, until black marketers took an interest in him. Since narrowly avoiding jail time, Peter’s lived a lonely life in a tiny apartment, with a menial job he hates.
Things look like they might turn around when, looking for a late-night snack, Peter wanders into a café and meets Angela. She shows him the Archives, where books currently being written are somehow on the shelves. It’s a book-lover’s dream until the black marketer who ruined Peter’s life returns with a grudge. On the run, will Peter find salvation in the Archives, or further ruin?
* M. K. Perker’s art for Air has just been honored with an Eisner nomination for Best New Series!
Eisner-nominated artist M. K. Perker makes his American solo debut!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 13 TPB
Writer: Kosuke Fujishima
Artist: Kosuke Fujishima
Format: b&w, 192 pages, TPB, 5 1/8″ x 7 3/16″
Price: $10.95Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi’s residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!
Learning to ride a bicycle is a little like encountering first love — a lot of panicked flailing and falling down! Skuld, who’s suddenly doing both of those things at once, can’t understand why her dear sister Belldandy, who’s always there to help, wants her to work this out on her own. But of course, Belldandy knows a wisdom Skuld needs to learn . . .
* Includes a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima and your fan art and letters!
* ” . . . the manga incarnation is classic comedy romance — sweet, funny, and action packed — and well worth checking out if you’re a manga fan.” -Neo
Turok, Son of Stone Archives Volume 4 HC
Writer: Paul S. Newman
Artist: Alberto Giolitti, Ray Bailey, Rex Maxon, Bob Correa, Jack Abel, and Vince Alascia
216 pages
FC
HC, 7″ x 10″
$49.99Trapped in a lost valley, two Indian braves, Turok and Andar, seek a way back home while struggling to survive erupting volcanoes, battling-and befriending-tribes of prehistoric cavemen, and being pursued by hungry dinosaurs!
* This volume collects issues #19-#24 of the Dell Comics run of Turok, Son of Stone. These classic adventures have not been seen since the early 1960s!
Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai
Writer: Stan Sakai
Artist: Stan Sakai
64 pages
FC
HC, 6″ x 9″
$14.95Yokai are the monsters, demons, and spirits of Japanese folklore, such as the shape-changing kitsune, the obakeneko demon cats, and the evil oni ogres. Usagi faces all these and more when a desperate woman begs for his help in finding her kidnapped husband. Tracing the abducted man to an old castle, Usagi finds the ruins haunted by creatures of Japanese legend and discovers that they are amassing for a great raid on the countryside! Fortunately, Usagi is joined by Sasuke the Demon Queller, who is also fighting to prevent the invasion, but things aren’t always as they seem, especially when dealing with the supernatural!
* The rabbit ronin turns twenty-five, and Dark Horse celebrates with the first-ever Usagi Yojimbo original graphic novel, fully hand-painted, written, and lettered by creator Stan Sakai!
* Completely self-contained story.
* Usagi Yojimbo is a 2009 Eisner Award nominee for Best Continuing Series.
First ever, full color, original story!
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