The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday November 25^th 2009.

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Comics

• Beasts of Burden #3
• Creepy #2
• Emily the Strange: The 13th Hour #2
• Star Wars: Legacy #42 — Divided Loyalties
• Usagi Yojimbo #124: A Town Called Hell part 1

TPBs & HCs

• Berserk Volume 32 TPB
• Blood Song: A Silent Ballad
• Little Lulu: Miss Feeny’s Folly and Other Stories TPB

Comic Previews

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Beasts of Burden #3

Writer: Evan Dorkin
Artist: Jill Thompson
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $2.99
UPC: 7 61568 13834 4 00311

The first feline member of the Wise Dog Society, the Orphan, takes on his first cat-only investigation, searching through the sewer tunnels for a missing, long-thought-dead witch cat. Accompanied by a tough stray, the Getaway Kid, Orphan’s trek into the wet, slime, and filth will bring him more trouble than his Wise Dog hocus-pocus can protect him from — and even if he finds the witch who’s been haunting his dreams, they’ll all still have to escape alive from all the dark horrors that lurk underground . . .

Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) first introduced these heroic characters in the anthologies The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and the other Dark Horse Book of . . . volumes, for which they won coveted Eisner Awards for Best Short Story and Best Painter.

* Check out the earliest Beasts of Burden stories for free at darkhorse.com/beastsofburden.

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Creepy #2

Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Cover Artist: Eric Powell
Format: B&W, 48 pages
Price: $4.99
UPC: 7 61568 15862 5 00211

It’s alive! It’s evil! And it’s coming for you. Horror fans and art fiends, beware — a new issue of new Creepy is lurking right around the corner. Dark Horse Comics and New Comic Company keep the hellfires burning in October with another evil-engorged 48 pages of short horror stories by established greats and ook-inducing newcomers. This issue, we’re featuring the second mind-bendingly gruesome chapter of “The Curse;” a ghastly shocker from legendary horror writer Joe R. Lansdale; an all-new Loathsome Lore; new work from Jason Shawn Alexander, Dan Braun, and Greg Ruth and much, much gore! Creepy is not only packed with paralyzing tales of fear, it’s a jaw-dropping value, too. With 48 pages packed with content, not advertising, our boo buffet is one hell of a deal!

* The reanimation of a beloved series continues with new, freakishly great stories!

* New frightening tales from masters of illustrated terror!

“Every tale is drawn by different artists, each with their own lacerating, languidly deadly style drawing you down into the dark tales of doom. From giant rats, to zombie Jews, the brains of the writers are rung dry of every creative drop in their reserves leaving them, insane. That’s when the crazy twists come in at the end, with every story leaving you shocked with a feeling akin to feeble sickness, unable to stop reading on. You get a whopping forty-eight pages for the price of a normal comic. Credit crunch comics.” – FHM

“That’s more than double the amount of material for less than double the price!” -Ain’t It Cool News

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Emily the Strange: The 13th Hour #2

Writer: Rob Reger
Penciller: Buzz Parker
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $3.99
UPC: 7 61568 16353 7 00211

When Emily awoke on the morning of her thirteenth birthday, for all she knew she was just another teen weirdo. But deep down inside, Emily has always known she was more than just a little strange. Now she has the family heirloom — a gift of mysterious power from her long-lost Aunt LaRue! — to prove it. Well, she had it anyway, until a strange, striped creature appeared from a cosmic dimension and stole it from her! Now Emily and her kitty Sabbath are on a crazed pursuit through a wacky land she’s never seen before. She’s going to recover her heirloom and find out why it was taken from her, if it’s the last thing she does!

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Star Wars: Legacy #42 — Divided Loyalties

Writer: John Ostrander
Artist: Dave Ross
Colorist: Jesus Aburto
Cover Artist: Chris Scalf
Format: FC, 40 pages
Price: $2.99
UPC: 7 61568 13514 5 04211

The partnership between the Galactic Alliance and Roan Fel’s Imperials is tried again against the Sith Empire-and this time they’re joined by a group of Jedi who have at last come out of hiding!

Rogue Squadron’s newest member is tested in battle! A traitor lurks aboard the Alliance! An Imperial Knight and a Jedi take on a dangerous retrieval mission! The Jedi, the Galactic Alliance, Fel’s Imperials, and the Sith Imperials all contemplate the changes brought by Darth Krayt’s death!

* Legacy-era Rogue Squadron in action!

* The Jedi return to the war!

* Check out the making of the cover to Star Wars: Legacy #42! http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Videos/1093/Making-of-Star-Wars-Legacy-42-Cover

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Usagi Yojimbo #124: A Town Called Hell part 1

Creators: Stan Sakai
Writer: Stan Sakai
Artist: Stan Sakai
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $3.50
UPC: 7 61568 95191 2 12411

Of all the towns in all the provinces in all Japan, Usagi’s wanderings have to bring him to this one . . .

Boss Higa has controlled his town with a stone fist for as long as anyone can remember. But a new gang has arrived intent on driving him out, and as backup they’ve brought along the best swordsman money can buy. All Higa’s got on his side is some puny, long-eared ronin as a bodyguard. If this new gang can’t be beaten through force, it may be time to resort to trickery.

* 2009 Eisner Award nominee for Best Continuing Series

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Berserk Volume 32 TPB

Writer: Kentaro Miura
Artist: Kentaro Miura
Format: B&W, 232 pages, TPB, 5 1/8″ x 7 1/4″
Price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1-59582-367-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-367-0

Guts, the Black Swordsman, joins forces with a most unlikely ally, the fiendish Nosferatu Zodd, in a desperate attempt to defeat the Kushan emperor’s malevolent astral form. But Griffith, Guts’ former commander and friend reborn as a demonic lord of the Godhand, has plans of his own for the emperor, and for Midland itself. Guts and his companions’ only hope is to reach the promised safety of the elf Puck’s homeland, Elfhelm, but if Griffith and the emperor turn their attention back to this motley band of travelers, there may be nowhere left for Guts and crew to hide!

* There are over half a million copies of Berserk volumes in print!

* Each volume of Berserk comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

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Blood Song: A Silent Ballad

Writer: Eric Drooker
Artist: Eric Drooker
Format: FC, 312 pages, TPB, 6″ x 9″
Price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1-59582-389-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-389-2

American Book Award winner Eric Drooker brings his second graphic novel — the visually bold and politically charged Blood Song: A Silent Ballad — to Dark Horse in a brand-new second edition!

Consisting mainly of full-page images, spreads, and diptychs, Blood Song is a wordless, full-color tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and the need for that spirit to make itself heard. A young girl travels from her war-torn island to a busy metropolis, from lush jungles to cold concrete and steel, and finds something that eludes most denizens of bustling, noisy, wasteful cities: love.

* This second edition of Blood Song includes a new cover and completely rescanned and remastered interiors.

* If you are unfamiliar with the work of Eric Drooker, go to drooker.com.

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Little Lulu: Miss Feeny’s Folly and Other Stories TPB

Writer: John Stanley
Artist: John Stanley, Irving Tripp
Format: FC, 200 pages, TPB, 6″ x 9″
Price: $14.95
Age range: 8+
ISBN-10: 1-59582-365-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-365-6

One hundred issues in, the endless imagination of John Stanley and Irving Tripp never lets up. Collecting Marge’s Little Lulu #100–#105 in their original, full-color glory, Miss Feeny’s Folly shows these masters at their most comedically ingenious.

Children will giggle, adults will chuckle, and everyone will get the occasional guffaw from this compendium of never-before-collected stories. Laugh along with neighborhood kids Lulu, Tubby, Alvin, Annie, and the rest as they play practical jokes, solve mysteries, connive for dimes, and have all manner of hilarious adventures!

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