The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday November 4^th 2009.

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Comics

• Age of Reptiles: The Journey #1
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #30
• Conan the Cimmerian #15
• The End League #9
• Star Wars: Invasion #5
• Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #5

TPBs & HCs

• Electropolis TPB
• The Escapists TPB
• Insomnia Café HC
• Turok, Son of Stone Archives Volume 4 HC
• Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai

Comic Previews

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Age of Reptiles: The Journey #1

Writer: Richard Delgado
Artist: Richard Delgado
Colorist: Jim Campbell
32 pages
FC
$3.50

Dawn breaks over a sprawling forest in Cretaceous North America — a dawn far colder than its peaceful, forest-dwelling herbivores are used to. The seasons are changing, and it’s time for the able-bodied to migrate south. But the trek is a dangerous one even when massive herds band together, for while there is safety in numbers, numbers also draw attention, and the carnivores are moving in! This journey may not last long when the first hunter arrives, a ferocious tyrannosaurus rex who has her sights set on a young triceratops!

* Ricardo Delgado — a prolific development and storyboard artist who has worked on such hit films as Men in Black, The Incredibles, WALL-E, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the Matrix series — returns once again to his critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning comic series, Age of Reptiles!

“Ricardo Delgado once again takes us back to the Age of Reptiles! And I am thrilled to go there.”
-John Landis, filmmaker (An American Werewolf in Paris, Michael Jackson’s Thriller)

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #30

Writer: Jane Espenson
Artist: Georges Jeanty
Inker: Andy Owens
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Cover Artist: Adam Hughes
40 pages
FC
$2.99

Retreat part 5

The war between Twilight’s minions and Buffy’s army rages in the Tibetan mountains. Bereft of their magic, the girls — Wiccans and Slayers — face an epic battle in which they have no hope of victory. Buffy has already done the retreat thing once, plus also put herself and her army into hiding . . . What can she do now that there is no magic to help them escape from another losing battle?

Series artist Georges Jeanty, acclaimed television writer Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica), and Executive Producer Joss Whedon conclude Season Eight’s biggest story yet!

* Eisner Award-winning series!

* Executive produced by Joss Whedon!

* Special guest cover artist Adam Hughes!

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Conan the Cimmerian #15

Writer: Tim Truman
Artist: Paul Lee
Cover Artist: Joseph Michael Linsner
40 pages
FC
$2.99

Ten thousand years before Conan disturbed the forbidden Temple of Set, princess Akivasha — daughter to the first great ruler of Stygia — was transformed into a vampire and cursed to haunt its halls forever. Her pampered years of hedonistic pleasure behind her, the beautiful Akivasha spent centuries with desiccated mummies and skittering monsters, as a deep loneliness grew within her.

Now, something has awakened her from tedious ages of boredom. She immediately senses Conan’s power and vitality when he steals into the temple, and she vows to take this Cimmerian warrior as her lover — or at least have a good time killing him! Spinning out of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon novel comes the untold tale of Akivasha, the title character to Howard’s “I Am the Woman Who Never Died” chapter.

* Tim Truman adds new dimensions to a Howard classic, and Conan and Buffy the Vampire Slayer artist Paul Lee returns to illustrate this horrific and heartbreaking story, giving us glimpses into Akivasha’s troubled past while the lusty vampire stalks Conan through dark, demon-filled mazes!

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The End League #9

Writer: Rick Remender
Penciller: Ashley MacDonald
Colorist: Matthew Wilson
Cover Artist: Eric Canete
40 pages
FC
$3.99

Series finale!

With the hammer of Thor in his possession, the Smiling Man sets out to remake the world in his image, unless Codename Black can stop him. Dead Lexington’s manipulations force Prairie Ghost and Brother Occult to choose between mass murder and the fate of all life on Earth. Zeus sends his only daughter, Divinity, to destroy her former allies and obtain the hammer for Olympus. Soldier American finds himself a POW of Wolfsangel — in 1942. The deck is stacked; there is no possibility of victory — the end draws nigh for the End League. Brought to you by the super champion of America, Rick Remender (Punisher: War Journal, Fear Agent), with art by groundbreaking rising star of comic bookery Andy MacDonald (Punisher: War Journal, Miss America

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Star Wars: Invasion #5

Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Colin Wilson
Colorist: Wes Dzioba
Cover Artist: Joe Chen
40 pages
FC
$2.99

The Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy is spreading quickly. Prince Finn Galfridian, whose planet of Artorias was taken and his family separated by the Vong, is training as a Jedi with Luke Skywalker to prepare himself to save his family and lead his surviving people.

Not surprisingly, the other members of the royal family have been working to save themselves! Finn’s mother and sister Kaye are fighting against the Vong’s bioengineered killing monsters to escape imprisonment, and if his father, Caled, is still living, he will be leading resistance on Artorias. With hope, Caled lives, and will still be fighting when Finn arrives with aid!

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Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #5

Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Ben Stenbeck
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola
32 pages
FC
$2.99

Deep inside an asylum, Edward Grey faces a final confrontation with the mysterious beast that has been terrorizing the streets of Victorian London. Grey learns that sometimes you must use the Devil’s own tools to fight him, when he meets up with the young Memnan Saa, the villain from B.P.R.D.: The Warning and The Black Goddess!
Mike Mignola and Ben Stenbeck (B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man) team up for this long-awaited glimpse into one of the Hellboy universe’s greatest enigmas: nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey!

* Cover art by Eisner Award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola!

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Electropolis TPB

Writer: Dean Motter
Artist: Dean Motter
152 pages
FC
TPB, 6″ x 10″
$14.95

Menlo 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

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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″
$14.95

Inspired 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!

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Insomnia Café HC

Creators: M.K. Perker
Writer: M.K. Perker
Artist: M.K. Perker
80 pages
B&W
HC, 6″ x 9″
$14.95

Peter 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!

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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″
$49.99

Trapped 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!

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Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai

Writer: Stan Sakai
Artist: Stan Sakai
64 pages
FC
HC, 6″ x 9″
$14.95

Yokai 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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