Previews for Dark Horse Comics Titles Released Wednesday December 9th 2009
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The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday December 9th 2009.
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Comics
- B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs #4
- Citizen Rex #6
- Emily the Strange: The 13th Hour #3
- Groo: The Hogs of Horder #2
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars #11 — Hero of the Confederacy part 2
TPBs & HCs
- The Art of Emily the Strange HC
- Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories
- Gantz Volume 8 TPB
- Misery Obscura: The Photography of Eerie Von (1981-2006) HC
Comic Previews
B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs #4
Writer: John Arcudi
Artist: Pete Snejbjerg
Colorist: Bjarne Hansen
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $2.99Johann Kraus, the ectoplasmic man, leads a team of B.P.R.D. agents against the frog monsters as they spread across the country. But this time, burning the nest of frogs is not the end of the battle for Johann, as he learns about the horrifying afterlife of the Bureau’s sworn enemies.
Peter Snejbjerg (Starman, The Books of Magic) tackles the final issue in the B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs series with series writer John Arcudi.
Citizen Rex #6
Writer: Mario Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez
Artist: Gilbert Hernandez
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $3.50After the explosive finish to the Blanc Masque gala, Sergio awakes to find himself . . . on a TV talk show? Secrets come out and dirty laundry is aired when Citizen Rex grants his final interview in “As the Nights Bite, So the Days Bite Back.”
Everything comes back to the very beginning, with the answers behind the mysterious “block” and Sergio’s attack in this startling conclusion to Mario and Gilbert Hernandez’s sexy sci-fi epic!
The mind-bending finale!
“I tried to give it the feel of a strange late-night foreign movie you’re too drunk to remember clearly the next day.” -Mario Hernandez
Emily the Strange: The 13th Hour #3
Writer: Rob Reger, Cosmic Debris
Artist: Buzz Parker
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $3.99When Emily awoke on the morning of her thirteenth birthday, she had no way to predict the insanity that would follow. What was supposed to be a mellow day spent celebrating with her mom and watching the solar eclipse has turned into something else entirely. Now Emily is a stranger in an even stranger land, in hot pursuit of the bizarre beast who stole the powerful heirloom watch her mysterious Aunt LaRue sent. Flying ships, talking creatures, and deadly traps are all just the start of an adventure that started in her own bedroom and now finds her standing on the precipice of her own fate, at the ancestral home of her family. Emily loves when things get weird, but is she ready for what waits for her within the walls of Blackrock?
Groo: The Hogs of Horder #2
Writer: Mark Evanier
Artist: Sergio Aragonés
Format: FC, 32 pages
Price: $3.99Unemployment is rising . . . debts are swelling . . . and no one can afford to buy anything.
Fortunately, that’s only happening in the world of Groo the Wanderer, not in real life! Breathe a sigh of sweet relief and join Groo as, aided and abetted by the award-winning team of Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, he rambles across the land, adding economic destruction to the many other catastrophes that he usually spreads. Also in this issue, we meet King Huhu and learn what he has to do with the whole mess!
Star Wars: The Clone Wars #11 — Hero of the Confederacy part 2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars #11 — Hero of the Confederacy part 2
Writer: Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching
Penciller: Brian Koschak
Colorist: Michael E. Wiggam
Cover Artist: Russell Chong
Format: FC, 40 pages
Price: $2.99Blamed for the death of a member of the royal family of Valahari, Anakin Skywalker is exiled to a remote outpost on Ryloth. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi infiltrates the royal family’s castle searching for the truth — which leads him from an unexpected encounter to a deadly one!
But even finding the truth may come too late to save a noble hero of the Confederacy who has become Republic Enemy Number One!
* This series is a complement to Lucasfilm’s The Clone Wars TV show!
TPB & HC Previews
The Art of Emily the Strange HC
Writer: Rob Reger, Cosmic Debris
Artist: Rob Reger, Buzz Parker & Cosmic Debris
Format: FC, 120 pages, HC, 8 1/2″ x 11″
Price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1-59582-371-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-371-7In her thirteen-plus years in existence, oddballs, outcasts, and art freaks the world over have grown to know and love a strange young girl named Emily. With roots in the punk-rock art scene of Santa Cruz skate culture and an early appeal to European trend spotters, the iconic image of Emily and her philosophy of devout individualism have become deeply rooted in global culture.
The Art of Emily Volume 1 is the first-ever collection of images showing the wide and inspired range of artistic styles and mediums that have been used to create the world of Emily the Strange. From silk-screened vinyl skateboard stickers to custom rock-and-roll album art, large-scale psychedelic paintings, and insanely intricate Mongolian paper cutting, the fantastic and artful imaginings of Rob Reger, Buzz Parker, and a staggeringly talented array of collaborators will give insight and inspiration to any Emily fan.
* The world’s affection for Emily the Strange can be seen at futuristic shopping malls in Tokyo, in Dutch Halloween fanzines, on the walls of metal clubs in Germany, and throughout the United States!
Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories
Writer: Carol Swain
Artist: Carol Swain
Format: B&W, 200 pages, HC, 7″ x 9″
Price: $24.95
Age range: 16+
ISBN-10: 1-59582-388-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-388-5Collecting over thirty short stories by London-based writer/artist Carol Swain, Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories is Swain’s first career-spanning retrospective! The “graphic lit” love children of Gabriel García Márquez and Raymond Carver, Swain’s comics first appeared in the late 1980s, and she has since contributed to over twenty anthologies across the globe. Her introspective, boldly executed, and visually unique works are peppered with magical realism, autobiography, and tenacious punk attitudes. While Swain’s tales cover a wide range of emotions, politics, and societal ills, they are all tied together with an art style that is universally appealing and undeniably unique. Two brand-new color stories, created for this hardcover volume, are featured in a special color section. Alan Moore describes Carol Swain’s work as “dark and full of life, like soil . . . a perfect example of what modern comics are capable of if they only try.”
* “Carol Swain has one of the most unique and compelling styles in comics.” -Time
* “The Raymond Carver of British comics.” -Time Out
Gantz Volume 8 TPB
Writer: Hiroya Oku
Artist: Hiroya Oku
Format: B&W, 224 pages, TPB, 5 1/8″ x 7 1/16″
Price: $12.99
Age range: 18+
ISBN-10: 1-59582-383-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-383-0Without giving anything away, suffice it to say that this might be the watershed volume of Gantz. It’s the end of the great Buddha battle, and it doesn’t seem to be going well. In fact, it would be amazing if anyone returned to the locked apartment overlooking Tokyo tower. It’s really been the worst fight yet. But there’s got to be a gleam of hope somewhere.
Also in this story, we meet a few more interesting characters outside of Gantz’s hunting party, and it only adds more mystery to the mix.
* Gantz has proven to be one of the most popular adult anime in recent years, with over 175,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone!
* Each volume of Gantz comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.
Misery Obscura: The Photography of Eerie Von (1981-2006) HC
Writer: Eerie Von
Format: FC, 160 pages, Novel, HC, 8 1/2″ x 11″
Price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1-59582-265-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-265-9From the deepest depths of punk rock’s 1970s primordial wastelands, through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into the bloodstained arenas of 1990s heavy metal, Eerie Von witnessed it all. Beginning as the unofficial photographer for punk legends The Misfits and later taking charge of the bass guitar as a founding member of underground pioneers Samhain and metal gods Danzig, the evil eye of Eerie Von’s camera captured the dark heart of rock’s most vital and bleeding-edge period, a time when rock and roll was not only dangerous, but downright menacing. Eerie Von’s lens has documented everything from The Misfits’ humble beginnings in Lodi, New Jersey, to the heights of Danzig’s stadium-rock glory alongside metal superstars Metallica. As well as an essential visual document of music history, Eerie’s road stories of triumph and damnation bring to life an era the likes of which will never again be seen.
* An essential historical photographic document of some of the most influential bands of punk, goth, and rock by Eerie Von.
* For more information on Eerie Von, go to eerievon.com.
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