(W) Al Feldstein (A) Joe Orlando & Various
Science Fantasy tales of a weird nature!
This classic volume, now in an affordable paperback, collects issues #19-#22 of the groundbreaking comics anthology Weird Fantasy, as well as #25 and #26 of Weird Science-Fantasy-fully remastered in digital color! Featuring strange and exciting tales from iconic writers and artists including Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, and more!
Featuring a foreword by Greg Nicotero!
(W) Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein (A) Al Feldstein & Various (CA) Al Feldstein
The second volume of Weird Science features classic stories written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein, and illustrated by such master artists as Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Harvey Kurtzman, and Feldstein himself. This stunning collection reprints issues Weird Science #7-#12, a total of 24 complete breathtaking EC science-fiction stories, originally published in 1951 and 1952.
(W) Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein (A) Wally Wood & Various (CA) Al Feldstein
Long before 'one giant leap for Mankind,' EC Comics speculated on the wonder-and horror-posed by space travel. EC Archives: Weird Science volume 3 features the zenith of these explorations by comics pioneers Al Feldstein, William Gaines, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando and more. This value-priced softcover volume collects Weird Science issues #13-18 with remastered digital color based on Marie Severin's original tones. Includes the adaptations of two Ray Bradbury tales, 'The Long Years' and 'Mars is Heaven.' Foreword by Jerry Weist, comic art historian and author of the Hugo Award-nominated Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life.
(W) Al Feldstein (A) Wally Wood & Various (CA) Wally Wood
The Weird Science archives take flight at Dark Horse in an affordable, oversized paperback! Don't miss any of the sci-fi classics from such visionary artists as Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, Harry Harrison, and Harvey Kurtzman! Featuring 'Upheaval!' by legendary author Harlan Ellison! This volume collects the complete Weird Science #19-22 and Weird Science-Fantasy #23-24 in glorious remastered color!
(W) Mike Richardson (A/CA) Gabriel Guzman
Troubled pilot Fred Martin is caught in a bizarre storm and loses control of his aircraft. Martin awakens unharmed, only to discover that he is thirty years in the past with the impossible opportunity to right the wrong that ruined his future. But to prevent murder, will he commit murder?
(W) Matthew Arnold (A/CA) Riccardo Burchielli
In the near future, two convicts (a disgraced senator and her husband) are sentenced to twenty-five years in a cryogenic penal facility for a horrible crime they claim they didn't commit. When the prison malfunctions, accidentally releasing all of the prisoners, the escapees discover that they've been incarcerated for thousands of years and are now the only survivors of a global catastrophe that wiped out all of mankind, an event so devastating that prehistoric creatures now walk the Earth once more. Will the world's worst criminals be able to rise to the challenge of building a better society than the one they left? And is true redemption ever really possible? o Collects the Comixology series in print for the first time.
(W) Martin Powell (A) Diana Leto & Various (CA) Darren Bader
Sequential Pulp delivers twelve stories from twelve dynamic artists in a brand-new Tarzan anthology based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic pulp novel Jungle Tales of Tarzan. These vine-swinging tales, a cherished contribution to the Tarzan canon, all take place before Tarzan rises to lead his ape tribe!
(W) Chuck Austen (A/CA) Pat Olliffe
Edgeworld marks the surprise return to comics of Dreamworks television producer Chuck Austen, the X-Men and Superman writer, partnering with his good friend, long-time Marvel/DC artist Patrick Olliffe. On the edge of known space, on the backwater, frontier planet of Pala, magistrate Killian Jess, and native Palan Cheela fight to protect a planet, and people, the rest of the galaxy has forgotten. Battling military occupation, alien invasions, otherworldly infestations, drug running, gang violence, black market traders, and the disastrous, ecological aftermath of a brutal, planet-wide war, they must learn to work together and collect any allies they can from the castoffs, misfits, and aliens occupying Pala, in order to save the world they love.
(W) Chuck Austen (A) Pat Oliffe
An edgy adventure series that's part science fiction, part detective series, part western! On the backwater frontier planet of Pala, magistrate Killian Jess and native Palan Cheela fight to protect a planet and people that the rest of the galaxy has forgotten. Battling military occupation, alien invasions, otherworldly infestations, drug running, gang violence, black market traders and the aftermath of a brutal planetwide war, they must learn to work together and collect together any allies they can from the castoffs, misfits and aliens occupying Pala to save the place they love. Collects the original digital series.
(W) Archie Goodwin (A) Various (CA) Frank Frazetta
Now available in an affordable paperback format, Eerie Archives Volume 1 features some of the most acclaimed works of horror, murder, and the macabre in the history of graphic fiction. Eerie, like its killer kin Creepy, features work from many of the grandmasters of comics storytelling, including Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, Alex Toth, Steve Ditko, and others and stories by the legendary Archie Goodwin. Features the ultra-rare Eerie #1, for which only two hundred 'ashcan' copies were originally printed!
(W) Archie Goodwin (A) Various
Cousin Eerie is back with a casket full of blood-chilling tales of terror and the macabre! Eerie magazine was one of the finest horror comics magazines ever published, and the original issues are expensive and hard to find. Eerie Archives Volume 3 presents another collection of fearful fables in a value-priced softcover format by a host of comics greats, including Archie Goodwin, Joe Orlando, Angelo Torres. Jeffrey Jones, and more. Includes adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Telltale Heart' and 'Masque of the Red Death.' Foreword by Gail Simone. Collects Eerie magazine issues #11-15.
(W) Bill Parente (A) Tony Williamsune & Various
Follow your Cousin Eerie on a funeral march through the haunted halls of comics history in Eerie Archives Volume 4! Join an all-star lineup of comics creators-Archie Goodwin, Frank Frazetta, Reed Crandall, Tom Sutton-as they mine your nightmares for ghoulish gold. Includes the adaptations of 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe and a lengthy interview with legendary comics illustrator Al Williamson. Collects Eerie magazine issues #16-22.
(W) Buddy Saunders, Nicola Cuti (A) Jack Sparling & Various
Let Cousin Eerie lead you through the shadows into total darkness in Eerie Archives Volume 6, now in a value-priced paperback edition. Feel the fear of the frightening fables from creators Tom Sutton, Ken Kelly, Richard Corben, Doug Moench, Basil Gogos, Carlos Garzon, Nicola Cuti, and more. Also includes an in-depth interview with longtime Warren Publishing scribe Doug Moench. Collects Eerie magazine issues #28-31.
(W) Gardner Fox, Doug Moench (A) Richard Corben, Esteban Maroto
Take a ride on the river Styx with your jovial boatman Cousin Eerie in the panic-packed Eerie Archives Volume 7, now in a value-priced paperback edition. Remove the pennies from your eyes long enough to take in the dastardly dramas from creators Tom Sutton, Ken Kelly, Richard Corben, Doug Moench, Basil Gogos, Carlos Garzon, Nicola Cuti, and more. Also includes an illustrated foreword by comics creator Guy Davis and the first US appearance of comic great Esteban Maroto! Collects Eerie magazine issues #32-36.
(W) Esteban Maroto, Doug Moench (A) Jose Bea, Esteban Maroto
The first name in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror continues its spectacular run, now in an affordably priced, oversized paperback! Warren Publishing's outlet for everything fantastic, sinister and otherworldly travels into the early '70s at light speed! Eerie Archives Volume 8 collects issues #37-#41 of the original Eerie magazine series. This excursion features the work of comic book luminaries Ernie Col?n, Mike Ploog, and Dave Cockrum, as well as fan-favorite Eerie creators Doug Moench, Don Glut, Tom Sutton, Sanjulian, Esteban Maroto, and Steve Skeates. Collects Eerie magazine #37-#41.
(W) Mike Johnson, Rafael Albuquerque (A/CA) Rafael Albuquerque
Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where a chrononaut finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can't count on anything but his heart and a stranger's voice to guide him to his destiny. Collects issues #1-#5. 'Snappy dialogue, eye-catching scenery and a mystery as deep as twenty-two pages can accommodate.'-Comic Book Resources
Presented in its original Spanish-language format! Twelve teenagers from around the world fall under the spell of a demigod and journey to a mystical realm of devastation and cruelty where they must survive until the Red Moon returns. Despite the danger, these kids do not intend to surrender-they have magic on their side, and the time has come to take initiative! But an evil older than the kingdom itself awakens among the ruins, and the Red Moon approaches . . .
(W) Richard Starkings (A) Axel Medllin (CA) Boo Cook
It's Blade Runner meets Planet of the Apes in the next adventure of the pulp science fiction series Elephantmen, which debuted nearly fifteen years and eighty issues ago from Image Comics. Elephantmen are human/animal hybrids designed to fight a war. But the war is over, and now they live among us. This all-new story is a whodunnit that draws our heroes, Hip Flask and Jack Farrell, into the curious death of an Elephantman known to his friends as 'Shorty.' Following that is an adventure where weapons of the war between Africa and China's transgenics have surfaced and are being transported from the East Coast to the West Coast by Transamerican HEIST! This omnibus collects Elephantmen 2261 seasons 1 and 2 by creator/writer Richard Starkings, artist Axel Medellin, and a cover by artist Boo Cook!
(W/A/CA) Lynn Okamoto
Captured and isolated against their will, the Diclonius species are a threat waiting to break free. When a young Diclonius girl, Nyu, escapes from the research facility she was being held in, she manages to find solace in two allies, until danger finds her again, putting everyone at risk. However, her enemies soon realize they're in over their heads as an attempt to subdue Nyu results in unspeakable tragedy. Lynn Okamoto's beloved original manga series, that inspired the anime TV show, is now available in English for the very first time, presented here in a special omnibus collecting three of the four original volumes in one!
(W/A/CA) Lynn Okamoto
The ruthless soldier Bando pursues Nyu's alter ego, Lucy, with vengeance after he receives bionic prosthetic replacements as a result of their gruesome battle. Meanwhile, Lucy recalls her buried, tragic memories as a Diclonius child. To worsen the situation, Chief Kakuzawa orders a Diclonius named Mariko to kill Nana and return Lucy to the research facility!
(W/A/CA) Lynn Okamoto
Mariko is running out of time-her internalized bombs are set to explode at any minute. Hoping to tie up loose ends, she decides to confront her alienated father, Kurama. Meanwhile, when Nyu and Kouta arrive near the Diclonii island facility, Nyu is captured as Chief Kakuzawa attempts to fulfill his master plan of eliminating humans in favor of the Diclonius species.
(W/A/CA) Lynn Okamoto
A sudden attack on the Maple House places Kouta, Yuka, and the rest of the gang hostage under a group of equipped soldiers led by Nousou! This confrontation sparks Kouta to recollect the missing pieces of his past which may ultimately be chained to the history of the Diclonius Research Institute. . . o Cited as an inspiration for Stranger Things by the Duffer Brothers!
(W) Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (A) Sonny Strait (CA) Wendy Pini
When ElfQuest: The Final Quest concluded, it ended the hero's journey of Cutter Kinseeker, chief of the Wolfriders. But that was only the start of a new adventure for Cutter's 'brother in all but blood,' Skywise. Now the stargazer elf, who thought he knew everything about Cutter, discovers how mistaken he was. This volume collects issues #1-#4 of Stargazer's Hunt, with story by ElfQuest co-creators Wendy and Richard Pini, with script and layouts by Wendy Pini. Veteran ElfQuest alumnus Sonny Strait returns at full force as the artist and colorist for the new series.
(W) Frank J. Barbiere, Ricky Mammone (A/CA) Victor Santos
In a fantastic vision of the future, magic has been replaced with technology. Two factions are in conflict within a sprawling metropolis: The Druids hold on to the past, while huge corporations exploit new technologies that threaten to eradicate magic forever. Mara, the daughter of a druid leader, becomes caught up in a dangerous mission to recover the elixir-a mysterious artifact that could restore magic and defeat the corporations once and for all. The only problem is it's in the hands of her old mentor, a dangerous warrior who has mastered magic and the blade, and is driven by a personal vendetta to destroy the elixir at all costs. Pulled between her family and a choice that could shape the future forever, how far will Mara go to recover the elixir for herself . . . and what will she do with it?
(W) Kenji Tsuruta, Shinji Kajio (A) Kenji Tsuruta
Emanon is strange even for an immortal-a person with a mind over three billion years old, her consciousness endlessly migrating from new body to new body over the entire history of life's evolution on Earth. Emanon Volume 4 tells the story of her existence in that odd decade called the 1980s, as Emanon's latest incarnation grows from a grade schooler who seeks to conceal her intelligence, to a teen trying to avoid a relationship with the superhuman classmate pursuing her, to a young adult facing the death from old age of her best friend Hikari-a mortal time-jumper whose own life has crossed that of Emanon many times in the past, and will do so again many times in the future? but who dies at last in the here and now.
(W) Rob Reger, Mariah Huehner (A) Cat Farris (CA) Buzz Parker, Cat Farris
Emily-and her band, the Strangers-are going on tour! But another band is getting all the attention as Awesomely Awesome Records plots to edge Emily's crew out of the rock-and-roll scene. The nefarious record company is also hiding something terrible. It's up to the Strangers to discover what's behind the recent feline disappearances and find a way to drop the bass on the culprits.
We all know Emily the Strange is the world's weirdest thirteen-year-old, but do you have any idea how that came to be? Would you believe that Emily wasn't always the curious and confident stranger we know today? For any girl, a thirteenth birthday is a big deal, and that's doubly true for Emily. Emily doesn't know it yet, but a surprise gift from a long-lost aunt is more than just a family heirloom-it also holds the key to unlocking the mystery of her lineage and the secrets of her fate! o In 2011 Emily will become a full-fledged rock star to international audiences when Virgin Records releases her first-ever rock 'n' roll CD! o In addition to Dark Horse's long-running comic-book series, Emily is also the subject of three young-adult novels published by HarperCollins!
(W) Adam Warren (A/CA) Carla Speed McNeil
Hell is for heroines! Empowered and 'frenemy' Sistah Spooky are trapped in high-school hell, with Spooky's blonde ex-classmates plotting ritual murder to claim her magic for themselves! Beset by giant biology-class frogs, deadly emoji, and a monstrous junk-food elemental, Emp and Spooky fight for their lives against straight-fire blonde ambition! Collects the six-issue miniseries. o First Empowered series in standard comics format. o Artist Carla Speed McNeil is the acclaimed creator of Finder and artist of No Mercy, Queen and Country, and many more.
Crimefighters Empowered and Ninjette struggle with a superhero community fatally inflamed by rampant romance, courtesy of the passion powers of embittered 'magical-girl' The Soldier of Love. If she prevails, love is toast! Collects Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1-3 plus Adam Warren's 'Pew! Pew! Pew!' Empowered one-shot.
(W/A/CA) Adam Warren
Of course, it's side-achingly funny. Sure, it's eye-lovingly illustrated. But is it just possibly the best send-up of superheroes yet created? In a word . . . duh! Adam Warren's Empowered rattles the capes-and-tights cage in a manner well-deserved for said enclosure, but That's Not All, true believer. There is 'genuinely affecting emotion' (Library Journal). And it's for 'real, live adults' (MTV Geek News). In fact, Empowered is 'a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level' (Comic Book Resources). Don't be a coward, get Empowered! Collects Empowered volumes 1, 2, and 3.
(W/A/CA) Adam Warren
Sexy? Aye! Superhero? Affirmative! Comedy? Yea, verily! Adam Warren's critically acclaimed Empowered shakes the foundations of the heavens as 'one of the great modern superhero comics' (View From the Gutters) that's 'laugh-out-loud funny' (Comics Worth Reading) while remarkably generating 'genuinely affecting emotion' (Library Journal). Might such a miraculous melange portend 'a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level' (Comic Book Resources)? Certainement! An astonishing 674 pages collecting Empowered volumes 4, 5, and 6.
(W/A/CA) Adam Warren
Sexy? Immeasurably! Superheroes? Countless! Comedy? Nigh infinite! Adam Warren's Empowered takes the staid tropes of modern capes-and-tights fare and pummels them into 'a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level' (Comic Book Resources). And face-crackingly funny though it be, Empowered also delivers 'genuinely affecting emotion' (Library Journal). You can at long last have your cake and eat it, too! Collects Empowered volumes 7, 8, and 9.
(W/A/CA) Adam Warren
Already under suspicion and suspended from her superteam, costumed crime fighter Empowered finds herself the bewildered target of every major supervillain in the cape-and-tights field for her supposed access to alien technology. Underestimated as she is, can our long-suffering but plucky heroine outwit her tormentors-and escape the sinister Fleshmaster's revenge?
(W/A/CA) Adam Warren
From comics kingpin Adam Warren comes Empowered, the sexy superhero comedy-except when it isn't-that pushes envelopes, crosses boundaries, and breaks a few buildings for good measure! Costumed crimefighter Empowered is trapped in a surreal nightmare scenario as her universe begins spontaneously rebooting again and again, with each variation more twisted and bizarre than the last! Can our befuddled superheroine somehow undo this inexplicable Neverending Reboot-while simultaneously steering her love life in a boldly polyamorous new direction with Thugboy and Ninjette!-or is this The End for Emp and her chaotically convulsing cosmos?
(W) Adam Warren (A) Adam Warren & Various (CA) Adam Warren, Rob Porter
With every Empowered Special collected under one vast roof, Empowered Unchained sprays a shrapnel salvo of sizzling superhero satire, written by the almighty Adam Warren and illustrated by Warren and comicdom's most feared makers of pictures heroic! Featuring grave-robbing supervillains! Broom-swinging vigilantes! Slutty cyberangels! Animal crimebots! Boozy ninja! Angry spaceships! And more!
(W) Peter Milligan (A/CA) Duncan Fegredo
Enigma is a visceral, post-modern tale of self-discovery and sexual identity told against the backdrop of outrageous superheroes and villains. Michael Smith lives a meaningless life. But when the weird characters from Enigma, his favorite childhood comic seem to come to life, Michael embarks upon an increasingly obsessive crusade to uncover the incredible secret behind their improbable existence . . . and ultimately, his own. Considered a classic and groundbreaking graphic novel for its LGBTQIA+ themes when first released-featuring the first gay superhero in mainstream comics. ? With a brand-new cover by Duncan Fegredo and a treasure trove of nearly 50 pages of extras including development art, color sketches, and behind-the-scenes notes into the making of this celebrated story. 'Beautiful. Literary. Decades ahead of its time. This is the greatest adult superhero comic of the nineties. At least.' -Kieron Gillen
(W) D.J. Kirkbride (A/CA) Nikos Koutsis
In the future, a decent job is hard to find-especially if you're a hard-worn scoundrel with commitment issues. Jace is a lifelong solo act running dangerous errands for the most questionable of clients. But when his thirteen-year-old half-human half-brother comes to live with him, he's got two mouths to feed. Between evading the law, running from aliens, and jumping off skyscrapers, the only thing weirder than the vastness of space is family.
o Collects the entire run of the comic book series Errand Boys for the first time! (STL216069) (C: 0-1-2)
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) David Rubin
From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt and Black Hammer's David Rub?n comes this fantasy adventure about a science-minded hero intent on keeping the balance between Earth and a magic world! Portals between Earth and the Ether begin to crack open unleashing devastating magical fury on our planet and only adventurer Boone Dias can seal the breaches. In order to put an end to this chaos, Boone recruits a powerful team of mystical beings including a grumpy, spell-writing fairy; a bickering, lavender gorilla; and a bull-headed, motorcycling, spell-hacker. These heroes set off on a journey taking the reader through the center of volcanoes, deserts full of living mummies and sphinxes, and a bizarre fairy forest in an effort to save both worlds from complete destruction! Collecting issues #1-5 of Ether series II and featuring a sketchbook section with bonus art from Paul Pope, Mike Allred, Bill Sienkiewicz, Marcos Mart?n and Jen Bartel!
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) David Rubin
From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt and Black Hammer's David Rub?n comes an interdimensional, genre-bending, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery adventure!
Interdimensional explorer Boone Dias, a brilliant scientist from Earth, enters the magical world of Ether and stumbles onto a great responsibility that takes him through the center of volcanoes, deserts full of living mummies and sphinxes, and a bizarre fairy forest-all leading toward a final climactic battle for the fate of both worlds.
o Collecting every issue of Ether in an affordable omnibus edition, along with every cover and all published bonus content. (STL216064) (C: 0-1-2)
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) David Rubin
A science-minded adventurer gets mixed up in the mysteries of a fantasy world in this charming new adventure from an award-winning creative team. Boone Dias is an interdimensional explorer, a scientist from Earth who has stumbled into great responsibility. He's got an explanation for everything, so of course the Ether's magical residents turn to him to solve their toughest crimes. But maybe keeping the Real and the Abstract separate is too big a job for just one man. Collects issues #1-#5. 'Kindt is one of the smartest genre writers in comics.'-Mental Floss on Ether