(W) Prophet Of The Fox God (A) GMB Chomichuk
Discover the myth of the worldwide music sensation BABYMETAL. Tasked with defeating the forces of darkness and division, the metal spirits must travel through a variety of eras of time, assuming different forms and identities. What we are seeing is not the BABYMETAL of the present. It's an original story based on BABYMETAL as you've never heard them before. The long-hidden metal spirit's apocrypha of the Metal Resistance will emerge!
(W) Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti (A) John McCrea (CA) Amanda Conner, Paul Mounts
Combining an imaginative take on an oral history of the band, interspersed with artistic interpretations of 10 songs from Blondie's catalog, Blondie: Against The Odds captures the grit and friction of NYC as the band fought their way to prominence, as well as the power and energy contained within their song that fueled their rise.
(W) Steve Niles (A) Scott Hampton (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz
Behold: the Holy Diver graphic novel, an original storyline inspired by one of heavy metal's most iconic album covers. Penned by acclaimed horror comics writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), the book will tell the tale behind the events leading to the powerful moment captured on the cover of Dio's debut album, definitively addressing 30 years of fan speculation. Why is the priest being thrown into the ocean? Who is truly the villain in this scenario?
Hardboiled romance has gone galactic in Emmy Award-winning artist Dean Haspiel's Fear, My Dear: A Billy Dogma Experience. Super-powered paramours, Billy Dogma and Jane Legit's pathological War of Woo unearths the chaos of a cosmic deity and Billy uncovers the psychedelic horror of an eighth 'deadly sin' when he travels to the heart of his mind to face the truth of his past... and his future. Remastered from the original webcomics series, Billy Dogma is 'the last romantic antihero,' a passionate bruiser head-over-heels for his knock-em-dead dame. Created in 1995, Billy Dogma is Dean Haspiel's ongoing love letter to the insanity of love.
You thought you knew the story behind the world's most notorious rock band..the music, the mayhem...it is the stuff of rock-n-roll legend, chronicled in the New Yor Times best-selling book and subsequent Netflix movie, The Dirt. Now, as Vince Neil, Mikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars emerge from self-imposed exile from all corners of the globe, the REAL story behind the band can finally be told...as the exploits of Mötley Crüe working as special undercover government operativesare revealed in this graphic novel.
