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Usagi Yojimbo #96
 | Dig, dig, dig. Poor, insane Jodo is digging holes all over town. Boss Hamanaka, Jodo's father, is dead, and his vast fortune is nowhere to be found! Gangs vying for control of the community wage an impending war just as Usagi arrives on the scene! And there's another samurai, mysteriously observing everything from the sidelines, who may enter into the fray - or maybe he's waiting for the town to be torn apart! Internationally acclaimed storyteller Stan Sakai presents the first installment of the two-part "Hamanaka's Treasure" this month in Usagi Yojimbo ! |
Usagi Yojimbo #76
 | Multiple Eisner Award-winning creator Stan Sakai continues the 20th year of his internationally celebrated samurai adventure! Wandering ronin Usagi comes to the rescue of an outnumbered warrior, only to find himself promising to deliver a package for the dying Nagasaki man. Now in search of the man's daughter, Usagi discovers that warriors are in hot "Pursuit"! What is the mystery of this package that could enflame the entire country, and what is its final destination? Find out-this month in Usagi Yojimbo ! |
Crush TPB
 | In a world of subtle horrors, Elizabeth Mason is about to meet one monster she never counted on—HERSELF. On the day of her 18 th birthday Liz undergoes a strange metamorphosis which, for reasons unknown, causes her to transform into the monster called CRUSH! As if growing up isn’t hard enough without that, Liz soon has to deal with a deadly, ruthless agent tailing her ... with teenage werewolves. At least she has her best friend, Jen Tanaka, to count on. And what at first seems to be a curse may be the very thing that leads her to understand who she truly is. Written by the amazing Jason Hall with dynamic illustrations by talented Sean Murphy. |
Fierce #1 (of 4)
 | A powerful crime syndicate wants him dead. The FBI wants him behind bars. Jonathan Fierce, psychic profiler for the FBI, is on the run and his only allies are the voices of his slain comrades, the elite strike force known as the Razor. Channeling the special abilities of his former teammates, he will descend into the depths of the Jamaican underworld on a mission of redemption and vengeance. The FBI’s most powerful weapon is the mind of one man … |
Spyboy: Final Exam #3
 | Alex Fleming, aka SpyBoy, is on the run from the police who mistakenly think he’s a terrorist! Alex’s dad is in jail, believed to be the ringleader! The teacher he’s counting on to aid him is actually the notorious SpyGuy, ready for the final act of his revenge against Alex. And the only person who can possibly save them is Alex’s mom ... except it means going public with her greatest secret. |
Shrek TPB
 | The world's most lovable ogre is back this time in COMICS! Join Shrek, Donkey, and the gang as they embark on several hilarious madcap adventures including a chase to rescue Fiona from Farquaad's henchman Thelonius on the evening of her honeymoon and an encounter with a gingerbread house gone rancid and its witchy owner! Written by master scribe Mark Evanier ( Groo ) and illustrated by Ramon Bachs and Raul Fernandez ( Star Wars ), Shrek is sure to please readers of all ages. Collecting the three-issue miniseries. * The Dark Horse Shrek graphic novel is suitable for all ages and is sure to please readers of all ages! * Shrekmania will again reach a fever pitch when the Shrek 2 motion picture is released in May 2004 |
M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War TPB
 | When mysterious invaders appear out of nowhere to wreak havoc and attack every nation on the planet, the Earthís military forces call on an elite team of the most skilled soldiers from all over the world, the Marine Attack Rescue Serviceóbetter known as M.A.R.S. Patrol! Dark Horse is proud to present a collection of rare material from one of the greatest artists to ever illustrate science fiction comics, the legendary Wally Woodís M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War . Reprinting the first three issues of the Gold Key science fiction epic, this collection represents Woodís total contribution to the series and is a must for any fan of Wally Wood or collector of comic book or science fiction classics. Wally Wood is generally regarded as Americaís best science fiction artist. In his 32-year career in comics, Wally Wood worked for vitually every comic book publisher, producing an astonishing body of work that encompassed virtually every genre in comics. His art combined realism and... |
Grendel: God and the Devil #9 (of 10)
 | In this penultimate issue of the most hell-bent Grendel series to date, the focus is on just a handful of key players: blood-crazed C.O.P. officer Pellon Cross, the extremely hallucinogenic heretic calling himself Grendel, and a very determined little rat who's had just about enough, thank you very much. This is where it all comes to a big, painfully swollen head -- Grendel makes his most determined and effective strike (so far!) against God, and the horrendous, bloody truth behind the church is revealed in shocking display...just in time for Easter Sunday! * Re-presenting the original Grendel #32, with new color and new cover art. FOR MATURE READERS |
Berserk Volume 5 TPB
 | He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess-relentless, fearless, merciless. As cold and brutal as the iron of the massive sword he wields. Bent on revenge against the unholy forces that have branded him for sacrifice, but especially on Griffith, one of the demon lords of the Godhand. But Griffith was once a man, the leader of the Hawks, a renowned cadre of elite fighters with a young Guts as its fiercest champion. Though forged in a crucible of cruelty and violence, nothing could prepare Guts for a confrontation with Nosferatu Zodd, a superhuman beast who slaughters Guts' comrades as easily as a scythe cuts wheat. Even Guts and Griffith are no match for the abomination's power ... but something Griffith wears around his neck may well be! One of the most eagerly anticipated manga properties in recent years, Berserk was originally published in Japan and has been serialized in Young Animal Magazine since the early 1990s. The Berserk manga has been adapted into a best-selling anime... |
ArchEnemies #2 (of 4)
 | Vincent Darko may be a criminal genius, but he still hasn't figured out that his slobby roommate, Ethan Baxter, is also his sworn enemy, Star Fighter. So why has Vincent vowed that Ethan Baxter must die??? Can Ethan survive Vincent's gantlet of deathtraps with his secret identity intact? Will Vincent slip up and spill his own secret along the way? Look for the answers to all these questions, PLUS: young love, senseless violence, casual vandalism, betrayal, fasion tips, and -- before it's all over -- one dead body. You MUST read the comic that critics across the nation are calling "ArchEnemies #2." |
Samurai Executioner Vol. 2 TPB
 | It's the same classic style you came to expect from Koike and Kojima. The same tale of an honorable samurai and a similar great sword in the hand of a similarly fantastic swordsman, but make no mistake, Samurai Executioner is very different from its brother, Lone Wolf & Cub , sometimes frighteningly so. In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravity and sin. One man can set things straight if he can keep his wits. This is a story of extreme proportions, of sword study thick in tradition and with grim purpose, of blood rivers, agonizing screams, bondage, torture, and the evil prevalent in human failure. Drafted by the confirmed masters of the international medium of manga, Samurai Executioner is a shocking combination of darkness and fire, fine lines, and a fine man in the face of human decline. FOR MATURE READERS |
B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine #2
 | Captain Daimio tells the B.P.R.D. the story of his own death in the jungles of Bolivia. Meanwhile, Dr. Kate Corrigan, searching rural France for a clandestine text with the secret to bringing Roger back to life, finds herself a guest in a strange shop on the site of a castle that was destroyed over half a century ago. |
Samurai Executioner Vol. 3 TPB
 | Readers of Lone Wolf & Cub came to know a samurai of such high honor that he was not only able to perform but enjoyed and, in fact, learned from basic daily tasks. Cutting wood, cooking food. That wasn't something a samurai did back in feudal Japan. These same human elements are apparent in Kubikiri Asa, the main character in Samurai Executioner . He's a man of the people, though his job is to separate many of those same people from their heads. In this volume, however, we're treated to three fantastic stories of amazing weapons skill, both on the part of Asa and those around him. Witness, for the first time in this series, a duel between two great samurai, in the slow, contemplative tradition. Observe Asa's extremely precise sword stroke. And read a charming story of a young peace officer who practices the use of his specialized weaponry to the point of utilitarian, life-saving perfection. It's more classic samurai stories in our third volume of Samurai Executioner . FOR MATURE READERS |
Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1
 | Speechwriter Ron Lithgow's mind was suddenly removed from his body and placed into that of an immense extraterrestrial-one with a rock-like shell for skin. Now, seventeen years after his comics debut with then-fledgling publisher Dark Horse, Lithgow enters into another contemplative conundrum. As the accidental celebrity Concrete, he is now courted by a high-profile CEO to lend his name to a controversial population control program. While Concrete mulls this generous proposition over with his companion Maureen, his longtime aide Larry Munro mulls over an entirely different sort of proposal. Winner of six Eisner and three Harvey awards for Concrete , acclaimed creator Paul Chadwick returns with his first Concrete miniseries in six years! FOR MATURE READERS |
B.P.R.D.: Night Train
 | Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins add another project to their list of collaborations with this haunting contribution to the Hellboy canon. Agents Liz Sherman, whose supernatural talent for starting fires killed her family when she was a teen, and Roger the Homunculus, the five-hundred-year-old artificial man who nearly killed Liz by stealing her fire, are sent to investigate a mystery train terrorizing America. This is a train with history--its last natural journey, some seventy years ago, had a mysterious passenger on board--Lobster Johnson, who's still bound to the fate of the locomotive. |
Hellboy: Makoma, or, A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers' Club on August 16, 1993 #1
 | Award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola teams with comics legend Richard Corben. Corben has been creating bizarre and beautiful comics since the 1970s, working on the most notable horror and sci-fi titles of the original small-press boom. His work was brought to the big screen in the film Heavy Metal , and he achieved mainstream stardom finally with recent collaborations with Brian Azzarello and Garth Ennis, bringing a fresh perspective to such characters as the Hulk and the Punisher, among others. Set long before the life-changing events of this year's The Island , this two-parter reveals Hellboy's earlier encounter with the powerful mythology of Africa. Mignola writes and provides the cover, as well as drawing part of the story, with the lion's share drawn by Corben, in the collaboration which promises to be the horror-comics event of the year. Drawn by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben, famous for his stories and illustrations in Heavy Metal magazine! |
Go Boy 7: Human Action Machine #1
 | While on a trip to visit his uncle at a top secret facility known as the Go Base, Jonny Zero is critically injured and his parents killed when their plane is shot out of the sky by a mysterious attacker. Now the only thing that can save Jonny's life will leave him changed forever! Don't miss out on this first issue in what is sure to be one of the runaway hits from ROCKET COMICS--GO BOY 7! Featuring scripts by Tom Peyer ( Hourman , The Authority , Punisher , Batman ) and pencils by hot, young newcomer Jon Sommariva! (Rocket Comics) Don't let Go Boy 7 pass you by! |
Grendel: God and the Devil #6
 | As the Devil descends into a hallucinogenic search for greater truth, Pellon Cross--newly appointed footsoldier of God--embarks on a long, strange trip of his own. Sent by the increasingly power-crazy Pope Innocent XLII to the Sahara Desert, Cross is charged with raiding a nuclear depot and retrieving its hidden cache for the Church's use. Meanwhile, under the sickening streets of Vatican Ouest, the Rat gets his revenge. Matt Wagner's hell-bent romp through the 26 th century hits full-throttle with this sixth issue, and it only gets wilder from here! * Re-presenting the original Grendel #29, with new color and new cover art. |
Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #8
 | From off the streets of Cleveland comes fan-favorite writer Brian K. Vaughan ( Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways ) and critically acclaimed artists Philip Bond ( Vinarama, Vertigo Pop ) and Eduardo Barreto ( Mr. Machine Gunl ) to kick off the anthology's first multi-part story! Meet Maxwell Roth and Case Weaver, latter-day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they set out to make the Master of Elusion a sensation once again in "The Escapists”! Next, on his way home from an extended stay at a Cleveland hospital, our man Harvey Pekar encounters…The Escapist?! The team-up you thought you'd never see, illustrated by Dean Haspiel ( The Quitter ). Also in this issue, award-winning creator Andi Watson ( Skeleton Key, Geisha ) and Eisner Award nominated Jeff Parker ( The Interman )! With cover art by Brian Bolland, you won't want to miss this eclectic eighth installment of the multiple award-winning quarterly anthology! Harvey Award and Eisner Award-winner, Best Anthology! Harvey... |
Perhapanauts #1 (of 4)
 | There are places in this world where the fabric of reality has worn thin, where creatures from other realms and bizarre beings from other dimensions slip through, horrible in their difference striking terror into the hearts of those unfortunate few who glimpse them and threatening to drive them mad! There is an organization hidden from this world which has taken upon itself the responsibility to confront these creatures, one whose agents are adept at turning them back from whence they came and repairing the rips and tears in our reality. The organization is called BEDLAM. The agents are called...The PERHAPANAUTS. It's Bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, faeries, and chupacabras ... and they're on OUR side! Todd Dezago ( Sensational Spider-Man , Impulse , Tellos ) and Craig Rousseau ( Impulse , Batman Beyond , Ruule: Kiss and Tell ) sat around for a LONG time thinkin' this crazy stuff up, so you oughta buy it ... okay? Okay. |
Aeon Flux #4 (of 4)
 | The best-laid plans are those that change. The Monican Rebellion's scheme to sabotage the Bregnan government's defoliant cannons must adjust to a shortened timetable, and flat-out destruction seems their quickest and best alternative. But Aeon has other priorities as well, namely finding her mysterious young trainee, Sithandra, and settling matters properly! No one abhors manipulation more than Aeon, and this is a lesson anyone who confronts her will remember for the rest of their short lives... |
Kwaidan TPB
 | In 12th Century Japan, Lady Orin pines for her warrior lover, Nanko, who has been away in battle. Jealous of her beautiful sister, Lady Akane savagely mutilates Orin's face, beginning a spiral of despair that ends in the suicides of both lovers at Lake Amada. The evil Akane, as fickle fate would have it, becomes the mystical caretaker of the lake, now brimming with a strange power. Thus begins a complicated web of revenge and redemption that spans two centuries. Jung's lush, expressive artwork, action-filled sequences, and expert sense of timing brings to life this suspense-filled tale, packed with ghostly encounters, samurai swordplay, undead armies, beautiful landscapes, and strange demons. The lost spirits of these two unlucky lovers may still find freedom, but their hope now rests on the supernatural birth of a granddaughter...and her ability to unravel the secrets of the restless ghosts that haunt her, the Kwaïdan. |
Kickback HC
 | Joe Canelli is a crooked cop working in a corrupt police force. Joe is haunted by nightmares of powerlessness. When his partner is brutally murdered and he's betrayed by his colleagues, it appears that Joe's nightmares are coming true. With his back against the wall there's only one thing he can do--turn against the criminal network that he once embraced. Kickback is a fast-paced, action-filled, noir-style, 96 page crime thriller from the co-creator of V for Vendetta , David Lloyd. |
Fused: Think Like a Machine #3
 | A scientifically enhanced caveman is on the loose and wreaking havoc at Garner Air Force Base, former home of scientist-turned-Cy-Bot Mark Haggerty? One thing's for sure--Cro-Mag needs to be stopped. And until that happens, Cy-Bot's trying not to think about everything he's got in common with the rampaging caveman--beginning with the fact that they were both made in nefarious government experiments on the very base Cy-Bot's been called to defend... |
Essential Incredible Hulk TPB Vol. 1 (New Printing)
 | Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, victim of gamma radiation gone wild Dr. Robert Bruce Banner now finds himself transformed during the times of stress into the dark personification of his repressed rage and fury: the Incredible Hulk, the most powerful man-like creature ever to walk the face of the earth! Relive his earliest adventures here! This collection contains over 30 issues of continuity, Incredible Hulk #1-6 and selections from Tales to Astonish #60-91! Black and white. |
Steve Rude's The Moth Double-Sized Special
 | Ten time comic industry award winner Steve Rude ( Nexus, Thor, Captain America ), and writer/inker Gary Martin ( The Art Of Comic Book Inking ), deliver an action packed adventure that reminds us of what comics are all about! In The Moth , Dark Horse has allowed Steve Rude unrestricted creative freedom. And Rude has responded with some of the best work of his career! In this issue The Moth , who is living with a touring circus troop, finds himself in a battle for his very life, against a savage creature known as the Lionman of Botswana. If you're looking for outlaw bikers, circus clowns, African witch doctors, blood-thirsty monsters, and bearded ladies, then this story is for you! |