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Sin City: Hell and Back #9 (of 9)
 | In this issue, everybody dies. Well, almost everybody. Special double-size climactic issue! Cover colors by Lynn Varley, voted Colorist of the Century in Comics Buyer's Guide |
BMW Films': The Hire #3 Hijacked
 | The Driver's passenger is a nobody, lower echelon bureaucrat. There's no reason anyone would want to kidnap the guy. So why are he and the Driver being pursued by thugs in semi-trucks and helicopters? And what to the Feds know about the situation that the Driver doesn't? In the midst of a high-speed cross-country - and across rooftops! - chase, the Driver must figure out who or what the bad guys are after if he and his passenger are to survive! Buckle-up and put the pedal down for another white-knuckle adventure with the smoothest, coolest character to ever slide behind the wheel! |
BMW Films': The Hire #1 Scandal
 | Author Raymond Chandler wrote, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Chandler was talking about his own character, Philip Marlowe, but he could just as easily been referring to the Hire, the star of BMW Films' series of short films. Now Dark Horse and BMW Films are bringing The Hire -- the enigmatic hero capable of doing the hard thing for the right reasons -- to the comics page. Just as each of the films is directed by a different top director, each issue of The Hire will be a stand-alone story by a different top creator or creator team. First up: Matt Wagner, the creator of Grendel and Mage . When the Hire is asked to sneak a rich man's spoiled, scandalous daughter out of town, he thinks the worst he'll have to deal with are persistent paparazzi. Then the bullets start to fly... This summer, there’s a new kind of hero at the wheel. Buckle up! |
Blue Lily #1
 | What do you get when you cross a hardboiled private investigator with a sentient robot? None other than Rusty Spade, metaphysical metal detective! What starts out as a simple missing-persons case soon leads Rusty down a dizzying path of intrigue, high finance, and corporate crime, all set against a futuristic backdrop in which entire star systems are bought and sold on Wall Street. |
Blue Lily #2
 | Join Rusty Spade, metaphysical metal detective, as he confronts the woman who launched a thousand shady deals -- the Blue Lily herself! As Rusty gets dragged deeper and deeper into the dangerous world of interstellar finance, events around him grow ever stranger. His office has been invaded by a giant, his client is out to kill him, his best friend has been blown sky-high by forces unknown, and the only man who can help is confined to a mental hospital! But then, in an insane world, what better place to seek answers than an insane asylum?! |
Red Warrior TPB Vol. 1: Assassin For Thieves World
 | Agent Tolik Kalinichenko convinces Elena - a Russian Mafia leader's daughter - to seduce an old flame that may be connected to a secret combat system called 'Bespredel' (Russian for 'without limits'). Elena risks her life for her country, Mother Russia, the world, but most of all, for Tolik. In a race against the clock, Tolik must destroy Bespredel's Red Warriors in time to save Elena, who has been discovered as an informant. But when war has no limits, where can love hide? |
Revelations #5 (of 6)
 | Someone wants Detective Charlie Northern dead. Brought to the Vatican to investigate the strange death of the Pope's most likely successor, Northern has uncovered too much, and now, someone close to him has been murdered. Dark and powerful forces are at work, but Northern doesn't care anymore. He knows he's dangerously close to the truth, and nothing short of Hell itself is going to stop him from finding out who or what is out to destroy his life. Humberto Ramos' always fantastic artwork takes an amazing turn with this complex and shocking murder mystery. |
Guy Davis' Thugshot: No-Nose Dempsey
 | Michigan-based artist, Guy Davis has been working on comics since high school. His style is unique, gracing the covers and pages of Dark Horse titles such as B.P.R.D ., Grendel , and Aliens , among others. We love his morbidriffic illustrations, so much so, that when Guy presented us with the concept for Thugshots, we couldn't resist. Pick from four designs of these pint-sized old-world gangsters... Jimmy "the Pipe" No-Nose Dempsey Luckless Louie Jarcudi "the Shiv" Each shot glass has the thug of your choice on front and the "Guy Davis'Thugshots" logo on the back. WARNING: The materials used as colored decorations on the exterior of this product contain lead and/or cadmium, chemicals known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. |
Sin City Environment Magnet Set
 | Our new magnet set allows you to recreate your favorite scenes from the hit movie. Featuring eleven magnets including Marv, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard, the set also comes with a magnetic background of both the inside and outside of Kadie's bar-all the elements you need for creating new Sin City scenes of your own. Bring a piece of Club Pecos home! |
Revelations TPB
 | From Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos, the best-selling creative team behind Marvel's Spectacular Spider-Man , comes an occult murder mystery set in the unlikeliest of places-The Vatican. When the Cardinal next in line to succeed the ailing Pope turns up dead, Scotland Yard's finest detective, Charlie Northern, finds himself on a plane to Rome with little more than a full pack of cigarettes. With the help of a priest, a coroner, and one beautiful lawyer, Northern must uncover the facts in a place legendary for keeping its secrets. There are forces at work in The Holy See that would see the truth remain hidden-forces ancient and dark, with a power not seen in this world for millennia, and an agenda that will leave Northern's world more shattered than he could have ever foreseen. Collecting the six-issue miniseries. Don't miss out as one of the hottest creative teams in comics crafts a supernatural thriller in the tradition of The Exorcist and The Da Vinci Code ! |
Guy Davis' Thugshot: Jarcudi "the Shiv"
 | Michigan-based artist, Guy Davis has been working on comics since high school. His style is unique, gracing the covers and pages of Dark Horse titles such as B.P.R.D ., Grendel , and Aliens , among others. We love his morbidriffic illustrations, so much so, that when Guy presented us with the concept for Thugshots, we couldn't resist. Pick from four designs of these pint-sized old-world gangsters... Jimmy "the Pipe" No-Nose Dempsey Luckless Louie Jarcudi "the Shiv" Each shot glass has the thug of your choice on front and the "Guy Davis'Thugshots" logo on the back. WARNING: The materials used as colored decorations on the exterior of this product contain lead and/or cadmium, chemicals known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. |
Revelations #6 (of 6)
 | Detective Charlie Northern's investigation into the suspicious death of the Pope's successor comes to its shocking conclusion, rocking Northern's faith, and lack thereof, to its very core. The dark rituals of a blasphemous cult operating beneath the Vatican are brought into the light, and Cardinal Toscianni's role in these events, which have threatened the heart of the Church, proves to be anything but expected. Learn how and why one unexplained death set off a string of homicides leading straight to Northern in this surprising final installment to Jenkins and Ramos' superlative occult murder mystery. |
Sin City: Hell and Back TPB
 | In the Town Without Pity, good men are hard to find. Enter Wallace, a man of mystery. He's a nice guy who's very good at killing people. Out for an evening drive along the beach, he meets the woman of his dreams -- and she's trying to kill herself. Why? And who are the shadowy cabal of power brokers who wrench her from his arms? When will all hell break loose? Comics legend Frank Miller, creator of the groundbreaking Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, pounds out his longest Sin City graphic novel to date, a bare-knuckle barrage of brutal action, dark secrets, and heroic sacrifice. What the hell -- it's a love story! Includes color sections and pinups by a who's who of comics luminaries, including Lynn Varley's first actual comics illustration. |
Dare Detectives Volume 1: The Snowpea Plot TPB
 | The wild and wondrous vision of cartoonist extraordinaire Ben Caldwell (author of Action! Cartooning ), The Dare Detectives throws Disney-esque illustration into the pop-culture blender to create a screwball smoothie of epic proportions. Reformed crook Maria Dare has assembled a team of misfits to crack the world's weirdest cases! They have brains ... they have guts ... but they don't have a clue! And in their first adventure ... The Dare Detectives are finished! Rent's due and their license is suspended, but Dare's going-out-of-business festivities are interrupted by Madame Bleu-whose abominable snowmen pets are on a chef-stealing, radio-robbing, snowpea-swiping crime wave! Dare races against the clock to hunt down Madame Bleu with the help of corrupt cops and Chinatown's old crime boss ... but can these bunglers really prevent the most audacious-and inexplicably convoluted-crime of the century? |
Revelations #4 (of 6)
 | Things heat up for Detective Charlie Northern both on and off the case, as he grows close to unraveling the mysterious death of the man in line to be the next pope, and even closer to Vatican lawyer Lucille Pelliccia. A series of revelatory clues may seem like good fortune for Northern, but it only serves to increase the desperation of his shadowy suspects. They decide to send Northern a message-one that takes the stakes of his hunt to a deadly new level. |
Niagara "Baby Doll" Lunch Box
 | In the fall of 2005 La-La Land Gallery in Los Angeles held a custom lunch box exhibit featuring over 30 artists. Visitors to the gallery's website, lalalandgallery.com, voted on their favorite design from the exhibit. Dark Horse is proud to offer the top designs from the Hot Lunch exhibit as the newest additions to our current lunch box line. If only you had one of these lunch boxes when you were a kid! |
Grendel: The Devil Inside TPB
 | The spirit of Grendel seethes in the mind of everyone it encounters. A touch of death, of fear, of anger infects all, gripping at the soul, and wreaking havoc on the lives of those in its path. In this now-classic chapter of the Grendel saga, we return to Brian Li Sung, a once-successful Broadway stage manager who became Grendel after losing the love of his life--the granddaughter of the original Grendel, Hunter Rose. Now down and out, living in the slums of Brooklyn, Li Sung struggles as an off-off-off-Broadway stage manager by day; by night, he stews in the hatred and violence that is Grendel, and becomes a cold-blooded killer. When old friends can't help him, and the city can no longer cope with this scourge of destruction, it's up to one desperate cop to stop the murderous rampage, or die trying. Collecting the three-issue miniseries. * All-new cover painting by Grendel creator Matt Wagner. |
Escapists #1
 | From Pulitzer-winning author Michael Chabon! Wizard Top Ten and multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan ( Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways ) teams with critically acclaimed artists Philip Bond ( Vimanarama, Vertigo Pop, Tank Girl ) and Eduardo Barreto ( Batman, The Long Haul ) to deliver this knockout first issue! Discovering his late father's decades-spanning vault of Escapist memorabilia at the age of six, Max became a fan of the Master of Elusion almost overnight. After exhausting the extensive stash of Golden and Silver Age comics, he needed more-and started writing his own Escapist stories. Now nineteen, he's determined to make the character a sensation once again, but where is he going to find an artist-in Cleveland? Meet Maxwell Roth and Case Weaver, latter-day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, in part one of The Escapists ! With cover art by multi-platinum superstar Frank Miller kicking off a round robin of stellar cover artists including James Jean and John Cassaday, this... |
Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #5 (of 5)
 | The gals of Old Town have got the mob and the cops lookin' to control their streets, and no one's agreeable to a compromise. So Dwight's gonna fix the problem for his lady friends the only way he knows how: he's goin' on a big fat kill. Sure, violence doesn't solve anything, but sometimes it gives ya a quick fix. |
Escapists #4
 | Wizard Top Ten writer, Eisner Award winner, and all-around nice guy Brian K. Vaughan ( Y: The Last Man; Ex Machina; Runaways ) once again sets our acclaimed creative team on The Escapists ! In the comic-within-a-comic, Jason Alexander ( Damn Nation, The Secret ) brings Max and Case's gritty new vision of the Escapist to life as samurai-wielding female warriors take Luna Moth hostage. Silence may be golden, but why do these beautiful assassins have their mouths sewn shut?! And what isn't Luna Moth telling her would-be rescuer? Back in the real world, artist Steve Rolston ( Queen & Country, One Bad Day ) depicts the growing irritability between Max, Case, and Denny as our heroes go up against the worst villain of all time--a high-powered corporate lawyer! Brian K. Vaughan was a multiple Eisner Award winner for 2005, and has been nominated for five Eisner Awards in 2006! Inspired by The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Pulitzer-winning author Michael Chabon! |
Goon Volume 5: Wicked Inclinations TPB
 | The tide has turned in Goon's war against the undead hordes of the Zombie Priest--or has it? With Buzzard now preventing the harvest of any fresh corpses from the cemetery, the Priest grows desperate. So desperate, that he unleashes incantations of previously unseen power to create a whole new breed of minion--one that may be beyond even the strength of the Goon to contain. But one pays a price for conjuring such evil into the world, and the Zombie Priest quickly discovers that the cost of such power may be far more than he bargained for. 2005 Eisner Award winner (Best Humor Publication and Best Ongoing Series) |
Video Noire TPB
 | A seedy private eye is hideously murdered after taking tawdry, career-threatening photos of the beautiful host of a popular children's show. When the P.I.'s associate searches for the answers behind his friend's killing, he is drawn into a netherworld he never imagined existed and discovers truths he wishes he'd never found. Penned by CyberSix creator Carlos Trillo and illustrated by acclaimed 100 Bullets artist Eduardo Risso, Video Noire is a taut, hard-edged journey into violent passions, forbidden obsessions...and ancient evil. Video Noire is another exciting Venture graphic album, published in collaboration with Strip Art Features, and available for the first time in an English-language edition! |
Dare Detectives Volume 2: The Royale Treatment TPB
 | Luck's no lady for the Dare Detectives! They've tracked femme fatale criminal mastermind Madame Bleu and her snowpea-swiping gang of pandas and abominable snowmen to the ruins of the infamous Royale casino, but a traitor threatens to close the case on Dare- permanently! Will old friends and new enemies save the day? Can Toby go a whole issue without breaking something? And what's with the snowpeas??? Created by cartoonist extraordinaire Ben Caldwell, Dare Detectives is a runaway freight train of hyperkinetic action and laughs that will rattle your cage and shake your tree- if you dare! Ben Caldwell has created action figures based on characters from The Lord of the Rings , Spider-Man , and the X-Men movies. |
Revelations #2 (of 6)
 | Detective Charlie Northern delves deeper into the secret workings of the Vatican as he tries to unravel the strange death of a highly influential cardinal, only to discover that someone is trying to sabotage his investigation. Luckily, Northern finds an ace up his sleeve-lawyer and Vatican insider Lucille Pellicica who has taken an interest in him. Yet, in underground catacombs, ancient rituals are being acted out, hidden in the darkness from Northern's prying eyes. Don't miss as one of the most original mysteries in comics takes shape at the hands of fan-favorite creative team Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos! |
BMW Films': The Hire #4 Tycoon
 | Sam Wavish has everything: a magnificent yacht moored on the coast of Monaco, membership at an exclusive club in Paris, control of a company he has worked all his life to build ... and enemies. Now the only things between Sam and losing everything-including his life-are a fast car and a laconic Driver. They have a long road ahead of them, an unbreakable deadline to meet, and a small army of mercenaries who will risk anything to stop them. For Sam, it's the ride of his life. For the Driver, it's just another day on the job. |
Big Hoax GN
 | Denaldo Reynoso is a down-on-his-luck ex-cop, kicked to the curb for daring to do his job in the corrupt Banana Republic of La Colonia. Now, no good to himself or anyone else, he agrees to help a captivating woman known far and wide in La Colonia, a living myth of perfect virtue and reported healing powers, a facade that conceals a sordid web of deceit and depravity as ugly as the illusion is beautiful. But Reynoso's desperate grasp for redemption unleashes a plague of evils, none more lethal than the Iguana, an unstoppable assassin whose mission is to bury the truth...and anyone who threatens to reveal it! Written by CyberSix creator Carlos Trillo and illustrated by Roberto Mandrafina, The Big Hoax is another essential Venture graphic album, published in collaboration with Strip Art Features, and available for the first time in an English-language edition! |