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Freaks of the Heartland #3
 | The parents begin killing their mutant horde, but when Will's father comes to kill him, monstrous violence and occult powers break out, and the true nature of the freaks of the heartland becomes an even deeper mystery. The writer of 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre joins forces with The Matrix comics artist Greg Ruth for a bizarre tour through the Bible belt. TheFourthRail.com says "The book has a creepy, forebodingtone and gorgeous artwork." |
Dark Horse License Plates: Hellboy
 | Ever wonder what happens to old TFAW.com staffers? They don’t fade away… they’ve just moved onto a new career: making license plates! Since we didn’t want the State of Oregon to have a monopoly on all their good work, we’ve “pressed them into service.” These new products are actual license plates. While it is entirely possible to place them on an automobile, we suspect most people will hang them on the wall like a tin sign. All license plates are approximately 12" x 6", embossed tin, and shrink-wrapped. |
Milkman Murders #4 (of 4)
 | The suburban nightmare hits the big city, as our little mother, possessed by a monstrous spirit of vengeance, seeks out the mysterious milkman. In the dangerous waters of the urban scene, Barbara gets more than she bargained for out of her change of scenery. The most shocking new entry in the Dark Horse horror line concludes in a bloodbath. Barbara's confrontation with her role model, the TV mom, packs even more surprises in the wrap up by Joe Casey ( Superman , X-Men , Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes ) and Steve Parkhouse ( The Bojeffries Saga , The Invisibles ). "Joe Casey and Steve Parkhouse bring us a truly disturbing and original piece of horror here-the horror of the modern family. Not for the faint of heart or those looking for spoon-fed niceties, The Milkman Murders is comics as you've rarely seen them before." -Ed Brubaker writer of Catwoman , Gotham Central , and Sleeper . FOR MATURE READERS. SERIOUSLY. |
B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #4 (of 6)
 | A tragedy greater than anything the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense has ever seen drives one agent to resign, and leaves the others shaken, haunted, and angry. Liz Sherman is increasingly plagued with terrible visions, while Abe Sapien leaps back into field service, but too late to stop the massive frog exodus. The frogs know the reign of man is drawing to a close. The Black Flame is calling a godlike monster to come and claim the earth, and he knows that nothing can stop him. |
13th Son: Worse Thing Waiting #2 (of 4)
 | More mind-bending monster mayhem erupts from Dark Horse's acclaimed horror line this month, as Kelley Jones unleashes the second jaw-dropping issue of his newest series, The 13th Son . A hunter stalks the earth at night, scouring its darkest, most haunted places and feeding on the monsters who dwell there. He might be seen as a savior to the humans he's wrestled from the mouths of werewolves and other evil beasts, but he's neither savior nor saint. In fact, humans are little more than fleshy props to him, and we will certainly have no place in the world when it becomes HIS. He is the 13th Son-a creature more terrifying and powerful than anything our world has known-and there is a deeper purpose to his monster extermination than anyone can fathom. What is this "Worse Thing Waiting"...? Keep reading to find out! |
Devil's Footprints #4 (of 4)
 | The series that jump-started Dark Horse's re-entry into the world of horror comics culminates with a shocking conclusion in June. Brandon, bloodied for his troubles but finally understanding the diabolical task before him, sets out for a showdown with the ancient demon who destroyed his father's life and now seeks to claim his entire family. Now an angry mob from town has shown up, believing they've caught Brandon in a Satanic ritual--but what they witness will leave them all wishing that a little run-of-the-mill devil worship was all they had to worry about. Hell comes to Earth for the entire town in a do-or-die brawl you won't believe! "Allie, Lee, Horton, and company are producing a sharp-looking new series that should be remembered for some time to come." --Greg McElhatton, icomics.com |
Hellboy: Weird Tales #3
 | Dark Horse continues its run of some of the wildest and most harrowing Hellboy stories ever told in this all-star tribute to comics' greatest demonic hero. Alex Maleev and Matt Hollingsworth (from Marvel Knight's monthly Daredevil ) tell the scariest devil-child story since Rosemary's Baby . Sara Ryan and Steve Lieber (Oni's Whiteout , Batman ) follow suit with a terrific tale of a family with the worst kind of unwanted guest. Featuring a pin-up from William Stout, the most star-studded series in comics spins out the most bizarre stories yet. |
B.P.R.D.: There's Something Under My Bed
 | Children have been disappearing from their bedrooms under circumstances so mysterious that local police call in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The kids find cold comfort from fishman Abe Sapien and the disembodied ghost of Johann Kraus -- but when the innocent fantasy world of monsters and magic they used to enjoy becomes engulfed in terror and nightmares, the bizarre strangers who show up to help don't seem quite so scary after all. Mike Mignola's B.P.R.D. goes into bizarre new territory with Joe Harris, screenwriter of Darkness Falls , and Adam Pollina, artist of DC's Big Daddy Danger . |
Crush #2
 | After fending off three attackers and accidentally trashing Carl's motorcycle, Liz Mason brainstorms with Carl and Jen about the scary metamorphosis she undergoes when transforming into the awesome, beastial Crush. The three friends conduct their own primitive experiment to determine what causes Liz to change, while Agent Bixby and Mr. Vesper gather their forces to track and hunt Liz down. They are more interested in controlling Liz's monstrous alter ego, Crush, than in the eighteen year old herself...or her eighteen-year-old problems. Written by Jason ( Star Wars Tales , The Creeper ) Hall and illustrated by powerhouse newcomer Sean Murphy. |
Crush #3
 | After barely escaping an encounter with Agent Bixby's werewolf assassins, Liz gets in a disastrous argument with her adopted parents that her alter-ego Crush finishes.in the monster's typically explosive fashion. Liz finds refuge with Carl and Jen, her only real confidants, who are dedicated to helping her solve the mystery of her brutal transformations and mysterious past. Life is definitely changing for Liz, with shadowy secret agents and her own classmates after her. Have you ever had nightmares about being naked in front of your class in high school? Well, this issue's cliffhanger ending is much worse, putting Liz in a situation that may be the final straw that breaks her crumbling reality into pieces. Written by Jason Hall ( Star Wars Tales, The Creeper ) and illustrated by powerhouse newcomer Sean Murphy. |
Devil's Footprints TPB
 | The youngest son of a deceased sorceror, desperate to protect his family from a mysterious curse, digs into his dead father's bag of tricks. But his desire to protect his loved ones leads him to mix deception with demon conjuration, isolating himself in a terrible world where his soul hangs in the balance. The townspeople always knew something was wrong with the Waite family, and their worst fears are proven true in the fiery climax when the devil returns to New England. "Devil's Footprints is a creepfest jam-packed with midnight graveyard raids and more spookiness than you can shake a pitchfork at!" -Jesse Thompson, Wizard Magazine "Relentlessly modern, but having one cloven hoof planted in a Lovecraftian past; an inventive fantasy on magic that is at the same time researched and authentic; with The Devil's Footprints , Scott Allie, Paul Lee, Brian Horton, and Dave Stewart present us with the real Witches of Eastwick in a stylish narrative that reimagines the occult/horror comic in a form... |
Drawing On Your Nightmares Halloween Special
 | The Dark Horse horror line offers up a special bag of tricks for autumn. Following up their smash-hit series Criminal Macabre, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith present Cal McDonald's latest case, in which the foul-mouthed private dick rubs elbows with undead gangsters in Las Vegas. The Goon creator Eric Powell introduces us to the even seedier side of life in his zombie-infested burg, featuring the Goon's eight-armed, hard-luck poker buddy Spider. Brett Matthews, who wrote the Angel comic with Joss Whedon and has written Spiderman/Daredevil and Spiderman/Wolverine for Marvel, and artist Sean Phillips (Sleeper), give us a twisted taste of the upcoming Tales of the Vampires, the new series of comics written by Joss Whedon and the writers from his TV show. No tricks -- this comic's ALL treats! |
Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #5 (of 5)
 | The mystery is solved, and the nefarious enemy has been identified, but still monsters are running rampant on the streets of Los Angeles. Now Cal McDonald has to find a way to stop them--but when you're a guy like Cal, what do you do when everything you have ever believed has been turned inside-out, upside-down, and sideways? First you assemble your only friends, who just happen to be ghouls...then you pack a lot of guns, buckets of holy water, and a prayer or two for good measure. It's Cal versus the monsters in an urban ghoul throwdown like you've never seen before--and it's going to get messy! |
Freaks of the Heartland #1
 | Steve Niles, creator of Cal McDonald and 30 Days of Night , one of the fastest rising stars in comics today, teams with Greg Ruth, who rose to notoriety with his Matrix comics, for a bizarre tale of horror unlike anything you've seen before. Trevor Owen has a younger brother who lives in the barn behind the house, too monstrous to be let into the house. The boy's only six years old, but he towers over his older brother, and possesses monstrous strength. For years, Trevor has looked after his baby brother, keeping him from the light, but now that's all about to change. His family's profane secret is about to be revealed, uncovering the horrible truth of the small midwestern town the boys have grown up in. Prepare to have your expectations about horror comics changed, with this bizarre tale from the writer of the best-selling horror comics in years. |
Dead Memory HC
 | A haunting and powerful look at modern society and our reliance on structures--both physical and suggested -- Dead Memory represents some of the best published work of one of France's most highly acclaimed graphic novelists, Marc-Antoine Mathieu. Beautifully illustrated in high-contrast black-and-white, and published in an oversize, hardcover format, Dead Memory is both an allegorical study of a Kafka-esque society under the control of real-time information and a thoughtful treatise on cities, walls, languages, and other elements that both define and confine humanity. * Dead Memory marks the first English-language publication of the work of this multi-award-winning French cartoonist. |
Art of Hellboy TPB
 | The Art of Hellboy achieved unprecedented success in hardcover--now the book is available in affordable paperback, just in time for the Hellboy movie, coming in April. The first printing of the hardcover sold out almost overnight. Don't miss out on this one. This stunning two-hundred-page tome looks at the evolution of Mike Mignola's art over ten years on his award-winning comics series. Featuring previously unpublished art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, The Art of Hellboy provides the ultimate inside look at Mignola's design, storytelling, and color work, and rare and never-before-seen art reveals the labor involved in creating one of comics' most acclaimed books. "A must-have for Mignola, Hellboy or art fans!" --Wizard Magazine "A perfect teaser for when Hellboy breaks loose at the multiplex next year." --Wired Magazine. |
Hellboy: The Art of the Movie TPB
 | Since its debut in 1994, Mike Mignola's Hellboy has been one of the most celebrated comics on the shelves. Mignola has won every major industry award for his work, and attracted the attention of Hollywood for a series of jobs on high-profile films, including Disney's Atlantis and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Now the director he teamed with on Blade II, Guillermo del Toro, brings Mignola's creation to the big screen, and Dark Horse provides a unique look into this moment in comics-to-film history. This 200-page book features del Toro's complete screenplay, based on Mignola's Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, production art by Mignola, Wayne Barlowe (Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)), and Ty Ellingson (Jurassic Park, Star Wars: A New Hope, The Special Edition), as well as commentary by Mignola and excerpts from del Toro's on-set diary. |
Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #4 (of 5)
 | What does a reclusive, germ-a-phobe, monster obsessed, flea raising , dead man have to do with the entire planet becoming overrun by monsters? That's exactly what Cal McDonald would like to know as he ducks and weaves his way through a labyrinth of nut-cases and freaks trying to unravel the greatest threat to mankind since...the last time Cal was on the case! Now if he can just stay sober long enough to solve the mystery. |
Hellboy: Weird Tales #8
 | This award-winning lineup of creators present their takes on our favorite paranormal investigator's entanglements with a monstrous toy company, WWII fighter pilots, and a skeleton casting call. Featuring a pin-up by Gary Fields. On the heels of the Hellboy film premiere, Hellboy: Weird Tales #8 is the conclusion to the hugely successful series. |
Hellboy: Weird Tales #4
 | Another star-studded issue of stories which Entertainment Weekly called, "A must for fans of Mike Mignola's retro-cool creation." In Jason Pearson's twelve-page story of a blighted house, the flame-throwing Liz Sherman is forced to deal with her family, who she killed when she was a little girl. In more light-hearted fare, Arcudi and Langridge (who worked together on Legends of the Dark Knight: Auterism) deliver a bizarre take on Abe Sapien as Bureau second fiddle to the popstar Hellboy, while Tom Sniegoski (BPRD: Hollow Earth) and animator Ovi Nedelcu show The World's Most Amateur Paranormal Investigator, Hellboy, on his first fumbling mission. And Cassaday's Lobster Johnson strip gets more bizarre with each passing panel... |
Creepy #2 (of 4)
 | B&W, Peter David , Kurt Busiek, Colleen Doran , Tom Sutton , Dave Cockrum , Richard Howell , Carmine Infantino , Stan Shaw, Richard Howell, Dan Brereton |
Exquisite Corpse: Green
 | Jerry Prosser and the Pander Brothers (artists of Grendel and Ginger Fox ) dissect the life and death of a serial killer in Exquisite Corpse , a comic book first- a special three-issue miniseries which can be read in any order! The issues will be unnumbered, being distinguished by their cover designs. The order in which the issues are read will color the reader's perception of the story and its characters. |
Blackburne Covenant #2 (of 4)
 | What would you do if you woke up one morning and found out you might very well be the Second Coming... ? And an even more important question--what would other people do to prove that you're not? Author Richard Kaine is a newly minted Page 5 tabloid wonder boy--and he's got a murder rap to prove it! So while playing detective to clear his own name, Kaine also has to figure out who's shadowing him through the streets of New York--and why those streets have started to look very different to him. The conspiracy is perpetuated this May by Fabian Nicieza ( Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Thunderbolts ) and Italian artist Stefano Raffaele ( Fragile )! * You can also see Fabian Nicieza's work in the ongoing Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book series. |
Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1 (of 5)
 | Recently relocated to Los Angeles, investigator of the weird Cal McDonald finds himself in police custody, implicated in a case involving the elite of L.A. Hollywood types are rubbing elbows with vampires and werewolves, and things even weirder. With his zombie sidekick Mo'lock--who Cal shoots three times in the first issue--the most foul-mouthed and hard-living private occult detective takes on every freak L.A. has to offer. From the creators of 30 Days of Night , the smash hit that Wizard magazine called the #1 Breakout Event of 2002! |
Van Helsing (one-shot)
 | In a world where monsters inhabit man's deepest nightmares, evil has one name to fear: legendary monster hunter Van Helsing. Dark Horse Comics introduces a new horror comic book series inspired by Van Helsing , the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures. In this special debut issue we find Van Helsing in Paris investigating a series of brutal mutilations. He confronts a mad doctor whose bizarre experiments have created a horrifying creature dwelling in the shadows of the sewer system. Dark Horse brings together Joshua Dysart, co-creator of the cult-hit Violent Messiahs and writer of DC's new series The Demon: Driven Out , and artist J. Alexander, creator of Sirius's Empty Zone series and recent contributor to Tales of the Vampires . No strangers to monster comics, Dysart and Alexander dig deeper into the mysterious world of the legendary character Van Helsing. |
Sudden Gravity TPB
 | Built on a site of great and forgotten power, the mammoth Bentham International Hospital was to be the very definition of modern medical science at its best. But over the years, the spectres and dark secrets of the Hospital began to bore away at its heart, leaving its foundations cracked and vulnerable to the oldest of horrors and nightmares. When a prominent Commissioner of the City's Housing and Urban Development Department is brought in for evaluation after murdering her family, the haunted secrets of the hospital begin to unravel, leaving no one untouched. Julius, the prosthetic boy in room 13 is waking up. The black eggs are found. The lines between the patients and the doctors is blurring. This is where the end begins. Every cure is paid with a curse and every sin is birthed anew as the once brilliant light of modern medicine forsakes the world for the shadows it can no longer hide. Greg Ruth is the acclaimed artist on Freaks of the Heartland and several issues of Dark Horse's Conan series. |