AVATAR PRESS FOR SEPTEMBER

Following are Top Cow Productions' solicitations for September, with information coming from the publisher:

STARGATE SG-1: FALL FOR ROME #2

Written by James Anthony, art by Jorge Correa, covers by Renato Guedes and Correa.

SG1 comes face to face with the banished System Lord Mars and discovers an incredible buried secret. Lost for over 2000 years without a suitable host, the Goa'uld exiles created an entire race of cybernetic creatures to do their bidding. Now this scorned god plans to lead an army of robotic Centurions through the rediscovered Stargate and lay ruin to Rome and beyond. Can Daniel find a way to free Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter before they become the unwilling human hosts of this insane deity? All the action of the smash Sci-Fi Channel hit show is here! Available in regular, wrap, and photo cover editions.

32 pages, $3.99.

ROBOCOP: KILLING MACHINE SPECIAL #1 BACK IN ACTION

Written by Steven Grant, art by Anderon Ricardo, cover by Juan Jose Ryp.

This new cover by baroque genius Juan Jose Ryp is available here for the first time. A bored rich kid gets his kicks hacking into what's left of the Detroit grid, triggering random power failures and screwing up transit, causing various tensions that Murphy and Lewis have to cope with to maintain public order. Thwarted by Robocop, the hacker tries to hack into Robocop's systems, but finds something else instead in the depths of OCP's computer system, still online in the wake of the company's collapse. It's the next step up from Robocop: a prototype robo-soldier, literally a killing machine, that never received a human brain. Limited to 1500 copies

16 pages, $5.9..

WARREN ELLIS' APPART PREVIEW

Written by Warren Ellis, art by Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, Laurenn McCubbin and Carla Speed McNeil, cover by Burrows and Ryp.

Get a sneak peek at what is sure to be one of the most talked about events of winter 2004, Warren Ellis' new line of one shot books, Apparat! All the issues feature new characters and stories written by Ellis and featuring top indy artists Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, Laurenn McCubbin, and Carla Speed McNeil. This special preview book features pages from each of the first four titles as well as all-new essays from Ellis about each one!

16 pages, black and white, $1.99.

BRIAN PULIDO'S BELLADONNA #1

Written by Brian Pulido, art by Clint Hilinski, covers by Hilinski and Ron Adrian.

This is it, the first new full color book from Brian Pulido's line of titles at Avatar. Wexford Ireland, 950 AD. Colleen MacGrath's wedding to Donovan was to unite two powerful Irish families in bliss. Instead, all their hopes and dreams were laid to waste by marauding Vikings. Now a year later, on Samhain, Morrigan the Celtic goddess forces Colleen to rise and claim vengeance as Belladonna! Featuring Pulido's trademarked powerful female lead in a tale of vengeance, and with stellar art by Clint Hilinski and stunning colors by Nimbus Studios, Belladonna will appeal to the legions of fans of Lady Death.

32 pages, $3.99 (premium edition, $9.99).

BRIAN PULIDO'S UNHOLY PREVIEW

Written by Brian Pulido, art by Di Amorium.

Set in the crummy under-crust of modern day Detroit, Unholy is the story of Penny, a stoner, rebel, teen who is a nonbeliever in God. After a fatal accident, she's drafted by God to be His assassin, a God she doesn't even believe in. As a fallen angel, she is caught in a shadow war waged on city streets, in plain clothes, between Heaven and Hell. With her new found allies, a dominatrix, an ex-mob hit man and an alcoholic priest, she is dumped into the front lines of the war for salvation. But can she even survive her first twenty fours hours as a newborn fallen? Get an inside look in this preview book featuring material not seen in the Pulido FCBD book including scripted pages, character designs, a cover gallery, an introduction by creator Brian Pulido, and more!

16 pages, black and white, $1.99 (wraparound, $2.99; Angelic, $2.99)

BRIAN PULIDO'S GYPSY PREVIEW

Written by Brian Pulido, art by Paulo Sequeira, cover by Sequeria.

Sisters Antoinette and Liza are gypsy thieves in England 1879 who love to trick the townspeople out of their money and their belongings. But when a great were-beast terrorizes the town, their world is turned upside down. First the Mayor blames the gypsies, convinced they harbor the beast, then Antoinette is attacked herself by the monster. When the full moon rises, what will she become? Get an inside look in this preview book featuring material not seen in the Pulido FCBD book, including scripted pages, character designs, a cover gallery, an introduction by creator Brian Pulido and more.

16 pages, black and white, $1.99 (Sleeping Beauty Edition, $2.99; Sultry Edition, 2.99).

BRIAN PULIDO'S KILLER GNOMES #1

Written by Brian Puldio, art and cover by Eddy Barrows.

The newest tale of terror and carnage from the creator of Evil Ernie! Life was going along pretty good for Brad and his wife until the day Brad went to the newly opened nursery on the edge of town. While there, he bought a smiling garden gnome that Brad hoped would protect their garden. But Brad didn't know the nursery hid a deadly secret that would cost hundreds of people their lives. What started out as an innocent gift turns into a terrifying, relentless nightmare as the Killer Gnomes take protecting gardens to a deadly extreme! A story of pure, undiluted horror. Not for the squeamish.

32 pages, black and white, $2.99 (wraparound, $3.50).

YUGGOTH CREATURES #3

Written by Antony Johnston, art by Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Mike Wolfer, Sebastian Fiumara, cover by Ryp.

First there was Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures, now Antony Johnston carries on the Lovecraftian spirit with Yuggoth Creatures! This is the final incredible volume of Anders Ericsson's memoirs! Join the Professor as he chronicles his last adventures through the Lovecraft Mythos, takes matters into his own hands and searches for the key that could save the world. From the wilds of Canada to the deserts of Egypt, nowhere is safe from Cthulhu and the Old Ones... The Professor is running out of time and so is mankind! Six allnew Lovecraft Mythos stories from the pen of Antony Johnston are illustrated by an awesome collection of today's hottest artists, including Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Mike Wolfer, Sebastian Fiumara and more.

40 pages, black and white, $3.99.

WARREN ELLIS' STRANGE KILLINGS: NECROMANCER #6

Written by Warren Ellis, art and cover by Mike Wolfer.

The action heats up in the final issue of Ellis' and Wolfer's latest brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel! His mission was to kill one American reporter on a secluded Philippine island. Now Sergeant Major William Gravel will learn the true motive behind his assignment and uncover a more far-reaching conspiracy. Intent on capturing a renegade British biochemist with a very deadly secret, an S.A.S. battalion swarms Paranga Island. Only two things could complicate the mission: A ravenous army of the living dead and Gravel himself! The final, bloody battle for survival begins now, but if the Combat Magician loses, will there ever be an end to the spreading horror of the undead?

32 pages, black and white, $3.50.

JOE R. LANSDALE'S BIZARRE HANDS #5

Written by Joe R Lansdale, art by Andres Guinaldo, cover by Jacen Burrows.

One the most popular horror novel writers, Joe R. Lansdale, is unleashed in this all-new series that adapts some of his favorite short stories, all chosen by Lansdale himself, into comic form for the first time. This issue sees the red hot artist from The Drive-In, Andres Guinaldo, bring the tale "Night The Missed the Horror Show" to sequential life! Two red neck hicks get in way over their heads with some mafiosos who don't take kindly to folks like them. It's Lansdale, so you know people die in really bad ways.

32 pages, black and white, $3.50.