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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2006DC COMICS FIRST LOOKSFIRST LOOK: THE OTHER SIDE #1The Other Side #1 will arrive in stores on Oct. 4 from DC Comics. The issue is written by Jason Aaron, with art and cover by Cameron Stewart.
Here's how DC describes the issue:
"1968. The height of the Vietnam War. Two young men from opposite ends of the earth must drag themselves through Hell for the opportunity to kill one another.
"The Other Side is a 5-issue miniseries following Bill Everette, a 19-year-old Alabama farm boy drafted into the Marine Corps whose only goal is to come home alive, and Vo Binh Dai, a 19-year-old Vietnamese farm boy who enlists in the People's Army of Vietnam, terrified only of failing in his duty to die bravely for his country.
Along the way, Private Everette encounters demonically vicious Parris Island drill instructors, talking maggots, voiceless ghosts, jaded grunts, man-eating pigs, maniacal rats, leeches that quote William Blake, a rifle that begs him to shoot himself and occasionally even the enemy. Vo Dai must undertake the long march south down the Strategic Trail, through black forests and bloody swamps, over pockmarked earth and fields of fire, past tigers and dragons and mounds of the dead, past exhaustion, beyond endurance. At turns, wholly fantastic yet always heartbreakingly realistic.
"The Other Side is an epic tragedy about America's most haunting war. A surreal exploration of the Vietnam war from opposing viewpoints. A horror story about the horrors of war."
The Other Side #1 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.99.
FIRST LOOK: BATMAN/THE SPIRITBatman/The Spirit will arrive in stores on Nov. 29 from DC Comics. The issue is written by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke, with art by Cooke and J. Bone.
Here's how DC describes the book:
"Will Eisner's legendary hero The Spirit returns for a monumental meeting with the Dark Knight in this special one-shot event.
"When the American Criminologist Association holds its annual convention, its members are unaware that America's criminals are holding a gathering of their own. And when Batman's rogue gallery joins forces with the Spirit's colorful criminals, things can only get worse!
"With dozens of villains on the loose and the nation's security at stake, two very different crimefighters must come together to save the day. Guest-starring just about everyone from the supporting casts of both comic-book icons, including Robin, Catwoman, the Joker, Ebony, P'Gell, Commissioner Dolan and more."
Batman/The Spirit will be 48 pages and will cost $4.99.
FIRST LOOK: GUY GARDNER: COLLATERAL DAMAGE #1Guy Gardner: Collateral Damage #1 will arrive in stores on Nov. 29 from DC Comics. The issue is written by Howard Chaykin, with art and cover by Chaykin.
Here's how DC describes the issue:
"On the fringes of the Rann-Thanagar War, G'Nort of the Green Lantern Corps must find an arbiter to broker a peace deal! What neutral part does he find? None other than Guy Gardner! WaitŠGuy? Peace? Neutral?"
Guy Gardner: Collateral Damage #1 will be 48 pages and will cost $5.99.
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