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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008

ANTARCTIC PRESS FOR FEBRUARY

FIRE & BRIMSTONE #5

By Richard Moore.

Final Issue! Fire and Brim' are feeling the heat at their favorite watering hole: The Forge, the afterlife's deadliest assassin-for-hire, has tracked them down! Will the incompatible immortals survive an encounter with a being whose weapons have killed gods, or will their 5,000 years of punishment all be for nothing, leaving the rest of Hell's escapees to roam free?

32 pages, $3.95.

GOLD DIGGER #104

By Fred Perry.

The new-reader-friendly direction of Gold Digger continues! Gina's excavation of Tua'la reveals the core of the buried city; a mysterious facility constructed before the appearance of Earth's first civilization of evolved dinosaurs! But the phantom guardians of water, air and earth defending their sacred temple aren't going to allow trespassers without a challenge! Gina and Britanny, along with Gina's advanced class, have no trouble fighting the three spectral knights, until the phantoms summon specialized magically-powered armor from "Strato-Vault", an ancient satellite orbiting the Earth since the Age of Wonders!

32 pages, $2.99.

GOLD DIGGER: MAIDENS OF TWILIGHT #2

By Fred Perry, Robby Bevard and J.L. Anderson.

Shape-shifting Rakshasa, Genn, and former assassin Suzume, have been captured by bounty-hunting Grim Reapers. When one of their captors gets drunk while guarding them, it seems like an ideal opportunity to escape... except he's a full-blown master of the unstoppable Drunken Fist style! Meanwhile, spirit-seer Seance and spirit-slayer Dawn totally fail to get along and argue endlessly while trying to rescue their captured friends, only to be attacked by a horde of perverted, rhyming undead!

32 pages, $3.50.

GOLD DIGGER TECH MANUAL #2

By Fred Perry and Doug Dlin.

For more than 15 years, Fred Perry's Gold Digger has brought readers a wealth of stories and memorable characters. It's also been packed full of some of the weirdest, wildest, and most wonderful technology ever to leap off a drawing board! Now, in the Gold Digger Sourcebook tradition, we reveal the secrets and details of the fantastic array of gadgets, weaponry, vehicles, robots, and more; from cutting-edge discoveries to technology predating the entire universe... all told from the perspective of Gold Digger's foremost technology expert, Gina Diggers herself! From Beta-Tech's Phantom Rings to Hurt-bots and Peebos, from Ace's many aircraft and the ships of the Dynasty, to Gina's Gina-mobiles and the Laz-E-Boy of Doom! Join the machine revolution today!

32 pages, $3.95.

AP HOW TO DRAW PIRATES VOLUME 2 SUPERSIZE TP

By Robert Acosta, Ben Dunn, Rod Espinosa, Fred Perry and others.

Heave to, ye land-lubbin' pen-pushers! We be weighin' anchor for the next chapter in Antarctic Press' how-to series! The first volume of How to Draw Pirates sailed off shelves, so we're giving all you eager artists even more written treasure to plunder! Learn the ropes for drawing rigging, the finer points of costuming, the lay of the land for explorations, and more!

192 pages, black and white, $19.95.

LAND OF OZ MANGA: RETURN TO EMERALD CITY #4

By David Hutchison.

Final Issue! Dragon Arms and Junction 17 creator David Hutchison follows up Oz: The Manga, his acclaimed adaptation of L. Frank Baum's timeless classic, The Wizard of Oz, with a spectacular re-imagining of the next chapter in the Oz saga! It's an all-out battle for the future of the land of Oz, as Glinda and Mombi match magic and cunning to decide who the true ruler of Oz really is! Secrets, lies, and the heir to the throne are revealed in this final issue full of intrigue and mystical warfare!

32 pages, black and white, $2.99.

NINJA HIGH SCHOOL #169

By Robby Bevard and Ben Dunn.

The Rivalsans, the richest and most elite ninja family in the world, also tend to have the most elaborate family squabbles! Three years ago, Tetsuo Rivalsan capped off a long-running feud with his hated half-sister, Yumei, with an elaborate, humilating scheme that forced her to marry a robot! Now, he himself has found love and decided to marry, but due to legal problems he himself created and matters of honor, he can't gain his family's permission! In order to marry the woman he loves he must either abandon his respected family name (and all of the luxuries and riches that go with it) or... apologize to his sister.

32 pages, black and white, $2.99.

PIRATES VS NINJAS: IT TAKES A PILLAGE POCKET MANGA TP

By Fred Perry, Joseph Wight and David Hutchison.

Shiver me shuriken! The eternal struggle for real, ultimate power resurges in a cutlass- and katana-filled compilation of action, thrills and laughs! Waif princess Drusilla is sought by two bands of ungrateful dead, each of the leaders vying to wed her to provide his side dominance over the dead sea! Can one dashing British sailor save this lovely lass from ghost pirates and ghost ninjas?! Find out, then travel back 300 million years to the Age of Atlantis, where civil war is brewing. Both sides have sought out the best mercenaries the world has to offer: Pirates and Ninjas! But when the rebel leader completes his monstrous gold-maker to ruin Atlantis's economy, will it mean victory for him, or global harming for all? Either way, it means big laughs for you! Back in the present, when Nature's arch-rivals have become more directly politically aware, the Ninjas and Pirates wield campaign speeches for weapons and reap treasures of voters -- if they can keep from slinging deadlier things than mud at one another -- in the Debate in '08! Last but not least, see what delightful chaos ensues when Antarctic Press brings artists from all over into the endless Pirate/Ninja fray with the very first Pirates vs. Ninjas Annual! Collects: Ghost Pirates vs. Ghost Ninjas #1, Pirates vs. Ninjas: Global Harming #1, Pirates vs. Ninjas: Debate in '08 #1, Pirates vs. Ninjas Annual #1.

100 pages, black and white, $14.95.



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