WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
AVATAR PRESS FOR MAY
FREAKANGELS VOLUME 2
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Written by Warren Ellis, art by Paul Dufield.
Volume Two of Ellis' ongoing web comic, Freakangels, is here! This installment collects the entire second arc of the post-apocalyptic saga into 144 full-color pages. Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years later, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds are living in and defending Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. They've made a new friend, and together they successfully defended their home from raiders -- but the post-apocalyptic drowned London that the eleven Freakangels survive in is never a safe place, and never surrounded by friends. Night has only just fallen, but strangers already creep through Whitechapel with the worst of intentions and the weapons to see them through. In Freakangels: Volume Two, discover just how bad the situation in sunken England has become, and meet the last of the 11 strange Freakangels. But the 12th, sinister Mark, is still out there somewhere. Ellis' ongoing story of a flooded London is beautifully illustrated in jaw-dropping detail by Paul Duffield, and every page is as much a work of art as it is a compelling and multi-layered story. This second collection is also available as a Hardcover edition with an all-new cover by series artist Duffield that is limited to just 2,000 copies, and a Dual Signed Hardcover edition, limited to only 1,000 copies, signed by both Ellis and Duffield!
Softcover, 144 pages, $19.99. Hardcover, 144 pages, $27.99 (signed, $39.99).
IGNITION CITY #2
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Written by Warren Ellis, art by Gianluca Pagliarani.
Where did the space heroes go to die? A major new series by Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics, a retro-punk "future of the past" where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City, Earth's last spaceport, to recover the effects of her dead father -- or so people think. Mary really wants to know how he died, and who did it. And if she finds that out, she's going to spoil the rackets of a great many people, and maybe uncover a deadly secret that's worth ray-gunning her down to protect! Ignition City is an on-going color epic told in five issue series featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics' Gianluca Pagliarani and launching with a Regular and Wraparound cover by Pagliarani, a painted cover by Felipe Massafera and a rare Design Sketch cover by Pagliarani!
32 pages, $3.99.
RAWBONE #3
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Written by Jamie Delano, art by Ryan Waterhouse, covers by Felipe Massafera and Mike Wolfer.
Jamie Delano cuts loose on a vicious pirate tale, delivering a bloody, terrifying vision of a world on the high-seas! La Sirena's pirate allies are against the wall as the full force of the British fleet is felt on their haven. It seems no force of man can possibly save them. But a supernatural pirate ship filled with ghosts of the dead might turn the tide.
32 pages, $3.99.
CROSSED #7
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Written by Garth Ennis, art and covers by Jacen Burrows.
Garth Ennis takes no prisoners and offers no hope in the most intense book of his career! This issue will shock you and haunt your every moment as Cindy's rag-tag group of survivors are put through the worst kind of torture you can imagine. Nothing is going right, but this is no fairy tale -- there are no magic cures on the horizon. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. This suffocating seventh issue is available with a Regular or Wraparound cover by Burrows as well as a rare Red Crossed Edition by Burrows.
32 pages, $3.99.
DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #16
Written by Warren Ellis, art by Ivan Rodriguez, covers by Rodriguez and Juan Jose Ryp.
The Armageddon end of Volume 2! Heavenside's embroiled in a drug war, disease rules the streets, buildings are on fire, all is chaos -- and Doktor Sleepless is about to come down from his mountain to survey his work and find it good. But so many people want him dead that he might not get more than a glance. It's a mad scientist versus all the people we've met in Volume 2, cops, drug dealers, journalists: who gets to live? This issue is available with a Regular cover by series artist Rodriguez, or Wraparound cover by Juan Jose Ryp, and also a Future Warning Sign cover.
32 pages, $3.99.
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