SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2010
AVATAR PRESS FOR NOVEMBER
GRAVEL VOL 3 : THE LAST KING OF ENGLAND TPB
Written by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer, art and covers by Wolfer.
It's never a dull day, being the last king of Britain's magicians, and before this bloody day is through, Combat Magician William Gravel will be rocked to the foundations of his beliefs and powers of the occult. After his systematic and murderous elimination of the members of both the Minor Seven and the Major Seven, Gravel now stands supreme, but being the King is not as glamorous as it sounds. He's reformed the Minor Seven, filling their ranks with young, working-class occult detectives, but their powers and Gravel's own leadership skills are about to be put to the test when a twisted, demented magician who didn't make the cut decides to show Gravel the error of passing him up for selection. To complicate his life even further, the British Government is breathing heavily down Gravel's neck as the body count of innocent British citizens rises. But is Downing Street's concern solely for public safety related to Bible Jack's terrorist attacks on London, or is it something more politically-motivated? Collecting issues 15-21 of the Gravel series. Available as both a softcover and hardcover edition, limited to 1,500 copies.
176 pages, $19.99 (Hardcover, $27.99).
CROSSED: FAMILY VALUES #7
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Written by David Lapham, art by Javier Barreno, covers by Jacen Burrows and Paul Duffield.
The bodies pile up as the horror series! Adeline is trying to keep the last few members of her family alive as her Crossed Mother brings an entire army of Crossed to attack their last fortress, an old hospital. Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares... and then realize it could all be so much worse. 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.
32 pages, $3.99.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD #2
Written by Mike Wolfer, John Russo, art by Tomas Aira, covers by Paul Duffield, Matt Martin and Raulo Caceres.
As thousands of anti-war protesters converge on Washington D.C. in the Spring of 1968, the violence and turbulence of the time is about to explode into an unprecedented orgy of murder never before seen on American soil. Although the media conveniently explained the tales of the dead rising to kill the living as the work of militants and anti-Vietnam War radicals, something insidious is indeed lurking in the shadows of the Nation's capitol, and their grip on the country is about to make itself known. But with their troop numbers spread impossibly thin from both war-time service and riot control, the National Guard know that one misstep in dealing with the protesters could set off a fatal firestorm of violence during this most emotional time... And they will be woefully unprepared to defend the city from the flesh-hungry army of the undead about to descend upon them all.
32 pages, $3.99.
ALAN MOORE'S NEONOMICON #4
Written by Alan Moore, art and covers by Jacen Burrows.
The cataclysmic final issue of the horror series! Agent Brears has, quite literally, been to hell and back. Hell just happens to look like a network of tunnels beneath an esoteric little bookstore in Salem, Mass. But now that Brears has walked out of hell, she can see things that most people can't. Things that would drive most people mad. But as Neonomicon draws to a close, Brears has one more thing she wants to show you...
32 pages, $3.99.
WOLFSKIN: HUNDREDTH DREAM #6
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Written by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer, art by Gianluca Pagliarani, covers by Pagliarani, Juan Jose Ryp, Felipe Massafera.
Alone against an entire city of warriors, Wolfskin has become an unstoppable, murderous machine who fears no man and lives only to kill! With nothing left to lose and his comrades falling around him, the barbarian swordsman battles not only for freedom, but to vanquish the one foe he cannot cut in two: The insideous encroachment of industry! But can the unparalleled rage of one, lone hero possibly avert the death of magic and an apocalyptic cataclysm that would change the world forever? Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! This all-new, full-color six issue series is available with several historic covers.
32 pages, $3.99.
CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD: THE LAST BATTLE #5
Written by Garth Ennis, art and cover by Oscar Jimenez.
The recently-departed Pope Jacko is back in New York and turning it into a demonic infested Hell and he has finally crushed Danny's spirit and taken the life of one of his dearest friends!
32 pages, $3.99.
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