THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012
DARK HORSE COMICS FIRST LOOKS
FIRST LOOK: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 9 #12
Written by: Andrew Chambliss.
Art by: Georges Jeanty.
Covers by: Georges Jeanty, Phil Noto.
Description: By working for Deepscan -- the company that recruits Slayers as bodyguards -- Buffy thought she would disengage herself from the world of demons and garner a more significant income, to boot. While the income may get her closer to paying off pesky student loans, the demony population is closer to her than ever, thanks to her first client. Buffy, under the tutelage of a disgruntled and heartbroken Kennedy, has her work cut out for her and is forced to call on the honorable Eldre Koh for help, culminating in a little demon-on-demon violence.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: CONAN THE BARBARIAN #7
Written by: Brian Wood.
Art by: Becky Cloonan.
Cover by: Massimo Carnevale.
Description: Artist Becky Cloonan rejoins Brian Wood for a new story arc! Hearing of an impostor committing atrocities in his name, Conan returns to Cimmeria to confront the scoundrel. In the frozen North of Conan's birth, it is now Bêlit who is out of her element!
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: THE CREEP #0
Written by: John Arcudi.
Art by: Jonathan Case.
Cover by: Frank Miller.
Description: A young boy puts a gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The police don't care. Not about his death or the death of his best friend two months earlier. The dead boy's mom seeks help from an old flame that's employed as a detective. What she doesn't know is that he suffers from acromegaly—a physical deformity resulting in brutish facial features at mid-life. Will his freakish appearance get in the way of solving the case?
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: THE MASSIVE #3
Written by: Brian Wood.
Art by: Kristian Donaldson.
Covers by: J.P. Leon, Rafael Grampa.
Description: In a remote village in the Aleutian Islands, the crew of the Kapital, on the run from Siberian pirates, reconsiders their core mission as pacifists and conservationists. In this unpredictable and often violent world, should they be more? Narratives and story lines converge as the past catches up with the present, and in quiet, unassuming Unalaska, USA, a new mission is forged.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: STAR WARS: KNIGHT ERRANT -- ESCAPE #3
Written by: John Jackson Miller.
Art by: Marco Castiello.
Cover by: Benjamin Carre.
Description: The location of a powerful Sith relic is closer to being uncovered, and so is the fate of Jedi Kerra Holt's lost family! Kerra's knowledge has gotten a Sith reconnaissance team closer to the relic than would have been possible without her -- but will her desire to find what happened to her family also bring more destruction to Sith territories? How long can she stay undercover and keep one step ahead of the team and their merciless leader?
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH #1
Written by: John Jackson Miller.
Art by: Andrea Mutti.
Cover by: Paul Renaud.
On a planet ruled by a tribe of Sith -- marooned thousands of years ago and cut off from the galaxy -- the throne holder is about to be challenged by a power-hungry Sith rebel from the slums . . . and a thwarted royal Sith princess! Their few shared interests set them on a quest together -- but most certainly not as partners!
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: August 8.
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FIRST LOOK: THE STRAIN #7
Written by: David Lapham.
Art by: Mike Huddleston.
Cover by: E.M. Gist.
Description:
What might swarms of sewer rats and a New York City pest-control specialist tell Dr. Ephraim Goodweather about the growing vampire population? Evidence gathered from beneath the city may hold the key to defeating the plague now besetting Manhattan.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: August 8.
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