SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012
DARK HORSE COMICS FIRST LOOKS
FIRST LOOK: BALTIMORE: THE PLAY
Written by: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden.
Art by: Ben Stenbeck.
Cover by: Ben Stenbeck.
Description: A mad playwright puts on a Grand Guignol featuring actors that are real vampires. The evil financer of the play makes a bizarre discovery when he finds out that the playwright is a fraud and the true author is a disembodied head of a famous American author kept in a glass case.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: B.P.R.D.: 1948 #2
Written by: Mike Mignola, John Arcudi.
Art by: Max Fiumara.
Cover by: Dave Johnson.
Description: As the battle between the atomic-bred monsters and the B.P.R.D. rages in the Utah desert, Professor Bruttenholm and the agents successfully kill one of the beasts and conduct an autopsy with horrifying results.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SPIKE #4
Written by: Victor Gischler.
Art by: Paul Lee.
Cover by: Jenny Frison, Steve Morris.
Description: Spike departs from the ruins of Sunnydale -- and all those memories -- with a demon who wants desperately to return to her home dimension. But with the loss of magic, her connection is lost. Spike, ever the hero, offers to help this mysterious damsel in distress in her journey to find any remnants of magic that might reconnect her to her world.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: DARK HORSE PRESENTS #18
Written by: Carla Speed McNeil, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Phil Stanford, Peter Hogan, Joshua Williamson, Colin Lorimer, Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas.
Art by: Carla Speed McNeil, Colin Lorimer, Ulises Farinas, Richard Corben, Steve Lieber, tony Akins, Patric Reynolds, Steve Parkhouse, Victor Ibáñez.
Cover by: Steve Rude.
Description:
Captain Midnight strikes! The masked avenger flies into the twenty-first century courtesy of writer Joshua Williamson and artist Victor Ibáñez (Rat Catcher). The thrills begin again at the stroke of midnight!
Also, the critically acclaimed Alabaster by Caitlin R. Kiernan and Steve Lieber continues in the pages of DHP! A new creator-owned comic from Ulises Farinas! Post-apocalyptic Pokemon! Resident Alien returns to the pages of DHP!
Pages: 80.
Price: $7.99.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE CONQUEROR WORM
Written by: Richard Corben.
Art by: Richard Corben.
Cover by: Richard Corben.
Description: A horrifying adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic by comics legend, Richard Corben. A betrayed man hunts down his wife and her lover only to stumble upon a gruesome puppet show based on his life.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: THE GOON #43
Written by: Eric Powell.
Art by: Eric Powell, Mark Buckingham.
Cover by: Eric Powell.
Description: When Sproule's Biological Curiosities and Wild West Extravaganza pulls into town on Halloween, it's all tricks and little treats for Goon and company. The cast of Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities guest-star in this multigenerational mystery.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: NUMBER 13 #0
Written by: Robert Love, David Walker.
Art by: Robert Love.
Cover by: Robert Love.
Description: In a postapocalyptic wasteland populated by mutants and terrorized by flesh-eating ogres, a young amnesiac searches for the answers to the mystery of his identity. Wandering aimlessly, he comes to the rescue of Lorna, a young girl who gives him a name: Number 13. Facing danger at every turn, Number 13 fights to stay alive as his quest to find out who he is leads to the deadly truth of what he is.
Pages: 40.
Price: $3.99.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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FIRST LOOK: STAR WARS: AGENT OF THE EMPIRE -- HARD TARGETS #2
Written by: John Ostrander.
Art by: Davide Fabbri.
Cover by: Stephane Roux.
Description: Imperial Agent Jahan Cross doesn't like his assignment or the politicians he is forced to work with. Yet dealing with all of that is easier than coming to terms with his growing respect for a boy whose father he killed -- especially when that boy is supposed to be merely a political pawn of the Empire. When attackers kidnap the boy, Cross finds himself turning his back on his mission and putting his life on the line for a "pawn." No job is too dangerous for an Agent of the Empire!
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: Nov. 21.
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