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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Chronicles of Conan Volume 1: Tower of the Elephant & Other Stories TPB
Dark Horse Comics, 144 full color pages

Here I bring you yet another masterpiece - Chronicles of Conan collected in a trade paperback. These are the old stories from the early 1970s, when Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian exploded on to the comics scene.
Writer Roy Thomas teamed with a young artist named Barry Smith, and together two of them mapped out some of the most stirring and memorable Conan adventures to come along since those written by Howard himself.
Over the course of their 24 issue run together, Thomas and Smith defined Conan for a generation of comics readers, and now those stories are collected here in a series of trade paperbacks. Featuring completely remastered color and text corrections, and containing material not available for nearly thirty years, these books are the perfect companions to the upcoming all-new Conan series from Dark Horse.
Nine of these trade paperbacks have been published so far, and I really recommend it to every Conan fan. Also a great introduction to Conan beginners!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation TPB, Hill & Wang

On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government's fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve B's, nine C's, twelve D's, three F's, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commission's investigation into the events of that tragic day and the lessons America must learn.

Using every skill and storytelling method Jacobson and Colón have learned over the decades, they have produced the most accessible version of the 9/11 Report. Jacobson's text frequently follows word for word the original report, faithfully captures its investigative thoroughness, and covers its entire scope, even including the Commission's final report card.

Colón's stunning artwork powerfully conveys the facts, insights, and urgency of the original. Published on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, an event that has left no aspect of American foreign or domestic policy untouched, The 9/11 Report puts at every American's fingertips the most defining event of the century.

Vampirella Presents TPB: Tales Of Pantha, Anarchy Studios/ Harris Comics

Fierce. Relentless. Goddess.

She is many things, but never an easy target. Yet the madmen who relentlessly pursue her think otherwise. To them she is prey, just another beautiful trophy to claim as their own. But beauty is only skin deep. Beneath the surface there's a hunger they can not hope to escape, for as they soon discover, this cat's bite is far from gentle...

Collected here for the first time, the very best adventures of Vampirella's longtime ally, Pantha. Features the gorgeous art of Mark Texeira and the writing of Mark Millar, Steven Grant and many more!

Ultimate Spider-Man TPB Vol. 16: Deadpool, Marvel Comics

Spider-Man teams up with his new girlfriend - the X-Men's Kitty Pryde, who gets a new super-hero identity for when she's not hanging with her mutant mates! Plus: Meet the dangerous Ultimate Deadpool - and the Ultimate Reavers! It's mutant action, with Spidey caught in the middle!

Showcase Presents TPB: Batman Vol. 1 , DC Comics

The spotlight's on Batman in this volume of Showcase Presents! The Dynamic Duo take on some of their most enduring Rogues Gallery members, including Penguin, the Riddler, and the Outsider in these classic Silver Age stories from the era of famed editor Julius Schwartz!

Gen 13 TPB: Who They Are And How They Came To Be..., DC Comics/ Wildstorm

A collection re-presenting the original 5-issue miniseries that launched the phenomenal GEN13 team and the career of J. Scott Campbell! Aided by former Team Seven leader John Lynch, five teenagers with remarkable power must make their escape from the clutches of Ivana Baiul's array of killers from Internal Operations!

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man TPB Vol. 1: Derailed, Marvel Comics

Hold onto your webs, spider-fan! A major character from Peter Parker's past returns! Meanwhile, is that the Hobgoblin terrorizing the skies? And if so, how is he connected to the shocking changes in Spider-Man's life? Continuity fans better break out their back issues, because both Spidey's past and future will change when an old (and unexpected) foe executes his master plan!

Plus: Presenting 'Weblog,' an off-beat Spidey tale that starts at the very beginning of Spider-Man's career and goes all the way through to the distant future...as seen through the eyes of a woman who is convinced that the web-slinger has been stalking her her entire life. And finally, think Spider-Man doesn't have to worry about death anymore, having escaped its grasp in 'The Other'? Think again, as - years after his origin - Spider-Man finds himself back in the ring, squaring off against a masked wrestler whose name literally means 'Death'...and for good reason!


The Book Of Lost Souls TPB Vol. 1: Introductions All Around, Marvel Comics

The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the others - the lost. Those whose numbers aren't in yet, who could go toward the light or toward the darkness - indeed, who could be tipped one direction or another. And everything starts with the book. That's what Jonathan is about to discover.

When he took a suicide plunge off the London Bridge more than a century ago, the last place he expected to land was on his feet, in the present, standing at the entrance to a tunnel into a world of mysteries beyond his wildest imagination. A world of powers and principalities and, above all, rules that he'd best learn quickly. Or he'll have to deal with the Dark Man. And what the Dark Man can't turn, he devours.

Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 9: Endgame TPB, Dark Horse Comics, 144 full color pages

Witness the untold stories of the Jedi who took a last stand against Emperor Palpatine in the moments during, and immediately after, the events in Revenge of the Sith! Watch Darth Vader undertake a Jedi "purge" of his own in the hunt for Obi-Wan Kenobi!

In the jungles of the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk, Quinlan Vos wages a battle of impossible odds against his own troops to protect his loved ones. On the icy Outer Rim world of Toola, Jedi Master Kai Huddora takes a terrified Padawan into his charge after her own master falls to Order 66. Amidst the forests of New Plymto, Das Jennir finds himself in league with a band of rebels he'd led attacks against only days before. Not all Jedi are scattered across the galaxy however, and soon, a brave few will plot to topple Sith rule-by setting a trap for the newly unveiled Darth Vader!

SERENITY (TPB), Dark Horse Comics, 80 full color pages

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and scribe of Marvel's Astonishing X-Men, unveils a previously unknown chapter in the lives of his favorite band of space brigands in this comics prequel of the Serenity feature film—the big-budget follow-up to Whedon's cult-hit TV show Firefly.

Penned by Whedon and Brett Matthews, who wrote several episodes of Firefly as well as Dark Horse's final Angel comics series and the animated Chronicles of Riddick feature "Dark Fury," Serenity follows a ship full of mercenaries, fugitives, and one law-abiding prostitute in their pursuit for fast cash and a little peace along the fringes of space. The ragtag crew of Serenity take on a scavenger mission with the hopes of earning enough dough to disappear fo
r a while. Only too late do they realize the whole gig is orchestrated by an old enemy eager to remake their acquainitance with the help of some covert-operatives known only as the Blue Gloves.

Artist Will Conrad (Marvel's Elektra and Witches) and colorist Laura Martin (Astonishing X-Men and The Ultimates) paint a rough and wild world of adventure across a strange and dangerous universe, in this not-to-be-missed tale straight from the brain of pop-culture mastermind Joss Whedon!