DARK HORSE COMICS
PATH OF THE ASSASSIN TP #4
(W) Kazuo Koike (A) Goseki Kojima (CA) Goseki Kojima
War! Ninjas! Love! Political intrigue! It's all packed into Path of the Assassin. Drafted by classic samurai manga creators Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima of Lone Wolf and Cub fame, Path of the Assassin is the story of a young shogun on his way to unite Japan, and the trusty ninja assigned to protect him. Be it in crafty maneuverings of war, political push and pull, or bedroom adventures, young Hattori Hanzo will not be kept from his duties. Published in the popular pocket-sized manga format, Path of the Assassin packs historical fiction and fine art in yet another classic samurai series from Dark Horse. • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.
RED STRING TP #1
(W) Gina Biggs (A) Gina Biggs (CA) Gina Biggs
When first-year high school student Miharu Ogawa gets a call from her parents, telling her to come straight home from school, she prepares herself for the worst. After all, the last time her quirky restaurateur parents told her to come straight home she ended up as a contestant on a kiddy game show! But nothing she could ever have imagined could have prepared her for their "great news" . . . Miharu is getting married! How's a spirited and independent teenager who has never even kissed a boy supposed to deal with suddenly having a fiancé she's never even met? And how will her feelings change when she finds out that there are other boys out there vying for her affection, and other girls ready and willing to take away the man she's not even sure she's ready for? With her family, friends, (and enemies!) to cope with, will Miharu even have the time to find out if the handsome, devoted Kazuo Fujiwara is really the man she is meant to be with, the man connected to her by the red string of destiny?
RESIDENT ALIEN #3 (OF 4)
ALIEN IN NEW YORK
(W) Peter Hogan (A) Dan Jackson Rebekah Isaacs (CA) Rebekah Issacs
The acclaimed sci-fi/murder-mystery series continues! Arriving in New York City, Harry's telepathic talents are almost overwhelmed by the human chaos, but he and Shaman Twelvetrees soon find his strange-possibly alien-contact! A surprising connection to New York's art world and graffiti culture is found, and Harry's very private new acquaintance could take him a step closer to communicating with his home planet.
SAMURAI EXECUTIONER OMNIBUS TP #2
(W) Kazuo Koike (A) Goseki Kojima (CA) Goseki Kojima
The shogun's sword tester and executioner is a position of consummate skill and great prestige. While the feared Yamada "Decapitator" Asaemon holds the post, another sword master seeks the office, and this election can be won by only a single vote-cast in steel and certified in blood! Collects stories from volume 3 and all of volumes 4 and 5 of previous Dark Horse editions. o Nearly 800 pages, value priced. "Fully in keeping with the classic imagery of Koike and Kojima."-Blogcritics
SAMURAI EXECUTIONER OMNIBUS TP #3
(W) Kazuo Koike (A) Goseki Kojima (CA) Goseki Kojima
When an execution is ordered of a man backed by hundreds whose vital services the city of Edo desperately needs, the shogunate government seems powerless to act. And so Yamada Asaemon, the shogun's executioner, must carry out the sentence unaided while keeping Edo from descending into chaos! o Nearly 800 pages, value priced. o Lone Wolf and Cub now being published in omnibus format. "Fully in keeping with the classic imagery of Koike and Kojima."-Blogcritics
SUIT GN
(W) Dennis Calero (A) Dennis Calero (CA) Dennis Calero
When a corporate merger becomes a hostile takeover, a cutthroat businessman known only as the Suit must take down the competition before his company goes under. Written and illustrated by Dennis Calero (Assassin's Creed: Templar) this volume collects all nine chapters of The Suit, originally serialized in Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 #10-#12, #16-#18, and #21-#23! o Expanded story-includes new, never-before-seen pages created specifically for this edition! o Also features behind the scenes material!
SULLIVANS SLUGGERS HC
(W) Mark Andrew Smith (A) James Stokoe (CA) James Stokoe
Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writer Mark Andrew Smith joins forces with Eisner-nominated Orc Stain creator James Stokoe for a graphic novel packed with shocks, gore, and screamingly outrageous humor, when America's Favorite Pastime becomes one baseball team's ultimate nightmare as they fight for their lives against a town of flesh-eating monsters! o Featuring a bonus section with concept art, pinups by multiple artists, and more.
SWORD DAUGHTER #1
CVR A
(W) Brian Wood (A) Mack Chater (CA) Lauren Affe
The Forty Swords came at night and murdered the entire village, save for two people: the infant Elsbeth and her grief-stricken father, Dag. Setting off on a revenge quest that will span the width of Viking Age Europe, they find the key to repairing their damaged relationship lies in the swords they carry. Created by Brian Wood (Northlanders, The Massive, DMZ) and Mack Chater (Briggs Land, Lazarus), Sword Daughter is a visually stunning, emotionally poignant story of parental guilt and acceptance of loss. o A Viking revenge saga inspired by Lone Wolf and Cub. o 28 page issues! o Deluxe cover stock.
SWORD DAUGHTER #1
CVR B CHATER
(W) Brian Wood (A) Mack Chater (CA) Mack Chater
The Forty Swords came at night and murdered the entire village, save for two people: the infant Elsbeth and her grief-stricken father, Dag. Setting off on a revenge quest that will span the width of Viking Age Europe, they find the key to repairing their damaged relationship lies in the swords they carry. Created by Brian Wood (Northlanders, The Massive, DMZ) and Mack Chater (Briggs Land, Lazarus), Sword Daughter is a visually stunning, emotionally poignant story of parental guilt and acceptance of loss. o A Viking revenge saga inspired by Lone Wolf and Cub. o 28 page issues! o Deluxe cover stock.
TOKYO BABYLON GN #1
(W) Clamp (A) Clamp (CA) Clamp
It's 1991, the last days of Japan's bubble economy, and money and elegance run through the streets. So do the currents of darkness beneath them, nourishing evil spirits that only the arts of the onmyoji-Japan's legendary occultists-can combat. The two most powerful onmyoji are in the unlikely guises of a handsome young veterinarian, Seishiro, and the teenage heir to the ancient Sumeragi clan, Subaru.
TOKYO BABYLON GN #2
(W) Clamp (A) Clamp (CA) Clamp
Tokyo, 1991, rich and glittering: the city of twelve million dreams-and just as many nightmares, none darker than the vision Subaru retains of his meeting under the cherry tree with Seishiro as a child. The kindly Seishiro begins to show a sinister face to the mirror as Subaru's grandmother, the matriarch of the Sumeragi clan, arrives in Tokyo-warning her young relative of what she has foreseen-and never to remove the stylish gloves she has insisted he wear all these years. What will be revealed, and what touched, in the conclusion to Tokyo Babylon . . . ?
TOMB RAIDER INFERNO #1 (OF 4)
(W) Jackson Lanzing (A) Phillip Sevy (CA) Michael Atiyeh
Trinity is on high alert-they know Lara Croft is coming and now, under the shrewd command of a new officer, they're ready for any surprises, but Lara is steadfast in her quest to uncover their secrets. Though typically equally prepared, this time Lara may just find herself one step behind. o Perfect for new and existing Tomb Raider fans! o Artist Phillip Sevy returns to Tomb Raider! "Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly have done a wonderful job tying this comic book in with the Tomb Raider canon from the video games and previous Dark Horse comic series." -AiPT!
UNAUTHORIZED TARZAN HC #1
(W) Joe Gill (A) Sam Glanzman
A classic run of Tarzan comics, reprinted for the first time! In the 1960s, believing Tarzan to have fallen into the public domain, Charlton Comics enlisted Joe Gill (Flash Gordon, House of Mystery) and Sam Glanzman (Hercules, Our Army at War) to create a new comics version of the Lord of the Jungle. Only four issues were produced before Charlton was forced to end the series, and much of the original print runs were destroyed. Collects Chalton's Jungle Tales of Tarzan #1-#4.
USAGI YOJIMBO #3 (OF 7) #169
THE HIDDEN
(W) Stan Sakai (A) Stan Sakai (CA) Stan Sakai
The only person who knows the true contents of the mysterious box Usagi and Detective Ishida are tracking escapes from custody-and then hired assassins attack Usagi and Ishida! The realization that someone has been following them all along leads to a plan to seek help from a very unexpected source.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #6
PILGRIMAGE SACRED & PROFANE
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano
Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle--Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is--and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . . * Features six illustrations by the renowned Yoshitaka Amano, illustrator of Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #7
NORTH SEA PT 1
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano
A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel. Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series. Co-published with Digital Manga Publishing.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #8
NORTH SEA PT 2
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano
The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin. Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge? • More than seventeen million Vampire Hunter D books in print worldwide. • Cover and six interior illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano!
VINEGAR TEETH TP
(W) Damon Gentry (A) Troy Nixey (CA) Troy Nixey
A down-on-his-luck cop is partnered with a Lovecraftian monster in this unlikely mash-up. As a human being, Artie Buckle is a grade-A schmuck. But he's a pretty damn fine cop. Good thing, because Brick City is under siege from its citizenry and only an unlikely partnership with a mysterious, tentacled, extra-dimensional being can put an end to the escalating crime problem. Collects issues #1-#4 of the series Vinegar Teeth. "Action, adventure, horror, monsters, nothing short of pure wonderment for comics lovers."-PopCultHQ
WITCHFINDER GATES OF HEAVEN #2 (OF 5)
(W) Mike Mignola (A) D'Israeli (CA) D'Israeli
Edward Grey starts to run out of leads when a familiar enemy tries to throttle his investigation. Meanwhile, the stakes only get higher as a ghostly thief continues to terrorize London.
WORLD OF TANKS CITADEL #2 (OF 5)
(W) Garth Ennis (A) P. J. Holden (CA) Isaac Hannaford
As the two vast tank armies clash on the plains of Kursk, Russians and Germans alike are caught in a maelstrom of steel and fire. Piotr and Ginger find themselves outmatched by almost everything on the battlefield-and dangerously undermined by divisions within their own ranks. For Kraft and Stadler, things go more smoothly at first-until the real armored monsters begin to enter the fray. The blazing battle action continues, as Ennis and Holden continue their tale of total war on the hellish Eastern Front. Aliens: Dust to Dust #3 (of 4) Gabriel Hardman (W/A/Cover), Rain Beredo (C), and Carlos D'Anda (Variant cover)
XERXES FALL OF HOUSE OF DARIUS #3 (OF 5)
(W) Frank Miller (A) Dan Jackson Rebekah Isaacs (CA) Frank Miller
On a military campaign to silence a Greek rebellion, Xerxes, the Persian Prince, watches his father, King Darius, fall in battle. While his newly-inherited fleet retreats toward home, Xerxes' hatred is cemented toward Athens! Xerxes will prevail. Greeks will fall and everything that lives will worship Xerxes.
YOSHITAKA AMANO COLL ART OF VAMPIRE HUNTER D SLIPCASED
(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano