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GRAVEL TP #1

BLOODY LIARS SP ED

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Raulo Caceres (CA) Oscar Jimenez

William Gravel carves a bloody path of death in his first full-color collection! Gravel Volume 1 features the first eight issues (#0-7) of this on-going series from Warren Ellis and co-writer Mike Wolfer with art by Raulo Caceres and Oscar Jimenez, as well as a special cover gallery! Long-buried and lost in antiquity, a unique book of magic once existed, filled with such extraordinary and arcane spells, supernatural rites, and inherent power that its possessor would be either unequaled, or driven irrevocably insane. Recently unearthed, the Sigsand Manuscript has been divided into six pieces and distributed among the Minor Seven, Britain's great Occult Detectives. With the Sigsand in their grasp, the Seven now wield more power than they were ever meant to possess - and William Gravel is not happy about it. Once a member of their Order but unceremoniously replaced within their ranks, the SAS Sergeant Major and Combat Magician is on a mission of revenge, redemption, and quite possibly rebirth, as he takes on the members of the Minor Seven one-by-one. And God help each of Gravel's former colleagues should they decide not to relinquish their sections of the Sigsand to the one man who might have the supernatural skills and restraint to use the reconstituted manuscript without accidentally destroying the Earth in the process. They all promised to use the unholy power wisely, but Gravel knows they are all Bloody Liars!

GRAVEL TP #2

THE MAJOR SEVEN SP ED

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Mike Wolfer (CA) Mike Wolfer

This second color volume of Warren Ellis' and Mike Wolfer's on-going adventures of Combat Magician William Gravel is now available, collecting issues 8 through 14 of the series.  After carving a bloody path through his fellow members of the Minor Seven, the last thing Sergeant Major William Gravel expected was to be welcomed with open arms into a much more prestigious ensemble: The Major Seven. But enlistment as the newest recruit among the Master Magicians of England comes with a price, and a penance. Before Gravel can fully gain acceptance within their ranks, the Major Seven have two tasks for him. The first, to reform the Minor Seven, whom he personally crushed with his own hands. The second, to uncover the murderer within the Major Seven who killed one of their own, the woman whose place Gravel will fill if he completes his inaugural assignments. Trouble is, the six remaining members of the Major Seven are just like the Minor Seven, a pack of bloody liars. And before he's done, the seasoned Combat Magician will make it very clear to the overseers of Britain's occult hierarchy that a penance, and a price, is not only his burden to endure.

GRAVEL TP #3

LAST KING OF ENGLAND SP ED

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Mike Wolfer (CA) Mike 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, this incredible and violent chapter in the Gravel saga completes the three-part story arc that began in GRAVEL VOLUME 1: BLOODY LIARS and continued in GRAVEL VOLUME 2: THE MAJOR SEVEN.

GRAVEL TP #4

COMBAT MAGICIAN SP ED

(W) Mike Wolfer (A) Gabriel Rearte (CA) Gabriel Rearte

WARREN ELLIS' hardened combat magician, William Gravel returns with a violent new adventure taking him into the heart of Japan to face a rogue magic wielding assassin.  Written by long-time Ellis collaborator, MIKE WOLFER, this tale returns the hard as nails Gravel to action against supernatural forces that threaten to reveal the very existence of the Combat Magicians and leaves a wide trail of victims in its wake.  This volume includes a special introduction chapter to the world of Gravel for new readers and brings one of comics longest running independent characters back to the bloody violence filled world he pioneered.  Artist Gabriel Rearte vibrantly creates the ultra-violent combat magic-fueled assassin's domain with horrors that are right out of your worst nightmares.  Gravel Vol 04 Combat Magician collects issues #0 - 4 of the comic book series.

IGNITION CITY TP SP ED #1

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Gianluca Pagliarani (CA) Gianluca Pagliarani

Where did the space heroes go to die? From Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics, comes a retropunk "future of the past" where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City, Earth's last spaceport, to recover the effects of her dead fatherso people think. Mary really wants to know how he died, and who did it. Mary Raven is out to spoil a great many people's days. Today might be her last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear. She has her dead father's raygun, and that's enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father's diary. And when she finds out something no-one else in the settlement knows... they'll want her dead for that, too! Featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics' Gianluca Pagliarani, this full-color volume collects all five issues of the sci-fi epic with a gorgeous cover gallery full of design sketches, ray-gun fights and giant metal machines!

STREETS OF GLORY TP SP ED

(W) Garth Ennis (A) Mike Wolfer (CA) Mike Wolfer

In the past fifteen years, Joseph Dunn hasn't seen much of the little civilization Montana had to offer in 1899, but his absence along with the death of a generation has rendered the atmosphere unrecognizable. Dunn is the last of the drifters that independently roamed the western frontier of the United States in the 19th century. These were men who fought with nobility, wits, and an easily un-holstered gun at their side. The body count will rise when Dunn's trigger finger is forced to settle new problems with the only solution he knows.

WARREN ELLIS BLACK GAS TP SP ED

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Max Fiumara (CA) Jacen Burrows

A tiny island with an odd history sits off the east coast of North America, resting on the faultline of the underlying tectonic plate, ignored by almost everyone. Then comes the night of the big storm, the shift in the faultline, and the release of something foul from the Earth's core, blown across the little town on Smoky Island. The only two people on the island outside its reach are now trapped on a black spit of rock with a population who aren't people anymore, monsters that started eating one another an hour ago!

WOLFSKIN TP #2

HUNDREDTH DREAM SP ED

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Gianluca Pagliarani (CA) Gianluca Pagliarani

Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! The entire Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream six issue series is collected here.  Wolfskin, a nomadic warrior, hopes to find a new purpose in life after the accidental slaughter of his own tribe while in the throes of an uncontrollable berserker rage. Hired as a guide and swordsman for a rescue mission to the volcanic ice plains, he travels north with a band of misfits and magicians whose skills and ideology is perched between prehistory and the advent of technology. What dreadful enemy will they face on the outskirts of civilization, and will Wolfskin even have a place in the world should he slay it? A new heroic legend from the darkest corridors of time, as chronicled by long-time collaborators Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer (Gravel) with stunning art by Gianluca Pagliarani (Crossed 3D)!

WOLFSKIN TP SP ED #1

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Gianluca Pagliarani (CA) Felipe Massafera

Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! Warren Ellis' barbarian epic is finally collected, just in time for the new series coming late 2009! From the time before history began, in the time when the continents were still connected by land, from the harsh climes at the top of the world, a Northish soldier wrapped in a cape of wolfpelts walks south, into the forests of the High Midlands that are now Europe, to find a village cut in two by travelers from the East. Soon, he too is torn - between duty to the lives he has ruined just by finding them, and duty to the hideous murder-god of the Northish wastes and the berserker drugs that are his sacrament... Warren Ellis cuts loose to unleash his take on the genre fans demanded he assault with full color art from Juan Jose Ryp and Gianluca Pagliarani! Wolfskin fuses heroic fantasy in the mode of Conan, the Viking sagas, and samurai fiction into a single story of weird history and apocalyptic violence.  This first volume collects the original 3-issue series with art by Ryp, Annual #1 with art by Pagliarani, and a huge cover gallery all wrapped in a stunning new painted cover by Felipe Massafera!