BACK ISSUE #118
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Rich Buckler; John Beatty
Back Issue #118 is a Greatest Stories Never Told issue! Alex Ross' unrealized Fantastic Four reboot, DC: The Lost 1970s (including Joe Simon's Guardian Angel and Gerry Conway and John Calnan's Ninja the Invisible), Frank Thorne's Red Sonja preliminaries, Chris Claremont and DAVE SIM's X-Men/Cerebus, Mike Grell's Batman/Jon Sable, Larry Hama's Fury Force, Curt Swan's lost pages from Ed Hannigan's Skull and Bones, Steve Englehart and Trevor Von Eeden's Batman/Mad Hatter, Brian Augustyn and Mike Parobeck's Target, and Paul Kupperberg's insider's look at the ill-fated Impact reboot (with unpublished art by Dave Cockrum, Michael Netzer, and more)!
CEREBUS TP #1
REMASTERED ED
(W) DAVE SIM (A) DAVE SIM (CA) DAVE SIM
Completely remastered in 2017 from the best available sources on a page-by-page basis--original art, photo negatives, and DAVE SIM's personal file copies of the original issues. This edition also includes a lavishly-illustrated 6,000 word essay on the history of Cerebus, contextualizing this monumental work for current and future readers.
VARK THING ONE SHOT #0
(W) DAVE SIM (A) DAVE SIM (CA) David Birdsong
"Cerebus on Strike" continues! The Legend of the Vark Thing starts here! Well, not actually here; this is the Diamond PREVIEWS solicitation! Learn how enviro-genius Alex Netherlands transforms himself into a walking compost heap to impress this really hot chick! Composting worms and how they "dig" 1980s disco! Rotating your worms! The composting worms takeover! Hot chicks and how they "are" about garbage! Bonus! Dante and Virgil get mistaken for Flash Gordon and Dr. Zarkov! Hilarity ensues (for the five or six people who have actually read the original Alex Raymond Flash Gordon Sunday pages)!