Dark Horse Releases for November 21st

Nov 12, 2012

More and more goodness from Dark Horse Comics.

B.P.R.D.: 1948 #2
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.
* Featuring young Hellboy!

BALTIMORE: THE PLAY (ONE-SHOT)
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.
* From Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden!

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SPIKE #4 (JENNY FRISON COVER)
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.
* Sparks (and punches) fly!

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #18
Captain Midnight strikes! The masked avenger flies into the twenty-first century courtesy of writer Joshua Williamson (Xenoholics, Voodoo) and artist Victor Ibáñez (Rat Catcher). The thrills begin again at the stroke of midnight!
Also, the critically acclaimed Alabaster by Caitlín R. Kiernan and Steve Lieber continues in the pages of DHP!
* A new creator-owned comic from Ulises Farinas! Post-apocalyptic Pokémon!
* Resident Alien returns to the pages of DHP!
* An all-star lineup!
* EISNER AWARD WINNER!

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S THE CONQUEROR WORM (ONE-SHOT)
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.
* Poe in comics!
* 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame inductee.
“Atmosphere is key to sell the malevolent atmosphere and is pulled off in style by Corben, who makes you feel like you’ve been transported back in time…”—Comic Book Resource

THE GOON #43
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.
* Includes a black-and-white Goon short illustrated by Mark Buckingham (Fables).

MIND MGMT #0
Haven’t tried Matt Kindt’s visionary MIND MGMT series yet? Well, lock up your dolphins, shield your brain, and don’t believe anything you see, because this specially priced issue is the perfect initiation into Kindt’s electrifying tale of Mind Management’s psychic spies, its most infamous defector, and Meru, the journalist who stumbles upon their incredible secrets! Available in print for the first time, these three stories introduce the series’ key players and delve deeper than ever into MIND MGMT’s secret history! Whether you’re new to the series or already hooked, this special issue can’t be missed!
* From the creator of 3 Story and Super Spy!
* Specially priced jumping-on point!
* Available for the first time in print!
“Best comic I have read in many, many, MANY months. Exquisitely dense in all the right ways. Bravo.” —Damon Lindelof, creator of Lost

NUMBER 13 #0
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 ofwhat he is.
* From the pages of Dark Horse Presents!
* Love and Walker craft a bizarre landscape.
* A heart of gold and a fist of laser cannons!

STAR WARS: AGENT OF THE EMPIRE—HARD TARGETS #2
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!
ANGEL & FAITH VOLUME 2: DADDY ISSUES TPB
The dark streets of London are increasingly dangerous as murderers, mystically devoid of emotion, begin to impact the lives of Angel and Faith. In unraveling this new mystery, the pair follow clues in the Watcher’s Files to a demon from Giles’s past and a “child” from Angel’s. Then, Drusilla returns to her homeland and becomes the hot new vampire in the underground scene! While Angel faces Dru, Faith must deal with issues that reawaken her inner turmoil—a visit from her deadbeat dad, who’s looking for a favor, and a troubled Slayer hell bent on revenge. Collects Angel & Faith #6–#10.
* Includes the one-shot featuring Giles’s magical great-aunts!
* With guest artist Chris Samnee (Serenity)!
* Drusilla is back!

CRIME DOES NOT PAY ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 HC
One of the best-selling comics of the 1940s, Crime Does Not Pay focused on violent mobsters and murderous lowlifes who machine-gunned their way through the urban underworld . . . until justice landed them in the chair! In 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency targeted this comic series for its graphic violence, eventually leading to the creation of the repressive Comics Code Authority. Issues #30 to #33 of Crime Does Not Pay are finally collected in this deluxe hardcover, which includes “Million Dollar Robbery”—perhaps the first story in US comics history drawn by an African-American artist—and features a new introduction by comic-book giant Howard Chaykin (Marked Man, American Flagg!).

MANARA EROTICA VOLUME 2: KAMA SUTRA AND OTHER STORIES HC
The first and only comprehensive collection of Manara’s erotic work!
Comics virtuoso Milo Manara revolutionized comics erotica, creating deep and sexy tales delivered with unparalleled storytelling skill. Spanning three decades of the maestro’s work, this breathtaking volume features two of Manara’s most awe-inspiring painted stories,Kama Sutra and The Golden Ass, alongside some of his earliest achievements!
* The Golden Ass, Jolanda of Almaviva,and The Diary of Sandra F. presented in English for the first time ever!
* New translations by Eurocomics expert Kim Thompson!
* Introduction by comics historian Patrick Rosenkranz (author of Rebel Visions)!
* Complementing the Eisner Award-nominated Manara Library from Dark Horse.

MARKED MAN HC
To the casual observer, Mark LaFarge has it going on. He’s got a beautiful wife, cute kids, a McMansion in the South Bay . . . the guy is the living embodiment of the American dream. But nothing is ever as it seems. LaFarge is a career criminal who’s never done an honest day’s work in his life . . . and that life of crime, completely separate from the life he presents to the world, is about to catch up with him. And there will be blood . . . a great deal of blood. Collects Marked Man stories from Dark Horse Presents #1-#8.
* All-new adult intrigue from the creator of American Flagg!and Black Kiss!
* From the pages of Dark Horse Presents!

NEXUS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 TPB
Nexus is the greatest avenger in history, but his power and purpose come from an alien race with their own agenda. Is Nexus hero or pawn? Deliverer or destroyer? God or devil? Contains Nexus Volume 1 #1-3, Nexusvolume 2 #1-11.
* Winner of six Eisner Awards.
* New stories in Dark Horse Presents have refocused attention on this archetypal series.
* “When it comes to comic books, it just doesn’t get any better than this.”
—Joe Casey

TRIGUN MAXIMUM OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 TPB
Vash the Stampede, the galaxy’s deadliest gunslinger, emerges after two years in hiding to help his beleaguered desert homeworld, Gunsmoke. But the Stampede’s many enemies have kept their motors, and they’re back on his trail and determined to bring Vash to ground—hard! And a new crowd of bounty hunters, badasses, and brain-cases are also looking to cash in the astronomical price on his head!
Trigun Maximum Omnibus presents Nightow’s Trigunseries in value-priced editions of well over 500 story pages! Contains Trigun Maximum Volumes 1-3.