Written by Jason Aaron; Art by R.M. Guera; Cover by Jock

With the opening of the Crazy Horse Casino just days away, Gina Bad Horse — Dash's estranged mother — senses that the worst is yet to come, which is only confirmed after a late-night visit from Boss Red Crow. In a fit of desperation, she combs the Rez looking for her son, but the sheriff's got problems of his own — namely, the Boss's daughter.

Written by Steven T. Seagle; Art by Becky Cloonan and Ryan Kelly; Cover by Joshua Middleton

Adam is caught with his pants down — figuratively — when the self-professed virginal son of God is tripped up by personal scandal, public humiliation, and the unexpected return of Mel the mercenary in his all-too-perfect Miami ministry. But why does Adam get the sinking feeling that Mel hasn't come for the money he's owed?

Written by Brian Azzarello; Art by Eduardo Risso; Cover by Dave Johnson

Collecting issues #76-83 of the acclaimed series by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso and Dave Johnson! The Trust, Agent Graves and the Minutemen arrive in Mexico for a showdown that will mark the end for at least one major player, while the mystery behind the Atlantic City job is finally revealed.

I have never read 100 bullets. Out of all these which one would you think is the best

Writer: Gail Simone, Penciler: Neil Googe

When presented with the concept of Tranquility, a retirement town for superheroes, I was intrigued but ultimately couldn’t think of what they’d write about. Well, hilariousness stupid.

Simone does her absolute best work, among her other good styles, when she’s allowed to cut loose with her wit and comedic superheroics, like Deadpool or Secret Six. My extolment of Simone won’t reach the absurdity of calling her the next Jane Austen but her wit is pretty sharp.

Told mostly through the eyes of the town sheriff, not super-powered, who’s left to run around town cleaning up after all the senile and quarreling senior super-heroes and villains, the story is well grounded. The stereotypes play themselves well here, with rich but forgetful ex-fighter pilots, kooky old men in search of lost powers, and the clichéd (but great here) idea of the tough but gentlemanly and protective old roughnecks.

A story of two old arch-nemesis fighting over apples that fall into a neighbor’s yard is simply great comedy in the ‘Grumpy Old Men’ vein. But all of that doesn’t prove very intriguing story telling, I mean, how far can the quarrelsome comedy go?

The trick, Simone shows us, is to introduce young upstarts and troublesome super-youths like Emoticon: a character who speaks in Instant Messenger slang and wears a face covering visor that shows, well, emoticons (those little punctuation faces). Told you her wit was biting.

In the middle of all this we are given a murder, or maybe he just fell on his sword. Either way, the peaceful town just became anything but, as if we expected less. From the previews I’ve read, and posted on BK News, it looks like we’ve only scratched the surface of rusting heroes pining away their last days in Tranquility. This isn’t as funny as Deadpool yet (which had the greatest comedy comic ever among Simone’s run) this is a fine start.

by Pat McGreal

Sublimated Victorian sexuality, white slavery, turn-of-the-century orientalism and the precious hokiness of Hollywood-inspired Arabian exoticism combine in this ingeniously illustrated photo/graphic novel. The book uses photographs (as well as digital and painted artwork) of elaborate sets and costumed actors to carry the story, presenting a richly textured Victorian colonial style and exuding a lush, albeit corny, Middle Eastern mystique. Vivian, a young English housewife, accompanies her insufferable husband on a diplomatic mission to an Arabian sultanate. There, they happen upon the local slave market, where Vivian becomes fascinated by a female slave. Later, visiting the sultan along with her husband, Vivian is invited, quite improbably, to visit the royal harem, where she hears the story of Rosalind, a white aristocrat kipnapped into the harem years before. This book offers a savvy reprise of a durable clich?Auptight colonialist West meets seething, unknowable EastAthat is somewhat recharged by a dose of female homoeroticism and Vivian's kinky attraction to the harem and the sexual domination it symbolizes. The story serves as a dark fable on sex, love and culture, but it's really the kitschy, melodramatic photo illustrations that make this costume fantasy an enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek diversion.

Write a rambling never ending series and eventually people think "Hey, it's been going so long, it must be a classic!". Write a brilliant self contained short like The Eaters (part of the Vertigo Voices series) and few people notice...

The Eaters is a black comedy about a loveable family of all-American cannibals. Gorgeous Cassy is getting frustrated because her hunky boyfriends keep ending up in the family stew before she's finished with them! This generous one-shot (which is about 60 pages long) is crying out to be turned into a movie, though Hollywood would no doubt sanitise Milligan's razor sharp satire.

Original Story: WIlliam Hope Hodgson
Adapted by
Writer: Simon Revelstroke
Artist: Richard Corben

This hardcover graphic novel is an adaptation of a highly influential, yet little-known horror novel published in 1908 by William Hope Hodgson. Hodgson has never achieved the notoriety of other early horror masters like Poe and Lovecraft, partly because he was killed quite young on the battlefields of World War I, and partly because of the overall ghettoization of horror by the literary community. I admit I knew nothing about the man before picking up this volume, but no less a comics genius than Alan Moore (writer of SWAMP THING, perhaps the best horror comic ever) provides a wonderful background on Hodgson in his introduction.

But I'm not reviewing the novel, I'm reviewing the comics adaptation, which is a whole different animal. Comics adaptations of novels often fail, or at best fall short, simply because of space limitations. The content of one average-length novel would require hundreds of comic book pages to adapt faithfully, so inevitably, the book is shortened and distilled, often resulting in a watered-down Lite Beer imitation that feels weak even to those who haven't read the original work. Can THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND avoid the same fate?

Well, the art is by Richard Corben (DEN, NEVERWHERE, BAT OUTTA HELL album cover) - 85 pages of it - which for me is enough reason to buy it right there. As nice as it's been to see Corben's work on Marvel super-heroes like THE HULK and CAGE, his style has always been best suited to horror. That's proven once again in these pages, which stand right up there with his classic stories for CREEPY and EERIE back in the 1970's. Not many artists can successfully pull off were-pigs and make them scary, but Corben does it with style. He's also a master at portraying human beings descending into madness, their attractive, calm faces distorting into grotesque leers and insane stares. This is a Corben tour de force. I haven't liked his work this much since he illustrated the covers of the FIGHTING FANTASY role-playing books back in the mid-1980's.

The script is by frequent Corben collaborator Simon Revelstroke, and while I can't comment on the faithfulness of the adaptation (having never read the original novel), I very much enjoyed what I saw here. The usual problem of boiling down a complex story is less of an issue in this case, because it seems that, like much of the horror of the early 20th century, the original is short on plot and long on atmosphere. Byron Gault is a recluse, living in an old Irish mansion on the edge of a chasm with only his sister and pet mastiff for companionship (and yes, there are similar suggestions of incest as can be found in some of the works of Poe).

Gault has been troubled by disturbing dreams that seem to place his estate in a nightmarish landscape dominated by a huge, demonic presence that seeks to use his home as a gateway to our world. One day those dreams intrude on reality, as an earthquake widens the neighboring ravine, turning the trickling underground river into a torrent, and unleashing hideous, demonic creatures into our world.

In 1956, Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, the owner of Quality Comics decided to leave the comic business entirely for the more profitable arena of Men's Adventure Magazines. He sold the Quality Comics line to his competitor, DC Comics. DC kept a number of Quality's titles running, but it wasn't until the 1970s that they went back to look at the long cancelled superhero characters (with the introduction of the Freedom Fighters)

In the early 1970s, DC had licensed the rights to the Marvel Family from Fawcett Comics. When it was decided to revive Kid Eternity, they retconned a name in for the previously nameless Kid - Christopher "Kit" Freeman. Further it was revealed the Kid was the brother of Captain Marvel, Jr. (Freddy Freeman), with both living on Earth-S. Kid Eternity became a supporting character in Shazam! stories, and there was even an eventual rematch with both Her Highness and Silk, and later Master Man. Kid Eternity's powers prove a valuable asset at least once when a villain cast a magical black void around the Marvel Family in their regular forms, thus preventing them from calling down the magic lightning to change. Although the villains also bound and gagged Kid Eternity, he managed to remove the gag to summon Zeus who supplied the magic lightning necessary for the Marvel Family to change. Earth-S was merged with Earths One, Two, 4 and X in Crisis on Infinite Earths and Kid Eternity vanished along with the original version of the Marvel Family.

In the 1990s, a different and darker version of the character was introduced. This was done with a three-issue mini-series written by Grant Morrison with art by Duncan Fegredo in 1991. This version returned the Kid to his nameless roots and severed ties with the Marvel Family but made significant changes to the character's back story.

Anna is a mild mannered young woman with a second, much wilder, personality insider her. Referred to as The Minx, she starts to take over Anna's life.

An interesting female character is a rarity in comics, but Milligan has stuck Anna in an over complex sci-fi storyline involving a telepathic monkey from outer space! The messy opening story arc (issues 1-3) recycles some ideas from (the far superior) "Enigma". After that the story starts to improve, and the character has definite potential. Sadly, the series was prematurely cancelled. The second story arc ends with issue 7, and this provides a more satisfactory conclusion than 8.

The Crusades is the title of a series of comic books published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. It was created by writer Steven T. Seagle and artist Kelley Jones.

The series comprises a one-off "one-shot" special entitled The Crusades: Urban Decree (which introduced the characters and premise) and an ongoing series, simply titled The Crusades which ran in comics cover dated between June 2001 and December 2002.

The series was set in a fictionalised San Francisco and featured a large cast of characters whose lives are thrown into disarray by the sudden appearance of a murderous 11th Century Knight in the city. Main Characters included Anton Marx, a leftwing political radio "shock jock", his fact checker girlfriend Venus, her friend Detective Addas Petronas and the rival gangsters Tony Quetone and "the Pope".

The cult favorite team of Joe R. Lansdale and Timothy Truman are back together for the first time in years bringing all the hilarious insanity and violence that made their Jonah Hex series modern classics. Except this time the kid gloves are off as they deliver more mayhem, death, and of course zombies, per page than any other book on the market! Wayne is a bounty hunter, but he has the bad luck to be one in the middle of a desert filled with the undead. But he has to bring in his man if he wants to get paid and the dead folks best get out of his way if they know what's good for 'em. But of course, being dead, they don't. Joe Lansdale's over-the-top dialogue and Truman's crisp lines make this book a must read for fans of Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis work, if you are not already a convert to the church of Lansdale.

The Beyonder's Battleworld might seem a strange place to get new threads, but it's Spider-Man who becomes unraveled when his shape-changing costume attempts to darken his life as well as his fashion sense! But ridding himself of his riotous raiment proves an even greater mistake when its alien enmity bonds with mortal madness to form our hero's most dedicated decimator! Plus: the first appearances of Puma and the Rose! Mary Jane Watson's startling secret! And the debut of the battling...Bag-Man!? Guest-starring the Black Cat, the Fantastic Four and more!

Prime is a fictional character, a superhero created by Bob Jacob, Gerard Jones, and Len Strazewski. He debuted in Prime #1 under Malibu's Ultraverse imprint and was one of its flagship characters next to Mantra and Hardcase. The character design was credited to Brett Blevins The character also appeared in the superhero group Ultraforce.

Prime is really a thirteen year-old boy named Kevin Green with the power to transform into a superpowered adult. In this sense, he is much like the Golden Age Captain Marvel. Like the Modern Age version of Captain Marvel, Kevin retains the thoughts, memories and consciousness of his thirteen year-old self as Prime. This is a chief source of conflict for the character as he is frequently placed in adult situations and circumstances he may not be mature enough to deal with.

Prime made his first appearance in Prime # 1, dated June 1993, written by Gerard Jones and Len Strazewski and illustrated by Norm Breyfogle.

As part of the Ultraverse imprint, the comic was set within a shared universe of superpowered beings conceptualized by Mike Barr, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber, James Hudnall, Gerard Jones, Larry Niven, James Robinson, Len Strazewski. It is widely acknowledged that the Ultraverse was created in part to replace Image Comics, a line of creator-owned comics that had record-breaking sales figures, whose publishing deal with Malibu had ended shortly before.

Jones & Strazewski used the book to explore a number of themes, such as the place of role models in establishing personal definitions of heroism, as well as touchy matters regarding sexuality and pedophilia. Norm Breyfogle set the definitive visual tone of Prime. His style was marked by the use of interconnected panels with spilled margins and broken borders, as well as frequent use of speed lines and other hyperkinetic emphasis effects.

Breyfogle's depiction of Prime was also distinctive for stark lighting, over-rendered musculature and a dark approach to gore. Breyfogle's departure in issue 12 as regular artist is largely seen as the beginning of the book's decline in visual quality. Among the artists who made up for Breyfogle's departure were George Perez, Darick Robertson and John Statema.

Prime, like many Ultraverse titles, began experiencing significant editorial interference from upper management when Marvel Comics purchased Malibu in 1994 (mostly for its state-of-the-art coloring division). In 1995, Marvel characters began crossing over into the Ultraverse, beginning with the appearance of Thor and Loki in "Godwheel" --- a crossover that revealed many of the elements that Larry Niven had written into the Ultraverse creators' bible.

As time passed, these incursions became more frequent, culminating in 1995, with the event known as "Black September" This crossover effectively gave Marvel the license to rewrite many of the Ultraverse books core concepts.

Slashers. You know the genre....some masked nut case chases down and creatively murders a group of attractive teenagers with poor decision making skills, who have unleashed the killer's repressed psychosexual anger. These movies are associated with popcorn fun. They're low brow entertainment to take a hot date too.
But for Cassie Hack, this ain't no popcorn movie. Cassie, the daughter of the notorious Slasher, the Lunch Lady, travels the world with her monstrous partner, Vlad, hunting and destroying Slashers where ever they may be, whatever form they may take. But Cassie may have met her match. The residents of the small town of Eminence, Indiana are becoming victims, one-by-one, of a viscous undead killer and his army of zombie pets. Cassie and Vlad will have to wade, hip deep, through undead hamsters, cats, and dogs to save a beautiful veterinarian from a monster that makes all those "popcorn" Slashers look like Mother Teresa.

Cassie and Vlad travel to Florida to stop a wrathful slasher who targets partying college students on Spring Break!

Can Cassie resist temptation long enough to protect the wild, wild girls of Girls Gone Naughty?

It's bigger and badder, with more gore and more Hack/Slash!

It's the scariest and funniest issue of Hack/Slash yet as a slasher invades the Whizzer World Comic Convention! STEVE NILES, ROBERT KIRKMAN, and SKOTTIE YOUNG guest star as Cassie and Vlad attempt to stop a killer intent on slaughtering the hot creators of Young Buck Entertainment! Will your favorite comic creators make it out alive? Will ROBERT KIRKMAN scream like a girl? Will SKOTTIE YOUNG lose his drawing hand?! It's the ultimate horror "movie" for comic fans, from the same team that brought you the hit HACK/SLASH: GIRLS GONE DEAD!

She's taken on deranged lunch ladies, crazed catholic schoolgirls, and even homicidal comic book fans! But now Cassie faces the most deadly, powerful, metal-loving killer of all - the legendary Evil Ernie! But how can Cassie and Vlad defeat a killer who can raise the dead and unleash arcane energies? Especially when that killer decides Cassie's his kind of girl?

In Mt. Healthy, Ohio, children are dying in their dreams, falling victim to twisted versions of their own toys! It's up to Cassie, Vlad and a 23 year old toy collector to stop a demented dream killer before he turns playtime into a deadly nightmare! The cult hit one shots graduate into a full color mini-series!!!!

What’s the best part of going to the movies? The TRAILERS of course! Featuring 5 4-page short stories and a 2 page Shark tale, TRAILERS explores Hack/Slash stories that never were - until now, with some of today’s HOTTEST artists. Featuring ORBITUARY, drawn by Mike (Gravity) Norton, BLOOD AND NUTS drawn by Skottie (New Warriors) Young, TUB CLUB drawn by Tim (Hack/Slash) Seeley, and MORE!

When Cassie and Vlad start hunting the super-sexy Acid Angel, it’s not long before they find themselves as the ones that are actually being stalked!
Featuring behind-the-scenes features, and the origin from Hack/Slash vol. 1 as well as a brand new original story, this special serves as the trailer for the SLICE HARD blockbuster story!

More HACK/SLASH insanity! Cassie and Vlad are completely weaponless and trapped in a medical facility with six of the most outrageous, deadly slashers ever to stalk a nubile teen! One-liners! Lab rabbits! Severed limbs! It’s both action and horror movies combined! If you’re gonna slash, ya’ better SLASH HARD!

Mayhem in the Big Easy! When Cassie & Vlad – hunters of slashers – track a vicious murderer to New Orleans, the Heart of Damballah is used to cause chaos with a crazy mind switch with… Chucky?! Following the events of Seed of Chucky, everyone’s favorite murderous doll is back, and looking for blood!

Tomahawk is a comic book character whose adventures were published by DC Comics during the 1950's and 1960's in his own comics series. His uniqueness stems in part from the timeframe of his fictional adventures: the American Revolutionary War.

Known as either Tom Hawk or Thomas Haukins, depending on which of two versions of his published history the reader prefers, "Tomahawk" was a soldier who served under George Washington in the warfare between the British, French and Iroquois forces during the decades prior to the American Revolutionary War and acquired his nickname due to its resemblance to a trademark weapon of the Iroquois Confederacy's warriors, and to the skill he developed with that weapon.

He subsequently achieved further fame as one of Washington's most capable operatives during the Revolution itself, leading a band of soldiers under the informal nickname of "Tomahawk's Rangers".

His series lasted 140 issues, from 1950 to 1970. The last 10 issues focused on "Hawk, Son of Tomahawk", and the cover title said "Son of Tomahawk". In addition he appeared in Star Spangled Comics from issue 69 in June 1947 to 130 July 1952 and in World's Finest Comics from issue 33 in March 1948 until issue 101 in May 1959. The character was created by writer Joe Samachson and artist Edmund Good, but his most famous portrayers were Ed France Herron and Fred Ray.

In issues 35 and 36, Tomahawk met a young Davy Crockett, who was very popular at the time. This is a historical error, as Crockett was not born until after the Revolutionary War.

Issue 81 was also notable, introducing Miss Liberty, one of the earliest patriotic superheroes by the vague internal chronology of the DC universe, who would make several more appearances in the series.

In 1998, Tomahawk appeared in a 'Vertigo Visions' one-shot, written by Rachel Pollack.