Writer: Howard Chaykin
Artist: Mike Mignola

Discover the stories that defined the genre of sword & sorcery through the eyes of legendary comics writer Howard Chaykin and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola!
Since their first appearance in 1939, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have ranked among the most beloved characters in fantasy. Their rollicking adventures in the fantastic land of Nehwon have influenced the work of some of the best in modern fantasy, including Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett, and countless others.

Written by Brian Wood
Art by Denys Cowan & Kent Williams
Collecting the miniseries by Brian Wood and artist Denys Cowan telling the tale of a young Buddhist monk turned kung fu street brawler. Kidnapped as a boy, Cedric Zhang - raised to fight in competitions - formed a bond with Christy, a young nurse. When she disappears without an explanation, Cedric immerses himself in the violent NYC underworld in an attempt to locate her, finding himself back in the horrible world he spent his life trying to escape

Carla Speed McNeil (W/A)

What you find isn’t nearly as important as what finds you . . .

Since 1996, Finder has set the bar for science-fiction storytelling, with a lush, intricate world and compelling characters. Now, Carla Speed McNeil’s Eisner Award-winning series comes to Dark Horse with the original graphic novel Voice.

In a society defined by its intricate network of clans, Rachel Grosvenor has grown up an outcast, straddling worlds. Now, her quest for admission to a highly exclusive clan sends Rachel spiraling into the dark underbelly of Anvard and a paradox that holds the key to her future: How do you find a Finder?

- Rising star Carla Speed McNeil has been nominated for seventeen industry awards, winning five times, since 1998!

- Voice won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Webcomic.

"Completely fascinating." -Warren Ellis

"Finder is, bar none, the best SF comic being published today." -Strange Horizons

Writer - Ron Marz
Artists - Stjepan Sejic, Luke Ross, Stephen Sadowski Rick Leonardi, Kevin Nowlan, & Mike Mayhew
Cover - Stjepan Sejic
Top Cow's stunning epic crossover by architect Ron Marz (WITCHBLADE, GREEN LANTERN) and painter Stjepan Sejic (WITCHBLADE, THE DARKNESS: LEVELS) is collected for the first time. Sara Pezzini prepares to give birth to her first child, but the forces of Light and Dark both covet the offspring of the Witchblade bearer!
This deluxe trade paperback collects FIRST BORN #1-3 as well as WITCHBLADE #110-112 featuring art by industry heavyweights Luke Ross, Stephen Sadowski, Rick Leonardi, Kevin Nowlan, and Mike Mayhew. As an added bonus, fans will get a cover gallery and an exclusive look into Sejic's sketchbook to see the developmental process that went into creating the summer's hottest crossover!

Writer/Artist:Bob Burden
Reprints: Flaming Carrot #12-18
Who is this arcane, bizarre, carousing, crime fighter who haunts the shadows and alleys of Iron City? The modern hero is redefined with this two-fisted, hard-drinking, womanizing, violent, and politically incorrect freebooter whose antics and mayhem will have you in stitches before you know it. Meet Mr. Furious, Captain Attack, Screwball, The Bikini Teens and Bondo-Man, the man of living bondo! Meet super criminals, flying dead dogs, all-girl motorcycle gangs and monsters 'the big ones' the Japanese kind!

Writer/Artist: Bob Burden
Reprints: Flaming Carrot #19-24
Summer nights, water-balloon fights, young girls in ragged cutoffs, a good band tonight on Carnival Island, and a walk along the great midway starts out this wild story of an impending alien invasion during Flaming Carrot's summer vacation in Smallville. Flaming Carrot leads a rebellion of the Trekkies and Dr. Whovians that were duped into helping the spacemen build their beachhead here on Earth. Plus, an all-new Flaming Carrot text story!

by Various
The previous four editions of Flight have propelled this anthology to the forefront of the graphic novel industry, garnering award nominations, creating great buzz at BEA, Comic-Con and other like-minded conventions, and generally striking a fresh note among jaded comics readers. Featuring short work from some of comics freshest voices, each volume of Flight will challgenge readers with a range of storytelling not often found in the comics medium. Featuring works from these creators: Michel Gagné, Reagan Lodge, Kazu Kibuishi, Phil Craven, Kean Soo, Matthew Bernier, Tony Cliff, Chris Appelhans, JP Ahonen, Sarah Mensinga, Joey Weiser, Bannister, Steve Hamaker, John Martz, Ryan North, Dave Roman, Svetlana Chmakova, Sonny Liew, Graham Annable, Scott Campbell, Kness Made, Richard Pose, And Paul Rivoche.

Edited by Kazu Kibushi
From Kean Soo's popular Jellaby character to Kazu Kibuishi's own Daisy Kutter, Flight Explorer features characters and worlds that will appeal to young readers. Effective in reaching reluctant readers and bibliophiles alike, Flight Explorer is destined to appeal to younger fans of books and graphic novels and the parents who want to introduce them to the wide world of reading.

Simone Lia (W/A)
Fluffy is a young rabbit with a human daddy named Michael, an anxious bachelor stuck in an uncomfortable, uncertain relationship with a woman who just happens to be Fluffy's preschool teacher. One day Michael decides to take Fluffy away for an impromptu trip to visit relatives in Sicily-and away from the overzealous affections of Miss Owers. Neither bunny nor man is truly prepared for the worldly excitement of a suspected kidnapping in Sicily, and both will be forever changed by the experience.
This delightful book explores the complicated nature of many relationships, from parent/child bonds to the intricacies of romance.
First U.S. edition of the internationally acclaimed and heartwarming graphic novel from Simone Lia.
b&w, 192 pages HC, 6 5/8" x 7 ¼"

(W) Chuck Austen (A) Matt Cossin Kelsey Fontine is an unemployed cop whose busted flywire forces him into a loser's life on the Aeon City-Ship. As Fontine searches for a boy's missing mother, he learns the dark side to the many privileges that come with having your brain connected via flywire.

Written and drawn by Jesse Moynihan

Since the dawn of human history, we as a species have sought to understand our existence through creationist fables of omnipotent deities, mythical creatures, and speculation of what, or who, may lie beyond the stars. In Forming Vol. 1, Jesse Moynihan takes these 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws them in the blender to create one epic, and irreverent, battle royal between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself.

An eon-spanning comedy, Forming details the spawning of worlds, and the trajectory of consciousness on Earth. The first in a trilogy of books, Nobrow is proud to collect the first volume of Jesse Moynihan’s acclaimed webcomic in a specially-designed graphic novel format truly worthy of its contents.

by John Rozum, Kody Chamberlain & Chee
History shows that in the 1500s, Nostradamus' three volumes of prophecies were best-sellers, making him a rich man. But what the world doesn't know is that he used his vast treasure-trove of riches to create a foundation to prevent his most catastrophic prophesies from occurring! This secret team still functions today, using Nostradamus' published and unpublished tomes to predict threats to worldwide security! In the vein of The X-Files, but with a 24-like spin!

Love. Hate. Fear. Fate. Four words that define our lives in different ways. Four words that lie at the heart of all our experiences. Four words that have long inspired artists to craft their most resonant work. FOUR-LETTER WORLDS examines how these four little words define our individual worlds in very big ways. This brand new anthology features sixteen original short stories by twenty-six renowned creators, including JOE CASEY, CHYNNA CLUGSTON-MAJOR, ANTONY JOHNSTON, PHIL HESTER, JIM MAHFOOD, SCOTT MORSE and ANDI WATSON (Image comics)

(W/A) Michael Zulli

The acclaimed Sandman illustrator retreated for years to produce this semi-autobiographical tale that takes readers into the most treacherous recesses of the human experience. Nearly two decades in the making, Fracture is less a graphic novel and more a self-exorcism onto the printed page, evidence of how emotionally explosive graphic novels can be.

By Mark Kalesniko

A 416-page tour de force chronicling a single day in the life of the author's recurring dog-headed alter ego, Alex Kalienka. Stuck in a horrendous traffic jam on his way to his increasingly miserable job as an animator at Mickey Walt Studios, a burnt-out and depressed Alex alternately rages, reminisces, fantasises and hallucinates. Then again, are they in fact fantasies or prescient flashes? Is a threatening car tailing Alex just a paranoid fantasy or a genuine threat? Readers will have to wait until the very end to find out.

Writer- Lindsay Hornsby, Artists- Jose Pimientelle, Lauren Affe, Publisher- Slave Labour Graphics

Friends play many kinds of games with each other: cops and robbers, checkers, tag. The best of friends will make up their own games. Todd and Kevin's friendship is built on such a game. However, the rules and premise are far from the typical childhood games. A dispute amongst the two splits them into very different directions: one sees the game for the cruel act that it is, while the other decides it must move to the next level.

Writer:Steve Niles Artist:Josh Medors, Peter Repovski
Reprints:FUSED THINK LIKE A MACHINE #1-4
Mark Haggerty was a promising young robotics engineer with a smart, sexy wife and a bright future just within his grasp—until his body became fused with an experimental robot suit during a routine testing session. Trapped inside a powerful, high-tech body that's as mysterious as it is cool, and suddenly the unwilling pawn in a deadly struggle between obsessive egos and misguided military forces who wish to recruit him for their own uses, Mark's life is forever changed. And the outlook for life returning to anything close to "normal"...well, it's not looking too good. With his human body consumed more each day by the Cy-bot suit, his once-loving marriage is suffering the consequences of his transformation, and the most dangerous elements in the world closing in around him, Mark's just doing what he can to get through each day. The sudden appearance of a bizarre super-villain at the military base he's called home spins Mark's world even more violently out of control. And soon he realizes one thing—his only recourse is to keep fighting whatever gets in his way, until he gets his life back.

In the future, humanity is in a seemingly endless war with an alien race. The struggle is dominated by giant war machines called Gear. Only the best and the brightest are allowed to drive these behemoths. The process of elimination begins in junior high.
Thirteen-year-old Teresa Gottlieb has just entered the most prestigious military academy, known to all as Gear School, to try and become one of those elite. But on top of all the usual troubles that a seventh-grader has to put up with-boys, social cliques, hellish instructors-she also has to deal with three-story-tall robots and alien invasions!
Teresa needs to learn that when the bell rings, the adventure starts.

Gear School is written by Adam Gallardo (Star Wars: Infinities-Return of the Jedi; 100 Girls) and illustrated by Núria Peris (Star Wars Tales, Karas).

By: Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell, Alex Toth

Written by the Eisner Award-winning team of Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell-who produced Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles-Genius, Isolated includes many examples of Toth's art, from his earliest stories at DC in the 1940s, his defining work at Standard, his incomparable Zorro comics in the 1950s, examples from his thousands of drawings for animation studios, through his mature-and some say best-work, such as Bravo For Adventure, in the 1970s and '80s. A special section collects, for the first time, the complete Jon Fury pages that Toth produced while in the army, a section that alone is worth the price of admission. To flesh out the complete story of his life and art, Mullaney and Canwell have conducted wide-ranging interviews with dozens of Toth's peers, friends, and family members.

Writer:Dupuy
Artist:Berberian
A collection of Dupuy and Berberian's early Mr. Jean stories, where the reader is introduced to the life of the titular character, a laconic, single Parisian male struggling through the usual calamities of life: bachelorhood in his twenties and early thirties, and the impending responsibilities of marriage, kids, and deadlines for his publisher. Mr. Jean is a typical everyman - a scholar who fancies himself a man of letters, a nostalgist whose memories carry a weight few can understand, a lover whose heart knows the greatest of burdens. Melancholic yet joyful reflections on past loves, favorite authors, marriage, and fatherhood are laid out in a breezy, comic style.
also by Dupuy

Written by Erik Luke, art by Adam Hughes, Terry Dodson, Scott Benefiel and Matt Haley, cover by Adam Hughes.

If you're already dead, you might as well make the best of it. Someone brutally murdered reporter Elisa Cameron, but back from the grave as the spectral avenger Ghost, Elisa intends to find out who killed her and why . . . and grab a double dose of .45-caliber retribution. But Ghost's journey to the truth follows a dark, twisted path, and the revelations she unearths may lead not to redemption, but damnation. Collects Ghost Special #1, Ghost #1-12 (first series), and "Sweet Things" from Decade of Dark Horse #2.

There are many verifiable facts concerning 26-year-old Annah Billips. She likes sushi and mountains and piglets, but hates paper cuts and beer breath. She flirts with girls and boys, and loves to travel. She might have a missing sister... or she might be totally insane.

Did Annah invent an imaginary sister named Ginger during her parents’ traumatic divorce? Or did her mad scientist father extract part of her brain and transform it into a living twin? In this whimsical, thought-provoking graphic novel, a host of narrators (including boyfriends, girlfriends, neighbors, bystanders, magicians, and passing animals) try their best to unlock the mystery of Annah... and the Gingerbread Girl.

by Bruce Paley & Carol Swain
Acclaimed British cartoonist Carol Swain's trademark visual approach to comics, typified by exquisitely composed panels that vividly capture both anomie and pathos, is perfectly suited to dramatising the life of her partner, Bruce Paley - a man who turned 18 during the Summer of Love, putting him on the front line of the 1960s youth movement. Paley's tumultuous journey takes him from being a Kerouac-loving hippie through to dropping acid at Disneyland and crashing with armed Black Panthers at the Democratic National Convention.

by Tom Gauld

Goliath of Gath isn't much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him, then you shall be our servants." Day after day he reluctantly repeats his speech, and the isolation of this duty gives him the chance to banter with his shield-bearer and reflect on the beauty of his surroundings. This is the story of David and Goliath as seen from Goliath's side of the Valley of Elah. Quiet moments in Goliath s life as a soldier are accentuated by Tom Gauld s drawing style, which contrasts minimalist scenery and near-geometric humans with densely crosshatched detail reminiscent of Edward Gorey. Goliath s battle is simultaneously tragic and bleakly funny, as bureaucracy pervades even this most mythic of figures.

by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Designed and edited by one of today's most popular cartoonists, Adrian Tomine, Good-Bye is the third volume in a groundbreaking new series that collects Tatsumi's short stories about Japanese urban life. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist's vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan. Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt directly as a result of World War II - a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, it is hardly the overriding theme. A philanthropic foot fetishist, a rash-ridden retiree, and a lonely public onanist are but a few of the characters etching out darkly nuanced lives in the midst of isolated despair and fleeting pleasure.

Writer/Artist: Jim Mahfood. Reprints:
GRRL SCOUTS #1-4 originally published by Oni Press, plus a bonus sketchbook section and guest pin-ups by various artists. Gwen, Daphne, and Rita are three girls doing what they have to do to survive in big bad Freak City. From expressing themselves through graffiti or cutting loose on the dance floor, the party is always raging - that is, until the Brotherhood of the Cracker catches wind of the good time and decides to crack down.

Writer/Artist:Jim Mahfood. When word around the hood spreads about the Grrls' illegal endeavors, Gwen, Daphne and Rita are forced to go legit and get real jobs. Rita uses her artistic talent to hook-up with a local graffiti crew and finds love along the way. Meanwhile, Daphne encounters the horrors of working behind a bar at the Weird Hog and Gwen struggles and strives through the monotony of "normal" employment until she finds what could be her true calling. Reprints:GRRL SCOUTS WORK SUCKS #1-4

by Chris Blain
Chris Blain's vibrant artwork and vivid storytelling combine in Gus & His Gang to put a whole new spin on the Wild West, from bank heists to the women, the train robberies to the women, and the gun-fights to the women of a rag-tag trio of Wild West bandits!