Dark Horse Figures Continue Domo’s U.S. Charge

Dark Horse Comics’ program of officially licensed Domo goods expands with Domo 8” Flocked Vinyl Figures, four fun & furry incarnations of the Japanese mascot of NHK’s satellite channel BS2.

Besides being recognized by 90% of Japanese schoolchildren, Domo is widely known beyond his native land by millions of enthusiasts who enjoy Japanese culture thanks to videos and other products released overseas.

Collectors should be charmed by this flocked vinyl figure of Domo, offered in four vibrant colors: a Classic Brown, Fabulous Fuchsia, Royal Blue and Polar White.

The figures are scheduled to ship on June 11.

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Nick Fury Rejoins Fight in Mighty Avengers #12

Eisner Award-winning Daredevil creators Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev brings back one of the Marvel Universe’s top guns to join the fight against the attempted Skrull conquest of Earth in Marvel Comics’ Mighty Avengers #12, a tie-in to the Secret Invasion event marking the return of the one & only Nick Fury!

The former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been a key Marvel player since his debut in 1963. This tale of the time he’s spent underground since the calamitous events of Secret War – created by two of Marvel’s biggest stars.

There, Fury discovers pieces of his life and clues to the Skrull invasion that puts him squarely in the aliens’ crosshairs. And in addition to revealing what happened to Fury, this issue also reveals a major Skrull infiltrator in a development that no Marvelite should miss!

The 32-page, full-color is set to ship with a cover by Marko Djurdjevic on April 23.

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Lady Pendragon Faces Challenge of Pilot Season

Top Cow Productions’ highly successful Pilot Season program continues
with the return of a fan-favorite heroine in the all-new Pilot Season:
Lady Pendragon #1, written by her creator, Top Cow President & COO Matt
Hawkins, and illustrated by ERU of IFS.

Lady Pendragon enters the program with a time-spanning mystery that
starts on present-day Mars, where scientists discover a circle of
stones, a sword and a cache of encased Latin scrolls that translate
into passages from the historical fiction of author Jennifer Drake.

In the distant past, Guinevere – facing a shattered Camelot after the
death of King Arthur and the fall of the Round Table – attempts to
defeat a Saxon incursion and heal her realm with Excalibur. From a
desperate time when magic is dying to a new age where it may be found
anew, these two stories interlace into an unforgettable tale.

Topped by a magnificent painted cover by legendary movie poster artist
Drew Struzan, the 32-page, full-color is slated to ship on May 28.

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Prehistoric Adventure Returns in Kubert’s Tor

Comic legend Joe Kubert takes readers back to the Dawn of Time with DC Comics’ Tor #1, his first all-new Tor story in more than a decade!

One of the comic industry’s most revered creators, Kubert’s work on DC’s Sgt. Rock and Hawkman, in addition to his run on Tarzan and his award-winning Fax from Sarajevo, have made him a lasting fan favorite.

Kubert returns to the title he co-created in 1953 with a new tale of the young Tor, exiled by his people and fighting for survival in a harsh prehistoric world. Not content to merely exist, Tor also wrestles with questions that would plague humankind for eons: Why are we here? Is there more to life than suffering and survival? Is violence the only answer?

Fighting new battles, making new friends and understanding his own humanity, Tor begins a personal evolution under the direction of a master storyteller.

The 32-page, full-color issue is scheduled to ship on May 7.

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DC/Vertigo Renovates House of Mystery

Writers Bill Willingham & Matt Sturges (Eisner Award-nominated Jack of Fables) sign on as the architects for one of comics’ eeriest buildings when DC Comics/Vertigo reinvents a horror classic for the modern era with House of Mystery #1.

In this incarnation, five characters are inexplicably trapped in a supernatural bar. Each has a terrible, inescapable past – and each tells a tale that will comprise every issue’s first storyline by Willingham & Sturges.

The chills continue in framing sequences written by Willingham and illustrated by a cast of guest artists – including Ross Campbell, Jill Thompson and Bernie Wrightson.

The 32-page, full-color debut is set to ship on May 7 and is suggested for mature readers.

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Top Creators Unite for X-Men: Divided We Stand

Following the calamitous events of Messiah CompleX, a star-studded roster of creative teams tracks the scattered remnants of the Marvel Universe’s most famous mutant team in a two-issue limited series that opens with Marvel Comics’ X-Men: Divided We Stand - Book 1.

This new title it reveals what’s become of Cannonball and Husk (by Mike Carey & Brandon Peterson); Nightcrawler (by Matt
Fraction & Jamie McKelvie); Storm, Black Panther and Neznho (by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost and Sana Takeda); and Anole (by Skottie Young).

Each story provides a look at Messiah CompleX’s fallout while setting the stage for events to come in the X-books this summer.

With a cover by Peterson, the 48-page, full-color issue is slated to ship on April 16.

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Comic Art Now Hardcover

Previously unpublished art by fan-favorites Kaare Andrews, Frank Cho, J.G. Jones, Steve McNiven, Sean Phillips, Alex Ross, Bryan Talbot, Chris Ware and others make up this 192-page, full-color Featured Item, along with observations by writers Garth Ennis, Paul Gravett, Grant Morrison and Mark Millar to round out the volume.

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The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

This 496-page, partial-color Featured Item – offering comprehensive biographies of Batman, his allies, his enemies, his crimefighting tools and more – is excellent for acquainting moviegoers whose appetites are whetted for Batman’s comic-book history by the release of The Dark Knight.

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500 Essential Graphic Novels Softcover

At 528 full-color pages, this volume – written by Gene Kannenberg with a foreword by Garth Ennis – offers new and current comic readers a guide to the 500 greatest graphic novels ever created, citing the myriad elements of each that make them required reading.

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Two NEW Frazetta Books Announced for May!

Hugo Award-winning editors Arnie & Cathy Fenner take two looks at
the inspired career of one of today’s most famous science fiction and
fantasy artists.

The 176-page Legacy illustrates Frazetta’s cross-genre
influence with his most famous paintings and Frazetta’s commentary.


The 160-page Testament offers fans 150 full-color paintings with Frazetta’s
personal photos, comments and anecdotes, plus testimonials from Dave
Stevens, Bruce Timm and Bernie Wrightson.

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Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor Hardcover

The World’s Greatest Detective – and the reader – must clear Bruce Wayne’s late father of a long-hidden murder in this 72-page, full-color, interactive book containing removable facsimiles of police reports, Thomas Wayne’s journal, Wayne Manor maps, and more.

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Comics’ Top Artists Open Doors to Studio Space

Image Comics grants an all-access pass into the minds of some of
comics’ greatest artists in Studio Space, a collection of visits with
top creators conducted by Joel Meadows & Gary Marshall, creators of the famed British magazine Tripwire.

The volume, offered in hardcover and softcover, includes discussions with Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Jim Lee, Joe Kubert, Tim Bradstreet, Duncan Fegredo, Walter Simonson, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Tim Sale and others who recount their beginnings, their first big breaks and whether their working methods have changed along the way. Their experiences should enlighten fans who are interested in peeking “behind the curtain” and inspire budding artists looking for insights that can shape their own work and ambitions.

Weighing in at 320 pages, both full-color editions are set to ship on May 28, 2008.

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Lost Boys’ Frogs Jump into Action for DC/WildStorm

The comic-book scholars who once helped save the town of Santa Carla from a gang of vampires in Joel Schumacher’s classic 1987 thriller The Lost Boys are summoned once more for DC Comics/WildStorm Productions’ The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs #1, the start of a four-issue limited series starring the ever-resourceful Frog Brothers.

Predating the screen adventures of Buffy or Blade, Edgar and Alan Frog provided The Lost Boys with scene-stealing moments that made them as popular with moviegoers as the film’s central characters. With the Frogs’ set to return in this summer’s eagerly awaited The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, writer Hans Rodionoff and artist Joel Gomez bridge the gap between the two stories with this chilling, action-packed story that should delight fans of the film with this new line of comics starring the cinema’s most frightening and popular characters.

The 32-page, full-color debut issue is slated to ship on May 14, and is intended for mature readers.

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Eisner’s Spirit Lives on as Dark Horse Mini-bust

One of master storyteller Will Eisner’s unpublished concept drawings springs out of his archive and into the studio of sculptor Tony Cipriano with the creation of The Classic Spirit Mini-bust from Dark Horse Comics.

First published in 1940, The Spirit enthralled newspaper audiences for more than 30 years with stories about a masked crimefighting vigilante whose fists patrolled the streets of Central City. Today, the rough-&-tumble adventures of Denny Colt that helped make Eisner a legend fascinate a new generation of readers that stands to grow with Lions Gate Entertainment’s upcoming live-action film directed by another master of graphic fiction, Frank Miller.

This 4.5” x 7.5” piece includes a separate Central City manhole cover that can be displayed on or near the bust to re-create the strip’s danger-filled noir atmosphere.

The mini-bust is scheduled to ship on July 23. Preorder it now at YikesToysAndComics.com!