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Last
Temptation |
| by Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, & Alice
Cooper |
Paperback: 104 pages
Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 156971455X |
$9.95
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| Steven is afraid.
Afraid of ghost stories, afraid of growing up ... just afraid. That is,
until he meets the mysterious Showman and his Theatre of the Real. Steven
takes a ticket and watches the show on a dare, but getting out of the performance
will be harder than he ever imagined. And Steven learns what it is to be
truly afraid. |
| Neil Gaiman,
internationally acclaimed writer of both prose fiction (Neverwhere, Stardust)
and graphic novels (The Sandman, Signal to Noise) and artist Michael Zulli
(The Sandman, The Dreaming) team up to create this dark and brooding morality
tale. Originally published as part of the short-lived Marvel Music line
of the early `90s, this stunning trade paperback features sepia-colored
ink on cream paper to better showcase the lush beauty of Zulli`s duoshade
artwork in an affordable 6x9 format.
From Publishers Weekly
A spooky collaboration between
novelist and comics writer Gaiman (Sandman; and see review of American
Gods, above) and creepy shock rocker Cooper, this is the story of Steven,
a boy with many fears: girls, ghost stories and growing up among them.
On a dare, he steps into an odd theater and meets a mysterious, top-hatted
showman, an Alice Cooper-like figure (complete with dark eye-circles) who
offers him a way to avoid his fears by simply giving up his "potential"
and staying forever in a dreamy netherworld of spirits and wraiths. And
after encountering Mercy, a beautiful ticket-taker in the ghostly theater,
Steven gives the offer serious consideration. Cooper is the inspiration
for the Grand Guignol of this demonic theater, a chilling metaphor for
the seductive allure of complacency and indolence. Gaiman's story is a
whimsical horror tale about confronting the fears within, and Zulli's black-and-white
illustrations have a dark, emotive line, presented in a brownish, bloodlike
hue that makes even a mundane, autumnal street scene seem eerie and foreboding.
Copyright 2001
Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.27 x 8.93 x 5.94
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NOCTURNALS |
| by Dan Brereton |
Paperback: 184 pages
Oni Press
ISBN: 0966712706 |
$19.95
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| When
the terminator cuts across the country, dividing day into night, it is
time for those who thrive in darkness to come out under the stars . Bats
chase insects and moths are drawn to porchlights. Possums grub and wheeze
in wet culverts while the masked Raccoon crosses a busy highway with it's
young. And while the odd barn owl dives for a juicy field mouse, far across
the fields, a city awakens. |
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day Pacific City is a bright and busy coastal sprawl. By night, it undergoes
a Hyde-like transformation. Pacific City turns in, and a darker one takes
it's place.
A
City of Peril. A town where death comes too cheap and too often, and dark
deals sap the lifeblood and replace it with cold sewage. It is on these
Perilous streets that Doc Horror and his inhuman crew lurk. Vigilant ...
cloaked in shadows ... No criminal alive has matched Horror and his company.
The Nocturnals fear no man by night. Of course, dawn will always have the
final say ...
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About the Author
Dan
Brereton is one of a bare handful of painters left in the industry who
still do comics full time. Just barely out of art school, Dan burst onto
the scene in 1989 with the award winning BLACK TERROR miniseries (Eclipse
Comics) and hasn't looked back since. In the last ten years, he's produced
an amazingly prolific body of work, has been nominated many times for several
different industry and fan awards.
Dan
lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains with his three kids and a string of
ill-fated pets. Dan's hobbies include reading crime fiction, watching monster
movies (and pretty much any other kind of movie he can get his hands on),
travelling to comic conventions, and wrangling his children by way of threats,
intimidation and candy. |
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The
GUNWITCH |
| by Dan Brereton |
Paperback: 104 pages
Oni Press
ISBN: 1929998228 |
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$8.95
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| The Gunwitch,
silent and deadly bodyguard to the misfit family of monstrous heroes known
as the Nocturnals, breaks away in his first solo adventure! When the pistol-packing
Gunwitch and his young charge, Evening Horror, find themselves in a small
town ravaged by an unholy war between undead outlaws and true Hell's Angels
- motorcycle ridin' vampires - The Gunwitch takes it upon himself to bring
down both sides before any more innocents can be hurt. |
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protector embroils himself in the conflict, what once seemed to be an old
fashioned turf war is revealed to be a much more sinister conflict with
far-reaching and horrific consequences. What ensues is a high-octane parade
of blood, guts, twists and turns, mixing the American Spaghetti Western
and drive-in horror with the hard-boiled sense of gallows humor Brereton`s
NOCTURNALS are known for. You'll never leave your night-light off again.
From Oni Press:
Dan Brereton is the acclaimed
creator of such comics as Nocturnals, Giantkiller, and JLA: Seven
Caskets and the painter
of series like Batman: Thrillkiller and World's Finest. Brereton has
combined a unique painting
style with a love for the horror and pulp novels of the past to form a
new kind of comic book. |
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BRERETON |
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NOCTURNALS:
THE
DARK FOREVER |
| by Dan Brereton |
Paperback: 96 pages
Oni Press
ISBN: 1929998236 |
$9.95
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Christopher
Allen, Comic Book Galaxy
"...cool monsterific action!
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Ain'T It Cool News
"...beautifully painted
and exceedingly eerie. " |
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are back in Pacific City to find their home steeped in dread. A new dark
star has appeared in the night sky, and the walking dead are roaming the
streets, looking for victims to recruit in their army of unholy flesh.
It makes for a strange homecoming for the heroic Nocturnals, who have been
wandering the world on separate quests. As the one-man demolition squad,
Firelion, and the troubled and dangerous Starfish roll into town, they
begin to free their neighborhood of the creeping death while searching
for the evil that is causing corpses to rise. Could it have something to
do with the ancient, underground cavern that Doc Horror has been exploring?
Does the nefarious secret lie behind the massive door he'd found buried
in the rocks below the surface? It's all-out terror and hardboiled action
as the gang regroup for a mission that will unveil subterranean mysteries
and a primordial legacy of inhuman darkness that's been stirring beneath
the depths. With the precocious Halloween Girl, the deadly Gunwitch, the
enigmatic Polychrome, and the devious Raccoon-our spooky pulp heroes are
back together! Cloaked in shadow, the Nocturnals protect us in the dead
of night, when no one else would dare. |
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