CURSED DAWN
The weird, the dark, the unknown, at the edge of sanity and time!
CURSE OF THE PHANTASM #6
Plotted by EXCITER
Written by JOSS WHEDON
Art by MIKE MIGNOLA
“WHATEVER WORKS” Part One “GRIM & GRITTY”
The Phantasm, with the help of V, Gray Ghost, Cheshire, and Tigress, has succeeded. In a bloody coup, Bane and his regime have been ousted from control of Santa Prisca. But in the aftermath, will Tigress allow her sister Cheshire to kill their father and Bane's top lieutenant, Sportsmaster, even if he is a professional scumbag?
As Andrea and her erstwhile allies attempt to rebuild, the world's eyes are finally upon the much-beleaguered South American nation. With the Phantasm's cabal seen as terrorists due to the Capitolio's destruction at the hands of V, the clandestine International Operations has elected to send in their most capable covert operations team to ensure a new regime favorable to their interests is put in place. Enter the indomitable soldiers bonded with golden symbiotes, codename: Wetworks! Their mission? Seek and Destroy! Their leader? Jackson Dane! Their problem? Dane and the Phantasm used to date!
32 PGs./Rated T+...$2.99
EMBER: ANGEL OF FIRE #1 ***NEW SERIES***
Plot by SUNOFDARKCHILD
Written by PETER DAVID
Art by LEONARD KIRK
“FROM THE FIRE”
Leesburg is under attack. A mysterious cult has been kidnapping and sacrificing civilians in satanic rituals to summon demons to terrorize the town. The daughter of detective Fred Danvers is their latest victim. While Fred uses every means at his disposal to track down the cult and get his daughter Linda back, journalist Cutter Sharp is attempting to get the scoop on the biggest story Leesburg has ever seen, an attempt which may cost him his life.
Fortunately for Cutter, an even bigger story is waiting to be told. In its darkest hour, Leesburg has a new hero. Who is the mysterious Ember? Why does she resemble the artificial life form known as the Matrix? What is her connection to Linda Danvers? And can she stop the Chaos Cult once and for all before it destroys Leesburg?
32 PGs./Rated T+...$2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #7
Plotted by EXCITER
Written by MARK WAID
Art by MATTEO SCALERA
“SLAVE NEW WORLD” Part One “LIBERTY OR DEATH”
Yorick Brown was patient zero. When he touched the Heart of Darkness, he had no idea it would allow the malevolent Eclipso to possess his mind and spirit, nor that he would be the vessel that spreads pieces of the self-replicating Heart to countless other victims like a virus. Skartaris and Gem World have already fallen, their citizens added to the army of thralls mentally enslaved by Eclipso and his insidious ally, the Ultra-Humanite. Their next target: Earth!
The invasion begins in the third world, where major powers and "heroes" have always turned a blind eye to the population's suffering. No one comes to save these people. No one... except the Justice League Dark! Dr. Fate summons the League to Nyasir in Africa, where Eclipso's invasion has begun in earnest – but too quickly do they learn that no one is immune to the Heart of Darkness! Etrigan, Lobo, and Amethyst are all infected, leaving Swamp Thing, Zealot, Azrael, Zatanna, and Dr. Fate with a grim, heart-breaking choice: fight their friends... or fall! The day is lost, and one member of the League will be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice! No misdirection, no fake-outs – one member of the Justice League Dark will die! And the survivors will need all the help they can get... even if it comes from an individual they inadvertently allowed to escape from Tartarus! Enter the God of War: Kratos!
32 PGs./Rated T+...$2.99
SENTINELS OF MAGIC #5
Plot by NX01A
Script by MIKE CAREY
Art by TRAVIS CHAREST
Cover by STEPHEN R. BISSETTE & JOHN TOTLEBEN
“Orchis” Part One “Arm in arm, We'll Walk at Daybreak”
Theme song: Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home
• With the QUEEN OF FABLES' mythic essence and stolen wish energies liquidated and reparated back to humanity by SHADE the CHANGING MAN under the guidance of DOCTOR MIST and page 616 of the Offshore Banking Code (Expanded Edition), the arcane associates lament the death of BLACK ORCHID whose body instantly rotted and decayed into mulch and maggots after being killed by the Queen.
• While the others mourn at Doctor Mist's House of Mists in Nigeria, SHELLY KENMORE and the reawakened MITCH SHELLEY sit down in RESURRECTION MAN's brain to talk about the way forward. One body, two minds, no sign of Shelly moving on to the Deadlands despite BLOODWYND's necromantic assistance. Something's gotta give and it might just be Shelly's family!
• Noted paranormal skeptic, DOCTOR THIRTEEN, has somehow gotten superhuman abilities and tries to take the M-Vest from Shade who fights against the bad doctor with the help of Black Orchid. Wait... Black Orchid?!
• Does A.R.G.U.S. consultant, Dr. Jason Woodrue, have anything to do with Black Orchid's seeming return?
32 PGs./Rated T+...$2.99
JONAH HEX: PURGE NIGHT #7
Plotted by MCGAFFER
Written by JIMMY PALMIOTTI
Art by TONY DEZUNIGA
Jonah hex runs the gauntlet in an undersiege White House! The Hex Posse has tracked him down as he tries to talk sense into the one man who can stop the madness. The grief maddened President must be made to see that if he gives these men free rein tonight what makes him think they'll stop come daylight? The genie is out of the bottle and Jonah desperately tries to survive on two fronts as the hunters and the President's men try to gun him down. Meanwhile the President already has an audience, the Saint of Killers holds his gun to the man's head and is already forgetting this dead man walking!
32 PGs./Rated M...$2.99
SANDMAN #7
Plotted by MCGAFFER
Written by NEIL GAIMAN
Art by MIKE DRINGENBERG
It's about time Dream had a holiday, but when all of reality is your province where do you go? Well there's no where more separated from reality then the mind of a drunken Irish vampire! But when dark thoughts, a darker past and alcohol get all mixed up can even Dream survive this chaotic landscape of unfathomable madness? Well he's got his sunglasses and his waders on, a drink in hand for himself ...and for some reason a purple rabbit named Rusty for companionship?!? Well after the universe almost ended and he nearly traded his very being for oblivion alongside his brother it's good to surround yourself with the ridiculous and walk unknowingly towards an uncertain future. All dreams should be made of this!
32 PGs./Rated T+...$2.99
DOOM PATROL #4
Plotted by LEE STONE
Written by JEFF PARKER
Art by CHRIS BACHALO and BILL SIENKIEWICZ
INSIDE LOOKING OUT, Conclusion.
The Chief guides the Doom Patrol, both old and new, into a final confrontation with Gargaux and the Dominators.
The new members discover what it means to be a hero as someone makes the ultimate sacrifice.
You don't want to miss this extra-sized epic issue of Parker and Bachalo's new Doom Patrol that will set the stage for what's to come!
40 PGs./Rated T...$3.99
HELLBLAZER #12
Plotted by BANEOFKINGS
Written by CHINA MIEVILLE
Art by ANDREA SORRENTINO
“SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” Part Two of Four “SIN CITY”
John Constantine and Lucifer Morningstar working as a good cop/bad cop team in Las Vegas is a recipe for disaster, right? Can they even survive one night in Vegas without running into something that happens to be the start of the latest threat of an apocalypse to hit the USA? It turns out they can't - and it might be at Lucifer's own doing, as the Devil plans to recruit Constantine to his own cause, something that Constantine may be willing to listen to, which is going to put him at odds with his old friends, namely, Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Deadman and Midnighter, who are currently trapped in Hell and the only man who can save them... isn't listening!
32 PGs./Rated M...$2.99