HUNGRY GHOSTS #1
On a dark, haunted night, a Russian oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles–where each storyteller spins a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings–and prays to survive the challenge.
Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food.
First course: With bad consequence, a ramen chef refuses to help a beggar, and a band of pirates get more (and less) than they were bargaining for after their encounter with a drowning woman turns ghastly.
Hungry Ghosts is cooked up by the infamous author and chef, Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential, Emmy-Award winning TV star of Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster, back again from their New York Times #1 best seller, Get Jiro!). Joining them this issue are stellar artists Alberto Ponticelli and Vanesa Del Rey, with amazing color by Jose Villarrubia, and a drop-dead cover by Paul Pope For more information, go to https://www.darkhorse.com.
Top Shelf For March
In Book Two of this alt-history adventure, Peter, Helen and the rest of Carnegie’s “Specials” would like nothing more than to return to normalcy along with the rest of the country — especially after defeating their enemies in Book One. But the anarchists have other plans. Luigi Galleani and the Zeno cabal reach out across Europe and across the Atlantic to wreak havoc, divide the enemy, build an army, and capture plans for the world’s deadliest weapon. If they are to be stopped, the tiny group of heroes from Jekyll will need to find new resolve, new resources and new allies — and do it all before Nikola Tesla’s most terrible creation is unleashed.
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book Two): A Devil’s Reach
Written by Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, & Jack Lowe. Illustrated by Moses Nester, with colors by S. J. Miller. (MAY 2018)
$19.99 (US) • ISBN 978-1-60309-426-9 • Diamond: FEB180481 • For young adults and up (13+)
Full-color softcover graphic novel with French Flaps, 6.9″ x 10.4″ • 168 pages.
Johnny Boo creates an incredible Ice Cream Computer that can turn anything into delicious ice cream. Old toys that you don’t want to play with anymore? Ice cream! Clods of dirt and grass? Ice cream! It works great… until Squiggle decides to turn himself into ice cream! Then: Johnny Boo time travels to the future, where the Mean Little Boy tries to add him to his butterfly collection. Can Squiggle save the day, or will everyone get turned into ice cream??
Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer by James Kochalka (JUNE 2018)
$9.99 (US) • ISBN 978-1-60309-435-1 • Diamond: FEB180484 • For all ages (4-8+)
Full-color hardcover graphic novel • 6″ x 9″ • 40 pages
Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome… and it’s time to check out.
LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) returns with another feast of visual imagination and emotional intensity that will haunt readers’ dreams long after the book is closed.
Cloud Hotel by Julian Hanshaw (MAY 2018)
$19.99 (US) • ISBN 978-1-60309-425-2 • Diamond: FEB180480 • For mature readers (16+)
Full-color softcover graphic novel with flaps • 6.5″ x 9″ • 160 pages
For more information, go to www.topshelfcomix.com
Amigo Comics March 2018 Solicitations
Here are our solicits for March! In the terrific miniseries Call of the Suicide Forest, written by Desiree Bressend with art by Ruben Gil, and standard covers by Toni Fejzula, we are so lucky to have another variant cover by maestro Pasqual Ferry! But you should check the story. It will give you the chills!
Do not miss the third issue of Tales of Rogues! where we introduce new creators and new stories of Bram and Weasel. With art by Manuel Diaz and Alexandra Thöne, and the funny script by JOS, be prepared to see Weasel in one of the most difficult corners of her career!
Amigo Comics! Look for us in Diamond Previews!
Amigo Comics! We’ve even got corner boxes on the cover!
And remember: PRE-ORDER!! Preferably via your friendly neighborhood comic book dealer!
PS Previews off all below titles can be found on our website.
Call of the Suicide Forest #3 (of 5)
Story: Desiree Bressend
Art: Ruben Gil
Cover: Toni Fejzula
Retailer incentive cover, served 1:10, by maestro Pasqual Ferry!
Can the tradition survive the dead? Can the soul-less survive tradition? In the Aokigahara forest, the cradle of horrific ghost stories, notorious because of the many people going there to end their own lives… the young student Portia can’t run away from the Yokai, while ranger Ryoko tries to find a Buddhist path for both. Even if this means to betray everything in what she believed. Join both on the borders of the Japanese undead veil!
This miniseries is the sequel of the acclaimed graphic novel The Suicide Forest, written by El Torres with art by Gabriel Walta, masterfully written by Desiree Bressend with the artwork by Ruben Gil, but it can be read independently. And this time, a Retailer incentive cover, served 1:10, by maestro Pasqual Ferry!
UPC Code: 732030830844—00311
JAN181190 – STL074136
Alternate cover:JAN181189 – STL074133
32 pages FC
Toni Fejzula (Dark Horse’s Dead Inside, Veil…) has created the covers of the miniseries, a set of five connected covers! Check them each month!
Tales of Rogues! #3 (of 6): Games Edge!
Writer: JOS
Art: Manuel Díaz
Color: Alexandra Thöne
Cover: Stefano Martino
Want to read more stories about Bram and Weasel? Tales of Rogues! are auto-conclusive comics by new, emerging hot artists!
Bram is missing! Weasel is on her way to the rescue! But something stands in her way. She must demonstrate her skills to the most demanding mermaid audience… or die! And we’re not talking exactly about rogue skills…
UPC Code: 713482801859—00311
JAN181191 – STL074137
32 pages FC
For more information, go to www.amigocomics.com.
THE TRUE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID
‘Being an authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid’s brief and turbulent life.’ One of our folk legends of the great Wild West, William H. Bonney went from cowboy and gunslinger for a rancher to pure outlawry forever dodging justice in New Mexico when it wasn’t even a state. On the one hand, he was charming, fun-loving –often at social events like dances-, quite appealing to the ladies. Also conversant in Spanish, “Billito” was popular with the Spanish speaking crowd. On the other hand, he had no compunction to coldly kill a man, a sheriff, a deputy, anyone who got in his way rustling cattle or horses for an illicit living. He also proved hard to keep in jail even when caught.
It is probably his feats of derring-do escaping from jails that made him most famous and this is the main subject of this biography following him until he is shot in pitch darkness by lawmen obsessed with getting rid of him.
6×9, 56pp., B&W hardcover, $15.99, ISBN 9781681121345, e-book: $6.99
For more information, go to nbmpub.com.
NBM Graphic Novels Announces March 2018 Schedule
THE INITIATES: Paperback Edition
Etienne Davodeau
The sold out hardcover now in paperback. Etienne Davodeau is a comic artist. He doesn’t know much about the world of wine-making.
Richard Leroy is a wine-maker. He’s rarely even read comics.
But these two are full of good will and curiosity. Why do we choose to spend one’s life writing and creating comics or producing wine? How and for whom do we do them?
To answer these questions, for more than a year, Etienne went to work in Richard’s vineyards and cellar. Richard, in return, leapt into the world of comics. They opened a lot of bottles and read many comics. They traveled around, meeting authors and wine-makers sharing their passion for their jobs.
The first time a book explores the nature of a man’s vocation with a true life representation of it from two very different perspectives. They get to realize they both have that precious and necessary power to bring people together.
With guest appearances by Trondheim (Dungeon, Little Nothings), Emmanuel Guibert (The Photographer) and Marc-Antoine Matthieu (Museum Vaults).
8×11, 272pp., B&W trade pb: $19.99 ISBN 9781681121338
ROMAN RITUAL
Writer: El Torres
Artist: Jaime Martínez
Color: Sandra Molina
From the master of Horror El Torres and art by Jaime Martínez! Self-exiled priest John Brennan, a troubled exorcist, is summoned to Rome to stop an ancient evil spreading within the Holy See itself. A revolutionary story about possessions and exorcisms, with ties to the church’s shady past, and a man, almost helpless and alone before the evil that would bring the end of the Catholic church.
This volume collects the acclaimed four-issue horror miniseries ROMAN RITUAL, published by AMIGO COMICS For more information, go to www.amigocomics.com
Ghostbusters: Crossing Over #1
For a while now, the original Ghostbusters have had access to an interdimensional portal that has given them all-new ways to research the paranormal and consult with Ghostbusters throughout the multiverse… but they haven’t shared this tech with any of those other Ghostbusters, and some don’t think that’s fair.
That’s why, after a chance meeting, Jillian Holtzmann and Ron Alexander have decided to right this wrong and cobble together their own working portal… which unintentionally unleashes the contents of the Ghostbusters’ Containment Unit! That’s a lot of ghosts, and it’s going to take a lot of Ghostbusters to recapture them. In fact, it’s going to take ALL of them. Crossing Over starts here!
For more information, go to www.idwpublishing.com.
Amigo Comics May 2018 Solicitations: May is for Mayhem
Our solicits for May come plenty of horror, sword and sorcery! From Colleen Douglas and André Stahlschmidtthe cosmic horror as you’ve never seen it in the new miniseries, Titan! Also, we say goodbye (for now) to the horror in the woods, at the miniseries Call of the Suicide Forest, by Desiree Bressend and Ruben Gil, and as always, standard cover by Toni Fejzula and incentive cover by maestro Pasqual Ferry!
It is also the fifth episode of Tales of Rogues! New creators and new stories of Bram and Weasel. This time, prepare yourself to roar with laughter with David Abadía, Pablo Durá and Ertito Montana, when our rogues have to run through The Shortcuts of Destiny! But there is more! We re-solicit the lost issue #4 Ghost Wolf: The Horde of Fangs so we all have a chance to get a copy!
Call of the Suicide Forest #5 (of 5)
Story: Desiree Bressend
Art: Ruben Gil
Cover: Toni Fejzula
In this final issue: Getting into the woods is easy. Surviving in the woods isn’t. Neither is surviving the forest itself. Because, as Portia, the suicidal young woman and Ryoko the ranger will know, Aokigahara is just the mirror of her own fears… inhabited by those who feed on them.
This miniseries is the sequel of the acclaimed graphic novel The Suicide Forest, written by El Torres with art by Gabriel Walta, masterfully written by Desiree Bressend with the artwork by Ruben Gil, but it can be read independently. And this time, a Retailer incentive cover, served 1:10, by Pasqual Ferry!
Tales of Rogues! #6 (of 6)
Writers: David Abadía and Pablo Durá
Art: Ertito Montana
Color: Nuno and Ricardo Rodrigues
Cover: Ertito Montana and Ester Salguero
The writers who did the non-official-but-extremely-funny El Aguila, and even published in Marvel Comics, David Abadía and Pablo Durá, and the awesome Ertito Montana taking again the art chores come The Shortcuts of Destiny, the funniest Rogues tale until now! Join the fan-favorite rogue duo in a comic-book with five stories that interlock like an arabesque (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
And for the first time int he history of the medium, a comic-book cover with four corner boxes. You know what they say, four the corner boxes, four times the fun!
TITAN #1: Nascence
Writer: Colleen Douglas
Art: André Stahlschmidt
Color: Wesllei Manoel
A new science fiction miniseries that gives us another vision of the cosmic horror entities! With the Gods Beyond Our Understanding, nothing is coincidence. Duplicity and greed come as standard. Titan, the “new” Mother of Monsters, knows the rule: “None Shall Be Greater Than Another.” Yet deception and force keep her unwilling to bend.
GHOST WOLF, The Horde of Fangs #4
Writer: El Torres
Artist: JuanFra MB
Color: Veronica Lopez
This is the story told one thousand times. A worthy warrior must take on the mantle of the Wolf when his predecessor’s time is over! Now there are two avatars: the oldest, dominated by the Horde of Fangs; and Mara, the mother warrior standing in his path. But another worthy one arises!
This is the end of the sequel of the acclaimed miniseries Ghost Wolf, from award-winner writer El Torres with the spectacular art by new talent JuanFra MB! Don’t miss it!
For more information, go to www.amigocomics.com.
Starfighters Unite! From the A-Wing to the Y-Wing
From mighty battle stations to the fastest hunk of junk around, the galaxy is filled with vehicles of every shape and size. The Star Wars™ Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles features more than 200 weird and wonderful vehicles from the world of Star Wars, including ships and vehicles from the entire saga of movies as well as the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ and Star Wars: Rebels™. This handy guide is full of fun facts and intriguing information, guaranteed to enthrall fans for hours on end. For more information, go to dk.com
Martian Comics #11
Martian Lit is proud to release Martian Comics #11! The 23-page first issue features the return of our serial “The Girl from Mars” and explores the assassination of Martian Luther King, Jr.
The comic is priced at $2.99. It’s written by Julian Darius, with art by Sergio Tarquini and Sara Nietto, and with colors by R. L. Campos. It’s lettered by Darius and Steven Legge, with a cover by Darius.
For more information, go to [email protected].
Come Again
A lover’s dream becomes a parent’s nightmare in the astonishing new graphic novel from Nate Powell, National Book Award-winning artist of the March trilogy.
As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers among the aging hippies of one “intentional community” high in the Ozarks. But what’s missing?
Under impossibly close scrutiny, two families wrestle with long-repressed secrets… while deep within those Arkansas hills, something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers.
With his first solo graphic novel in seven years, #1 New York Times bestseller Nate Powell presents a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.
For more information, go to www.topshelfcomix.com.
Golden Amazon
GOLDEN AMAZON
by Howard Hopkins with Sean Taylor
new prose collection of this fierce pulp heroine
HC (with bonus stuff!) & SC
For more information, go to moonstonebooks.com
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: EVIL AT BALDUR’S GATE #1
The Baldur’s Gate heroes return to the city at last, but their time adventuring in Ravenloft and the frozen northern reaches of the Realms has changed them. Each of them must face great trials ahead before they’ll be ready to embrace their destiny.
A new hero of the people roams the streets of Baldur’s Gate, and Minsc feels left behind despite his own legend. Can he reclaim his place as the city’s Beloved Ranger? Whatever happens, evil is going to get its butt kicked most thoroughly!
For more information, go to www.idwpublishing.com.
Aliens: Dust to Dust #1
The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Evac shuttles are taking off. All twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom have to do is make it to the spaceport. Except between them and it are . . . Aliens! For more information, go to DarkHorse.com.
Blackwood #1
From the multi-Eisner award-winning creator of Beasts of Burden and the artist of Archie and Slam comes this supernatural fantasy about a magical murder in a sorcery school. For more information, go to darkhorse.com