This August is an Amigo-month mixing the blazing heat of the wastelands with Nancy and Metis and we mix it up with the cold of outer Space with the remastered and re-solicited Jack Kirby & Wallace Wood classic “Skymasters of the Space Force”.

We will serve it up with a side-dish of Sword & Sorcery done right with Rogues!

We have a re-solicit of the finale of Apocalypse Girl as well as the finale of our sci-fy horror series Titan and we have a new Sallybooks-imprint title called Mateo And The Flower Of The Rain.

ROGUES! THE SHADOW OVER GERADA Vol 6: #2 (of 5)
Author(s): El Torres
Artist(s): Jordi Armengol
Cover Artist(s): Stefano Martino, Salvador Larroca
UPC Code: 713482801897-00211
Alternate Cover: 713482801897—00221
Intended Audience: Teen +
Genre: Comedy, Sword and Sorcery
Format: Comic book, FC, 32 pages
Retail Price: $3,99

This is the weather forecast for Gerada the coming weeks. Dark clouds, chance of frog precipitation and strong winds variable due to giant tentacles in the sky. Temperatures will raise due to the strange colors from outer space burning their way through. And, who is to blame? Bram and Weasel, of course. Don’t forget to carry your axe and your sword. And your umbrella.

Notes: RETAILER INCENTIVE cover by Salvador Larroca. Free served ratio 10:1

NANCY IN HELL #3 (of 4)
Author(s): El Torres
Artist(s): Abel Cicero
Cover Artist(s): Abel Cicero, Ramiro Borrallo
UPC Code: 713482801880—00311
Alternate Cover: 713482801897—00321
Intended Audience: Mature readers
Genre: Horror, Supernatural
Format: Comic book, FC, 28 pages
Retail Price: $2,99

The survivor of the underworld keeps to making her way with a chainsaw! Nancy discovers the terri-ble truth in the Last Church in Hell. There is no escape possible…. and more so when Hell, it seems, was once Heaven itself.

Notes: RETAILER INCENTIVE cover by Ramiro Borrallo. Free served ratio 10:1

Titan #4 (of 4)
Author: Colleen Douglas
Artist(s): André Stahlschmidt, Wesllei Manoel
Cover Artist(s): André Stahlschmidt, Wesllei Manoel

Intended Audience: Mature readers
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Format: Comic Book, FC, 32 pages
Retail Price: $3.99

ISBN: 713482801873-00411

Samsara: The time for reckoning has arrived, Titan, the Cosmic God and Mother of Monsters- has reached maturity. All actions have consequences; immunity does not apply. The rule is simple: None Shall Be Greater Than Another. Debts must be paid, the accepted currency…blood and death.

THE APOCALYPSE GIRL #4 (of 4)
Author: El Torres
Artist(s): Ramiro Borrallo
Cover Artist(s): Ramiro Borrallo

Intended Audience: Teen
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Format: Comic Book, FC, 32 pages
Retail Price: $3.99

UPC: With the Demon Dukes dead, Metis learns the terrible truth of why she is in this world. And perhaps the Apocalypse is not a good time to fall in love… with either the Angel Sil or the survivor Ollie. Even more so when survivors, demons and angels meet in one last showdown.

Young Frankie has been kidnapped by the Demon Dukes. Metis, along with the survivor Ollie and Sil the Angel, are on their way to his rescue, running through a country teeming with monsters. Maybe… that isn’t a good time to be fooling around with kisses, Metis. And besides, who’s really Mom?

SKYMASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE, by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood HC

Author(s): Jack Kirby and Wally Wood, with Dick & Dave Wood and Dick Ayers.
Edited by: Ferran Delgado
Cover Artist(s): Wally Wood

Intended Audience: Teen
Genre Science Fiction
Format: Oversized Hardcover, 10.25″ x 14″, FC, 128 pages
Retail Price: $34,95
ISBN: 9788416486793 -53495

This oversized deluxe book compiles for first time ever a complete set of Sunday pages of Sky Masters in color meticulously remastered, along with dozens of scrapbook panels never reprinted before. It also contains plenty of extras, like 20 color guides by Kirby himself, a huge section with original art, rare pieces and articles by main experts. For more information, go to www.amigocomics.com.

Dynamite Entertainment is set to deliver the latest in epic crossover events with Vampirella/Dejah Thoris! The pulp tale that was destined to happen was created by Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters, KISS: The Demon) and Ediano Silva (Pathfinder: Runescars, Killer Instinct) is headed to stands this September!

In Vampirella/Dejah Thoris, when an alien scout ship crashes on Mars, Dejah Thoris must risk reigniting war with the Green Martians and becoming dinner for the white apes. But the stakes are raised so much higher when the ship is revealed to carry Vampirella, who is on a desperate mission of survival—one that might end before it truly begins!

Created in 1969, Vampirella has thrived for nearly 50 years delivering classic tales of terror in comics, graphic novels, and magazines. These cover images helped to define the horror comic genre with master illustrators like Frank Frazetta, Sanjulian, Bill Hughes, Jose Gonzalez, Enrich, Esteban Maroto, and Paul Gulacy, along with a host of other legendary contributing artists.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic character, Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Mars, debuted in 1912, and ever since, science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts have dreamed of the faraway Red Planet and all of its wondrous sights and monstrous perils. A strong and talented royal, Dejah served as inspiration for such heroines such as Princess Leia of Star Wars and Neytiri of James Cameron’s Avatar. Since her comic book debut in 2010, she has constantly served as an adventurous mainstay at Dynamite.

The debut issue of Vampirella/Dejah Thoris features a wide selection of cover variants, providing fans and retailers with the freedom of choice! The cover artwork features the talents of Jan Anacleto (Dejah Thoris and The Green Men of Mars), Carlo Pagulayan (Deathstroke), Stephen Segovia (Dark Wolverine), Joe Jusko (Warlord of Mars) and two cosplay photo covers, respectively.

A Blank Authentix Edition will be available as a variant for Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #1 featuring the same great story, but with a blank cover for fans to get their favorite artist to draw their version of Dejah, Vampi, of both. An Atlas Edition will also be available for fans wishing to have their issue signed by writer Erik Burnham.

Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors’ July 2018 Previews catalog, the premier source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in September 2018. Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #1 with their local comic book retailers. Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #1 will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, Madefire, and Dark Horse Digital. For more information, go to www.dynamite.com.

Sequart is proud to announce the publication of A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe, edited by Rich Handley and Joeseph F. Berenato.

Almost as soon as there were Star Wars films, there were Star Wars novels. Alan Dean Foster got the ball rolling, ghost-writing the first film’s adaptation for George Lucas, as well as penning a sequel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. Novels covering the exploits of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian soon followed, ushering in what would come to be called the Star WarsExpanded Universe. The EU, like the Force itself, has helped to bind the galaxy together.

More than 250 Star Wars novels have been published by Del Rey, Bantam Books, Ballantine Books, and other companies, aimed at both young and adult readers. Spanning the decades before, during, and after the films’ events, the books have spawned new galactic governments, explored the nature of the Jedi and the Sith, and developed the Star Warsmythos well beyond merely a series of films and television shows. The Expanded Universe — recently re-branded as “Legends” following Disney’s acquisition of the franchise — has grown exponentially, comprising not only the books but also comics, video games, radio shows, role-playing games, and more.

With A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe, editors Rich Handley and Joseph F. Berenato continue their look back at the franchise’s highs and lows, which began with A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe and A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Exploring Star Wars Comics. This third volume offers insightful, analytical essays examining the Star Wars EU, contributed by popular film historians, novelists, bloggers, and subject-matter experts — including fan-favorite Star Wars novelists Timothy Zahn and Ryder Windham. The films were just the beginning. Find out how the universe expanded.

The book runs a massive 348 pages. For more information, go to sequart.org.

Michael and D.A. Frizell and Oghma Creative Media are proud to announce the release of Bender: The Complete Saga. The 174-page graphic novel explores the true story of a family of serial killers who prey on unwary travelers moving west in the wake of the Civil War.

Outside the sleepy hamlet of Cherryvale, Kansas, the Bender Inn greets weary travelers. Kate Bender, an enchanting, effervescent beauty, is the Inn’s mysterious proprietor. Single men, pockets stuffed with cash, line up to sit with this Venus of the plains and discuss their prospects for finding riches or starting a family. So beguiling is she, they never suspect her to be anything but genuine.

When reports of disappearances along the Osage Trail mount, an investigation leads the U.S. Marshals to Cherryvale and the Bender Inn, only to find the property abandoned and livestock rotting in the field. The Benders have disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a dozen bodies in shallow graves–and parts of many others. Even more disturbing are the satanic runes carved into the slab under what the locals have dubbed “The Devil’s Inn.”

Built upon historical record as well as legend, Bender: The Complete Saga’s terrifying narrative is as haunting as it is alluring–and may well become the definitive work on the exploits and ultimate fate of the West’s First Family of Murder. For more information, go to www.facebook.com/BENDERtheGraphicNovel.

The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer, by Greg Carpenter, is an engaging and definitive study of how British writers changed comics.

Moore. Gaiman. Morrison. They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke with different dialects, they gave American comics a new voice — one loud and clear enough to speak to the Postmodern world. Like a triple-helix strand of some advanced form of DNA, their careers have remained irrevocably intertwined. They go together, like Diz, Bird, and Monk… or like Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg… or like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who.

Taken individually, their professional histories provide an incomplete picture of the British Invasion, but together they redefined the concept of what it means to be a comic book writer. Collectively, their story becomes the story of mainstream comics in the modern era. For more information go to sequart.org.

When Morty needs to learn how to play D&D to keep up with the cool kids, his hard-drinking, old school-gaming, mad science-making grandpa is happy to teach him how to roll the dice, but neither of them is prepared for the saving throws they’re about to fail or the true quest yet to come. Strap on a +1 longsword and grab your 10-foot pole, because this is going to be a gaming gauntlet like no other!

The world’s greatest role-playing game. Reality’s most dysfunctional family. What could go wrong? For more information, go to idwpublishing.com.

Red 5 Comics is pleased to announce that the second issue of Scott Chitwood’s RIPTIDE is going back to print in order to keep up with customer demand. The second printing of issue 2 follows the second printing of issue 1 also due to high customer demand.

In RIPTIDE a rag tag group of cruise passengers suddenly find themselves on a trip unlike any they had planned when a close call with a comet causes the ocean’s to temporarily recede from land, leaving the cruise ship and its passengers stranded on the ocean floor. Now it’s a race against time and the elements as these strangers must band together to get back to dry land before the tide rushes back in. For more information, go to red5comics.com.