Written by David DeVries, pencils by Paul Gulacy. An American fisherman is infected by a piece of the Thing left over at the end of the first story, and subsequently infects his New Zealander girlfriend, though this time the Things intend to quietly survive together rather than assimilating everything in sight. MacReady shows up once again to put an end to that plan.
Dark Lords of the Sith (1994–95) is a six-part story arc by Kevin J. Anderson, Tom Veitch, Chris Gossett, and Art Wetherell. It is set two years after the previous arcs, continues the tale of Ulic Qel-Droma, and introduces the character of Exar Kun, a dark lord of the Sith. The story details how the Jedi, led by Ulic Qel-Droma and Nomi Sunrider attempt to free the Empress Teta System from the tyrannical control of evil Dark Side adepts Satal and Aleema. It also details Exar Kun’s fall to the Dark Side at the seduction of the spirit of Freedon Nadd, becoming Dark Lord of the Sith with Ulic as his apprentice.
Aliens: Colonial Marines – No Man Left Behind is a one-shot comic book that was published by Dark Horse Comics in July 2012 that serves as a tie-in to the video game of the same name. It was written by Joshua Williamson, illustrated by Patric Reynolds, colored by Michael Atiyeh, lettered by Nate Piekos, and edited by Scott Allie and Daniel Chabon, with cover art by Menton Matthews III. The comic was made available for free exclusively at the San Diego Comic-Con 2012 at Dark Horse’s booth (#2615).
It all begins when a mysterious stranger shows up as Barnett College with a n ancient key, and Dr. Jones puts down his grade book to go in search of his former archaeological colleague, Sophia Hapgood. Now a trendy psychic, “Madame Sophia” is doing very well for herself by fleecing people out of their hard-earned money. Toss in a tiny minotaur-like statuette, sprinkle in a few overzealous Nazis, and cue the music!
Indiana is called away from a dig in Lebanon to visit India where his friend Sophia Hapgood has discovered what she believes to be clues that could lead to the Covenant of Buddha, the original writings and precepts of Buddha in his own words. Legend tells that the Covenant holds a great and mystical power that was hidden away to prevent it getting into the wrong hands. As Indy and Sophia muse about this legendary treasure they realize another unforeseen power; the unification of the thousands of Asia‘s Buddhists under one precept. Another group seeks to claim this power, the Empire of Japan who see it as a way to control the countries they are currently invading pre-World War II. This leads Indy, Sophia, and the Japanese on a desperate chase across Asia that leads into the depths of Afghanistan to the heights of the legendary Shangri-La through disputed parts of China.
During its 50 issue run, Cheval Noir was published in a variety of formats ranging from the standard 32-pages to giant-sized 72-page issues. The first 23 issues were edited by Mike Richardson, then the role was taken over by Barbara Kesel and later by Anina Bennett and Jennie Bricker.
Besides many stand-alone short comics, the anthology featured chapters from Jacques Tardi’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, David Lynch’s The Angriest Dog in the World, an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War by Marvano, Andreas’ Rork, Masashi Tanaka’s Demon, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’ Cities of the Fantastic, Jean-Michel Charlier and Moebius’ Blueberry.
Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death forms the Aliens vs. Predator component of Dark Horse’s franchise-crossing Life and Death event in 2016/2017, and was released in conjunction with Predator: Life and Death, Prometheus: Life and Death and Aliens: Life and Death. The four series all form one continuous story and all were written by Abnett.
A horrible witch and her zombie servant host a dinner party for a family of corpses, and Hellboy and Roger turn up to blast them all back to hell in this team-up story from Roger’s early days at the B.P.R.D.
Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi is a 2004 three-part story arc in the Star Wars Infinities series of comic books. It is an alternate telling of the 1983 film Return of the Jedi in which C-3PO breaks during Leia’s bounty for Chewbacca, causing there to be no translator between her and Jabba the Hutt. The comic is not a direct sequel to the previous Infinities stories, but rather a sequel to the events after the actual film versions of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.
From Eric Powell and the creators of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse: since 2006, Metalocalypse has been bringing its special brand of dark comedy to the masses through the American/Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok. And, since 1999, The Goon has contributed the best in bucktoothed zombie brawls to the world of comics. Now, the twain shall meet . . .
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