Avatar Press: August 2004 Solicitations

[b]PULSAR PRESS[/b]

ROBOCOP: Killing Machine Special #1
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Steven Grant
Art: Anderson Ricardo
Readership: MR
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

This special one shot introduces the new creative team of Steven Grant, no stranger to Robocop as he adapted Frank Miller’s series, and artist Anderson Ricardo. This full color one shot book contains an all-new Robocop story as well as sneak-peak at the next upcoming Robocop epic! A bored rich kid gets his kicks hacking into what’s left of the Detroit grid, triggering random power failures and screwing up transit, causing various tensions that Murphy and Lewis have to cope with to maintain public order. Thwarted by Robocop, the hacker tries to hack into Robocop’s systems, but finds something else instead in the depths of OCP’s computer system, still online in the wake of the company’s collapse. It’s the next step up from Robocop: a prototype robo-soldier, literally a killing machine, that never received a human brain. But the hacker provides the brain by remote, sending the Killing Machine out into Detroit to find and destroy Robocop. To his surprise, the robotic systems dominate and the Killing Machine has its own program: total annihilation!

ROBOCOP: Killing Machine Special #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Steven Grant
Art: Anderson Ricardo
Readership: MR
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot
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ROBOCOP: Killing Machine Special #1 Burrows
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Steven Grant
Art: Anderson Ricardo
Readership: MR
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot
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ROBOCOP: Killing Machine Special #1 Photo
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Story: Steven Grant
Art: Anderson Ricardo
Readership: MR
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot
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STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #1
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

The SG-1 team blasts into summer with an all-new, full-color, action packed series! Following ancient clues found on a remote world, the SG-1 team travels to a Goa’uld graveyard that has a deadly hidden secret. Banished for over two thousand years, a rogue System Lord called Mars has cultivated an entire civilization with one purpose ­ to travel back to Earth and lay waste to it. Can SG-1 find a way to keep a world of cybernetic Goa’uld bent on enslaving the human race from completing their conquest of Rome and beyond? In Stargate SG-1: Fall of Rome #1, Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Teal’c discover that while Rome wasn’t build in a day, it could be destroyed in one! Available in regular, wrap, and photo cover editions as well as a special leather cover that is limited to just 1500 copies.

STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #1 Photo
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 of 3
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STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 of 3
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STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #1 Leather
Retail Price: $14.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

This special leather cover is limited to just 1500 copies.

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STARGATE SG-1: POW #3 Drake O’Neill Painted
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Ryan Drake
Story: James Anthony
Art: Renato Guedes
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, monthly 3 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Don’t miss this exciting new cover from hot new painter Ryan Drake on the final action- packed issue of POW! Colonel Jack O’Neill is a Goa’uld prisoner of war. And his memories of the SGC, Earth, and it’s defenses are going to be pulled from his head unless SG-1 can rescue him. But with a huge army of Goa’uld defending the mother ship, Hammond has to risk a very dangerous full assault by the forces of the SGC in order to free O’Neill. This special cover is available here for the first time and is limited to just 1500 copies

STARGATE SG-1 2004 Convention Special Power of Apophis
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Lucio Rubira
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa Jr.
Readership: all ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Available for the first time, don’t miss this stunning cover by new artist Lucio Rubira! When the SGC learns the location of vital tactical information about Apophis’s military plans, SG-1 must execute a daring snatch-and-grab operation to retrieve it from the Goa’uld mothership. O’Neill, Carter, Teal’c, and Daniel must infiltrate the serpent’s lair and obtain the data crystals before the dread system lord can turn his full power against the Earth and her allies. Using information obtained from a mysterious informant, the team plunges into the mission – but will they find that their knowledge of the enemy is helping them…or being used against them? This special cover is limited to just 1500 copies.

AVATAR PRESS

Brian Pulido’s BELLADONNA 2004 Convention Special
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Clint Hilinski
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Belladonna is unleashed in this special edition that features her first ever story in full-color! Wexford Ireland. 971 AD. A time of upheaval as civilization imposes itself on a wild, ancient land. After a tragic event that rips the heart of Ireland in two, a Celtic warrior spirit rises from the other world to claim vengeance on the Viking hordes who have fouled the land and murdered it’s promised ones. Join Lady Death creator Brian Pulido as he unveils his newest creation. Belladonna is a tale steeped in passion, violence and darkness as only Pulido can tell it. The new worlds of Pulido start right here!

Brian Pulido’s BELLADONNA 2004 Convention Special Sequeira
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Paulo Sequeira
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot
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Brian Pulido’s BELLADONNA 2004 Convention Special Amorim
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Di Amorim
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot
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Brian Pulido’s BELLADONNA 2004 Convention Special Premium
Retail Price: $9.99 US
Cover: Clint Hilinski
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

This special premium edition is limited to just 2000 copies.

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YUGGOTH CREATURES #2
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Ryp, Burrows, Wolfer, Fiumara
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 40 pages, monthly 2 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

First there was Alan Moore’s Yuggoth Cultures, now Antony Johnston carries on the Lovecraftian spirit with Yuggoth Creatures! Continuing the incredible memoirs of Anders Ericsson, from Arkham’s notorious Miskatonic University! The second volume of the Professor’s memoirs take him on a roller coaster ride through the Lovecraft Mythos, as he pieces together the secret history of the universe…and mankind’s approaching doom! From Great Cthulhu himself to the return of the Fungi from Yuggoth, will Ericsson’s adventures be the key to saving the world? Or will he spend the rest of his life locked up in a madhouse? Six all-new Mythos stories from the pen of Antony Johnston are illustrated by an awesome collection of today’s hottest artists, including Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Sebastian Fiumara, Dheeraj Verma and more!

YUGGOTH CREATURES #2 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Ryp, Burrows, Wolfer, Fiumara
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 40 pages, monthly 2 of 3
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Warren Ellis’ STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #5
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 5 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

The action heats up in the penultimate issue of Ellis’ and Wolfer’s latest brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel! Trapped with an innocent reporter in the jungles of the Philippines, Gravel has figured out the secret of the island and why the British government wants it kept hidden from the rest of the world. But that won’t help him fight the zombie horde that is closing in on him and the woman who means more to him than he will admit.

Warren Ellis’ STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #5 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 5 of 6
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Joe R Lansdale’s BY BIZARRE HANDS #4
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Dheeraj Verma
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 4 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

One the most popular horror novel writers, Joe R. Lansdale, is unleashed in this all-new series that adapts some of his favorite short stories, all chosen by Lansdale himself, into comic form for the first time. This issue sees the sci-fi / horror tale TIGHT LITTLE STITCHES IN A DEAD MAN’S BACK split open in sequential form with art by Indian superstar Dheeraj Verma. With Lansdale’s biting wit and razor-sharp dialogue, fans of Garth Ennis are sure to love this new six issue monthly series.

Joe R Lansdale’s BY BIZARRE HANDS #4 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Dheeraj Verma
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 4 of 6
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Joe R Lansdale’s BY BIZARRE HANDS #1 Connecting cover
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Dheeraj Verma
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

This is the first of a six-part connecting cover featuring the World of Joe R. Lansdale! Drawn by super-star artist Jacen Burrows, these limited covers all fit together to form a huge image! One the most popular horror novel writers, Joe R. Lansdale, is unleashed again in this all-new series that adapts some of his favorite short stories, all chosen by Lansdale himself, into comic form for the first time. This issue contains the titular story By Bizarre Hands, and is illustrated by fabulous new Indian artist Dheeraj Verma. A well-mannered preacher with a taste for “saving” retarded girls goes traveling to find some Halloween fun and ends up unleashing his inner demons. Limited to just 750 copies

NIGHTJAR #2 Tarot cover
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Max Fiumara
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Max Fiumara
Readership: all ages
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 2 of 4

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

This special edition cover is the second in a line of actual Tarot Deck covers featuring the characters of Nightjar! As the moon rises over Halloween on Pendle Hill, Mirrigan settles down to spend one last night with her old friend Brian, before starting on the mission to avenge her father. But events are about to overtake her, and tonight Mirrigan is destined to be an epicenter of violence. A vicar, a photographer, a child and a killer are drawn into the deadly games Birds play… Many of them will not live to see the dawn. Limited to just 1500 copies

Warren Ellis’ STRANGE KISS #1 Signed Leather
Retail Price: $29.99 US
Story: Warren Ellis
Cover and art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: MR
Format: B&W, 32 pages, 1 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Special warehouse find! This is an original first printing of the very first Warren Ellis Avatar book, the introduction of William Gravel, in a special Leather cover that was previously only available to retailers! Each copy is signed by the entire creative team, writer Warren Ellis, artist Mike Wolfer, and tone artist Dan Parsons. This edition is limited to just 400 copies, all of which ship in a bag and board with a certificate of authenticity.