New Releases by Fred Van Lente

?BREAKING HISTORY? ? PART 2! THREE BROTHERS VS THE FUTURE! With the universe on the brink of destruction, Ivar must turn to his closest relatives ? Armstrong and Gilad Anni-Padda ? to save Neela Sethi from the machinations of the Prometheans! The problem? These three guys couldn?t be further apart. Time doesn?t heal all wounds as the assault on Oblivi-1 begins! Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and Francis Portela (Green Lantern Corps) continue this time-shattering comics event!

Time is almost up! Ivar has been keeping a secret from his partner-in-time, Neela, this whole time, and once she learns the truth their relationship will be history! Literally! Join New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente & Clayton Henry for the epoch shattering conclusion of our first (time)arc!

Chris Roberson and Paul Lee reveal an untold tale from the movie _Aliens_ featuring the character Hicks! Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey deliver a new _Action Philosophers!_ that pulls the entire series together in Action Philosophy!� And Eisner-nominated colorist Jordie Bellaire makes her writing debut with a Civil War ghost story drawn by Declan Shalvey! Plus, new chapters of Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse''s _Resident Alien_, Brendan McCarthy''s _Dream Gang_, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Andy Kuhn''s _Wrestling with Demons_, and Damon Gentry and Aaron Conley''s _Sabertooth Swordsman_! * An untold tale from the Aliens movie, by Roberson and Lee! * The award-winning series returns at a new price$4.99! * New 48 page format! * Eisner and Harvey award winner!

Writer Fred Van Lente leads the way for the world''s most famous barbarian! Conan drinks himself into a stupor of grief while in the troubled city of Shumballa--until a brazen act of thievery against him sends the Cimmerian into a witch-hunt full of adventure, demons, and rebellion! This city on the edge of a revolution must rely on Conan if it is to survive, and when the truth of is revealed, Shumballa will never be the same! This exciting volume collects issues #1--6 of the Dark Horse Comics series Conan the Avenger.

Agent Price''s new mission pits him against a doomsday cult leader with a political agenda that poses a direct threat to the president. But a mysterious hive mind has more menacing plans for Brain Boy. He''ll have no choice but to go head to head--brain to brain--with the mysterious Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T.! The Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T. collects New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente''s electrifying second arc of psychic spy Brain Boy''s continuing adventures!

"Jericho Way, framed-architect turned thief, discovers he is a Resurrectionist, a member of an elite group that can awaken to remember and utilize the skills of every one of his past lives. He''s about to help pull off a heist 3000 years in the making"--

To pull off the highest-stakes heist in history, Jericho Waya Resurrectionist known as the Maker who''s been awakened to the knowledge and abilities of all of his past livesmust team up with the woman who helped ruin his current life: his ex-wife Adele. Way and the Scout need her skills, which means she needs to be unlocked. But will millennia after millennia of skills be enough to free their crew from the clutches of the evil Sojourn Corporation? From _New York Times_ best-selling author Fred Van Lente (_Brain Boy_, _Archer and Armstrong_)!

A perfect jumping-on point as Magnus: Robot Fighter begins an all-new story arc! Having finally reunited with his robotic father, Magnus has new purpose in life. But that doesn''t really matter if "dad" starts him off on a suicide mission! It''s Magnus: Agent of 1A!

Jericho Way has been awakened! He now understands that he is a Resurrectionist:a unique individual that can access the memories and abilities of his past lives. Known as the Maker, he and another Resurrectionist called the Scout must unlock the others before the evil Sojourn Corporation can stop them forever. If they succeed, they just might have a chance to pull off the most important heist in historya chance to fight the future! * New creator-owned ongoing series from _New York Times_ best-selling author Fred Van Lente!

In the late 1930s, a covert government agency was established to protect Earth from the potential of extraterrestrial threats. The first on the scene of any reported UFO crash or sighting, these brave men and women were called Project Black Sky, and what they discovered would change the course of human history. Get in on the ground floor of the Project Black Sky series with this collection of the the smash webcomic from ProjectBlackSky.net. Who, if not you, will know the threats posed in the perilous Otherspace?

In this issue: Transmech Catchers. Soft Robots. Computers that are guns. Ultraviolent versions of video games that aren''t actually video games because everybody that plays will probably die. Welcome to THE BUTCHER BLOC, from acclaimed creators FRED VAN LENTE (Marvel Zombies, Conan The Avenger) and CORY SMITH (Fathom, TMNT)!

In a city full of superpowered do-gooders, the mob needs above-average enforcers to get away with robbery, murder, and so much more. Enter the Silencers, a lineup of criminals with extraordinary abilities who are more than happy to use lethal force for a mafia-funded payday. But when the Silencers'' leader, the legendary Cardinal, finds out his team''s being set up for a deadly fall, these pawns do more than try to put a mob king in checkmate . . . They want to take over the whole city''s crime scene. Collecting the gritty cult-favorite crime comic from New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Brain Boy, Archer & Armstrong) and Steve Ellis (High Moon, Breaking Bad, The Only Living Boy), this comprehensive collection features the entire Silencers story.

A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry''s most seasoned and successful pros. Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book Creators Do you want to break into the comics industry? There are many creative roles available—writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor, and more. Each creator serves a vital function in the production of sequential art at companies such as DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant. In Make Comics Like the Pros, veteran comics creators Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente team up with a who’s who of the modern comic book scene to lead you step-by-step through the development of a comic. With these two fan-favorite writers as your guides, you’ll learn everything from script formatting to the importance of artistic collaboration to the best strategies for promoting and selling your own sequential art masterpiece. Pak and Van Lente even put their lessons into practice inside the pages of the book—pairing with Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Colleen Coover (Bandette) to produce the swashbuckling, adventure comic Swordmaids, and giving you front row seats to their creative process. Make Comics Like the Pros provides all the answers you’ve been seeking to take your comic book–making dreams all the way to professional-level reality.

Collects Marvel Zombies 5 #1-5. MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting down the plague in all its myriad forms...with a most unusual (but somehow oddly appropriate) partner! First up: in the Alterniverse known as "The Territory," the Old West never died. But when the greatest gunslingers of Marveldom - Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, Kid Colt, and many others - rise from their graves in Boot Hill, the stage is set for a High Noon showdown with flesh-eating outlaws the likes of which you''ve never seen! Also featuring a trip to Camelot to battle the original Black Knight!

When the United States Secret Service needs to stop an assassination before the killer''s even decided to buy a gun, they call the world''s most powerful telepath: Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy. But when the secret agent that can read anyone''s mind finds that a powerful psychic network has been hidden from him, Brain Boy begins to wonder whether he knows everything or nothing at all! * Written by _New York Times_ best-selling author Fred Van Lente (_Archer and Armstrong_, _G.I. Joe_) with art by R. B. Silva (_Superboy_, _Jimmy Olsen_)! 

Study the tenets of Plato, the wrestling superstar from ancient Greece; learn the lessons of Nietzsche, the original Ubermensch; and meditate on the Bohdidharma, a kung-fu master. Laugh, learn, laugh a bit more and ponder the messages of history''s greatest thinkers as Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavy deliver this comprehensive cartoon history from the pre-Socratics to Derrida! This highly original, pretension-free and riotously funny collection celebrates its 10th anniversary in print with this deluxe hardback ''Uberedition''!

Collects Marvel Zombies 4 #1-4. They''re nobody''s idea of heroes, but they''re all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They''re the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals!

Collects X-Men Noir #1-4. The Brotherhood is re-imagined through a Noir prism as Xavier, a discredited shrink sits in a jail cell, wondering what in the world his little refugees from the Xavier School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth are up to now. Other than staying one step ahead of Magnus and the Brotherhood, that is.

Castaways in the Faraway! Mary-Maria, Archer?s arch-nemesis/love interest/adopted sister, is back and dead-set on taking over the Sect by any means necessary. What better way to seize control of the most secret of secret societies than by unlocking their most secretive of secrets inside the secretest place on Earth? Now, as Mary-Maria sneaks her way inside Area 51 to claim a long-hidden prize, Archer & Armstrong are about to discover the forbidden history that binds America?s blackest black-ops base to the time-lost lands of the Faraway ? and wind up fighting their way through each of its tightly guarded mysteries, one punch at a time. Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0 and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #10-13 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man) and artists Clayton Henry (Incredible Hercules) and Pere Perez (Harbinger Wars), follow Valiant?s conspiracy-busting adventurers from the pages of their saga-smashing zero issue and into their most dangerous mission yet, right here in the next epic volume of the series that IGN calls ?the most fun you?ll have in a ?superhero? comic?. ?It?s hard to believe that month after this book keeps getting better, but it does.? ? Comic Vine ?Don?t miss one of the best books currently running!? ? Mania.com

Hercules battled gods, men and monsters in a lifetime of violence and destruction. Today, Hercules is best known for his ''twelve labours'', a series of near-impossible tasks assigned to him as punishment for the killing of his wife and children. During those tasks, he slew the multi-headed hydra, wrestled with Cerberus, hound of the underworld, and stole the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Yet even when his labours were done, his adventures continued. Hercules led armies, sacked cities, fought against the gods, and then joined forces with the gods in the great war known as ''The Gigantomachy''. This book tells the complete story of this legendary warrior, including information on the classical sources, his deification and cult, and his continuing popularity as a character in film, television and comic books.

Agent Price''s new mission pits him against a doomsday cult leader with a political agenda that poses a direct threat to the president. But a mysterious hive mind has more menacing plans for Brain Boy. He''ll have no choice but to go head to headbrain to brainwith the mysterious Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T.! * Fred Van Lente (_Archer & Armstrong_) and Freddie Williams II (_Green Arrow_, _Captain Atom_) team up again! * A great jumping-on point for new readers! * Pick up _Brain Boy_ Volume 1: _Psy vs. Psy_ now, then start this new series arc!

**CELEBRATING A HALF-CENTURY OF TERROR!** It''s Uncle Creepy''s golden anniversary, and his loathsome legacy lives on in this milestone of macabre monstrosity! Prepare for putrid productions from Fred Van Lente (_Conan the Avenger_), Corinna Bechko (_Star Wars: Legacy_), Peter Bagge (_Bat Boy_), Art Baltazar (_Itty Bitty Hellboy_), and a horrible host of sinister surprises! Don''t miss out! * New stories from fan-favorite writers Fred Van Lente and Corinna Bechko! * Anniversary cover by Dustin Nguyen revealed soon! * Itty Bitty Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie frontispiece by Art Baltazar!

In a battle between two telepaths, any bystander is a potential ally . . . or a potential enemy! Matt Price, code name Brain Boy, must defeat a mad mental giant but he''ll have to survive a mob of mind-controlled New Yorkers to do it! * _New York Times_ best selling author Fred Van Lente (_Archer and Armstrong_, _G.I. Joe_) ,with action-packed art by R.B. Silva and Rob Lean (_Superboy_)." "It''s big and explosive and it''s the inking that really stands out . . . The art team [is] firing on all cylinders.�Newsarama 

Are you near-death experienced? Framed architect-turned-thief Jericho Way has discovered he''s a Resurrectionist**,** one of a select group of people who can not only remember their past lives, but _become_ them. Two groups are now after his servicesthe Sojourn corporation, which wants to exploit his powers for mysterious purposes, and a motley crew of modern-day tomb robbers who have been trying to pull the same impossible heist for 3,000 yearsand if Jericho joins them, he may steal back his own future! * A new creator-owned ongoing comic series. * Art by rising stars Maurizio Rosenzweig (_Clown Fatale_) and Moreno Dinisio (_Dead Body Road_)!

The true story of the Epic (Fail) of Giglamesh! Original series artist and Harbinger Wars superstar Clayton Henry returns to tell a tale of the early days of the man known as Armstrong! How early? How?s ancient Ur sound? For the first time, the 100 percent true story behind the Epic of Gilgamesh can be told? A tale of three warrior brothers, the Anni-Padda ? or as you may know them, ARMSTRONG, the ETERNAL WARRIOR and TIMEWALKER ? on a quest to the mysterious Faraway to bring back its immortal Boon. What they find is a lost land full of danger, excitement ? and the greatest secret of the Valiant Universe! Plus: this issue tees up the next arc of A&A, beginning this June in issue #10!

For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka - and more! Collects Comic Book Comics #1-6.

Dennis Calero delves into the bloody world of corporate mergers in _The Suit_a real cutthroat businessman! Ken Pisani and Arturo Lauria bring their Geekie Award�winning political sci-fi drama _Colonus_ to the pages of _DHP_! And Brent Schoonover gets down and dirty with the Burial Brothers, featuring colors by Jordie Bellaire! Plus, new chapters of Fred Van Lente and Guiu Vilanova''s _Weird Detective_, Brendan McCarthy''s _Dream Gang,_ and Mike Grell''s _Tarzan_! If you are a fan of independent comics, there is simply no reason not to be reading this.� Infinite Comix

When things get scary, it’s nice to know that Odd is on our side. The one and only Odd Thomas is back—in his second edgy and enthralling graphic-novel adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. It’s Halloween in Pico Mundo, California, and there’s a whiff of something wicked in the autumn air. While the town prepares for its annual festivities, young fry cook Odd Thomas can’t shake the feeling that make-believe goblins and ghouls aren’t the only things on the prowl. And he should know, since he can see what others cannot: the spirits of the restless dead. But even his frequent visitor, the specter of Elvis Presley, can’t seem to point Odd in the right direction. With the help of his gun-toting girlfriend, Stormy, Odd is out to uncover the terrible truth. Is something sinister afoot in the remote barn guarded by devilish masked men? Has All Hallows Eve mischief taken a malevolent turn? Or is the pleading ghost of a trick-or-treater a frightening omen of doom?

Collects Marvel Zombies Return #1-5. Nothing can withstand the Hunger, the insatiable drive that compels the undead super heroes to devour friends, family, heroes and villains alike. But now, the Marvel Zombies find themselves on a fresh world, ripe for the picking! Who can stop the super-powered undead?