New Releases by Scott Allie

Robert E. Howard''s vengeance-obsessed Puritan begins his supernatural adventures in the haunted Black Forest of Germany in this adaptation of Howard''s "The Castle of the Devil." When Solomon Kane stumbles upon the body of a boy hanged from a rickety gallows, he goes after the man responsible—a baron feared by the peasants for miles around. Something far worse than the devilish baron and the terrible, intelligent wolf that prowls the woods lies hidden in the ruined monastery beneath the baron''s castle, where a devil-worshiping priest died in chains centuries ago. • This team''s debut Kane story is available for free at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents. • "Solomon Kane is one of the toughest Robert E. Howard heroes to adapt to the comics page, but Scott Allie and Mario Guevara have done a stunning job. Unsettling, moody and eerily beautiful, their Kane is absolutely worthy of his creator."—Kurt Busiek • Collects the Solomon Kane five-issue miniseries.

This October, John Carpenter brings one of his most original nightmares back to the big screen with a remake of The Fog, starring Smallville''s Superboy Tom Welling. Carpenter and director Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) team with Dark Horse to flesh out the story of doomed travelers and the supernatural devastation of a small coastal town. Scott Allie, writer of The Devil''s Footprints and Star Wars: Empire worked with award-winning writer Kurt Busiek (Conan, Astro City) and the director to craft a bizarre story about a Chinese curse and a town plunged into a walking-dead nightmare. A group of Shanghai traders have come to America hoping to escape a string of weird deaths at the teeth and claws of unseen monsters. The arrival of a strange yet familiar fog reveals that the curse has found them, but even they don''t know what that has to do with a pyromaniac refugee from the Civil War, the disappearance of one of their sons, or the terrible change coming over the Americans in this small seaside town.

Mike Mignola ... teams with an all-star roster of comics writers and artists for these bizarre investigations into haunted trains, Nazi war criminals, the vengeful spirits of drowned witches, and an imprisoned sewer goddess.

This hardcover looks at the evolution of Mike Mignola''s art over ten years on his award-winning, soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture comics series. Featuring previously unpublished art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, The Art of Hellboy provides an inside look at Mignola''s design, storytelling and colour work.

The Clone Wars have begun! Ever since they were mentioned in the very first Star Wars film, fans have been dying to know more. Attack of the Clones offered a glimpse, but "The Defense of Kamino" brings the galaxy-wide conflict into full view! Two undercover Jedi discover a Separatist plan to destroy the cloning facility on the watery world of Kamino, thus crippling the Republic''s ability to maintain their clone army. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are part of a Jedi fighter squadron sent to protect the installation, but they learn that there are heroes fighting for the Separatist cause as well as for the Republic, and that Jango Fett, though dead, still has something to say about how this war is fought! Meanwhile, Mace Windu, the leader of the Jedi Council, must deal with a rift in the Jedi ranks--a matter that reveals a Jedi traitor and a new Dark Jedi working in league with Dooku. Mace is considered one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy, but can he stand up to the swordmaster who taught him everything he knows--including the mysterious techinque known as "Vaapad"? New characters and new worlds are revealed as the Clone Wars spreads throughout the galaxy! This volume collects Star Wars: Republic #49-50 and Star Wars: Jedi -- Mace Windu

A vampire power struggle, a roadkill-crazed demon, a fiendish plot to create the Dark Slayer... it can only mean one thing -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back TV series, continue, in the sequel to Bad Blood. Buffy''s old enemy, Selke, is back in town, and how... but this femme fatale doesn''t just have designs on the Slayer (in a dangerously literal sense), she wants to organise the disparate vampire factions into a deadly fighting force. All this, plus an enchanted brooch, a demon with a bad habit of attacking moving cars, and, oh yes, Spike, Dru and Angel are back