Broken Frontier

Devil's Due March 2005 solicitations.

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GI JOE: Arashikage Showdown -- DIGEST
Writer: Josh Blaylock
Artist: Tony Tamai
Cover: Tony Tamai (Not actual art)
Rating: TEEN READER 12 +
Format: 128 pages. B&W OGN DIGEST. 
Retail Price: $10.95 

Once again Devil's Due blazes a new trail-this time into the manga market! Written to be accessible to new readers, but enjoyable for die-hard fans. " Arashikage Showdown" is a black and white graphic novel for all ages!

The Arashikage Ninja Clan is the tie that binds Snake-Eyes, Jinx, and Storm Shadow. They are the last of a once-powerful Clan-and now, someone is out to steal one of the last objects of their heritage. A relic of great power, the Jewel of the Sun Goddess had been guarded by the Arashikage for centuries. Now, the mysterious gem could give the ultimate power to the forces of evil-and in doing so, destroy the last remnants of the Clan.

It's 125 pages of wall-to-wall Ninja action! 

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Shades of Blue vol. I
Writers: James S. Harris and Rachel Nacion
Artists: Cal Slayton and Greg Grucel
Intended Audience: All Ages. 
Format: 144 pages. Digest. Perfect Bound. B&W 
Cover Price $10.95.

The critically acclaimed series returns in a new collection by DDP! High-schooler Heidi Paige has the usual teenage problems: homework, boys and, of course, mysterious superpowers! After scouring through her dirty laundry to put together a costume, Heidi is ready to protect her school from the perils of supervillains, pop quizzes and substitute teachers. If only her powers could protect her from Marcus, her geeky neighbor and wannabe sidekick.

Special Notes:
This Devil's Due TPB collects the following: Shades of Blue Vol. 1 #s 1-5, and 8 brand new pages revealing the origin of Heidi's powers!

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DEVIL'S DUE

GI Joe: Master & Apprentice vol.I TPB
Writer: Brandon Jerwa
Artist: Stefano Caselli & Sunder Raj
Cover: TBD
Format: 128 pages color comic. Perfect Bound 
Retail Price: $12.95 

Their names are legend.
Snake Eyes. Kamakura. The Silent Ninja Master and his Apprentice, both valued members of the G.I. Joe team. But it wasn't always that way…

Only a few years ago, the G.I. Joe team had been disbanded, leaving Snake-Eyes with a chance to find peace with his fiancée, Scarlett. Sean Collins was a bright young career soldier, chosen to serve in an elite unit called Hammer Team. But a bitter twist of fate would bring them together. 
In one terrible night, both men see all they hold dear shattered at the hands of the terrorist known as Firefly. Neither sees any hope for the future-until Sean seeks the discipline of Ninja teachings. Bound by fate, the two men embark on a quest for justice as Master & Apprentice.

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GI Joe: Master & Apprentice vol.II #2
Writer: Brandon Jerwa
Artist: Chris Stevens and Udon
Cover A: Udon
Cover B: Andrew Brase
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched. 
Retail Price: $2.95 

The fist series was a surprise hit-and the follow up will have an even  bigger impact on the G.I. Joe mythos!

The man called Storm Shadow, seeking to leave Cobra behind him, has taken on an apprentice and begun a new life in Hong Kong. But Junko Akita and Tommy Arashikage have pasts that refuse to die-and may prove to destroy everything they've fought for. Now, she's disappeared-and Storm Shadow must rely upon Jinx and Budo to help track her down. Meanwhile, in Tibet, a shadow falls upon the Red Ninja clan…

 

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G.I. JOE: RELOADED #13
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Artist: Nelson Blake and Grafiksismik
Cover: Nelson Blake and Grafiksismik
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched. 
Retail Price: $2.95 

He's betrayed everything and everyone he ever believed in - because he thought it served the greater good. But now, Conrad "Duke" Hauser is confronted by the fact that the revolution he thought he was fighting for only serves a madman's thirst for power. And if that wasn't enough for Duke to face, there's the prospect of facing the Joes again…

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G.I. JOE #40
Writer: Brandon Jerwa 
Artist: Tim Seeley
Cover by Tim Seeley
Retail Price: $2.95

"Union of the Snake" Part 5 of 6
The arc that will shatter the Joes' world races towards its conclusion! While General Rey wins the trust of his new charges, the decision is made to take extreme action to take Cobra out once and for all. And as Destro reels from personal loss, Cobra Commander activates the Tempest-a doomsday weapon unlike any other-and stands at the very brink of world domination. Meanwhile, the fugitive Snake-Eyes, Scarlett and Duke find a very nasty surprise has followed them to Iceland…

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COBRA REBORN POSTER BY TALENT CALDWELL
Artist: Talent Caldwell
Format: 18 X 24 
Retail Price: $4.95
Formerly only available at comic book conventions throughout 2004, this WIZARD WORLD exclusive poster, drawn by fan favorite artist Talent Caldwell (FATHOM, SPIDERMAN), is now available through PREVIEWS for the incredible price of $4.95. Supplies limited.

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Hack/Slash: Comic Book Carnage
Writer: Tim Seeley
Artist: Federica Manfredi
Cover: Tim Seeley & Aadi Salman
Intended Audience: Fans of horror films, Army of Darkness, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Format: 48 pages color comic. Saddle stitched. ONE SHOT
Retail Price: $4.95

It's the scariest and funniest issue of Hack/Slash yet as a slasher invades the Whizzer World Comic Convention! STEVE NILES, ROBERT KIRKMAN, and SKOTTIE YOUNG guest star as Cassie and Vlad attempt to stop a killer intent on slaughtering the hot creators of Young Buck Entertainment! Will your favorite comic creators make it out alive? Will ROBERT KIRKMAN scream like a girl? Will SKOTTIE YOUNG lose his drawing hand?! It's the ultimate horror "movie" for comic fans, from the same team that brought you the hit HACK/SLASH: GIRLS GONE DEAD!

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AFTERMATH 

INFANTRY --Will return next month after a scheduled break.

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DEFEX #5
Writer: Marv Wolfman
Art: Stefano Caselli and Sunder Raj (Changed to Matt & Mike Cossin)
Cover: Stefano Caselli and Sunder Raj
Intended Audience: Fans of teen-themed sci-fi such as Spider-man & X-Men or Teen Titans
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price $2.95.
 
The Black Ring has captured the Defex-and are replicating the process that gave the kids their powers on Black Ring operatives. Who are they, and what is their goal? What do they plan to unleash on an unsuspecting world? And with the team devastated and their loyalties divided by the revelation of the mole-will they be able to do anything about it?

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BREAKDOWN #5
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Art: Dave Ross
Cover: Dave Ross
Intended Audience: Fans of gritty revenge sagas such as Payback or Man on Fire and characters such as the Punisher, Batman, and The Shadow. 
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price 2.95.

Having freed his father from decades-long confinement, the secret of Jeff Carey's powers has been revealed-but that truth only leads to greater danger and a web of conspiracy. Now father and son are re-united to hunt the killers who murdered Jeff's family. But they are about to encounter someone who may have the power to destroy them both-and who has a very large axe to grind with Jeff…

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Blade of Kumori #4
Writer: Ron Marz
Art: Dub and Grafiksismik
Cover: Tim Seeley and Grafiksismik
Intended Audience: Fans of Female action stories such as Alias and Kill Bill; fans of epic Samurai sagas such as the Seven Samurai and the Last Samurai.
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price 2.95.

In the space of a few short months, everything in her life has been called into question. She's defied the will of her family. She's traveled to distant lands and has come to suspect that she is more than human-and that her father knows more about this than he's told her. Now, Kumori faces a crisis that could change her life forever-or force her to kill the man she may love…

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UDON

STREET FIGHTER vol. II TPB
Writer: Ken Siu-Chong
Art: Arnold Tsang, Andrew Hou, Omar Dogan, Long Vo, Eric Vedder & UDON
Cover: ????????????????????
Intended Audience: 
Format: 200 pages color comic. Perfect bound. 
Cover Price $13.95.

With the launch of the next arc of CAPCOM and UDON's hit Street Fighter series, UDON is proud to announce the next installment in its series of trade paperbacks-STREET FIGHTER TPB: VOL. II. This affordably priced 200-page, digest-sized graphic novel collects the main stories from issues #7 to #14 and is a great way for new readers to get up to speed with the current series. It also includes an UDON cover gallery, an incredible ALL-NEW cover by CAPCOM artist, SHINKIRO, and features a bonus Chun-Li side story that was previously only available in the hard-to-find convention-exclusive Capcom 2004 Summer Special!

Featuring the beginning of Ryu's journey around the world, Cammy's quest to discover her past, Chun-Li's investigation into the Shadaloo-controlled Hong Kong underworld and the first appearance of fan-favorite characters like Adon and Fei Long, this is a story no Street Fighter fan should be without!

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O/A STREET FIGHTER vol. I TPB
Full Color Digest Size SPR $9.99 144PP

The epic tale of Street Fighter begins here! This handsome digest-sized, 144-page graphic novel collects the main stories from the first 6 issues of the hit Street Fighter series and features an exclusive cover rendered by CAPCOM's own super-artist SHINKIRO, an UDON cover gallery, and the story from the previously convention-exclusive, and ultra-rare, Street Fighter #0! 

This introductory story, set in Capcom's legendary Street Fighter Universe, includes the death of Ryu's master, his fateful confrontation with Akuma and introduces fan-favorites Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, Sakura, Vega, Sagat and countless others. 

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DARKSTALKERS #5
Writer: Ken Siu-Chong
Art: Alvin Lee, Joe Vriens, Alan Wang & UDON
Cover A by Joe Vriens
Cover B by Alan Wang
Cover C Power Foil by ARN 
Intended Audience: Teens, fans of anime/manga, horror/sci-fi and videogames.
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price 2.95.

DARKSTALKERS, the ongoing comic based on CAPCOM's classic series, continues this month featuring the team behind the art of the latest hit PS2 and X-Box fighting game, CAPCOM FIGHTING EVOLUTION! This month, DONOVAN, the cursed Night Warrior who has devoted his life to hunting the Dark Ones, answers a village's call to destroy the Gerdenheim monster-VICTOR. Meanwhile, MORRIGAN makes a shocking discovering while playing in the dreams of one of her victims. In this story featuring guest artist JOE (Sentinel, Thundercats) VRIENS and ALVIN (Street Fighter, Agent X) LEE, Darkstalkers and Night Warriors collide in a world where even your dreams are no longer safe! 

PLUS! A backup story by guest artist Alan Wang featuring the bloodthirsty cursed armor… BISHAMON !!!

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STUDIO ICE

MU #4
Writers: Andrew Dabb, Manson Khan
Art: Mark Lee
Cover (A): Mark Lee
Cover (B): Minwoo Hyung
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price 2.95.

The Concept:
The continent of Mu is home to great warriors, powerful wizards, mysterious elves and gruesome monsters, all living in precarious balance. But when a long forgotten evil returns, the world is plunged into chaos. As bloodstained armies march through the land and nations burn, it falls to a most unlikely hero to save the world; a librarian. Based on Webzen's popular role-playing game, Mu is epic fantasy in the tradition of Tolkien, Jordan  and Martin.

This Issue:
Racing against time, Icarus Estro, Zak and Frin speed toward the elven forests Noria. But unknown to them, Antonias Kalain and his army have discovered a thousand year old secret: Kettuhotum, city of the damned. Battles are fought, friends are killed, futures are told, and the lost prophecy is fulfilled, as the first chapter of Mu's epic story comes to a close.

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MEGACITY #6
Writers: Jacob lee, Andrew Dabb 
Art: Kano Kang, Zack Suh
Cover (A): Kano Kang & Zack Suh
Cover (B): Juno Jung
Format: 32 pages color comic. Saddle stitched.
Cover Price 2.95.

The Concept:
In the wake of a bloody, planet-wide war, mankind stood united and completely at peace for the first time in history. Then the Pulses came. Sentient psychic parasites that rampaged across the globe, turning those they possessed into monsters. No one knew if they had just appeared, or if they'd been around forever, but one thing is certain; they have to be stopped. That job falls to an elite team of soldiers known as PHOBIA.

This Issue:
At last PHOBIA has come face-to-face with their target: Kusanagi. There's just one problem, how do you kill a god? Meanwhile, as Jaeminae and Dr. Jerome make their way toward the heart of the INZEN facility, the world is literally re-shaping itself around them. The spirit realm and our own are colliding, with catastrophic results. The final, apocalyptic battle is starting, and killer robot armies, crazed demons and undead monks were only the beginning. Now things are about to get really bad.

 

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DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

Army of Darkness: Shop 'Til You Drop (Dead) #4
Writer: James Kuhoric
Artist: Nick Bradshaw
Finishes/Colorist: Jim Charalampidis
Cover (A): Nick Bradshaw; retail $2.99; Standard Discount; 75% ratio
Cover (B): Sanford Greene; retail $2.99; Standard Discount; 25% ratio
Intended Audience: Horror Fans, Humor Fans, Movie Fans, All fans!

Shop 'till You Drop by writer Jim Kuhoric and artist Nick Bradshaw (joined this issue by Sanford Greene) concludes!

 After 20,000 years of utopian civilization, the Deadites are terrorizing humanity again thanks to the bumbling of the Necronomicon password by one time-traveling Ashley J. Williams. Now with the evil spirits loose in the future, the enlightened civilization has two choices - either stand with Ash to fight the Deadites, or unceremoniously eject him and the evil through the timeline to the past. Hey, no one ever said that being enlightened meant you had to be stupid. Ash finds himself propelled back to his own time only to discover that S-Mart is now a haven for the undead. To save the girl, he must face his Deadite- possessed friends and find a way to eliminate the evil spirit now inhabiting the aisles of everyone's favorite discount store chain. The human race needs a hero now more than ever, but what they got is a halfwit with a chainsaw and a chin of steel!

The final issue of this incredible AOD comic book series features two covers: One by Nick Bradshaw and the other by Sanford Greene! Greene's cover will ship 1 for every 4 copies!

RETAILER INCENTIVE: For every 25 copies orders, retailers will receive a special "sketch" edition of the Nick Bradshaw cover at no cost! 

Army of Darkness: Shop 'Til You Drop (Dead) #4
Sanford Greene/Nick Bradshaw cover available as a special Glow-in-the-Dark Edition at the Net Cost of $10.00!