Sneak Peeks: Dark Horse Comics December 19, 2012

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Dark Horse that will come out December 19...

BLACK BEETLE: NIGHT SHIFT #0
Writer: Francesco Francavilla
Artist: Francesco Francavilla
Cover Artist: Francesco Francavilla

When a powerful totem of dark magic shows up at the Colt City Natural History Museum, Hitler sends his fearsome Werwolf Korps to collect the piece. Unfortunately for the führer, Colt City’s protector, the Black Beetle, is on the case!

From the mind of 2012 Eisner Award winner Francesco Francavilla (Batman: The Black Mirror). Collects three Dark Horse Presents stories from issues #11–#13.


ANGEL & FAITH #17
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Rebekah Isaacs
Colorist: Dan Jackson
Cover Artist: Steve Morris, Rebekah Isaacs

Longtime nemesis Ethan Rayne has set the final piece of Giles’s soul practically in Angel’s lap. To complicate things further, the loss of a Slayer has sent Nadira and her group into the fray with their sights set on Angel now more than ever!



B.P.R.D.: 1948 #3
Writer: Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Artist: Max Fiumara
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Dave Johnson

Monsters are killing civilians in the Utah desert, leading Professor Bruttenholm to recall the last time a government operation cracked open reality to unleash something from another world: Project Ragna Rok.



DARK HORSE PRESENTS #19
Writer: Duane Swierczynski, Matt Kindt, Phil Stanford, Peter Hogan, Joshua Williamson, Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas, Frank J. Barbiere, Gabriel Hardman, Corrina Bechko, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Michael T. Gilbert
Artist: Matt Kindt, Ulises Farinas, Gabriel Hardman, Michael T. Gilbert, Eric Nguyen, Patric Reynolds, Steve Parkhouse, Victor Ibáñez, Luke Radl, Steve Lieber
Cover Artist: Raymond Swanland

Get a taste of Matt Kindt’s critically acclaimed series MIND MGMT, and see San Francisco under assault by giant monsters in Gabriel Hardman and Corrina Bechko’s Station to Station!



EMPOWERED SPECIAL #3: HELL BENT OR HEAVEN SENT
Writer: Adam Warren
Penciller: Adam Warren, Ryan Kinnaird
Inker: Ryan Kinnaird
Cover Artist: Adam Warren, Ryan Kinnaird

Costumed crime fighter Empowered makes an ill-fated visit to a top-secret dumping ground for ultratech "superdebris" and wrecked "villainware" left over from cape-on-cape battle. Can Emp and her hapless teammate, Mechanismo, avoid annihilation when the junkyard nano spawns an apocalyptic cheesecake plague of flirty but lethal "cyberangels" and sensual but savage "devil mecha”?


NUMBER 13 #1
Writer: Robert Love, David Walker
Artist: Robert Love
Inker: Dana Shukartsi
Colorist: Brennan Wagner
Cover Artist: Robert Love

The young bionic amnesiac known as Number 13 searches for answers and his creator, in a future world that’s been brought to its knees by the vicious Monstrum Morbus plague. Weakened by his last explosive encounter, Number 13 is discovered by a group of curious, scavenging mutants who have banded together for survival. They dub him “Thirteen” and invite him to join their group—and one of them knows exactly what horrible purpose he was built for!


R.I.P.D.: CITY OF THE DAMNED #2
Creators: Peter Lenkov
Writer: Jeremy Barlow
Artist: Tony Parker
Cover Artist: Dave Wilkins

There’s something sinister living underneath the town of Black Pool. While no one can find Black Pool on any map, its strange energy has attracted the Rest In Peace Department’s attention. Newly minted officer Roy Pulsipher hopes the answer to Black Pool’s riddle holds the key to solving his own murder, but what he finds instead is a gospel of madness and terror!


ROTTEN APPLE (ONE-SHOT)
Writer: Chuck Brown
Penciller: Sanford Greene
Inker: Sanford Greene
Colorist: Tyson Hesse
Cover Artist: Sanford Greene

In the crumbling, chaotic city now known as Rotten Apple, San Gee is hired by religious fanatics to find a lost, sacred artifact called the Bleeding Rock—but other strange sell-swords are also on the hunt for the priceless relic! Collects stories from Dark Horse Presents #2-#5.


STAR WARS: AGENT OF THE EMPIRE—HARD TARGET #3
Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Davidé Fabbri
Inker: Christian Dalla Vecchia
Colorist: Wes Dzioba
Cover Artist: Stéphane Roux

A young boy—the heir to the title of Count Dooku—is kidnapped, and it’s Jahan Cross to the rescue!

When the kidnapper turns out to be a sexy female spy with whom Cross has worked before, and when her motives turn out to have the boy’s welfare at heart, Cross is faced with a decision: should he disobey his own orders from the Empire?

But first there’s a little matter of breaking out of a supposedly inescapable prison . . .


STAR WARS: DAWN OF THE JEDI—THE PRISONER OF BOGAN #2
Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Jan Duuresma
Inker: Dan Parsons
Colorist: Wes Dzioba
Cover Artist: David Michael Beck

As the Je’daii study the amazing Forcesaber of the banished Xesh, word spreads that he and his fellow prisoner on Bogan, Daegen Lok, have escaped the dark moon! The three young Je’daii who first encountered Xesh are teamed with Je’daii Masters to locate the prisoners and return them to Bogan . . . and prevent them from bringing about the mad vision that Lok has obsessively held to during his years of banishment . . .