THE ANSWER! #1
Writer: Dennis Hopeless
Artist: Mike Norton
Colorist: Mark Englert
Devin McKenzie is an insomniac librarian with a knack for
solving puzzles. The Answer! is a masked crime fighter with a giant exclamation
point on his face. Aside from a penchant for late nights, they share nothing in
common . . . until both become embroiled in a deadly mystery surrounding a
sinister motivational speaker!
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SPIKE #5
Writer: Victor Gischler
Penciller: Paul Lee
Inker: Andy Owens
Colorist: Cris Peter
Cover Artist: Jenny Frison, Steve Morris
Spike and his new demon companion are getting along
really well . . . On Easter Island, the duo work to activate a remnant of magic
to help get Nadia home. Spike has stars in his eyes, but the bugs are wary of
Spike’s newest friend and their master’s overly relaxed attitude. Something
seems off. He’s come out of his self-inflicted dark place a bit too swiftly . .
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BUFFYVERSE SAMPLER (ONE-SHOT)
Writer: Joss Whedon, Christos Gage, Victor Gischler, Jeff
Parker
Penciller: Georges Jeanty, Rebekah Isaacs, Paul Lee,
Brian Ching
Inker: Dexter Vines, Rebekah Isaacs, Jason Gorder, Andy
Owens
Colorist: Michelle Madsen, Dan Jackson, Cris Peter
Cover Artist: C.L. Bradley
Following the success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season
8, Dark Horse launched four separate series for the anticipated Buffy Season 9:
Buffy Season 9 and Angel & Faith are direct follow-ups to Season 8, and
both Spike and Willow are spinoffs from those two ongoing series. Collected
here are all four #1 issues!
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #20
Writer: Duane Swierczynski, Geoffrey Thorne, Michael Avon
Oeming, Peter Hogan, Joshua Williamson, Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas, Frank J.
Barbiere, Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, Caitlín R. Kiernan
Artist: Michael Avon Oeming, Ulises Farinas, Gabriel
Hardman, Michael T. Gilbert, Eric Nguyen, Todd Harris, Steve Parkhouse, Victor
Ibáñez, Luke Radl, Steve Lieber
Cover Artist: Michael Avon Oeming
Michael Avon Oeming’s twisted antiheroes head to the
pages of DHP, as a three-issue arc of The Victories begins! Also in this issue,
get shanghaied by the premiere of Geoffrey Thorne and Todd Harris’s Journeymen!
Plus, the exciting conclusions of Resident Alien, Captain Midnight, Gamma, and
White Suits, and all-new X!
THE MASSIVE #8
Writer: Brian Wood
Artist: Garry Brown
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: J.P. Leon
The Kapital stumbles upon a newly declared sovereign
nation—a community of hundreds living on oil platforms with dreams of a new
utopia. With the world’s governments and economies in shambles, is this new
“country” the hope for the future that Callum Israel and Ninth Wave are looking
for?
MIND MGMT #7
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Matt Kindt
Cover Artist: Matt Kindt
We’ve learned some of the secrets of Henry Lyme; now get
ready to meet the rest of MIND MGMT, beginning with the Ad Man! With the
remains of MIND MGMT on Lyme’s tail, the former spy is forced to seek help from
other defectors.
NUMBER 13 #2
Writer: Robert Love, David Walker
Artist: Robert Love
Inker: Dana Shukartsi
Colorist: Brennan Wagner
Cover Artist: Robert Love
Number 13 struggles to regain his memory and the purpose
of his existence, while the manipulative Mother Goose seeks to control his
power. She’s not prepared for the forces of the Professor, Number 13’s sinister
creator. No one is safe in the battle to control Number 13—a battle that will
determine the fate of a future world.
STAR WARS: BLOOD TIES VOLUME 2—BOBA FETT IS DEAD TPB
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Chris Scalf
Cover Artist: David Palumbo
The news spreads from one end of the galaxy to the other
like wildfire: Boba Fett, the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter, is dead.
But members of the team that killed Fett are themselves
being picked off one by one by a mysterious avenger, and Connor Freeman—the son
of one of Jango Fett’s clones—gets drawn into the whodunit. Freeman is
recruited against his will to find and safeguard a particular bounty hunter on
a distant world with an unknown connection to Boba Fett . . . Collects Star
Wars: Blood Ties—Boba Fett Is Dead #1–#4.














































