Sneak Peeks: Dynamite Entertainment February 18, 2015

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Dynamite that will come out this week...

King: Mandrake the Magician #1
Roger Langridge (w)
Jeremy Treece (a)
Darwyn Cooke (c)

“It’s time to put on a SHOW!" Welcome to the KING, full of IMPOSSIBLE TRICKERY and DEMONIC DESTRUCTION and HEARTBREAKING VILLAINY and WITCH DOCTORING and GLOBAL CATASTROPHE and SMIRKING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND and DAPPER DETERMINATION!  Witness MAGICAL MYSTERY by Eisner-Award Winner ROGER LANGRIDGE (Thor the Mighty Avenger) and JEREMY TREECE (Marvel Zombies) with a connecting King cover by comic legend DARWYN COOKE!


Alice Cooper #6
Brandon Jerwa (w)
Nacho Tenorio (a)
David Mack (c)

"LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PARTY" - Alice Cooper, the Nightmare Lord, has reclaimed the seat of power in his own dark realm. It's time to celebrate with a full-on tour of the weird dreamworld that our hero calls home...but there’s something sinister lurking in the shadows. Who is Doubting Thomas, and what does he want with Alice? It's a done-in-one tale of terror!



Black Bat Omnibus
Brian Buccellato (w)
Ronan Cliquet (a)
J. Scott Campbell (c)

The classic pulp vigilante, reimagined for a new generation! Tony Quinn is a brash defense attorney to the mob who compromises his ethics for financial gain. When he refuses to cross the line and commit murder, he is tortured and blinded by his gangster employers. When a fortuitous meeting with a covert agency gives him a chance to make amends, Quinn transforms into the Black Bat and embarks on a redemptive quest to right the wrongs of his past.



Dawn/Vampirella #3
Joseph Michael Linsner (w/a/c)

Dawn and Vampirella start to understand that all the world is a stage as they tell stories while plotting their escape from the demon Masodik. Dawn tells the tale of a young girl who trades her innocence for a greater understanding of the cosmos, and Vampirella tells the story of a girl from a planet where the rivers run red with blood.





Evil Ernie #4
Tim Seeley, Steve Seeley (w)
Rafael Lanhellas (a)
Tim Seeley, Ardian Syaf, Joyce Chin (c)

With Carrion Jane defeated, Ernie and Smiley, along with their reluctant sidekick Mary, hit the road to find and stop Mistress Hel's other lovers. However, the hunters become the hunted as two of her lovers already have Ernie in their sights. Will the trio be able to survive Mr. Sloth and Wicked Walter?




Legenderry: Green Hornet #1
Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Joe Benitez, Cedric Poulat, Sergio Fernandez Davila, Ivan Nunes (c)

From the pages of Bill Willingham's LEGENDERRY, it's Green Hornet and Kato, goggles-deep in an all-out steampunk gang war! We've got airships! Electric velocipedes! Semi-automatic blunderbusses! Each gang and gang lord is weirder than the last, beginning with the child psychopath who starts the war, the adorable and deadly "Little Lord Homicide." But who's pulling the boy's strings?


Lone Ranger: Vindicated #4
Justin Grey (w)
Rey Villegas (a)
Marc Laming (c)

The thrilling conclusion to Lone Ranger: Vindicated has it all including a Wild West Carnival, but the end comes at a cost as the Ranger and Tonto square off with the killers responsible for stealing the town's money and murdering it's most prominent citizens. It’s a showdown not to be missed in the bloody town of Red River.



Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson: HopCross Jilly #5
Patricia Briggs, Rik Hoskin (w)
Tom Garcia (a/c)

Mercy Thompson’s all-new comic book adventure continues in a story by New York Times’ bestselling author, Patricia Briggs! Jesse’s the prime suspect in her classmates’ disappearances, so Mercy seeks advice from the legendary Zee, a spokesman for the fae. Meanwhile, Jesse receives a phone call that may just spell the end... for her! You’ve never read a Mercy Thompson story like this before!



Pathfinder: Origins #1
Erik Mona (w)
Tom Garcia (a)
Stjepan Sejic, Tom Garcia (c)

An exciting new Pathfinder adventure begins! To prove themselves to the Pathfinder Society, Valeros the fighter and his companions must recount tales of their early exploits in a world beset by magic and evil. In this issue, Valeros crosses swords with the brazen barbarian Amiri when both serve as hired guards escorting a doomed caravan through the treacherous Bloodsworn Vale. Sword and sorcery thrills from Pathfinder publisher Erik Mona and art from rising star Tom Garcia! Contains pull-out poster map and official Pathfinder RPG bonus encounter!


Red Sonja #100
Gail Simone, Roy Thomas, Luke Lieberman, Eric Trautmann, Mike Avon Oeming (w)
Sergio Davila, Pablo Marcos, Dave Acosta, Taki Soma, Noah Salonga (a)
Ed Benes, Robert Hack, Andrew Pepoy, Ken Haeser, Pablo Marcos (c)

Who knows how to celebrate ten years of Dynamite publishing better than the She-Devil with a Sword herself, RED SONJA? And she’s invited some serious barbarian bards to help! Past and present Sonja scribes GAIL SIMONE (current monthly writer), LUKE LIEBERMAN (the man behind Queen Sonja), MIKE OEMING (the first scribe of Red Sonja’s tenure at Dynamite), ERIC TRAUTMANN (who swept Sonja across the many Hyborian kingdoms), and ROY THOMAS (the man who started it all) pair up with beloved artists for this phenomenal five-story, supersized anthology, celebrating Red Sonja and her many roles and sojourns throughout the Hyborian Age!


Solar: Man of the Atom #9
Frank J. Barbieri (w)
Jonathan Lau (a)
Marc Laming (c)

Earth! It’s pretty cool. There’s cable, and other stuff. But now that Erica’s been all around the universe and discovered that she can do pretty much anything…the transition back to normal life has been kinda challenging. Luckily she’s got distractions, like her ghost-dad bugging her about galactic math, her brother trying to screw her out of her inheritance…and villains trying to take over the world. It’s enough to make a girl want to adopt 30 or so dogs and cats. Check out a brand new arc of Solar by the awesome team of FRANK BARBIERE (Five Ghosts) and JONATHAN LAU (Codename: Action)!

Terminal Hero #6
Peter Milligan (w)
Piotr Kowalski (a)
Jae Lee (c)

Last issue! Rory Fletcher has come face to face with the dangerous Mia and Minesh and now he must overcome the strange worlds that their awful drug-addicted powers create. In this final issue of Terminal Hero an old enemy reappears, forcing Rory to face once again the hideous reality of the Tumour Kid. Can Rory survive Mia and Minesh and escape the terrible Tumour monster? Can he escape the death sentence that began this entire journey? And after this final, bruising, shocking issue, will he be in any fit state to return to his adoptive family, waiting for him in California?
  
Twilight Zone #12
J. Michael Straczynski (w)
Guiu Vilanova (a)
Francesco Francavilla (c)

The final issue of J. Michael Straczynski’s epic return to The Twilight Zone! Wall Street embezzler Trevor Richmond, who exchanged one life for another and ended up with neither...barrista Diana Westby, who blinked in the face of nuclear terror and disappeared into an eternity of fear...and private investigator Roy Chambers, who has entered the past and must make the ultimate sacrifice for another...three stories, three lives that converge in this final issue. One final choice in this final issue has the potential to save all of them...or destroy them. You may think you know what happened in the first eleven issues of this series, but can you ever really be sure about anything...in the Twilight Zone?

Vampirella: Feary Tales #5
Nancy A. Collins, Steve Niles (w)
Jack Jadson, Eman Casallos (a)
Jay Anacleto, Joyce Chin, David Roach (c)

Final Issue! Vampirella is shocked when she meets the pun-happy Storyteller face-to-face, only to end up hip-deep in alligators in Steve Niles’ swamp-monster retelling of “The Frog Prince”. Then, in Nancy A. Collins’ twisted take on “Sleeping Beauty”, a major character from the original Warren run is reintroduced when Vampirella finally discovers the true identity of her mysterious doppelganger and learns about her hidden connection to the enchanted book she is trapped inside in a weird and wicked resolution that ties in with the on-going monthly title—provided Vampi can escape a castle full of walking dead that have awoken from their centuries-long slumber with a royal appetite...