Les comics Dark Horse du mois d'avril

Voici un aperçu des comics de l'éditeur américain Dark Horse pour le mois d'avril 2012 : Angel, Faith, Buffy, Conan et même le Doctor Solar sont au rendez-vous !

3 STORY: SECRET FILES OF THE GIANT MAN
Matt Kindt (W/A/Cover)
On sale Apr 18
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
One-shot
The most acclaimed graphic novel of 2009 returns! Some episodes from the life of Craig Pressgang were too sensitive even for the pages of 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, but now the full truth of his years as a spy can be told! Lending new meaning to the phrase “hiding in plain sight,” Craig’s missions to Paris, Cairo, and the Philippines make Secret Files an essential companion to the 3 Story graphic novel, as well as a perfect standalone introduction to Matt Kindt’s touching history of the Giant Man. Collects all three Giant Man stories from MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
¥ Visionary artist Matt Kindt returns to his most beloved creation!
¥ Includes a preview of Kindt’s new series, Mind MGMT!
• 3 Story is in production as a major film!

ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN! ARCHIVES VOLUME 1 HC
Edvard Moritz (W/A), King Ward (W/A), Mac Elkan (W), Fred Guardineer (A), Al Feldstein (A), Leonard Starr (A), Al Ulmer (A), and Paul Reinman (A)
On sale June 6
FC, 216 pages
$49.99
HC, 6 5/8” x 10 3/16”
The first ongoing horror comics anthology, Adventures into the Unknown! is finally collected into a series of deluxe hardcovers! The pre-Code delights found in this debut volume include inventive, exciting tales like “The Living Ghost,” “Kill, Puppets, Kill,” “The Affair of Room 1313,” and the ongoing “True Ghosts of History” feature—and contributions from Golden Age greats Fred Guardineer, Al Feldstein, Leonard Starr, Edvard Moritz, and others! Adventures into the Unknown! Archives Volume 1 reprints the first four issues of the popular, long-running horror anthology, which ran from 1948 to 1967.
• Foreword by Bruce Jones!

ALABASTER: WOLVES #1 (of 5)
Caitlín R. Kiernan (W), Steve Lieber (A), Greg Ruth (Cover), and Michael Avon Oeming (Variant cover)
On sae Apr 11
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
International Horror Guild Award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan brings one of her most enduring and popular creations to comics!
For nearly as long as she can remember, Dancy Flammarion has fought monsters, cutting a bloody swath through the demons and dark things of the world, aimed like a weapon by forces beyond her control or questioning.
But now, for the first time, Dancy finds herself alone—and the wolves are closing in.
• A new comics series by Caitlín R. Kiernan with art by Steve Lieber.
• For fans of Vertigo’s supernatural horror.

ANGEL & FAITH #9
Christos Gage (W), Rebekah Isaacs (A/Variant cover), Dan Jackson (C), and Steve Morris (Cover)
On sale Apr 25
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
Ongoing
Still reeling from her father’s unexpected appearance, Faith goes rogue, taking on Drusilla and her pet demon. It’s time to burn off some anger. Angel is hot on her tail, but he may be too late to save her from Dru, and ultimately herself.
• Follows the events of Buffy Season 8!

ANGEL & FAITH VOLUME 1: LIVE THROUGH THIS TP
Christos Gage (W), Rebekah Isaacs (A), Dan Jackson (C), Phil Noto (A), and Steve Morris (Cover)
On sale June 20
FC, 136 pages
$17.99
TP, 7″ x 10″
Angel has made bad choices in his life. Most recently? While possessed, he killed Giles. However, he believes he’s found a way to make amends, by bringing the Watcher back from the grave! Cue Faith—rebel Slayer, and Angel’s only ally—who only supports this harebrained scheme in order to keep her friend from catatonia. New threats emerge as this unlikely duo struggles against real and personal demons alike, while hitting the dark streets of London! Collects Angel & Faith #1–#5, plus the Harmony one-shot.

BALTIMORE: THE CURSE BELLS VOLUME 2 HC
Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Christopher Golden (W), Ben Stenbeck (A), and Dave Stewart (C)
On sale June 13
FC, 144 pages
$24.99
HC, 7″ x 10″
A horrific ritual will create havoc on a small European town, as Lord Baltimore takes on the twisted blessing of vampiric nuns and an insane warlock!
• By award–winning writers Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.
• New York Times bestseller!
“Crisp, clean & drenched in blood!” —Comic Attack

B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH: THE LONG DEATH #3 (of 3)
Mike Mignola (W), John Arcudi (W), James Harren (A), Dave Stewart (C), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)
On sale Apr 18
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
In a frozen camp full of slaughtered agents, two monstrous, long-running characters go head to head in a life-and-death battle!
• From the pages of Hellboy!
• The Wendigo vs. the Jaguar God!
“Eighty issues in, and B.P.R.D. is still going strong.” —Comic Book Resources

B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH: THE PICKENS COUNTY HORROR #2 (of 2)
Mike Mignola (W), Scott Allie (W), Jason Latour (A), Dave Stewart (C), and Becky Cloonan (Cover)
On sale Apr 25
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
A reclusive vampire clan and a deadly mist create one of the most disastrous missions our heroes have ever faced!
• The most horrific B.P.R.D. in years!
“The world has taken a turn for the apocalyptic — which makes the series title Hell on Earth an apt one.” —USA Today

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 9 #8
Andrew Chambliss (W), Cliff Richards (P), Andy Owens (I), Michelle Madsen (C), Phil Noto (Cover), and Georges Jeanty (Variant cover)
On sale Apr 11
FC, 40 pages
$2.99
Ongoing
There is something seriously wrong with Buffy! She and Spike discover that the one person who can help her is actually . . . Andrew? Buffy’s situation becomes even more dire as she discovers that Simone, the Slayer with an enormous grudge, has been targeting her.
• Buffy, the one-armed Slayer of San Francisco!
• Executive produced by Joss Whedon!

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #3
Brian Wood (W), Becky Cloonan (A), Dave Stewart (C), Massimo Carnevale (Cover), and John Paul Leon (Variant cover)
On sale Apr 11
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Ongoing
Alone, Conan was the most fearsome warrior to ever walk the planet! Now, joined with the pirate queen Bêlit, he is swept to new levels of danger and passion. Wood and Cloonan continue to redefine the Cimmerian as he embraces piracy and begins his joint reign of the Black Coast alongside the deadly siren, Bêlit!
• Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders) and Becky Cloonan (Demo, Pixu)!
• Robert E. Howard’s most beloved Conan story!

CONAN VOLUME 11: ROAD OF KINGS TP
Roy Thomas (W), Mike Hawthorne (P), John Lucas (I), Jason Gorder (I), Dave Stewart (C), and Dan Jackson (C)
On sale June 27
FC, 152 pages
$19.99
TP, 7″ x 10″
The journey down the fabled Road of Kings is a treacherous one, filled with monsters, angry victims of Conan’s light fingers, and other thieving highwaymen. While Conan becomes caught up in palace intrigue along the way, a slaver kidnaps his companion, Olivia, determined to collect a ransom from her royal father! Collecting Conan: Road of Kings #1–#6, these are some of the most thrilling Conan stories ever printed!
• Roy Thomas’s return to Conan!
• Bold artwork by Mike Hawthorne!

CREEPY COMICS #8
Jeff Parker (W), Doug Moench (W), Rick Geary (W/A), Colleen Coover (A), Kelly Jones (A), and Richard Corben (Cover)
On sale Apr 4
FC, 48 pages
$4.99
Ongoing
Uncle Creepy has unearthed another malicious mag’s worth of terror! Waiting in these pages are brand-new stories from Jeff Parker (Thunderbolts, Hulk), Colleen Coover (X-Men: First Class), Rick Geary (A Treasury of Victorian Murder), Doug Moench (Batman), and Kelly Jones (Criminal Macabre) all wrapped up in a cover from horror master Richard Corben (Hellboy, classic Creepy and Eerie)!
• Cover by Richard Corben!
• Featuring a classic reprint from Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson!

CREEPY ARCHIVES VOLUME 13 HC
Bill DuBay (W), Bruce Jones (W), Steve Skeates (W),Tom Sutton (W), Richard Corben (A), Bernie Wrightson (A), John Severin (A), Sanjulian (A), Ken Kelly (A),
Jose Bea (A), and Leo Summers (A)
On sale June 20
b&w, 256 pages
$49.99
HC, 8 3/8” x 10 7/8”
It’s a lucky time to be a horror fan! Celebrate the tremendously terrifying thirteenth volume in the Creepy Archives hardcover series with classic tales by Bernie Wrightson, Bruce Jones, John Severin, and more, as the esteemed horror magazine hits another fruitful period of frightful delights in the mid-seventies! Collecting the classic Creepy magazines #60 through #63, plus several color pieces by Richard Corben, Sanjulian, and Ken Kelly—with black-and-white stories throughout by Tom Sutton, Jose Bea, Bill DuBay, Jose Gual, and many others
• Eisner Award-winning archival series!
• Both the Creepy and Eerie Archives have been on the New York Times Top 10 graphic novel list.

CRIMINAL MACABRE: DIE, DIE, MY DARLING!
Steve Niles (W), Christopher Mitten (A), Michelle Madsen (C), and Fiona Staples (Cover)
On sale Apr 4
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
One-shot
Monster hunters Cal and Mo’loch are hired by a giant stranger and his fetal sibling to make a final stand in the war between good and evil.
• A perfect introduction for new readers!
“Steve Niles has beaten up his main man, broken him down and now stands on the precipice of reinventing him with a conflict on the horizon that portends to be nothing short of epic.” –Newsarama

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #11
Francesco Francavilla (W/A/Cover), Steve Horton (W), Carla Speed McNeil (W/A), Steve Niles (W), Evan Dorkin (W/A), Tim Seeley (W), John Arcudi (W), Andrew Vachss (W), Neal Adams (W/A), Frank Barbiere (W), Michael Dialynas (A), Jonathan Case (A), Victor Drujiniu (A), Tonci Zonjic (A/Cover), Geof Darrow (A), and Luke Radl (A)
On sale Apr 18
FC, 80 pages
$7.99
Ongoing
Don’t miss the continuing exploits of cunning assassin Amala, Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder, Evan Dorkin’s House of Fun, and Steve Niles’s Criminal Macabre.
This issue is also packed with the exciting premiere of Francesco Francavilla’s pulp-noir hero the Black Beetle, the return of John Arcudi’s The Creep, and a new story by Andrew Vachss with illustrations by Geof Darrow!
And in an exciting feature by Frank Barbiere and Luke Radl, meet the killers known as the White Suits, who have left their bloody fingerprints throughout modern history. When a young girl encounters one of the Suits during a mob deal gone wrong, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever—or end it!

DARK MATTER #4 (of 4)
Joseph Mallozzi (W), Paul Mullie (W), Garry Brown (A/Cover), and Ryan Hill (C)
On sale Apr 11
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries
Abandoned by one of their own, the remaining crew members are trapped planet-side as enemies orbit their position. Outnumbered and outgunned, their only hope rests with a suicidal last stand—and help from a most unlikely source…
• By Stargate series writers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie!
• Mind-bending sci-fi adventure!

DOCTOR SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM VOL 2: REVELATION/SOLAR RISE TP
Jim Shooter (W), Roger Robinson (P/I), Agustin Alessio (P/I/C), Diego Bernard (P), Fred Benes (I), Wes Dzioba (C), and Michael Komarck (Cover)
On sale June 6
FC, 96 pages
$15.99
TP, 7″ x 10″
Ruthless power broker Tanek Nuro has hacked into the operating system of the universe. With no limit to his monstrous ambition and only Doctor Solar in his way, a new Big Bang is about to begin! Plus, the mind-blowing origin of the Man of the Atom is revealed: how did a middle-aged physicist come to command the fires of creation? Everything you knew—and everything you didn’t—is about to cross the event horizon! Collects Doctor Solar #5–#8.
• One of comics, true iconic characters!
• Industry legend Jim Shooter returns to the character he re-defined in the 1990s!
“Two stories, one great book.” —Comic Book Interviews.com
“I’m more taken by the series now than I was with its first four wonderful issues.”
—Comic Attack.net

GANTZ VOLUME 23 TP
Hiroya Oku (W/A)
On sale June 20
b&w, 216 pages
$12.99
TP, 5 1/8” x 7 1/16”
The battle-hardened Osaka Gantz team has fought with courage and fury to wipe out most of the lower-level (but highly lethal) alien invaders. Now firing on all cylinders, the OGs set out to go toe-to-toe with the insanely powerful boss-class offworlders, including the elusive, shape-shifting “100 Point” boss, a creature that can appear as beautiful as it is deadly. The Tokyo Gantz squad can do little more than watch as the Osaka fighters soon realize that the constantly changing forms of the boss monster may be more than even they can handle!
• Gantz has sold over fifteen million copies in Japan!
• Popular anime series!
• Live-action feature.
“Gantz is a mind-blowing sci-fi suspense story that reads like a first-person shooter video game.” —About.com

GATE 7 VOLUME 3 TP
CLAMP (W/A)
On sale June 27
b&w, 184 pages
$10.99
TP, 5 1/8” x 7 3/16”
A battle for supernatural supremacy rages in Kyoto! When a strange dimension overlaps with our reality, Hana and the members of her Inou Squad use their mystical dominion over the elements to protect humanity against a torrent of invading creatures. Thrust in the middle of this war, Chikahito is a seemingly ordinary boy who’s been accepted into Hana’s group—but it’s possible that he has latent powers of his own!
• Released just a few months after the original release date in Japan!
• Volume 3 continues CLAMP’s exciting new series.

GOOD LUCK TROLLS 2.5” FIGURES MYSTERY BOX ASSORTMENT
On sale June 27
15-figure counter display
$119.85
Trolls became one of America’s biggest toy fads in the early 1960s, and again over the years in various revivals from many toy manufacturers.
In 2003, Toy Industry Association commemorated them among the one hundred most creative toys of the twentieth century. Also in 2003, a Congressional law allowed the Dam family of Denmark to restore their original U.S. copyright and become the only official owner. After keeping them off the market for nearly a decade, they have awarded Dark Horse Deluxe a license to bring back Trolls in a “mystery box” program.
This all-new assortment of colorful designs, with an array of hair colors and exotic surface treatments from glitter to metallic to flocked, are sure to stun both collectors and casual fans.

THE GOON #39
Eric Powell (W/A/Cover) and Dave Stewart (C)
On sale Apr 25
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Ongoing
In order to try to compete with the gimmicks and rehashes of the Big Two superhero companies, Eric Powell has decided to completely sell out and relaunch the Goon in this super-epic, brand new, first-ever first edition of the 39th issue of The Goon! Not only do the Goon and Franky get new costumes, but we also discover there are different-colored versions of the Goon! Green Goon! Red Goon! Blue Goon! Purple Goon! WHAT A PLOT!

THE GOON VOLUME 11: THE DEFORMED OF BODY AND DEVIOUS OF MIND TP
Eric Powell (W/A/Cover), Evan Dorkin (W), and Dave Stewart (C)
One sale June 27
FC, 144 pages
$16.99
TP, 7″ x 10″
Sparkly, skinny-jean wearin’ vampires, wiener-eatin’ hoboes, multinational midgets, and 2010 Queen of Burlesque star, Roxi DLite, are just a few of the obstacles Goon and Franky are up against in this new collection from Dark Horse Comics! Plus, guest writer Evan Dorkin (Milk and Cheese, Beasts of Burden) pits Goon against the horrendous, bacon-eating behemoth, the Ten-in-One! Collects The Goon issues #34-#37, The Goon in “An Irish Wake” from USA Today, and The Goon’s on Vacation from Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities and the Ghastly Fiend of London.
• Eisner Award-winning series!
“Eric Powell’s great series The Goon deftly combines lowbrow humor with unexpected emotional depth in its ongoing story of a big, not-so-dumb guy who does battle with zombies in a town seemingly dreamt up by Tom Waits.” – The Onion A.V. Club