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(W) Christos Gage (A) Roberto Viacava One of the most critically acclaimed recent superhero stories is finally collected along with all-new material! All seven of the original issues of ABSOLUTION are here as well as a huge cover gallery and an all-new Crime Files segment with additional information on John Dusk's allies and most feared villains! You've seen Christos Gage's work for Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, and others, but you've never seen his imagination unleashed with absolutely no restrictions... untiln ow. ABSOLUTION introduces John Dusk, a superhero in a world where they're a sanctioned arm of law enforcement. But this veteran hero has been scarred by his exposure to man's infinite capacity for evil, and he's seen one too many perpetrators escape justice. One day he crosses the line... lets a murderer die... and discovers it feels good. Surrounded by sociopaths, both human and superhuman, who he knows will prey on others if they're not stopped -- permanently -- how far will he go, knowing every step he takes puts him further on a collision course with his teammates Alpha and The Servant, not to mention his homicide detective girlfriend? Drawing on his experience writing for TV crime dramas like Law & Order: SVU, and his years of acclaimed work on comics like G.I. Joe: Cobra, StormWatch: PHD, and Avengers: The Initiative, Gage and artist Roberto Viacava bring you a riveting, no-punches-pulled saga that fans of shows like The Shield and Dexter, or comics such as Powers and Sleeper, won't be able to put down. John Dusk just wants to be forgiven... but he doesn't want to stop. This amazing collection is also available as a Hardcover edition with an all-new cover by artist Juan Jose Ryp that is limited to just 1,500 copies. [Juan Jose Ryp]
The eight issue series that was the biggest event of 2007 has now been collected in this deluxe trade paperback with a brand new cover! Warren Ellis' eight-issue opus of masked hero revolution, Black Summer, perfectly complimented by the stunning and explosive art of the genius Juan Jose Ryp, is nothing less than a sequential masterpiece. The world goes black in this epic story of super-powered heroes and villains. The story begins when the political situation in the United States becomes more than Horus can stand, and he moves to take matters into his own hands. Unfortunately, not all of his other team-mates are quite so eager to throw the world into chaos, and an epic conflict forms.With Horus and the rest of the surviving Guns facing off against the military and each other, no one is safe as the bodies start to fall. Whether you collected each of the eight issues as they hit the stands, or you somehow missed this incredible event, the Black Summer trade is a must-have for your shelf! Also available as a Hardcover edition with an all-new cover by series artist Juan Jose Ryp that is limited to just 2,000 copies! [Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp]
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Juan Jose Ryp Maximum Ryp madness on this exclusive new Convention edition cover that has never before been available in PREVIEWS! The 8-issue series that was the biggest event of 2007 has now been collected in this deluxe trade paperback! The world goes black in this epic story of super-powered heroes and villains. This edition features an all-new cover by series artist Juan Jose Ryp and is limited to just 2,000 copies!
Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, the team behind the fan-favorite Black Summer, are revolutionizing masked heroes yet again! The penultimate issue brings the world of The Front Line crashing down around them. Things are falling apart for Carrick Masterson and the Front Line, under attack on all sides. And in the eye of the storm is Josh Carver, who now knows everything about the Front Line - except who's killing them. Unless he's been lying, all along. Unless he's been followed, all along. Unless he was the ticking time bomb, all along! Everything comes to a head in this sixth issue, which is available with a Regular or Wraparound cover by Ryp as well as a rare Design Sketch Edition featuring the initial character designs by Ryp. [Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp]
The hottest series of the summer is beginning right now, as Ellis and Ryp unleash their next epic on the world! The superstar team that made Black Summer an instant fan-favorite are back and revolutionizing masked heroes yet again! Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp have created an exciting new universe that explodes into action in this zero chapter. In 1966, a group of superhumans emerged in San Francisco, guided by the man whose unique new drugs gave them their incredible powers. Calling themselves The Levellers, this unified front stood against street crimes and corruption, in defense of their city against any and all assault. Years have passed, and we fast-forward through the tumultuous events of those early years to today, where the idealistic Levellers have gone through four incarnations to become The Front Line. But the team is not the only thing that's advanced over the years, and there are no easy victories when their luck finally begins to run out! This #0 issue is not a preview, it features the essential first chapter of the story and is Available with a Regular or Wraparound cover by Ryp. [by Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp]
Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, the team behind the fan-favorite Black Summer, are revolutionizing masked heroes yet again in the hottest new series of the summer! Josh Carver has been inducted into the Front Line, the world's only superhuman rescue and defense team, to strengthen the ranks after the mysterious deaths of two of its members. He's still recovering from the horror of his transformation into a superhuman when he discovers he has two new enemies - whoever killed his late teammates, and his own body itself! Forty years ago, a group of superhumans emerged in San Francisco, guided by the man whose unique new drugs gave them their incredible powers. But the team is not the only thing that's advanced over the years, and there are no easy victories when their luck finally begins to run out! This third issue turns the story on its ear and is available with a Regular or Wraparound cover by Ryp as well as a rare Design Sketch Edition featuring the initial character designs by Ryp. The Design Sketch Edition is only available as part of the variant cover set (2 wraparound covers, 3 regular covers and the Design Sketch Edition)
[Warren Ellis & Juan Jose Ryp]
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Juan Jose Ryp The final issue brings the world of The Front Line crashing down around them as the Ellis and Ryp masterpiece concludes! Today, in the wreckage of what was the life of Carrick Masterson and the career of the Front Line, all secrets are revealed. Young Josh Carver, sucked into the whole mess just because he wanted to be a superhuman and do good, is stuck in the middle of it all. But Josh has secrets, too. And one of them is that he's exactly where he wants to be. Not all is what it seems to be and the big reveals here will change everything! It all goes to Hell in this last issue, which is available with a Regular or Wraparound cover by Ryp as well as a rare Design Sketch Edition featuring the initial character designs by Ryp. A variant design sketch incentive cover is available as part of a set of 6 copies (5 regular covers and 1 variant).
Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, the team behind the fan-favorite BLACK SUMMER, are revolutionizing masked heroes yet again in this blockbuster epic! Dead heroes in the dirt. A killer capable of almost supernatural tortures. Five generations of the world's only superhuman group. A forty-year legacy of standing for the rights of freedom and safety. A young man obsessed with the need for street justice. How much do you want to be a superhuman? How badly does he want it? Bad enough to bring on the last days of an American legend? If he even gets to survive that long? Forty years ago, a group of superhumans emerged in San Francisco, guided by the man whose unique new drugs gave them their incredible powers. But the team is not the only thing that's advanced over the years, and there are no easy victories when their luck finally begins to run out. This huge collection features all eight issues of the series with a cover gallery under an all-new cover by Juan Jose Ryp. This tome is also available as a Hardcover edition with an exclusive cover by series artist Ryp that is limited to just 2000 copies and a special Dual Signed Hardcover featuring a new cover and is signed by both writer Warren Ellis and artist Juan Jose Ryp that is limited to only 400 copies!
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Juan Jose Ryp, Gianluca Pagliarani Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! Warren Ellis"" barbarian epic is finally collected, just in time for the new series coming late 2009! From the time before history began, in the time when the continents were still connected by land, from the harsh climes at the top of the world, a Northish soldier wrapped in a cape of wolfpelts walks south, into the forests of the High Midlands that are now Europe, to find a village cut in two by travelers from the East. Soon, he too is torn - between duty to the lives he has ruined just by finding them, and duty to the hideous murder-god of the Northish wastes and the berserker drugs that are his sacrament... Warren Ellis cuts loose to unleash his take on the genre fans demanded he assault with full color art from Juan Jose Ryp and Gianluca Pagliarani! Wolfskin fuses heroic fantasy in the mode of Conan, the Viking sagas, and samurai fiction into a single story of weird history and apocalyptic violence. This first volume collects the original 3-issue series with art by Ryp, Annual #1 with art by Pagliarani, and a huge cover gallery all wrapped in a stunning new painted cover by Felipe Massafera! This killer collection is also available as a Hardcover edition with an all-new cover by Massafera that is limited to just 1,500 copies.
Written by CHARLIE HUSTON Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP Cover by BRYAN HITCH Sketch Variant by BRYAN HITCH Classic Artist Variant by HERB TRIMPE Modern Artist Variant by GABRIELLE DELL'OTTO Poster Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC ""Contagion, Part One: Impulsion & Whim,"" PART 1 OF 6 When Wolverine faces a problem of the villainous kind there's a good chance that he'll use his Adamantium claws to whip up a lethal solution to it. What happens, though, when he faces an opponent who becomes a much bigger problem if he's killed? Enter: Contagion, a bold new addition to Wolverine's rogue's gallery. But first, Logan must contend with Contagion's defenders, the aptly named crew known as the Unkillables. 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by CHARLIE HUSTON Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP Cover by BRYAN HITCH Hot off the heels of suffering the nightmarish experiments of the man called Contagion, Wolverine is confronted by renegade spacemen Monark Starstalker and Paradox, who have their own set of test they'd like to run on him. But anyone preparing to stick Logan with needles of techno-organic viruses should be prepared to feel the sharp sting of adamantium claws in the gut. It's WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS VS. ROGUE?GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS AND THEIR ROBOT FALCON! THUNDERDOME! 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
WOLVERINE: BEST THERE IS #9 - Description: Written by CHARLIE HUSTON Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP Cover by BRYAN HITCH Wolverine may be the best there is on earth but will that hold true when Bounty Hunters Monark Starstalker and Paradox take him on a trip through the vastness of Space? What's all this talk of spaceborn technecrotic viruss that produce a race of unkillable zombies? And just how long can Logan hold his breath in a total vacuum while cutting alien invaders to ribbons? The answers will shock you! Don't miss WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS 9, coming your way at light speed. 32 pages. /Parental Advisory 32 pages. Rated: Parental Advisory
Written by CHARLIE HUSTON Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP Cover by BRYAN HITCH Wolverine's shattered body has become a breeding ground for an alien virus that is slowly turning him into a walking hive of interstellar parasites. Space Bounty Hunters Monark Starstalker and Paradox have one chance to save Logan, but the cure might be even more horrifying than the disease. And how does the man called Contagion and his perverse fascination with Wolverine fit into this puzzle of flesh and sinew? Find out the answer in WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS # 10! The squeamish need not apply!
Written by CHARLIE HUSTON Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP Cover by BRYAN HITCH I AM CAPTAIN AMERICA Variant by MICHAEL KALUTA Bullets! Flames! Acid! Bombs! Wolverine's healing factor has gotten him through it all. So how is his desiccated body locked away in a quarantine capsule on Utopia, on the verge of death? And what does Emma Frost see when she uses her telepathic powers to peer into Wolverine's broken mind? Discover the sickening truth in WOLVERINE BEST THERE IS # 7! 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
CONTAGION, CHAPTER FIVE: LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT Contagion and his bloodthirsty posse have thrown everything and the kitchen sink at Wolverine, yet still her stands. Now it's time for him to teach the ""Unkillables"" a thing or two about pain. And when he's through with them, he's got something special planned for their leader.
Collecting WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #7-12.
Wolverine gets taken apart - at the cellular level! Crazed virologist Winsor has infected Wolverine with a contagion that is rewriting his genetic code - and that's only the beginning! When a techno-organic monster attacks Wolverine and kills his only lead to Winsor, the timely arrival of a pair of space pirates and their robotic falcon saves the X-Man and sets him on an intergalactic road to revenge. Featuring guest appearances from the X-Men and the Marvel Universe's most ruthless, tyrannical despot, this adventure puts the best there is at what he does to the test! Collecting WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #7-12. [(W) Charlie Huston (A) Juan Jose Ryp (CA) Bryan Hitch]
With his unbreakable, Adamantium-laced bones and claws, and seemingly limitless recuperative powers, Wolverine is virtually unkillable — and one of the world's deadliest fighters. But it's that same healing factor that makes him a target for Windsor, a walking disease factory who employs a small army of healers and immortals. Now, to test the limits of Wolverine's healing abilities, these vampires, demi-gods and madmen will push Logan to the limits of his endurance in ways more gruesome than he's ever encountered. These killers might have powers similar to Wolverine's, but only one can be the best there is. Collecting WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1-6.
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