From: [dor 1] at [midway.uchicago.edu] (thad a doria)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: PREVIEWS-O-RAMA I. AARDWOLF-DARK HORSE FOR 1996 OCT [SPOILERS]
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 96 02:15:37 GMT

I'm gonna say this many times in many places, because I know many
of you will skip over the Marvel section, and even more of you com-
pletely dismiss the X-Men section...

The Micronauts are coming.

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P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A.  I. Aardwolf-Dark Horse
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See the archives at
http://nspace.cts.com/html/Comics/Comics.html
Thanx to Jerry at Negative Space!
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The usenet equivalent of hurling a TV Guide wrapped in barbed wire at
someone who says "there's nothing on!" for comics shipping Oct 1996!
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Dial "S" for "Spoilers"
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CLIP AND SAVE!

Opening volleys:

The Micronauts and Howard the Duck return...in unexpected places! See
the Marvel section for this and Timothy Zahn's StarLord!

Rob Liefeld saves The Foot Soldiers? Details in the Maximum section.
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HUNH! Break it down now!
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AARDWOLF:
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Crawling From the Wreckage TPB. Charity book benefitting abused
children, features work by Perez, Colan, J. Kubert, M. Severin,
Cockrum, others.

ACCLAIM:
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X-O Manowar #1 (Waid/Augustyn & Chen). "Througout history, the alien
armor has been worn, but you gotta pay a price for that kinda power--
whoever was bonded to the suit quickly burned out and died. Now,
slacker-hacker Donovan Wylie has solved the Kentucky Fried Human
problem--and the exoskeleton can be worn by a real American Hero--
Rand Banion--but pretty soon now Donovan will be wondering if the
suit makes the man--what happens when the man inside's *not good
enough*?"

ACTION PLANET:
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Action Planet Comics #3 (Manley, Hester, et al.). Jerry Ordway joins
the line-up with his all-new strip, The Messenger.

ANTARCTIC:
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Box Office Poison #1 (A. Robinson). Critically acclaimed slice-
of-life minicomic jumps to the big time.

Code Name: Scorpio #1of3 (Horvatic & Ribic). Violent dystopian sci-fi
from guys described as "top talent from Croatia."Art is *quite* good,
in a sort of Erskine/Fabry mode...

ARCHIE:
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 (Parent & Golliher). Sabrina's 16th
birthday. Ties in to this fall's ABC-TV series.

BLACK EYE:
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Berlin #3 (Lutes).

BONGO:
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Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Terror #2 (Bagge/Dini/B.Morrison/Gladden)
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!! Sideshow Blob!!!

BYRON PREISS VIRTUAL COMICS:
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New line of comics, some of which are bundled with CD-ROM games &
goodies [surprising array of talent here]:

They Call Me...The Skul #1of3 (D. Fingeroth & R. Lim). Dark avenger
filled with teen angst.

The 6 #1of3 (F. Nicieza & Luzniak). Teen superhero group.

The Suit #1of3 (Chichester/Wright & McManus). Armored symbiotic
mayhem.

Comics are available with CD-ROM ($9.95) or without (#2.50).

CALIBER:
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Phil Hester's The Creep has been renamed The Wretch, presumably due
to copyright problems.

The Lost #1 (Andreyko & Geldhof). Modern day Peter Pan story. A
prview of this appeared in Calibrations #1 (art by Jill Thompson).

Killroy Is Here #11 (WARREN ELLIS & Pace). The first of 3 "guest
creator" issues of Kilroy.

//////Caliber's "Tapestry" line of all-ages comics:////////
Explorers #1 (T. Collins & Neville). Global troubleshooters in the
Jonny Quest mold.

Pakkin's Land #1 (G. & R. Shipman). A young boy visits an enchanted
land of talking animals.

Patty Cake #1 (S. Roberts). Life and family as seen through the
eyes of 7-year-old Patty.

Terror Tots Special (Strazewski & Fricke). 5 martial artists from
medieval China are reincarnated as suburban toddlers. From the
cocreators of Trollords.

Future titles announced are Shades of Gray, Boondoggle, the batman &
robin-esque Dragonwing and Sparrow, and the return of Troolords and
The Hoon.
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CRUSADE:
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1111 [that's "eleveneleven"] #1 (Wrightson & Wrightson/Bradstreet).
Berni Wrightson returns in this one-shot about the days after the
Apocalypse, when the righteous have gone to heaven and the sinners
have gone to hell. Hey, who's left?

DARK HORSE:
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Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller #1 (BWS). Three ongoing strips in
every 9"x12.5", 40p, $4.95 issue! The Freebooters! Young Gods!
The Paradoxman!

The third Mother Sarah miniseries, City of the Angels, begins in
October (Otomo & Nagayasu, 9 issues).

Dark Horse Presents #114 has Star Slammers by W. Simonson, Lance
Blastoff by F. Miller, Lowlife by E. Brubaker, and most importantly,
Trypto the Acid Dog by B. Mumy/M. Ferrer & S. Leialoha.

TPBs: Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species, Sin City: That
Yellow Bastard (HC), Oh My Goddess!:1-555-GODDESS, Dream Corridor.
Card sets: Madman II, Concrete in Watercolor.

to be continued (the Micronauts are coming)...



--
-Thad Doria
"Wsssssshhhhhhhttt. Goldust."