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. *********************************************************** P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A. I. Aardwolf-Dark Horse *********************************************************** See the archives at http://nspace.cts.com/html/Comics/Comics.html Thanx to Jerry at Negative Space! *********************************************************** 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! ----------------------------------------------------------- Dial "S" for "Spoilers" ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------- HUNH! Break it down now! --------------- AARDWOLF: ========= Crawling From the Wreckage TPB. Charity book benefitting abused children, features work by Perez, Colan, J. Kubert, M. Severin, Cockrum, others. ACCLAIM: ======== 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: ============== Action Planet Comics #3 (Manley, Hester, et al.). Jerry Ordway joins the line-up with his all-new strip, The Messenger. ANTARCTIC: ========== 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: ======= Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 (Parent & Golliher). Sabrina's 16th birthday. Ties in to this fall's ABC-TV series. BLACK EYE: ========== Berlin #3 (Lutes). BONGO: ====== Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Terror #2 (Bagge/Dini/B.Morrison/Gladden) Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!! Sideshow Blob!!! BYRON PREISS VIRTUAL COMICS: ============================ 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: ======== 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. ///////////////// CRUSADE: ======== 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: =========== 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."