December 2002 Solicited Releases

The comics and related items on this page are scheduled to ship from Avatar in December, 2002. These items should be available for order from your favorite comics retailer. If not, you can order direct from Avatar via our direct sales agent Comic Cavalcade.

Here's a link to the complete list of December 2002 Solicited Releases in the store.

Solicited for December:

  • Warren Ellis' Bad Signal
  • Warren Ellis' Scars #2
  • Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Dicks 2 #4
  • Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: The Body Orchard #6
  • Jungle Fantasy #1/2 and #1
  • Webwitch, Shi, and more

Warren Ellis' BAD SIGNAL GN Vol 1
Retail Price: $6.95 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Jacen Burrows
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 64 pages square bound

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Collected for the first time, this graphic novel features the Bad Signal columns profusely illustrated with dozens of stunning new illustrations by celebrated artist Jacen Burrows. Warren Ellis' e-mail column shows that he is a modern master of the short form essay as his biting wit makes even the most esoteric of topics must reads. Ellis describes the work as "Bad Signal is me on the move, emptying my head of thoughts and shoving them into a handheld computer with a wireless modem plugged into it, so that I can instantly bug four thousand people with useless email from public toilets all over the world."


Warren Ellis' SCARS #2
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Jacen Burrows
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly, 2 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Warren Ellis serves up his long-awaited brilliant crime opus, Scars, with the stunning art of Jacen (Dark Blue, Bad World) Burrows! John Cain is a hard man. Years of working Homicide would do that to anyone. But when he has to tell a family about the horrific death of their daughter, it becomes emotionally overwhelming. Today, he found out the young girl was tortured, mutilated and beaten for weeks on end, and somehow still alive when the killer disassembled her to fit into boxes. It was the first crime from a man teaching himself to become a monster. And he liked it. Cain will find the killer using any means necessary. And the killer will not get away with it. Whatever happens. How much of a monster do you have to become to hunt monsters? A crime novel in six issues by Warren Ellis & Jacen Burrows.

Warren Ellis' SCARS #2 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Jacen Burrows
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly, 2 of 6

Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: The Body Orchard #6
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly, 6 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer blow the doors off this all-action final chapter of Body Orchard! As SAS team Alpha One Four closes in for a mass attack on The Pentagon, with the full backing of a ruthless SAS high command that wants America to stay scared, William Gravel must enter the weird mystical martial forest of The Body Orchard to take out his own ex-comrades, or else no-one on the planet will be safe... and he'll end up with four bullets in his brain.





Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: The Body Orchard #6 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly, 6 of 6




Ennis' & McCrea's DICKS 2 #4
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: John McCrea
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: John McCrea
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 4 of 4

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: We have long known those deviantly twisted ballocks, Garth Ennis and John McCrea, hold little sacred, yet nothing else has ever been so foul as this issue! Imagine if a Godzilla-like lizard and a King Kong-like gorilla went at it in the middle of Belfast! Now imagine if they were gay. Oh yes, the most prized of icons are defiled in this insane conclusion to the most offensively entertaining series in all of history! It is up to Dougie and Ivor to save the whole human race, which pretty much means we are dead ducks. But we'll die laughin'! Keeping proud traditions alive, this issue is also available in an amazingly offensive cover!

 

Ennis' & McCrea's DICKS 2 #4 Offensive
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: John McCrea
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: John McCrea
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 4 of 4


You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page



Ennis' & McCrea's DICKS 2 #1 Condom cover
Retail Price: $6.95 US
Cover: John McCrea
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: John McCrea
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 4

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Now available in Previews for the first time, you can buy the legendary limited edition Dicks 2 #1 Condom cover that features an all-new John McCrea cover and comes polybagged with the actual Dicks condom! This special edition is limited to just 2000 copies.


JUNGLE FANTASY #1 Al Rio
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Al Rio
Artists: Al Rio, Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, bi-monthly


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Clear the way for powerhouse artist Al Rio to return to Avatar interior art with this story introducing the new characters he developed, the Vixens! Set on a planet populated by all the ages of dinosaurs, two young women find themselves trapped in a time long lost. This special first issue also features the fan demanded return in Fauna with art by amazing newcomer Juan Jose Ryp. Your every jungle fantasy is finally granted, with this new ongoing series! Wall-to-wall jungle girl action awaits you with nothing but the greatest artists of the female form!

JUNGLE FANTASY #1 Juan Jose Ryp
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Artists: Al Rio, Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, bi-monthly

JUNGLE FANTASY #1 Carrie Hall
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Carrie Hall
Artists: Al Rio, Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, bi-monthly




JUNGLE FANTASY #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Sean Shaw
Artists: Al Rio, Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, bi-monthly

 

 

JUNGLE FANTASY #1 Rio Nude
Retail Price: $6.00 US
Cover: Al Rio
Artists: Al Rio, Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, bi-monthly

You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page

 

JUNGLE FANTASY #1/2 Al Rio
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Al Rio
Writer: Robert Lugibihl
Artist: Jack Jadson
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Your every jungle fantasy is finally granted, with this new ongoing series! This special #1/2 issue features the first appearance and story with Lorelei, an all-new jungle babe! Newcomer Jack Jadson provides the beautiful art on this all new story! This new regular series is one you won't want to miss with art from Al Rio, Ron Adrian, Sean Shaw, Juan Jose Ryp, and more! Wall-to-wall jungle girl action awaits you with nothing but the greatest artists of the female form! These special covers are limited to just 3000 copies each!





JUNGLE FANTASY #1/2 Ron Adrian
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Ron Adrian
Writer: Robert Lugibihl
Artist: Jack Jadson
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages


 

JUNGLE FANTASY #1/2 Matt Martin
Retail Price: $3.95 US
Cover: Matt Martin
Writer: Robert Lugibihl
Artist: Jack Jadson
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages
 

JUNGLE FANTASY #1/2 Rio Nude
Retail Price: $6.00 US
Cover: Al Rio
Writer: Robert Lugibihl
Artist: Jack Jadson
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages

You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page

 

JUNGLE FANTASY #1/2 Martin Nude
Retail Price: $6.00 US
Cover: Matt Martin
Writer: Robert Lugibihl
Artist: Jack Jadson
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages

You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page



THRESHOLD #48 - DEMONSLAYER connecting cover
Retail Price: $5.95 US
Cover: Marat Mychaels
Artists: Marat Mychaels, Dan Parsons, Ivan Abraini
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 48 pages, quarterly series

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Marat Mychaels and his creation Demonslayer continue her extended run in Threshold with some unusual demon trouble. It seems that the Roman Catholic church has some unexpected visitors underneath Vatican City and Jaclyn may be the only one who can help. But when her old foe Irkala turns out to be behind it all, the sparks really start to fly! Marat Mychaels' Demonslayer has been heating up the pages of Threshold for the past several issues. Now available for the first time is each chapter of the Demonslayer saga in this special connecting cover. There will be one of these connecting covers on each of the first six issues of Threshold with Demonslayer that are all beautiful works of art on their own, but combine to create one huge image! This special edition is limited to just 750 copies.

 

Tim Vigil's WEBWITCH #1 Strike Edition
Retail Price: $5.95 US
Cover: Matt Martin
Artist/Writer: Tim Vigil
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Matt Martin brings on the carnage in this special new cover! Fans of horror rejoice, because Vigil is back and better than ever! Nina has a special place in the evolutionary ladder, she is the bridge between the alien Spidernation and humans. And her choices can help determine who controls the globe in the next century. Biologically part of both worlds, but not fully embraced by either, she is torn between the desire to help the Spidernation expand and the human's quest to rid the world of the greatest predators the Earth has seen! This special edition is limited to just 1000 copies.

You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page

 

Tim Vigil's WEBWITCH Companion Martin Sketch Edition
Retail Price: $29.95 US
Cover: Matt Martin
Writer/Artist: Tim Vigil
Readership: Mature readers
Format: B&W, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This very special sketch edition features an original ink Webwitch sketch on each copy and is the first ever by fan favorite artist Matt Martin! Tim Vigil's all new Webwitch series is coming soon, and this special Companion provides a special new prelude story! That's right, an exclusive lead-in to the #1 issue can only be found in this limited Webwitch Companion featuring luscious art by the one and only Tim Vigil. This book also includes a special look at the characters of the upcoming series and at the Webwitch adventures before now. All copies ship bagged and boarded with a certificate of authenticity and this edition is limited to just 200 copies.

You can take an uncensored peek at the cover for this item on the Dec Mature / Adult Cover Graphics Page

SHI: Poisoned Paradise #1 Prism Foil
Retail Price: $12.95 US
Cover: Billy Tucci
Writer: William Tucci
Artist: Karl Waller
Readership: all ages
Format: FC, 32 pages


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This limited Prism foil edition ships bagged and boarded with a certificate of authenticity. Poisoned Paradise is the first of Billy Tucci's all-new stories of Shi through the ages and is set in the Feudal times of warlords, samurai and wandering Ronin. After a vicious sword battle, an injured Shi is taken in by a small village to recover. But there will be little time for rest as Shi must defend these innocents against an incoming samurai army! The time period is brought back to life with the luscious artwork of Karl Waller and vibrant colors by Nimbus. This Prism Foil Edition is limited to just 400 copies.