September 2004 Solicited Releases

The comics and related items on this page are scheduled to ship from Avatar in September, 2004. 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 September 2004 Solicited Releases in the store.

Solicited for September:

Brian Pulido's BELLADONNA #1
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Clint Hilinski
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 5

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This is it, the first new full color book from Brian Pulido's line of titles at Avatar! Wexford Ireland, 950 AD. Colleen MacGrath's wedding to Donovan was to unite two powerful Irish families in bliss. Instead, all their hopes and dreams were laid to waste by marauding Vikings. Now a year later, on Samhain, Morrigan the Celtic goddess forces Colleen to rise and claim vengeance as Belladonna! Belladonna is a tale steeped in passion, violence and darkness as only Pulido can tell it. This new series features Pulido's trademarked powerful female lead in a tale of vengeance, and with stellar art by Clint Hilinski and stunning colors by Nimbus Studios, Belladonna will appeal to the legions of fans of Lady Death. The new worlds of Pulido start right here!





Brian Pulido's BELLADONNA #1 Adrian
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Ron Adrian
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 5









Brian Pulido's BELLADONNA #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Clint Hilinski
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 5









Brian Pulido's BELLADONNA #1 Premium
Retail Price: $9.99 US
Cover: Walter Geovani
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Clint Hilinski
Readership: All ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 5

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This deluxe edition is limited to just 2000 copies.


Brian Pulido's UNHOLY Preview
Retail Price: $1.99 US
Cover: Di Amorim
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Di Amorim
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Set in the crummy under-crust of modern day Detroit, Unholy is the story of Penny, a stoner, rebel, teen who is a non-believer in God. After a fatal accident, she's drafted by God to be His assassin, a God she doesn't even believe in. As a fallen angel, she is caught in a shadow war waged on city streets, in plain clothes, between Heaven and Hell. With her new found allies, a dominatrix, an ex-mob hit man and an alcoholic priest, she is dumped into the front lines of the war for salvation. But can she even survive her first twenty fours hours as a newborn fallen? Get an inside look in this preview book featuring material not seen in the Pulido FCBD book including scripted pages, character designs, a cover gallery, an introduction by creator Brian Pulido, and more!



Brian Pulido's UNHOLY Preview Angelic Edition
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Di Amorim
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Di Amorim
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages



Brian Pulido's UNHOLY Preview Wraparound
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Di Amorim
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Di Amorim
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages


Brian Pulido's GYPSY Preview
Retail Price: $1.99 US
Cover: Paulo Siqueira
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Paulo Siqueira
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Sisters Antoinette and Liza are gypsy thieves in England 1879 who love to trick the townspeople out of their money and their belongings. But when a great were-beast terrorizes the town, their world is turned upside down. First the Mayor blames the gypsies, convinced they harbor the beast, then Antoinette is attacked herself by the monster. When the full moon rises, what will she become? Get an inside look in this preview book featuring material not seen in the Pulido FCBD book including scripted pages, character designs, a cover gallery, an introduction by creator Brian Pulido, and more!


Brian Pulido's GYPSY Preview Sleeping Beauty Edition
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Paulo Siqueira
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Paulo Siqueira
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages

Brian Pulido's GYPSY Preview Sultry Edition
Retail Price: $2.99 US
Cover: Paulo Siqueira
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Paulo Siqueira
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages

Brian Pulido's KILLER GNOMES #1
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Eddy Barrows
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Eddy Barrows
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 32 pages, one shot


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The newest tale of terror and carnage from the creator of Evil Ernie! Life was going along pretty good for Brad and his wife until the day Brad went to the newly opened nursery on the edge of town. While there, he bought a smiling garden gnome that Brad hoped would protect their garden. But Brad didn't know the nursery hid a deadly secret that would cost hundreds of people their lives. What started out as an innocent gift turns into a terrifying, relentless nightmare as the Killer Gnomes take protecting gardens to a deadly extreme! A story of pure, undiluted horror. Not for the squeamish.



Brian Pulido's KILLER GNOMES #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Eddy Barrows
Story: Brian Pulido
Art: Eddy Barrows
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 32 pages, one shot


Warren Ellis' APPARAT Preview
Retail Price: $1.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows and Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Burrows, Ryp, McCubbin, McNeil
Readership: All Ages
Format: B&W, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Get a sneak peek at what is sure to be one of the most talked about events of winter 2004, Warren Ellis' new line of one shot books, Apparat! All the issues feature new characters and stories written by Ellis and featuring top indy artists Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, Laurenn McCubbin, and Carla Speed McNeil. This special preview book features pages from each of the first four titles as well as all-new essays from Ellis about each one!




STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #2
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Renato Guedes
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 2 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: SG-1 comes face to face with the banished System Lord Mars and discovers an incredible buried secret. Lost for over 2000 years without a suitable host, the Goa'uld exiles created an entire race of cybernetic creatures to do their bidding. Now this scorned god plans to lead an army of robotic Centurions through the rediscovered Stargate and lay ruin to Rome and beyond. Can Daniel find a way to free Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter before they become the unwilling human hosts of this insane deity? All the action of the smash Sci-Fi Channel hit show is here! Available in regular, wrap, and photo cover editions.



STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #2 Photo
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 2 of 3








 

STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #2 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 2 of 3

STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome Prequel Tau'ri Defenders
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Lucio Rubira
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Don't miss this exclusive new painted cover by South American master Lucio Rubira! The SG-1 team finds a vo'cume device that reveals the story of an ancient Roman Goa'uld that assumed the guise of Mars, god of war. When activated, the team learns the treachery laden fate of one of the most powerful and ambitious System Lords ever. Join Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Teal'c as they discover that Rome wasn't built in a day, but it could be destroyed in one. This special issue includes production sketches by new Stargate series artist Jorge Correa and a behind the scenes look at the history of the Roman pantheon! Limited to 1500 copies.



STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome Prequel Prism Foil
Retail Price: $12.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The latest in our line of rare SG foil editions, this Prism foil is limited to 500 copies, all ship bagged and boarded with a certificate of authenticity.





STARGATE SG-1 2004 Convention Special Protect the SGC
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Ryan Drake
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa Jr.
Readership: all ages
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Offered here for the first time, this special cover by rising star painter Ryan Drake, features General Hammond and Teal'c. This variant cover is limited to 1500 copies.


STARGATE SG-1: Fall of Rome #1 Gold foil
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Jorge Correa
Story: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The SG-1 team blasts into summer with an all-new, full-color, action packed series! Following ancient clues found on a remote world, the SG-1 team travels to a Goa'uld graveyard that has a deadly hidden secret. Banished for over two thousand years, a rogue System Lord called Mars has cultivated an entire civilization with one purpose _ to travel back to Earth and lay waste to it. Can SG-1 find a way to keep a world of cybernetic Goa'uld bent on enslaving the human race from completing their conquest of Rome and beyond? In Stargate SG-1: Fall of Rome #1, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Teal'c discover that while Rome wasn't build in a day, it could be destroyed in one! This special gold foil edition is limited to 500 copies. These copies will ship bagged and boarded with a certificate of authenticity.




ROBOCOP: Killing Machine Special #1 Back in Action
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Steven Grant
Art: Anderson Ricardo
Readership: MR
Format: Full color, 16 pages, one shot

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This new cover by baroque genius Juan Jose Ryp is available here for the first time. A bored rich kid gets his kicks hacking into what's left of the Detroit grid, triggering random power failures and screwing up transit, causing various tensions that Murphy and Lewis have to cope with to maintain public order. Thwarted by Robocop, the hacker tries to hack into Robocop's systems, but finds something else instead in the depths of OCP's computer system, still online in the wake of the company's collapse. It's the next step up from Robocop: a prototype robo-soldier, literally a killing machine, that never received a human brain. Limited to 1500 copies

YUGGOTH CREATURES #3
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Ryp, Burrows, Wolfer, Fiumara
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 40 pages, monthly 3 of 3

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: First there was Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures, now Antony Johnston carries on the Lovecraftian spirit with Yuggoth Creatures! This is the final incredible volume of Anders Ericsson's memoirs! Join the Professor as he chronicles his last adventures through the Lovecraft Mythos, takes matters into his own hands and searches for the key that could save the world. From the wilds of Canada to the deserts of Egypt, nowhere is safe
from Cthulhu and the Old Ones... The Professor is running out of time - and so is mankind! Six all-new Lovecraft Mythos stories from the pen of Antony Johnston are illustrated by an awesome collection of today's hottest artists, including Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Mike Wolfer, Sebastian Fiumara and more!

YUGGOTH CREATURES #3 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Ryp, Burrows, Wolfer, Fiumara
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 40 pages, monthly 3 of 3



Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #6
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 6 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The action heats up in the final issue of Ellis' and Wolfer's latest brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel! His mission was to kill one American reporter on a secluded Philippine island. Now Sergeant Major William Gravel will learn the true motive behind his assignment and uncover a more far-reaching conspiracy. Intent on capturing a renegade British biochemist with a very deadly secret, an S.A.S. battalion swarms Paranga Island. Only two things could complicate the mission: A ravenous army of the living dead and Gravel himself! The final, bloody battle for survival begins now, but if the Combat Magician loses, will there ever be an end to the spreading horror of the undead?


Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #6 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 6 of 6



Joe R Lansdale's BY BIZARRE HANDS #5
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Andres Guinaldo
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 5 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: One the most popular horror novel writers, Joe R. Lansdale, is unleashed in this all-new series that adapts some of his favorite short stories, all chosen by Lansdale himself, into comic form for the first time. This issue sees the red hot artist from The Drive-In, Andres Guinaldo, bring the tale "Night They Missed the Horror Show" to sequential life! Two red neck hicks get in way over their heads with some mafiosos who don't take kindly to folks like them. It's Lansdale, so you know people die in really bad ways.



Joe R Lansdale's BY BIZARRE HANDS #5 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Andres Guinaldo
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 5 of 6




Joe R Lansdale's BY BIZARRE HANDS #2 Connecting cover
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Story: Joe R Lansdale
Art: Dheeraj Verma
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 2 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This is the second of a six-part connecting cover featuring the World of Joe R. Lansdale! Drawn by super-star artist Jacen Burrows, these limited covers all fit together to form a huge image! Limited to just 750 copies. This issue features the story "Not From Detroit", with art by Italian Armando Rossi. An aging car mechanic is simply not going to let Death take his wife, so he has to outsmart him. But it's not a easy game to play with the Grim Reaper himself!




NIGHTJAR #3 Tarot cover
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Max Fiumara
Story: Antony Johnston
Art: Max Fiumara
Readership: all ages
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 3 of 4

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This special edition cover is the third in a line of actual Tarot Deck covers featuring the characters of Nightjar! Beyond our reality lies the Dusk Latitudes, the magical domain of dead Birds. Dark and hostile, few enter the Latitudes willingly. But tonight is the night insanity reigns on Pendle Hill, and while Angie tries to escape the fanatical clutches of the Reverend Brown, the Latitudes may be Mirrigan's only hope of avoiding a fiery death at the hands of the Phoenix... Limited to just 1500 copies




JUNGLE FANTASY #5 Little Friends Edition
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Anibal Maraschi
Story: John Layman
Art: Anibal Maraschi, Paulo Siqueira
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, quarterly

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Sexy new artist Anibal Maraschi has Fauna making some new friends on this new cover. Jungle Fantasy returns with exciting new writer John Layman taking over Fauna's tales starting with this issue! In this first chapter of a more light-hearted romp, Fauna looks like she will finally be rescued, but things don't go well... Art is by Anibal Maraschi. Also starting this issue is Tundra, with art by rising star Paulo Siqueira! Tundra's tribe lives in a series of volcanic caves in an arctic region. But outside lurk many dangers and her fate might be determined by a group of hostile Eskimos. Limited to 750 copies.



 

JUNGLE FANTASY #5 Dino Attack Nude
Retail Price: $6.00 US
Cover: Anibal Maraschi
Story: John Layman
Art: Anibal Maraschi, Paulo Siqueira
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, quarterly

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Fauna just can't get a break on this sultry new cover from artist Anibal Maraschi. Limited to 750 copies.

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