December 2007 Solicited Releases

The comics and related items in this post are scheduled to ship from Avatar in December, 2007. 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 2007 Solicited Releases in the store.

Solicited for December:

BLACK SUMMER: HORUS 8 inch figure
US $24.99
Package Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Format: 8 inch figure in a clam-shell package
UPC: 890007002011

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Straight from the pages of Warren Ellis’ smash-hit series Black Summer, Horus is now available as an action figure! The hero who killed the President is now immortalized in this retro-style 8 inch poseable figure. Styled after the popular 1970’s type of toys, Horus comes with a cloth costume, complete with his emblem on the back. The packaging features all-new artwork by series artist Juan Jose Ryp on the front and back, and the package itself is a re-sealable clam-shell so that you can easily open and close it without damaging the plastic. Limited to just 750 units.

BLACK SUMMER #5
US $2.99
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly, 5 of 7

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Warren Ellis’ masked hero masterpiece continues its monthly run right here! The Seven Guns’ flare of anger following the death of one of their own has burned itself out. But they must know there’s going to be retaliation. They must know that, sooner or later, the scale of what Frank Blacksmith has been doing over the last few years would be revealed to them. A private army, waiting for the day Frank would be ordered to wipe out the Guns… It’s going to be a super-powered conflict unlike any you’ve ever seen! With art by the genius Juan Jose Ryp, no fan of The Authority or Wanted will want to miss this bleeding-edge eight issue masterpiece. This issue is available with a regular or wraparound cover and also a rare 1-in-25 cover featuring the Tom Noir design sketch, all by series artist Juan Jose Ryp.

BLACK SUMMER #5 Wraparound
US $2.99
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages
BLACK SUMMER #5 Design Sketch Edition
US $9
Rare design sketch edition cover
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly, 5 of 7

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Warren Ellis’ masked hero masterpiece continues its monthly run right here! The Seven Guns’ flare of anger following the death of one of their own has burned itself out. But they must know there’s going to be retaliation. They must know that, sooner or later, the scale of what Frank Blacksmith has been doing over the last few years would be revealed to them. A private army, waiting for the day Frank would be ordered to wipe out the Guns… It’s going to be a super-powered conflict unlike any you’ve ever seen! With art by the genius Juan Jose Ryp, no fan of The Authority or Wanted will want to miss this bleeding-edge eight issue masterpiece. This issue is available with a regular or wraparound cover and also a rare 1-in-25 cover featuring the Tom Noir design sketch, all by series artist Juan Jose Ryp.

DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #6
US $3.99
Cover: Ivan Rodriguez
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Ivan Rodriguez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: People are getting sick. People are developing… defects. Lumps. Strange anomalies in their Grinder gear. You might almost call them “mutations.” This town needs a doctor. Unfortunately, there’s only Doktor Sleepless here — and it might be all his doing… Warren Ellis’ satirical-political science fiction novel continues its on-going run! The issue is available with a regular cover by series artist Ivan Rodriguez, or wraparound cover by Raulo Caceres, and also a rare 1-in-15 Future Warning Sign cover.

DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #6 Wraparound
US $3.99
Cover: Raulo Caceres
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Ivan Rodriguez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly
DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #6 Warning Sign Edition
US $7
Rare Warning Sign Edition Cover
Cover: Ivan Rodriguez
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Ivan Rodriguez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: People are getting sick. People are developing… defects. Lumps. Strange anomalies in their Grinder gear. You might almost call them “mutations.” This town needs a doctor. Unfortunately, there’s only Doktor Sleepless here — and it might be all his doing… Warren Ellis’ satirical-political science fiction novel continues its on-going run! The issue is available with a regular cover by series artist Ivan Rodriguez, or wraparound cover by Raulo Caceres, and also a rare 1-in-15 Future Warning Sign cover.

DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #1 Wizard World Chicago
US $5.99
Cover: Ivan Rodriguez
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Ivan Rodriguez
Readership: MR
Format: Color, 32 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This all-new cover by series artist Ivan Rodriguez features the Nurse and was previously only available at Wizard World Chicago. It is limited to 1000 copies

STREETS OF GLORY #3
US $3.99
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly, 3 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Garth Ennis’ Western epic continues! Somewhere out there in the dark, Red Crow waits. Apache warrior, serial killer and scourge of the Montana Rockies, the brutality of Red Crow’s actions against the white invaders upon his people’s land is unparalleled. But one man has dedicated his life to ending the savage killer’s reign of terror, and Colonel Joseph Dunn will not rest until Red Crow’s head rides a pike. With uneasy allies enlisted from the ranks of visiting business man Charles Morrison’s personal bodyguards, Dunn prepares a hunting party to track and kill the Apache madman. But as tensions in Gladback run high in anticipation of the quest into the wilderness, Dunn senses that his posse could be more of a threat to his life than Red Crow himself. This issue is available with a regular or wraparound cover by series artist Mike Wolfer.

STREETS OF GLORY #3 Wraparound
US $3.99
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly, 3 of 6
STREETS OF GLORY #3 Platinum Foil Edition
US $6
Platinum Foil Edition Cover
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, monthly, 3 of 6

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Garth Ennis’ Western epic continues! Somewhere out there in the dark, Red Crow waits. Apache warrior, serial killer and scourge of the Montana Rockies, the brutality of Red Crow’s actions against the white invaders upon his people’s land is unparalleled. But one man has dedicated his life to ending the savage killer’s reign of terror, and Colonel Joseph Dunn will not rest until Red Crow’s head rides a pike. With uneasy allies enlisted from the ranks of visiting business man Charles Morrison’s personal bodyguards, Dunn prepares a hunting party to track and kill the Apache madman. But as tensions in Gladback run high in anticipation of the quest into the wilderness, Dunn senses that his posse could be more of a threat to his life than Red Crow himself. This issue is available with a regular or wraparound cover by series artist Mike Wolfer.

Warren Ellis CRECY GN SDCC exclusive cover
US $6.99
Cover: Raulo Caceres
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Raulo Caceres
Readership: MR
Format: B&W, 48 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This exclusive cover was previously only available at the San Diego Comicon and features the stunningly detailed art of Raulo Caceres. Limited to 1000 copies.

WARREN ELLIS STRANGE KISS TPB – new printing
US $8.95
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artwork: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 72 pages, TPB
New Printing – Star12541

ISBN: 0970678401

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Back in print in time for the all-new series in 2008! The entire Strange Kiss series collected in one volume featuring the introduction of William Gravel! Strange Kiss is best described by Ellis himself, (A horrific murder suicide in the middle of a busy city street at midday; an old man rotting and bloating in a hospital bed, something sick gestating inside him; in a darkened place close by, people screaming, impregnated, doomed. Something beautiful and awful is trying to reproduce, and its strange kiss is only to be feared…

Warren Ellis STRANGER KISSES TPB – new printing
US $9.95
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 72 pages, square bound TPB
ISBN: 0970678444
New Printing – Star14717

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Finally, back in print! Warren Ellis brings his mad visions to life with the same team who brought you Strange Kiss. Stranger Kisses is about people for whom two genders are not enough, no matter how you play mix and match with sexuality. It’s also about videotape, bad secrets, and what it’s like to have an entire city wanting to kill you. The videotape is of seriously physically modified whores. Possibly altered at the genetic level. Because those extra orifices look grown. And those weird protuberances don’t look artificial…. A very 21st Century comic, mad and modern and speedy and full of nasty ideas. In LA, the future of rich man’s whoring and trophy women is being designed. Two sexes are not enough. People like their kisses stranger than that.

LADY DEATH by Ryp Bust
US $59.99
Package Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Format: 7 inch bust in a full-color box
UPC: 890007002035

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The master of sexy, Juan Jose Ryp, designs the first new Lady Death 3D product in many years! Featuring box art and sculpt design by Juan Jose Ryp, this super-limited product stands almost 7 inches tall and comes carefully packed in styrofoam inside a full-color box. Limited to just 400 units.

LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit
US $2.99
Cover: Rafa Lopez
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The lucious queen of the dead is back on the beach! Heat up your Winter with this sultry all-new pinup book featuring Lady Death drawn by some of the best artists in the industry! With Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, Daniel HDR, Gabriel Guzman, Rafa Lopez and many more, this special is so smokin’ it might catch fire! This issue is available in several sexy new covers including the standard edition by Rafa Lopez, Wraparound by Richard Ortiz, Seeley by Tim Seeley, Premium by Daniel HDR, a leather cover by Matt Martin that is limited to 600 copies or the very-limited Jewel cover by Daniel HDR that features jewels on the actual cover, and ships in a special protective shell with a print run of just 350!

LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Wraparound
US $2.99
Cover: Richard Ortiz
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages
LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Seeley
US $2.99
Cover: Tim Seeley
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages
LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Premium
US $9.99
Cover: Daniel HDR
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages
LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Leather
US $24.99
Cover: Matt Martin
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages
LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Jewel
US $39.99
Cover: Daniel HDR
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages
LADY DEATH vs PANDORA #1 Super Sexy
US $5.99
Cover Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Brian Pulido
Art: Gabriel Guzman
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: It doesn’t get any hotter than this lady-loving new cover by Juan Jose Ryp. Limited to 750 copies.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Hunger SDCC exclusive
US $5.99
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Writer: John Russo
Art: Ryan Waterhouse
Readership: MR
Format: Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This special cover was previously only available at San Diego Comicon! Limited to 1000 copies.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Hunger Burrows Sketch cover
US $24.99
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: John Russo
Art: Ryan Waterhouse
Readership: MR
Format: Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Get an original zombie sketch from red-hot artist Jacen Burrows! Every copy has an original ink zombie sketch on the front cover and is packaged in a bag and board with a certificate of authenticity. Limited to just 200 copies.

STARGATE SG1 2007 Special SDCC Photo
US $9.99
Writer: James Anthony
Art: Jorge Correa
Readership: All Ages
Format: Full Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This new photo cover featuring Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge was previously only available at San Diego Comicon and is limited to just 500 copies!

LADY DEATH Fetishes Mistress Lithograph
US $29.99
Art: Richard Ortiz
Format: Full color art print, 11 x 17

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This lithograph is of Richard Ortiz(s blazing cover to Lady Death Fetishes Mistress cover. Printed on high-quality card stock with cutting edge technology for a perfect high-resolution print suitable for framing. Each is strictly limited to only 150 copies! Every copy of this digital art print ships in a special rigid sleeve with a seal of authenticity.

LADY DEATH Fetishes Hellish Angel Lithograph
US $29.99
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Format: Full color art print, 11 x 17

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This lithograph is of Juan Jose Ryp(s sexy cover to Lady Death Fetishes Hellish Angel cover. Printed on high-quality card stock with cutting edge technology for a perfect high-resolution print suitable for framing. Each is strictly limited to only 150 copies! Every copy of this digital art print ships in a special rigid sleeve with a seal of authenticity.

LADY DEATH Abandon All Hope #2 Premium Lithograph
US $29.99
Art: Paulo Siqueira
Format: Full color art print, 11 x 17

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: This lithograph is of Paulo Siqueira(s sultry cover to Lady Death Abandon All Hope #2 Premium. Printed on high-quality card stock with cutting edge technology for a perfect high-resolution print suitable for framing. Each is strictly limited to only 150 copies! Every copy of this digital art print ships in a special rigid sleeve with a seal of authenticity.

LADY DEATH 2007 Swimsuit Gold Foil
US $5.99
Cover: Rafa Lopez
Art: Juan Jose Ryp, Matt Martin, and others
Readership: All Ages
Format: Color, 16 pages

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The lucious queen of the dead is back on the beach! Heat up your Winter with this sultry all-new pinup book featuring Lady Death drawn by some of the best artists in the industry! This special Gold foil edition is limited to 500 copies and ships bagged with a certificate of authenticity.

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