New Releases by Garth Ennis

This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone''s got to make sure the "supes" don''t get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother''s Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them - sometimes - need to be taken out of the picture. That''s when you call in The Boys! The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game collects the first six issues of the hit series The Boys by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Punisher) and drawn by Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, Wolverine)!

Stunning art and a story that only Garth Ennis could tell! He''s paying the price for his deal with the Devil - is the Ghost Rider condemned to ride the highways of Hell for all eternity? His saving grace could be in the form of an unlikely ally - an industrious angel with a deal that would free Ghost Rider once and for all! Collects Ghost Rider (2005) #1-6.

From the dark and twisted mind of Garth Ennis, co-creator of "Preacher" and "Hitman", and the savage pencil of Darick Robertson, artist of "Transmetropolitan", comes a darkly hilarious story that will change the way you look at superheroes forever!Meet Billy Butcher. He''s not a nice man, and neither are his team: the Frenchman, Mother''s Milk, and the Female. They hate "capes"...and so does Billy''s newest recruit, Wee Hughie, whose girlfriend has just become collateral damage in a super-brawl. But does Hughie know what he''s getting into?This hugely controversial new series - which caused an uproar upon original publication - explores the sordid side of superheroics!--Thebookpeople.co.uk.

Stunning art and a story that only Garth Ennis could tell! He''s paying the price for his deal with the Devil - is the Ghost Rider condemned to ride the highways of Hell for all eternity? His saving grace could be in the form of an unlikely ally - an industrious angel with a deal that would free Ghost Rider once and for all! Collects Ghost Rider #1-6.

"In the City of Angels, Hell has always simmered just below the surface. At the shadowy border between this world and the next, John Constantine works to keep the demonic forces at bay. In the course of investigating a woman''s apparent suicide, however, he discovers that something new is coming up from the inferno -- something that will destroy the delicate balance between Heaven and Hell and plunge Earth into catastrophic , other-worldly war. But can Constantine save a world which terminal cancer is about to take away from him -- especially when he knows his own soul is already condemned to eternal damnation?"--Cover.

In this volume of the fan-favorite vigilante, the former Marine once again picks up his weapons to continue in his one-man war on crime. But fighting for justice has--in this new world order--become increasingly complicated.

From 1914 to 1918, Hans Von Hammer earned the nickname "The Hammer of Hell"in the bloody skies of World War I. Now it''s World War II, and bloodrains from the skies once again! Von Hammer, the finest pilot Germanyhas ever known, is now a 46-year-old man with plenty of enemies in the Naziregime. This edition also includes a classic World War One Enemy Acetale by creators Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, reprinted from STAR-SPANGLEDWAR STORIES #139

Violent action as Frank Castle returns as the no-holds barred vigilante The Punisher. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the Preacher creators, take on one of the most controversial anti-heroes in comics. The Punisher''s war on crime sees him facing off against Ma Gnucci and her entire mafia family. Not only bullets fly in this roller coaster ride of violence, as Frank uses whatever comes to hand, pizzas, piranhas, polar bears and obese neighbours.

On his 21st birthday, mafia hitman, Jackie Estacado inherits a weapon of vast power-The Darkness. An other-worldly suit of armor that manifests demons to do his bidding.

"John Constantine has seen more than his fair share of supernatural horrors, yet somehow the street sorcerer has always survived. Time and again he''s proved that no matter what Heaven or Hell throws at him, at the end of the day he can handle it."--Volume 4 cover.

Reverend Jesse Custer, an old Texas minister who is joined with a spiritual entity called Genesis and wields the Word of God, revisits terrors of his childhood on his way to find God.

When his young niece starts dabbling in magic, and racial tensions flare in London, John Constantine - cynical, chain-smoking, trench-coated mystic - unwittingly causes the downfall of an archangel from Heaven. It is an event that foreshadows his own terrifying fall from grace.

Garth Ennis begins his critically acclaimed run on HELLBLAZER with this issue marking the start of the 6-issue ''Dangerous Habits'' storyline. John Constantine''s fought a lot of evil in his life, but now he faces the one enemy he can''t defeat: terminal lung cancer!

Garth Ennis, the author of Preacher and writer of Punisher, is unleashed on a new military creator-owned epic! Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, a dozen Russian special forces soldiers race their British opponents for a secret neither of them can imagine. The Russian leader, a war-weary Colonel who knows no other life but conflict, carries old ghosts that refuse to let him be- but the battle that awaits him deep in this ancient land will change his life forever, and send him on a journey no sane man would contemplate. The ultimate soldier meets his destiny, in issue #1 of 303!

Garth Ennis concludes this major, full-color, creator-owned epic with a stunning twist and all-out action! He''s come ten thousand miles to fire one bullet at the only target he cares about. Now, the anonymous Russian Colonel faces his final test- but when he finds his victim in his sights, has he got what it takes to pull the trigger? Or do the ghosts that dog his heels have other plans for him? Find out, in the final shocking installment of 303.

Garth Ennis has created the ultimate horror survival tale. Through ten heart-stopping chapters, Crossed is his horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows. Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares... and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. Certain to be the most depraved and corrupt book of the year, this one is not for the faint of heart!

Crossed is Garth Ennis'' horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging. Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares... and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed.

The bloody conclusion of the horror series of the year has too much violence to fit in a normal comic, so this final issue is super-sized! There is nothing left to do but for Cindy and the last of her friends to take the battle to the Crossed. It doesn''t go well. Garth Ennis takes no prisoners and offers no hope in the most intense book of his career! Nothing is going right, but this is no fairy tale - there are no magic cures on the horizon. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. This stomach-churning vision is brought to vivid by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows.

Garth Ennis takes no prisoners and offers no hope in the most intense book of his career! Cindy''s patience is tested by her own group as some horrific truths about who they were before the Crossed appeared is unveiled. How evil can people really be? Nothing is going right, but this is no fairy tale - there are no magic cures on the horizon. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. This stomach-churning vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows.

Jesse and company search for clues that will lead them to God, while officer John Tool--the unluckiest cop in the world--tries to track down the serial killer running amok in New York City. Their quests converge unexpectedly when the killer''s identity is revealed!

Garth Ennis takes no prisoners and offers no hope in the most intense book of his career! There is almost nowhere to go now as a crushed Cindy and her rag-tag group of survivors have been pushed far beyond what they can handle. This bleak life is making them break, in the worst ways possible. Nothing is going right, but this is no fairy tale — there are no magic cures on the horizon. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. This stomach-churning vision is brought to vivid by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows.

The truth is revealed, leaving the Russian Colonel with a task so terrible that he turns his back on all he has known. But there are battles still to be fought high in the peaks of the North-West frontier, and all concerned soon realize that Afghanistan isn''t finished with them yet. One man and his ancient rifle set off on a rendezvous with death, in Garth Ennis'' 303 issue 3.

As Sheriff Root and his hideously deformed son set out in pursuit of Jesse and Tulip, the vampire Cassidy faces the Saint of Killers. Meanwhile, angels have begun their own pursuit of the being that has merged with Jesse.

The secret of Jesse Custer''s infamous cigarette lighter is revealed when a Vietnam War veteran relates the bloody tale of Private John Custer''s stand at the notorious battle of Khe San.

Arseface finally gets everything he deserves in the town of Salvation! Meanwhile, as love begins to bloom, heartbreak erupts in the Grail camp. "Alamo" part 4.

Jesse and Tulip take on a Grail hit squad, Cassidy ends up more wretched than ever, and Starr''s depravity takes a new, even more vile turn in part 2 of "Crusaders."

The Saint of Killers arrives, but he''s got a very interesting proposition for Jesse Custer and his friend in part 6 of the "Crusaders" storyline.

You-know-who takes center stage in "Arsefaced World." Things go completely down the toilet for everyone, except Arseface, who sings a merry little tune.

Starr copes with his latest physical disaster, Jesse and Tulip attempt to reconcile their relationship, and Cassidy struggles to live with the results of his recent stupidity. Plus, Jesse''s search for God intensifies.