New Releases by Josh Dysart

"This original graphic novel based on the fan-favorite characters of a leading Pop Surrealist painter presents a haunting tale of two young girls in a bizarre and dangerous post-industrial future who discover powerful and mysterious helmets that change both the girls and the world around them"--

In 1945, the bombing of Hiroshima awakened an immense and terrifying power inside young Toyo Harada, a power that he could one day use to build a better world. With the existence of super powered psiots revealed to the world and his Harbinger Foundation left in ruins, Harada has been run to ground, and the world''s most powerful man is about to become its most dangerous... Eisner Award-nominated writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger) returns to the Valiant Universe alongside CAFU (RAI) and a lineup of all-star Valiant artists for a sweeping, continent-spanning chronicle of Toyo Harada''s last gambit to remake Earth in his own utopian image...or sacrifice everything in the process.

"Toyo Harada''s war to save humanity by taking over the world roars on against the only enemy this planet cannot conta... a sinister network of undercover alien spies! A deadly chess game between Harada and the alien visitors called the Vine has been unfolding for decades. The Vine once even created the living weapon called LV-99 to assassinate their enemy, but failed. Today, as Harada executes his agenda upon Earth -- and with LV-99 on his side this time -- the Vine''s cold war finally turns infernally hot. Jump on board the series that Bloody Disgusting calls "the height of sophisticated comic book stories" here with a powerful new story arc from New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER WARS) and red-hot artist CAFU (UNITY)! Collecting IMPERIUM #9--12."--www.barnesandnoble.com.

WHO ARE ... THE UNITED? A new day has dawned for the elite assemblage of heroes called UNITY, and, in the wake of the Armor Hunters'' invasion, the time has come to grow their ranks. Who will be the next fearless hero to join the roster of the world''s most elite superteam? And just what is the international strike force called THE UNITED - and why have they marked UNITY''s own X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Livewire, and Eternal Warrior for elimination? Join New York Times best-selling writers Matt Kindt (Rai, Mind MGMT), and red hot artists CAFU, Cary Nord and Robert Gill as they look back with the Eternal Warrior to the trenches of WW I and the top secret missions of Unit-Y before detonating the planet''s first superteam vs. superteam war right here with a bold new beginning for UNITY!

Based on Neil Young''s 2003 album of the same name, this graphic novel follows 18-year-old Sun Green, a young woman from Greendale, California whose connection with nature may prove more powerful than anyone knows.

Professor Bruttenholm and his teamas well as their Soviet alliesreturn to the asylum, hoping to find out more about Project Vampir Sturm. But a fatal encounter with one of the project''s subjects has done little to prepare the investigators for what lurks in the asylum''s hallsor the greater horror still to come. Written by _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola and Joshua Dysart (_Violent Messiahs_, _Swamp Thing_, _Conan and the Midnight God_) and drawn by Paul Azaceta (_Grounded_), _B.P.R.D.: 1946_ chronicles the first investigation of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in the ruins of post�World War II Berlin. **B.P.R.D. year one!**

The Eisner Award-winning miniseries The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Abe Sapien: The Drowning), never before available for purchase; Mignola and Duncan Fegredo''s "The Mole," from Free Comic Book Day 2008; and Mignola''s most recent solo outing, "In the Chapel of Moloch." * Also includes a look into the artists'' sketchbooks! * 2009 Eisner Award winner for Best Limited Series! "Richard Corben shows these youngsters how it''s done... and it''s so good, in its grotesquely beautiful way." -Comic Book Resources

"Originally published in single magazine form as Unknown soldier"--Colophon.

In war-torn Uganda, young doctor Lwanga Moses tries to protect his wife and adopted village - but is horribly beaten by child-soldiers, opening him to an inner voice which tells him coolly and precisely how to be a killer. Is he losing his mind? Or is something else working through him?

"Originally serialized in the comic book series Violent messiahs issues 9 through 12"--T.p. verso.

Previously published as a comic book series by Image Comics.

In the wake of the Second World War, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm -- occult investigator and guardian of the infant Hellboy -- founded the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to investigate and defuse the remains of the Axis''s sophisticated occult-warfare projects and potential Soviet threats. Now, with the help of a handful of war-weary American soldiers and their erstwhile Soviet allies, Bruttenholm unravels the mystery of the Nazi Occult Bureau''s greatest and most threatening initiative: Project Vampir Sturm.

As the state of Louisiana is ravaged by a hurricane, a world-weary Swamp Thing retires to the dark waters that created him to forget his past and abandon the natural order he is responsible for. This work explores Swamp Thing''s history, set against a backdrop of Nixon''s America and unnatural disasters.

A collection of comics featuring a young man working in the 1930s movie industry who finds his destiny amid movie sets along with an artifact that could change the course of human history.

Genius writer Alan Moore created a graphic novels landmark with his Swamp Thing series. Now a new and vibrant creative team look set to continue his standard... With the power of The Light under his control, even Swamp Thing may not be able to stop the evil Arcane... not without paying an unimaginable price. With Swamp Thing struggling to make sense of his shattered life and the town of Houma recovering from all the horrors of its past, a strange "preacher" appears, offering a macabre salvation to the town''s people. But his true agenda may be too frightening to contemplate. A worthy successor to an already legendary series, this is gothic horror as deep, dark and savage as the swamp it''s set in!