Most Popular Books by Marc Silvestri

The spotlight shines on Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri in this very special art collection. Silvestri''s career blossomed during runs on Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and in the early 1990s, he revolutionized the comics industry when he co-founded Image Comics and created such hit properties as Cyberforce, Witchblade, and The Darkness. This oversized art book, offered now in softcover, showcases some of Silvestri''s favorite, most popular, and most iconic images from his illustrious career.

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.

In a world consumed by shadows...one man becomes The Darkness. Jackie Estacado is back! Thrust into a supernatural war between the dark and the light in a no-holds-barred adventure where the edge of our reality grinds against supernatural forces grappling for control over each other and the waking world. Mafia Hitman Jackie Estacado was both blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he became the bearer of The Darkness, an elemental force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there. Forces in the world rise up to face Jackie and the evil his gift represents. There is one small problem in this story…evil is good. From co-creator Marc Silvestri (The Darkness, Cyber Force, Batman and the Joker: The Deadly Duo) with the universe-shattering first issue art by Ed Benes (Birds of Prey, Superman, Justice League of America), followed in issue #2 with ongoing series artist Raymond Gay (Gunsligner Spawn, Bloodletter, TMNT, Medieval Spawn), comes an explosive new era of The Darkness!

TRAINing day! Batman and The Joker’s ability to function as a team is put to the biggest test yet as they are dropped out of the sky and into a moving train! Will their alliance hold together, even if the speeding locomotive does not? Meanwhile, the Dark Knight has enlisted the help of Nightwing and Catwoman to help with his investigation, but with more pieces of Gordon being shipped to GCPD headquarters, by the time they find any clues, will there even be enough of the commissioner left to save?

"The Joker will go to any lengths to get Harley Quinn back after she is abducted by a strange culprit. But who? Mysterious, Joker-like monsters are stalking the streets of Gotham, collecting severed heads. But why? Jim Gordon is missing, and after receiving a package containing a bloody piece of Gotham''s commissioner, Batman knows he must be willing to do anything to save him. But how? When The Joker proposes an uneasy alliance with Batman, the answers to those questions begin to become clear--and they will shake Gotham City and the Bat-Family to their core"--

In a world consumed by shadows...one man becomes The Darkness. Jackie Estacado is back! Thrust into a supernatural war between the dark and the light in a no-holds-barred adventure where the edge of our reality grinds against supernatural forces grappling for control over each other and the waking world. Mafia Hitman Jackie Estacado was both blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he became the bearer of The Darkness, an elemental force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there. Forces in the world rise up to face Jackie and the evil his gift represents. There is one small problem in this story…evil is good. From co-creator Marc Silvestri (The Darkness, Cyber Force, Batman and the Joker: The Deadly Duo) with the universe-shattering first issue art by Ed Benes (Birds of Prey, Superman, Justice League of America), followed in issue #2-6 with ongoing series artist Raymond Gay (Gunsligner Spawn, Bloodletter, TMNT, Medieval Spawn), comes an explosive new era of The Darkness! Collects The Darkness [2025] #1-6 plus The Darkness 1/2 from 2001.

GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING! To coincide with the groundbreaking 30TH Anniversary of Top Cow and Image comics. Top Cow proudly presents the original stories that launched the series, collecting the very first Cyberforce story, Tin Men of War. Fans can go back and rediscover the introduction of characters like Velocity, Ripclaw, Heatwave, Cyblade, Stryker, Impact, and Ballistic to the world of comics with brilliant art by Marc Silvestri. All this and more, gorgeously rendered and assembled in this first volume of absolute collected editions. First time back to print since 1992! Collects: CYBERFORCE #0, TIN MEN OF WAR #1-4, KILLER INSTINCT CROSSOVER WITH WILDCATS #5-7, VOLUME 2 #1-13, ORIGINS: #1 CYBLADE, #2 STRYKER, AND CYBERFORCE ANNUAL #1

Cyber Data has created a killing machine that not even they can control. Killjoy has been let loose on the world and nothing will stand in her way as she seeks revenge against her old adversary Ripclaw. Cyber Data has been exposed and Stryker, Velocity, and the others have one last shot at survival. As it turns out, CDI isn''t the only power out to destroy the world. Collects CYBER FORCE #6-12.

Preparatevi alle fiamme! Due demoni del Limbo, S’ym e N’astirh, hanno corrotto Illyana Rasputin, meglio nota come Magik dei Nuovi Mutanti, e Madelyne Pryor, la moglie di Ciclope dal misterioso passato. Grazie a loro e a dei terrificanti sacrifici, hanno scatenato tra le vie di Manhattan diavoli e creature infernali! Per impedire la fine del mondo e ostacolare gli oscuri piani di Sinistro, X-Men, X-Factor e Nuovi Mutanti dovranno unire le forze… in una saga epica passata alla storia dei comics, firmata da grandi autori come Chris Claremont, Walter Simonson e Marc Silvestri! [Contiene: Uncanny X-Men #239-243, New Mutants #71-73, X-Factor #36-39].

After a bloody, brutal, and harrowing adventure across and underneath Gotham, Batman and The Joker have unearthed the true culprit behind the dark scheme against them. Now the Deadly Duo find themselves unwilling participants in a bone-chilling wedding ceremony in the catacombs beneath Gotham City. Get ready for unholy matrimony in this horrific penultimate chapter that needs to be seen to be believed.

THE END OF THE NEW BEGINNING! The Chairwoman of the massive CDI corporation will stop at nothing to get back her runaway daughter, Velocity. In her rampage, she has ordered the execution of every member of the rogue Cyber Force faction who stands in her way. But Velocity has turned and, faced to confront her mother, she doesn''t know what''s worse - being annihilated alongside her compatriots, or having her memory wiped clean with a brain box implant. If you haven''t already joined the party, don''t miss the fifth issue of Top Cow''s 20th Anniversary relaunch of CYBER FORCE to be distributed for FREE!

TOP COW''S TOP-SELLING SERIES RETURNS IN A GROUND-BREAKING WAY! Top Cow celebrates its 20th anniversary with the return of the series that started it all: CYBER FORCE! Top Cow founder MARC SILVESTRI (THE DARKNESS, Incredible Hulk) returns to his first Image series as co-writer, art director and cover artist! Co-writer MATT HAWKINS (THINK TANK, LADY PENDRAGON) and artist KHOI PHAM (Mighty Avengers, Daredevil) join SILVESTRI to bring you a contemporary re-imagining rooted in cutting edge, real world technology. Carin Taylor, codenamed Velocity, has escaped from the CDI controlled Millennium City and is desperately trying to find the one man she believes can help her prevent the end of the world. When she runs a group of other CDI escapees, will they help her... or turn their backs?

NEW STORY ARC New volume begins here! And it seems like the beginning of the end for Jackie Estacado, as the Angelus amasses her forces and Sonatine''s devious plans come to fruition. In the wake of the ultimate tragedy, what does it mean to fully embrace the Darkness?