New Releases by Rick Veitch

Reeling from the financial collapse of his business, Chad Roe descends into a night of debauchery only to wake up a literal marked man, covered in a full-body permanent marker tattoo. But when his lost weekend bleeds into a bright Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001, his life changes forever. Instead of picking up the pieces, Chad takes to the road, desperately searching for salvation in the shell-shocked heart of America.

Rick Veitch''s unforgettable eight-part Epic Magazine series is finally collected as one mind-bending full color graphic novel! Abducted from earth by space whalers, Cetologist John Isaac endures physical and spiritual mutation by order of the ship''s master, Rotwang. Pressed into the mad captain''s hunt for Abraxas, Isaac finds his own destiny in the belly of the monstrous red-horned whale.

ES UN PÁJARO; ES UN AVIÓN... ¿ES UN ENANO? Un niño con superpoderes llegado del espacio exterior, dos judíos que sueñan con escribir cómics de superhéroes, un editor sin escrúpulos y un país atrapado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial dispuesto a lanzar la bomba atómica... Ha llegado la hora de que Maximortal, el mayor superhéroe de la historia, se alce sobre la humanidad. La deconstrucción del mito del superhombre y del negocio editorial de los cómics sirve a Rick Veitch (SWAMP THING, EL UNO) de columna vertebral para idear con EL MAXIMORTAL un nuevo universo de superhéroes, cargado de humor negro y referencias a la historia del cómic, donde todo es demasiado parecido a la realidad.

Seven years before The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay, RickVeitch married the larcenous history of the comics business to the outrageousthemes and characters of his infamous Brat Pack universe, creating one ofthe most startling and uncompromising visions of the super-hero archetype everput to paper.

The dawn of a new era for Witchblade begins, as penciling sensation Keu Cha (Rising Stars) becomes the ongoing artist for everyone''s favorite gauntlet wielding detective. Plus, the new writing team of Rick Veitch and Paul Jenkins (Inhumans, Spawn, Hulk) start to weave a tale that will explore untold history of the Witchblade and alter the course of Sara''s life forever! Events from this mystic and gypsy filled issue will set the path for Paul Jenkins to take over as full time writer with issue #43! Bear witness to the changing of the guard as Top Cow''s longest running series sets its sights on becoming the most promising storyline of the new millennium.

The most promising new story line of the new millennium continues as Sara attempts to deal with the ramifications of last issue. Rick Veitch and Paul Jenkins have provided nothing short of a stellar new direction for everyone''s favorite Witchblade wielding detective and new series artist Keu Cha has exemplified the ability to fill Sara''s world with unique and explosive visuals. Now is the time to pick up Witchblade and find out what everyone has been talking about!

Rick Veitch is a cartoonist well known for cutting to the quick, and his ground breaking dream comic, Rare Bit Fiends, continues to entertain and intrigue readers regularly with some of the most personal and revelatory panel art being published today. Now, in this second Rare Bit Fiends Trade Paperback Collection, he gets you so close to the quick you can just about touch it! Welcome to POCKET UNIVERSE, in which Veitch combines the ultimate in post-modern storytelling with his bravura crowquill and ink illustrations to recreate the deepest levels of dreaming as a startling and subtle set-piece of sensational psycho-art. Building on the drumbeat one-page dreams from last year''s companion volume, RABID EYE, Veitch composes a single sweeping mindscape that carries the reader along hypnotically, unfolding through the vistas of the unconscious with all the magic and mystery of dreaming itself. Are art and life one? Enter Rick Veitch''s POCKET UNIVERSE and learn the simple truth! Includes the Afterward: IT''S NOT WHERE IT''S GOING, IT''S WHERE IT''S COMING FROM, Confessions Of A Dream Artist by Rick Veitch.

KING HELL PRESS proudly announces the first paperback Rare Bit Fiends Collected Edition! RABID EYE: THE DREAM ART OF RICK VEITCH concentrates The World''s Most overworked cartoonist''s chaotically complex uncorking of the collective unconscious in a single crypto-autobiographical collection of comics! Downloading this juicy gigabit of the Roarin'' one''s dream life, as recorded in the first eight issues of RARE BIT FIENDS, takes readers on a multidimensional mind-mulching roller coaster ride of panel art after which they''ll never think of dreaming (or comics) in quite the same way again! Also included is the absolutely essential UNDERSTANDING RARE BIT FIENDS from Issue #12; an enlightening explanatory trip through the history, science and magic of dreaming as well as Veitch''s unique and personal perspective on the nature and importance of the dream function.

The end of an era in the lives of all the plant elementals--and the beginning of a new one.

Swamp Thing discovers what the term "fear of flying" is all about as a strange set of coincidences could spell disaster for a passenger plane.

If Swamp Thing ever has a chance of finding a bright future, he''s going to have to take a painful journey through the dark horrors from out of his past!

It''s Swamp Thing vs. Solomon Grundy! It''s battle for the swamp not to be missed!

Swamp Thing meets up with some of the Western heroes from DC''s past, including Jonah Hex!

Swamp Thing shows up in a most unexpected place--in the middle of a war with Sgt. Rock and the men of Easy Company!

Abby faces some definite horrors in a visit to see Matt and is forced to make a most painful decision.

The Thirst launches his onslaught against the world''s river spirits, leaving Aquaman caught between his duty to save Atlantis and his new role as Waterbearer! If the Sea King doesn''t stop the menace he''s unwittingly unleashed, the Secret Sea-the source of all life on Earth-will dry up completely!

The King of the Seas quenches The Thirst! Aquaman learns the hard way that a brief moment of rage can have deadly consequences by using his magical, watery hand as a weapon, he has inadvertently released The Thirst-a twisted parasite who feeds on the same Secret Sea that Aquaman has sworn to channel into this world!

Aquaman and his archenemy, Black Manta, join forces to stop The Thirst from reanimating an army of corpses! Can these two foes put aside years of hatred to defeat an enemy more powerful than both of them?