New Releases by Rick Veitch

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.

Alan Moore continues to shape, mould and batter the superhero genre with this second satirical and sly collection of Tomorrow Stories! Once more you can thrill to the genre-twisting exploits of the liquid avenger, Splash Brannigan, and the comely crimebuster Cobweb; tremble before the genetic superpower of The First American and the towering intellect of child inventor Jack B. Quick, and swoon before ''gentleman sleuth'' Greyshirt! Illustrating these terrific tales is an awesome collection of artistic talent, including Kevin Nowlan and Rick Veitch, all of them giving life to the imagination of the comics industry''s greatest writer!

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!

This is Vertigo''s second Swamp Thing series, wherein writer Alan Moore reconfigures Swamp Thing''s origin to make him a true monster as opposed to a human transformed into a monster.

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.

What mysterious secret of Abby''s is standing in the way of the birth of the new Swamp Thing?

wamp Thing struggles against his destiny to join the Parliament of Trees.

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

Swamp Thing''s out to finally avenge his own murder...and he intends to take out his revenge on Lex Luthor.

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?

The unquenchable Thirst assaults the Secret Sea by sending a legion of undead pirates to poison the mighty Rhine river. But Aquaman and Tempest are determined to stop his rampage, and they enlist a squadron of beautiful Valkyrie Rhine-maidens in their quest!

Swamp Thing continues his baffling journey through time, landing in the middle of World War I!

Aquaman faces the unexpected return of his greatest foe, Black Manta! The King of the Seas is faced with the ultimate choice: to save the villain who killed his only son, or let him die?