New Releases by Rick Veitch

Vic Sage is a TV journalist with an uncanny ability to break difficult stories, thanks in large part to his relentless crime-fighting campaign as the Question! But has the faceless vigilante''s particular brand of harsh justice finally sent him off the deep end? Prowling the meanest streets of his native Chicago, the trench-coated Question thinks he also walks in another world—a strange shamanic space full of shadowy dangers. When Sage hears the voice of Superman''s home city of Metropolis, he answers the call. Is he crazy? That''s the question.

Swamp Thing''s been struggling to get into our world for months. Now, the conception of the new Swamp Thing can be revealed! You won''t believe what John Constantine had to do with it in this shocking crossover with HELLBLAZER #9.

Showcasing Rick Veitch''s wildly innovative Epic Magazine period, Shiny Beasts collects all of Veitch''s fully painted short fantasy works including "Shipmates," "Li''l Tiny Comics," "Solar Plexus" and "Conquest of the Banana Planet" in glorious re-mastered color.

Volume 2: "This volume, leading into the upcoming ARMY@LOVE SEASON 2, follows the exploits of rivals Loman and Flabbergast, as well as Switzer, the woman they both love."--Publisher''s website

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.

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''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.

Both darkly comic and just plain dark, Rick Veitch''s Bratpack has been considered a must-read almost since the release of its first issue in 1990. Now, fifteen years after it''s last printing, it''s back in a new hardcover edition. Welcome to Slumburg, Pennsylvania, where the superpowered team called Black October is as bad as the villains they bring in. Now they want to train a new generation to follow in their footsteps. First, though, they''ll need to find some new recruits, as they suddenly find themselves facing a distinct shortage of sidekicks. Subversively subtle yet completely over the top, Bratpack is uncompromising, uncomfortable, and unforgettable. It''s also an essential for every graphic novel collection. This black and white hardcover edition includes Neil Gaiman''s introduction, as well as a new essay by Rick, extra art, and the original 23-page series proposal.

Originally published in single magazine form as JLA 77-82.

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!

Written by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and Rick Veitch; Art by Rick Veitch, Alfredo Alcala, John Totleben, Steve Bissette, Tom Yeates; Cover by John Totleben The concluding trade paperback collecting Alan Moore''s groundbreaking run on SWAMP THING, REUNION reprints issues #57-64 of this legendary VERTIGO foundation title.

At the height of the cold war, a madman tricks the United States and the Soviet Union into launching their missiles and super-hero agents against each other. But instead of nuclear Armageddon, the act releases the secret cosmic potential of the human race. It was twenty years ago today that Rick Veitch took a bucketful of nuclear fear, added a healthy dollop of New Age mysticism, and served up a comic book super-hero series like no one had ever seen before. Written and drawn at the height of the final showdown between American style capitalism and Soviet era communism, The One spins an outrageous doomsday scenario that has proven even more relevant to today''s ongoing global crisis. The One begins with the United States and the Soviet Union pushed into World War III by a certain blonde billionaire who has figured out how to turn a profit from a limited nuclear exchange. But the threat of Armageddon awakens a mysterious force in the human race that disarms the missiles and sets the world on a high-speed collision course with evolution. Finding themselves stripped of their atomic arsenals, both the American and Russian governments unleash top secret super-soldier projects to wage hand to hand combat against each other. The ensuing "Superior War" makes nuclear weapons seem like mere child''s play.

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.

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

The joy and horror of creation--as seen through the eyes of a potential future incarnation of the Swamp Thing!

The quest for the new Swamp Thing begins as John Constantine tries to figure out who has been chosen. But what does this mean for Abby?

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

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!