New Releases by Scott Allie

A group of agents enter an abandoned warehouse in Chicago, only to discover the site of a hundred-year-old magical ritual and an old Hyperborean weapon, which leads to shocking revelations about man''s prehistory and the legacy of the Ogdru Hem! * From the pages of _Hellboy_! * Cowritten by Mike Mignola! "Harren excels equally at the epic and the personal." -Comic Book Resources

Twenty-four years ago, Hellboy took mild-mannered Professor O''Donnell to the secret library of a recently dead necromancer. Since that day, O''Donnell has been the Bureau''s expert on the powerful ancient forces intent on ending the age of man. Find out what O''Donnell saw in this supernatural thrill ride. From the pages of _Hellboy_. "_B.P.R.D._ continues to be a solidly crafted horror/adventure serial with many surprises to keep its readers guessing."Broken Frontier **It''s all going to Hell in 2012!**

A reclusive vampire clan and a deadly mist create one of the most disastrous missions our heroes have ever faced! The most horrific _B.P.R.D._ in years!

Twenty-one years before the events in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is dispatched to prevent the outbreak of a civil war on the homeworld of his Padawan Xanatos--whose father is king. It is a mission that will lead Qui-Gon into close contact with the dark side and start him on a quest that will have a major impact on the future of the Jedi Order!

Liz Sherman relives the fate of an accused woman who was tortured three hundred years ago, but she has to rein in her own firepower, or an entire New England town will be forced to relive the day when Liz burned her own family to death. Liz''s first mission comes to a horrifying end, and the details of her parents'' death are presented for the first time! Drawn by _Fray_ artist Karl Moline! Liz Sherman''s first mission!

The season finale is here! At long last, the Big Bad stands revealed--Angel is back, and it’s tearing the Scoobies apart, testing the limits of their friendship. But Twilight’s unmasking is only the beginning, and Buffy must still face the ultimate betrayal. Series creator Joss Whedon writes the final story arc of Buffy Season 8, taking his greatest characters to places only he can! Teamed with series artist Georges Jeanty, Joss reunites the dysfunctional gang of Buffy, Angel, and Spike, in the thick of it together for the first time since Season 3, and gives the Scoobies their gravest challenge ever, defending reality itself from the onslaught of demons. It’s the biggest Buffy finale ever! • Collects Buffy Season 8 #36–#40. • This volume also includes the spy-thriller Riley one-shot by Buffy series writer Jane Espenson and artist Karl Moline. • Read the full issue of Buffy issue #36! Just click here!

While Broom banishes a ghost from a priest''s home, Liz explores the woods around the house, where a terrible witch hunt occurred and a woman was murdered! Alsothe accident in which Liz killed her family is finally revealed in detail! Cover by Jo Chen (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ Season 8) Art by _Fray_ artist Karl Moline! "Moline''s pencils are crisp and attractive, a reminder that he''s got a strong eye for characters."Comic Book Resources

Three years after accidentally burning her family alive, fourteen-year-old fire starter Liz Sherman travels with Professor Broom to investigate a small New England town, where long ago a terrible witch hunt occurred and now a ghost plagues a priest''s house. Cover by Jo Chen (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ Season 8). Art by _Fray_ artist Karl Moline! Ghosts, witches, and haunted houses! "Allie generates a suitable mood of foreboding and horror."IGN "Moline''s pencils are crisp and attractive, a reminder that he''s got a strong eye for characters."Comic Book Resources

Taking place after the events in Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil—but written to stand on its own—this new tale delves deep into the horrors scattered throughout Germany''s Black Forest and adapts two of Robert E. Howard''s most beloved Solomon Kane pieces. When Kane comes across gypsies being terrorized by roving bandits, he''s not sure what''s worse—the bandits who wish to rob and rape innocent travelers or the evils that spew forth from the forest, intent on killing every man and woman around! This book also features the "All the Damned Souls at Sea" Kane comic by Scott Allie, Guy Davis, and Dave Stewart; creature designs by Eisner Award-winning artist Guy Davis; and a new cover by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. • "Solomon Kane is a welcome addition to the other excellent Howard properties produced by Dark Horse."—ComicsBulletin.com

Luke Skywalker confronts the legacy of the Jedi father he never knew in an epic story involving Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and the fate of an entire planet! When Luke and Leia travel to Jabiim recruiting allies for the fledgling Rebellion, they unwittingly set into motion events that will ignite one man''s betrayal of his people, pit rebel hero against rebel hero, and attract the attention of the Empire''s deadliest enforcer-Darth Vader! • This action-packed tale sheds new light on Anakin Skywalker''s actions at the Battle of Jabiim during the Clone Wars.

Robert E. Howard''s vengeance-obsessed Puritan begins his supernatural adventures in the haunted Black Forest of Germany in this adaptation of Howard''s "The Castle of the Devil." When Solomon Kane stumbles upon the body of a boy hanged from a rickety gallows, he goes after the man responsible—a baron feared by the peasants for miles around. Something far worse than the devilish baron and the terrible, intelligent wolf that prowls the woods lies hidden in the ruined monastery beneath the baron''s castle, where a devil-worshiping priest died in chains centuries ago. • This team''s debut Kane story is available for free at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents. • "Solomon Kane is one of the toughest Robert E. Howard heroes to adapt to the comics page, but Scott Allie and Mario Guevara have done a stunning job. Unsettling, moody and eerily beautiful, their Kane is absolutely worthy of his creator."—Kurt Busiek • Collects the Solomon Kane five-issue miniseries.

This October, John Carpenter brings one of his most original nightmares back to the big screen with a remake of The Fog, starring Smallville''s Superboy Tom Welling. Carpenter and director Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) team with Dark Horse to flesh out the story of doomed travelers and the supernatural devastation of a small coastal town. Scott Allie, writer of The Devil''s Footprints and Star Wars: Empire worked with award-winning writer Kurt Busiek (Conan, Astro City) and the director to craft a bizarre story about a Chinese curse and a town plunged into a walking-dead nightmare. A group of Shanghai traders have come to America hoping to escape a string of weird deaths at the teeth and claws of unseen monsters. The arrival of a strange yet familiar fog reveals that the curse has found them, but even they don''t know what that has to do with a pyromaniac refugee from the Civil War, the disappearance of one of their sons, or the terrible change coming over the Americans in this small seaside town.

The Clone Wars have begun! Ever since they were mentioned in the very first Star Wars film, fans have been dying to know more. Attack of the Clones offered a glimpse, but "The Defense of Kamino" brings the galaxy-wide conflict into full view! Two undercover Jedi discover a Separatist plan to destroy the cloning facility on the watery world of Kamino, thus crippling the Republic''s ability to maintain their clone army. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are part of a Jedi fighter squadron sent to protect the installation, but they learn that there are heroes fighting for the Separatist cause as well as for the Republic, and that Jango Fett, though dead, still has something to say about how this war is fought! Meanwhile, Mace Windu, the leader of the Jedi Council, must deal with a rift in the Jedi ranks--a matter that reveals a Jedi traitor and a new Dark Jedi working in league with Dooku. Mace is considered one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy, but can he stand up to the swordmaster who taught him everything he knows--including the mysterious techinque known as "Vaapad"? New characters and new worlds are revealed as the Clone Wars spreads throughout the galaxy! This volume collects Star Wars: Republic #49-50 and Star Wars: Jedi -- Mace Windu

This hardcover looks at the evolution of Mike Mignola''s art over ten years on his award-winning, soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture comics series. Featuring previously unpublished art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, The Art of Hellboy provides an inside look at Mignola''s design, storytelling and colour work.

A vampire power struggle, a roadkill-crazed demon, a fiendish plot to create the Dark Slayer... it can only mean one thing -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back TV series, continue, in the sequel to Bad Blood. Buffy''s old enemy, Selke, is back in town, and how... but this femme fatale doesn''t just have designs on the Slayer (in a dangerously literal sense), she wants to organise the disparate vampire factions into a deadly fighting force. All this, plus an enchanted brooch, a demon with a bad habit of attacking moving cars, and, oh yes, Spike, Dru and Angel are back

In the weeks before the events in Star Wars: A New Hope, as the Death Star is readied for its fateful first mission, a power-hungry cabal of Grand Mofs and Imperial Officers embark on a dangerous plan to kill Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader and seize control of the Empire! When word that a "Jedi" has made an appearance on a backwater world lures Vader away from his master, the cabal makes its move. But even the galaxy isn''t enough of a prize to sate the ambitions of some of the conspirators, and before long the would-be assassins are turning on one another. Their plans are further complicated by the actions of bounty hunter Boba Fett. And, of course, they may have fatally underestimated the cunning of their primary target: Emperor Palpatine! Available worldwide from Dark Horse Comics (available in the UK from Titan)