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FIRST LOOK: December 2009 Best-Selling Authors Previews
 
FIRST LOOK: December 2009 Best-Selling Authors Previews
Find out what's in store for your favorite Stephen King, Orson Scott Card and Laurell K. Hamilton series this December.

Posted: 2009-09-21    Updated: 2009-10-07 14:38:07


   

 

ANITA BLAKE, THE LAUGHING CORPSE - EXECUTIONER #5

ANITA BLAKE, THE LAUGHING CORPSE - EXECUTIONER #3 (of 5)
Written by JESSICA RUFFNER & LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Penciled by RON LIM
Cover by HARVEY TOLIBAO
Killer zombies. Voodoo priestesses bent on revenge. Mad millionaires. As the puzzle pieces forming vampire hunter Anita Blake's deadliest case yet fall into place, the budding necromancer discovers one ugly truth: There's more than one way to become a monster...
32 PGS./Mature ...$3.99© 2009 Laurell K. Hamilton. All rights reserved. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and all characters featuredin this issue and the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Laurell K. Hamilton.

DARK TOWER: THE BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #2
DARK TOWER: THE BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #2 (of 5)
Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH
Pencils & Cover by JAE LEE
Variant Cover by LEONARDO MANCO
The first Beam has been broken! The Crimson King has created a prison for powerful psychics who use their powers to erode the very Beams that support the Dark Tower which is the fulcrum of reality! Gilead is in ruins, Mid-World is dying, and all that stands between the Crimson King and the utter dissolution of existence is a haggard Roland Deschain and his ka-tet. But first they must destroy the awful machines of war being erected by the Good Man, John Farson. Don't miss this second issue in the greatest Dark Tower arc of all!
40 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory...$3.99 ©2009 Stephen King. All rights reserved.

ENDERS GAME: COMMAND SCHOOL #4
ENDER'S GAME: COMMAND SCHOOL #4 (of 5)
Creative Director ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Pencils & Cover by PASQUAL FERRY
Ender has graduated from Battle School to Command School where he'll prepare for the approaching Formic invasion...but he refuses to go. Ender's done playing the games, he's done hurting people. So the military brings in the only person who Ender cares about to convince him to go...his sister Valentine. And in the outer reaches of space, Ender meets the man who will be his last teacher...
Mazer Rackham.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99



ENDERS SHADOW: COMMAND SCHOOL #4
ENDER'S SHADOW:
COMMAND SCHOOL #4 (of 5)

Creative Director
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by MIKE CAREY
Pencils by SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
Cover by TIMOTHY GREEN II
The dramatic adaptation of Orson Scott Card's science-fiction classic reaches its penultimate chapter!  Battle School seems strangely empty without Ender Wiggin - and Bean has finally been cleared to join him in the labyrinthine warrens of Eros and Command School.  But before he can go, there's one last thing he has to do: put his life in the hands of his oldest and most terrifying enemy...
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99

ENDERS GAME: WAR OF GIFTS
ENDER'S GAME: WAR OF GIFTS

Creative Director ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by JAKE BLACK
Pencils & Cover by TIMOTHY GREEN II
Zeck Morgan was raised by his minister father to be a pious, God-fearing child, devoted to his church.  Unfortunately, when the International Fleet decides Zeck is a candidate for training in Battle School, they tear him from his home and prepare him for war. Zeck refuses to participate in the school's war-games due to his pacifist religious beliefs. When he sees another student celebrating Christmas--seemingly violating Battle School's rules against religious practice--he raises an uproar that may tear Battle School apart.  Can even Ender Wiggin calm this furor? Find out in this double-sized adaptation of Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe novella, War of Gifts.
56 PGS./One-Shot/Parental Advisory ...$4.99

THE STAND: SOUL SURVIVORS #3
THE STAND: SOUL SURVIVORS #3 (of 5)
Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Penciled by MIKE PERKINS
Cover by LEE BERMEJO
Variant Cover by MIKE PERKINS
The most shocking chapter of Stephen King's horror masterpiece yet!
Stu, Fran, and Harold's journey across the country takes a turn for the unspeakable when they cross paths with a quartet of vigilantes and their "harem" of imprisoned women. Making matters worse (if such a thing were possible), Harold's deepest fears that Fran and Stu have feelings for each other are starting to come true... Told from Fran's POV, this issue marks the Point of No Return, True Believers!
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory...$3.99
©2009 Stephen King. All rights reserved. Published by arrangement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.This graphic novel is produced under license from The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group and Stephen King.

 

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