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Exclusive First Look At Dynamite's Graphic Novels Shipping February 2018

Published Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:00:51 -0600

And here we have the last batch of exclusive first looks at titles shipping from Dynamite Entertainment in February 2018. This batch is the trades and graphic novels and includes two omnibuses, Vampirella: the Dynamite Years and The Bionic Man. Plus collections of Kiss/Vampirella, Dresden Files: Dog Men, Sovereigns: The End of the Golden Age and Swordquest: Realworld.

VAMPIRELLA: THE DYNAMITE YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 2 Trade Paperback
Cover: Paul Renaud | Writer: Brandon Jerwa | Art: Heubert Khan Michael, Patrick Berkenkotter
Format: Softcover | Page Count: 496 pages

Vampirella, a lethal beauty waging a war against the undead and demonic, must defend her recent actions to a tribunal deep within Vatican City. Hell is coming to Earth, and only Vampirella and her trusted allies can stop it! Bad blood and old grievances are put aside when a deadly coven of witches threatens to unrival all time and reality, and Vampirella finds herself stranded one hundred years in the future. A vision of things to come forces our heroine to make a painful decision, forever altering her fate. Then, what begins in the shadowy jungles of a voodoo island empire will reach its astonishing conclusion in Hell itself! Everyone's favorite dark heroine will be pushed to the breaking point as her sanctuary is threatened, her love is at risk, and her own mother might just be her worst enemy after all! It's a story of endings and beginnings!

KISS/VAMPIRELLA Trade Paperback
Cover: Carli Ihde | Writer: Christopher Sebela | Art: Annapaola Martello
Format: Softcover | Page Count: 144 pages

L.A. is a strange town on the best of days, but in the summer of 1974, the City of Angels feels especially demonic. As temperatures soar and wildfires burn, all sorts of strange creatures are drawn to town, including Vampirella. While Vampi goes out and hunts down monsters all across La La Land — defending humanity from evil — she's also killing it every night on stage as a member of the all-girl rock group Witchkraft — defending rock 'n' roll from a dying scene. Help arrives in the form of four creatures who've just flown into town: The Starchild, The Demon, The Spaceman and The Catman. Away from their home turf and trying to record their new album, KISS discovers that all their favorite L.A. bands have mysteriously broken up, disappeared, sold out, or gone crazy. Led by a driver who moonlights in the occult and haunted by satanic strangers dressed in black, KISS finds themselves drawn into a web conspiracy that threatens to kill rock 'n' roll itself.

THE BIONIC MAN OMNIBUS VOL. 1 Trade Paperback
Cover: Alex Ross | Writer: Kevin Smith, Phil Hester, Aaron Gillespie | Art: Jonathan Lau, Ed Tadeo, Rey Villegas
Format: Softcover | Page Count: 624 pages

Three full graphic novels in one very large volume. First, Steve Austin, the iconic action hero of The Six Million Dollar Man, returns! Groundbreaking filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) rebuilds the world's first bionic man, making him better, stronger, and faster than ever before! Joined by Phil Hester and Jonathan Lau, his collaborators on the critically-acclaimed Green Hornet revival, Smith plunges Steve Austin into a dangerous world of espionage and high adventure. Reunited with Jaime Sommers (of The Bionic Woman fame), Austin must face a maniacal enemy built from deadly technology and dedicated to the collapse of entire nations!

Second, Steve Austin, the unstoppable hero of The Six Million Dollar Man, tracks a deadly conspiracy to foreign territory, where he discovers his strangest adversary yet — the legendary Bigfoot! What is this unnatural creature of primal instincts and mechanical parts? What role does the Bionic Man play in the monster's origin? If one such Bigfoot exists, could others still roam the wilderness… or be manufactured on an assembly line? Also, Steve Austin has a tearful reunion with Jaime Sommers. How will he react when he discovers a terrible truth — that he may have unwittingly been responsible for the tragic accident that transformed her into the Bionic Woman, and erased her memories?

Third, Steve Austin, the iconic hero of television's Six Million Dollar Man, faces new threats both foreign and domestic! When the brutal dictator of Libue threatens to use whatever means necessary to squash the rebels of his wartorn nation, the American government sends the Bionic Man to prevent the detonation of nuclear missiles on millions of innocents. Meanwhile, the Office of Scientific Intelligence is under siege by rogue agents. Will Austin's close friend and OSI handler Oscar Goldman survive an attack on his life… and a mechanized terror with a face all too familiar?

JIM BUTCHER'S DRESDEN FILES: DOG MEN Hardcover
Cover: Diego Galindo | Writer: Jim Butcher, Mark Powers | Art: Diego Galindo
Format: Hardcover | Page Count: 136 pages

New York Times-bestselling author Jim Butcher expands his beloved "Dresden Files" novel series with the all-new "Dog Men" story set within official continuity, created exclusively as a graphic novel! Harry Dresden is a man on the edge—and that is something that can be dangerous to friend and foe alike. He's been drafted by a senior member of the White Council of Wizards to investigate a series of murders in rural Mississippi. As always, there's more afoot than is immediately apparent. The question is, will Harry's state of mind keep him from seeing it, and will his actions lead him into direct conflict with the wizard who's depending on his help?

THE SOVEREIGNS: END OF THE GOLDEN AGE Trade Paperback
Cover: Stephen Segovia | Writer: Ray Fawkes | Art: Johnny Desjardins
Format: Softcover | Page Count: 160 pages

The epic that will redefine the Gold Key heroes continues! The year is 2025, Turok has gone missing and Magnus is good and worried about that. When even a time traveling mission to confer with Doctor Spektor and the creature once known as Solar don't yield any answers, Magnus must brave the unknown to track the missing hero down.

SWORDQUEST: REALWORLD Trade Paperback
Cover: Goñi Montes | Writer: Chad Bowers, Chris Sims | Art: Ghostwriter X
Format: Softcover | Page Count: 144+ pages

In 1984, Peter Case was on his way to being crowned champion of SwordQuest, set to win the last of four contests and lay claim to a golden sword worth over $50,000! But when the game was discontinued, Peter found himself without a game to finish. Now, over thirty years later, Peter's stuck in a different kind of game entirely — the game of life, and he's losing fast. But when he learns that all the prizes meant for the SwordQuest contest of his youth are on display in the World Arcade Museum, he finds an unknown determination that sees him put together a team of like-minded losers for the ultimate heist job — a real-life sword quest! The red-hot team of Chris Sims, Chad Bowers, and Ghostwriter X (Down Set Fight) have a new game — and the stakes have never been higher!