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Exclusive – Army Of Darkness, Dresden Files, Xena And Six Million Dollar Man For August

Published Sun, 15 May 2016 15:00:11 -0500

Dynamite has sent over another batch of solicitations and covers for books shipping in August of this year. This batch features film and television tie-ins. Nancy Collins continues taking Ash Williams down the Furious Road, Van Jensen is rebuilding Steve Austin in Fall of Man, Genevieve Valentine brings us more of Xena and Gabriel and Jim Butcher gives us another tale of Harry Dresden in Wild Card.

Some of you may be wondering why Dresden is in a batch of film and television tie-ins. Well, for those who don't remember, there was a short-run television series on SyFy called The Dresden Files. And Harry Dresden was played by Paul Blackthorne, who has gone on to play Quentin Lance on Arrow. The whole season is available now on DVD and is a pretty interesting and slight different take on the character. The DVD includes the pilot episode where they tried to directly adapt the first Dresden novel, Storm Front. That didn't work as well as the may have hoped. So the series is tweaked quite a bit and turned out to be fun to watch.

ARMY OF DARKNESS: FURIOUS ROAD #6 (OF 6)
Cover A: Gabriel Hardman
Writer: Nancy A. Collins
Art: Kewber Baal

Everybody is kung fu fighting! In fact, it's a little bit frightening! "Furious Road" reaches its action-packed, grindhouse climax as Ash and his allies – including the Frankenstein's Monster, The Daughter of Dracula, and her infamous father – team up with a monastery full of Motor City Shaolin monks against The General and his demonic Army of Darkness in a last-ditch attempt to save the world… or at least themselves! Oh-ho-ho-hoh–HA!

JIM BUTCHER'S THE DRESDEN FILES: WILD CARD #5 (OF 6)
Cover A Main: Carlos Gomez
Writer: Jim Butcher, Mark Powers
Art: Carlos Gomez

It's open war in Chicago between the police, the White Court, and the mafia network run by "Gentleman" Johnny Marcone! While Karrin Murphy recovers from her own confrontation with Puck, Harry must face off against the far more powerful being. Harry will need help from friends and enemies alike to prevent the demented fae from completing his masterpiece of pandemonium — but is it already too late?

SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN: FALL OF MAN #2 (OF 5)
Cover A: Ron Salas
Writer: Van Jensen
Art: Ron Salas

Billionaire technologist Mick Gentle has promised to restore Steve Austin's humanity, but there's a catch. To remove Austin's bionic parts, Gentle needs a Soviet device held in a top-secret base in East Berlin. But the Berlin Wall is just the smallest hurdle, as Austin squares off against enemy agents, killer robots, and mutant creatures birthed of the maddest mad scientists.

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS #5
Cover: Jenny Frison
Writer: Genevieve Valentine
Art: Julius Gopez

The daring rescue of Chilapa and the captive Harpies has made Xena into Rome's newest, greatest enemy… just like old times! It will bring the might of an empire to Xena's doorstep… and Gabrielle is going to stop it, by any means necessary. All roads lead to Rome!