Bill Willingham, Author, Matthew Sturges, Author, Mark Buckingham, Illustrator and various. DC/Vertigo $17.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2572-8
The appeal of Fables
has always been the reimagining of fairy tale characters as if they were as messy and screwed up as real people; the characters are divorcées, drunks, womanizers, and overall flawed beings. In this crossover of all the...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Matthew Sturges, Author, Andrew Pepoy, Illustrator . DC Comics/Vertigo $14.99 (118p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1222-3
Willingham first created a contemporary world inhabited by fairy tale characters in his series, Fables
. He continues that success with Sturges, who co-writes this recent spinoff. A new story line further develops Jack Horner's escapades in...
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Matthew Sturges, Author . Pyr $15.98 (345p) ISBN 978-1-59102-734-8
Comic book writer Sturges (Jack of Fables
) makes an impressive debut with this superb low fantasy. During the titular cold season, the imprisoned soldier Mauritane is offered the opportunity to earn his freedom if he undertakes a risky mission for...
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Matthew Sturges, Author Pyr 16 (424p) ISBN 978-1-61614-202-5
If 2009’s Midwinter was the Dirty Dozen in Elfland, this thrilling sequel is Magical Mission Impossible. Former lothario Silverdun becomes a priest, but finds himself bored. When his government recruits him as a spy, he takes the offer and is...
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Matthew Sturges, Author, Bill Willingham, Author, Luca Rossi, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $9.99 (122p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2079-2
A pirate, a poet, a bartender and a drama queen are trapped in a bar. No, that’s not a joke, that’s the classic DC horror anthology House of Mystery
, newly brought back by Vertigo. House of Mystery
has a history going back to 1951, but
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Judd Winick, Matthew Sturges, and Sami Basri. DC, $19.99 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3365-5
Created in 1976 as an alternate world version of Supergirl, Karen “Power Girl” Starr has long been the victim of ever changing continuity, with her origin, character, and abilities altered to suit the passing whims of editors. In this volume, this...
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