Cool New Small Press Titles in April

Cavewoman: Extinction - Story by: Rob Durham
Art by: Rob Durham
Publisher: Basement Comics
Cover Price: $3.75
Product Code: FEB100724

While exploring an immense cavern just on the other side of the town limits, four kids accidentally destroy the egg of one of the cave's deadliest inhabitants. Blindly fleeing from certain death, three manage to escape without harm but one is left behind in the panic to face the wrath of the enraged creature alone! The three that got away look to the only person who can help - Cavewoman!

Hack/Slash and Mercy Sparx: A Slice of Hell - Story by: Josh Blaylock
Art by: Joe Song
Cover by: Tim Seeley; Matt Merhoff
Publisher: Devil's Due Publishing
Cover Price: $5.99
Product Code: FEB100798/FEB100799

Angels and Demons, Slashers and Killers - discerning them can all get so confusing. What happens when Mercy and Hank need the relic of a slasher on Cassie and Vlad’s hit list? Even worse, when the slasher wants it back? It’s a fun violent romp that brings DDP’s sexiest seductresses together for the first time.

Kill Shakespeare #1 - Story by: Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col
Art by: Andy Belanger
Covers by: Kagan McLeod; Andy Belanger
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Cover Price: $3.99
Product Code: FEB100959

What Fables does for fairy tales, Kill Shakespeare does with the greatest writer of all time. This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare. This debut— featuring a full 32-page story—will change the way you look at Shakespeare forever.

The Light #1 - Story by: Nathan Edmondson
Art by: Brett Weldele
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Product Code: FEB100336

In Oregon, a mysterious virus infects anyone that looks into an electric light. The few survivors include a father escaping town with his blindfolded daughter as the infected burn alive from the inside out. A fierce, action-packed and gritty tale of survival, THE LIGHT is 28 DAYS LATER meets 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.

Pilot Season: Hardcore #1 - Story by: Robert Kirkman
Art by: Brian Stelfreeze
Cover by: Marc Silvestri
Publisher: Top Cow/Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Product Code: FEB100414

Once the hard core is shot into the back of your neck, an assassin’s brain waves can be transmitted into your body–circumventing your brain functions–taking complete control of your body. When assassins use this technology–your killer can be anyone; your barber, your neighbor or your wife. They are the best assassins in the world–but what happens when one of their own turns against them? Who can you trust when your enemy can change his appearance as easy as someone changes a shirt?

Splatterman - Story by: Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray
Art by: Giancarlo Caracuzzo and Paul Mounts
Letters by: Bill Tortolini
Cover by: Tim Bradstreet
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $6.99
Product Code: FEB100351

SPLATTERMAN is the blood soaked story of two comic creators and their ultimate horror character creation gone very bad. After receiving the publishing deal they've long sought after, they soon find a strong enough imagination can be twisted for chilling purposes. For this done-in-one graphic novella that truly lives up to its title, Palmiotti, Gray and Caracuzzo are joined by WANTED's Paul Mounts, letterer Bill Tortolini and famed cover artist Tim Bradstreet.

Voyages of the She-Buccaneer: Origins #1 - Story by: Will Hughes and Heidi Hughes
Art by: Will Hughes and Heidi hughes
Publisher: Great Big Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Product Code: FEB100929

The Lusty Lady of the Deep Blue Sea returns for a fanciful retelling of her origins which includes real pirates like Blackbeard, Ann Bonney, Mary Read, Calico Jack Rackham, and Charles Vane. Her three-part origin story is firmly set in a historical context and seasoned by the rambling memories of a drunken pirate narrator, with romance and epic pirate adveture upon the high seas. And if that isn't enough, there's her first session with evil Governer William Truk's sadistic torture rack.