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Preview: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Omnibus

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Omnibus

Writers: Scott Tipton, David Tipton, Mike Chen
Art: Greg Scott and Angel Hernandez

Two graphic novels that let fans of the classic Star Trek series dive deeper into the world of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!

Don’t miss out on these exclusive “lost episodes” celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fan-favorite show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!

An extremely rare purebred corgi from Earth makes its way aboard Deep Space 9 when Quark cuts a deal to procure it for a high buyer. However, all plans are upended when a crew member discovers a Borg component on the pup! 

After this, return to DS9 as death casts its shadow on the station in this space noir! With a murderer on the loose, the inhabitants of Deep Space 9 start to divide into factions, made even worse when the Ferengi government gets involved! 

Collects the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine miniseries Too Long a Sacrifice and The Dog of War plus the short stories “Latinum Glove,” “Mother’s Walk,” “Frontier Doctor,” “Only You Can Save Yourself,” and “The First Year.” 

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Omnibus

Deadweights #1 delivers some humor and heart

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Deadweights #1

Is this another exciting new superhero universe? No-just a buddy comedy about two unlucky henchmen trying to make their way in the world! Deadweights takes a hard look at what happens after the fight when the villains are tired of being villains, and the heroes aren’t as heroic as they want you to think. Deadweights #1 delivers a concept we’ve seen before but also gives us something new.

Written by Tyrone Finch, we’re introduced to two henchmen who have had their butts recently handed to them. On a dysfunctional supervillain team, the two are fired and from there their journey begins. A story focused on “loser” henchmen isn’t anything new. But, Finch with Deadweights #1, gives us one where there’s some emotion. Where Finch’s comic stands out is that the two individuals really reflect on their lives and what they’ve done. You get a sense they actually mean it and might want to reform. But, of course things don’t go the way they planned and the ending leaves things up in the air as to where this series will go.

Deadweights #1 also has the individuals facing the fallout of their actions. They get to see the destruction they’ve caused and you get a sense they might really feel guilty about it. But, Finch also throws some questions in the air at the end making the reader question if they’re the only ones who are to blame.

The art by Sebastian Piriz is solid. With lettering by Rob Steen, the villains and heroes look a bit unique and unusual. There’s also a solid grounding of the comic as our two henchmen face their future while they try to get some clothes and the destruction they caused. Piriz’s art balances the mundane with the fantastical and makes it all work.

With this being and AHOY comic, there are two prose stories within. The first by Stuart Moore with art by Greg Scott and the second by Johanna B. Stumpf with art by Lea Seidman are entertaining and add a bit more to a comic that should be bought for the main story alone. It’s a nice “bonus” that delivers some more value to it all.

Deadweights #1 is an entertaining start with a familiar concept but different enough to stand out. The ending really leaves things in the air as to where it’ll all go from here but based on this debut, it’ll be an interesting direction. Not your typical “spandex” comic, it’s one to definitely check out.

Story: Tyrone Finch, Stuart Moore, Johanna B. Stumpf Art: Sebastian Piriz, Greg Scott, Lea Seidman
Color: Sebastian Piriz Letterer: Rob Steen
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.0 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation: Buy

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Storm King’s latest John Carpenter’s Night Terrors premiers at San Diego Comic-Con

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Storm King Comics announces Usher Down, the latest volume in the popular anthology series John Carpenter’s Night Terrors, a chilling ghost story set in perhaps history’s most fabled haunted house.

Written by Alex Van Helsing author Jason Henderson and illustrated by artist Greg Scott, with colors by Felipe Sobreiro and letters by Eisner and Harvey nominated letterer Ed Dukeshire, Usher Down kicks off the 2023 slate of the John Carpenter’s Night Terrors imprint. The release coincides with the 10th anniversary celebration of Storm King Comics, founded by producing legend Sandy King Carpenter, with multiple activations planned at this year’s Comic-Con International. 

A young psychic joins a government expedition to explore the most legendary haunted house of all time, the fabled House of Usher. The house is real, frozen in time below ground-but what the explorers find there is demonic, alive, and may well have called them for its own dark purposes. Writer Jason Henderson along with artist Greg Scott and colorist Felipe Sobreiro take you underground in Usher Down, the seventh story in Storm King Comics’ anthology series, John Carpenter’s Night Terrors.

Usher Down will be available on July 12, 2023 in comic shops and digitally online through GlobalComix. Copies will ship from Amazon, and become available in bookstores on July 25 .

John Carpenter’s Night Terrors Usher Down

Preview: The Wrong Earth: Meat #1

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The Wrong Earth: Meat #1

(W) Tom Peyer
(A) Greg Scott
Cover A: Jamal Igle
Cover B: Bill Morrison
Cover C: Gene Ha
July 27, 2022
$4.99

The multi-Earth event concludes in a special written by WRONG EARTH cocreator Tom Peyer! On Earth-Alpha, have Dragonflyman and Stinger met their match in Dr. Meat? Can Stinger’s nightmare all be a bad dream? Meanwhile, on Earth-Omega, Dragonfly meets someone he can talk to and help out in a time of need – for both of them.

All five WRONG EARTH specials feature covers by co-creator Jamal Igle and a special incentive cover by legendary artist Gene Ha (Top Ten, Mae). This issue also features a second incentive cover by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons).

The Wrong Earth: Meat #1

The Wrong Earth Expands with a Special Event Featuring Gail Simone, Mark Waid, Mark Russell, Stuart Moore, and more!

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Bestselling writers Gail Simone and Mark Waid are joining AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer, Second Coming writer Mark Russell, and Captain Ginger writer Stuart Moore to write world-shattering, money-grabbing, stand-alone The Wrong Earth specials. These comics will feature art by Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani, Michael Montenat, Fred Harper, Leonard Kirk, and Greg Scott, with covers by The Wrong Earth co-creator and artist Jamal Igle. Each special will have a variant cover by Gene Ha; there will also be  variant covers by Dan Parent, Jerry Ordway, and other artists. The multiverse-spanning monthly event will begin in March with the release of The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1, written by Gail Simone, with art by Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani, and Rob Lean, with colors by Andy Troy, and lettering by Rob Steen. 

Each of The Wrong Earth world-shattering special event one-shots will present a stand-alone, 25-page story that expands on the multiverse first introduced in AHOY Comics’ flagship title by Peyer and Igle, wherein the campy Dragonflyman of Earth Alpha switched places with the gritty Dragonfly of Earth Omega and chaos ensued.

The first issue to hit stores, The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1, finds grim-and-gritty vigilante Dragonfly whisked to an Earth of teenagers, malt shops, love triangles, and nonstop jokes. Will they win him over—or will his violent methods infect their world? The issue is illustrated by Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani, and Rob Lean, with colors by Andy Troy, and lettering by Rob Steen. The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1 will feature variant covers by both Gene Ha and Dan Parent. The issue marks the AHOY Comics debut of legendary writer Gail Simone.

The Wrong Earth world-shattering special event continues in subsequent months with:

  • The Wrong Earth: Fame & Fortune #1 from writer Mark Russell, artist Michael Montenat, colorist Andy Troy, and letterer Rob Steen. On sale in April, this comic from the writer of Billionaire Island provides a satirical look at two different versions of Richard Fame and how, despite the best and worst intentions, huge gobs of money determine their own results. 
  • The Wrong Earth: Purple #1 from writer Stuart Moore, artist Fred Harper, and letterer Rob Steen. On sale in May, this one-shot introduces Earth-Kappa, a dark but glossy world of big hair, shoulder pads, Wall Street traders, rubber super-suits, and funk music. Get the funk up! 
  • The Wrong Earth: Confidence Men #1 by writer Mark Waid, artist Leonard Kirk, and letterer Rob Steen. On sale in June, it’s the tale of two sidekicks! On campy Earth-Alpha, circumstances force kid sidekick Stinger to become Dragonflyman’s mentor! On gritty Earth-Omega, Dragonfly and Stinger go to war—against each other! 
  • The Wrong Earth: Meat #1 from writer Tom Peyer, artist Greg Scott, and letterer Rob Steen, on sale in July. On campy Earth-Alpha, Dragonflyman and Stinger follow clues to foil the beef-themed crimes of Dr. Meat. On gritty Earth Omega, a tragedy compels Dragonfly to imprison a criminal in an abandoned slaughterhouse—just to have someone to talk to. 

The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1, will debut on March 2.

Preview: Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Death #3

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EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF DEATH #3

(W) Tom Peyer, Bryce Abood
(A) Greg Scott, Rick Geary
(C) Richard Williams
December 15, 2021
$4.99

It’s MONSTER MONTH in the world’s weirdest horror/humor anthology! Who is killing the classic creatures? Find out in “Edgar Allan Poe’s Gore of Frankenstein!” How stupid were 19th century doctors? Learn the giant, bloodsucking answer in “Annabel’s Leech!” Plus: prose, pix, post, and possibly poetry!

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF DEATH #3

Preview: Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Death #2

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EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF DEATH #2

(W) Dean Motter, Holly Interlandi
(A) Dean Motter, Greg Scott
(C) Richard Williams
November 10, 2021
$4.99

An automaton equipped to defeat an educated human in the game of chess? Preposterous! Poe himself undertakes to pierce the mechanical mystery in “Chess Player.” Plus! An ostensibly helpful bit of software tries to dominate a writer’s creative process in “Angle of the Odd.” Our special “Dread-of Devices” issue closes out with prose stories and a poem.

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF DEATH #2

Preview: Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #6

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #6

(W) Tom Peyer, Robert Jeschonek
(A) Alan Robinson, Greg Scott
(C) Alan Robinson
March 31, 2021
$4.99

“MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH”: The 1% think a pandemic is no threat to them in a ridiculously far-fetched tale by Tom Peyer and artist Alan Robinson. “BON BON”: Poe’s real-life rival Rufus W. Griswold has an ill-advised spat with the Devil. PLUS: Prose fiction, beautifully illustrated in the mighty AHOY manner!

Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Blood #6

Preview: Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #5

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EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF BLOOD #5

(W) Paul Cornell, Kek-w
(A) Greg Scott, Alberto Ponticelli
(C) Alan Robinson
February 24, 2021
$4.99

Sherlock Holmes returns to investigate murders from two Poe stories, but things get confusing in “The Adventure of the Three Narrators” by Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) and Greg Scott (HIGH HEAVEN). Plus! A sea calamity yields absurd surprises in Poe’s “Ms Found in a Bottle” by Kek-w (2000 AD) and Alberto Ponticelli (BRONZE AGE BOOGIE)!

Plus the usual AHOY illustrated prose stories.

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SNIFTER OF BLOOD #5

Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice

Rene Auberjonois was one of those actors whose calming voice, steady demeanor, and gravitas made him both inscrutable and mesmeric. I remember watching him as a child on the all time classic, Benson. Looking back now, his character of Clayton, was the Squidworth (Spongebob Squarepants)of that show. He would go on to portray even more memorable characters throughout the rest of his years.

One of my favorite characters that he brought to the screen and much more deserving of his talents was Constable Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His keen eye and sharp mind made for a memorable performance as the lone lawman on this classic iteration of Star Trek. The show pushed on the actors’ strengths, even more so with Auberjonois’s talents. In Constable Odo’s solo adventure he uncovers a mystery. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice, the character unravels his own Murder on the Orient Express aboard the space station.

We open on Garak and Bashir having lunch, when suddenly a bomb goes off in Lavin’s Eatery, leading Odo to arrive on deck, to investigate. Eight dead bodies are found, leading Odo to question everything, even pondering the possibility that Quark may be a suspect and finding a clue in Rodinum darts. Sisko handles the diplomatic fallout, which pushes Odo to find the truth that much more integral. Everyone on board including Worf has their own suspicions about who is at the center of this deadly massacre, but what doesn’t help, is the consistent accumulation of dead bodies, even those who were suspects. Eventually, he gets help in the form of Inspector Retlaw, of Federation Security, who is also a Betazoid, making him an empath, leading to someone who was seen putting together an arms deal, just days before, Vedek Teler. By book’s end, remnants of past hostilities and avarice of others haunt the guilty party, and Odo to both be empathetic yet firm in his decision to arrest them.

Overall, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Too Long a Sacrifice is a searing crime noir that is only upended by its setting, and its excellent characterization. The story by the Tiptons is superb. The art by the creative team is alluring. Altogether, a story that brings us back to the space station, in this fun murder mystery.

Story: David Tipton and Scott Tipton Art: Greg Scott, Ricardo Drumond, Felipe Sobreiro, and Neil Uyetake
Story: 9.5 Art: 9.4 Overall: 9.7 Recommendation: Buy

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