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Dark Horse’s Exclusive Emerald City Comicon Variants!

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Convention season has begun and up next is Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon, Dark Horse has announced not one, not two, not even three, but four variant covers for this year’s show!

The first few months of 2014 will see some of Dark Horse’s biggest launches of the year, and we have chosen to celebrate with Emerald City variants for Serenity #1, Buffy #1, Veil #1, and a very special variant of Witcher #1.

First up is Veil, the much-talked-about new, original series by Greg Rucka and Toni Fejzula. For this year’s show, Dark Horse has tapped J. H. Williams III to create the variant cover. Limited to 500 copies, Veil #1 is sure to go quickly, especially with writer Greg Rucka in attendance!

Next, we have the hotly anticipated Season 10 premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with a variant coverby Season 9cover artist Phil Noto, limited to 1,000 copies. Look for interior artist Rebekah Isaacs at this year’s show!

Another one for Joss Whedon fans: Dark Horse brings Jenny Frison on for a special cover of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #1, featuring none other than the lovely Inara! A few lucky fans may even get actress Morena Baccarin herself to sign their copies!

Last, and certainly not least, legendary artist Stan Sakai has done a special cover of the upcoming tie-in series The Witcher,a canonical entry in the world of the Witcher video games, which have collectively won over 250 awards and sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide! All proceeds from the sale of this limited edition variant will benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai. Stan will be attending the show, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark series, Usagi Yojimbo!

Each variant-cover issue will cost five dollars and will be limited to ten copies per person, per day! A set quantity will be available at the show opening each day.

Emerald City Comicon is this weekend in Seattle, WA, on March 28–30!

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Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here! Yay! Who plans to see the new 300 this weekend?

Around the Tubes

Wizkids – WizKids Games Presents A Closer Look at the New Marvel Dice Masters! – Hmmm.

Kotaku – The villainous Darkseid joins the roster of Injustice: Gods Among Us mobile – Cool.

Kotaku – Disney Lays Off 700 Employees – Booooo!

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comic Vine – Batman/Superman Annual #1

CBR – Magneto #1

Talking Comics – Moon Knight #1

Bleeding Cool – Starlight #1

Comic Vine – Uncanny X-Men #18

Comic Vine – Veil #1

Comic Vine – Velvet #4

The Beat – Marvel’s got backstory in New Batch of #1s (Moon Knight, Magneto, Wolverine & The X-Men)

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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BOOM_Evil_Empire_001_AIt’s a new week of comics and there’s a lot to choose from. Some of the Graphic Policy staff has put our heads together to pick some books we think you’d be doing yourself a favor in checking out. For this week I looked and Andrew’s choices and decided to not double up (I’d of picked a few of his) that way we’re giving you the skinny on a whole bunch of books so you have the best idea of what to check out!

Andrew

Top Pick: Moon Knight #1 (Marvel) – I’ve been looking forward to this number one issue since Marvel first announced it. Though it’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a Moon Knight book, he was one of my favorite characters growing up, so I hope it meets expectations.

Afterlife with Archie #4 (Archie) – I’m pretty confident this is unanimously revered by the team at Graphic Policy headquarters. I’m still blown away that Archie comics took the chance on a mature, violent, and dark Archie series. Exceptional.

Lobster Johnson Get the Lobster #2 (Dark Horse) – I was slightly disappointed with the previous issue (not enough Lobster), but this one redeems the entire series with a possible origin story, which LJ fans have yet to see.

Veil #1 (Dark Horse) – Greg Rucka’s new woman-wakes-up-nude-in-subway-with-powers series looks trippy…and good.

Trade Paperback/Graphic Novel: TMNT Villains Microseries TP Vol. 2 (IDW) – I’ve been on a mutant ninja turtles bender the last couple weeks, so this is a must read for me. It’s the second compilation of villain origin stories, and this one includes Shredder…yes please.

Brett

Top Pick: Evil Empire #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Max Bemis’ new series from BOOM! that takes us through a society as it crumbles. It’s a fascinating story that I was so excited about, I made sure I could interview Max about it.

Rogue Trooper #1 (IDW Publishing) – The classic series is back courtesy of IDW!

She-Hulk #2 (Marvel) – I loved the first issue written by Charles Soule that perfectly mixed humor, law and superheroing.

Starlight #1 (Image Comics) – Mark Millar’s new series that pays homage to Flash Gordan.

Wild Blue Yonder #4 (IDW Publishing) – It’s been a while since the third issue, but that hasn’t made my anticipation diminish for this series that’s fun, and beautiful to look at.

Trade Paperback/Graphic Novel: X-Men: Days of Future Past (Marvel) – Catch the classic tale before the summer movie!

NYCC 2013: Greg Rucka Comes to Dark Horse!

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Announced at the Dark Horse horror panel at New York Comic Con, Greg Rucka will be bringing his latest heroine to Dark Horse in the new series Veil!

The story opens when a beautiful girl wakes up in an abandoned subway station with no memory of how she got there. When men try to hurt her . . . they wind up dead. Where did she come from? And what is she capable of?

This new series, drawn by Toni Fejzula, comes as the perfect addition to a heroine lineup that includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ghost, and Serenity’s River Tam. Dark Horse is proud to introduce comics’ next leading lady!

“I’ve been tossing the idea behind Veil around for over a decade, seriously, but it wasn’t until Scott Allie pulled the string on it that it came to life,” said writer Greg Rucka. “It’s a very different kind of tale for me, very different in what I’m trying to accomplish, and working with Dark Horse, working with Toni, is a rare opportunity to try to bring this thing to life. The opportunity Dark Horse is providing us is amazing.”

“There are a lot of characters in comics that are very dangerous, and a lot that bring danger with them wherever they go. Veil gives that concept a whole new and very deadly meaning,” said Dark Horse’s editor in chief, Scott Allie. “I don’t know if I can classify her as an antihero. But she’s a character that’s going to surprise you in a lot of ways. Greg does gritty urban drama like no one else, and here he’s adding to it some things you’ve never seen from him before.”

The first part of this brand-new five-issue story by multiple Eisner Award winner Greg Rucka arrives on sale March 5, 2014.

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