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Digital Delights: Dark Horse Deals, Free Pizza And Beer, And Good Comics

A DELIGHT OF A DEAL

Dark Horse are putting out a Dark Horse Megabundle, 25 issues of the new Dark Horse Presents, an $8 comic, for $40 the set, including work from Mike Mignola, Brian Wood, Steve Niles, Carla Speed McNeil, Francesco Francavilla and… hmmm… me. My three parter, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne with Simon Rohrmuller. And you're getting the lot for a fifth of the print cover price. 80% off. Bargain.

Dark Horse are also launching their digital collection of graphic novels on the iBook Store.

STUDIO FIRE

Man cannot live by digital alone, which is why the Madefire studio are opening their doors for free beer, pizza, and good times with Bill Sienkiewicz and Liam Sharp to celebrate the new Sherlock Holmes Madefire digital comic they are creating. Tomorrow evening at 805 Folger Ave., Berkeley, California 94710.

KICKSTARTER DELIGHT

Dave Wachter and Jim Clark started their comic "The Guns of Shadow Valley" five years ago, which launched as a webcomic instead in 2009. Now, after Eisner and Harvey nominations, they are using Kickstarter to get into print as an oversized hardcover.

"If you can imagine 'X-Men meets The Magnificent Seven', then you have a good idea of The Guns of Shadow Valley and its theme," said Clark.

The team were aiming for $24,000. They currently have over $30,000 with 19 days to go.

I believe the appropriate phrase is "yee hah!"

YOU WILL SUBMIT

ComiXology are launching Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD apps across Europe now. Which is nice. But also, here are a batch of new books being published by ComiXology Submit – look to find something a little different.

BONE MACHINE #1
Written By Diego Cortes
Drawn By Nicolas Brondo
Pages: 23, SRP: $1.99

Distant future. Bone Machine, the bone shaman, the hunter of books, travels through the former desert of a devastated America, where human society has disappeared. There aren't big metropolis anymore, humans live in tribes that wander in the desert, feeding from whatever they find in their way.

Broken #1
Written By Mark Bertolini
Drawn By Allen Byrns
Pages: 27, SRP: $0.99

Broken is the story of Quinn Baker, orphaned by violence at a young age. After his parents are murdered in a seedy back alley, Quinn is taken in by a career criminal and mob enforcer named Big Mike, who teaches him the survival skills necessary to live in the criminal underworld. As he gets older, growing up in the shadow of Big Mike and his criminal lifestyle, Quinn begins to put together a plan of his own. What Big Mike doesn't know can most definitely hurt him.

Clown Fight!
Written By Robert Harrington
Drawn By Ger Curti
Pages: 13, SRP: $0.99

A Tex Avery infused fight to the finish… with clowns! Clowns! Fight!

The Fez #1
Written & Drawn By Roger Langridge
Pages: 12, SRP: $0.99

Twelve-page minicomic in digital format, featuring three complete stories by Harvey and Eisner-winning cartoonist Roger Langridge.

Gary: Book One
Written & Drawn By Tyrell Cannon
Pages: 47, SRP: $2.99

Gary is a journey through the memories of one of the world's most notorious serial killers. Over the span of 20 years, Gary murdered over 50 women until being arrested in 2001. But Gary was not simply a killer. He was a husband, co-worker, and father, with memories reflecting every part of his life. As a society, we often find solace in labeling a murderer like Gary as a monster or demon. However, you may find it difficult to define Gary so simply when considering the full gamut of his memories. Book one of three

Introducing The New RED HOT! #1
Written By Mike Luoma
Drawn By Rhys ap Gwyn
Pages: 26, SRP: $0.99

How do you prove you're a hero? Red Hot stakes out a bank when he's tipped it's supposed to be robbed. The robber is the last person Red Hot expects – then they turn the tables – leaving Red Hot to take the blame!

Light & Shadow
Written & Drawn By Jesus Vignolli Brothers
Pages: 16, SRP: $0.99

A Demigod lives alone on his planet along with fungi he believes he must protect. The moment he discovers the love of his life could be living in his shadow, he decides to do everything to find her. But is it possible for Light to meet Darkness?

Love Is A Burning Thing
Written By Gray Gunter
Drawn By Brent Peeples
Pages: 52, SRP: $0.99

A story of love, heartbreak and payback (and super soldiers and international terrorists and there's kind of a death ray).

Planet of Women #1
Written By Christopher Jon Rizzo
Drawn By Daniel Wolff
Pages: 28, SRP: $2.99

Planet of Women is a six-part graphic series from Dark Ink Pictures, writer Christopher Rizzo, artist Dan Wolff, and letterer Sarah Hoppes. The year is 2212. Famed pilot Ace Berkley and brilliant engineer Darren Arthur are dispatched to Colony 7, racing against time in a desperate attempt to rescue hundreds of air-deprived colonists. Despite his tremendous skill in the cockpit, Ace inadvertently steers into a vortex and is slung across the galaxy, crash landing on a bizarre and mysterious planet.

Table for One
Written & Drawn By Bosch Fawstin
Pages: 85, SRP: $4.99

It's one hell of a night in an underground restaurant in Manhattan. William Howland's boss bet against him lasting a year as a waiter under him. It's pay-up time. But on this night, Will's code to treat all as they deserve doesn't serve anyone well, and he might not even last the night. And then she walks in…

Tales from the Void #1
Written By Darrin O'Toole
Drawn By A Kaviraj, Vasco Sobral
Pages: 26, SRP: $3.99

The critically acclaimed pulp sci-fi book by Darrin O'Toole and A. Kaviraj.5 tales in the style of "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone". Great retro style fun with a dark side!

The Red Ten #3
Written By Tyler James
Drawn By Cesar Feliciano
Pages: 34, SRP: $1.99

And then there were eight…Fear mounts after a second shocking death suggests that THE ALLIANCE are not alone on the island. Was this the Oxymoron's brilliant plan all along…or is something even more sinister afoot? Another hero falls, and more shocking revelations in this pivotal third issue.

The Uncanny #1
Written & Drawn By William Hodge
Pages: 27, SRP: $0.99

In the St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Truly Exceptional, a young lady hasn't been able to sleep for the past 7 years. Her imaginary friend "Gno" visits her every night telling her fantastic stories about the fall of the world, Oracles and The Uncanny. But now she starts to wonder if these stories are true when a character from Gno's stories is admitted to St. E's. The new mythology starts here.

Think of the Children
Written By Christian Sager
Drawn By EC Steiner
Pages: 28, SRP: $0.99

COMICS MAKE KIDS EVIL! That's a fact. Or at least it was in 1954, when the United States Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency convened. As a result of these hearings, comic book publishers feared government regulation and formed their own self-regulatory body that created the Comics Code Authority, bowdlerizing comics of everything from violence to divorce. For 57 years this code affected comics publishing in one form or another. In late January of 2011, DC Comics and Archie Comics (the last surviving members of the original pact) both decided to drop the Comics Code from their products. Comics are free to make kids evil again and the world will never be the same. THINK OF THE CHILDREN is a 24-page, one-shot, satirical horror comic about the events leading to the original Comics Code Authority. The members of the Senate Subcommittee are secret monster hunters, seeking to destroy evil children, who they believe are corrupted by the stories of EC Comics.

Tyranny of The Muse #1
Written By Eddie Wright
Drawn By Jesse Balmer
Pages: 52, SRP: $0.99

Frank Fisher is nothing. He wants to be something. When bonnie, a mysterious, chain-smoking "muse," offers assistance by injecting seeds of inspiration directly into his brain through a festering wound, his world is changed forever. In Tyranny of the Muse, the couple find themselves on a twisted path littered with addiction, self-loathing, fear and surreal romance. Through it all, they rely only on each other as they endlessly search for the endlessly elusive "somethingness."

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