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Cover Cover by Rob Prior

8 dossier by S.C. Ringgenberg

11 gallery on James Wolf Strehle

16 tarot cards by Julie Bell and David Palumbo

20 forms of death Story by Alessio Landi, Art by Luca Claretti

29 requiem #9: Pirate City by Pat Mills, Olivier Ledroit, and Jacques Collin

56 strain by Ibai Canales

64 dreamfall by Damascus Mincemeyer

69 riders Story by Rita Gorgoni, Art by Stefano Cardosellio

80 awakening By R.G. Llarena, Milton Sobreiro and Felipe Sobreiro

90 RPNZL overdrive by Kristian Navant

93 CAVEMAN by Tayyar Ozkan

119 Artist Studio on Ted Hammond

STAFF publisher & editor-in-chief vice president/executive director HOWARD JUROFSKY managing editor debra yanover customer service manager Fiona Russell designers Andrij borys ASSOCIATES assistant to publisher Pam Arvanetes l Guerra, Eyquem, Migue Jerome translators acinthe LeClerc l Giordani, & J Revelation: Uncle Paul’s Wonderful Glasses Michae . web development Right Angl©e SEFAM, Inc / Albin Michel BD, 1999, Autheman Glam & johnComet: Next! martin © SEFAM / Albinwarehouse Michel BD,manager Riff & Abuli, 2005 The First Time © SEFAM, Mezzo & Pirus, 2005

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Runner, a pair of stories of ’s Bidding a Fond Farewell Epic, an 8-page story written by for Dark Horse Presents, and an 8 pager for Mark Wheatley entitled to the Emperor of Barsoom “Tracker” that only appeared in the book Adventures. However, once Al Williamson R.I.P. Al was finished with the strip, he mostly concentrated on comic book inking (March 21, 1931– June 12, 2010) to pay the bills. Since Al preferred to pencil and ink his comic book artwork himself, antasy art and comics fans have been out on this treasure were able to read the it was simply too time-consuming for this dealt a terrible blow this year with the same strips, reformatted as comic book pages finicky craftsman to make a living drawing Fdeath of Al Williamson. Anyone who in Dark Horse’s title, a for comic books. Al started at DC, inking loves great illustration should celebrate the life 20-issue miniseries that boasted new cover over , and doing an and accomplishments of one of the most tal- art by Williamson and such younger aco- 8-page story for Superman #400, then after ented guys who ever put pen to paper. Al was lytes as Mark Schultz and Tom Yeates. Not a couple of years, had a falling-out with also one of the nicest people who ever worked only did Al lend Dark Horse his artwork, he the company, and moved over to Marvel, in the comics industry, a friendly, wickedly also added new artwork where the existing where he spent the rest of his career inking funny, and enthusiastic fellow. I never met panels didn’t fit the comic book format. All art, occasionally taking a break by anyone who knew Al who didn’t like him. in all, he probably did as much, or more, drawing and inking a story on his own. Al Al was not just a great guy, though. He was Star Wars artwork as he did was so skilled at inking other people’s work also one of the best artists who ever worked drawings, even if you take into account the that he was voted best 7 times at the in comics. He began working professionally original 60’s Flash Gordon comics he drew, Harvey Awards, and won 2 Eisner awards for in his late teens, penciling a trio of Tarzan the 1980’s adaptation of the Flash Gordon the same work. Sunday pages for the great . film he drew for Publishing, and the Unfortunately, Al’s last decade of life was

From there, Al was off and running, doing final two-issue Flash Gordon miniseries he plagued by Alzheimer’s and little by little this Artwork mild supernatural stories for ACG, westerns did for Marvel in the 1990’s. His final pub- talented, funny, intelligent, and kindly soul for Toby (sharing art chores with Frank lished Flash Gordon artwork was penciling slipped away and finally went to that big bull- © The Estate of Al Williamson Frazetta), and real-life adventures for Heroic a Sunday page for Jim Keefe, who was doing pen in the sky in the summer of 2010. Al is Comics. He eventually wound up at EC the Flash Gordon strip at the time. survived by his lovely wife Cori, his daughter Comics in 1952, where he created legendary Following his work on the Star Wars news- Valerie, and his son Victor. Let’s hope that Al science fiction, shock, and horror stories, paper strip, Al did a few other projects that Williamson is having some kind of Fleagles often in collaboration with his friends Roy he penciled and inked, notably an adapta- reunion with old friends Frazetta, Krenkel, Krenkel, and . tion of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade George Evans (an EC colleague and his suc- As he matured and sharpened his artistic skills on strips like Flash Gordon, , , Dan Flagg, and Secret Agent X-9, he grew into a fine illustrator who could draw anything with skill, verve, and unri- valed visual panache. Appropriately enough, Al got to work on three characters created by his idol, the great . He ghosted art chores on the Flash Gordon newspaper strip in the 50’s, drew Flash in comic books three times, spent several years assisting John Prentice on the Rip Kirby daily strip, and drew Secret Agent X-9 for 13 years. After leaving the X-9 strip in 1980, Al moved on to draw the Star Wars daily and Sunday page, from 1981 through 1984, again assisted by able sideman Archie Goodwin. Al also drew the official comics adaptations of both and and issue #98 of the regular Star Wars title. In 1991, , the pub- lisher of the Complete EC Library, collected all of Williamson and Goodwin’s Star Wars strips in a slip-cased three-volume set that’s now a prized collector’s item because of its low print run. Fortunately, fans that missed

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PAT MILLS

OLIVIER LEDROIT

JACQUES COLLIN

HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 29 11/16/10 2:25 PM WASHINGTON. MAY 1ST 1972.

WHO ARE WE GUARDING THE DIRECTOR AGAINST, AL? THE MOB? THE COMMIES? HIPPIES? THE BLACK PANTHERS? SOMEONE A WHOLE LOT WORSE, KID.

WORSE...? JEEZ! IS THAT WHY WE’VE BEEN ISSUED WITH JUST KEEP ‘EM SPECIAL AMMO, AL? PEELED.

AND GET A HAIRCUT TOMORROW- YOU ASK TOO YOU LOOK LIKE A HIPPIE. MANY QUESTIONS, MR. HOOVER EXPECTS HIS AGENTS KID. TO LOOK CLEAN AND RESPECTABLE.

WE THINK THE 1960’S, MR. PRESIDENT. THAT’S AS YOU KNOW, MR. PRESIDENT, WHEN THE RIOT SET IN AMONGST OUR YOUTH. WE HAD A TRUCE: THEY STICK TO WHEN THE MORAL DECAY BEGAN. THEIR WORLD; WE STICK TO OURS. NOW THEY’VE BROKEN IT. THEY’RE SENDING IN MISSIONARIES FROM I HAVE CLEAR EVIDENCE RESURRECTION. THEY’RE RESPONSIBLE.

CHRIST! WHEN DID THAT START?

SHIT! THE SONS OF BITCHES! 30 HEAVY METAL HEAVY METAL 31

HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 30 11/16/10 2:25 PM I WANT YOU TO CHOP THE BASTARDS OFF RIGHT AT THE NECK, WHO THE HELL GAVE I WANT YOU TO TAKE EDDIE! THOSE UNDEAD BUMS THE OUT EVERY LAST ONE OF RIGHT TO SPREAD THEIR THOSE BLOODSUCKERS! CRAP HERE?

YOU CAN RELY ON THE FBI, MR. PRESIDENT. MY WELL, I’M NOT GOING I WANT TO SEE A SEARCH AND DESTROY TO ALLOW GODDAMN RETURN TO DIGNITY, AGENTS HAVE WIPED OUT CANNIBALS TO PISS ON DECENCY AND HIGH THREE NESTS IN THE LAST THIS COUNTRY! STANDARDS! MONTH ALONE.

WHEN HE WAS ALIVE COME AND EAT, IN PARTICULAR, IN RUSSIA- YES. ONE EDGAR. IT’S A BAD REGARDING THEIR OF THE NKVD AGENTS BUSINESS, CLYDE. LEADER... ZACHAROV. WHO ORGANIZED THE WORSE THAN YOU HOLODOMOR... THINK.

HE’S THE AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, YOU COMMIE, THE UKRANIAN HOLOCAUST. WON’T BE AWARE OF THE EVIDENCE IN THIS RIGHT? TEN MILLION STARVED TO FILE. DEATH ON THE ORDERS OF STALIN.

THAT MADE HIM A SO WHY NOW, WHAT ARE THEY VAMPIRE HIGH FLYER. EDGAR? WHY DID AFTER? MISSIONARY GENERAL. THEY BREAK THE ORGANIZES NESTS TRUCE? IN UNDERGROUND THEY’RE FOR THE SECOND CAR PARKS AND PREPARING COMING OF BASEMENTS, ESPECIALLY US, CLYDE. DRACULA. ON CAMPUSES.

TOPS MY “MOST THAT, MY DEAR WANTED” LIST: FRIEND, IS IN FOR THE FILES. THE WHAT? INFORMATION THEY CONTAIN IS SO EXPLOSIVE, I ALONE “WANTED DEAD...” MUST RETAIN A COPY. “OR UNDEAD.”

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 31 11/16/10 2:25 PM THAT’S WHAT THE ALL THE BLEEDING BLUE MOON... SOUNDS LIKE KENT STATE YOU LEFT ME YOU’RE DOING SHOOTINGS WERE HEARTS AND LEFT STANDING EVERYTHING YOU ABOUT. WINGERS CALLED ALONE... CAN, EDGAR. ME A GHOUL... THOSE FOUR STUDENTS SHOT DEAD GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

OH, YEAH. I’VE AGENTS AND BUT YOU CANNOT INFORMERS ON RUN A POPULARITY EVERY CAMPUS... CONTEST AND STILL SO WE CAN IDENTIFY BE A SUCCESSFUL DEVIANTS AND MAKE LEADER OF A LAW AN EXAMPLE OF ENFORCEMENT THEM. AGENCY.

THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROADWAY MUSICAL WE GOT TO DEAL I’D BETTER GO. HAIR WAS CELEBRATED ON SATURDAY WITH A FREE WITH THESE CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK. 13 BLACK PANTHER DEGENERATES. GOOD PROTESTORS AND THE SHOW’S CO-AUTHOR, JIM RADO NIGHT, WERE ARRESTED FOR DISTURBING THE PEACE AND EDGAR. MARIJUANA USE.

SEE WHAT I GOOD MEAN? NIGHT, CLYDE.

GOODNIGHT, MR. TOLSON.

GOODNIGHT, MR. TOLSON.

GOOD NIGHT, BOYS.

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 32 11/16/10 2:25 PM HEY, WHAT DO YOU WANT? WE’D LIKE TO YOUR BOOK... AN DRACULA’S SPEAK WITH UPSIDE DOWN CROSS! WITNESSES. RELAX, YOUNG MAN. MR. HOOVER. WE’RE WITNESSES.

I DON’T THINK MR. HOOVER IS SEEING WHAT KIND OF WE’VE COME TO VISITORS TONIGHT. EVEN RELIGIOUS WITNESSES ARE SPREAD THE WORD GENTLEMEN SUCH YOU?! OF THE LORD. AS YOURSELVES.

VAMPIRES!

AAAAHHHH!

FEED, BROTHERS!

HOOVER!

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 33 11/16/10 2:25 PM ZACHAROV! I’VE COME FOR KEEP AWAY FROM ME, YOU! YOU COMMIE BASTARD!

YOU’RE WASTING YOUR TIME. SILVER BULLETS HAVE NO EFFECT ON ME...

IN HELL, THEY WHAT THE HELL? CALL ME LADY HOLODOROR.

YOU WILL BE IMPRESSED BY MY LUST FOR BLOOD.

AM I MEANT TO BE IMPRESSED?

I DO LIKE THE COLOR RED!

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 34 11/16/10 2:25 PM YOU SEE, MY REWARD, IN DEATH, WAS TO BECOME A VAMPIRE.

JUST AS THE UKRANIANS HUNGERED FOR FOOD, NOW I HUNGER FOR BLOOD.

BUT I CAN NEVER BE SATISFIED.

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 35 11/16/10 2:26 PM AEROPHAGIA, CITY OF THE PIRATES. IT IS TIME TO ATTACK THE VAMPIRES’ CITY.

THE VAMPIRES, WITH THEIR OBSESSIVE DEGENERATE THIRST FOR BLOOD, ARE RATS... DIRTY YELLOW RATS... LIKE THE GANGSTERS AND COMMIES AND DEVIANTS I HUNTED AND THANKS TO OUR ON EARTH! FRIENDS IN DYSTOPIA, WE NOW HAVE WEAPONS THEY CANNOT WITHSTAND...

HOLY WATER BULLETS, RELIQUARY GRENADES...

WE WILL STAIN OUR DECKS RED WITH THEIR BLOOD, LADY MITRA.

I DON’T TAKE NO IF THE WE’LL MY DEATH METAL SHIT OFF NO MAN, PIRATES WILL ACCESS NOSFERATU GIVE IT TO PARTICULARLY IF HE’S THEM... ALL AREAS OF SPORTING A PAIR OF WANT NECROPOLIS, MY LADY. FANGS. BLOOD...

THEIR OWN!

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 36 11/16/10 2:26 PM THEY CALL US PIRATES, BUT ONLY THOSE THAT RISK THEIR DEATHS FOR SMALL THINGS ARE PIRATES.

WE SHALL BE CONQUERORS!

AND TAKE OUR PLACE AS THE RIGHTFUL RULERS OF NECROPOLIS!

AND AN ANGELIC MISSILE WITH AN THE EQUIVALENT OF AUTHENTIC SERAPHIM ANTI-MATTER ON INSIDE. RESURRECTION.

THE ULTIMATE WEAPON TO DESTROY DRACULA.

I’VE WAITED ALL MY DEATH FOR THIS CHANCE AND GUNS LOADED TO GET MY REVENGE ON THE VAMPIRES WITH ANGELS TEARS... WHO TOOK MY LIFE.

ROCKETS FILLED WITH THE HEADS OF PRIESTS, SHELLS WITH THE HEADS OF SAINTS... A LITTLE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE SILVER BULLETS I THEN I SHOULD BRING USED ON EARTH. TO YOUR ATTENTION THERE IS A VAMPIRE AMONGST OUR CREWS.

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 37 11/16/10 2:26 PM I AM INFORMED HE IS A MEMBER OF CAPTAIN TRIADE’S KAGA. CREW. YOU CERTAINLY WILL. BRING ME THIS FETCH VAMPIRE. DRAGON.

THAT IS SO.

BUT A VAMPIRE SAMURAI WHOSE LOYALTY TO THE GUILD IS IN NO DOUBT.

YES CAPTAIN. WE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIM.

A VAMPIRE IF HE BETRAYS WHO HAS HIS FELLOW DRAGON IS AN AN OUTSIDER. HE HAS HIS TURNED VAMPIRES, THEN REASONS FOR OTAKU. AGAINST HIS HE COULD ALSO HATING THEM, OWN KIND. BETRAY HIS MY LADY. FELLOW PIRATES.

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HE REFUSES TO SHARE THEM WITH US.

A MAN OF MYSTERY, EH?

OR A VAMPIRE SECRET AGENT?

HIS DECISION TO BE AN OUTSIDER WAS NOT MADE LIGHTLY, MY LADY...

BUT IN THE EAST, SUCH INDIVIDUALISM IS SHAMEFUL AND ALL ARE OBEDIENT TO THEIR CLAN, WARLORD, THEIR NATION.

IN THE WEST, YOU ENCOURAGE FEW HAVE THE INDIVIDUALISM AND RESPECT STRENGTH OF WILL THE “REBEL” AND THE TO BECOME AN “ROGUE WARRIOR”... OTAKU.

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 38 11/16/10 2:26 PM WELL, VAMPIRE... WHAT HA! HA! HA! HA! DO YOU HAVE TO SAY YOU DO NOT FOR YOURSELF? CHALLENGE MY AUTHORITY?

NEVER, MY LADY. THERE ARE THREE THINGS BEYOND MY THERE CANNOT BE TWO CONTROL, LADY MITRA... THE RAPIDS ON SUNS IN THE SKY AND THE LEMURIAN RIVER, THE DICE AT YOU SHINE BRIGHTER I LIKE THIS GUY. GAMBLING AND YOUR DECISION THAN ALL OF US. REGARDING MY FATE.

OR SHOULD I SAY, MASSACRE OF NANKING SO, TOO, DO WHEN DRAGON AND HIS HIS FELLOW FELLOW JAPANESE SOLDIERS CREW SLAUGHTERED 300,00 MEMBERS. CHINESE...

INCLUDING KAGA, MY QUARTER- MASTER.

THEY HAVE FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE IN INCLUDING MANY PAST BUT DRAGON ALONE MY HEROIC FOUGHT IN THE FAMILY. BATTLES. LESS THAN HEROIC BATTLE OF NANKING OF EARTH.

DRAGON’S “CRIMES” WHEN MAIDEN, HOWEVER, WE ARE A GUILD OF HE WAS ALIVE ARE OF NO WOULD YOU PIRATES AND IF YOU FEEL SO INTEREST TO ME, LICHES. DESCRIBE STRONGLY ABOUT HIM, I MUST TAKE LICHES LOOK AS YOUR VIEWS INTO ACCOUNT. METAL?

PARDON? WHAT WAS YOU MAY HAVE EXCEPT THAT YOU THE PLEASURE CONFIRMING HIS SAID, PURPLE? OF DESTROYING STATUS AS A HIM. VAMPIRE.

THANK YOU, MY LADY.

IT WILL BE A GREAT PLEASURE.

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HM0311_P029-P053_Requiem.indd 39 11/16/10 2:26 PM THE ZOMBIES HAVE INVADED THE HERETICS’ ERZEBETH BRIDGE, AND THE CUTTHROATS’ DISTRICTS, THE RATS HAVE CROSSED THE RIVER AT MOUNT NECROPOLIS. RASPOUTIN, AND CRUSHED GENERAL DUNWITCH.

BRAINS... NOW LET MY VENGEANCE BE KNOWN! I WILL DRAG DOWN YOUR THE VLAD BRIDGE SOUL TO AWFUL IS LOST, GENERAL. TORMENT! THE WHOLE TROOP HAS BEEN MASSACRED...

WITHOUT REINFORCEMENTS, WE’RE GOING TO BE SUBMERGED BY THE NEXT WAVE OURSELVES...

AND GENERAL SALEM IS MISSING IN ACTION.

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