BOOKS AND TRADE PAPERBACKS TABLE OF CONTENTS 13th Son: Worse Thing Waiting . 44 Oh My Goddess! Volume 3 . 30 Aeon Flux . 21 Old Boy Volume 1 . 50 The Artist Within . 43 Path of the Assassin Volume 1 . 31 B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame . 39 Penny Arcade Volume 2: Epic Legends Berserk Volume 12 . 32 of the Magic Sword Kings . 49 BMWFilms.com Presents The Hire . 20 Pete Von Sholly’s Cannon God Exaxxion Stage 5 . 55 Extremely Weird Stories . 42 The Comics: An Illustrated History of Reiko the Zombie Shop Volume 3 . 26 Comic Strip Art . 43 Revelations . 44 Conan and the Demons of Khitai . 36 Saiyuki Reload Anime Manga Conan Volume 3: The Tower Volume 1 . 53 of the Elephant and Other Stories . 37 Scary Book Volume 2: Insects . 18 Concrete Volume 5: School Zone Volume 2 . 35 Think Like a Mountain . 20 Star Wars Omnibus: Concrete Volume 6: Strange Armor . 41 X-Wing Rogue Squadron Volume 1 . 23 Crying Freeman Volume 2 . 26 Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Ctrl-Alt-Del Volume 3. 46 Volume 6 . 48 De:Tales . 38 Star Wars: Clone Wars Dreadlful Ed . 24 Volume 9—Endgame . 48 Eden: It’s an Endless World! Volume 3 . 18 Star Wars: Honor and Duty . 22 Eden: It’s an Endless World! Volume 4 . 50 Sudden Gravity . 38 Emily the Strange Volume 1 . 45 Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volume 3 . 36 Go Girl!: Robots Gone Wild! . 55 Trigun Maximum Volume 9 . 19 Gungrave Archive . 27 Trigun Maximum Volume 10 . 53 Haibane Renmei Anime Manga . 19 Usagi Yojimbo: Volume 20 Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor Glimpses of Death . 40 Volume 2 . 42 What’s Michael? Volume 11: Harlequin Pink: Bachelor Prince . 29 Planet of the Cats . 52 Harlequin Violet: Blind Date . 28 Jack Hightower . 35 Jackson 500 Volume 2 . 24 Ju-On Volume 2 . 30 SELECTED BACKLIST King Kong . 47 Archive Books . 62 Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service . 51 Conan . 64 Lady Snowblood Volume 4: Frank Miller . 65 Retribution Part 2 . 32 Kazuo Koike . 56-57 Little Lulu: All Dressed Up . 25 Manga Extravaganza . 58-61 Little Lulu: April Fools . 41 Usagi Yojimbo . 63 Lullabies from Hell . 17 Mail Volume 1 . 54 Museum of Terror Volume 1 . 33 • DARK HORSE TITLES ARE NOT AVAILABLE Nexus Archives Volume 3 . 25 THROUGH DIAMOND BOOK DISTRIBUTORS UK. Octopus Girl Volume 2 . 34 Dark Horse Books Oh My Goddess! Volume 24 . 52 16 SUMMER 2006 LULLABIES FROM HELL ISBN: 1-59307-538-3 Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Hideshi Hino Artist: Hideshi Hino 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Page Count: 232 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Manga, Horror Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 22 Publication Date: May 2006 MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comic and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds of Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late seventies. And the four stories in Lullabies from Hell will show you how demented the man can be. The self-titled first story introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story tells of Hino’s having willed his pregnant wife into birthing a horrible, planet- devastating reptile baby that eats puppies and children! And you can imagine how the stories progress from there. Lullabies from Hell might make sleeping a bit of a challenge! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Hideshi Hino is a horror manga genius in Japan, with over 400 best-selling books. • Lullabies from Hell has been translated into English for the first time. • Published in the original, unretouched Japanese format! Dark Horse Books SUMMER 2006 17 EDEN: IT’S AN ENDLESS WORLD! VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-529-4 The most action-filled Eden yet! In this shocking volume, Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. character revelations and intense battlefield decisions Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Hiroki Endo punctuate a rollercoaster, book-length conflict. With Artist: Hiroki Endo new, cyber-augmented Propater villains (the Aeon sol- Size: 5" x 7" diers) making a vicious debut, the mysterious Colonel Page Count: 224 tries to keep his ragtag group of freedom fighters alive. Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Kenji cuts a path through armored soldiers, and Cherubim Recommended Age: 18+ and Sophia suffer serious setbacks. Kachua and Wycliffe Other Works by Author: make their way through secret Incan tunnels, not knowing Short Pieces Volumes 1 & 2 what horrors lie in the daylight. If you thought that the Genre: Manga Rights: U.S. + Canada previous Eden volume had a cliffhanger ending, you’ll Carton Quantity: 22 be blown away by the final pages of this thrilling ride! Publication Date: May 2006 Hiroki Endo’s Eden is a garden of violence, pathos, and philosophy, where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner! KEY SELLING POINTS: • From the pages of Afternoon, the same manga anthol- ogy that brought us Blade of the Immortal and Oh My Goddess! • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory. SCARY BOOK VOLUME 2: INSECTS ISBN: 1-59307-486-7 Kazuo Umezu returns with the second frightening volume Price: $13.95 U.S./ $19.99 CAN. of his Scary Book anthology series. In “Butterfly Grave,” Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kazuo Umezu a book-length feature story, ever since the mysterious Artist: Kazuo Umezu and untimely death of her mother when she was still an 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" infant, Megumi has had an inexplicable, devastating Page Count: 232 phobia of butterflies. Upon visiting her mother’s grave Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white years after her death, Megumi begins being haunted by Recommended Age: 14+ a black butterfly that only she can see and which seem- Genre: Manga, Horror ingly causes waves of destruction and misery to Megumi’s Rights: Worldwide family and friends wherever it appears. But when Megumi’s Carton Quantity: 22 Publication Date: May 2006 father decides to remarry, Megumi begins to fear that her new mother is turning into the very thing she dreads most. ALSO AVAILABLE: Scary Book Volume 1, KEY SELLING POINTS: 1-59307-476-X, $13.95 • Scary Book creator, Kazuo Umezu, is known as the “Stephen King of Japan,” with several of his stories being adapted to film. Dark Horse Books 18 SUMMER 2006 HAIBANE RENMEI ANIME MANGA VOLUME 1 In a long-forgotten walled town, humans coexist with ISBN: 1-59307-520-0 the Haibane, angelic beings of unknown origin. Rakka Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books becomes the newest Haibane after she awakens from a Writer/Artist: Based on the strange dream and finds herself hatching from a massive anime created by Yoshitoshi Abe cocoon. With no memories of her previous life, Rakka and the animation produced by struggles to adjust to her new surrounding; however, Madhouse Size: 5" x 7" burning questions remain in the back of her mind. What Page Count: 160 are Haibane and what is their purpose? What lies be- Format: softcover trade yond the town walls? Thus Rakka begins her wistful paperback, black and white journey of self-discovery and wonderment. Recommended Age: 8+ Other Works by Author: Trigun manga; Gungrave The Haibane Renmei anime manga is a full-color adap- Genre: Manga, Science tation of Yoshitoshi Abe’s fantastic anime series, Fiction, Fantasy presented in the “non-westernized” manga format for a Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK + IRE + AUS + NZ + SA fun, Japanese-style reading experience! Carton Quantity: 60 Publication Date: May 2006 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Created by Yoshitoshi Abe, creator of NieA Under 7, ALSO AVAILABLE: Gungrave Anime Manga, Serial Experiment Lain, and Texhnolyze DVDs. 1-59307-378-X, $14.95 Hellsing Anime Manga, 1-59307-393-3, $14.95 Trigun Anime Manga Volume 1, 1-59307-105-1, $14.95 TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 9 This is the story of Nicholas Wolfwood and ISBN: 1-59307-527-8 Livio, two boys for whom friendship was brief, Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books but still burned deep into their boyhood con- and Digital Manga Publishing sciences. But those bits and pieces, though full Writer: Yasuhiro Nightow of light, are mere shadows to these men of Artist: Yasuhiro Nightow 1 guns and blood and violence. Size: 5 ¼" x 7 /8" Page Count: 200 Format: softcover trade Yes, in this volume of Trigun, our hero Vash takes a bit paperback, black and white of a rest, and he certainly deserves one. So, now we’ll Recommended Age: 14+ study a boyhood relationship, one that, in this very Genre: Manga, Action/ Adventure, Western, volume, just might come to a destructive and angry Science Fiction end. Though, it may be a bit tough for either one of Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK these “friends” to knock each other off. They both Carton Quantity: 26 have secrets up their sleeves, and Livio, well he might Publication Date: May 2006 even have an extra sleeve! As always, published in the ever-popular non-westernized format, with Yasuhiro Nightow’s commentary in the back and the comical original black-and-white covers printed on the inside. KEY SELLING POINTS: Dark Horse Books • Presented in a fashion directly approved by Nightow himself, Trigun Maximum is so authentic that .