DARK HORSE COMICS: September 2009 Collected Editions Solicits THE AMAZON Written by Steven T. Seagle Art by Tim Sale One of the earliest projects from Seagle and Sale returns in a hardcover edition! The Amazon jungle is among the most ancient and biologically diverse places on earth, but it¹s being plundered for its resources and destroyed at a rate of thousands of acres a day. Reporter Malcolm Hilliard travels to this remote land of mystery to investigate the disappearance of an American worker and the subsequent sabotage of a timber company. Once there, Malcolm learns about the local cultures and myths, experiences the dark underside of industrial progress, gets drugged and left to fend for himself in the jungle, and is confronted by the Spirit of the Amazon itself in Seagle and Sale¹s South American Heart of Darkness. This deluxe twentieth-anniversary hardcover features new colors by Matt Hollingsworth, and a new cover by Tim Sale and Dave Stewart! Collects issues #1-3 of the mini-series. 88 pages, $14.95, in stores on Nov. 11 * * * BEANWORLD BOOK 3: REMEMBER HERE WHEN YOU ARE THERE! Written and art by Larry Marder Fifteen years in the making, Remember Here When You Are There! completes the "Springtime" cycle of stories, in which the perfect harmony of the Beanworld is interrupted for the first time. Larry Marder¹s Beanworld is a most peculiar comic book experience, inspired by equal parts Jack Kirby, Native American mythology, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Crumb. Now, Marder returns to his sui generis creation with the first in a series of original Beanworld graphic novels! Chock full of characters new and old, this volume sees the Pod'l'pool Cuties learn to fly; Beanish efforts to write a love song; and the long-anticipated return of Heyoka and the Big Fish to the Beanworld! Features an introduction by Jeff Smith, creator of Bone and RASL. 186 pages, black and white, $19.95, in stores on Nov. 25. * * * BLOOD SONG: A SILENT BALLAD Written and art by Eric Drooker Drooker brings his second graphic novel -- the visually bold and politically charged Blood Song: A Silent Ballad -- to Dark Horse in a brand-new second edition! Consisting mainly of full-page images, spreads, and diptychs, Blood Song is a wordless, full-color tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and the need for that spirit to make itself heard. A young girl travels from her war-torn island to a busy metropolis, from lush jungles to cold concrete and steel, and finds something that eludes most denizens of bustling, noisy, wasteful cities: love. This second edition of Blood Song includes a new cover and completely rescanned and remastered interiors. 312 pages, black and white, $19.95, in stores on Nov. 25. * * * B.P.R.D.: THE BLACK GODDESS Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi art by Guy Davis, colored by Dave Stewart cover by Mignola With Liz gone and their most powerful enemies banding together for a final, catastrophic attack, Abe, Kate, and Johann must determine the price of their souls as they decide where their loyalties lie -- and whether the life of a friend is more valuable than the fate of the world. B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess collects the second arc of the Scorched Earth trilogy, pulling together threads from the beginning of the series, with a twist that will shake the worlds of B.P.R.D. agents and readers alike. Collects B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess issues #1-5 152 pages, $17.95, in stores on Nov. 11 * * * THE CLEANERS: ABSENT BODIES Written by Mark Wheaton and Joshua Hale Fialkov Art by Rahsan Ekedal. In the dark tradition of Los Angeles noir, The Cleaners is the story of a ragtag team of for-hire trauma-scene cleaners led by ex-surgeon Robert Bellarmine. Contracted with sanitizing some of the nastiest crime and accident scenes in the tri-county LA basin, the team battles against what could only be described as the grim, unknowable face of the supernatural. But by focusing on the scientific explanation, no matter how aberrant or extraordinary, they counteract centuries-old superstition to prove things are seldom what they seem . . . Absent Bodies, Bellarmine and his crew take on a series of gruesome tasks starting with a bloodbath that covers an entire neighborhood. This investigation leads them toward uncovering a disturbing mystery involving missing people -- mostly children -- which dates back longer than the history of the city itself. Collects the four-issue mini-series 120 pages, $14.95, in stores on Nov. 11 * * * CROSSING THE EMPTY QUARTER AND OTHER STORIES Written and art by Carol Swain Collecting over thirty short stories by London-based writer/artist Carol Swain, Crossing the Empty Quarter and Other Stories is Swain's first career-spanning retrospective! The "graphic lit" love children of Gabriel García Márquez and Raymond Carver, Swain's comics first appeared in the late 1980s, and she has since contributed to over twenty anthologies across the globe. Her introspective, boldly executed, and visually unique works are peppered with magical realism, autobiography, and tenacious punk attitudes. While Swain's tales cover a wide range of emotions, politics, and societal ills, they are all tied together with an art style that is universally appealing and undeniably unique. Two bran- new color stories, created for this hardcover volume, are featured in a special color section. 200 pages, black and white, $24.95, in stores on Nov. 11 * * * MISTER X: CONDEMNED Written and art by Dean Motter Visit Radiant City, designed using the principles of psychetecture to soothe its inhabitants. But something went horribly wrong, and the city instead causes anxiety, insomnia, and madness. As ordinary citizens begin giving in to dementia and a serial killer walks the streets, a desperate City Hall commissions a drastic program of urban demolition, resulting in the deaths of an entire sect of architects. Returning from exile with a mission to recover Radiant City's original blueprints, only one man has a chance of restoring its sanity -- the enigmatic Mister X! Collects the four-issue miniseries 120 pages, $14.95, in stores on Nov. 4 * * * STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS -- SLAVES OF THE REPUBLIC Written by Henry Gilroy Penciled by Scott Hepburn, Ramon Perez, and Lucas Marangon, inked by Dan Parsons, colored by Michael E. Wiggam Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi discover a dastardly plot by Count Dooku -- to enslave the entire city of Kiros and its Togruta population! Along with Padawan Ahsoka Tano -- a Togruta herself -- Anakin and Obi-Wan accept a mission to liberate the droid-occupied city. But the Togruta have disappeared! Our Jedi's search for the missing citizens leads them to a place in the galaxy where pirates and slavers reign. They must find the Togruta before Count Dooku can carry out his master plan! 144 pages, $9.95, in stores on Nov. 18 * * * STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC VOLUME 7 -- DUELING AMBITIONS Written by John Jackson Miller Art by Brian Ching, Bong Dazo and Dean Zachary, colored by Michael Atiyeh Cover by Dan Scott Former Padawan -- and former fugitive -- Zayne Carrick is taking his life in a new direction. Along with his con-artist best friend Gryph; the beautiful, bold, and mysterious Jarael; and ex-Mandalorian warrior Rohlan; our bumbling yet lovable hero is ready to embark on the sort of adventures only possible in the Star Wars universe! In "Prophet Motive," it's a long-shot swindle gone wrong; in "Faithful Execution," it's a ghost ship and renegade droids; and in "Dueling Ambitions," it's combat sports and high-speed racing. 144 pages, $18.95, in stores on Nov. 4 * * * TUROK, SON OF STONE ARCHIVES VOLUME 4 Written by Paul S. Newman Art by Alberto Giolitti, Ray Bailey, Rex Maxon, Bob Correa, Jack Abel and Vince Alascia Trapped in a lost valley, two Indian braves, Turok and Andar, seek a way back home while struggling to survive erupting volcanoes, battling -- and befriending -- tribes of prehistoric cavemen, and being pursued by hungry dinosaurs! This volume collects issues #19-#24 of the Dell Comics run of Turok, Son of Stone. These classic adventures have not been seen since the early 1960s! 216 pages, $49.95, in stores on Nov. 18 * * * USAGI YOJIMBO: YOKAI Written and art by Stan Sakai Yokai are the monsters, demons, and spirits of Japanese folklore, such as the shape-changing kitsune, the obakeneko demon cats, and the evil oni ogres. Usagi faces all these and more when a desperate woman begs for his help in finding her kidnapped husband. Tracing the abducted man to an old castle, Usagi finds the ruins haunted by creatures of Japanese legend and discovers that they are amassing for a great raid on the countryside! Fortunately, Usagi is joined by Sasuke the Demon Queller, who is also fighting to prevent the invasion, but things aren't always as they seem, especially when dealing with the supernatural! The rabbit ronin turns twenty-five, and Dark Horse celebrates with the first-ever Usagi Yojimbo original graphic novel, fully hand-painted, written, and lettered by creator Stan Sakai! 64 pages, $14.95, in stores on Nov. 18