Note: The digital edition (6/4/2019) for this volume was released before the print edition.

For over a thousand generations, the Jedi have been the peacekeepers of the galaxy…but now, at the dawn of the Clone Wars, they find themselves in a new role: generals in the Army of the Republic. As Mace Windu, one of the Jedi's greatest warriors, leads a small unit of Jedi into battle shortly after the war begins, the Jedi must make peace with their new role, or be lost to the violence around them!

"I was a Teenage Gila Monster!"It may seem like any other dynamic concert for The Amazing Joy Buzzards, but a menacing pink robot with a thirst for revenge has managed to sneak backstage and slip something sinister into the drink of Stevo, the bass player. Once consumed, the nefarious concoction mutates Stevo into a giant Gila Monster! The mutated Gila-Stevo runs amok through the city in an epic rampage the likes of which not seen since Godzilla. The remaining members of the band must find a way to locate and rescue their giant-sized bandmate before it's too late! What are the intentions of the evil pink robot and why does he want The Amazing Joy Buzzards dead? Will our gang make it to Stevo before he meets a King Kong-esque fate? Don't miss the first smackdown issue of THE AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS!

Tardi’s late-period, looser style infuses Manchette’s dark story with a seething, malevolent energy; he doesn’t shy away from the frequently grisly goings-on, while maintaining (particularly in the old-married-couple-style bickering of the two killers who are tracking Gerfaut) the mordant wit that characterizes his best work. This is the kind of graphic novel that Quentin Tarantino would love, and a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction.

Kenshiro Zero Cochrane is a hacker from Transverse city being hunted down for stealing important information from the corporation D/Monix. D/Monix hires The Artificial Kidz gang to hunt him down. His found and shot with a poisoned flechette round. On the bring of death, he uploads his consciousness into cyberspace to prevent losing the information he stole. Chochrane's mind is discovered by an artificial intelligence know as the Ghost Works. The Ghost works ask him to become their avatar in the real world. Because of his rebellious attitude his is their ideal candidate. He accepts their offer and his mind is put in to a robotic Cybertek 101 body. Due to his similarity to the original, he becomes know as Ghost rider. Chochrane then seeks veengance on the Artificial Kidz.