25 years after the first black & white issue of the self-published comic book BONE appeared on comic shop shelves, and over a decade since the concluding chapter comes a new (and completely superfluous!) adventure featuring the Bone cousins! Ride along with the boys and their friend Bartleby the Rat Creature as they brave the dangerous journey across the desert back toward Boneville in their rickety cow cart.Creator Jeff Smith is back for another laugh with Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley! Also included is the complete text of The BONE Companion fully illustrated for the first time! Written by award winning comics historian Stephen Weiner, author of 101 Outstanding Graphic Novels, Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel, The Hellboy Companion, and The Will Eisner Companion. All this plus rare behind the scenes photos & memories, and an afterword by the author thanking the comics community and the readers all add up to make this a truly special commemorative volume of BONE to add to your collection!

'The Hit List Agenda' sets its sights on Executive Assistant: Orchid! Aspen's first ever intra-series summer event, 'The Hit List Agenda' debuts right HERE in the pages of this exciting first issue! The blood trail of 'The Hit List Agenda' leads to a small, poverty-stricken Colombian village in South America. A powerful drug cartel led by Ramos Cordova seeks to strengthen their grip of power and fear over their oppressed citizens. Executive Assistant: Orchid is up to the task as her master and his unruly son Umberto, use her element of surprise to settle an old debt with their rivals-definitively. But, when her orders send her north to Dallas, her mission may unwittingly engulf her into a conspiracy larger-and more dangerous-- than her 'capable' abilities can handle! Aspen's first ever Summer-spanning event, 'The Hit List Agenda' continues right here in the pages of EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: ORCHID!

Ye is a curious young man, named after the only sound he knows how to make. His voice must have been stolen by the Colorless King, the source of all the world’s sorrows—terrifying, unrelenting, all-taking, and never-giving. Now, Ye has no choice but to embark on a long voyage over land and sea, past grizzled pirates, a drunken clown, and more, to find the famous witch who can help him defeat the Colorless King. What he discovers may be a lesson for us all.

Seventeen-year-old Destiny Ajaye took on the LAPD in her South Central Siege and paid for it—not with her life, but with her freedom. Now, Destiny is sequestered in the Madrasa Institute, a government school for prodigies. But will she use her gifts to wage war at the military's behest—or is she already planning another revolution? From writers MARC BERNARDIN and ADAM FREEMAN (Castle Rock, Alphas, X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, The Authority, The Highwaymen) and rising-star artist ROSI KAMPE, comes a sequel that promises to set Destiny's world—and ours—ablaze.

Text & photos on Ingrid Pitt, of Mammer Films’ “The Vampire Lovers”; Irish McCalla; beach Babes; Anita Ekberg giantess photos from Fellini’s “Boccaccio ’70” film. Comic book stories include “Bloodlines”, rare Captain Paragon vampire tale (story & art by Bill Black), reworked Golden Age Rulah jungle girl story, “Bloodstained Fangs”; giantess tale “I Hunted Gazong’ga, The Thing That Grew”. 52 pages, b&w with color covers, standard comic book size & format; saddle-stitched.