Miles Gunter and Michael Avon Oeming, creators of Bastard Samurai, kick off a series of new adventures featuring Mike Mignola's team of paranormal investigators in B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice! Something's wrong with the water in Venicesomething so unusual that the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense have come to investigate. Exploding statues of a local goddess lead them to the haunted mansion of an ancient vampire and a grand marquis of hell. Mike Mignola lends a hand with the writing on this action-packed and eerie one-shot, with a cover by Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming.

Here begins the epic miniseries B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs! A giant fungus escapes containment in a maximum-security laboratory, pitting the B.P.R.D. against the frog men they faced ten years ago in the original Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction. Following the success of Dark Horse's B.P.R.D. one-shots, Mike Mignola's Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense launches into the first of a five-issue miniseries. Drawn by Guy Davis, the artist of B.P.R.D.: Dark Waters, and written by Mignola himself, Plague of Frogs returns to the roots of the characters in this epic miniseries.

In B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #1, a bloodbath washes across America as the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense turns its attention back to the plague of frogs. While the Bureau tries to interpret bizarre new behavior from the frog men, a madman from the B.P.R.D.'s secret history returns to take advantage of the mindless monsters. Mike Mignola takes over cover duties for the sprawling six-issue epic he's crafted with cowriter John Arcudi and the interior-art team of artist Guy Davis and colorist Dave Stewart.

After Hellboy's departure from the Bureau, Dr. Manning introduces the new Field Team Leader, Ben Daimio, a men mysteriously resurected after a fatal wound.

In Mike Mignola's Hellboy: Almost Colossus, Hellboy must save the life of his friend by tracking down a five-hundred-year-old artificial manthe Czege homunculus. The trail leads from desecrated cemeteries to a haunted ruin as Hellboy's search leads him deeper into horror. Don't miss this special, two-issue sequel to Hellboy: Wake the Devil!

Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of the Eisner Award-winning _Beasts of Burden_. The four-legged occult-investigating teama heroic gang of dogs and one catare doing their best to protect their home, Burden Hill, from a chicken-stealing goblin, a frightful basilisk, and a strange lost herd of sheep! * This special one-shot reprints three stories from _Dark Horse Presents_! * Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson return to the characters that won them the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Short Story!

NOTE: Indicia titled as "Darkness/Vampirella".

After their catastrophic encounter with the monster-god Katha-Hem, the B.P.R.D. begin the work of trying to pick up the pieces and rebuild the team. Kate Corrigan travels to rural France in search of an ancient text that might undo the death of Roger, while back at B.P.R.D. headquarters, Captain Daimio finally reveals the truth about his own death. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, with artist Guy Davis and cowriter John Arcudi, launches the five-part series that will determine the future of the B.P.R.D. while revealing key secrets about their past.

Abe Sapien's past has caught up with him, sending the B.P.R.D. to the South China Sea and into the jungles of Indonesia in this five-part series from Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, with cowriter John Arcudi and artist Guy Davis. Abe finally comes face to face with figures from his past as Langdon Everett Caul.

In Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes, the Monaghans have a problem faeries have stolen their baby. Tam O'Clannie's problem is he wants a Christian burial, and he's already getting pretty ripe. Hellboy has more than his share of problems with border goblins, dead men, and war monsters, as he tries to make everyone happy in one night, roaming the Irish landscape looking for a Christian graveyard and finding only pagan monstrosities. In the backup "The Iron Shoes," Hellboy enters a battered medieval tower to take on a footnote from Irish folklore.

No one remembers the last time the church bells rang in the small town of Saint August. Now, the Balkan village has been wiped out overnight167 brutal killings. Hellboy, world-renowned occult investigator, aims to lift a 780-year-old curse, in a tale of ghosts, werewolves, and crumbling chapels.

In B.P.R.D.: Dark Waters, Abe Sapien and Roger the homunculus find a small town in Massachusetts where the perfectly preserved bodies of three Puritan witches have been uncovered in a drained pond. When the waters rise again, it spells doom for the town, and a colossal battle ensues between the mystical forces in the town, the local churches, and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Brian Augustyn, who worked with Mike Mignola on the seminal Gotham by Gaslight, and Guy Davis, artist of The Marquis: Inferno, deliver a story as bizarre and thrilling as any Hellboy adventure you've read before.

Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins add another project to their list of Hellboy contributions with B.P.R.D.: Night Train! Agents Liz Sherman, whose supernatural talent for starting fires killed her family when she was a teen, and Roger the homunculus, the five-hundred-year-old artificial man who nearly killed Liz by stealing her fire, are sent to investigate a mystery train terrorizing America. This is a train with history. Its last natural journey, some seventy years ago, had a mysterious passenger onboardLobster Johnson, who's still bound to the fate of the locomotive.

In 2051 the world ends. Every living, breathing thing was gone. For a millennia, our barren rock hurdled through space. Then something strange happened. Those dead bodies started to animate. Whatever force had taken humanity out was resurrecting it, but the rules of life and death had changed.

Sara Pezzini and The Witchblade sent a serial killer who thought himself a demon to hell. A year later, the "Demon" has learned what true torment is all about. Now, he's been offered a special opportunity by hell's bureaucrats: a chance to drag Sara back down with him. In this sequel of the Mark Millar/Jae Lee original story, Sara Pezzini must confront her own demons to avoid losing everything and everyone she loves.

SHOWDOWN WITH THE WITCHBLADE OF THE WILD WEST!In the days of the Wild West, before Sara Pezzini claimed her destiny, Witchblade bearer Sheriff Enola protected the high plains from the Darkness that lurked beyond the horizon. Although her townspeople lived in peace, they were always mistrusting of their sheriff-witch. With her town seeking to banish her and the Darkness angling for a duel, will the Witchblade be enough to save Enola from becoming a footnote in the annals of the blade's history?

Children have been disappearing from their bedrooms under circumstances so mysterious that local police call in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The kids find cold comfort from fishman Abe Sapien and the disembodied ghost of Johann Kraus -- but when the innocent fantasy world of monsters and magic they used to enjoy becomes engulfed in terror and nightmares, the bizarre strangers who show up to help don't seem quite so scary after all.

You only thought FIRST BORN was over! Coinciding with the release of the FIRST BORN collected edition, a pair of all-star creative teams joins forces for two tales that pick up very literally from the ashes of First Born, and set the stage for coming events in the Top Cow Universe in this oversized special. WITCHBLADE scribe Ron Marz (SAMURAI: HEAVEN & EARTH) and Ryan Sook (X-FACTOR) team for a Magdalena story, while THE DARKNESS author Phil Hester (SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL) joins with Lee Moder (RED SONJA, PAINKILLER JANE) to introduce a powerful new villain. Add to that a painted sequence by original artist Stjepan Sejic (WITCHBLADE), and this book is ideal for new fans jumping into WITCHBLADE, THE DARKNESS, or the rest of the Top Cow Universe.

Carrie, a crafty plushie maker and artist, has lost a great deal in her life, but she's coping with the help of her late mother's gift, a special cat plush that suddenly comes to life one night to help. Yet not everything seems right. Is this truly magic? Or is it all in her head?

ROSARIO DAWSON (star of Sin City and Clerks 2) breaks new ground as she co-creates and stars in the OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE! When N.Y.P.D. detective Sophia Ortiz (modeled on Dawson) stumbles upon a bizarre murder scene, she is quickly brushed aside by a covert police unit - the Occult Crimes Taskforce. Versed in the black arts and equipped with mystical weaponry, the O.C.T. keeps the streets of Manhattan safe from unholy creatures of the night. Can Sophia help them stop this supernatural killer? Find out when this action-horror thriller hits the stands!