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Jackie Estacado, the current bearer of The Darkness, was blackmailed andlied to by a devil who calls himself The Sovereign. Now free from TheSovereign's grip, Jackie has assembled a motley crew of criminals with one goal— destroy every last one of The Sovereign's reliquaries! His quest willpit him against a former Russian mob boss turned art collector, a mute mystic,countless of The Sovereign's statues, and even traitors within his midst! Collecting The Darkness #85-89, this volume concludes the second yearof writer Phil Hester's (Firebreather, Wonder Woman) epic run withEstacado confronting The Sovereign. Featuring art by Sheldon Mitchell (PilotSeason: Stealth) and Romano Molenaar, and a special stand-alone "Tale of TheDarkness" issue set in the Wild West by Joshua Hale Fialkov (Tumor,Echoes) and Matt Timson (Impaler, Popgun).

No man can conquer Hell and Heaven alone. With the help of his friendsErnest Hemingway, Nettie, and Essie — plus a whole army of kids and anancient Aztec god — Jude might just stand a chance to change the system ofthe afterlife. But will the toppling of the current regime simply be replaced byone just as bureaucratic and unfeeling? And what happens when betrayal comes notfrom above or below, but from one of their own?Collects issues #6-10 of the series.

The first volume of the critically-acclaimed series, now at a $10 introductory price!Jude's life is nothing special. It seems like every day is just a repeat of the last one, until one day, he meets a woman and can suddenly see into her past -- revealing that he is actually in Purgatory for suicides. Now that he's awake, he and the legendary Ernest Hemingway are on the path to change things in the afterlife for the better. Of course, that might not sit very well with the bigwigs down below or up above. Can just a few people change the course of billions of souls?

After 70 years, EC Comics—the notorious comics publisher that spawned TALES FROM THE CRYPT, WEIRD SCIENCE, MAD magazine, and many more—rises from the grave with its first new series of the twenty-first century! For the first time in one comprehensive collection, join us for a guided tour of the Grave-Digger’s cemetery on the edge of the endless abyss . . . where EVERY TOMBSTONE TELLS A TALE . . . and the quickest way to etch your own is through MALEVOLENCE, MALICE, and MURDER! Collecting EC’s landmark resurrection in the pages of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1–12 in one staggeringly deluxe, oversized (7.5" × 11.5") hardcover, this terrifying tome is positively brimming with depraved intention and traumatic tension as wrought by the hands (and snapped by the necks) of serial storytellers Jason Aaron (Thor), Brian Azzarello (Joker), Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), J. Holtham (The Horizon Experiment), and Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), and realized into bloody reality by “all-slaughter” artists Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz), Kano (Gotham Central), Klaus Janson (The Dark Knight Returns), Leomacs (Benjamin), Alison Sampson (Department of Truth), Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls), and many more.  Plus: Gouge your eyes on 50 pages of “behind-the-screams” material—including in-depth production art, character designs, and cover galleries—alongside all-new, exclusive commentaries from Eisner Award nominees Rian Hughes (The Multiversity) and Jay Stephens (Dwellings) on the painful (heh, heh) processes behind EC’s blockbuster rebirth.