Comic books August 2002

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Cover by Joe Chiodo. Written by Chris Claremont, Ian Edginton and Jeff Jensen. Art by Salvador Larroca, Joe Chiodo and John Totleben. Three stories by three great creative teams! As a lead-in to the upcoming MEKANIX series, Shadowcat in "This One's For You!" by the X-TREME X-MEN team of Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca! Magneto in "End of the Line" by Ian Edginton and Joe Chido! And the Beast in "Stray" by Jeff Jensen and John Totleben! 48 pages, full color. Marvel PG Cover price $3.50.

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Cover by Salvador Larroca and Liquid! Written by Chris Claremont. Penciled by Salvador Larroca. As the X-treme team attempt to rescue Storm from the clutches of Khan, things go horribly wrong! Thankfully, the living computer, Sage, is there to counterpunch. Or is she? Cover price $2.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "Prelude!" Story and art by Clamp. X/1999, an occult science fiction fantasy, is a stunning work of shôjo (girls' comics) from the collective of CLAMP _ a combine of four female shôjo artists who have taken all of Asia by storm! After a mysterious six-year absence, Kamui, a young man with mysterious psionic powers, returns to Tokyo. Now his childhood girlfriend Kotori and psychic Princess Hitono are having prophetic dreams about Kamui's role in the end of the world! What do these strange visions mean? Why does Kamui warn Kotori and her brother Fuma to stay away from him? And who are these psionically powered beings who keep picking fights with Kamui? In Volume 2, Kamui _ returning to Tokyo years after the death of his own mother _ is a changed man. He's moody and distant to his old friends, yet determined to protect them from the dark forces that swirl around him. For he is the nexus of a great cataclysm to come, and the inheritor of a strange destiny that could decide the fate of an entire world! Haunted by his tragic past, Kamui struggles to understand his role in the future...a terrible fate inexorably linked to his unique powers. Now, as seers and psychics across Japan turn their eyes to Tokyo and the drama beginning to unfold there, the lines between light and dark are being drawn. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Crescendo!" Story and art by Clamp. Past destinies become the present, three young men from the CLAMP academy arrive, and a masterful young psychic clashes with his mortal enemy, and finally, the moment of Kamui's destiny arrives, and his decision will be painful in ways that he never would have imagined. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 184 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

Exploring Fantastic Movies and TV. In this Summer Movie Spotlight issue: Eight Legged Freaks - Kari Wuhrer and David Arquette go spider-squashing; Austin Powers - everything you need to know to be groovy; Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg (Minority Report); The Dead Zone's Chris Bruno - Sheriff Bannerman at your service; Reign of Fire's Izabella Scorupco; Spy Kids 2; Halloween: Resurrection; Signs; The Lost World. Plus all of your favorite regular features. Cover price $5.99.

Promotional comic given out at Yankee Stadium on August 9, 2002. Art by Brian Kong.

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1st printing. Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year's Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror. Hardcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 542 pages, text only. Cover price $35.00.

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By Hiroshi Aro. Now that Yuu has decided to move into the haunted apartment building, he faces a whole new set of trouble when the movers arrive with his belongings. It seems his spectral neighbors have a very playful streak that makes just about everything hard for our poor Yuu. Scaring the movers, getting in his way, even pilfering Yuu's stuff are but a few of this month's ghostly antics! How much can Yuu take of this misbehavior? 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

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WRITTEN BY PETER DAVID; ART AND COVER BY TODD NAUCK AND LARY STUCKER; In stores June 5. It's election day at Young Justice Headquarters! And the new leader of the team has been decided by YOUNG JUSTICE readers! Will it be Robin, Wonder Girl, Superboy, the Ray, or someone else entirely? And will this leader cause the team to lose its sanity? FC, 32 PG. $2.50 Cover price $2.50.

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All the Flesh Inherits - Written by Stuart Moore. Art by Martin Montiel and J.C. Buelna. Cover by Clarence Lansang and Victor Llamas. Zendra 2.0: Heart of Fire, the epic science fiction miniseries, continues! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.