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This week from Image, 5-page previews of Emissary #5, the debut issue of The Pirates of Coney Island, the next issue of the unexpectedly enjoyable Sam Noir: Samurai Detective, and the third and final issue of Umbra.
EMISSARY #5
written by CHRISTOPHER E. LONG
art & cover by JUAN E. FERREYRA
created & co-plotted by JIM VALENTINO
"REVELATIONS 2:1"
A new story arc begins here! Emissary spans the globe in an effort to gain deeper insight into humanity, both its achievements and its atrocities. Meanwhile, a secret think-tank in the U.S. Capitol convenes to devise a strategy to bring him down - by any means possible!
32 pg - FC - $3.50
THE PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND #1 (of 8)
story by RICK SPEARS
art & cover by VASILIS LOLOS
variant cover by BECKY CLOONAN
RICK SPEARS writer of the indie hit Teenagers From Mars and hot international artist VASILIS LOLOS rock this riotous, teenage, romp through young love, car jacking and gang violence. In this first issue Patch arrives in Coney Island only to get his eye sliced out by Trish, the wicked bad leader of the girl gang The Cherries. Across town, Sal, a pizza-selling bookie, meets a nasty end delivered by a monstrous shadow with a shotgun. All the fun begins here in the first super-rad issue of THE PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND!
32 pg - FC - $2.99
SAM NOIR: SAMURAI DETECTIVE #2
story by ERIC A. ANDERSON & MANNY TREMBLEY
art & cover by MANNY TREMBLEY
"BLOOD THIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER"
With only a name to go on, Sam has arrived at the lair of the dirty scoundrel who killed his girl, Jasmine. All that stands between Sam and his sweet revenge are a dozen Joes, Master Fuyu’s elite goon squad, and a date with the cold, hard truth behind Jasmine’s death!
24 pg - BW - $2.99
Click here for the PLAYBACK:stl review and 5-page preview of Sam Noir: Samurai Detective
UMBRA #3 (of 3)
written by MURPHY
art & cover by MIKE HAWTHORNE
Our heroine ventures to an island off the coast of Greenland that contains not only the truth behind the mysterious skeleton but much, much more. Hot on her trail is an assassin trying to cover up the Cold War secret at the heart of this mystery. And hot on his trail is our heroine’s new girlfriend!
52 pg - BW - $5.99
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