Dark Horse: October 2012 Solicitations

By Mike — Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Jahan Cross finds himself working both sides of an intrigue when an assassin kills Count Dooku in Agents of the Empire - Hard Targets #1. In the final chapter of Death Sentence, Darth Maul convinces the locals that the Jedi are in league with the mine owner who exploited them. These and more titles, including a Clone Wars Omnibus, are scheduled for release in October from Dark Horse!

 

 

1587 STAR WARS: AGENT OF THE EMPIRE—HARD TARGETS #1 (of 5)

John Ostrander (W), Davidé Fabbri (P), Christian Dalla Vecchia (I), Wes Dzioba (C), and Stéphane Roux (Cover)

On sale Oct 17

FC, 32 pages

$2.99

Miniseries

 

Jahan Cross returns to his homeworld of Alderaan for a celebration hosted by Bail Organa in honor of the current Count Dooku. But the situation turns deadly when an assassin kills the Count, and Cross finds himself working both sides of the intrigue!

 

Thus begins a new assignment for Cross—one that will tear at his loyalties, strain his friendships, and bring him into close contact with his own estranged father. All in a day’s work for Jahan Cross, Agent of the Empire!

 

• Guest-starring Princess Leia and Boba Fett!

 

• From Alderaan with love.

 

 

 

1588

STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL—DEATH SENTENCE #4 (of 4)

Tom Taylor (W), Bruno Redondo (P), Michael Atiyeh (C), and Dave Dorman (Cover)

On sale Oct 31

FC, 32 pages

$2.99

Miniseries

 

As more Jedi—Obi-Wan included!—and clone trooper reinforcements arrive to take Savage Opress and the crooked mine owner into custody, Darth Maul convinces the locals that the Jedi are in league with the mine owner who exploited them.

 

If the Jedi fight the natives, they’ll be killing innocents. If they don’t, they’ll be killed themselves! It’s the perfect distraction for Maul to find and release his brother!

 

• A direct follow-up to season 4 of The Clone Wars!

 

 

 

1589

STAR WARS: DAWN OF THE JEDI VOLUME 1—FORCE STORM TP

John Ostrander (W), Jan Duursema (P), Dan Parsons (I), Wes Dzioba (C), and Gonzalo Flores (Cover)

On sale Dec 12

FC, 128 pages

$18.99

TP, 6 5/8” x 10 3/16”

 

Here begins the tale of the dawn of the Jedi, the Star Wars of 25,000 years ago—before lightsabers, before hyperspace travel, before the Jedi spread throughout the galaxy, when connections to the Force were new.

 

On the planet Tython, a group of beings—scientists, philosophers, and warriors—strive to maintain peace and to balance the mystifying power known as the Force. But a stranger is coming, one who will disrupt the balance with his arrival and his own connection to the Force. Everything in their system is about to change . . . The doors to the galaxy have been opened!Collects Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi—Force Storm#1–#5.

 

 

 

1590

STAR WARS: KNIGHT ERRANT—ESCAPE #5 (of 5)

John Jackson Miller (W), Marco Castiello (P), Vincenzo Acunzo (I), Michael Atiyeh (C), and Benjamin Carré (Cover)

On sale Oct 10

FC, 32 pages

$3.50

Miniseries

 

Kerra Holt, lone Jedi Knight, may have let her personal mission bring disaster to a planet of innocents—and possibly the entire galaxy! With the truth behind her missing family almost revealed, Kerra scrambles to find some solution to what she has done. The battle between the three Sith armies continues to new heights, and one Sith lord has reached the dangerous relic that will enable him to draw insurmountable power from the misery of others . . .

 

• John Jackson Miller’s Knight Errant novel from Del Rey was a New York Times bestseller!

 

 

1591

STAR WARS: LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH—SPIRAL#3 (of 5)

John Jackson Miller(W), Andrea Mutti (P), Pierluigi Baldassini (I), Michael Atiyeh (C), and Paul Renaud (Cover)

On sale Oct 10

FC, 32 pages

$2.99

Miniseries

 

The release of Sith Lord Baron Dreypa has quickened a Sith rebel’s hope of overturning the ruling order of a lost Sith tribe—just not as he’d hoped, with himself in charge . . . But at least Dreypa’s attack on the home of the princess has brought deliverance to the slums of the Sith tribe! Imprisoned, the princess struggles to escape, hoping to hinder the attack and somehow prevent the awakening of Dreypa’s ancient sleeping army!

 

• Sequel to the bestselling e-books.

 

• An all-Sith tale!

 

 

 

1592

STAR WARS OMNIBUS: CLONE WARS VOLUME 3—THE REPUBLIC FALLS TP

Haden Blackman(W), Miles Lane(W), John Ostrander(W), Brian Ching(P/Cover), Jan Duursema(P), Nicola Scott(P), Dan Parsons(I), Brad Anderson(C), Michael Atiyeh(C), and Sno Cone Studios(C)

On sale Dec 19

FC, 416 pages

$24.99

TP, 6” x 9”

 

Well played, Darth Sidious. Well played. The end of the Clone Wars is in sight, but so are the end of the Jedi and the fall of the Republic!

 

Obi-Wan Kenobi recruits Anakin Skywalker in a desperate hunt for dark Jedi Asajj Ventress that will lead to a showdown with General Grievous and Count Dooku. Elsewhere, Jedi Generals infiltrate a Separatist base in hopes of concluding a protracted siege, and on Kashyyyk, as the clone troopers respond to Order 66, Master Quinlan Vos finds himself fighting against the army he led to victory.Collects Star Wars: Republic#70–#77 and #81–#83, Star Wars: Obsession #1–#5, and Free Comic Book Day 2005.