Hello Ninja Clan and happy New Comic Books Day! Here are the comics we couldn’t wait to get our little ninja hands on today.
- Conan: The Frezetta Cover Series #5
From Dark Horse Comics, $6.99. The fifth installment in Conan: The Frazetta Cover Series features both Frank Frazetta’s tense, dramatic Man-Ape painting and an adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Rogues in the House”-as interpreted by Timothy Truman, artists Cary Nord and Tomás Giorello, and colorist Richard Isanove. A longtime Howard favorite, this seminal Conan story first appeared in Weird Tales in 1934, and Frazetta’s Man-Ape piece is one of his few Conan paintings to make a direct reference to one of Howard’s works.
Our favorite barbarian has been living as a thief for some time, and his crimes are catching up with him. Becoming enmeshed in the plans of a treacherous nobleman and a dark priest, Conan finds himself making some strange allies in order to free himself from the labyrinthine, booby-trapped halls in the Red Priest’s stronghold. Stalked by a mysterious, hulking horror that’s grown out of control, Conan and the nobleman make a wary alliance with the Red Priest himself!
- Jack of Fables #46
Jack of Fables #46. Written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges. In this start to a new storyline, the Page Sisters finally find a new purpose in life: restoring the Great Library. And the one place you don’t want to be is between them and one of the books they want. Meanwhile, Jack Frost has just set upon the greatest quest in a long and distinguished career of great quests, all of which have been great…and questy. Plus, Jack’s still a dragon. That ain’t gonna change, folks.
- Thor #612
Thor goes to Hell! In the aftermath of SIEGE, heavy metal horror and adventure! Fan-favorite writer Kieron Gillen continues his bestselling and critically acclaimed THOR run, reteamed with Doug Braithwaite. A lingering menace created by fiendish Loki as an afterthought returns to wreak havoc on the Asgardians! Can Thor and his unlikely allies defeat this devastating force of destruction?! Or in their weakened state after the battles of Siege, will this new, ancient enemy prove too strong?
