The kind folks at NBM have supplied ComicList with their solicitations for comics and other products featured in the September 2014 Previews, scheduled to ship starting November 2014.
DUNGEON: Twilight Vol.4: High Septentrion & The End of Dungeon
Johann SFAR, Lewis TRONDHEIM, ALFRED, MAZAN
"Dungeon comics — that's a big inspiration for me and the crew who write on the show. Dungeon's a great comic, and I look to it for the sort of casual conversation they have with the big fantasy world that they all live in."
– Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time
In High Septentrion, there has been a violent eruption on the planet of Terra Amata. It's a scramble to find breathable air, but the wizened blind, mystical dragon the Dust King (Marvin) thinks that it is perhaps time for him to die heroically. However the feisty young Marvin the Red refuses to give up and plans to find a way out of this mess, including finding a way to actually breathe… Art by Alfred of "Why I Killed Peter."
And in The End of Dungeon the more the islets of the planet Terra Amata move upward, the less there is of breathable oxygen. While Marvin the Red and Zakutu, daughter of the Grand Khân, attempt to protect the seven objects of Destiny, Herbert and the Dust King are forced to swear allegiance to the Black Entity in order to gain access to breathable air. We are witness to the very end of Dungeon!
6 ½ x 9, 96pp., full color pb, $14.99, 9781561639199
DUNGEON: Zenith Vol.3: Back In Style
BOULET, Joann SFAR, Lewis TRONDHEIM
"Ah, Dungeon, what pleasures you bring me. Boulet is comfortably upholding the artistic standards of previous forays into Dungeon. Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim … man, these two guys can seemingly do no wrong."
– Newsarama
Two stories continue the heyday of Dungeon, in the first, Isis is to be married to the Keeper but she wants Herbert! Besides, the whole affair promises to ruin the Dungeon completely. In the second, besides the continued Keeper financial mishaps, Herbert wishes to make his comeback to his hometown where his name is mud. He disguises himself with a potion that makes him 'the mask of death'.
Only one problem: if he laughs, he becomes himself again!
6 ½ x 9, 96pp, full color trade pb., $14.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-550-4
DUNGEON: The Early Years, Vol.1: The Night Shirt
Christophe BLAIN • Joann SFAR • Lewis TRONDHEIM
"Thrilling action and gentle whimsy nestle comfortably together in this swashbuckling fantasy."
– Publishers Weekly
We start on another tangent of the vast world of Dungeon, one that relates the origins of it. In this first story of the Early Years, you will see the Keeper barely an adult and leaving his family to go find fortune in a time of chaos and darkness… Blain (Isaac the Pirate) illustrates on a story by Trondheim and Sfar.? Fun, adventure, suspense and… wry satire.
6 ½ x 9, 96pp. full color trade pb., $14.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-439-2
DUNGEON: TWILIGHT, Vol. 2: Armageddon
Lewis TRONDHEIM, Joann SFAR, KERASCOET
"There are quests, battles, romps in bed, disappearances, reunions, invisible monsters, trials and "granny's good cake," enough for any ten lesser books."
– Asimov's
Marvin, saved at the last minute from certain death in a duel by his young warrior admirer Marvin the Red, simply cannot be let to die like he wishes! Whatever he loses, he regains in different powers. He's even become invincible. It's to the point where he'd rather exchange body parts to get back his mortality. But then he is led to a discovery that may make continuing to live actually worth it. Art by the team behind Miss Don't Touch Me and Beauty.
6 ½ x 9, 96pp., full color trade pb., $14.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-477-4
DUNGEON: TWILIGHT Set Vols. 1-3
Johann SFAR, Lewis TRONDHEIM, KERASCOET, OBION
The first 3 books in this part of the great saga in one specially priced set. The planet Terra Amata, on which Dungeon resides, has stopped turning. On one side, total darkness and absolute coldness; on the other, a searing desert and eternal day. The survivors live on a thin slice of earth where day and night meet.
A territory known as TWILIGHT.
Welcome to the third facet of the Dungeon world, its dark downfall. Marvin is blind but still dangerous and Herbert the Duck has become the darkest of Lords.
6 ½ x 9, 288pp, full color set of 3 volumes, $39.99 9781561639069
DUNGEON: EARLY YEARS Set: Vols. 1,2
Johann SFAR, Lewis TRONDHEIM, Christophe BLAIN
A darkly funny satire of fantasy that brings together the first two volumes of the Early Years, this collection relates the origins of the vast world of Dungeon.
In this first story of the Early Years, the Keeper leaves his family to go find fortune in a time of chaos and darkness and becomes the Night Shirt—a misguided vigilante who renders justice nightly.
In the second story, the Night Shirt stumbles upon Alexandra, the one he pines for, about to be raped and comes to her valiant and heroic rescue with romantic bravura. Perfect for lovers of heroic fantasy and dark humor, this two-volume set is the complete run of this sub-series of Dungeon.
SPECIAL PRICE!
6 ½ x 9, 192pp. full color set of 2 volumes, $27.99 ISBN 9781561639328
DUNGEON: ZENITH Set Volumes 1-3
Lewis TRONDHEIM, Joann SFAR, BOULET
Specially priced set! Collecting the main core introductory storyline to the popular sprawling dark-humored epic spoofing horror and heroic fantasy. Includes volumes newly back to press!
SPECIAL PRICE!
6 ½ x 9, 288pp., full color trade pbs., 3 volume banded set, $39.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-624-2
WHY I KILLED PETER
ALFRED & Olivier KA
"If there is a healing process, this unforgettable graphic reminiscence is surely its catalyst."
– Miami Herald
"This is an excellent work. Recommended."
– Comic Book Resources
"Peter was a populist priest. He was cool. He was funny. He was no priest, just a regular guy. It's like I had another uncle. A great one, who laughed, who sang, who tickled. Until he took us for summer camp. Until we were so close, temptation came in the picture."
Based on a true story that the writer experienced himself, this graphic novel presents very simply the grey areas in such a situation, how he had tucked the whole episode deep within him but then how his rage and self-pity let it all out and finally revisiting the man when close to death and his coming to grips. A very moving, topical and important work, sensitively presented.
6×9, 112pp., full color clothbound jacketed, $18.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-543-6
Songs of Our Ancestors, Vol.3: THE TREE OF LOVE
Patrick ATANGAN
"Atangan's beautiful art and attention to authentic detail cast a spell of enchantment."
– Publishers Weekly
By the artist of the recently released Invincible Days. Celebrates India's tradition of elevating romance to a work of art. Atangan adapts Rajput polyptych paintings of northern India and transforms them into a unique and poetic comic experience. Tree of Love follows a prince's courtship of a flower peddler. The young prince is surprised by the difficulty in proving the worthiness of what everyone sees as a common woman. But she has a secret, a special gift bound in the beauty and power of nature.
Each page faithfully ornaments Tree of Love's painfully universal story about the intricacies of love.
8½ x 6½, 48pp., full color hardcover: $12.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-438-5
