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Fans of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television shows have been loving the ongoing comics series from Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing. If you’re a fan of Fox’s late, lamented small-screen Angel but haven’t picked up the comic yet, the Angel Not Fade Away TPB is the perfect place to start!

Written by Joss Whedon himself, with art by Stephen Mooney and Jeff Johnson the Angel Not Fade Away TPB is a three-issue adaptation of the final episode of Whedon’s beloved Angel television series. This graphic novel leads to a climactic battle in an alleyway that fans now know was only the end of the beginning!

This collection includes the three-part Not Fade Away miniseries, as well as the script for the original television episode and spot illustrations.

You can order Angel Not Fade Away TPB now for just $17.99! While you’re here, make sure to check out our Angel and Horror Month pages.

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Fans of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television shows have been loving the ongoing comics series from Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing. If you’re a fan of Fox’s late, lamented small-screen Angel but haven’t picked up the comic yet, the Angel Not Fade Away TPB is the perfect place to start!

Written by Joss Whedon himself, with art by Stephen Mooney and Jeff Johnson the Angel Not Fade Away TPB is a three-issue adaptation of the final episode of Whedon’s beloved Angel television series. This graphic novel leads to a climactic battle in an alleyway that fans now know was only the end of the beginning!

This collection includes the three-part Not Fade Away miniseries, as well as the script for the original television episode and spot illustrations.

You can order Angel Not Fade Away TPB now for just $17.99! While you’re here, make sure to check out our Angel and Horror Month pages.

Are you enjoying the Angel comic book series from IDW Publishing? State your opinion below!

Exclusive Interview With Artist Todd Herman!

In honor of Horror Month, artist Todd Herman sat down with us and talked about his upcoming trade paperback, Fall of Cthulhu: Nemesis, out October 28. Herman has been working in comics for years, popping up in high-profile horror projects like Cut, written by Dark Horse Comics’ publisher, Mike Richardson, and The Fog, with his fellow horror aficionado Scott Allie.

While he’s been a working cartoonist for a long time–with forays into animation at Will Vinton Studios–he has really ramped up this year with several projects with Boom! Studios, including the pirate-western Galveston and the latest chapter of the popular Fall of Cthulhu series. Watch the video below to eavesdrop on our conversation about essential elements of horror and how Herman went from a comics fan to a working artist:

Here, Todd talks about his favorite horror movies, including John Carpenter’s The Fog and Spielberg’s Poltergeist, as well as offer tips for aspiring artists:

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Exclusive Interview With Artist Todd Herman!

In honor of Horror Month, artist Todd Herman sat down with us and talked about his upcoming trade paperback, Fall of Cthulhu: Nemesis, out October 28. Herman has been working in comics for years, popping up in high-profile horror projects like Cut, written by Dark Horse Comics’ publisher, Mike Richardson, and The Fog, with his fellow horror aficionado Scott Allie.

While he’s been a working cartoonist for a long time–with forays into animation at Will Vinton Studios–he has really ramped up this year with several projects with Boom! Studios, including the pirate-western Galveston and the latest chapter of the popular Fall of Cthulhu series. Watch the video below to eavesdrop on our conversation about essential elements of horror and how Herman went from a comics fan to a working artist:

Here, Todd talks about his favorite horror movies, including John Carpenter’s The Fog and Spielberg’s Poltergeist, as well as offer tips for aspiring artists:

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Watch Video Coverage of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival!

Prepare to sit back and watch more goodness from this year’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhucon! Here’s part two of the Dark Horse Comic panel, featuring Editor Shawna Gore and Senior Managing Editor Scott Allie. Here, they discuss Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and how it revitalized horror comics, and also how Dark Horse chooses its horror titles, including Hellboy and the relaunch of Creepy.

Again: there was very low lighting at the gorgeous Hollywood Theatre, but the sound is excellent. Here we go:

Stay tuned all month, as we’ll be posting panels, interviews, and other fun Lovecraftian stuff!

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Dark Horse has released three putridly popular archive collections of Creepy and one collection of Eerie, with three more in the works, plus an upcoming line of new Creepy comics scheduled to splatter the stands in July. Fans are drooling at the reanimation of their favorite decomposing uncle. We’ve added a host of ghoulishly great products to the lineup.

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Watch Video Coverage of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival!

TFAW.com attended the annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhucon this month, and we got to see movies, shorts, and panels on all things horror. One of the panels we attended was Dark Horse Comics’ Horror Comics panel, where editors Shawna Gore (Eerie, Emily the Strange) and Scott Allie (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy), discussed the history of horror comics.

Be warned: there was very low lighting at the gorgeous Hollywood Theatre, but the sound is excellent, and really, isn’t the dark, moody video footage in keeping with Lovecraftian fiction? Watch part one below:

Stay tuned all month, as we’ll be posting panels, interviews, and other fun Lovecraftian stuff!

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The EC Comics classic, Creepy, has been “remastered” and collected into a series of Creepy Archives by Dark Horse Comics! We’ve got Creepy Archives #1-4 in stock, and you can pre-order #5 and #6 and get 20% off!

Pulpy, smart, and scary, the stories in Creepy constituted some of the best short-form horror fiction ever told in comics. With legendary comics writer/editor Archie Goodwin both editing the magazine and crafting most of its storytelling, Creepy was at once a newsstand favorite with fright fans and a vaunted showcase of fine comics art for serious fans of the art form.

For decades, the only sources for these stories were the expensive collectible original issues. Now Dark Horse is collecting all of the original material from the history of Creepy magazine into a hardcover archive library that is garnering rave reviews from fans and critics alike!

Don’t forget to pre-order Creepy Comics #2. This all-new comics series features a cover by Eric Powell and the talents of Jason Shawn Alexander, Dan Braun, and Greg Ruth!

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Hey there, y’all. I’m pretty psyched about the newest labor of love coming from Scott Allie and Dark Horse. Exurbia is wicked fun and Kevin McGovern’s art is funky (in a good way). I’m also excited to announce that we’ve got a few copies that include Book Plates that are signed by Allie and McGovern!

At TFAW.com, we’re all about the extras–so we’re giving a couple of them away. One will be given away to one of our Twitter followers on Monday (follow us here), and the other will go to a lucky person who posts a comment on this blog article (also awarded on Monday 10/12) . After that we’re going to ship the rest of these special copies of Exurbia at no additional cost while supplies last.

Exurbia at a Glance:
Gage Wallace’s day seemingly couldn’t get any worse. After breaking up with his girlfriend, he finds himself framed for blowing up his apartment building–the latest in a string of deadly bombings in this doomed suburb. After the neighboring Fat City fell into the river during an earthquake, these hapless exurbanites have been waiting for their own town to sink. The only glimmer of hope is a talking rat, whose drunken ramblings are taken as the prophecy of a better time ahead.

Now Gage finds himself being pursued by well-intentioned friends, bored cops, and the bloodthirsty Bald Suzie, a local firearms enthusiast whose brother was killed in a recent explosion.

Check out our 13-page Exurbia First Look and try before you buy.

I know it’s a little early, but . . . today’s title comes shrink-wrapped with an explicit content parental advisory, so you know this one fits the bill to be featured during our Horror Month. MPD-Psycho is pretty much what dreams are made of. Well, dreams that psychotic killers have, anyway.

MPD-Psycho, the most-requested manga series in recently memory, found a fitting home at Dark Horse Manga a couple of years ago. It’s presented uncut and uncensored in all of its controversial and unflinchingly grotesque glory!

If Takashi Miike’s MPD-Psycho television series still has you confused and reeling, the original manga series that inspired the show is sure to take you on a longer, darker journey into madness. Enjoy the MPD-Psycho series for all of its absurd twists, sci-fi touches, and inventive torture scenes, but you’ll also be mesmerized by the plethora of odd conspiracies and case files found in Otsuka and Tajima’s uncontrollable, urban horrorshow.

In MPD-Psycho Volume One, police detective Kobayashi Yousuke’s life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something “special” about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi’s wife and kick-starts a “multiple personality battle” within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plotlines and Tajima’s clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!

The fun doesn’t stop there! We’ve got all nine volumes in-stock. They’re just waiting for you to come and get ‘em. Make sure you don’t pass on this one . . . if you’re over 18, that is.

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Video Preview of the New Dark Horse GelaSkins!

Are we excited! Dark Horse has partnered with GelaSkins to bring us some super-cool protective skins for laptops and iPhones, featuring titles like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Umbrella Academy and Hellboy, and artists like Amano and Dan Goodsell. What’s even more exciting? You can get them here at TFAW.com, about two months before you’ll be able to get them almost anywhere else! We got our hands on some samples, and brought you an up-close look at these beauties in the video below:

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Watch Dr. Horrible Take Over the Emmys!

If you watched the Emmy Awards last night, chances are you saw something shocking and disturbing: somehow, the evil Dr. Horrible hijacked the otherwise peaceful awards ceremony, proclaiming the end of television as we know it! Fortunately, he was bested by the handsome and oh-so-smart Captain Hammer (favorite TV show: CSI Miami–the other two are “too heady” for him). Moist and Penny also make an appearance in this sure-to-be memorable event:

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog DVD has been so popular on our site, we’re temporarily sold out! However, you can backorder it right now. Make sure to check out the upcoming Dr. Horrible one-shots from Dark Horse Comics!

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Big news for manga fans: Kodansha, Japanese publisher of many popular manga titles, will not renew its licenses with Tokyopop. This means any manga series in progress will not be completed, and there will be no reprints of any current volumes.

Brigid Alverson from MangaBlog posted Tokyopop’s official press here, but here’s an excerpt:

The Japanese publisher Kodansha, from whom TOKYOPOP has licensed many terrific series over the years — Chobits, Love Hina, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Rave Master, Initial D, Kindaichi, Life, GetBackers, and Love Attack, to name a few — has decided to let all existing contracts with TOKYOPOP expire on all manga series that they have licensed to us. As a result, Kodansha will not renew any licenses with TOKYOPOP for any new manga volumes. What does this mean? TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to complete the publication of any series that is currently in progress; in addition, TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to reprint titles after the current inventory has been sold out, so once these series are sold out at retail, they will not be available for consumers to purchase. The reasons for Kodansha’s decision were not communicated to TOKYOPOP.

Brigid also noted that Kodansha also opted not to renew its licenses with Tokyopop Germany last year.

What do you all think of this latest development? Are you disappointed that so many manga series will be stopped in their tracks? Do you still read Tokyopop, or have you moved on to Dark Horse’s CLAMP or other manga publishers?

Exclusive Video Interview!

Let me start off by saying, J. P. Kalonji is not in the witness protection program. Unfortunately, interviewing him in front of Dark Horse Comics’ glowing “We Love Comics” sign makes him hard to see for the first two minutes of this video. However! Don’t let this deter you from learning more about 365 Samurai and a Few Bowls of Rice, Kalonji’s English-language debut from Dark Horse Comics! The dynamic art is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and there’s a twist to the storyline that makes 365 Samurai far different from your typical samurai story:

The very dapper J.P. Kalonji at SDCC '09!

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Big news for manga fans: Kodansha, Japanese publisher of many popular manga titles, will not renew its licenses with Tokyopop. This means any manga series in progress will not be completed, and there will be no reprints of any current volumes.

Brigid Alverson from MangaBlog posted Tokyopop’s official press here, but here’s an excerpt:

The Japanese publisher Kodansha, from whom TOKYOPOP has licensed many terrific series over the years — Chobits, Love Hina, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Rave Master, Initial D, Kindaichi, Life, GetBackers, and Love Attack, to name a few — has decided to let all existing contracts with TOKYOPOP expire on all manga series that they have licensed to us. As a result, Kodansha will not renew any licenses with TOKYOPOP for any new manga volumes. What does this mean? TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to complete the publication of any series that is currently in progress; in addition, TOKYOPOP will not be allowed to reprint titles after the current inventory has been sold out, so once these series are sold out at retail, they will not be available for consumers to purchase. The reasons for Kodansha’s decision were not communicated to TOKYOPOP.

Brigid also noted that Kodansha also opted not to renew its licenses with Tokyopop Germany last year.

What do you all think of this latest development? Are you disappointed that so many manga series will be stopped in their tracks? Do you still read Tokyopop, or have you moved on to Dark Horse’s CLAMP or other manga publishers?

The Anchor. Holy warrior, unholy war. Freak of nature, beast of burden, hulking outcast, medieval prize fighter, Viking raider, God’s leg-breaker.

One thousand years ago a hulking outcast sought refuge in the crumbling ruins of an ancient monastery, offering in return the one thing he had to give–his fists.

Transformed into an immortal warrior monk standing at the gates of Hell itself to keep our world free from its invading armies, The Anchor is mysteriously tricked into centuries of slumber. But today, this holy warrior rises to battle all the unholy monsters unleashed during his slumber.

We had the chance to chat with Phil Hester and Brian Churilla, the creators of this exciting new series from Boom Studios! Here are the fruits of that chat.

TFAW.com: Phil, you’ve spent a lot of time writing complex, dark stories and The Anchor certainly looks like it’s going down a similar road. What can you tell us about the tone of the book? What’s it going to feel like?

Phil Hester (PH): In the same vein as The Coffin or Deep Sleeper, but with an emphasis on action. In the past most of my protagonists have been everyman types thrown into bizarre situations. In The Anchor, the main character is the bizarre factor thrown into our world. So, while I hope fans of my work find the same kind of thoughtfulness they found in my other books, there will be a lot of balls-out fight scenes. I’d say “teeth rattling” would best describe the feel of the book.

TFAW.com: Little saint, God’s leg-breaker? Is it safe to say that religion will play a key role in The Anchor?

PH: Only obliquely. The Anchor is a Christian monk, but we’ll see in the first issue that he doesn’t even know what a psalm is. His training, we’ll come to find out, is very unorthodox. As far as he knows his powers come from the almighty and that’s good enough for him. We don’t dig much deeper than that. There’s no time for navel gazing in his world or our funnybook. It relates to Christianity about as accurately as The Mighty Thor does to worshipers of Odin, but there’s certainly no effort to demean it at all.

As Chris Walken said in defense of The Prophecy when some interviewer bemoaned the idea of evil angels (paraphrasing): “I’m sure real angels are good. This is a film.”

The Anchor #2 (Cover A)

TFAW.com: Starting a brand-new series and establishing mythos must be very exciting and exhausting.  What can you tell us about our hero and how’d you come up with his name?

PH: The Anchor doesn’t have a full recollection of his own identity in issue #1, so we’ll be learning along with him. I hate to spoil plot points, so I’ll just say that every time The Anchor kills a monster, he gets a little bit of his memory back. Here’s what we know: He’s basically Gandhi’s soul in The Incredible Hulk’s body, his soul is in hell preventing demons from invading Earth, the wounds he suffers in hell show up on his body on Earth, and he’s on a mission to destroy any demonic critters that make it to our world.

The name came from stumbling across the practices of Anchorite monks, who walled themselves up in the foundations of churches to prevent outside influence. That extreme commitment to a cause is both startling and inspirational. What kind of person does that? A person who has rejected the world as he or she sees it and is looking for something else. Also, we’ll see that our main character has other reasons for the nickname when we get a flashback in #2. In the end, it implies a rock-solid base, unwavering strength–that’s our guy!

TFAW.com: Has this idea been simmering for awhile or did inspiration hit you recently?

PH: It’s pretty recent. I cooked it up just for Brian to draw.

TFAW.com: How did you two come to meet and work together?

PH: I’d been an admirer of Brian’s work since I saw it in the Archaia book, The Engineer. I emailed him to buy some pages and we hit it off well enough to work together. I sent Brian my list of 20 or so unpublished proposals and he rejected them all! As I said earlier, my heroes tend to be average Joes, and Brian wanted to draw an iconic character. I was turning all that around in my head when I saw a travel special about anchorite monks at Lindisfarne. He seemed to dig it and away we went.

TFAW.com: Brian, you’re a relative newcomer on the comics scene, where have you been hiding? I mean, your art is pretty incredible. How is it that we haven’t seen a lot more of you?

Brian Churilla (BC): I’ve been around, cutting my teeth for a while now. I started out doing a graphic novel with Fred Van Lente called Watchdogs, went on to do The Engineer for Archaia, Dark Horse Presents, Rex Mundi, Creepy for DH and We Kill Monsters with Red5, to name a few. I’m definitely doing my best work in The Anchor because aesthetically, it’s smack dab in the ol’ wheelhouse, so I feel very inspired.

The Anchor #2 (Cover B)

TFAW.com: How has the character design process gone?  Has The Anchor changed a lot since his initial inception?

BC: There have been some changes for sure, but overall, he’s retained his likeness since his initial design. There are a lot of monsters to design, a lot, and who wouldn’t want to draw monsters all the time?

TFAW.com: Anything else we should expect to find in The Anchor?

PH: I think there will be a more romantic bent to this than anyone might suspect looking at the previews and first issues. Also, I can’t help myself, even though this is billed as a punch-up kind of comic, it will get heavy and/or touching when you least expect it!

TFAW.com: Let’s say I’m a reader who’s on the fence about The Anchor. How are you going to push me over the edge?  What’s your used-car salesman pitch?

PH: There’s an under-served market in comics, and that’s readers craving smart action. We get plenty of dumb action from superhero comics and plenty of smart shoe gazing from lit comix. We’re trying to wrangle the best of both worlds. I think we offer thrills and spills coupled with plenty of emotionally resonant moments and witty dialogue. Imagine Michael Chabon writing play by play for a demolition derby. That’s us.

Thanks for taking the time to talk with us about The Anchor, guys. We’re eagerly awaiting October 28th.

For those of you who’d like to see a bit more of the book, check out the First Look. The first issue is available for pre-order now, so hurry and get your copy while you can.

Phil and Brian were also kind enough to give us some signed copies, so be sure to pre-order The Anchor #1 or comment below and we’ll throw your name in the hat to get one of those coveted copies!

Have you seen Dark Horse Comics’ One-Shot Wonders? This fall, Dark Horse Comics is releasing nine one-shots featuring your favorite titles and creators, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, and Star Wars. Each title contains a complete story, and each features awesome artists and writers, making this a very special collection of comics.

Here are the salient details of each comic:

October:
• Abe Sapien, written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, with art by Patric Reynolds.
• Star Wars: Invasion #0, collecting material previously available only online at StarWars.com.
• Sugarshock, by Joss Whedon and Fábio Moon, with 14 bonus pages of art!

November
• Dr. Horrible, written by Zack Whedon, with art by Joëlle Jones.
• Star Wars: Purge–Seconds to Die, by John Ostrander and Jim Hall.
• The Goon, by the incomparable Eric Powell.

December
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow, by Joss Whedon and Karl Moline, the team from Fray!
• Conan: The Weight of the Crown, written and drawn by Darick Robertson from The Boys and Transmetropolitan.
• Hellboy: The Bride of Hell, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben, who also teamed up on the Eisner-winning The Crooked Man!

Stay tuned–we should have an exclusive video interview with Dark Horse Comics’ Senior Managing Editor, Scott Allie, up on the blog tomorrow. If you have any questions for him, be sure to post them below now.

So what do you think? Are you intrigued by the idea of a series of one-shots? Will it entice you to pick up a title you haven’t read in the past? Post your comments and opinions now!

New Video Post From Dark Horse Comics!

Scott Allie made the trip to TFAW World Headquarters to talk to us about Dark Horse Comics’ One-Shot Wonders! We talk about a big reveal in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow comic, and I ask him if there’s going to be an ongoing Dr. Horrible series:

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New Video Posts From San Diego Comic-Con!

I saved the best for last: not only does Vice President of Publishing Randy Stradley announce that Star Wars titles like Empire, Legacy, and Clone Wars are coming to the iPhone, but his sidekick is Princess Leia:

Also Mike Richardson brings Jim Shooter up to talk about writing for several of the Gold Key characters that Dark Horse will relaunch:

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New Video Post Live From San Diego Comic-Con!

Andrew and I landed in San Diego this morning, just in time to check out the Con floor while everyone was setting up their booths–it’s a preview of Preview Night, if you will! In addition to checking out the DC, CBLDF, and Dark Horse booths, we made sure to check out the Capcom and Udon booths, thanks to a tip from blog commenter Joverine.

So . . . yeahhh. Andrew and I are still a little awkward on camera, and I realized I need to stop playing with my hair and grabbing my left arm. What is that about? In any case, tune in later tonight, when we post our wrap-up of Preview Night, and I’ll (hopefully) have an interview with a Vertigo/DC creator I’ve been dying to talk to!

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Dark Horse Deluxe is giving one of the comic-book medium’s most revered casts of characters the Syroco-style treatment in this series of statuettes based on the classic Uncle Scrooge comics.

First up in the series is Uncle Scrooge, followed soon by Donald Duck, Gyro Gearloose, and Magica de Spell.

Each character comes with a collector’s button and is packaged in a special collector’s tin, and makes a great addition to anyone’s Disney collection. Be sure to take advantage of our pre-order discount to save 20% off the retail price.

I’m kinda partial to Gyro Gearloose because I remember him from Ducktales and he was a wacky character. Walking home from school to turn on the Disney Afternoon was usually a highlight of my day when I was growing up. Which one’s your favorite? Share your story with us below.

The 1979 movie The Warriors was an instant cult hit, with millions of fans who have thrilled to the adventures of the Warriors, a street gang who had to beat down every other gang in New York–and escape from 20,000 police officers–to make it to the safety of their home turf: Coney Island. But what happened next? After a 30-year wait, everyone finally gets to see the next chapter with The Warriors: Jailbreak from Dabel Brothers Publishing.

While creating a sequel to a movie with a following like The Warriors might be intimidating, Dabel Brothers–and fans–are lucky to have three Warriors fanatics on the job: Erik Henriksen, Todd Herman, and Herb Apon. I was lucky enough to be initiated into their gang and got the inside scoop on how they came up with The Warriors: Jailbreak and where they plan to go from here!

TFAW.com: Hi guys, thanks for meeting with me!

Herb Apon: Thanks for doing this for us, Elisabeth.

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It’s not just the Fourth of July–it’s Jo Chen’s birthday! We want to wish her a very happy birthday this year. This Eisner-nominated artist is best known for her gorgeous covers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, but you can check out all of her work here.

There’s all kinds of Jo Chen awesomeness to check out this month–make sure to see her MySpace Dark Horse Presents Buffy story, written by Joss Whedon himself. You can also see a gallery of Jo Chen’s covers, and a feature that shows just how she creates her gorgeous works of art.

What’s your favorite Jo Chen cover? Are you hoping she does more interior artwork? Post your comments below!

With MySpace dealing with significant layoffs, including its entire MySpace Comics staff, the ever-popular MySpace Dark Horse Presents has temporarily moved back to the mothership at DarkHorse.com.

This is fantastic news for Buffy lovers, as this issue includes something fans have been clamoring for: an entire story with artwork by regular cover artist Jo Chen! This is the first time Chen has done interiors for the series, and it’s a doozy, featuring the return of Angel and Spike! Sorta. You have to go read it. But with cameos from other past characters from the television series, you don’t want to miss this issue, and you’ll want to place your pre-order for MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 TPB riiiiiiiight . . . now. Okay, now.

But wait! There’s more! (^TM Billy Mays, RIP.) There are three other awesome short stories, including The Giant Man in Paris from Harvey Award-winner Matt Kindt (Super Spy, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man), Dreamstar, from Love & Rockets‘ Gilbert Hernandez, and Tickets from Mike Lawrence–a story that had me tearing up at my desk.

So head on over and check out the latest issue of MySpace Dark Horse Presents, and let me know what you think. Were Jo Chen’s interiors all you hoped they would be? Post your comments below!