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Welcome to August! We would like to celebrate the first day of the month by making sure you are the first to get a glimpse of our newest Digital First title,Space: 1999 Classics Remembered! Archaia and comiXology have continued to team up and are glad to bring you more exciting titles, as well as some complete volumes! 

Digital Firsts: Titles That Are Available Digitally Before the Print Edition’s Release

Space: 1999 Classics Remastered, part 1:
Writer: Andrew Gaska and Various
Artists: Various

Reprinting the best of the Charlton Comics series, the British LOOK-IN issues and Annuals, The German Zack Issues, and the Italian AMZ stories from the mid 1970s, these editions will feature restored and recolored art, showcasing the work by such comics luminaries as Gray Morrow, John Byrne, and Joe Staton. The restoration project, designed to return the original art to its former glory through the digital retouching of the actual printed comic pages, will be executed by a team led by Vanguard Production’s senior restoration artist, BLAM!s own creative director Andrew E. C. Gaska. Gaska has worked on several of Vanguard’s restored art books in this fashion, and these volumes have received critical acclaim in preserving the past of comic and pulp art. The same techniques will be applied here. 

But these will not be straight reprints, these will be remastered. The art will be corrected where the ships were drawn wrong, and character likenesses will be altered as well to fit the continuity (and legality) better. Finally, the written stories will be remastered as well—essentially, taking the same premise of each story and updating them to appeal to an adult 1999 audience while maintaining the spirit of the originals.

Other Archaia Digital Releases:

Black Charity, Complete
Writer/Artist: Bal Speer

A dark, cynical thriller set in the urban UK. When Charlie moves into his new flat, he meets a colorful array of new characters, including a dominatrix and a skinhead yabo, witnesses a murder, and finds himself on the run from assassins and fixers sent by the highest levels of government. Shades of Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss and the hard-boiled style of 100 Bullets, all with a very British (as in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels British) accent.

Everlast, Complete
Writer: Chad Michael Murray
Artists: Danijel Zezelj, Robbi Rodriguez, J.K. Woodward, Andrew Huerta, Trevor Hairsine

A pre-apocalyptic tale, Everlast follows Derek Everlast, a man whose destiny in life is guiding others to a place of rebirth for mankind called Haven. Following an instinct called the Nudge, bestowed on him by a higher power, Derek is guided to the next chosen human destined to survive, a little girl named Melissa. In a harrowing adventure, he must deliver her safely to Haven before the End of Days. Everlast tells a story of choice, love, friendship, and, most of all, survival. Will you be chosen?

Hopeless, Maine Vol 1, Complete
Writer: Nimue Brown
Artist: Tom Brown

Being Hopeless isn’t just a state of mind.

Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with everyday that passes. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. This is not the stuff of happy, careless childhoods, it is instead fertile ground for personal demons. In Hopeless, the demons are not always abstract concepts. Some of them have very real teeth, and very real horns.

The island has been isolated for a very long time. Partly because of being small and forgotten, partly because the rocks and currents do not encourage visitors, Hopeless is surrounded by fog and overrun with nightmarish creatures, from small things with tentacles to demons and vampires. It’s a peculiar place. Here, almost anything can happen, from the weird and unsettling to the darkly funny. With a cast of freaks, nutters and the odd power crazed psychopath, life in Hopeless is seldom dull.

Hopeless is also about who you choose to be. The tale is a protest against apathy, and against the small evils that everyone takes for granted. The worst monsters frequently aren’t the ones with the obvious teeth – who are merely dangerous by nature – but the apparently ordinary people who choose to do hideous things.

Cow Boy, part 4
Writer: Nate Cosby
Artist: Chris Eliopoulos

Justice ain’t got no age. 

‘COW BOY’ is the all-ages story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain’t his, and won’t stop til every one’a his kin’s in the clink. In part four of our tale, Boyd heads past the border to turn in his no good brother Zeke. Join Boyd and his horse as they try to get justice the only way they know how. 

The Dare Detectives Vol. 1: The Snow Pea Plot, part 6
Writer/Artist: Ben Caldwell

Reformed crook Maria Dare has assembled a team of misfits to crack the world’s weirdest cases! They have brains…they have guts…but they don’t have a clue! And in their first adventure, the Dare Detectives are finished! Rent’s due and their license is suspended, but Dare’s going-out-of-business festivities are interrupted by Madame Bleu—whose abominable snowmen pets are on a chef-stealing, radio-robbing, snowpea-swiping crime wave! Dare races against the clock to hunt down Madame Bleu with the help of corrupt cops and Chinatown’s old crime boss. But can these bunglers really prevent the most audacious—and inexplicably convoluted—crime of the century?

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, part 4
Creator: Jim Henson
Artist/Writers: Roger Langridge, Marjorie Liu, Ron Marz, Jeff Parker, Francesco Francavilla, Chris Eliopoulos, Janet K. Lee

The much-loved, live-action/puppet combination TV show is now a graphic novel series! Archaia and The Jim Henson Company are proud to present ALL-NEW tales of fantastic wonder and extraordinary myth, as told from the tongue of The Storyteller and his loyal canine companion! Part four of the Storyteller is an adaptation by “The Witch Baby,” based on the unproduced Storyteller teleplay written by Anthony Minghella, Susan Kodieck, and Anne Mountfield. It has been realized here by Nate Cosby, Roman Cliquet, and Adam Street.

The Grand Duke, part 5
Writer:
Artist: Romain Hugault and Yann

The Eastern Front during WWII: Oberleutnant Wulf, a young Luftwaffe pilot, is horrified by Nazi barbarism and at odds with his fellow pilots, even as he finds himself taking to the skies to fight the infamous “Night Witches” — the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, the most decorated female unit in the Soviet Air Force. Motivated only by his desire to return home to his daughter, Romy, Wulf tries to survive the increasingly desperate and ferocious Eastern Front, while Lilya, the “Red Witch,” leads her comrades against the German invaders. A Romeo-and-Juliet story set against the backdrop of WWII aerial dogfights

Join us next week! We will have the exciting new chapters for City in the Desert, Last Days of an Immortal and Mumbai Confidential!