December 16th Dynamite Previews: Red Sonja: Black Tower and More

Dynamite Entertainment has released previews of this week’s releases, including Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3, Looking for Group # =9, and several trade paperback collections, such as Red Sonja: Black Tower by Frank Tieri and Cezar Razek.

Official previews:

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3

writer: Dean Koontz, Chuck Dixon

artist: Andres Ponce

cover: Andres Ponce

FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+

The Resurrection Engine has fulfilled Victor’s latest dreams of power, raising an army from the dead amidst the flood waters of Hurricane Shelley. But are these charred creatures truly at his command? Meanwhile, Carson and Michael face the undead hordes at the 13th ward, and Erika continues to interrogate the severed head of Karloff about the full extent of Victor’s machinations.

Looking For Group #9

writer: Ryan Sohmer

artist: Lar deSouza, Hawk, Ryan Dunlavey, Ed Ryzowski

cover: David Namisato

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FC • 48 pages • $4.99 • Teen+

There’s something going on in a little village up the coast, but that’s not what’s got our team split in two! Cale grows more suspicious and Benny’s healing powers are put to the test! Pella needs to deal with some family business and Richard…? Well, Richard makes a trip “home” that can only be called hilariously gruesome.

Legenderry: Vampirella TP

writer: David Avallone

artist: David T. Cabrera

cover: Joe Benitez

FC • 128 pages • $17.99 • Teen+

From the pages of Bill Willingham’s Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure… it’s Vampirella, the immortal horror heroine, neck-deep in conspiracies and corruption. Against a Neo-Victorian backdrop of zeppelins and petticoats, the raven-haired adventurer stalks an alternate reality of danger and darkness in a tale by David Avallone and David T. Cabrera!

When not entertaining her guests at the classy Scarlet Club as Madam Pendragon, Vampirella stalks out into the cobblestone streets of the Big City in pursuit of The Council, an alliance of the deadliest ne’er-do-wells ever to plague civilized society. But the hunter becomes the hunted when Blackmass, the extradimensional demon with a hunger for human souls, ventures into the night, pursuing tasty morsels without Council supervision. As panic sets in among friends and foe alike, Vampirella must face a host of enemies — including the beast-like Black Bat, the devious Veiled Lady, and many more — in a desperate race to reach the monster first!

Lady Demon TP

writer: Aaron Gillespie

artist: Mirka Andolfo, Juanan Ramirez

cover: Mike Mayhew

FC • 112 pages • $14.99 • Teen+

Lady Demon, the archduchess of Hell, is on the run! Hunted by Lucifer’s war parties after a failed assassination plot, her only chance is to escape to Earth inside a living vessel. Selecting a recently murdered young woman named Violet Sparks, she takes flight from Perdition as a stowaway, only able to exert control of her host’s body in times of extreme duress. But little could she suspect that Violet is the center of a dark conspiracy… an innocent wrongly condemned to Hell for the sins of her bloodline. Together, Lady Demon and Violet unravel the mystery of the woman’s parentage while cutting a bloody, fiery swath through the Deep South!

Lady Zorro TP

writer: Alex de Campi

artist: Rey Villegas

covers: Joseph Michael Linsner

FC • 120 pages • $15.99 • Teen+

Lady Zorro is called back to Alta California to recover a sacred Chumash war axe, stolen by mercenary soldiers. Only she can stop an all-out bloody war across the ranchos, and more deaths like those that consumed her family… if she can stay on mission! When an opportunity for ultimate vengeance presents itself, can she ignore it? Or will the fiery desire to put her greatest foe six feet underground consume Lady Zorro… and all of Alta California with it? A violent, sexy tale of intrigue and swashbuckling as the female Fox must use all her assets to get herself out of trouble.

Red Sonja Black Tower TP ** released 12/09

writer: Frank Tieri

artist: Cezar Razek

cover: Amanda Conner

FC • 96 pages • $14.99 • Teen+

What is the Black Tower? What startling mysteries does it contain within its walls? And most shockingly… how will its very existence cause the death of Red Sonja?

When the Hyrkanian swordswoman rides into the city of Lur, she discovers that a mysterious ebon fortress has risen in the night, inspiring paranoia among the populace. While some fearful citizens are driven to murderous frenzy, others become fanatic devotees of the tower’s unknown inhabitants. As the years go by, Sonja is always drawn back to this desperate place where unfeeling eyes gleam in dark corners. Who are the Soulless, and what terrible fate will they bring to the red-tressed heroine?