The Progenitors—ancient, powerful rulers of an empire spanning a thousand suns—vanished before mankind discovered the Americas, leaving the Elders to rule as Regents of the empire. Three thousand years later, the Regency set their sights on the Terran Republic.When the vast Regency fleet attacks, the fate of humanity falls on a pair of young shoulders. Elise, a scholar's daughter who has never been on her own. Glen, the slave of an alien master, who doesn't know how to be human.

Unwillingly drawn out of her annual drunken stupor, Captain Nancy Martin, Retired, finds herself involuntarily reactivated. Her assignment—help Special Agent Erica Hampton solve the disappearance of an entire school's student body. Hampton's superiors suspect a slaver ring has kidnapped the children, to sell them on a rim world beyond the Terran Federation's borders.When Nancy and Erica discover the truth behind the abductions, they realize their deadline is quite literal, and much...

A plucky band of D&D adventurers butcher a classic of English literature—and some orcs.Two redneck country boys figure out a way to jump the Pearly Gates and break into Heaven.A legendary mighty-thewed hero fights for his incomparable princess in a topsy-turvy Martian land.Daredevil aviator Cliff Hanger battles the criminal mastermind, Doctor Darkness.And more!From dystopian science fiction, to tongue-in-cheek modern fantasy, to the horror of retribu...

Lieutenant Chris Marlow and airship pilot Jade Cochran believe they know their future—work, marriage, and a family. They joined Dr. Agrilla's annual medical mission as a break from their routine. Then a raider airship dove out of the clouds, its crew intent on capturing the outmanned flyer.The young couple must fight for their lives and pray they still have a future together. But their fate is written in the stars, not the skies of their homeworld.That fate brings challenge...

Universes collide when the LEAGUE OF CHAMPIONS teams up with the SOUTHERN KNIGHTS for an 8-issue battle for all time and space.Three years after David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview Publications released the final issue of SOUTHERN KNIGHTS, HEROIC PUBLISHING's Dennis Mallonee approached DAK and writer/creator Henry Vogel with a proposal they couldn't refuse: The Southern Knights, Flare, and the League of Champions, together in the same story! These heroes and their greatest villa...

The #1 Super Team of the South returns in this (nearly) complete hardcover anthology, collecting one of the premiere independent comic book series of the 1980s. Created by Henry Vogel and David Willis, the Southern Knights were made up of Electrode, Kristin, Connie Ronnin, Dragon, and Aramis, and their adventures spanned nearly forty issues.With over 1100 pages of story, including the DRAGON miniseries and all the Southern Knights backup stories, this all-in-one volume also contain...

Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death.Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she's been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by the descendants of the original crew and passengers—people whose entire universe is the ship!Mistaken for the vast ship's long-lost and near-mythical Captain, Nanc...

When Terran Scout First Class David Rice crash-lands on the long-lost colony world of Aashla, he is thrown into a world of flashing blades and steam-powered airships, where rival kingdoms constantly struggle and plot against each other. Armed with only his wits and his instincts, David realizes two things: that he must win the love of the beautiful Princess Callan, and he must use all his star-born skills to unify his new homeworld and fight to bring it back into galactic civilization....

In a solar system that never was, in a future that never will be, trouble always finds Travis Barrett.If Barrett turned away every troublesome person who darkened his office door, he wouldn't have any clients. And Tina Tate, the Asteroid Belt's very own glamour girl, has trouble written all over her. Taking her case means a trip to Mercury and incurring the wrath of the richest man in the Belt – Tina's father.Who would be foolish enough to take Tina's case?...

Fred and Bianca, the heroes of the cult classic 1980s parody comic, ARISTOCRATIC XTRATERRESTRIAL TIME-TRAVELING THIEVES are back in this collected edition. Experience the magic all over again as our plucky thieves steal the most culturally significant of items."This is one of the best of the funny comic books (and one of the handful that really is funny). -- Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide

In a galaxy teeming with untold trillions of humans and aliens spread across thousands of worlds, people go missing all the time. The forces of law and order simply don't have the manpower to solve kidnappings, find the lost, or track down runaways.That's where I come in.My name is Tristan Furreel, and I work for Missing Beings. If someone you love is missing, my team and I will find them. For a price.

I always keep my word. That's why I'm headed back to Mars for a case. That's also why the Spiffies - Space Patrol Intelligence Force - came sniffing around my office. I told them to get lost. They told me my case had connections to their search for the Bloodsword, the pirate ship that destroyed my first command and cost me my career in Space Patrol.But my case has roots far older than my six-year quest for vengeance against the Bloodsword. Roots that stretch back to the dawn of Mar...