ALIEN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY #1 (OF 5)—-$3.99

DARK HORSE COMICS

(W) Cristiano Seixas (A/CA) Guilherme Balbi

En route to back to Earth, the crew of the starship Snark intercepts an alien transmission. Their investigation leads them to a desolate planetoid, a crashed alien spacecraft, and a pyramidic structure of unknown origin. Then the terror begins . . .

o Just in time for Alien Day (April 26, 2020)

o Adapted from the original 1976 screenplay by Dan O'Bannon (author of Moebius's The Long Tomorrow, cowriter of Total Recall, writer/director of The Return of the Living Dead).

o Variant covers by Walter Simonson!

LORDS OF EMPYRE CELESTIAL MESSIAH #1—$4.99

MARVEL COMICS

(W) Alex Paknadel (A) Alex Lins (CA) Rod Reis

The eve of Quoi's ascension is at hand! But when the trials are interrupted by an unexpected interloper-Mantis-who will win this battle of wills?

Don't miss out as mother and son go head-to-head, revealing secrets that will shape the course of the galaxy!

Rated T+

VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE #1—-$3.99

VAULT COMICS

(W) Tim Seeley & Various (A) Dev Pramanik, Nathan Gooden (CA) Aaron Campbell

From the internationally best-selling World of Darkness universe, Vault brings readers a brand-new Vampire: The Masquerade comic series, Winter's Teeth.

When Cecily Brine, a courier for the Twin Cities Camarilla, takes a mysterious younger vampire under her wing, she's dragged into an insidious conspiracy. Will she be able to escape with her unlife and protect her aging, Alzheimer's afflicted sister, or will she be yet another pawn sacrificed to the Masquerade?

Meanwhile, an Anarch coterie investigates a mysterious killing.