Image Comics and Top Cow Productions are offering fans an opportunity to catch up on the first five Witchblade issues, hot off the Top Cow Universe-altering events of Artifacts #13 and Witchblade #150, with Witchblade: Rebirth Volume One trade paperback!

With an introductory price of $9.99, readers can easily discover the series that has everyone buzzing. The collection, by the passionate new creative team of Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Bloodstrike) andDiego Bernard (The Man With No Name), along with Top Cow’s new rebirth continuity, provide an ideal jumping-on point for new readers.

Additionally, Top Cow’s Free Comic Book Day features Witchblade: Unbalanced Pieces, a prologue to the story in Rebirth Volume One — and readers will want to know how it unfolds!

In the wake of Top Cow’s Rebirth, Sara Pezzini has relocated from New York to Chicago and struggles to adapt to her new job as a private detective. Pezzini quickly discovers that a change of scenery and occupation hasn’t changed one thing… the Witchblade is still a magnet for the supernatural. Quickly drawn into a conflict between two mystical gangs, she must once again balance her responsibility as bearer of the Witchblade with her personal life.

Seeley and Bernard’s bold new direction for Top Cow’s flagship character coupled with a stunning painted cover by John Tyler Christopher (Artifacts), a complete cover gallery alongside a host of bonus content and extras make this entry-level priced collection a must for anyone curious about Top Cow’s Rebirth.

Witchblade Rebirth Volume 1 is a full-color, 144-page trade paperback that collects issues #151-#155 retailing for $9.99 and will be in stores May 16th, 2012.

Marrowbones, by Eric Orchard, is published by digital only imprint, Springwinder. It’s 47 pages and costs 2 dollars. It’s a childrens horror story, abut a girl working at a very haunted inn.

Marrowbones Swamp is a small pocket world within your own. It is well hidden and the exact properties of this world are mysterious. Even it’s exact dimension change radically over time, ebbing and waning. Marrowbones roves around eastern North America; upstate New York, Maine, Ontario and other eastern provinces. Some of the structures in marrowbones are European so it is believed that it was once situated in Europe. There is also a working lampost from New Orleans, a hut from Central Africa and a small Russian church. There are other worlds hidden in marrowbones, worlds within worlds within worlds. So it is important to stay on the path and ignore those beckoning lights you see in the distance.

Check it out: Marrowbones

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill brought The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen “Century” trilogy to Top Shelf & Knockabout and it’s been Diamond Comics’ #1 bestselling graphic novel in America, with each new book – even hitting the New York Times Bestseller list.

Description: In this third and final chapter, our narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2009. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q’umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there’s a patient who insists that she has all the answers.

It’s a spectacular finish that must be seen to be believed.

• 80-page softcover
• 6.625″ x 10.125″, full-color graphic novel
• For mature readers (16+)
• ISBN 978-1-60309-007-0
• Diamond DM code: APR12-1232
• $9.95 (US)
• Shipping to stores in June!
• Co-published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout Comics (UK)

Platinum Studios, Inc. has announced that the entertainment company will release the werewolf action-horror story Big Badz as a digital graphic novel on Apple’s iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle and other standard formats. Big Badz is just one of the titles in Platinum Studios’ international library of thousands of comic book characters which it adapts, produces, and licenses for all forms of media including print, film, online, mobile/wireless, gaming and merchandising.

Big Badz is the story of an incredible struggle for survival as a group of inner-city housing project residents band together to stave off a pack of murderous werewolves that invade their home. A disgruntled ex-cop – now, the security chief at the housing project — teams up with a brave animal control officer; together, they join forces with a strange hunter who has devoted his life to destroy the werewolves. As the gruesome battle wages on, the heroes realize that their mysterious ally may not be so different from the lupine savages howling for their blood … they must pick between the lesser of two evils if they wish to survive the night.

The graphic novel was created by Rob Moran and written by veteran author Chuck Dixon, internationally known for his work on the Punisher and Batman comics franchises. Dixon also wrote the series for comic classics Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl and Birds Of Prey.

Platinum Studios’ Chairman and CEO, Scott Rosenberg, also announced plans to develop Big Badz as a major motion picture. Rosenberg recently produced the 2011 tent pole feature Cowboys & Aliens with Steven Spielberg, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

Serial Killer and Vampire Guardian Angels. Yes, you heard that right. They are a new kind of vicious, bloody, and psychotic vampire created by horror author Lia Scott Price, and they are characters from her vampire trilogy novel, The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion.

In 2012, Price is starting her own webcomic series based on this trilogy novel. Artist Andrew Setter, a student working towards his degree in illustration, has been commissioned as the new comic book series’ artist.

As Price’s first official comic book series, her Serial Killer and Vampire Guardian Angels will become full-fledged comic book characters in 24-page fully-illustrated comic books . The series will be released online, with each story following the transformation of the characters from helpful Guardian Angel to evil Vampire.

The new 2012 comic book series will be an ongoing project with sequels to follow.

For more info on Lia Scott Price and the webcomic series, visit Lia Scott Price.

Publisher Mohawk Media is promising surprise guest stars throughout its new series, Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde.

Not content with the title’s legendary headliners, the second issue sees a long forgotten character from the Robin Hood legend make a comeback. Plus it features two of history’s most twisted tyrants.

British writer Chris Bunting says: “Each guest star will play a vital role in this series. The third issue will bare witness to that with the arrival of a famous horror monster.”

Released via the publisher’s paperless range of Eco Comics, editor Stuart Buckley explains: “Expect a top quality print comic book in everything but physical format. In fact, not many print comic books look this good.

“The aim of this comic is to give fans lots of fighting and fun. It may not get an Eisner, but this series is already getting rave reviews.”

Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde #1 and #2 are twenty-page issues, and available to order now in various digital formats via the Eco Comics store at a cover price of $1.95 (approximately £1.20).

Dracula vs. Robin Hood vs. Jekyll & Hyde will initially be a three-issue monthly series available exclusively via the publisher’s groundbreaking line of ECO COMICS, designed to have minimal negative impact on the environment.

Further instalments of the series, and other “versus” titles, are set to be announced.

Zenescope Entertainment has announced plans to release a follow up to their hit comic book series, The Waking, first published by the company in 2010. The new series, entitled The Waking: Dreams End, is written by Raven Gregory (FLY, Return To Wonderland) with interior art by Novo Malgapo (Grimm Fairy Tales).

In 2010, The Waking redefined zombie mythology and stood out as a unique offering in a crowded genre. The Waking: Dreams End picks up years after the original events took place. Murder has become practically extinct in a world armed with the knowledge that those who are killed will return from the dead to take the lives of their killers. But within this new world comes a new kind of killer and an original breed of horror will be born.

“Several months after the release of The Waking, I had a splinter of an idea that just grew and grew over the course of the past year. Says Writer Raven Gregory, I knew I needed to follow up the original story and set it in a brand new world. In The Waking, we established all the rules but in Dreams End, we find someone who has found a way to break those rules. And now the stakes are raised to a higher level and it’s really going to mess with fan’s minds.”

The original series received much critical acclaim and was praised by the Philadelphia Daily News as well as many comic book news websites for its unique blend of horror, suspense and comedy and its original take on the zombie mythos.

The Waking: Dreams End #1 hits shelves in late April and is currently available for order through Diamond Previews. Go to Zenescope’s website and Facebook page for more information.

Zenescope Entertainment was founded by Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco in 2005 and has quickly grown into one of the top comic book and graphic novel publishing companies in the world. Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales and subsequent spinoff series such as Escape From Wonderland, Neverland and The Piper, which put a dark twist on classic fables, are some of the best-selling and longest running original independent comic books on shelves today. Zenescope’s licensed titles include the on-going, critically acclaimed Charmed series, based off of the long-running popular television series, as well as Se7en and Final Destination, based off of New Line Cinema’s successful film franchises.