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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Last Rites #4.
"By the flickering light of a scavenged projector, the dark secret behind the zombie plague that destroyed the 1960s is revealed."
'68: Last Rites #4 was written by Mark Kidwell, and illustrated by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones and Jay Fotos, and a variant cover by Nate Van Dyke and Jay Fotos.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Last Rites #3.
"By the flickering light of a scavenged projector, the dark secret behind the zombie plague that destroyed the 1960s is revealed."
'68: Last Rites #3 was written by Mark Kidwell, and illustrated by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones and Jay Fotos, and a variant cover by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Last Rites #2.
"Image Comics and Meatgrinder Studios proudly present the climactic mini-series that brings all current ’68 storylines full-circle with an explosive, revealing finish!"
'68: Last Rites #2 was written by Mark Kidwell, and illustrated by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones and Jay Fotos, and a variant cover by Jay Fotos.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Last Rites #1.
"Image Comics and Meatgrinder Studios proudly present the climactic mini-series that brings all current ’68 storylines full-circle with an explosive, revealing finish!"
'68: Last Rites #1 was written by Mark Kidwell, and illustrated by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones and Jay Fotos, and a variant cover by Nate Van Dyke and Jay Fotos.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68 Jungle Jim: Guts'N'Glory.
"JUNGLE JIM IS DEAD. LONG LIVE JUNGLE JIM! Private Brian Curliss returns to Vietnam, armored in bamboo, burlap, and a haunted gas mask to avenge a group of slaughtered US Peace Corps volunteers murdered by the sadistic guerillas of the Khmer Rouge. In hellish jungles swarming with the living dead, a hero's sanity can pass the breaking point...and his soul be lost in the eyes of a ghost from home."
'68 Jungle Jim: Guts'N'Glory was written by Mark Kidwell, and illustrated by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos, and features a cover by Fotos and Nat Jones, and a variant cover by Fotos and Nate Van Dyke.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Rule of War #4.
"After a month imprisoned in a tiger pit, Agent Declan Rule faces his last torture session with the mad doctor Than Morneau. On Pitt Island NJ, the Kuens begin to get curious in the shadow of a serial killer, and in Vietnam, a psychotic madman named War-Face leads a rotting army of the dead toward Heaven. The only thing standing in his way...is a man they call JUNGLE JIM!"
'68: Rule of War #4 was written by Mark Kidwell, illustrated by Jeff Zornow, colored by Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones, and a variant cover by Riley Rossmo.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Rule of War #3.
"Face-to-face with the psychopath that murdered his only son, CIA Agent Declan Rule learns the meaning of pain at the turn of a scalpel’s blade. An abandoned airstrip in Vietnam introduces Kuen Yam and his followers to the unlikely agents of Heaven and in New Jersey. The Kuens’ desperate journey downriver delivers them into the hands of a madman."
'68: Rule of War #3 was written by Mark Kidwell, illustrated by Jeff Zornow, colored by Jay Fotos, with a cover by Nat Jones, and a variant cover by Tim Virgil.
New this week from Image Comics is '68: Rule of War #2.
"In the blood-soaked jungles of Cambodia, CIA Agent Declan Rule follows his son’s murderer straight into a living hell populated by the hard-wired and weaponized dead. In the skies over Vietnam a plane filled with desperate survivors sputters and coughs, burning its last drops of fuel. And deep in the Southeast Asian rainforest, a human monster hides his face behind a mask of atrocity to raise an army of the damned."
'68: Rule of War #2 was written by Mark Kidwell, illustrated by Jeff Zornow, with a cover by Nat Jones, and a variant cover by Zornow.
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New this week from Image Comics is '68: Jungle Jim #3, featuring a story by Mark Kidwell and art by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.
"In a tangled jungle known as the Hell Hole, fang and machete join forces as two relentless predators massacre the living dead. At Salut Glen mission, the Viet Cong teach a monstrous lesson in depravity and torture. And deep in the scalding shadows of war torn Laos, the children are weeping...
But the reaper is coming... and there'll be hell to pay."
New this week from Image Comics is '68: Jungle Jim #2, featuring a story by Mark Kidwell and art by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.
"The skies over Vietnam rain liquid fire as Brian Curliss, AKA Jungle Jim continues his epic quest to find the rotting, undead remains of Sergeant Jim Asher. Jim's search carries him across the border into war-torn Cambodia, where the struggling occupants of an isolated French mission hold their own against hunger, madness and the ravenous dead.
In the dripping shadows of the rainforest, human life hangs on a hair trigger and to save himself and those who need him, Jim will have to face more than the living dead and swarms of vengeful Viet Cong... because here there be tigers."
New this week from Image Comics - '68: Jungle Jim #1 - featuring a story by Mark Kidwell and art by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos.
"Vietnam, 1968: Behind enemy lines, Private Brian Curliss is alone. The enemy caged him, the dead want to devour him and the voices in his head are driving him to madness. A madness that emerges in the form of an unstoppable killing machine wrapped in burlap and bamboo...
Curliss is a one-man-army, sworn to wade through a wet red jungle gone straight to hell in search of a ghost named Jungle Jim. To the Viet Cong, he's a nightmare. To POWs trapped in enemy hands, he's salvation. To the legions of shambling, hungry dead...He's the Grim Reaper in a gas mask.
MeatGrinder Studios and Image Comics return to the grim world of '68 with an all-new, four-issue series continuing the story of Jungle Jim. The brutal sequel to the original one-shot, Jungle Jim #1 fleshes out the new dark star of the Vietnam/Zombie apocalypse. Scripted by Mark Kidwell with savage artwork by Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos. Covers by Jeff Zornow, Nat Jones and Jay Fotos."
