SERIES PREMIERE GIANTSIZE! BARGAIN PRICE! An allnew ongoing series! KURT BUSIEK (ASTRO CITY), FABIAN NICIEZA (Deadpool), and STEPHEN MOONEY (Half Past Danger) introduce a team of young veterans, survivors of a massive intergalactic war. **Salvo. Pike. Katari. Shakti. Ridge. Maraud. Chalice. ** They've fought every day of their existence and won a terrible victory. Now they're stranded on Earth, free agents for the first time. But when relics from their long war appear, threatening their ch...

After the shattering conclusion of issue #1, are the FREE AGENTS still FREE-or back on active duty? Plus, the appearance of a second deadly remnant from their interdimensional war forces the team into conflict-with BOTOKK, the superhuman curator for the mysterious collector known - THE VAULT! Plus PLUS: A couple of cameos that'll build to bigger things. Is that...RADIANT BLACK? And who's the other guy?

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the PLO? Who supports Hamas and what is its agenda? How powerful has it become and how strong will it remain?With decades of combined experience ...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the PLO? Who supports Hamas and what is its agenda? How powerful has it become and how strong will it remain?With decades of combined experience ...

Trapped in PSYCHE-STIM! Their minds dominated by their leader, Barrage, the Agents fight back—only to learn shattering secrets from his past. But will the revelations help them break free—or permanently subjugate them to his iron will?

A very public confrontation with SUPERSTAR in Los Angeles results in the arrival of—RADIANT BLACK! With the eyes of the world on them, the FREE AGENTS want to stop the fight, but BARRAGE would rather not! Will they team up after they fight? Yeah, probably…but still, it's face-crunching action in the Iconic Image Idiom!

The need for ion and water homeostasis is common to all life. For fish, ion and water homeostasis is an especially important challenge because they live in direct contact with water and because of the large variation in the salt content of natural waters (varying by over 5 orders of magnitude). Most fish are stenohaline and are unable to move between freshwater and seawater. Remarkably, some fishes are capable of life in both freshwater and seawater. These euryhaline fishes constitute an e...

Black Cat Weekly presents another selection of not-to-be-missed mystery and science fiction novels and short stories. With a great lineup of modern and classic fiction, here are—NOT DONE WITH THE NIGHT by Jay Brandon [mystery short, Barb Goffman Presents]ROAD TO SAMARRA by Jane Roth [mystery short]HEIRS AND HOUNDS, by Hal Charles [solve it yourself mystery]THE SQUARED TRIANGLE, by Frank Lovell Nelson [mystery short]ONE HOUR LATE, by William ...

A team of young veterans, survivors of a massive intergalactic war, are now stranded on Earth, free agents for the very first time in this high-stakes, action-packed new series. Salvo. Pike. Katari. Shakti. Ridge. Maraud. Chalice. They've fought every day of their existence and won a terrible victory. Now they're stranded on Earth, free agents for the first time. But when relics from their long war appear, threatening their chance at better lives, their greatest battle begins. They've foug...

END OF STORY ARCFINAL ASSAULT on THE VAULT! Barrage sends the Agents on a multi-pronged mission against Verena DeVault to secure her trove of alien tech and artifacts.But if they succeed, what then? What does Barrage plan to do with all that power? The answer could mean the end of the Free Agents!