They abandon their dilapidated travelling circus to try and make their fortune. But they quickly find out that to prove themselves in the world of big-contract killers, they must co-operate or face the consequences - not something they are always prepared to do. Clown Fatale is escapist fun at its absolute finest, filled with high-octane action sequences, daring disguises and buckets of face-paint. Gischler's creation is seedy, violent and unforgiving, but never fails to be stylish and colourful.

Sexy female clowns are mistaken for contract killers and abandon their shabby traveling circus for a world of violence and cruelty-with clown makeup. * Featuring covers by Tim Seeley (_Hack/Slash_, _Revival_) * By Victor Gischler (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike-A Dark Place, Punisher MAX, X-Men)_! "[Victor Gischler]'s proven . . . to be a writer that can balance humor, drama and action in an entertaining, fast paced package."�Bleeding Cool

Harlequin vixens Chloe, Aya, Tina and Candy may not be assassins, but they're armed and dangerous and pissed. The girls must accept a local-yokel crime boss's murder-for-hire contract if they ever hope to escape the demeaning life of being clowns in a two-bit circus. * Featuring covers by Tim Seeley (_Hack/Slash_, _Revival_). * By Victor Gischler (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike-A Dark Place_, _Kiss Me, Satan!_)!

The painted beauties go in guns a-blazin' to earn the bounty they need to crawl out of their squalid clown life. But the girls find out they're not quite as tough as they thoughtand when they fail to carry out the job to the letter, the boss decides he wants a refund. - Featuring covers by Tim Seeley (_Hack/Slash_, _Revival_)! - By Victor Gischler (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike-A Dark Place_, _Punisher MAX_, _X-Men)_! "[Gischler has] proven . . . to be a writer that can balance humor, drama, and action in an entertaining, fast paced package."Bleeding Cool

With two clowns left in her crew, Chloe finds herself in the clutches of the knife-wielding Sasha, the Russian bombshell. Meanwhile, Billy has lured Aya into his lair . . . i.e., his shabby trailer. With the circus on fire, what end will come to the remaining _clowns fatales_? * _Angel & Faith_ writer Victor Gischler! * Cover by Tim Seeley (_Hack/Slash_, _Revival_). Gischler . . . comes up with plenty of laughs . . . imbedded within a small war's worth of bullets and blood.�Publishers Weekly

Cassian Steele is boss of the werewolf mafia in the Big Easy, and he's got a problem. The old witch Verona has discovered his secret and gone into hiding. Cassian wants her dead. So he sends out the word: An open contract. The first monster to dust Verona gets a big payday. Werewolf mobsters, vampire maids, a voodoo cowboy, zombie ninjas, and even a playboy wizard show up to try to collect the bounty. What they don't realize is that Barnabus Black, a demon desperately trying to regain his halo, is her protector. Written by Victor Gischler (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike--A Dark Place, Punisher MAX, X-Men) with art from Juan Ferreyra (Colder, Rex Mundi)!

Crime/humour novelist Victor Gischler has written a number of licensed titles (Buffy: Spike - A Dark Place, Conan: Phantoms of the Black Coast) as well as some original stories (Clown Fatale; Kiss Me, Satan!) for Dark Horse. Hellbound will be his third. When two disgraced FBI agents are sent to investigate gruesome murders along Route 5, they discover there's a lot more going on than a simple string of bodies left by some garden-variety serial killer. Horrific nightmares are tormenting the small towns along the highway, and only one man in junkyard armour keeps them at bay.