THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #26

Written by John Rozum, art by Scott Hampton, cover by Michael Wm. Kaluta.

Years ago, The Spectre unleashed his terrible vengeance against predatory killer Ray Walker. But some evil can't be snuffed out so easily, and Walker's ghost continues to haunt the city of Dakota! His victims must turn to David Kim, the Xombi, to right the wrong. Don't miss the Xombi's first footsteps in the DC Universe!

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 19

I'm doing a shameless plug here to celebrate the return of a great comicbook character, David"Xombi" Kim into the DC universe.

David Kim is a character from the Milestone imprint done by DC in the old days ninety-Mbmrmrm something.

But don't let that scare you. Xombi was pretty much a self contained universe.

Running 21 numbers (plus an origin 0 issue drawn by denys Cowan), Xombi chronicles the story of scientist David Kim who enters a world of esoterism and supernatural after becoming ... a kind of undead.

David Kim was brought back to life by his work on nanotechnology, becoming almost immortal since his body regenerates thanks to the nannies in his bloodstream (Bit like Wolverine.. you know him do you ?)

Anyway, David Kim dives after his death and rebirth into a world full of stranges creatures, angels, demons, odd people who are after his work.

Xombi was a great read, praised by lots of people, Alan Moore being the first.

The whole run by John rozum and with pencils painted by JJ Birch was a bit off beat kinda vertigo taste in mainstream super heroes, a truly great run well worth the read.

And now Xombi is back from the dead.

Go buy, pre order that issue. It's self contained, it's by Rozum with art by Scott Hampton and gracing a cover by Kaluta. Enough to buy by itself.

Hopefully it will spark interest so they can do another Xombi run or at least reprint the series in trade forms.

If not go find also the back issues. Very different, a truly magical serie with well written characters that made me cry once.

And not a lot of them comics makes me cry I assure you.

So go preorder, and stop buying that wolverine comics that month... Hell you're pratically sure to find it on back issues later.