Keith R. A. DeCandido

Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon...

"From birth, Amanda Ripley's life is riddled with hardship. Her parents live on the edge of poverty, so her mother--Ellen Ripley--seeks off-world contracts that lead to a position aboard the commercial hauler Nostromo. Then when the deep-space vessel disappears, Amanda passes into adulthood focused on discovering one thing. What happened to Ellen Ripley?"--Page 4 of cover.

Bubba's back... or at least he's still here. In Mater's new solo series watch as he squares off against his long-time nemesis Bubba the tow truck in the Rust Bucket Derby. Mater and Bubba are determined to answer... who is the toughest tow truck around?

Explores three alternative Star Trek realities in which Spock died in childhood, a terrorist from Bajor may hold the key to winning a vast war, and new breakthroughs in android technology hold frightening potential for harm.