{"id":1150,"date":"2011-11-02T03:40:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2011-11-02T03:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:40:32","slug":"hard-copy-amala%e2%80%99s-blade-comes-to-dark-horse-presents-in-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: AMALA\u2019S BLADE COMES TO DARK HORSE PRESENTS IN FEBRUARY 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Horse Comics is proud to announce a brand new three-part story from Steve Horton<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AMALAS_BLADE_PROMO_COL_fin_copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1158\" title=\"AMALAS_BLADE_PROMO_COL_fin_copy\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AMALAS_BLADE_PROMO_COL_fin_copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a> (DC Holiday Special, Superman 80-Page Giant) and Michael Dialynas (Popgun, Trinkets) appearing in Dark Horse Presents #9 \u2013 Amala\u2019s Blade.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Amala was once chosen as a child to be the spiritual leader for her country, to unite the Purifiers and Modifiers and prevent war. She fled into the night. Twenty years of war later, she makes a living as an assassin, but her past is ever ready to catch up to her. Aboard a massive pirate ship, Amala stalks the fearsome pirate captain Cha&#8217;Kooh &#8230; but the voices in her head, manifesting as ghosts, keep getting in the way!<\/p>\n<p>Amala\u2019s Blade will be featured in issues #9, #10 &amp; #11 of Dark Horse Presents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amala\u2019s Blade is the steam punk-with-swords epic that I&#8217;ve been dying to tell,&#8221; says Steve Horton, writer and letterer. &#8220;Thanks to the extraordinary and talented artist Michael Dialynas, we&#8217;ve brought Amala to life. Thanks to Dark Horse Comics, we&#8217;ve found an amazing and supportive publisher for our three-issue run in Dark Horse Presents. This story has heart, sword fighting, sarcasm, revenge, pirates, technologically modified villains, a girl steam punk heroine, and a robotic pirate monkey. What more do you need?&#8221; says Horton.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Horse Presents #9 is out February 22nd, 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Horse Comics is proud to announce a brand new three-part story from Steve Horton (DC Holiday Special, Superman 80-Page Giant) and Michael Dialynas (Popgun, Trinkets) appearing in Dark Horse Presents #9 \u2013 Amala\u2019s Blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88,100,280,4155,14],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-comic-book","tag-dark-horse","tag-dark-horse-presents","tag-hard-copy","tag-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}