Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Written by Jeff Jensen
Art by Jonathan Case
Letters by Nate Piekos
Cover by Jonathan Case
Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Cover Price: $24.99

During the 1980s and ’90s, the Seattle area became home to one of the country’s most deadly serial killers, Gary Ridgway, who’s better known as the Green River Killer. Ridgway was charged in the murders of 48 women, but has said he killed many more than that, claiming he was responsible for as many as 71 deaths while some presume it could be closer to 90.

With that much blood on his hands, it’s clear that Ridgway was not easy to catch. He’s now serving 48 life sentences with no chance for parole, plus 480 additional years””10 years for evidence tampering for each of the 48 murders””but only because he decided to come clean with authorities in exchange for a life sentence over the death penalty.

The Guild: Clara
One-shot
Written By Felicia Day, Kim Evey
Art by Ron Chan
Letters by Nate Piekos
Cover by Howard Chaykin with Jesus Aburto
Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Price: $3.50

One of my favorite web series out on the web is The Guild and when I found out that Dark Horse was coming out with a one-shot comic book about the characters from the show I just knew I had to read it.

The Guild: Clara in particular is about Clara who is the lovable but ignorant member of the group. The story starts with an in-game meeting in the MMORPG that they play, while in the meeting Clara’s husband starts getting angry with her about not cleaning up their bedroom that has all of their moving boxes from 10 months back. He gives her an ultimatum that if she doesn’t clean the room by the end of the weekend, she can’t play the game for a week. Clara, while cleaning the room with her kids, stumbles upon all of her keepsakes and starts telling the stories behind each one. Her husband comes home and is surprised that she has kept all of these keepsakes.