The first installment in a fabulous dark urban fantasy series--think Kill Bill with demons and gangsters instead of martial arts--from the award-winning author of the Iron Codex trilogy and Vertigo comic Coffin Hill.

Ava has spent the last hundred years as a hellhound, the indentured servant of a reaper who hunts errant souls and sends them to Hell. When a human necromancer convinces her to steal her reaper's scythe, Ava incurs the wrath of the demon Lilith, her reaper's boss.

As punishment for her transgression, Lilith orders Ava to track down the last soul in her reaper's ledger . . . or die trying.

But after a hundred years of servitude, it's time for payback. And Hell hath no fury like an avenging Ava. . . .

"GOOD INTENTIONS" Breaking a demon's stranglehold on New York City was only the beginning for Alex and Team Witchblade-now somebody much worse than a demon wants the Artifact, and they'll do anything to get it. Collects issues 7-12.

In this thrilling sequel to Black Dog-the first volume of award-winning Caitlin Kittredge's dark urban fantasy series, Hellhound Chronicles-a soul catcher must stop demonic monsters from her past from infecting the world. After winning her freedom from a reaper and facing off against a fearsome demon boss, Ava is now a masterless hellhound. Her friend, Leo, has found a new life after death: He's returned as the Grim Reaper-the first in centuries. As both try to adjust to their new circumstances, Ava's dark past comes back to wreak havoc on her ...and the entire world. A breed of monsters as smart as vampires-but who behave like zombies-has been sighted in Kansas. Ava can't believe these "zompires" are back. She thought she'd kicked their asses for good when she first battled them in a Nazi death camp. Now, they're spreading their infection across America's heartland thanks to a nasty piece of business named Cain. Free at last after being locked up in Hell for millennia, Cain has some scores to settle. To stop him, Ava must form an unholy alliance with some old foes ...a bargain that will lead her to uncover deeply buried truths about her past-and Leo's future.