Art by Cruddie Torian

Check out below for an exclusive preview of StarCraft #6 - where we find the War Pigs surrounded by Zerg and about to be incinerated by the Protoss. And things are going to get worse before they can possibly get better.

Simon Furman, Federico Dallocchio and Mike S. Miller are doing a bang-up job on the StarCraft ongoing. Are you guys checking it out?

Given how accustomed I’d become to seeing Tony Moore’s undead in black and white from another popular zombie series he’d worked on, I got pretty excited when Ben and Michael passed these images over to me. Even in sketch form this cover is oh-so-perfectly disgusting!

From this week’s Victorian Undead #1.

As noted in today’s New York Times feature, Joe Kubert, author and artist of the award-winning original graphic novel Yossel and founder of The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, will be publishing DONG XOAI, VIETNAM 1965 to be released by The Joe Kubert Library in May 2010.

DONG XOAI, VIETNAM 1965 tells the story of a team of Special Forces soldiers who were on what was to be a simple assistance and observation mission in the village of Dong Xoai that suddenly turned deadly. Written as an original graphic novel with text and illustrations, DONG XOAI, VIETNAM 1965 is based on extensive first hand information from the surviving members of the Special Forces group involved.

“When I learned of this occurrence from one of the principles involved, I could not keep my mind (or my pencil) from putting it into a graphic form. An incredible story of bravery and camaraderie that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.” –Joe Kubert

Stay tuned for more info in 2010!

Holy damn. Welcome to the WildStorm Universe, Mr. Mark Bagley! This widescreen shot of WSU kickassery will be spread across the covers of The Authority #19 and WildCats #20. Bagley lends his talents to more than 20 heroes - and special props to Trevor Scott, who hit it out of the park inking this one.

Pretty sweet, right?

Art by Simon Coleby

I didn’t know how our trusty editors would follow up Mike Huddleston’s A+ run on Gen13 covers, but we can rest assured that our friends at WildStorm are taking good care of us, by hooking us up with Gen13 covers by Rafael Albuquerque and <drum roll, folks> - the always-wonderful Amanda Conner.

This one’s for Gen13 #34. Feast away.

Astro City covers never really need much of an introduction. A new piece by Alex Ross? Yes, please. Really love the color on this one - wow!

For Astro City: The Dark Age Book 4 #2.

The Authority: Lost Year Reader, featuring the full stories from issues #1 and #2 of Grant Morrison and Gene Ha’s Authority, is on stands this week in case anyone missed these when they first came out. If you didn’t, you should go ahead and pull out those back issues - The Authority: The Lost Year #3 by Giffen, Morrison, Robertson and Scott will be available next week.

Want a sneak peek? Thought so. How could I say no?

Modern Warfare’s all over this week - between a hit game and a new comic book series hitting shelves, you really can’t miss it. The game kicks ass in two mediums.

Check out CBR’s interview with comic writer David Lapham about Modern Warfare 2: Ghost. I’ll be counting down the hours til I can get home and try Special Ops mode.