Collects #1-40, Special Preview Edition, The Darkness 1/2, Tales of the Darkness 1/2-4, Tales of the Darkness 2001 1/2, The Darkness: Wanted Dead, The Darkness/Witchblade 1/2 plus bonus material! Note: This is a large file (almost 1GB), please make sure you have space on your device! THE DARKNESS COMPENDIUM VOLUME 1 collects issue #1-#40 plus the complete run of the TALES OF THE DARKNESS series collected into one volume. See how The Darkness first manifested itself in bearer mafia hitman Jackie Estacado and made his world even darker than before!

Includes The Darkness Volume 1 Special Preview Edition and The Darkness #1-6. Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado was both blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he inherited the power of The Darkness, an elemental force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there. Forces for good in the world rise up to oppose Jackie and what his gift represents, but in this story, they are the bad guys. The sold out origin story by Garth Ennis (Punisher, Preacher) and Marc Silvestri (X-Men: Messiah Complex) is presented here.

"THE AGE OF REASON" Jenny is losing her mind, Hope is becoming more corrupted by her Darkness abilities, and an ancient, more powerful evil is about to return to the surface of our world. What will it take for Jackie Estacado to reclaim the Darkness and put an end to the madness that he helped create? Collects THE DARKNESS #112-116

Collects The Darkness #7-10 as well as Witchblade #18-19. Go back to the beginning and see 21-year-old mob hitman Jackie Estacado struggle with the power and the burden of The Darkness. Also collected in this edition is the first crossover between The Darkness and Witchblade in the fan favorite 'Family Ties' storyline. Featuring art by Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri and superstar Joe Benitez (Soulfire, Titans).

Gunned down and left for dead on a New York rooftop, Alex Underwood's life should have ended there but instead, at the moment of death, she became host to the Witchblade, a mystical artifact that grants the woman wielding it extraordinary powers. But those powers come with a heavy cost, and Alex soon finds herself thrust into the center of an unseen battle raging on the snowy streets of NYC. Collects WITCHBLADE #1-6

Collects THE DARKNESS #106-111 Jackie Estacado never feared much of anything, except the Darkness itself. Then the rules changed. Rival Bulgarian gangs are starting to encroach upon his turf. Jackie's wife, Jenny, is losing her mind. Jackie is no longer the host to the Darkness and with everything cracking at the seams he has neglected to notice that his daughter, Hope, has something terribly, terribly wrong with her. Jackie thought he was invincible, but he will soon learn that there are things in this world that even the Darkness should fear.

SCIENCE AND MAGIC COLLIDE! Simon Ambrose is a brilliant young professor at MIT. As a man of science, he does not put much stock in faith. When he discovers that he is the bastard son of the worldÍs greatest wizard, Merlin, he is forced to put his skepticism aside and embrace a world of magicƒ and the mayhem it embodies. Collects SON OF MERLIN #1-5

In a near future, a sprawling megalopolis sees the rise of "Boneheads," parkour gangs that use neuro-linked helmets to augment their abilities and live for the thrill of physical risk. As a gang war threatens to tear the city apart, a mysterious Bonehead risesÑa man with no past that might be the key to saving the city's future. From writer BRYAN HILL (POSTAL) and artist RHOALD MARCELLIUS (Marvel: Contest of Champions) comes a story about technological and human revolution. Collects BONEHEAD #1-4

How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinking? Dubious contracts with ancient gods? For Lauren Thomas, the queen of bad decisions, the answer is always the worst possible choice. So when she finds herself with the rare opportunity to have her broken heart patched by the highest-rated god of desire, what could possibly go wrong? A tale of gods, mortals, love, lust, death, and bad decisionsÑthat all starts with a simple bite of a golden apple.

When a postgraduate student discovers a way to unlock information hidden deep in our "junk DNA," parts of bio-schematics and other pieces of baffling data are found. This discovery triggers the largest scientific initiative since the Manhattan Projects, with teams of scientists working to collect and collate this information. But will they find a stairway to heaven, or will they unleash something that will kill us all? COMPARISON TITLES If you like THINK TANK and TRANSHUMAN, you'll love STAIRWAY!