The carnage continues as another longstanding Top Cow character dies! Witchblade-wielder and homicide detective Sara Pezzini investigates events that will reverberate throughout the Top Cow Universe for the next year...and we're introduced to Tony Daniel's new series, Humankind, as well!

Common Grounds writer Troy Hickman writes the tale of Celestine Abbadon-for every good deed she does, she must do an equal evil act. Sara Pezzini and the Witchblade are hot on her trail, but will the Witchblade abandon Sara in her moment of need?

"GOOD INTENTIONS," Part Three While Alex and an unlikely ally try to get inside N-GEN, JohnnyÕs mysterious employer, Alex must also deal with the fallout of LegionÕs demise as a host of demons vie for supremacy in NYC.

"GOOD INTENTIONS," Conclusion Alex and the Witchblade are inexorably linked but what happens when that bond is broken?

Police officer Sara Pezzini busts a group of drug dealers. While interrogating one of them she learns of a sinister party going on downtown. Later, at the party, Kenneth Irons, a man who has used illegal means to gain fame and fortune, is planning on giving away a powerful item called the Witchblade. He desires to find out who is the one worthy of it and to control both it and its wielder. Sara sneaks in to the party to find out what's going on, but unknown to her so does her partner, Michael. Michael is captured - Sara leaps to save him from being shot, but they both get hit by the hail of bullets. The Witchblade - seeing her heroism - latches on to her, saving her life and all its power goes to Sara Pezzini. It seems she was the one it sought.

In the 1990s, American televison audiences witnessed an unprecedented rise in programming devoted explicitly to women. Cable networks such as Oxygen Media, Women's Entertainment Network, and Lifetime targeted a female audience, and prime-time dramatic series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Judging Amy, Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, and Ally McBeal empowered heroines, single career women, and professionals struggling with family commitments and occupational demands. After establishing this phenomenon's significance, Amanda D. Lotz explores the audience profile, the types of narrative and characters that recur, and changes to the industry landscape in the wake of media consolidation and a profusion of channels. Employing a cultural studies framework, Lotz examines whether the multiplicity of female-centric networks and narratives renders certain gender stereotypes uninhabitable, and how new dramatic portrayals of women have redefined narrative conventions. Redesigning Women also reveals how these changes led to narrowcasting, or the targeting of a niche segment of the overall audience, and the ways in which the new, sophisticated portrayals of women inspire sympathetic identification while also commodifying viewers into a marketable demographic for advertisers.

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

Another exciting issue of Witchblade!

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 ArtifactÑand they'll do anything to get it. Collects WITCHBLADE #7-12

"LAST DAYS,"Part Four Alex makes a deal with the last person she wants as an ally Naomi, leader of the demon faction in New York. Haley's powers rage out of control as she attempts to further weaken the barriers of time and dimension, and Team Witchblade realizes that a sinister force is controlling Haley and has much bigger plans.