Mark G. Heike

War is all about lines, the kind you draw between your enemies and your allies. But those lines become blurred in the conclusion to Aliens vs. Predator: War! Machiko Noguchi has abandoned her Predator allies and joined the human survivors on Bunda. But perhaps she'll reconsider her position when the humans find themselves caught between the ultimate in rocks and hard places! It's the final battle of this all-out war, with the Aliens on one side and Predators on the other, and the outmanned humans hang their only hopes on a fearsome and uncontrollable suit of MAX berserker armor!

First blood or last breath -- those are the only choices in Aliens vs. Predator: War! The Predators converge on the seed planet Bunda for the biggest bug hunt yet, each taking position to draw first blood. Machiko, a human who has been inducted into the Predator clan, is forced into a duel in order to claim her rightful place in the upcoming hunt. But when a new group of humans shows up, what began as sport becomes serious business.

Collects Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Golden Age of the Sith (1996) #0-5, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Fall of the Sith Empire (1997) #1-5, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (1993) #1-5 and Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Freedon Nadd Uprising (1994) #1-2. The history of the Old Republic! Five thousand years before Luke Skywalker, the Sith Empire rules the galaxy at the height of its powers - but the Great Hyperspace War could lead to their downfall! Then, a millennium later, two Jedi legends emerge: Nomi Sunrider, who takes up her murdered husband's lightsaber, and Ulic Qel-Droma, who discovers the final resting place of fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd - who may not be at rest after all! Can they save the Holocron containing all of Jedi history, or will the dark side of the Force triumph?

Collects Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith (1994) #1-6, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Sith War (1995) #1-6, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Redemption (1998) #1-5, and material from Star Wars Tales (1999-2005) #23 and Dark Horse Comics (1992) #7-9. The early adventures of the Jedi order conclude! Almost 4,000 years before A New Hope, a young Jedi named Exar Kun steals his master's holocron, intent on learning the secrets of the Sith - and takes on Jedi Knight Ulic Qel-Droma as his apprentice! Will this dark knowledge corrupt them and turn them into Sith, as well? Only the Jedi Nomi Sunrider may have the answer to their fates - and whether they face doom or redemption in the Force! As war turns Jedi against Jedi, who will survive - and who will be lost to history?