The Art Of Witchblade

Following the success of The Art of The Darkness, Top Cow proudly presents The Art of Witchblade Art Book with pieces by all of the key artists who have worked on the series over it's 10+ year history.

The spotlight shines on Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri in this very special art collection. Silvestri's career blossomed during runs on Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and in the early 1990s, he revolutionized the comics industry when he co-founded Image Comics and created such hit properties as Cyberforce, Witchblade, and The Darkness. This oversized art book, offered now in softcover, showcases some of Silvestri's favorite, most popular, and most iconic images from his illustrious career.

Celebrating 20 years of Witchblade with a veritable who's who of comic artists.

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.

The saga continues, celebrating the 25th anniversary of WITCHBLADE! In this second absolute collection of the bestselling original series, New York cop Sara Pezzini falls further down the supernatural rabbit hole of ancient artifacts, illuminati industrialists, and all manner of occult outlaws. But while the mysterious power of the Witchblade has chosen Sara as its bearer, she's less convinced of her qualifications. When an opportunity to surrender the gauntlet and live a normal life presents itself, she just might take it! Plus, witness the birth of the shared Top Cow Universe, as THE DARKNESS makes its first crossover appearance. Collects WITCHBLADE #20-36, TALES OF THE WITCHBLADE #4-8, WITCHBLADE INFINITY one-shot, WITCHBLADE/DARKNESS #1, DARKNESS/WITCHBLADE #1, and DARKNESS #28

The best Darkness art by the biggest names in the business collected in an oversized format for art aficionados worldwide. No text, no ads. Just covers, pinups, video game development art, collectible cards, sketches and other rarely seen images of the Darkness. With one hundred issues and a decade of work to choose from, you can bet this is going to be stunning!

"Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Witchblade #1-19, Tales of the Witchblade #0.5-3, and The Darkness #9-10."--Indicia.

Between Ian Nottingham and Kenneth Irons stand Sara Pezzini and the Witchblade, who will ultimately wield it? By writers David Wohl and Christina Z and artist Michael Turner.