THE 100th ALMANACCO TO CELEBRATE, ALONG WITH BRAD BARRON’S AND NATHAN NEVER’S “SPECIALE” COMING BACK, AND THE NEW ALBUMS OF THE NEW ENTRIES AT BONELLI‘S: CARAVAN AND GREYSTORM!

Dear all,

with the Almanacco del Mistero 2010, at the newsstand’s starting from November 24, my beloved “Collana Almanacchi” reaches the goal of the 100th issue. It’s an achievement – I really like to stress this point – that will without a doubt increase my pride in talking about the Almanacchi not just with you, the readers, but also with all the people that at regular intervals ask my about the state of our Publishing House. Just like me, all the “old boys” in via Buonarroti, though devoted body and soul to the comics’ world, really pride themselves in the “educational” intention that makes the above mentioned Collana so peculiar. It has a very unusual format: a comics story (in this issue “played” by Martin Mystère), is flanked by dozens of pages with full-colour articles — this time about “Mysterious” Islands in literature, film and television (what about the incredible success of “Lost”?), the Lost Worlds dreamed up by writer Abraham Merritt and the investigations of the Impossible by Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the unforgettable heroes of the “cult” series “X-Files”. As always, the issue also features our three regular columns about the most interesting books, movies and TV series appeared in the last 12 months… The Bonellian news – that you’ll have some more glimpse of, by browsing with your mouse this Giornale – are not over. We also have two “Speciali” yet to come: in November there’s the return of Brad Barron, the heroic biology professor by Tito Faraci, who dares confront a sneaky race of Alien invaders in the 1950s America; in December it will be the time of Nathan Never, who, in his 19th Speciale will try to prove the innocence of a man thought to be a serial killer. Antonio Serra and Michele Medda, that, together with Bepi Vigna, gave life to the Alfa Agent in 1991, are at the moment introducing their new characters to the readers. Serra is the author of the Chapters Two and Three of the adventurous saga in 12 episodes, “Greystorm”, the English scientist and inventor who, at the beginning of the XX century, pursues an insane dream of changging the course of history; while Medda keeps on telling us, in the sixth and seven episodes of his mini-series, “Caravan”, the difficult journey towars safety by the citizens of a Usa town stricken by a very strange black-out… On November 21, Lilith’s third adventure will be at the newsstands’ — this time round, the chrono-agent will be taken by her author, Luca Enoch, in the Italian trenches along the Austrian front, during World War I, looking for the Alien parasite, the Triacanto, a spiromorph that in a distant future will bring over a global massacre! Finally, I’ll just mention the new Dylan Dog Gigante, with four incredible new stories of the Nightmare Investigator, as well as the return of Legs Weaver and her “Ghost Squad”, who are the guest stars of our rendezvous with “Universo Alfa”. As for the rest, before allowing you the pleasure to keep on leafing through the virtual pages of our Giornale, I wish you my usual “have a good read”!

Sergio Bonelli