Aaron Douglas

This oversized second volume in the SHOCK anthology series continues to push boundaries and mix genres, allowing today's top creative talent of both comics and prose to craft tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the bizarre. This handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine, Garth Ennis, Cullen Bunn, Russ Braun, Marguerite Bennet, Juan Doe, Jill Thompson, Sam Kieth, Aaron Douglas, Cliff Richards, Jim Starlin, Larry Stroman, Jamal Igle, Ray Fawkes, Joe Pruett, Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrei Bressan, Tony Harris, Francesco Francavilla, Darko Macan, Don Handsfield, Phil Hester, Supernatural show runner Andrew Dabb, and more! Cover art by Timothy Bradstreet! allowing today's top creative talent of both comics and prose to craft tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the bizarre. This handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine, Garth Ennis, Cullen Bunn, Russ Braun, Marguerite Bennet, Juan Doe, Jill Thompson, Sam Kieth, Aaron Douglas, Cliff Richards, Jim Starlin, Larry Stroman, Jamal Igle, Ray Fawkes, Joe Pruett, Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrei Bressan, Tony Harris, Francesco Francavilla, Darko Macan, Don Handsfield, Phil Hester, Supernatural show runner Andrew Dabb, and more! Cover art by Timothy Bradstreet!

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Contains three new adventures;2.1 Flying Solo by Tajinder Singh Hayer. Pilot Officer Mohinder Singh Johal is an RAF pilot on a sortie during World War Two. Following a close encounter with a flying blue telephone box, his Spitfire vanishes! The Doctor, whose TARDIS is out of control following a blast from a time disruptor, should be keeping a low profile, but with Mohinder lost in time and space, she has to help bring him home. 2.2 The Junkyard Loop by Aaron Douglas. The Doctor, pursued as ever by Cosmogon, crash-lands the TARDIS on an off-grid junk planet littered with the remains of time machines from a thousand civilisations. After being saved from the indigenous Time-Frost Parasites by Sodalis, an old companion long-marooned, the Doctor must come up with a plan to save them both. But a sinister Division commander has tracked our heroes, and not even Cosmogon can stand between him and his desire to unlock the Doctor's memory and obtain the secrets within. 2.3 Hereafter by Tim Foley. Cosmo has finally captured the Doctor! But they're stranded together on a planet thanks to an unusual psychic forcefield grounding her ship. Tracing its source, they find a settlement that’s preparing for a festival in honour of their 'queen' in the mountain. When Cosmo is captured, the Doctor must decide whether to help her captor... especially now she's discovered, thanks to local woman Herma, that the queen and her minions are vampires!

From film and TV screenwriter Mark Verheiden (The Mask, Battlestar Galactica, Swamp Thing, ), writer/actor Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica, Hemlock Grove), and artist Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Justice League) comes Borealis, a tale of hard-edged crime and supernatural terror Under the blazing night skies of Alaska, something mysterious is emerging in the remote village of Qinu--something ancient . . . and powerful. After thirteen years away and hoping never to return, State Trooper Silaluj "Sil" Osha is sent to Qinu to investigate the savage murders of local mobsters. But more than just working to solve a crime, Sil must face the shattering memories of her own dark past and uncover her frightening connection to deadly legends.

This is the fifth release in a series based on characters and the world of Kaldor created by Chris Boucher in the classic 1977 Doctor Who TV episode, The Robots of Death.

Previously available only as stand-alone 48-page "One-Shocks," each of these graphic tales of terror – physical, spiritual, psychological – will thrill, chill and shock fans of horror, suspense and the supernatural. PIECEMEAL by Cullen Bunn (DARK ARK, BROTHERS DRACUL, Harrow County) and Szymon Kudranski (BLACK-EYED KIDS). Five young friends. One old house. And a brain floating in a jar. What could go wrong? GOD OF TREMORS by Peter Milligan (OUT OF BODY, Hellblazer) and Piotr Kowalksi (JOIN THE FUTURE, Sex). A gothic tale of nightmarish terror and creeping enlightenment. 10 YEARS TO DEATH by Aaron Douglas (SHOCK, "Chief" on Battlestar Galactica) and Cliff Richards (SHOCK, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The Shawshank Redemption meets The Sixth Sense, inspired b an eerily bone-chilling true story.

Learn Core Data With Swift Take control of your data in iOS apps using Core Data, through a series of high quality hands-on tutorials. Start with the basics like setting up your own Core Data Stack all the way to advanced topics like migration, performance, multithreading, and more By the end of this book, you'll have hands-on experience with Core Data and will be ready to use it in your own apps. Who This Book Is For: This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS and Swift development but want to learn how to use Core Data to save data in their apps. Topics Covered in Core Data by Tutorials: Your First Core Data App: You'll click File\New Project and write a Core Data app from scratch NSManagedObject Subclasses: Learn how to create your own subclasses of NSManagedObject - the base data storage class in Core Data. The Core Data Stack: Learn how the main objects in Core Data work together, so you can move from the starter Xcode template to your own system. Intermediate Fetching: This chapter covers how to fetch data with Core Data - fetch requests, predicates, sorting and asynchronous fetching. NSFetchedResultsController: Learn how to make Core Data play nicely with table views using NSFetchedResultsController Versioning and Migration: In this chapter, you'll learn how to migrate your user's data as they upgrade through different versions of your data model. Unit Tests: In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up a test environment for Core Data and see examples of how to test your models. Measuring and Boosting Performance: Learn how to measure your app's performance with various Xcode tools and deal with slow spots in your code. Multiple Managed Object Contexts: Learn how multiple managed object contexts can improve performance and make for cleaner code. Core Data and CloudKit: Learn how to synchronize Core Data across all of a user's devices

Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century. Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday. Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham forges a uniquely crowd-sourced play, incorporating scenes by emerging writers into his own sweeping narrative. Dickens' panoply of London and Londoners, his big characters and fantastic stories in Sketches by Boz are updated for the modern age, incorporating the broadest range of voices from across the community in a theatrical whirligig of wonder and imagination.