During his tenure as the comics industry's leading innovator-and before disappearing from its ranks at the peak of his career in search of other challenges-Jim Steranko initiated numerous pioneering graphic storytelling techniques and created an entirely new medium-the visual novel, a seamless fusion of prose and illustrated narrative.

Now, after years of exploring the media as a writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer, and visual conceptualist for Hollywood, Steranko makes a prodigious return to the comics medium he changed forever-with the release of his groundbreaking noir tour-de-force, Red Tide.

"I've got 72 hours to live, Chandler. I want you to find my murderer."

A desperate plea from a dying man sweeps the hardboiled private detective into the crimson undertow of New York's turbulent underworld, where a cold-blooded hitman is methodically eliminating the unsuspecting witnesses of a gangland assassination.

Chandler's hunt for the slayer becomes a dark obsession, fueled by a strange personal connection that links his shadowy past to the violent series of murders-and pits him against a homicidal maniac's twisted vengeance.

With its gripping, tightly-wound prose, Red Tide is a visceral exploration of crime fiction, presented in Steranko's intense graphic style. Dark Horse is proud to reintroduce this landmark work, remastered with state-of-the-art digital color and incorporating new illustrations and text created especially for this edition.

Look for Red Tide in early February.