The cover for David Wohl's WITCHBLADE 54
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WITCHBLADE #54 Special Cover

Celebrating the launch of a new era for Top Cow's preeminent title, WITCHBLADE #54 sports a special black cover with gold foil at no additional charge.

The original cover, penciled by new series artist Francis Manapul will be a second cover stapled beneath the all black cover, which is not a variant.

"We wanted to do something other than just another variant cover to draw attention to the new creative team launch for WITCHBLADE and came up with the idea for this cover," says Top Cow president Matt Hawkins. "It's an experiment and, as always, we'd love to get feedback on it from fans and retailers."

Original WITCHBLADE writer and co-creator David Wohl takes over writing the title with this issue, and Manapul will be penciling the book on an ongoing basis. The new story arc remains faithful to previous storylines, but does not require anyone to have read any WITCHBLADE issues prior to this one.

"With the television series, we've seen a tremendous upswing in the sales of our trade paperbacks in the book stores," says Top Cow marketing director Frank Mastromauro. "This new storyline gives some of those fans that have watched the TV series an opportunity to start reading the monthly book without having to dig through 53 back issues. The second season of WITCHBLADE kicks off in June and we're coordinating several massive joint marketing efforts with TNT to draw attention to comic stores and specifically the WITCHBLADE comic book. We'll be making an announcement about our joint TNT efforts in a few weeks."