“If you haven’t pickedup Kill Shakespeare,you’re missing out

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“If you haven’t pickedup Kill Shakespeare,you’re missing out

on an extremely cool and deliciously

nerdy book.”—Diamond Previews

Staff Pick

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KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE TIDE OF BLOOD #2. MARCH 2013. FIRST PRINTING. Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood is© and ™ 2013 Kill Shakespeare Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All logos, character likenesses and relatedelements featured in this publication are © and ™ Kill Shakespeare Entertainment, Inc. © 2013 Idea and Design Works,LLC. All Rights Reserved. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street,San Diego, CA 92109. The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Any similarities to persons livingor dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of thispublication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.

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Special thanks to Tom Waltz, Chris Ryall, Dirk Wood, Greg Goldstein, Alan Payne and everyone at IDW,Kuo-Yu Liang, Mike Holman and everyone at Diamond, Keith WTS Morris, Dr. Toby Malone, Martha Cornog,Becky Cloonan, Serge Lapointe, Studio Lounak, Tyrone McCarthy for their invaluable assistance.

WRITTEN BY

Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col

KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE TIDE OF BLOOD #2:

“To Hold the Mirror Up to Nature”

ART BY

Andy Belanger

COLORS BY

Shari Chankhamma

LETTERING BY

Chris Mowry

EDITS BY

Tom Waltz

COVER BY

Andy Belanger

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