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Super-Villain Team-Up/M.O.D.O.K.'s 11
Fred Van Lente - 2008
M.O.D.O.K., sick of being hunted & hounded by A.I.M., gathers together an eclectic team of Marvel's most wanted to pull off one last, big score. But news travels fast & pretty soon every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is gunning for M.O.D.O.K.'s powerful prize.
Happy!
Grant Morrison - 2013
With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas. By a tiny blue horse called Happy! Collects issues #1-4 of the mini-series.
Deathmatch Vol. 1
Paul Jenkins - 2013
31 will die.The superhero battle royale you can’t get from Marvel or DC! In the spirit of BOOM!’s flagship title, IRREDEEMABLE, this series appeals to fans of superheroes looking for a smart take on a classic trope. A powerful and mysterious supervillain has imprisoned the world’s greatest superheroes, forcing them to fight to the death until there is but one victor. It’s kill or be killed as we settle the score on all those hypothetical superhero match-ups in the ultimate DEATHMATCH. The mystery of who their captor is, what his ultimate motivations are, and why these heroes keep agreeing to the matches will drive readers from volume to volume! Written by industry legend Paul Jenkins (SENTRY, INHUMANS) and drawn by comics superstar Carlos Magno (PLANET OF THE APES, TRANSFORMERS), DEATHMATCH is a dark, psychological deconstruction of the superhero genre that can’t be missed. This hard-hitting, emotional first volume collects the first four issues of the smash hit comic series that introduces the audience to brand new superhero universe they won’t be able to get enough of!
Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes
Matt Kindt - 2013
Will he discover the connection between the compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined street signs to write her magnum opus, and the photographer who secretly documents peoples' most anguished personal moments? Or will Detective Gould finally meet his match?Matt Kindt operates with wit and perception in the genre of hard-boiled crime fiction. Red Handed owes as much to Paul Auster as Dashiell Hammett, and raises some genuinely sticky questions about human nature.
The Private Eye, Volume One
Brian K. Vaughan - 2014
Years after the digital cloud "bursts" and exposes all of our most confidential hopes and fears, THE PRIVATE EYE is set in the inevitable future where everyone will have a secret identity.Following an unlicensed P.I as he's thrust into the most important case of his life, this sci-fi mystery explores the nature of privacy with frightening prescience.Including issues 1 to 5 of The Private Eye series plus material from The Making Of special.
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 1
Jonathan HickmanJohn Rauch - 2013
Fantastic decides to solve everything! As the team contends with Dark Reign, an older Franklin arrives from the future with an ominous warning! And as the Fantastic Four fight the War of the Four Cities, Mr. Fantastic assembles a band of genius youngsters. But when Nathaniel Richards returns, Galactus rises and an all-new Annihilation Wave threatens to invade from the Negative Zone, tragedy suddenly strikes. Grieving, the survivors of the Fantastic Four dissolve the team...but from its ashes rises the Future Foundation!Collecting: Dark Reign : Fantastic Four 1-5, Fantastic Four 570-588, FF 1-5, & materiel from Dark Reign: The Cabal
Irredeemable Premier Vol. 4
Mark Waid - 2017
When countries around the world unite for one last desperate stand, who will come out on top—and what of Earth will remain when the dust settles? The next epic instalment of the landmark superhero title is here! New York Times bestselling author, Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) joins forces with Peter Krause (Insufferable), Diego Baretto (Escape from New York), and more in this definitive collection of the Eisner Award-nominated series.
Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: Omnibus Volume 1
Mike Mignola - 2019
When the man called the Witchfinder becomes an agent of the Queen, he is led from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, through the American West, and to explore the mysteries of Unland! Throughout his adventures, he'll face occult conspiracies, rampaging monsters, and London's most infamous secret society: the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra!This first omnibus edition collects Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder volumes 1-3, complete with extensive sketchbook section.
Secret Warriors Omnibus
Jonathan HickmanDavid Marquez - 2012
The Leviathan organization is awakening, their tendrils wrapped deep inside the US government. And when a shadow war breaks out between Leviathan and the ruthless Hydra, it's up to Fury and his Secret Warriors to put the pieces together and take them both out. Jonathan Hickman (with Brian Michael Bendis)'s shadow-ops masterpiece is collected in one oversized volume!Collecting: Mighty Avengers 13, 18; Secret Warriors 1-28; Dark Reign: The List Secret Warriors; Siege: Secret Warriors; material from Dark Reign: New Nation
Maestro: War and Pax
Peter David - 2021
Call him the Maestro! After deposing Dystopia’s ancient ruler, the Maestro sets his sights even bigger. It’s time everyone left on the ravaged planet Earth recognized their one true god! But the Maestro isn’t the only would-be immortal left…and if he wants to truly dominate the globe, he’ll have to face the most powerful beings left in creation. The Pantheon sees all — including a Hulk too powerful to leave alive! Peter David continues the tale that he began decades ago in the legendary HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT!COLLECTING: Maestro: War And Pax (2021) 1-5
Guardians of the Galaxy by Abnett and Lanning Omnibus
Dan Abnett - 2016
All that stands in the way of universal disaster is an unlikely band of cosmic misfits: the Guardians of the Galaxy, retooled for the 21st Century! Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Adam Warlock, Mantis and the all-new Quasar - together with Cosmo the telepathic space dog - take on the universe's most dangerous menaces! COLLECTING: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2008) 1-25; THANOS IMPERATIVE: IGNITION 1, 1-6, DEVASTATION 1; MATERIAL FROM ANNIHILATORS 1-4; MATERIAL FROM ANNIHILATORS: EARTHFALL 1-4
The Punisher: Return to Big Nothing
Steven Grant - 1989
Untreated, they fester and grow into the diseases of fear, uncertainty and hopelessness. Unaided, the law is blinded by bureaucracy and bound to a justice bent toward the protection even of the criminal. The face of a kinder and gentler nation is destroyed, carved into a harlequin's mask; a grim skull. And the wielders of the scythe laugh, secure in the knowledge that their crimes will go without punishment.They are wrong. In the urban jungle, there is one who stands alone and apart; one who lives not for the law, but only to see justice done. The Punisher reaps a different harvest.Once, he was Frank Castle, loving husband and father. A tour in Vietnam had shown him what war was. Part of him died there, but a precious part stayed alive, determined to return to the family he loved, and the peace and freedom that was his America. Part of him held on to live, until his family died in a hail of mob gunfire, victims of the wrong place and wrong time.Daily, criminals greedily cut their portions from the souls of the weak and weary, the foolish and the frightened. One man senses how the guilty feed like parasites on the heart of the American Dream. One man hears when evil laughs at the law. One man sees clearly that the most powerful criminals have placed themselves above the law. One man has become their judge, their jury.One man has become their Punisher.
The Fix, Vol. 3: Deal of Fortune
Nick Spencer - 2018
Collects THE FIX #9-12.
Batman: Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 1
Chuck DixonJim Aparo - 2017
But lurking at the end of this seemingly endless gauntlet is the deadliest menace of all--a mysterious man-mountain known as Bane! Will Bane break the Bat, or will the Dark Knight be able to save Gotham City from the newest reign of terror to hit its streets? For the first time ever, the entire Knightfall saga is collected in one massive hardcover volume. BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL OMNIBUS includes the best-selling story line from BATMAN #484-500, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #16-18, BATMAN: VENGEANCE OF BANE #1, DETECTIVE COMICS #654-666 and SHOWCASE '93 #7-8.
Sweets: A New Orleans Crime Story
Kody Chamberlain - 2011
Detective Curt Delatte just buried his only daughter, he's in no condition to work. But when the bodies pile up, he masks his grief and joins the hunt through the bowels of the Big Easy. It won't be long until his city, and his evidence, gets washed away.