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Elephantmen 2260, Book 1: Memories of the Future
Richard Starkings - 2014
Collects ELEPHANTMEN #51-55 A new arc, a new slim trade paperback format for ELEPHANTMEN, and, at $9.99, a great opportunity for new readers to start reading the book they've heard so much about! Jack Farrell is a private detective who never gave a second thought to the Elephantmen—until he was paid to.
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
Jeff Lemire - 2018
Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the city's trash. The other: a washed-up Catholic priest, finding his place in a small town that hides dark secrets. Neither of them are prepared for what's inside the Black Barn.From Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, the bestselling creative team behind Old Man Logan and Green Arrow, comes a character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith.Collects Gideon Falls #1-6.
Limbo
Dan Watters - 2016
A femme fatale seeking escape from a powerful crime lord. A voodoo queen with a penchant for mixtapes and hi-tops. A goat-eating TV... A surreal neon-noir fusing hardboiled pulp with an 80s VHS visual aesthetic, dripping with neon and static. Collecting issues 1 through 6. Writer Dan Watters and artist Caspar Wijngaard are an up-and-coming creative team living and working in the UK. They are currently making their Image Comics debut with the surreal Neon Noir Limbo.
Battle Chasers: A Gathering of Heroes
Joe Madureira - 1998
Follow young Gully as she searches for her missing father, making powerful friends and deadlier enemies along the way. Alongside Knolan, Calibretto, and Garrison (with a watchful eye on Red Monika), this unlikely troop band together to face the dangers that assail them on their quest. Whether gathered by fate or something more, destiny has made them...BATTLE CHASERS!
Violent Love, Vol. 2: Hearts on Fire
Frank J. Barbiere - 2018
BARBIERE and VICTOR SANTOS.Collects issues 6-10.
Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood
Joshua Williamson - 2014
Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson deliver a mystery that mixes Twin Peaks with the horror of Se7en! Collects: Nailbiter #1-5.
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.
Southern Cross #1
Becky Cloonan - 2015
The questions keep coming though-how did her sister die? Where did her cabin mate disappear to? Who is that creep across the hall? And why does she always feel like she's being watched? Inspired by classic mysteries and weird fiction, SOUTHERN CROSS is a crucible of creeping anxiety and fear as Braith struggles with the ghosts of her past on board a ship that holds secrets best kept buried.
Farmhand, Vol. 2: Thorne in the Flesh
Rob Guillory - 2019
But his cash crop isn't corn or soy. He grows fast-healing, highly-customizable human organs.For years Jed's organic transplants have been a miracle cure. Of course, that was before his former patients began to transform into something not quite human.As these poor souls come to the Jenkins Farm searching for answers, a dark figure lurks in their shadow with sinister plans for Jedidiah, his family and the world.Collects FARMHAND #6-10
Kevin Smith's Green Hornet, Vol. 1: Sins of the Father
Kevin Smith - 2010
has lived a frivolous life of luxury. But when a mysterious figure from the past brutally and publicly murders his father, all of that changes. Driven by revenge, aided by his father's longtime ally and a
Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 1
Mark Millar - 2013
When the family becomes embattled by infighting, one branch stages an uprising, another goes into hiding. How long can the world survive when one family's super-powered problems explode onto the global stage? Collects Jupiter's Legacy #1-5.
Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
John Layman - 2009
A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases.Collects CHEW issues #1-5.
Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope
Darcy Van Poelgeest - 2019
A gorgeously illustrated epic where one girl risks everything to save her people, their land, and the freedom they so desperately deserve.Collects Little Bird #1-5.
Paper Girls #1
Brian K. Vaughan - 2015
VAUGHAN launches a brand-new ONGOING SERIES with superstar Wonder Woman artist CLIFF CHIANG! In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Stand By Me meets War of the Worlds in this mysterious young adult adventure, starting with a spectacular DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE for the regular price of just $2.99!
Port of Earth, Vol. 1
Zack Kaplan - 2018
But when our alien visitors break Port restrictions and wreak havoc in our cities, it falls to the newly formed Earth Security agents to hunt down and safely deport the dangerous rogue aliens back to the Port of Earth. A gritty sci-fi action thriller from new comic book writer Zack Kaplan (Eclipse) and Andrea Mutti (Rebels, Star Wars, Batman Eternal, Prometheus).