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Kabuki Library Volume 1
David W. Mack - 2015
The origin, the foundation of the story . . . The very beginning of the acclaimed series created by David Mack. Featuring a total of 11 separate issues and collected with loads of extras, this is the book that fans of Mack and Kabuki have been waiting for and the perfect book for brand new Kabuki readers to begin with.
Nemo: Heart of Ice
Alan Moore - 2013
Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father's greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing tycoon to retrieve the plundered valuables of an African queen. It's a deadly race to the bottom of the world -- an uncharted land of wonder and horror where time is broken and the mountains bring madness. Jules Verne meets H.P. Lovecraft in the unforgettable final showdown, lost in the living, beating and appallingly inhuman HEART OF ICE.
Stranger things Halloween special
Michael Moreci - 2020
Comic tie-in with Netflix's hit show, Stranger Things! Takes place six days before season 1 begins!
Star Trek: Year Five - The Wine-Dark Deep
Jackson Lanzing - 2020
Join the crew of the Enterprise in these all-new adventures near the end of their five-year mission, featuring the characters from the Original Series!The crew has a new Tholian passenger and just as they are finally able to communicate with them, the Enterprise runs into a new obstacle--a Tholian web! But as the crew works with other trapped ships to figure out how to escape, new questions about what the Tholian Assembly is planning darken the horizon.Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future in this new continuing Star Trek series!Collects issues #7-12.
Rough Riders Vol. 1
Adam Glass - 2016
When a terrible power emerges from the darkness, a group of unlikely heroes team-up to stop it. A tortured Teddy Roosevelt recruits a struggling Coney Island magician named Harry Houdini...a hard-drinking, gun-slinging Annie Oakley; a financially strapped and aging Thomas Edison; and a boisterous, womanizing African American boxer with a big chip on his shoulder named Jack Johnson. These legends of old will soon wage a shadow war that will change the course of history for America, and ultimately, the world. That is, of course, if they don’t kill one another first.Don’t miss out on this first collection from ADAM GLASS (executive producer of Supernatural & writer of Suicide Squad) and PAT OLLIFFE (Untold Tales of Spider-Man).
The Witcher, Vol. 1: House of Glass
Paul Tobin - 2014
Travelling near the edge of the Brokilon forest, monster hunter Geralt meets a widowed fisherman whose dead and murderous wife resides in a eerie mansion known as the House of Glass, which seems to have endless rooms, nothing to fill them with, and horror around every corner.
The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Volume 1
Don Rosa - 2019
Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, Jesse James, Jack London, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Annie Oakley, Robert Peary, and President Theodore Roosevelt!
Wild's End, Vol. 1: First Light
Dan Abnett - 2015
Wells and War of the Worlds than Dan Abnett, one of comics' most renowned sci-fi writers and one of the creators responsible for the groundbreaking run on Guardians of the Galaxy that inspired the Marvel movie. Paired with I.N.J. Culbard who has made a name for himself with the critically acclaimed adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, it's a team perfectly built for the visually impactful adventure stories readers love. What It Is: Lower Crowchurch is a small English community enjoying the peace of the 1930s, but when the town becomes the victim of an alien invasion, the residents' lives are upended by the harsh realities of life-and-death violence. Led by the town's outsider and retired war veteran, they will have to rally together to uncover the secret of their invaders and hope to fight back. Collects the complete six-issue miniseries.
Grandville
Bryan Talbot - 2005
Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steampowered dirigible, and mutual suspicion to France. When a British diplomat's murder is made to look like suicide, ferocious DetectiveInspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard stalks a ruthless murder squad through the heart of a Belle Epoque Paris, the center of the greatest empire in a world of steamdriven hansom cabs, automatons, and flying machines. LeBrock's relentless quest can lead only to death, truth... or war.* Following on the heels of his internationally acclaimed graphic novels The Tale of One Bad Rat and Alice in Sunderland, Grandville is a fantastical and audacious rollercoaster ride, visually stunning and rich in memorable detail.
The Bunker, Vol. 2
Joshua Hale Fialkov - 2015
Daniel began his job at Aspire following in his father's footsteps. Will the apocalypse keep happening? Or will something trigger a change in the future? A future where Grady Potts wields his power as president to his advantage. Where Daniel has locked himself away, desperately seeking a cure for the virus he created. Where Heidi and Billy are criminals. Where Natasha is forced to help Grady find a way to travel into the past......but for what purpose? To help the future? Or to preserve it?Collects The Bunker #5-9
Mass Effect Omnibus, Volume 2
Mac Walters - 2017
Collects Mass Effect: Foundation #1-#13, "Blasto: Eternity is Forever," and "He Who Laughs Best" from Free Comic Book Day 2013!
The Sandman #1 : Sleep of the Just
Neil Gaiman - 1989
An occultist accidentally traps Morpheus, the embodiment of Dreams, and holds him for 70 years. Finally free, Morpheus seeks his lost objects of power and rediscovers his place in the universe.
Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
Jeff Lemire - 2018
As she gets closer and closer to the truth she uncovers the dark origin stories of some of Black Hammer's greatest foes and how they tie into the puzzle of what happened to Spiral City's greatest hero.Collects issues 1-4 of the Sherlock Frankenstein series & issue #12 of Black Hammer.
Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
Walt Kelly - 2011
The earliest strips embrace a kind of broad farce that reflects Walt Kelly's interest in slapstick and the comedies popular in the 1930s. By the second year, Kelly begins to test the waters of political satire.
Star Trek: TNG: Mirror Broken #2
Scott Tipton - 2017
Unfortunately, one obstacle stands in his way—and his name is William T. Riker!