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Grayson, Volume 1: Agents of Spyral


Tim Seeley - 2015
    1: AGENTS OF SPYRAL—a high-octane, highly acclaimed super-spy thriller that reveals an all-new side of one of the DC Universe’s most legendary heroes! Unmasked, targeted and presumed dead, Dick Grayson’s world has been turned upside down. No longer Nightwing, former Boy Wonder, he’s now a man who doesn’t exist . . . which makes him the perfect double agent. Dick will have to leave behind the black and white world of super heroes to infiltrate the shadowy inner workings of the mysterious spy agency known as Spyral. Without a costume to hide behind, the would-be 007 must find the answer to one important question: just who is Dick Grayson? Collects: Grayson #1-4, Futures End #1 and a story from Secret Origins #8.

Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession


Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell - 2021
    Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? In Murder Book, lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is a funny, thoughtful, and highly personal blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and true crime with a focus on the often-overlooked victims of notorious killers.

Nothing Nice to Say


Mitch Clem - 2008
    Enter Nothing Nice to Say. Mitch Clem's Nothing Nice to Say leaves no mohawked, leather-jacket-clad stone unturned in its mission to expose the awesomeness and the absurdity of punk culture. Sometimes esoteric and always hilarious, Nothing Nice is so punk you'd think the book was bound with safety pins.

Homestuck: Book 1: Act 1 & Act 2


Andrew Hussie - 2018
    And buckets. And possibly horses. Now this sprawling saga has been immortalized on dead trees with notes from author Andrew Hussie explaining what the hell he was thinking as he brought this monster to life. A must-have for Homestuck fans who want to re-experience the saga or for new readers looking for a gateway to enter this rich universe.  A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that he’s about to embark on an adventure involving birthday cakes, magic chests, hammers, arms (detachable and otherwise), harlequins, imps, eccentric architecture, movable home furnishings, bunnies, and a video game that will destroy the world.

Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga, Vol. 3


Jiro Kuwata - 2016
    Many Western readers were only recently introduced to the existence of this unique take on the Caped Crusader. Now DC Comics presents the series in its entirety for the first time, fully translated and unabridged! Collects Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga digital Chapters 39-52.

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.

Crowded, Vol. 2: Glitter Dystopia


Christopher Sebela - 2020
    Low-rated DFEND bodyguard Vita is keeping her safe for 30 days from a desperate population looking to get rich quick with a gun and a dream.After escaping a big, televised attempt on their lives and the Reapr campaign blowing past two million bucks, Charlie and Vita abandon Los Angeles for the utopian desert paradise of Las Vegas in search of who started the Reapr campaign and how to shut it down. In the process, the human debris of Charlie's past and the well-kept secrets of Vita's old life will come spilling out too. As tensions rise and the attempted murderers keep coming, the only thing more unlikely than Charlie and Vita surviving their Reapr killers is them surviving each other.Collecting the second arc of the critically-acclaimed ongoing series by Eisner-nominated writer CHRISTOPHER SEBELA (SHANGHAI RED, HIGH CRIMES, WE(L)COME BACK), RO STEIN & TED BRANDT (CAPTAIN MARVEL: RAVEN THE PIRATE PRINCESS), TRIONA FARRELL (RUNAWAYS, MECH CADET YU) and CARDINAL RAE (BINGO LOVE, ROSE).Collects CROWDED 7-12

Leave it to Birbal


Reena Ittyerah Puri
    An honour not without hazards as half the nobles in the court had their knives out for him. According to legend, he was constantly being tested and made to prove himself - a challenge he took up readily.Amar Chitra Katha presents enthralling stories of the greatest wit in the Mughal Court./A

Teenagers from Mars


Rick Spears - 2005
    Macon works at the local Mallmart by day and publishes his comic book manifestos by night. Madison is a punk beauty who just might be able to fly. When Macon gets badly beaten in a fight with his boss over comic books, Macon and Madison take revenge by smashing the front of the store. They leave their calling card graffitied across the wreckage: Comic Book Liberation Army. The next day Max joins in the mayhem and soon the town has declared all-out war on comic books.Thus begins Teenagers From Mars, a chaotic comics extravaganza in which three teens strive against censorship, and adults, to protect the comics they love. Originally published as a series of comics, Teenagers from Mars shows what happens when people who love comics enough to fight for them are forced to.

The Lost Books: Visual Edition


Ted Dekker - 2008
    And never have the stakes for survival and destruction been so high.From thousands of new Forest Guard recruits aged 16 and 17, Thomas Hunter chooses four to lead a special mission against the Horde. But before that mission fully begins, it abruptly changes to an even greater endgame. Now these four teens must find the seven lost Books of History before dark forces do. For these seven books have immense power over the past, present, and future—controlling not only the destiny of their world . . . but that of ours as well.Prepare for a stunning visual adventure as the Chosen face renegades and betrayals across two realities in their quest to find what's been lost.

Carciphona Volume 1


Shilin Huang - 2011
    Four years after the Prohibition of magic was established, a sorceress still lived hidden away giving up her freedom in exchange for peace. But soon she will face the one who caused the Prohibition: an assassin who seems to be a Carciphona herself.

The Gigantic Robot


Tom Gauld - 2009
    Black and white. "A perfect little book." Daniel Clowes. "Tom Gauld turns futility, decay and eternity into sheer comic wonder. His black humor makes Beckett look timid." -Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil.

Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things


Ted Naifeh - 2003
    Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed.

Widdershins Volume One: Sleight of Hand


Kate Ashwin - 2012
    

Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1


Brian Herbert - 2020
    A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fanstastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s adaptation retains the integrity of the original novel, and Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín’s magnificent illustrations, along with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz, bring the book to life for a new generation of readers.