(W) Pierre Wazem (A) Aubin
An outsider sheriff struggles to find his place in an isolated, snow-covered town populated by a hard people who are set in their ways and don't take too kindly to strangers. It's a place where folks mind their own business, however odd it may be, and do as they please. That is, until the calm, quiet sheriff decides to do his job.
(W) Justin Jordan (A) Raul Trevino (CA) Jilipollo
Written by Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and illustrated by Ra?l Trevi?o (,i), Sombra is a gripping exploration of the War on Drugs and the double-edged sword of American intervention, informed by Trevi?o's experiences in his Mexican homeland. Conrad Marlowe was a respected DEA agent when he disappeared in Mexico while investigating the ruthless drug cartels. Years later, he has resurfaced as a cult leader who has made it his mission to out-brutalize the cartels terrorizing the country. The only DEA agent willing to follow his trail of violence is his own daughter, Danielle, and with the help of a journalist on the ground, she'll have to face the horrors of what her father has become if she wants to survive and bring him to justice. Collects the complete limited series.
(W) Ryan Ferrier (A) Matias Bergara (CA) Toni Infante
Writer: Ryan Ferrier Artist: Mat?as Bergara Cover Artist: Toni Infante Synopsis: When Bobby's estranged nephew Dillon shows up in Charming, eager to join the club, the Sons are happy to fortify their numbers with a member of the family. But Dillon is cocky, impulsive, and violent, and a crucial mistake leads to a lost business opportunity and trouble with the Mayans. The Sons send Dillon home in shame, but he has other plans...and he doesn't care who gets caught in the crossfire. Based on the hit FX TV show. Collects issues #19-22 and features a cover gallery by Toni Infante (Sons of the Devil).
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Jason Latour
Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team and more bastards than you've ever seen. SOUTHERN BASTARDS by JASON AARON (Scalped, Star Wars) and JASON LATOUR (Spider-Gwen, Loose Ends) gets a premiere hardcover, collecting the first eight issues of the Eisner Award-nominated (2015: Best Continuing Series) southern-fried crime series.
As Lawrence and Holo put the final phase of their plan to extricate themselves from the jaws of financial ruin into motion, they are confronted by an unforeseen obstacle. With the wolves at the door - both figuratively and literally - can the travelers keep their wits about them and come out ahead of the pack?
As Lawrence and Holo put the final phase of their plan to extricate themselves from the jaws of financial ruin into motion, they are confronted by an unforeseen obstacle. With the wolves at the door - both figuratively and literally - can the travelers keep their wits about them and come out ahead of the pack?
The adventures of a traveling merchant and his wolf goddess companion continue in the tenth installment of this historical fantasy! After the turmoil in Kerube, Lawrence and his companions make for the Kingdom of Winfiel across the sea. Their destination is the great abbey of Brondel, said to hold the wolf bones they seek. Arriving in the kingdom, they hear tell that the abbey, normally prosperous due to its great wool trade, has fallen into a financial crisis. Worse, the most powerful economic force in the world, the Ruvik Alliance, is entering the kingdom with its eye upon the abbey's land holdings.
(W) Takemachi (A) SeuKaname
The golden age of the military has passed, and war is now carried out by spies. Klaus, an agent with a perfect record but a difficult personality, has formed a special team to carry out an 'impossible' mission with a 90% failure rate. Problem is?the ones he's chosen are a bunch of pretty girls with no experience!?
(W) Takemachi (A) SeuKaname, Tomari
Under the questionable tutelage of Klaus, the greatest spy in the world, the girls of Lamplight have been steadily honing their skills in preparation for their impending mission. But there's a more pressing issue at hand-just why were these specific members chosen for this team? Perhaps it's time to use their feminine wiles to pry the answer from their stoic teacher...
(W) Takemachi (A) SeuKaname
The Impossible Mission begins at last! Codenames Flower Garden, Pandemonium, Daughter Dearest, Dreamspeaker, Glint, Meadow, Forgetter, and Fool all have their own goals, and each is prepared to work from the shadows to see it done. Can they come together and succeed, or have they been set up to fail?
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic-SUNSHINE & ROSES tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS, and with SUNSHINE & ROSES, the uncompromising EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM take the series to a new high. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #1-8.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
What would you do for love? How far would you go for revenge? 'SUNSHINE & ROSES' tells the story of a boy and a girl: how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with 'SUNSHINE & ROSES,' the uncompromising, Eisner Award-winning team of DAVID AND MARIA LAPHAM craft a heist story like you never seen. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #9-16.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
The getaway is always the trickiest part of any heist. It gets even trickier when the one place you go to hide and the one person you're counting on hiding you is just about the worst place and worst person you could have ever picked. Is it self-sabotage or a secret plan of revenge? Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #17-24
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Steal the money and drugs-check. Get gone-check. It was supposed to be all over. These were supposed to be the good times-the days of sunshine and roses. So why don't they feel that way? Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #25-32.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far she'll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41
(W) Jacques Tardi, Jean-Patrick Manchette (A) Jean-Patrick Manchette
Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder is the first of two volumes presenting all four crime graphic novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi, including the never-before-collected Griffu and the out-of-print West Coast Blues. This volume also offers a 21-page uncompleted story by Manchette and Tardi as well as a single page introduction to another incomplete story, both published in English for the first time. These gritty stories are like a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction.
(W) Patrick Kindlon (A/CA) Paul Tucker
1983. Tournament tennis. A racquet stringer turned small-time drug dealer gets in over his head transporting a gym bag of cocaine across Europe. Carrying a half million in narcotics puts him on the radar of every dangerous man on the continent. Whoops.
(W/A/CA) Jake Lawrence
What's to Love: Teen Dog is John Hughes movies meets '90s Nickelodeon cartoons, two of our absolute favorite things. It's a totally awesome adventure that stars the canine that spun out of Jake Lawrence's web comic Time Cowboy and kickflipped his way into our hearts. What It Is: Skateboards, football games, prom...your teenage years have got nothin' on the raddest dude that's ever graced a denim vest. Written and illustrated by Jake Lawrence (Time Cowboy), join Teen Dog and his best friend Mariella as they tackle typical teen life with a manic twist. Growing up is an adventure, and you might as well rock it! Collects the complete eight-issue miniseries.
(W) Kiwamu Sato
In the wake of a brutal war with a rival cartel, a certain drug lord flees Mexico and ends up halfway around the world, where he runs into a Japanese organ broker doing business in Jakarta. After their fateful meeting, the two of them travel to Japan in order to establish a new business in the organ trade. There, the former cartel leader takes a young, lonely boy under his wing. These three lives gradually become inextricably entangled in a web of crime, violence, and human flesh?
(W) Chris Condon (A/CA) Jacob Phillips
Sheriff Joe Bob Coates travels down the long and winding road of memory to a dark night in 1981 that saw a boy killed, a girl missing, and a mad cult on the loose in Ambrose County, Texas. SCOTT SNYDER (NOCTERRA, WYTCHES, Batman) calls the series 'a dark and twisted Texas mystery with tons of heart.' Collects THAT TEXAS BLOOD #7-12
(W) Eliot Rahal (A) Emily Pearson
Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken-only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken the United States by depriving it of its blood supply. But the truth is much more sinister. The four robbers are vampires: immortal, physically powerful, and after decades of honing their skills, practically untraceable. But time goes on and the vampires-who call themselves The Vain-stay the same in a world that is rapidly changing around them. As security measures evolve, stealing blood is harder every day. And with every decade that passes, Agent Franklin gets closer to finding them. Capturing them. Ending them.
(W) Andy Diggle (A/CA) Shawn Martinbrough, Adriano Lucas
Conrad may have pulled off his last heist, but not without making some new enemies. Is anyone in his life safe? Find out in 'The Hit List!' Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #20-25.
(W) Andy Diggle (A/CA) Shawn Martinbrough, Adriano Lucas
There's a new thief of thieves in town-and they're using the Redmond name to pull heists. Will stealing Conrad's legacy be enough to pull the master thief out of retirement? Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #26-31
(W) Andy Diggle (A/CA) Shawn Martinbrough, Adriano Lucas
There's a new thief of thieves in town-and they're using the Redmond name to pull heists. Will stealing Conrad's legacy be enough to pull the master thief out of retirement?
(W) Andy Diggle (A/CA) Shawn Martinbrough, Adriano Lucas
Conrad Paulson has been the undisputed thief of thieves throughout the world...until now. But who are his rivals? And does he have what it takes to outfox them in his most thrilling heist yet? Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #32-37
(W) Brett Lewis (A/CA) Shawn Martinbrough, Adriano Lucas
Conrad Paulson is dead-or is he? What does a notorious Russian prison have to do with the master thief known as Redmond? Collects THIEF OF THIEVES #38-43.
(W) Kyle Starks (A) Patrick Piazzalunga
Two serial killers discover they are within reach of the state record for kills and enter a terrible competition to see who gets there first. Learn more about our awful killers Mark Christopher Ewing and Daniel Dodson and their grotesque activities as we enter a frightening game of cat-and-mouse between killers and police. A great graphic novel for fans of true crime and murder fiction. Collects Those Not Afraid #1-4.
(W) Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville (A) Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran (CA) Declan Shalvey
2140. To escape a world with no future, many turn to the Syndicate - a criminal organization that, for the right price, will smuggle you back in time to the promise of a better yesterday. Tatsuo, a Syndicate smuggler, wants to leave his life of crime behind, but when an FBI agent disrupts his escape plan, they both find themselves hunted across time by his former employers. A mix of SAGA and Looper, TIME BEFORE TIME is a sci-fi crime tale that proves the one thing you can never escape is your past. COLLECTS TIME BEFORE TIME #1-5.
(W) Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville (A) Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran (CA) Declan Shalvey
As the Syndicate and the Union wage war across decades, Tatsuo and Nadia continue their journey to reunite Nadia with her family. But a shocking surprise awaits them in the year 2042? The hit crime/time travel series continues in this thrilling second volume! Collects TIME BEFORE TIME #7-11
(W) Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville (A) Eric Zawadzki, Vlad Legostaev (CA) Declan Shalvey
The past catches up with a vengeance in the latest chapter of the critically acclaimed crime/time travel series! With the 33rd century's most dangerous bounty hunters on their trail, Nadia, Tatsuo, and Kevin's journey leads them further into the future than ever before. As enemies old and new close in, will they learn the secrets of the Arcola Institute before it's too late? Collects TIME BEFORE TIME #13-17.
(W) Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey (A) Jorge Coehlo, Chris O'Halloran (CA) Declan Shalvey
Dreams are achieved and losses are mourned in the fourth volume of the critically acclaimed time-hopping saga. After traveling billions of years into the past, Nadia finally reunites with her mother and sister in the hidden city of Arcola. But the happy reunion is short-lived, as the city's hatred of robots soon forces her to choose between Kevin and her family, all while a mysterious threat plots to tear the futuristic city apart. Collects TIME BEFORE TIME #19-23
(W/A) Tatsuya Endo
In New York City, the NYPD struggles to track down a serial killer known as Sister Militia, who has been targeting mobsters and other criminals in the Big Apple. No one knows who Sister Militia really is except a few residents of a Catholic orphanage. Her name is Tista? For older teen audiences.
(W) Brian Michael Bendis, Marc Andreyko (A/CA) Brian Michael Bendis
Cleveland. 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland. He went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. But dismembered body parts started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Headless torsos that left no clues to their identity or reason for death. Eliot Ness and his colorful gang of The Unknowns chased this killer through the underbelly of Cleveland for years. As far as the public was concerned, he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking. o This 1999 Eisner Award Winner for Comic Book Excellence is re-designed in this latest edition to the Dark Horse/Jinxworld library!
(W/A) Shouji Sato
The truth?that Fiona is not only immortal, but also the source of the unnatural powers and ability to transcend death that those injected with D99 receive?has been revealed. And what choices do Mochizuki, burdened with unforgivable crimes and driven into a corner by Syringe, have left to make...? (STL211328) (C: 0-1-2)
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(W/A) Shouji Sato
The stage for the final battle with Syringe has been set on the island of Tobioka. With the cooperation of the police and Hijo, Black Label advances with all its strength!
(W) Shouji Sato
Arashi's mission from Mochizuki is to kill...Fiona?! Faced with something unthinkable, the young man finds himself confronted by the events surrounding an old bombing during an international assembly. Can he unravel this tangled web of incidents and motives before it's too late?
(W) Walter Hill, Matz (A) Jef
An operatic prohibition era crime caper from legendary director Walter Hill! After years behind bars, Roy Nash never thought he'd walk the mean streets of Chicago again... let alone see his beloved one last time. But when the city's Mafia elite spring the notorious gun-for-hire, Roy once again finds himself thrown headfirst into a life of bloodshed and bullets as he sprints a breathless race to save the girl he left behind.
(W) Daniel Lapham, Maria Lapham (A/CA) David Lapham
David's gambling addiction brings him to rock bottom-the lowest point he's ever hit in life, and it's made him desperate. But the forbidden fruit of a nefarious opportunity arises? a heist, and one that could finally be the answer to his financial woes. The thing is, David's old line of work made him familiar with the nearby NYC subway tunnels, and the perfect man for this particular job. But the path to hell is paved with less-than-legal intentions, and David truly has no idea what he's signing up for, or the dark rabbit hole he's about to fall down? A hard boiled heist series with a supernatural horror twist from the hit Stray Bullets creative team of David & Maria Lapham, exploring how seeking out atonement can lead truly desperate people to the worst places, and make them do the unthinkable. Collects Underheist #1-5.
(W/A/CA) Duncan Tonatiuh
Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields, struggling for money he crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker. Though he is able to get a job he receives less than half of the minimum wage! Risking his boss reporting him to the authorities Juan risks everything and stands up for himself and others like him. Undocumented is told via the ancient Mixtec codex-accordion fold-format.
New Edition! Kansas City, 1933. Frank Nash is a petty criminal being escorted back into town by train. FBI agent Vetterli, waiting for the convoy at Union Station, is expecting a routine assignment. What happens at Union Station that day is a massacre, with no one knowing who really pulled the trigger first. Newspaper reporter, Charles Thompson, is a witness to the events at Union Station and begins a personal investigation that may cost the lives of him and his family. In the tradition of Torso and Road to Perdition, Union Station is the true story that started J. Edgar Hoover's 'war on crime' crime and helped shape the FBI into the agency they are today.