(W) Ed Brubaker (A) Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips (CA) Sean Phillips
The ultimate behind-the-scenes art book for all BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS fans is finally here. See from start to finish how a creative team at the top of their game makes an Eisner Award-winning graphic novel. Replicates materials from the entire process of creating PULP, from ED BRUBAKER's original notebook entries, to the initial script, to PHILLIPS' breakdowns and pencils, all the way to the final edited and polished book itself, presented in full color. See what the book started out as, what changed in the final version before print, and go deep into BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' process. PULP: THE PROCESS EDITION is a beautifully designed hardcover with everything a collector could want, including the full graphic novel itself, reproduced for the first time in a stunningly detailed oversized format. A must-have for any hardcore BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS fan.
(W) Max Allan Collins (A) Edu Menna
Written by renowned comic writer and author of the Quarry Hard Case Crime novels, Max Allan Collins ('Road to Perdition', 'Batman', 'Action Comics Weekly') and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski ('Batman: Streets of Gotham', 'Spider-Man', 'Spawn'). Former U.S. Marine sniper Quarry has found a new vocation as a professional assassin. But when his latest contract turns out to be an old acquaintance from his military days, the fresh-faced hit man finds himself battling against his own conscience as secrets from the past start to reveal themselves.
(W) Tsuneo Takano (A/CA) Takeshi Obata From the creators of Death Note, and based on the Xbox 360 game, Blue Dragon! The people of Sphaein are under siege by an army of monsters knows as Shadows. With the castle walls collapsing and their doom within sight they are persuaded to let loose a boy who himself has a Shadow within him. Released from his black cell a teenager who has never laid eyes on the opposite sex, he meets his beloved teacher face-to-face and discovers there are differences between men and women, differences he deems worth fighting for! Rating: T+
by Tsuneo Takano & Takeshi Obata Ral's journey has taken him and his friends to an enormous walled city. Inside, the inhabitants are jittery, as the womenfolk have been mysteriously disappearing. While the residents prepare weapons to prevent the Shadows from invading, the newest member of Ral's party, Kafka, is sent to investigate. He's stunned to see Mio, Ral's tutor, walking towards an unknown destination in a daze. When he tries to intervene the city's soldiers attack! Have the Shadows already found a way into the city? Rating: T+
From the creators of Death Note! The people of Sphaein are under siege by an army of monsters knows as Shadows. With the castle walls collapsing and their doom within sight they are persuaded to let loose a boy who himself has a Shadow within him. Released from his black cell a teenager who has never laid eyes on the opposite sex, he meets his beloved teacher face to face and discovers there are differences between men and women, differences he deems worth fighting for! Rating: T+
(W) Ed Brubaker (A) Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips (CA) Sean Phillips
'Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles? And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them - a good guy. In a bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears? his own past. 'Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips and their collaboration has never felt more new. Explosive. Vital. And yes... reckless. I love this book.' - Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO's Watchmen) ''Reckless is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McG
(W) Stephanie Phillips (A) Robert Carey (CA) Robert Hack
A series of unexplained, violent crimes on Election Day around the U.S. leads the FBI to zero in on a covert group of Russian terrorists. When a Texas journalism student named Miriam accidentally finds herself mixed up in the investigation, her life will never be the same. With political espionage, treason and even mind control, can she clear her name and stop the U.S. from entering into a new Cold War? From writer Stephanie Phillips (Butcher of Paris, ARTEMIS AND THE ASSASSIN, DESCENDENT) and artist Robert Carey (Aliens: Resistance, James Bond) comes a fast-paced political thriller that explores the dark history of U.S./Russian relations. This volume features the entire series: Issues #1-5.
A BOLD EXPERIMENT IN THE GRAPHIC NOVEL! KRISTIANSEN's European Album is newly translated to English by TEDDY KRISTIANSEN and STEVEN T. SEAGLE. But in a unique flip-novel format, the book is also 're-mixed' with a completely different script devised by SEAGLE before he collaborated on the translation. Both versions - THE RED DIARY - a tale of art forgery and World War and THE RE[A]D DIARY - a tale of identity theft and lost love - comprise this unique graphic novel from SEAGLE and KRISTIANSEN - the Eisner nominated/winning team behind the acclaimed Vertigo graphic novel it's a bird?.
(W) Rafael Albuquerque, Rafael Scavone (A) Roger Cruz (CA) Rafael Albuquerque, Roger Cruz
Lis (aka Lisa), Lu (aka Luciana) and Leco (aka Leandro)-three friends bonded by their love for Brazil's unique street art 'pixo,' also known as picha??o or pixa??o, a distinctive style of tagging unique to Brazil-strive to be good in a place where corruption still thrives. After Lis witnesses injustice and abuse of power on the streets of S?o Paulo, she enlists her friends to take matters into their own hands. Their plan works until they realize they've become privy to sensitive information belonging to holdovers from the country's brutal dictatorial past who are plotting against the movement for reform and an upcoming election. Armed with a can of spray paint and the help of a journalist, can they escape the dangerous and life-threatening plot they've mistakenly become entangled in? o From the Comixology Originals series.
(W) Christopher Cantwell (A/CA) Luca Casalanguida
Where is Lee Harvey Oswald's body? The Kennedy assassination is a rat's nest of conspiracy theories: mafia involvement, a second gunman, a government cover-up? but the most important one may just be the idea that the body in Oswald's grave is not actually Lee Harvey. Meet the ragtag group of 'useful idiots' unwittingly brought together to clean up the crime of the century - a wannabe cowboy from Wisconsin, a Buddy Holly-idolizing (former) car thief, a world-weary Civil Rights activist ready for revolution, and a failed G-Man who still acts the part . Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, The United States of Captain America) and artist Luca Casalanguida (Lost Soldiers, Scout's Honor) deliver an off-kilter crime thriller set in the shadows of history's greatest conspiracy! Collects Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1-5.
(W) Benoit Riviere (A) Philippe Scoffoni
One corpse. Two dead women. LA's biggest crime conspiracy. Los Angeles, 2030. Criminagent Milo Deckman witnesses a woman's murder. At the morgue, retinal identification indicates not one, but two identities, each with her own husband. Deckman can't resist getting involved in the case, but he soon finds that he's not the only one interested in the double-life of this mysterious woman-she's also wrapped up with both an exclusive division of the federal intelligence agency and the most infamous crime lord in L.A?and it's not clear who's on what side.
(W) John Zuur Platten (A/CA) Christian DiBari, Simon Gough
By all accounts, Detective Hampton Wales is a good cop but a complicated man, and when he dies under unusual circumstances, he finds that things aren't any less complicated in death. The cases he couldn't solve have come back to haunt him-literally and figuratively-and he faces a hellscape where people from his past hunt him in an eternal, torturous blood sport. Now, Hampton must struggle to survive long enough to solve one more murder if he ever wants to leave the cycle of violence-but the truth may be just as scary as anything he faces in the deadly Moratorium. Steeped in the tradition of body horror, REVOLVERS is an action-packed story of duty, love, betrayal, and revenge set against the background of an alternate vision of present-day Detroit. Collects REVOLVERS #1-4
(W) Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker (A) Darwyn Cooke, Sean Phillips (CA) Darwyn Cooke
The long-awaited companion to the Eisner Award-winning Martini Edition is finally coming! Collecting the THE SCORE and SLAYGROUND (Both Eisner Award-winning graphic novels themselves). Darwyn Cooke crafted four universally acclaimed Parker graphic novels, adapted from the works of Richard Stark (A pseudonym for Donald Westlake), before his untimely death. This volume will be (along with the Martini Edition) the last word on Cooke's brilliant Parker stories.
(W/A/CA) Darwyn Cooke
After evening the score with those who betrayed him, and recovering the money he was cheated out of from the syndicate, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until, that is, he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to the Outfit for the price they put on his head... and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave! ? First time in trade paperback! ? Darywn Cooke won SEVEN Eisner Awards for his work adapting Richard Stark's Parker Novels, as well as FOUR Harvey Awards! ? Expanded edition-Featuring THE MAN WITH THE GETAWAY FACE!
(W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Andre Lima Araujo
When an unassuming man stops vicious dark web contract assassins from killing their target, he turns himself into one. A quiet, atmospheric slice-of-life story with sudden bouts of unique and brutal violence. New York Times-bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (SEVEN TO ETERNITY, DEADLY CLASS) and mega-star artist ANDR? LIMA ARA?JO (GENERATION GONE, THE WICKED + THE DIVINE) present the story of an unlikely surrogate to a boy hunted by powerful men who are used to getting away with everything. The entirety of the critically acclaimed series A RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE is collected here in one giant prestige edition, loaded with variant covers, sketches, model sheet designs, raw inks, and script pages and presented in the ultimate oversized format to enjoy this groundbreaking series. Collects A RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE #1-11
(W) Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel (A) Lee Sullivan
CSI meets Harry Potter in this fantastic new graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of London supernatural police procedural crime novel series! Something dark and slimy is dripping through the walls of suburban London. Not the usual stuff that smells funny and can be hell on the lungs, this mould is possessed by some dark power full of bad intentions. Looks like it's another case for London's one and only trainee wizard cop, Police Constable Peter Grant, and his reluctant partner, Sahra Guleed! Collects the complete story arc from Rivers of London: Black Mould #1-#5
(W) Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch (A) Brian Williamson, Stefani Rennee (CA) Anna Dittman
A new story in the bestselling cops-and-wizards series Rivers Of London, from chart-topping author Ben Aaronovitch! Uncover the secret World War II history of Peter Grant's fan-favorite mentor, the mysterious Nightingale. When a serial killer with strange powers arrives on the streets of London, an old soldier remembers the man who mastered the occult at the height of World War II!
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire
'Buzzing with a meticulously controlled intensity that's propelled by its deeply flawed and richly imagined cast of characters, JEFF LEMIRE is at his best.' -IGN In a return to the literary and thematic territory of JEFF LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County, ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up. There, Patrick is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his browbeaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a sprawling, ambitious graphic novel that charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Collects ROYAL CITY #1-14
(W) Jacques Tardi, Jean-Patrick Manchette (A/CA) Jacques Tardi
After the teeth-rattling one-two punch of West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, Jacques Tardi makes a third appointment with ace crime writer Jean- Patrick Manchette for his wildest adaptation yet. A tale of mendacity and heroism, Run Like Crazy... is full of moments of pitch-black humor with a strong current of socio-political satire beneath its bleak surface. It's a ride to hell, but a devilishly fun one.
(W/A/CA) Eldo Yoshimizu
Hard Case Crime presents the explosive climax to Eldo Yoshimizu's manga homage to gangster cinema! As a covert war rages in Japan's underworld, the motorcycle-riding yakuza princess Ryuko discovers the truth behind the disappearance of her mother - and the face of her true foe! Collects Vol.1 and 2 of a two-part criminal saga packed with international intrigue, complex morality, and blistering action!
(W/A/CA) Eldo Yoshimizu
Hard Case Crime presents the explosive climax to Eldo Yoshimizu's manga homage to gangster cinema! As a covert war rages in Japan's underworld, the motorcycle-riding yakuza princess Ryuko discovers the truth behind the disappearance of her mother - and the face of her true foe! Part two of a two-part criminal saga packed with international intrigue, complex morality, and blistering action!
When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. The follow-up to Nick Drnaso's LA Times Book Prize-winning Beverly, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate.
(W/A/CA) Daria Tessler
An absurdist, psychedelic crime fantasy / graphic novella from an acclaimed artist and printmaker. The Astounding Magnus has been hypnotizing audiences at the Feedbag cocktail bar with his resplendent dancing dog act, Salome, and her 'Serpentine Dance of the Seven Veils.' Yet despite his success, the pearl of life has lost its luster for Magnus. He visits the psychologist, Dr. Silkini, who promises to massage Magnus's id into a higher dimension: the pearly gates of full life satisfaction. Meanwhile, Salome's crowd-pleasing performances have attracted unwanted attention from sinister forces who want to know the dog's secret. Daria Tessler's new graphic novella, Salome's Last Dance, showcases her phenomenal talent for incorporating elements of collage and pen-and-ink illustration to create a beautifully phantasmagoric experience under the guise of an absurdist, psychedelic fantasy (including an extended visual tour de force depicting a hallucinogenic tea trip), one that favorably compares to Yellow Submarine or the comics of Jim Woodring. Tessler's rich ear for
Witness Savage Dragon's transition as he becomes the greatest foe to ever grace the pages of his own book! It's the end of the world as you've never seen it before! When Savage Dragon goes bad--who will face him? Would you believe--everybody else? It's the most explosive finale in comics!
(W) Declan Shalvey, Philip Barrett (A/CA) Philip Barrett, Jordie Bellaire
ADVANCE SOLICIT In Limerick City, Jimmy 'Hardy' Savage is a gangster on the rise, facing trouble from all sides. With the local cops, rival gangs, his best mate, and his mammy all out to stick a knife in him, will the bollocks live long enough to get to the top? More importantly, will he pay me back for that fiver I gave him last week? From the savage minds of DECLAN SHALVEY (All-Star Batman, INJECTION), PHILIP BARRETT, and JORDIE BELLAIRE (Vision, THEY'RE NOT LIKE US) comes an original Irish graphic crime novel that'll leave you gaspin'...for a pint!
(W) Steve Orlando, Jon Tsuei (A/CA) Rubine
Aaron Tse lives for his family, and if he's not careful, he'll die for its secrets. When he left the military, Aaron Tse's first thought was providing for his aging parents. His parents' bar is experiencing hard times, and one night it's shot to hell, with his parents critically injured in the attack. But this was no ordinary robbery - Aaron's mother reveals that she fled China to escape a blood feud between the Jewish and Chinese sides of her family?both of which are powerful organized crime families. Peace existed between these two families - the Hu and the Margolis - but now it's been broken, and Aaron must protect his parents from further violence. Aaron hops a plane to the homeland he never intended to explore, on a path to revenge he never wanted to walk. Written by Jon Tsuei (Sera and the Royal Stars, RunLoveKill) and Steve Orlando (Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, KILL A MAN, PROJECT PATRON) and drawn by artist sensation Rubine, SEARCH FOR HU is a fast-paced, action-packed exploration of complex cultural histories, powered by a b
(W) David Hine (A/CA) Alberto Ponticelli
Collecting the mind-altering six-issue series from David Hine and Alberto Ponticelli! Twenty years ago, Ray Pilgrim became a celebrity when he discovered his unique ability to see through the eyes of psychotic killers who were terrorizing London. But his world collapsed around him when he was accused of the same crimes as the monsters he hunted. Now, Pilgrim's teenage daughter is using her blog to investigate a ring of child abusers that includes some of the most powerful men in British society - men who are prepared to kill anyone who threatens to expose them. In order to protect his daughter and uncover the truth, Pilgrim must reluctantly revisit his past and the twisted path that led to the hotel room the media called The Bloody Chamber.
(W) J. C. Vaughn (A) Billy Tucci & Various (CA) Joe Jusko
Who killed Roger Hollander? For more than a year, the grizzliest murder in the history of the normally sleepy, mid-cities town of Hurst, Texas has gone unsolved. With the case growing colder by the day and desperate for any kind of breakthrough, the victim's mother turns to private investigators Donovan Bay and Michelle Benson. They dig in immediately, but the more they dig, the worse the victim looks, the more potential suspects they find, and the deeper the mystery becomes. SECOND WEDNESDAY is the debut novel from Overstreet's J.C. Vaughn (24, Stargate Atlantis, Vampire, PA). Cover by Joe Jusko. PROSE NOVEL. The deluxe limited edition SC features spot illustrations by Billy Tucci (Shi), John K. Snyder III (Eight Million Ways To Die), Mary Wilshire (Red Sonja), Joe James (Dark Dominion) and others.
(W/A/CA) Terry Moore
Zoe, the precocious serial killer from Rachel Rising, returns in her own series! Because of her past affiliation with a demon, Zoe is a mature woman trapped in a child's body. When an old friend falls victim to a new serial killer Zoe vows to hunt down the predator and exact her own lethal revenge. The Glass Tomb collects the first five issues of Terry Moore's hot new series.
(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Chip Zdarsky
Suzie and Jon have that special something-when they have sex, they freeze time and do crimes. Well-they HAD that special something. In the aftermath of what would appear to be a breakup, where do our two love-crazy time-freezing sex-having bank robbers go? REBOUND AHOY! Also everything gets more dangerous and complicated? But it's okay. Collects SEX CRIMINALS #21-25.
(W) Peter Calloway (A) Georges Jeanty (CA) Mark Chiarello
Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway's grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospital (because he was Black) and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own practice (because he was Black), Nathaniel turned to the only other source of money in Prohibition-era Chicago: the Mafia, run by none other than Al Capone. One of the most profoundly fascinating, startling and significant stories AfterShock has ever published, SHADOW DOCTOR features the artwork of Eisner Award-winner Georges Jeanty (The American Way, X-Tremists) and covers illustrated by the inimitable Mark Chiarello! This volume contains issues #1-5.
(W) Simon Spurrier, Dan Watters (A) Daniel HDR (CA) Michael William Kaluta
For the better part of a century the Shadow's sinister laughter brought the chill of fear to evil-doers - but in our modern times, the streets of Manhattan have gone largely silent. But he is not forgotten. Not by the people he's saved. Mary Jerez, is one of those people. The Shadow saved her from a horrifying school shooting - Mary knows all too well what evil lurks in the hearts of men. So when a horribly burnt man - incredibly strong and fierce, despite his terrible injuries- arrives under her care as a resident at the hospital - she believes she knows who he is, too. Is this mysterious man actually the Shadow - and with Mary's help, will evil-doers again know what it means to fear his terrible justice?
(W) Stephen Thompson (A) Jay
Collection of the brilliant manga adaptation of the fanatically followed tv show, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit).
(W) Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat (A/CA) Jay
The second part of the Manga adaptation of the fourth Sherlock BBC episode - printed in English in the US for the first time! Fresh from confronting Moriarty in the end of The Great Game, Sherlock Holmesand John Watson are called to save the royal family from blackmail at the hands of Irene Adler, a dominatrix known as 'The Woman'. Adler pulls Sherlock into a complex web of mysteries involving the CIA and the MoD, with secrets that could threaten to threaten international security and topple the monarchy.
(W) Mark Gatiss (A/CA) Jay
Collecting the latest series of the brilliant manga adaption of the fanatically followed TV show, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman!
(W) Mink (A/CA) Yoshitaka Amano
Former special forces soldier and now elite Scout bounty hunter Daniel Legend is leaving the mean streets of Los Angeles for the meaner streets of Shinjuku. In the real world, Tokyo's most cosmopolitan ward-center of metropolitan power, crossroads of traffic, den of vice. But in Shinjuku, Daniel Legend, in search of his missing sister Angela, discovers the unreal city: Shinjuku. In this realm where lowlife crooks and subterranean monsters spill blood alike in the shadows, three rival yakuza leaders hold control over every earthly crime in a tense triad of greed. Film and video director Christopher 'mink' Morrison, veteran of Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender's A Band Apart, is the author of Shinjuku, a story whose urban mix of action and horror is illustrated with raw, propulsive energy by world-famous illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). o Includes 130 original paintings by artist Yoshitaka Amano!
(W/A/CA) Nika
Mel Song is an unlikely fit for a crack investigator-in her downtime she loves watching soap operas in her pajamas, eating instant ramen, and internet shopping. But she has one secret weapon: the ability to read minds. Still, Mel can't afford to get complacent. Not when there is a fresh threat brewing in the shadows of New York City... Nika's thrilling suspense story Signals arrives in its print debut from Dark Horse and Tapas, part of a new collaboration!
(W/A/CA) Nika
Read the exciting conclusion to Mel Song's psychic adventures in the second volume of Signals, created by Nika and brought to print by Dark Horse and Tapas Entertainment! Having barely escaped her first encounter with Ken, a powerful fellow psychic, Mel and her two friends must regroup and determine their next course of action to continue their search for the missing Julie. The smart thing to do would be to lay low, but caution has never been Mel's strong suit-especially when there is a case to be solved!
(W) Andre R Frattino (A/CA) Jesse Lee
An artist, forced to paint swastikas on train cars for the Nazis during the Holocaust, has become an unlikely vigilante in pre-Cold War Europe. Alongside his army companion, Bruno, he hunts down the criminals responsible for murdering his wife, his family, and his people. SIMON SAYS is one part action-adventure, one part crime-noir and all high-stakes drama!
Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he can't let himself lose control again, can't ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls.