(W/A/CA) Mort Gerberg
Mort Gerberg broke into print with irreverent drawings in The Realist in the early '60s, whose social-justice-minded-and bitingly funny-cartoons have since appeared in all major magazines, including The New Yorker, Playboy, and the Saturday Evening Post. As a reporter, he's sketched historic scenes like the fiery Women's Marches of the '60s and the infamous '68 Democratic National Convention. Above all, Mort Gerberg is a keen political and social observer, whose curiosity, compassion, and razor-sharp wit has informed his work for over 50 years. Fantagraphics Underground is proud to present this handsome career retrospective of Gerberg's magazine cartoons, sketchbook drawings, and on-the-scene reportage sketches.
(W) Rob Guillory (A) Sam Lotfi (CA) Sam Lofti
In the hyper-technological world of the late 21st century, Mosely is a bitter old janitor on a mission from a higher power-to unleash holy Hell upon the 'too big to fail' Tech Gods. Can one man bring down the corporate powers who've used their vast influence to oppress an all-too-complacent human race (and hopefully win back the favor of his estranged family while he's at it)? Mosely's taking up the Holy Hammer and you better believe he's gonna smash some $h!t until he sets mankind free! But what will happen to humans, if he succeeds, when they've been reliant on AI and technology for so long? From Farmhand creator Rob Guillory (Chew) and Sam Lotfi (Harley Quinn), Mosely is a satirical sci-fi blockbuster perfect for fans of Eve! Collects Mosely #1-5.
(W) George Mann (A/CA) Aleta Vidal
In the aftermath of a failed utopia, an exiled woman fights to be reunited with her children by harnessing the mythic power that changed the planet forever. From the Sunday Times bestselling creator of Newbury & Hobbes and author of numerous comics and novels for Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Warhammer 40,000, comes an epic modern fantasy, rich in mythology and adventure, with an emotional personal story at its heart.
(W) Simon Spurrier (A) Rachael Stott & Various (CA) Eric Canete
In a future where unhinged technologies and parallel Earths have given rise to a class of super-criminal, the most beloved celebrities aren't actors or rock stars, but the bounty hunters who traverse an exotic multiverse in search of prey! But when the tracer known as Tab finds herself in an ultraviolent race for her greatest prize yet, she's forced to work with her greatest enemy, the only person capable of identifying him: her own elderly, overbearing and hypercritical mother, who was once the most fabulous and celebrated bounty hunter of them all. Collects the six-issue miniseries.
(W) Wojtek Wawszczyk (A) Antonia Llyod-Jones
In this electrifying graphic novel debut, Polish animator and cartoonist Wojtek Wawszczyk uses magical realism to tell a moving tale of finding light in a life full of darkness. Mirroring the world we live in, the protagonist of this graphic novel comes from a broken home. However, in this case, the term is quite literal. Due to freak accidents at the steelworks where his parents work, his mom snapped in half, and his dad flattened like a pancake. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, one day, he suffers his own life-changing experience: mistakenly swallowing molten metal gives him the strange power to radiate heat and light - like a lightbulb. As he grows up, evolving from Bulb Boy to Mr. Lightbulb, he finds that his unique abilities can be a curse and a blessing; while they alienate him from others, they also allow him to shine. At once surrealist, comedic, heartbreaking, bitterly sarcastic, and deeply sincere, Mr. Lightbulb is an essential work of comics autobio. With bold, expressive ink strokes and brilliant use of visual metaphor,
(W) Corine Jamar, LEO (A) Fred Simon
Romane has gone to Brazil, hoping to renew contact with Delphis, her dolphin friend, and find an explanation to the ongoing attacks by sea mammals against human ships and ports. Meanwhile, Brahim and Kruger continue their investigations in Mozambique. But their enemies, the white supremacists who still run Algapower, and their terrorist allies from the American White Army, know they're being hunted, and have no intention of being stopped again. A fight for the future of several species begins! (STL214494) (C: 0-1-1)
(W/A/CA) Hana Shinohara
Perfect for fans of isekai, videogame, and fantasy manga , follow the story of Kanzaki Rei, an avid gamer who is transported into the dangerous world of his favorite videogame! Kanzaki Rei is an avid gamer, but his debts are mounting up as the expensive medical treatments for his sister don't come cheap? in a fit of desperation he follows a link in a mysterious email promising help only to find him transported into the dangerous world of his favorite videogame. For each boss he kills he earns money, keeping his sister safe, but he risks death with each confrontation!
(W/A/CA) Hana Shinohara
PERFECT FOR FANS OF ISEKAI, VIDEO GAMES, AND FANTASY MANGA! THE SECOND VOLUME IN AN EPIC MANGA ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH! Kanazaki Rei is an avid gamer, but his debts are mounting up as the expensive medical treatments for his sister don't come cheap. In a fit of desperation, he follows a link in a mysterious email promising help, only to find himself transported into the dangerous world of his favorite videogame!!
(W) Richard Dent (A) Patrick Berkenkotter, Freire Ronilson (CA) Patrick Berkenkotter
A homeless man is mysteriously abducted. A journal is left on the edge of a subway platform, filled with stories about a world that doesn't exist. Not far from here a scientist is murdered in cold blood. The only clues are his burned down lab. A magnetically propelled motorcycle, and a man walking around New York City with the last living falcon on the planet. Imagine a world where your every thought, your every move, is filtered through The Central Lens Network. Now imagine being a twelve-year old boy and discovering a special pair of lenses that allow you to access this network undetected. This is exactly what happens to Matthew Glen the day his father is murdered then two years later mysteriously appears back in his life. In a style that echoes back to the Dark Age of Comics when graphic novels were coming into an art form of their own, 'Myopia' merges science fiction with noir steampunk into a thrilling alternative reality, where government and big business use entertainment devices to cover u
(A) Bill Molno & Various
It's all too easy to overlook Charlton's 40 year run and over 6,000 issue contribution to comic book history! Because with their roster of writers and artists including Rocco Mastroserio, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, plus many others and, of course, the truly remarkable one man creative genius Steve Ditko. Serving us with a never-ending concoction of fantastic fantasy-supernatural and horror tales and mind-blowing science fiction stories, they really did keep the comic buying youth of the world well and truly satisfied, no mean achievement and well worth celebrating! All here, reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be - just like the original comic! Collects Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #26-30 (September 1961-June 1962).
The Swinging Sixties are back, and they're Stranger than ever! No one knows the Strange better than the Strangers. Michael, Verity, and Sandoval have seen it all - but there is always something even stranger waiting just around the corner. Mysterious temples, peculiar pop bands, and unidentified flying oddities are just a few of the things mystifying Absalom Quince and his team, sworn to protect the world from the Strange. This collection is perfect for longtime fans or for those not yet touched by the Strange! And a great addition to anyone's secret-passageway-concealing bookcase!
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Shane Oakley
This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. This complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula Award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation with art by Eisner award winning artist Rafael Albuquerque!
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Shane Oakley
A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write nonfiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler. ? Shane Oakley beautifully illustrates New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's satirical tale. 'It's about what fantasy is, and why we write it, and what it would mean to write fantasy if you lived in a Gothic universe.'-Neil Gaiman
(W) Neil Gaiman (A) Gabriel Ba, F?bio Moon
Two teenage boys are in for a tremendous shock when they crash a party where the girls are far more than they appear! From Neil Gaiman-one of the most celebrated authors of our time-and award-winning artists F?bio Moon and Gabriel B?, this sumptuous graphic novel is not to be missed! ? Moon and B? adapt the Gaiman story they were born to draw! 'Gaiman, Moon, and B? have created a triolet of a book, lyrically powerful and utterly unforgettable.'-Junot D?az 'How can something so strange and so beautiful also be so sad? Like a poem, a pattern, and a people whose world was swallowed by the sea, How To Talk To Girls at Parties is three things at once.' - Kelly Sue DeConnick 'Had sneak peek at How to Talk to Girls at Parties. What boys fear! That girls are very smart aliens who will do frightful things to you in The Upper Room! Teenage angst. Lovely drawing/painting.' -from a Tweet by Margaret Atwood 'A haunting ode to the lyric of girls, who for our protagonists represent a vast, uncharted universe. An extraordinary comic from three extr
Collecting issues #0-6 of Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero, the official prequel to the hit Sci-Fi Channel series! Set approximately two years before the mini-series which relaunched Battlestar Galactica to such acclaim, Season Zero series follows Commander Adama and crew as they take on their first mission on board the Galactica. Everything in that time frame will be explored, including the menace and return of the Cylons, as events hurtle towards the Apocalypse!
Following directly from the 2007 Dynamite Free Comic Book Day Comic - read by over 100,000 fans on Free Comic Book Day - comes the all-new Battlestar Galactica series - Season Zero is here! And now, the back half of the acclaimed series (issues 7-12) are collected here in Volume Two of the series! Writer Brandon (NBSG: Zarek) Jerwa is joined series artist Jackson Herbert for this all new series which tells the untold tale of the crew of the Battlestar Galactica! Set approximately two years before the SCI FI mini-series which relaunched Battlestar Galactica to such acclaim, the 6-issues collected here follows Commander Adama and crew as they take on their first mission on board the Galactica. Everything in that time frame is explored, including the menace and return of the Cylons as events hurtle towards the Apocalypse! Also includes a complete cover gallery!
(W) Mike Baron (A/CA) Rich Bonk
Nexus hits an object in space, sending him crashing into the nearest planet. To make matters worse, the planet serves as a prison to a nearby world. With the wrong sun in the sky, Nexus is unable to use his powers-so he'll have to rely on his intelligence and survival skills if he wants to escape and see his family again. Nexus returns with a new graphic novel from the mind of Mike Baron, with art by Richard Bonk!
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind mega-hits such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan, and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A ninja-exploitation project, this manga release is based directly off the original web novels by Bradley Bond and is one part of a broad media-mix campaign that includes an animated TV series, novels and a toy line. A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind mega-hits such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan, and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A ninja-exploitation project the manga is one part of a broad media-mix campaign that includes an animated TV series, novels and a toy line. A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind mega-hits such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan, and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W) Bradley Bond & Various (A/CA) Yuuki Yogo
Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind mega-hits such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan, and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A futuristic sci-fi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hard-knocks Tokyo suburb of Neo-Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.
(W/A/CA) Kotaro Sekine
More than a thousand years ago, ninjas belonging to the Soukai Syndicate committed a forbidden form of hara-kiri, and stored their souls in the ancient Kinkaku Temple. Now, in the dystopia metropolis of Neo-Saitama, these sinister souls have been resurrected, and wreak havoc across Japan. Average salaryman Kenji Fukijido's wife and children are killed in a ninja crossfire. After a near brush with his own death, Kenji becomes the Ninja Slayer - a warrior obsessed with killing every last ninja to avenge his family.
(W/A/CA) Kotaro Sekine
More than a thousand years ago, ninjas belonging to the Soukai Syndicate committed a forbidden form of hara-kiri, and stored their souls in the ancient Kinkaku Temple. Now, in the dystopia metropolis of Neo-Saitama, these sinister souls have been resurrected, and wreak havoc across Japan. Average salaryman Kenji Fukijido's wife and children are killed in ninja crossfire. Tracking the murder back to a ninja, Fujikido trains to seek vengeance: initially on those who murdered his family, but ultimately on every ninja on the planet.
(W) Jacob Semahn (A/CA) Jorge Corona
ADVANCE SOLICIT! Her social media, strong. Her variety show segments, a hit. Nash Huang is at the top of her game. But when the iRis Shutter contact lens hits the market, Nash's life is personally invaded. The latest leap forward in 'technological progress,' these contacts not only play video or augment reality? but also record with the blink of an eye. Fighting to keep her life together after a leaked sex tape goes viral, a clingy super-fan is the last thing on Nash's mind?but that's exactly when the bodies pile up and the terror begins.
(W/A) Taiyo Matsumoto
In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world? For teen audiences.
(W) Yuu Kamiya
Before the creation of Disboard, a world where everything is decided by games, there raged a terrible war among the stars. But the Immanity weren???t the only ones fighting to end it???one elf had her own dreams for the future: ???Whoever???s left standing once all the stars are destroyed is the winner.??? In other words: anything goes! Follow Think Nirvalen???s exploits during the Great War along with several out-of-this-world short stories originally included in the anime???s bonus features!
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
Keeping Tetsuro, the fugitive son of the Berühren Corporation, safe is going to take resources Juzo doesn't have. An old contact at the Extended Management Squad can help, but in exchange Juzo has to bring in the very first noncompliant Extended, Hayden Gondry, the suspect in a number of murders whose victims had their auxiliary brains forcibly removed. Juzo takes the case, but tracking down Gondry will entangle him in a larger conspiracy… For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
As a Resolver, Juzo takes care of problems involving the Extended. Lately however, the source of most of Juzo's problems is?himself! His recent involvement with the Ber?hren megacorporation has put him on their hit list, and when a new Ber?hren agent shows up in his office with her own Gun Slave Unit partner in tow, Juzo must choose between his own survival and having to take on a fellow veteran. For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
The war that changed Juzo's life still echoes in the present when the anti-Extended terrorist organization Spitzbergen abducts Juzo's friends. Juzo goes after them, but finds his path blocked by Victor Steinberg, a man with a reputation as a fierce enemy of the Extended. Victor also happens to be Mary's brother, and was once Juzo's personal engineer during the war? For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Tasuku Karasuma
When you are a tool of a megacorporation, can you ever escape their grip? Juzo hasn't got an answer just yet, but he's determined to live his life for himself. Too bad for Juzo that the agents of Ber?hren have other ideas. A man claiming to be Tetsuro's brother wants to test a new version of Ber?hren's Harmony device, and Juzo and Tetsuro are the guinea pigs.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Juzo and Mary survived the Weapons Vault and their meeting with Number 12. Although the encounter left them with some troubling questions, the answers will have to wait-Juzo still has bills to pay! The daily work of an Extended private investigator is a far cry from digging into the conspiracies of a megacorporation, but no less dangerous. When a client comes to Juzo asking him to investigate insurance fraud, Juzo promises to discover the truth, even if his client doesn't want to hear it! For older teen audiences.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Wurzel, the Ber?hren board of directors, has decided to free Suiso Arahabaki at the urging of one of its members, Chief Operating Officer Honest. But this move may be part of a broader power play. The megacorporation's sinister influence reaches every level of the city, from the halls of justice to the back streets, where Juzo continues to search for a way to free himself from Ber?hren's grasp. Destroying Suiso might just be the way to do so, but Suiso himself is unlike any opponent Juzo has faced before? For older teen audiences.
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question?who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories?
After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun. With no memory of his previous life?or who replaced his head and why?Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended.
Io, one of Tetsuro?s siblings, has risen in revolt against COO Honest, who has seized control of Ber?hren. Juzo, Mary, and Testuro have entered the corporate stronghold to stop Io and rescue Rinko, and now face an army of Extended security guards slaved to Io?s Harmony device. If the guards can be dealt with, Juzo will still have to take on Io, and the physical confrontation may not be as devastating as the real reason Ber?hren wants to get its hands on Juzo?s parallel sub-brain? (STL216036) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
(W/A) Tasuku Karasuma
With the activation of the Wide-Range Harmony device, the Extended throughout the city are under C.O.O. Honest's control. But thanks to Suiso's desperate sacrifice, Juzo managed to escape its effects. As Honest prepares to enact the final step in her plan, overwriting the minds of every Extended, Juzo desperately races to stop her. The confrontation will force him to take on the most powerful adversary he's yet faced-himself. For older teen audiences.
(W) Emily Horn, Zac Thompson (A) Alberto Jimenez (CA) Tim Daniel, Alberto Jimenez
Centuries after the fall of the Anthropocene, the last vestiges of human civilization are housed in a massive domed city powered by renewable energy, known as The Green Zone. Inside lives teenager Tenn Gavrilo, a brilliant bio-engineer who could rebuild the planet. But there's one problem: her resentful brother Seren is eager to dismantle the precarious Utopia. From the minds of Zac Thompson (X-Men, Yondu) and debut writer Emily Horn with artist Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque (Letter 44, Avengers ) comes a gorgeous and green solar-punk world filled with strange biotechnology, harsh superstorms, and divisive ideologies--ideologies that will tear Tenn and Seren down to their roots as they fight for a better Earth.
(W/A/CA) Joshua W. Cotter
The new sci-fi graphic novel from Joshua Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest and Driven by Lemons) is set in the near-future where the internet is now telepathic and two-thirds of the world's population share information via a central hub. When the unexpected nature of that hub is revealed, Melody McCabe must develop a new hub on the International Space Station, where a deep space transport waits to take a small crew to an earth-like planet for colonization. Nod Away brilliantly moves between physical and psychological worlds, utilizing traditional and abstract storytelling styles.
(W/A) Joshua W. Cotter
An SF graphic novel, the second in an epic series, set in a near-future where the internet is telepathic and its hub is a human child. Vol. 2 moves away from the deep space transport where Vol. 1 took place and moves to earthly terrain, peeling back layers of Cotter's world-building to reveal the bigger picture of this graphic novel series in ways that upend expectations. Aveline Moir? is a headstrong but self-destructive young French woman. When she meets and moves in with a young artist, Walter Walker, little do they know that the wheels they set in motion may bring about the end of humankind. Working within the structure of SF, Nod Away moves back and forth between physical and psychological worlds. It utilizes traditional and abstract storytelling styles to explore what consciousness could be, its location, what function or point it might serve, and how a lack of personal responsibility and accountability will always corrupt it. At a projected seven volumes and over 2000 pages in all, Nod Away is poised to be one of the great comics classics of the 21st ce
Los Angeles, 2041-it's twenty-six years after a NASA probe brought back a strange disease, causing many of our familiar toy-like objects to come to life. This is a new world order where cute and fearsome creatures fight for their right to exist in a world that fears them. The critical hit is finally collected with a special sketchbook section that highlights the fantastic Portacio design work and world-building, with unique insight into the author and artist's creative process. Collects NON-HUMANS #1-4