(W) Jennifer Hayden
Bursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir and “anti-cookbook” blends comics with satirical recipes to explore the intersections of food, feminism, frustration, and family.Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. She's not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us…she does it anyway.Why is that? Where did these expectations come from? What happens if you don't live up to the ideal of the perfect wife/mother/chef? And would someone please open a window before the fire department comes?Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook is an accidental memoir from a woman whose comics earn rave reviews around the world but whose meals earn shrugs around the dinner table.Marinating in an unconventional and aromatic blend of formats, Hayden traces the nuances of her complicated relationship to food. Anecdotal comics alternate with wryly ironic “recipes,” peppered with oven fires, explosions, prayers, and incantations. Along the way, all the salty judgments and bit
Who runs the world? You already know! Now, celebrate the Women of Marvel as an astonishing array of writers and artists from across the comic book and entertainment fields unite to make theirs Marvel - in stories featuring super hero sensations from She-Hulk to Gamora, Jean Grey to Rogue and Medusa to?Peggy Carter, Captain America?! And we didn't forget to bring on the bad girls - including Mystique, Hela and Lady Deathstrike! Even some of the guys are allowed to join the fun! The acclaimed WOMEN OF MARVEL one-shot is collected together with Marvel's first-ever series made completely by women creators, 2010's GIRL COMICS - plus a gallery of Jen Bartel's gorgeous Women's History Month variant covers! Collecting WOMEN OF MARVEL (2021) #1, GIRL COMICS (2010) #1-3 and material from MARVEL'S VOICES #1. Rated T+
(W) Gail Simone; Jed MacKay (A) Javier Garron; Francesco Mortarino (CA) Gleb Melnikov
The first blockbuster crossover of the From the Ashes era of X-Men begins, as every X-Men team under the sun races against time to find Charles Xavier!The world's most dangerous mutant is on the run! Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities at the end of the Orchis War and was willingly imprisoned in Graymalkin Prison, but now something has spurred him into action - into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation! What has caused Professor X to take this drastic action? And will his assorted pupils move to protect him, recapture him...or kill him? The answer, of course, is all of the above! Alliances will be battle-tested, and the blades of betrayals will cut deep. And when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice - with the fate of all mutantkind in the balance!COLLECTING: Uncanny X-Men (2024) 11, NYX (2024) 9, Storm (2024) 6, X-Men (2024) 13, X-Factor (2024) 8, X-Force (2024) 9, X-Manhunt Omega (2024)