(W/A) John Byrne, More (CA) John Byrne
After making her a front-and-center star in his acclaimed FANTASTIC FOUR run, writer/artist John Byrne took She-Hulk solo in a classic graphic novel and an outrageous ongoing series! Now Byrne's complete adventures of "Shulkie" are collected in one sensational omnibus, as Jennifer Walters smashes the glass ceiling - and the fourth wall - in hilarious fashion! See She-Hulk: Targeted by S.H.I.E.L.D.! Battling Spider-Man! Beheaded! Facing Dr. Bong's wrath! Alongside Santa Claus! On her own Star Truck! Hosting her own Golden Age guest star! Taking on Spragg the Living Hill! And heading on a puntastic Jenny to the Center of the Earth! But will She-Hulk say "I do" to the Mole Man? And is her greatest nemesis Xemnu the Titan...or John Byrne himself?! Collecting MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #18 and SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #1-8, #31-46 and #48-50 and material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #18.
Rated T+
After making her a front-and-center star in his acclaimed FANTASTIC FOUR run, writer/artist John Byrne took She-Hulk solo in a classic graphic novel and an o
(W) Anthony Del Col, Geoff Moore (A/CA) Jeff McComsey
What if someone told you your biological father was the most evil man alive? In the darkest days of World War II a female British spy handler discovers a rumor: that when Adolf Hitler was stationed in France during the First World War he fathered a child. Armed with stolen Nazi files, she secretly tracks down this son to recruit him for a mission to meet his biological father - and assassinate him. But that may not be the end of the Hitler family saga... A pulpy spy and alternative history thriller in the vein of Man in the High Castle, Zero Dark Thirty, Inglourious Basterds and the works of John Le Carre, this Image Comics graphic novel exploring one of the war's greatest legends is by acclaimed writer Anthony Del Col (Assassin's Creed, Kill Shakespeare), New York Times bestselling illustrator Jeff McComsey (FUBAR, Flutter) and newcomer Geoff Moore. A story so wild it could only be true... maybe...
(W/A) Various
Showcasing chapters written by Halo? 5: Guardians lead writer Brian Reed and Halo 4 senior writer Chris Schlerf, this deluxe oversized hardcover collects Halo: Initiation #1-#3 and Halo: Escalation #1-#12 and features creator annotations exclusive to this edition, a complete cover gallery, and a selection of never-before-seen extras!
(W) Jerome Hamon (A/CA) Antoine Carrion
In a distant future where nature has reclaimed much of the Earth, young Nils and his father set out to discover why the ground has recently grown infertile, only to discover a conspiracy between a high-tech neighboring kingdom and the supernatural beings who can offer them eternal life.
(W/A/CA) Jill Thompson
Enjoy this definitive collection of the hit series that has been adapted into two animated specials and a stage show, full of strange happenings, kind monsters, and Halloween adventures sure to delight and spook young and old alike! Includes the fully painted kid's books Scary Godmother, The Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu, as well as every comic-book story in the Scary Godmother canon and a sketchbook section featuring early concept art.
(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Kieron Dwyer
With an all-new introduction by comedian and author Patton Oswalt! A bank in the middle of nowhere. A crew with nothing to lose. And the haul of a lifetime too big to just disappear. What should've been a simple stick-up becomes infinitely more complex when a crew of robbers ends up with way more than they bargained for-literally. And when the mob they just accidentally robbed comes looking to even the score, there's only one way out for all involved... Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this busted-knuckles crime thriller by MATT FRACTION & KIERON DWYER is a character-driven desert noir that pits cowboys against mobsters in the muscular tradition of Charley Varrick, The Outfit, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
(W/A/CA) Daria Tessler
This exquisite and mostly-silent graphic novel takes place in a fantasy cityscape loosely inspired by German expressionist films. Cult of the Ibis tells the story of an occultist getaway-driver who, after escaping with the loot from a bank robbery gone wrong, orders a build-you-own-homunculus kit and goes on the lam. Steeped in architecture and atmosphere, Tessler's gorgeous cartooning fuels this strangely gripping yarn, which is packaged in a gorgeous hardcover design.
Collecting all of writer RICK REMENDER's horror work in one oversized hardcover, stunningly illustrated in ghoulishly grindhouse dread by horror superstars KIERON DWYER, FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, TONY MOORE, SALGOOD SAM, and PAUL HARMON. Collects NIGHT MARY, XXXOMBIES, SORROW, CREATURES, & SEA OF RED 8x12, oversized HC
(W) Archie Goodwin (A) Various
Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Gene Colan, Blazing Combat was originally published by independent comics publisher James Warren in 1965 and '66. Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwin's stories reflected the human realities and personal costs of war rather than exploiting the clich?s of the traditional men's adventure genre. They were among the best comics stories about war ever published. Blazing Combat ended after its fourth issue when military post exchanges refused to sell the title due to their perception that it was an anti-war comic. Their hostility was fueled by the depiction of the then-current Vietnam War, especially a story entitled 'Landscape,' which follows the thoughts of a simple Vietnamese peasant rice-farmer who pays the ultimate price simply for living where he does - and which was considered anti-war agitprop by the more hawkish members of the business c
(W/A/CA) Tsutomu Nihei
A vast city lies under the shadow of colossal, ancient tombs, the identity of their builders lost to time. In the streets of the city, something is preying on the inhabitants, something that moves faster than the human eye can see and leaves unimaginable horror in its wake. Factory worker Denji Kudou just wants to keep his head down and continue his quiet existence, but he is the key to stopping forces that would bring about an apocalyptic transformation of the world. For older teen audiences.
(W/A/CA) Francisco Solano Lopez
A seminal, Latin American sci-fi classic - back in print! Fantagraphics is proud to publish, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character's image (much like Che Guevara's) has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression; 'Juan Salvo' appears on walls and in subways throughout Latin America to this day. This seminal Argentinian science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial from 1957-59. Juan Salvo, its inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metalworker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space-and time travel-this one has it all. The Eternaut is also thinly disguised political allegory: its writer, He?ctor Germa?n Oesterheld (HGO), because he was involved in groups who protested the military dictatorship, was 'disappeared' and presumed dead in 1977. Classical artist Francisco Solano Lo?pez (who had to flee Argent
The biggest, baddest Sin City ever is here, just in time for fall's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For! This imposing volume, suitable for home defense, contains all seven of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City yarns! In these tales of Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard, no corner of Basin City is left unturned, and no bloody deed is left undone. Written with unmatched intensity and drawn in the starkest black-and-white imaginable, with blood-red bits of color, among others, the Sin City books make up the greatest crime saga in comics history, and Big Damn Sin City is the best way to rediscover the whole darn shootin' match!
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Alberto Alburquerque
A new oversized, hardcover edition of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning series about presidency and first contact, packed with extras like creator commentary, sketches, concept art, and more! This third volume collects the interstitial oneshots focusing on the astronauts of the Clarke-why they signed up for a one-way trip, and what they hoped to accomplish on their journey-as well as the mysterious Builders, who are responsible for the End, a powerful force that hurtles toward Earth and its billions of inhabitants. President Stephen Blades struggles with how to tell the people of Earth that most of them won't survive the End. But when he learns that even the 666 humans he hand-picked will fall victim to the End, it seems all hope is lost. The same can be said for the crew of the Clarke, crash-landed on Mars after sabotaging the Builders and their escape ship. Now at the mercy of the Builders, who have followed them to the red planet in order to exact revenge, Charlotte and Overholt do what they can to keep their crew alive-for a
(W/A/CA) Michel Fiffe
How do you measure loyalty in a treacherous world? In the latest collection of MICHEL FIFFE's wildly popular superhero action masterpiece, the answer is found at the end of a fist, the blade of a sword, and the mouth of a gun. Crush or be crushed. The place is anywhere. The time is now. Collects COPRA #26-31.
(W/A/CA) Michel Fiffe
The return of the world's favorite revenge team is marked by back-to-back brutality and psychedelic suspense. Our team gets served the same penalties they've dished out in the wake of a prison break, an unstoppable assassin, and a seminal showdown. Keep up as COPRA's kill list gets checked off at the peak of their mondo bizarro bloodlust. Collects COPRA #19-24.
Zaya tells the story of secret agent in the distant future who left her post to seek a normal life as an artist and mother. When a biomechanical threat destroys an orbiting colony station and former fellow agents start dying, she is called back into the field to find and stop the danger. Her investigation leads to many questions about her own past, filled with explosive revelations.
What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. It is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count, for a group of orphans who discover the car and let it take them to better places in their imagination. Sunny is the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed manga artists. Age Rating: M
Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro Tatsumi created a library of comics that draws parallels to modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two.
Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi's vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan. Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt as a result of World War II: in one story a man devotes twenty years to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Tatsumi's characters muddle through isolated despair and fleeting pleasure to live out their darkly nuanced lives.
Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called 'the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics' and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of The Push Man and Good-Bye has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, A Drifting Life is Tatsumi's most ambitious, personal, and heart-felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form, a massive 840 page book edited and designed by Adrian Tomine. Using his life-long obsession with comics as a framework, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summation of a fascinating life and an historic career.
Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi's maturation as a storywriter. Many of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns. A young sewer cleaner's girlfriend has a miscarriage and leaves him when he proves incapable of finding higher paying work. When a factory worker loses his hand at work, the parallels between him and his pet monkey prove startling and significant.
PETROGRAD is the untold tale of the conspiracy behind the murder of Gregorii Rasputin. The story follows Cleary, a reluctant British spy who finds himself tasked with the most difficult assignment of his career: orchestrate the death of the mad monk. To accomplish this almost impossible mission, he'll have to negotiate dangerous ties with the secret police, navigate the halls of power, and tangle with dangerous radicals. And, as the city explodes in the turmoil of revolution, he'll find that it is his own life on the line.
When Battling Boy's father (a warrior god) drops him on a world infested with bloodthirsty monsters, he leaves his son with nothing but a magic credit card, a trunk full of enchanted tee shirts, and instructions not to come home until he's liberated the planet from its plague of monsters. It's one kid vs an entire world full of monsters. And the monsters don't stand a chance.
(W/A/CA) Seth
Twenty years in the making, legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth's landmark series Clyde Fans shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle-class that has long ceased to exist in North America. Abe and Simon Matchcard are brothers, the second generation struggling to save their archaic family business. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, their family unit is a fraud-the patriarch has abandoned the business to mismatched sons, one who strives to keep the business afloat and the other who retreats into the arms of the remaining parent. Presented in a deluxe slipcase edition, Clyde Fans is an epic time capsule of a storyline that begs rereading.
(W/A/CA) Shintaro Kago
In the first volume of Dementia 21, Yukie Sakai got plenty of experience dealing with oddball patients. But now, in volume two, Kago throws Yukie into ever more surreal adventures, facing off against maniacal diapers, zombie hospital attendants, malfunctioning machines that causes out-of-body experiences and a Santa with dementia! Dementia 21 Vol. 2 presents Kago in peak form, with a series of outlandish, eerie, darkly comedic tales that strain the bounds of the imagination.
(W) Pierre Wazem (A) Frederik Peeters, Albertine Ralenti (CA) Frederik Peeters
Addidas, a bright and quirky young girl, spends most of her time helping her father as a chimney sweep. When she ventures too far into a chimney, she encounters a bizarre new friend and, in the process, destabilizes her world's long-established system. From prolific independent European creators Wazem and Peeters comes a touching and existential story that balances its fantastical elements with poignant and realistic themes.
(W) Philippe Druillet, Gustave Flaubert (A) Philippe Druillet
A heady perfume of blood and rage across the stars featuring Philippe Druillet's legendary Lone Sloane. In the third century BC, mercenaries employed by Carthage during the first Punic War rose against their employers, who repeatedly postponed their pay. Two barbarian clan chiefs, Matho and Narr'Havas, fell in love with the beautiful and ethereal Salammbo, daughter of Hamilcar of Carthage. A bloody conflict arose. Based on the 19th century novel by Flaubert, Salammbo was reappropriated and recontextualised by Druillet in this masterwork. Transposing the ancient Punic Wars into his space fantasy universe, and splicing the identity of the novel's Math? with his favorite character, Lone Sloane, Druillet works his intoxicatingly psychedelic magic on a literary classic, reinvigorating it from the inside out with his own transcendent storytelling.
(W/A/CA) Philippe Druillet
Written and drawn by Philippe Druillet, known for his praghic adaption of Michael Moorcock's Elric hit fantasy series Elric, The Return to Melnibone and his work for Heavy Metal. Lone Sloane, the Ulysses of space, cosmic freebooter and rebel, endlessly struggles against dark gods, robotic entities and alien forces!
(W/A/CA) Philippe Druillet
A cosmic game has begun. And Lone Sloane is the pawn they all want to play. Traveling alone in the cosmos, Sloane, a solitary interstellar explorer has become imbued with mystical powers. He finds himself escaping one power-seeking madman only to be captured by another. Follow Sloane through six unpredictable Lovecraftian journeys from space pirates, dragons, to ancient Gods.
AT LAST! The long-awaited collection of the complete KING CITY series is here, full of full on comic book games, puzzles and wordplay! Joe is a catmaster, trained to use his cat as any tool or weapon. His best friend Pete falls in love with an alien he's forced to sell into green slavery, while his ex Anna watches her Xombie War veteran boyfriend turn into the drug he's addicted to. King City, an underbelly of a town Run by spy gangs and dark dark magic with mystery down every alleyway. Collects KING CITY #1-12
(W/A/CA) Frederik Peeters
Lupus Lablennorre is a man on the run. Like a cosmic Odysseus, he wanders from planet to planet, haunted by his past and orbiting around a woman. It starts as a fishing trip with his ex-military pal Tony. Their lifelong friendship has started to feel different lately, and not just because of the drugs. Picking up Sanaa, a wealthy and mysterious runaway, only complicates the situation. When tragedy strikes and they're forced to flee, new worlds await with many ways to disappear. But Lupus will find that the tendrils of friendship, love, and family are not so easily severed. Armed with astonishingly expressive brushwork and a dreamy, intimate narrative, Frederick Peeters drifts on the solar winds to a new understanding of memory, guilt, isolation, and connection. Award-winning Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters (Blue Pills) soars to new heights with an existential interplanetary epic that never strays far from the human heart. 'Love and Rockets as told by the Swiss? a beautifully realized comic-epic-romance of the type that would appeal strongly to Ame
(W/A/CA) Charles Burns
Since 2000, cartoonist Charles Burns (Black Hole) has been self-publishing a secret sketchbook zine that he gives out to friends and VIPs. Burns has now compiled all twenty-five issues into a single volume for all of his fans to enjoy. Featuring finished drawings, rough sketches, process pieces, and more, the book is a window into the artist's id as well as a revealing behind-the-scenes look at how characters and motifs in works like Black Hole and Last Look have evolved.
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This 560-page volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers.
(W) Warren Ellis (A) Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos (CA) Geof Darrow
In this second Absolute edition, outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem learns of the vicious murder of political consultant Vita Severn, one of the few people he liked, which leads him to delve into the city's police corruption. Then, Spider is hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly elected president's campaign. Collects issues #19-36.
(W) Garth Ennis (A) Steve Dillon, John McCrea (CA) Glenn Fabry
In these tales from issues #41-66 and PREACHER SPECIAL: TALL IN THE SADDLE #1, Jesse Custer's dark journey to find God takes a detour as he becomes the sheriff of a troubled Texas town. Then, Custer decides it's high time to renew his quest to find God and hold Him accountable for his actions. As the series winds up, Jesse makes amends with Tulip, then seeks revenge against his former friend Cassidy for the things the Irish vampire did to her when they both believed the Preacher to be dead.
(W) Garth Ennis (A) Steve Dillon & Various (CA) Glenn Fabry
In these tales from PREACHER #27-40, presented in DC's Absolute format for the first time, Jesse and Tulip are reunited at last. Together with Cassidy, they head for New Orleans in the hope of finding the secret buried in Jesse's psyche. And while Cassidy and Tulip face the painfully pretentious Enfants du Sang, Jesse taps into some dark magic-all while Herr Starr gathers his forces against the trio. And, against all odds, Arseface finds fame as a singer! Also includes THE SAINT OF KILLERS #1-4 and the specials ONE MAN'S WAR, CASSIDY-BLOOD AND WHISKEY, THE GOOD OLD BOYS and THE STORY OF YOU-KNOW-WHO.
(W) Eric Powell (A) Eric Powell & Various (CA) Eric Powell
Writer/artist Eric Powell (The Goon) and artists Simone Di Meo (Old Man Logan) and Simone D'Armini (The Spider King) bring you the next chapter in the tale of Rondel the wandering Hillbilly. A terror from beyond the stars has descended on the hills to spread fear among the people. When Boss Krugen employs Rondel to find out what this black power has done with his lost kin, Rondel may have found an evil beyond even what the wielder of the Devil's Cleaver can handle. The fourth volume in Eric Powell's Hillbilly series promises to be the strangest yet!
(W/A/CA) Eric Powell
The third volume in Eisner Award winner Eric Powell's Appalachian fantasy epic. Rondel wields the Devil's Cleaver against the united evil of the black coven as his true destiny is revealed.
The second volume in Eisner Award winner Eric Powell's Appalachian fantasy epic collecting issues #5-8. Rondel, with the Devil's Cleaver, wanders the hills as the witchy and monstrous descend upon him.
