Publication date: 2005-10-03
Review Fushigi Yugi: v. 4 (Manga) / Gollancz:
Publication date: 1997
Review Family Values :Sin City Signed Limited / DYNAMIC FORCES INC:
Publication date: 1995
Review Artistic comics: A special issue made up entirely of excerpts from the secret sketchbooks of R. Crumb! / Kitchen Sink Press:
Authors
- Steve Parkhouse
- Alan Moore
Price: $9.95
Review The Complete Bojeffries Saga / Tundra Publishing Ltd.:
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $29.95
Price: $134.99
Review The Complete Strangers in Paradise Volume One (Strangers in Paradise) / Abstract Studio:This quality hardbound volume is the first in a series collecting the SIP story in its complete story arcs. Book One contains the entire original mini-series that introduced Francine, Katchoo, David, Freddie and more. Plus, a 5 page short story, sketchbook pages, character designs, creator notes featuring never before seen pages of script and unused scenes, and for the first time ever, actual pages from the original version of issue one that Moore never published, choosing instead to redraw the entire issue before its release date, altering scenes and characters alike. This is a must have book for the new reader and serious collector alike!.
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $18.95
Price: $89.98
Review The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 15: Mode O'Day / Fantagraphics Books:It's the swinging 80's period of Crumb's career now featured in the multiple award-winning Complete Crumb Comics series. The mid-1980s period of Crumb's career is compiled in this 15th volume of the series, a period that many critics consider to be the richest of Crumb's career. Anchored by Crumb's contributions to the seminal anthology Weirdo, created and edited by Crumb, this volume includes the first several appearances of classic Crumb character Mode-O-Day, the networking fashion plate that serves as a foil for some of Crumb's most biting satire about America's cultural elite. Also included are Crumb's first collaborations with the late writer Charles Bukowski, as well as several collaborations with Harvey Pekar from his autobiographical series American Splendor. The book is rounded out with a color section that includes rare album art for various jazz and blues greats, as well reproductions of his various comic book covers from this period.
Creator: Lenny Henry
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $69.99
Price: $69.99
Review Anansi Boys: Library Edition / Playaway:
Authors
- Neil Gaiman
- Todd McFarlane
Publication date: 1999-10-30
Dewey code: 741.5973
Price: $7.95
Review Spawn: Angela's Hunt / Image Comics:A highly skilled hunter, Angela has been ordered to stand trial for treason. Always considered an angel of honor and integrity, her friends disbelieve the charges and set about uncovering evidence to refute them. They recruit Spawn, and Earth-bound soldier of Hell whom Angela last hunted, to go before the judge. However, when Angela and Spawn last met, Angela was the hunter and Spawn her quarry; she the attacker and he on the defensive. They were an even match, neither able to best the other. Now, the tables are turned and Angela must ask her prey to defend her in a court where mercy is never an option. With her life at stake, can Angela trust and depend on the very enemy she tried to kill?.
Publication date: 2005-08-01
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $125.00
Price: $78.75
Review Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library / Dark Horse:This bundle contains all seven volumes of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City, the hard-boiled stories that started it all! The books that inspired the critically-acclaimed film, the now-infamous Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard will transport you to Sin City and show you the bloody lives they lead. bloody by choice or by circumstance. Frank Miller's Sin City is a triumph for its fiercely independent creator, and has been honored with Eisner awards, Harvey awards, and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award.
Publication date: 1994
Price: $149.95
Review The complete Frank Miller Spider-Man (Marvel Limited) / Marvel Comics:
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 791
List Price: $24.95
Price: $159.99
Review Ghost World / Fantagraphics Books:A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner. Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish. " From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending.
Authors
- Jeph Loeb
- Ed McGuinness
- Joe Kelly
Publication date: 2003-07-24
Review Superman: President Lex (Superman) / Titan Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-10-12
Dewey code: 741.5941
List Price: $29.99
Price: $199.99
Review V for Vendetta / Vertigo:In an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named "V" stalks the streets of London trying to free England of its ideological chains. A frightening and powerful story of the loss of freedom and identity in a totalitarian world, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state. A vigilante named "V" stalks the streets of London trying to free England of its ideological chains. Moore's poetic language coupled with Lloyd's eerie, washed-out color art makes this a captivating read sure to stay with you.
Creator: Don Heck
Edition: Comic
Publication date: 2004-06-01
Dewey code: 741
Price: $49.95
Review Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 2 (Reprints TALES OF SUSPENSE #51-65) / Marvel Entertainment Group:
Authors
- Jim Lee
- Scott Williams
- Jeph Loeb
Review Batman: Hush: v. 2 / Titan Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-01-29
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $49.95
Price: $125.00
Review The Complete Strangers In Paradise Vol. 3 Part One (Strangers in Paradise) / Abstract Studio:This new book is the third in the "Complete SIP" book series, a premium hardcover edition collecting issues 1-12 of volume III. A special color section features the original cover art for every issue, in addition to notes and sketches from Moore's sketchbook taken during the making of these issues. PLUS: A bonus story! The best-selling single issue of SIP ever, the Xena parody, "Princess Warrior"!.
Publication date: 2005-06-24
Dewey code: 741
Price: $22.70
Review Sin City - Booze, Broads and Bullets (Sin City) / Titan Books Ltd:
Creator: Stan Lee
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 741.59
List Price: $108.00
Price: $66.10
Review Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society / Continuum:Why are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures?- What is the significance of the dual identity?- What makes some superhuman figures "good" and others "evil"?- Why are so many of the prime superheroes white and male?- How has the superhero evolved over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries?- How might the myths be changing?- Why is it that the key superhero archetypes-Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men-touch primal needs and experiences in everyone?- Why has the superhero moved beyond the pages of comics into other media? All these topics, and more, are covered in this lively and original exploration of the reasons why the superhero-in comic books, films, and TV-is such a potent myth for our times and culture.
Publication date: 2005-02-09
Dewey code: 741.5973
List Price: $28.05
Price: $70.10
Review The Hard Goodbye (Sin City) / Topeka Bindery:Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically-acclaimed triumph-honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award-combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain with the gritty graphic storytelling that only Miller can deliver. Sin City is the place-tough as leather and dry as tinder. Love is the fuel, and the now-infamous character Marv has the match. not to mention a "condition. " He's gunning after Goldie's killer, so it's time to watch this town burn! Frank Miller is one of modern comic's first talents to publish a comic book that he created, crafted, and owned. That book is Sin City, which grew from the wellspring of Miller's passionate desire to create a comic book with two distinct qualities - it wouldn't be a superhero comic, and it had to be a crime comic. Enter Marv and Goldie. [+]And a psychotic killer. And a crime-drenched town. And a corrupted diocese. Sin City is a town like no other, but most places resemble it in one way or another. In real life, thugs live everywhere and women sell their bodies all the time, but if everyday life is a storm, Sin City exists in the eye of a hurricane. Sin City launched the long-running, critically acclaimed series of comics novels by Frank Miller. Having worked on some of the most important comic books in the 1980s, including Marvel Comics's Daredevil and the influential Batman graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, Miller was already a heavy-weight cartoonist, but he hit his stride with Sin City. It gave him the freedom that doesn't come when working on someone else's characters. While the art isn't as polished as in later books, it is in many ways the quintessential Sin City story: tough-guy Marv finds the girl of his dreams, an incredible beauty named Goldie. But when Goldie is murdered on their first night together, Marv scours the bars and back alleys of Sin City to find her killer in hopes of avenging her death.
Publication date: 2007-07-26
List Price: $60.00
Price: $71.99
Review M is for Magic / Subterranean Press:Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers—but always embrace the unexpected: A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party. A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it. A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living. A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil. These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time.
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Fushigi Yugi: v. 4 (Manga), Family Values :Sin City Signed Limited, Artistic comics: A special issue made up entirely of excerpts from the secret sketchbooks of R. Crumb!, The Complete Bojeffries Saga, The Complete Strangers in Paradise Volume One (Strangers in Paradise), The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 15: Mode O'Day, Anansi Boys: Library Edition, Spawn: Angela's Hunt, Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library, The complete Frank Miller Spider-Man (Marvel Limited), Ghost World, Superman: President Lex (Superman), V for Vendetta, Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 2 (Reprints TALES OF SUSPENSE #51-65), Batman: Hush: v. 2, The Complete Strangers In Paradise Vol. 3 Part One (Strangers in Paradise), Sin City - Booze, Broads and Bullets (Sin City), Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society, The Hard Goodbye (Sin City), M is for MagicTop headlines: Abortion not seen linked with depression: No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, U.S. researchers said. ›13:59 Top 2008 baby names: Aiden and Emma: Babies Zuma Nesta Rock and Bronx Mowgli, you're in the minority. 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