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1) Daytripper
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer, sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die.
Author
Series
Preacher (hardcover) volume 1
Publisher
Vertigo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Texan preacher Jesse Custer becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. Now possessing the power of "The Word," an ability to make people do whatever he says, Custer begins a violent and riotous journey across the country. Joined by his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and the hard drinking Irish vampire Cassidy, the Preacher loses faith in both man
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Language
English
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Description
The Best We Could Do, the debut graphic novel memoir by Thi Bui, is an intimate look at one family's journey form their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves....
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Series
Descender volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after planet-sized robots called Harvesters appeared and wreaked havoc across the galaxy, a young robot named TIM-21 wakes to find that all robots have been outlawed. But TIM may hold the secrets to the Harvesters in his machine DNA and he quickly becomes the most wanted robot in the universe. With bounty hunters and threats lurking at every turn, TIM embarks on a mind-blowing adventure through the stars along with his robot dog, Bandit,...
Author
Series
Fatale volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2012-2014
Language
English
Description
In modern times, Nicolas Lash stumbles upon a secret that will lead him down the darkest path imaginable...to a seductive and ageless woman who's been on the run since the 1930s. And in 1950s San Francisco, reporter Hank Raines crosses paths with that same woman and gets caught, in a vicious triangle between a crooked cop and a man who is more monster than man.
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Saga is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation"--Publisher's website.
8) Locke & Key
Author
Series
Locke and key volume 1
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The story of the Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them ... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.--Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft--Vol. 2: Head Games--Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows--Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom--Vol. 5: Clockworks--Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans. This highly imaginative political thriller tells the modern-day story of fairy tale characters as they struggle for their freedom.
10) Bride of Deimos
Author
Publisher
Comics One
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Long ago, a brother and sister, lived happily on Mount Olympus until they fell in love. The gods were so angry about their forbidden love that they exiled them from the mountain, turned the brother into a demon, and imprisoned the sister in the deep ocean. As her body rotted under the waves, she asked her demon brother to find a girl that looked like her so that she could possess a new body. In the modern world, the demon finally finds the correct...
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Series
Wicked + the divine volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.
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Series
Umbrella academy volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against...
13) On a sunbeam
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Spider Jerusalem begins to crumble under the pressure of sudden and unwanted fame. Having had enough of the warped 21st century Babylon that he lives in, Spider escapes into a world of bitterness and pills. As he stumbles through this haze of depression and drugs, he must find a way to cover the biggest story of the year, the presidential election. Armed with only his demented mind and dark sense of humor, Spider embarks on an adventure of political...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
Author
Series
Fatale volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The final book in the epic FATALE saga by Brubaker and Phillips. All the threads have come together, and the mysterious immortal Femme Fatale Josephine has one last chance to escape her fate.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
English
Description
Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and The Joker's insanity snap once and for all?
18) Giant days
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...
Author
Series
My brother's husband volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
"From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares...
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