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1) Watchmen
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As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed.
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A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name M, doesn't remember anything about Maura's life and...
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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
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When the universe is threatened, when the laws of Time, Space and Reality break down, different incarnations of the Doctor can meet. It should never happen. But this is one of those days! Witness an unprecedented crossover between all thirteen Doctors as they battle an all-consuming white hole - and uncover the deadly secret of the void between universes!
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"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated...
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Fantastic Four volume 4
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"Because you demanded it! The bestselling GRAND DESIGN franchise continues with Marvel's First Family! Brought to you by critically-acclaimed cartoonist TOM SCIOLI (GØDLAND, TRANSFORMERS VS. G.I. JOE) in the sole-authorship tradition made famous by ED PISKOR'S X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN trilogy! Join the Watcher and witness how it all began...Plus appearances by your faves: Doctor Doom! Black Panther! Namor! Galactus! Mole Man! The Inhumans!"--Page 4 of...
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"Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you've read before. Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. So great, he escaped Granny Goodness' gruesome orphanage and the dangers of Apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on Earth with his wife, Big Barda. Using the stage alter ego of Mister Miracle, he has made quite a career for himself showing off his acrobatic escape techniques. He even caught...
8) Square eyes
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"Fin has been un-networked. She used to be a brilliant code writer, a technical genius who created 'Corvis', a programme so powerful, so unusual that she was untouchable. Until she wasn't. Now she is locked out of the virtual reality systems that control society. Another woman is living in her apartment, living her life. And she can't remember how any of this happened. Meanwhile, people have started disappearing from the streets of the city and the...
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"At long last, it's finally time for the third massive hardcover collection of SAGA, the critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy series from the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist Fiona Staples and writer Brian K. Vaughan. Collecting 18 of the most shocking and impactful issues from the epic tale of Hazel and her star-crossed parents, this deluxe edition features a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as exclusive, never-before-seen...
11) Alienation
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"Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book is about Elizabeth, an exotic dancer in cyberspace, and Carlos, who was just fired from the last human-staffed oil rig, attempting to keep their romance alive. When they realize that their bodies are full of artificial organs and they live almost entirely online, they begin to question what being human actually means. Do our ancestral, or even animal, instincts eventually kick in,...
12) Hardcore
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Imagine being able to take over the body of anyone on Earth in order to track down a rogue nuke or assassinate a dictator. Sound crazy? Not for Agent Drake and the Hardcore Program. They can turn anyone--your neighbor, your co-worker, your spouse--into a human drone to get to targets normal soldiers can't.
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"England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted ... some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their headquarters,...
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Selina Kyle has taken on a different identity and given up her life as a constumed adventurer in preparation for the birth of her baby, but now someone else is out there dressed as Catwoman and making mistakes. Is it too late for Selina to change her mind about giving up crimefighting?
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"As Wash's life flashes before him, he revisits his most important, never before revealed moments of his life, from growing up on a planet so ravaged by pollution that no star could shine in the sky, to meeting the woman of his dreams in Zoë, who would become his wife and help him create a life beyond his wildest imagination. And in those final moments, Wash will reach out to connect with a surprising someone he never thought possible to meet......
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Black Science volume 8
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The Anarchist League of Scientists are scattered to the cosmic winds. Abuse of the Pillar's power has gnawed at the very foundation of reality, as all that ever is, was, and will be is falling in on itself. Beaten and dismayed, it falls to Grant McKay and what allies he has left to start a hail-Mary mission to the center of the Onion, and the chance of salvation that rests there. Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera set their sights on the End of the...
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"One of Grant Morrison's trippiest, abstract and most controversial comic book titles. Follow the adventures of The Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle against physical and psychic oppression brought upon humanity by the interdimensional alien gods of the Archons of Outer Church!"--
