10 Titles for Adults (Age 18+)
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Blue Estate Vol. 1 It all starts with a low-rent private eye trying (and failing) to escape the long shadow of his respected cop father. But a chance encounter with a B-list action star on the mean streets of Hollywood drags the wannabe gumshoe into a world of strippers, mobsters...and the wildest (and only!) case of his career! See who lives, who dies, and who gets the Tiger Blood knocked outta them in the first four issues of the fast, funny smash hit new crime series from Image Comics! |
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Done to Death Fed up with receiving poorly written Twilight knockoffs, editor Shannon Wade did what any reasonable person would: she started killing the worst of the would-be authors sending them to her. Meanwhile, Andy, a stuttering, overweight vampire has targeted those who portray vampires in a light he deems unrealistic. Not exactly novel but terribly graphic, Done To Death follows Andy and Shannon's paths towards a collision as darkly funny as it is ridiculously violent. |
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Habibi Habibi is a deeply romantic story that explores and celebrates the beauty and cruelty, the complexity and depths of the Islamic world. Craig's stunning artwork is matched by the haunting strories of his characters' lives. Set in a mythical Middle East, at once contemporary and timeless, Habibi is a parable about our relationship to the natural world, about the cultural divide between the First World and the Third World, and about the common heritage of Christianity and Islam. The magic of storytelling allows us to see the fragility embedded in cruelty, to understand how beauty can preserve us from destruction and how love can save us from loss of hope. |
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Underwire Jennifer Hayden's webcomic Underwire has gained critical attention as a fresh indie comic about womanhood, parenthood, and being-in-the-middle-of-life-hood. Here is a collection of the original strips, plus a slew of new comics and art created exclusively for this volume. |
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The Death-Ray With subtle comedy and an obvious affection for the bold pop-art exuberance of comic book design, Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the darkness of the human psyche. Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious but loyal Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. The Death-Ray utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre and reconfigures them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. |
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus The original two League of Extraordinary Gentlemen epics are collected in a single, hardcover edition. In this imaginative tale, Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man unite to defeat a deadly menace to London and all Britons! Then, one month later, the skies over England are filled with flaming rockets as Mars launches the first salvo of an invasion. Only our stalwart adventurers can save mother England and the Earth itself. |
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Troop 142 Join the Boy Scouts for a week of outdoor camping, merit badge courses, group showers, and merciless hazing at Pinewood Forest Camp, New Jersey, in the summer of 1995. Troop 142, the Ignatz Award winning story from Mike Dawson, author of Freddie & Me, reveals the hilarious and brutal truths about boys and men, the hypocrisy of institutional morality and the resilience of the human spirit. Be prepared. |
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Nature of the Beast An alien race of religious zealots plan to honor their god through the ritualistic annihilation of our planet. The only hope for the planet is to meet the invaders according to their own customs and set forth "The Challenge of the Heretic," a one-on-one gladiator battle for the right to exist. Media mogul Milan Marlowe launches Beast Wars, a televised inter-species death match tournament to determine earth's strongest creature. Bruno Bolo, a brutish-but-lovable Florida alligator trainer, will emerge as Earth's last, desperate hope. Co-written by Adam Mansbach, author of Go the F--- to Sleep. |
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Highschool of the Dead Color Omnibus This fully re-mastered, four-color hardcover edition collects the first four volumes of the original series in one deluxe collector's omnibus! A mysterious illness is spreading rapidly through the halls of Fujimi High School. In a matter of hours, the campuses is transformed from a place of learning into a hive of nightmares, as the infected students collapse and are reborn as flesh-hungry zombies! Can a handful of survivors hope to make it out alive when the whole school - maybe the whole town - is out for their blood? |
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Deadpool Max: Involuntary Armageddon Deadpool never thought it would happen to him. He never thought his new life as a non-killing dad would start out so blissfully and end up like this - with his wife having all the espionage-themed fun and him at home taking care of a screaming baby, wondering when its batteries will run out. Can Deadpool pull his life back together, save his marriage and stop the spread of the deadly Liquid X? Probably not, but one out of three ain't bad. Then, when Deadpool goes AWOL, Hydra Bob knows that if anyone finds out, he'll spend the rest of his miserable days in a very deep and dark hole. With world on the brink of Armageddon, Bob must don Deadpool's abandoned duds and go it alone. But will years of experience and red tights be enough to stop the terrorist plans of the deadly Moon Knights and their stockpile of Liquid X? Hell no. |
