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Lavie Tidhar - Titan Comics
Format: Paperback

"Women are never to be entirely trusted - not the best of them." - Arthur Conan Doyle.1902. Wounded in the Boer War, Jane Eyre returns to a London transmogrified by emerging modernity. An old friend, the glamorous inventor Lady Havisham, introduces her to the American adventuress...
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The Beauty Volume 1

Jeremy Haun - Image Comics
Format: Print book

Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of the population...
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Carbon Grey Omnibus Collection

Paul Gardner - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

"LEGEND OF THE GREYS" The Sisters Grey are warriors, sworn to protect their Kaiser. But as a great war rages, the Kaiser is found dead, and one sister -- Giselle Grey -- is accused of his murder. Pursued by enemies, Giselle must unravel the prophecy of the Carbon Grey -- before...
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Cyber Force: Awakening Volume 1

Hawkins, Matt

TO PROTECT THE FUTURE, WHAT WILL WE BECOME? The classic series returns in a reimagining overseen by creator MARC SILVESTRI. In a modern world where humanity is defined by the technology it creates, a terrorist strikes at the heart of human progress. One of the few survivors of the
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Dark Fang Volume 1: Earth Calling

MILES GUNTER - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Her name is Valla. She is a vampire who has resided on the bottom of the ocean for a century. When her aquatic paradise is destroyed by a dark liquid plague, she travels to the surface in search of answers. What she finds is a world threatened by climate change and a civilization powerless...
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Darkly She Goes

Hubert - NBM Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a fallen knight, who believed that saving a princess would allow him to atone for his crimes. Once upon a time there was a dark princess, who believed that it was up to her to atone for the crimes of her parents... Banished for a fault that forever taints his reputation,...
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Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars

Jeff Lemire - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

"Your new sci-fi obsession is here, and its name is Descender..." - Entertainment Weekly "Jeff and Dustin are accomplishing something special... " - Boing Boing "Jeff Lemire has dreamt up an emotional, imaginative new universe, lavishly brought to life by the great...
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Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

Kieron Gillen

Tor.com's Best Comics of 2018THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to d
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Farmhand Volume 1

Rob Guillory - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Jedidiah Jenkins is a farmer - but his cash crop isn't corn or soy. Jed grows fast-healing, plug-and-play human organs. Lose a finger? Need a new liver? He's got you covered. Unfortunately, strange produce isn't the only thing Jed's got buried. Deep in the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm,...
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Freaking Romance Volume One: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel (Freaking Romance, 1)

Snailords - WEBTOON Unscrolled
Format: Hardcover

Every relationship has its bumps. For this couple, it's interstellar.. From the creator of Snailogy and Death: Rescheduled comes a sexy supernatural story about being out on your own, finding your dream apartment and discovering that your new place is haunted by a handsome spectral...
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God Complex

PAUL LIE BRYAN JENKINS

A young forensics investigator finds his worldview turned upside down, when a bizarre religious triple-homicide introduces him to the Rulers, godlike beings who have ruled humanity since the dawn of time. From writer PAUL JENKINS (The Inhumans, Marvel Knights: Sentry)
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Grand Slam Romance (Grand Slam Romance Book 1)

Ollie Hicks - Abrams ComicArts - Surely
Format: Hardcover

A queer graphic novel where the balls are fast, the smooches are spicy, and the girls . . . magical. In this queer graphic novel thats equal parts romance, softball, and magical girl drama, Mickey Monsoon is the hotshot pitcher for the Belle City Broads, and their team is poised to sweep...
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Harleen

Stjepan Sejic

Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told
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Hoax Hunters, Vol. 1: Murder, Death, and the Devil

Michael Moreci - Image Comics; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

In this first collection of the critically acclaimed series, the Hoax Hunters travel to Russia, the Louisiana Bayou, and 1984 New Jersey to seek out the truth behind supernatural events - and cover them up! The Hoax Hunters demonstrate the truth isn't out there. Collects Hoax Hunters...
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Home Sick Pilots, Volume 1: Teenage Haunts

Dan Watters - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead-singer of a high school punk band- who's been missing for weeks. How did she get there? What do these ghosts want? And does this mean the band have to break up? Expect three chord songs and big bloody...
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Identity Crisis

Brad Meltzer - DC Comics
Format: Hardcover

The most talked-about and successful DC Comics miniseries of 2004 is now available in a stunning hardcover volume! New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer delivers an all-too-human look into the lives of super-heroes and the terrible price they pay for doing good.
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Injection Vol. 1

Warren Ellis - Image Comics
Format: Book

Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try and save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us Vol. 1

Tom Taylor - DC Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash hit fighting game Injustice Gods Among Us!Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most. Now unwilling...
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Invincible: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1

Robert Kirkman - Image Comics
Format: Comics

Get in on the ground floor! This massive hardcover collects the first 13 issues of Robert Kirkman's Eisner-Nominated super-hero, along with all the extras from the first three trade paperback volumes and even more on top of that! Invincible: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 1 is a can't-miss...
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It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create...
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Jupiter's Legacy Volume 1

Frank Quitely - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Comics superstars Mark Millar and Frank Quitely reinvent the superhero epic for the 21st Century! 1932: Sheldon Sampson's dreams about a mysterious source of power lead him, his brother Walter, and a group of loyal followers on a quest around the world. What they discover sets them...
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Lady Death Origins Volume 1

Brian Pulido - Avatar Press; Original edition
Format: Paperback

The fan-favorite adventures of Lady Death, one of the comic industry's sexiest and most recognizable femme fatales, are collected for the first time!For the first time, the illustrious history of Brian Pulido’s fan-favorite heroine will be collected in a new series of graphic...
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Lazarus Volume 1 TP

Greg Rucka - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Collecting the first four issues of the Eisner-winning team of Rucka and Lark's critically acclaimed new series about Forever Carlyle, the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family. Included is the previously only-available-online, four-page short, "Family: Prelude." In a dystopian near-future,...
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Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope

Darcy Van Poelgeest

Award-winning filmmaker DARCY VAN POELGEEST teams up with Angoulme nominated artist IAN BERTRAM to bring you the highly acclaimed, dystopian sci-fi, LITTLE BIRD.With the same limitless scope as Star Wars, and the social-political explorations of A Handmaid's Tale, LITTLE
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

Joe Hill - IDW

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.
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Low Volume 1: The Delirium of Hope

Rick Remender - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

"One of the top books of the year... " -- Kirkus Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic...
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The Magic Order Volume 1

Millar, Mark

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who's picking them off on
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The Marked Volume 1: Fresh Ink

David Hine - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Their magic is channeled through their tats! The Marked may look like cool young influencers, but beneath the designer clothes their bodies are tattooed with the magical glyphs of an ancient order that secretly protects the world against evil forces. With no new occult threats, The Marked...
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Mirka Andolfo's Mercy

Mirka Andolfo - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

, a goth-inspired, Victorian monster series explores topics of "otherness," damnation and redemption, and what it means to be a monster in a horror graphic novel perfect for fans of Penny Dreadful, Crimson Peak, The Alienist, Parasol Protectorate, and Dark Shadows.This new graphic...
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Middlewest Book 1

Skottie Young - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change, and full of hidden magics. The town of Farmington has been destroyed sending an unwitting adventurer and his vulpine companion in search of answers to quell a coming storm that speaks his name. From author SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND,...
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Monstress

Sana Takeda - Image Comics
Format: Print book

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection...
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Morning Glories Vol. 1

Nick Spencer - Image - Shadowline
Format: Hardcover

Morning Glory Academy is one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country, but something sinister and deadly lurks behind its walls. When six gifted but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and fighting for their lives as the secrets of the academy reveal themselves!
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Nocterra, Volume 1: Full Throttle Dark

Scott Snyder - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

It's been ten years since Val Riggs saw the sun swallowed up by darkness. Ten years since nearly everyone she knew was infected and changed into hideous 'shades'. Now a 'ferryman' providing transport for people and goods, she traverses the deadly unlit roads in her eighteen-wheeler,...
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Once & Future Vol. 1

Kieron Gillen
Format: Paperback

When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring a villain from Arthurian myth back from the dead to gain power, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to combat the deadly secrets...
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The Ones Volume 1

Brian Michael Bendis - ‎Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

From the writer who brought you Marvel's Illuminati, New Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, comes the next, best awesome super team to end all super teams ... THE ONES!Every single person in every mythology that was told they were THE ONE are brought together for the first time to defeat.......
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Plastic

Doug Wagner - Doug Wagner

Retired serial killer Edwyn Stoffgruppen is in love with Virginia, a girl he "met online." Her affection quiets his vile urges. Together, they tour the back roads of America in their LTD Crown Vic, eating doughnuts and enjoying their insatiable appetites for each oth
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Pretty Violent Volume 1

Hunter, Derek - IMAGE COMICS
Format: Book

Gamma Rae wants to be a superhero, and why shouldn't she--? She's been strong since she was a baby The problem is, her siblings are all notorious criminals who would be delighted to see her fail... with all of her new friends dead at their feet. Will she be able to win the respect...
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PTSD

Guillaume Singelin - First Second
Format: Hardcover

After returning home from an unpopular war, Jun becomes an outsider in an indifferent world. Alone, desperate, and suffering from wounds both mental and physical, she seeks relief in the illicit drugs she manages to purchase or steal. Jun's tough exterior served her well in combat, but she'll...
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Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass & Sorcery TP

Kurtis J Wiebe - Shadowline/Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they're in the business of killing all god's creatures for profit. It's also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter,...
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The Realm Volume 1

Peck, Seth

Fifteen years ago, our world was overrun by creatures of myth; orcs, dragons, and other nameless horrors threw the entire planet into total chaos. Today, the shattered remnants of civilization must fight just to survive in a deadly new era of violence and mayhem. While a powerful
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Reaver Volume 1

Jordan, Justin
Format: Book

The continent of Madaras promised a new start for settlers... but 200 years after its discovery, the war rages on. Deep within this savage and untamed land, a darkness builds at The Anvil that must be stopped at all costs.   To do so, the Imperials assemble six of its most despi
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Reborn

Mark Millar

The Millar-Capullo smash-hit sell out REBORN is here. Where do you go when you die? Not heaven or hell; somewhere else. Somewhere you have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people from the past are waiting for you - the good and the bad. Superstar creators MARK MILLAR and
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Saga, Vol. 1

Brian K Vaughan - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2013 Hugo award for Best Graphic Story! When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man,...
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The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Neil Gaiman - Vertigo
Format: Paperback

Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones, III; Painted Cover by Dave McKean A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle...
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Self / Made Volume 1

Mat Groom

When chaos besieges the kingdom of Arcadia, warrior Amala Citlali sees it as her chance to escape her clearly-defined role, and change her destiny. But what she doesn't realize, what she could never predict, is that it will also be her chance to confront her God. In his de
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Shirtless Bear-Fighter Volume 1

Arthur Fiedler - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

"After being betrayed by the bears that raised him, the legendary SHIRTLESS BEAR-FIGHTER wanders the forest he's sworn to protect, fist-fighting bears, eating flapjacks and being the angriest man the world has ever known! When wild-eyed, super-strong bears attack the citizens of Major...
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Something is Killing the Children Book One Deluxe Edition

James Tynion IV - BOOM! Studios; Deluxe edition
Format: Hardcover

The definitive collection of Something is Killing the Children'sentire "Archer's Peak" saga collected for the first time in a single deluxe hardcover.WHAT IS ABDUCTING THE CHILDREN OF ARCHER'S PEAK When the children in a sleepy Wisconsin town begin to go missing all hope...
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Sunstone Volume 1

Stjepan Sejic - Top Cow Productions ; Berkeley
Format: Print book

Two women deal with modern themes of sex, relationships, and fetishism in this erotic romantic comedy. So beware all who enter, because, to quote a few hundred thousand readers on DeviantArt: "I'm not into BDSM...but this story...I get it."
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Unnatural Volume 1

Mirka Andolfo - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Leslie J. Blair is a simple pig girl, she loves sushi and she is trapped in a job that she hates. She lives with Trish, her best friend. In her world, which is full of anthropomorphic creatures, with a totalitarian government that interferes in the personal lives of its citizens, up to the point...
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Wayward Volume 1: String Theory

Jim Zubkavich - Image Comics
Format: Comics

"Wayward is not to be missed." -- Kirkus "Masterful and authentic!" - Ain't It Cool News Rori Lane is trying to start a new life when she reunites with her mother in Japan, but ancient creatures lurking in the shadows of Tokyo sense something hidden deep within...
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WE3

Grant Morrison - Vertigo
Format: Paperback

Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely deliver the emotional journey of WE3 - three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government - as they search for "home" and ward off the shadowy agency that created them.With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying...
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The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act

Kieron Gillen - Image Comics, Inc.
Format: Print book

"solid storytelling and clean, gorgeous artwork will keep readers engrossed and eager for more." - Publishers Weekly (Starred) "Gillen's penchant for fast, sharp dialogue and McKelvie and Wilson's razor-lined, intensely colored visuals keep things popping up to the cliffhanger...
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Y The Last Man Book One

Brian K. Vaughan - Vertigo
Format: Book

Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE...
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