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Killing and Dying

Adrian Tomine · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Included on Best of 2015 lists from Washington Post and Publishers Weekly! A New York Times bestseller!"As a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create "That Book": a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesn't normally read comics; one that...
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Vision Vol. 2

Marvel Comics. · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood...
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Monsters! and Other Stories

Gustavo Duarte · Dark Horse Books
Format: Print book

Newcomer Gustavo Duarte spins wordless tales brimming with humor, charm, and delightfully twisted horror! In Monsters!, oversized beasts wreak havoc on cities in the tradition of Godzilla and King Kong. In Có!, an alien abduction disarms a gentle farmer, and in Birds, two business partners...
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Science Comics: Bats: Learning to Fly

Falynn Christine Koch · First Second
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic -- dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth...
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Giant Days Vol. 1

John Allison · Boom! Studios
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

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,...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2

Ta-Nehisi Coates · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Dark times for the Black Panther, as Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles the fi nal days of the kingdom of Wakanda! As Zenzi and the People poison Wakanda's populace against their king, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. With few allies of his own to call on, T'Challa must rely on his elite...
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Sugar Skull

Charles Burns · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The long strange trip that began in Xed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending heartbreaking end but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie hes been telling himself since the beginning In this concluding volume nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful...
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New Super-Man Vol. 2: Coming to America

Gene Luen Yang · DC Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang continues his first original series at DC with NEW SUPER-MAN VOL. 2!To uncover the truth behind his mother's murder, the New Super-Man must reawaken his full power under the tutelage of the mysterious...
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The Little Mermaid

METAPHROG. · Papercutz
Pages: 66
Format: Hardcover

The Little Mermaid is Hans Christian Andersen's most celebrated tale and is beautifully adapted here as a graphic novel by the Eisner award nominated duo Metaphrog (Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers) , winners of the Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards Best Visual Artist 2016, and authors...
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Rocket and Groot: Keep on Truckin'!

TOM ANGLEBERGER · Marvel Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

It's Rocket and Groot Book: Keep on Truckin'! and they are taking it to the next level as they continue their journey through the cosmos defeating baddies. Expect more zaniness, more chaos, more Rocket doodles, more "I am Groots", and tons of Veronica - the totally awesome butt-kicking...
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Plutona

Jeff Lemire · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Five kids discover the body of the world's greatest super hero, Plutona, in the woods after school one day. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives.
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The Best American Comics 2016

Roz Chast · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Fresh off the success of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast picks the best graphic pieces of the year. It showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels,...
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Black Hammer Volume 1

Jeff Lemire · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village...
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Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying

Alan Moore · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael Moran always knew he was meant for something more-now, an unexpected series of events leads him to reclaim his destiny as Miracleman! The groundbreaking graphic novel that heralded a literary revolution...
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Ms. Marvel Vol. 3: Crushed

G. Willow Wilson · Marvel
Format: Print book

Love is in the air in Jersey City as Valentine's Day arrives! Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school dance...but Ms. Marvel is! Well sort of - by crashing it attempting to capture Asgard's most annoying trickster! Yup, it's a special Valentine's Day story featuring...
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