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The Autumnlands Volume 2: Woodland Creatures

Kurt Busiek · Image Comics
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Stranded in the mountains, the Great Champion and the young dog-wizard Dusty discover gods, goats, living statues, oracular crows, and dangerous secrets about the history of the Autumnlands. Secrets that could help them save the world - if they're able to survive.This hit epic-fantasy...
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Sweaterweather: & Other Short Stories

Sara Varon · First Second
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

Back before Odd Duck, before Robot Dreams, Sara Varon created Sweaterweather. This endearing, quirky volume is a captivating look into Varon's creative process. It combines short comics stories, essays, and journal entries, and invites the reader into the world of Sara Varon: where adorable,...
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel

Bob Batchelor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

The Amazing Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. The Invincible Iron Man. These are just a few of the iconic superheroes to emerge from the mind of Stan Lee. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable...
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American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny

Christopher Miller · Harper
Format: Hardcover

American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor - the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids - and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly...
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The Love Bunglers

Jaime Hernandez · Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover

Contains the critically acclaimed and award-winning short comic "Browntown," as well as other stories chronicling the life and loves of Maggie.Featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie, the suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties...
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Sword Art Online Progressive, Vol. 5

REKI KAWAHARA · YEN PRESS
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

It's time for the "real" SAO--the third floor! Kirito and Asuna are hardly out the door when they stumble upon the start of the Elf War quest. When they decide to side with the elite dark elf Kizmel, they're set on a path that will push them harder than ever before. But together,...
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Sandman : overture

Neil Gaiman · Dc Comics
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES"BESTSELLER Twenty-five years since THE SANDMAN first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back--now in paperback for the first time ever THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's...
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The Woods Vol. 2

James Tynion IV · BOOM! Studios
Format: Print book

An entire high school has been transported to an alien world and must now survive together or die individually.On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. Countless light...
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis Volume 5

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel Worldwide, 2014.
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

Bombshell is back, and young heroes are debuting all across the city - including Cloak & Dagger and Ultimate Power Pack! But can Miles continue on being Spider-Man after everything that's happened, or will tragedy force him to quit? Cloak & Dagger try to bring Miles back into...
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Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #19

Jim Davis · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

THREE BOOKS IN ONE MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN! Be it ever so crazy, there's no place like home - especially at the Arbuckle asylum. Fashion fiascos abound! Dim-wittedness and droll rule the day! There's so much bizarre behavior from Jon and Odie that sometimes Garfield even seems...
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Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time

Saladin Ahmed · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

The silent king of the Inhumans stars in his fi rst-ever solo series! But it begins with Black Bolt...imprisoned?! Where exactly is he? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers to both will shock you -and Black Bolt as well! For if he is to learn...
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The Return of Zita the Spacegirl

Ben Hatke · First Second Books
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover

Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she faces...
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The Customer is Always Wrong

Mimi Pond · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 445
Format: Hardcover

A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholismThe Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
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Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal

Michael Mignola · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An uneasiness festers upon the city streets, threatening the peace and safety of law abiding citizens. A war is escalating, and it seems as though the good and righteous are being crushed beneath the unholy weight of evil s onslaught. Organized crime is spreading in an unchecked reign of terror....
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LEGO DC Superheroes: Save the Day

Trey King · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Experience Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) like you've never seen them before-LEGO(R) style!Join the World's Greatest Detective and the Man of Steel: Batman(TM) and Superman(TM) --like you've never seen them before. LEGO(R) Batman and Superman team up with Robin and Wonder...
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