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Uncanny X-Men Volume 5: The Omega Mutant

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

Original Sin tie-in! The greatest secret of the late Professor Charles Xavier has been revealed! Against such overwhelming power, will the X-Men succeed in holding the line, or will Xavier's final "gift" to his children be their undoing? Cyclops must guide his X-Men through...
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The White Donkey: Terminal Lance

Maximilian Uriarte · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerA graphic novel of war and its aftermath. A powerful, compulsively page-turning, vivid, and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless...
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Black Widow Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread

Nathan Edmondson · Marvel Enterprises
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

You've seen Black Widow as an Avenger and even an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. But on her own time she searches for atonement for her past as a KGB assassin - in ways of which those teams just wouldn't approve. The Black Widow goes undercover in Russia, but from its cold streets, the Hand of God reaches...
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Garfield Gets Cookin': His 38th Book

Jim Davis · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

In a collection of comic strips, the feline gourmand shares his thoughts on life and food as he devours doughnuts, searches for snacks, and pigs out on pizza, lasagna, and other favorite treats.Title: Garfield Gets Cookin'Author: Davis, JimPublisher: Random House IncPublication Date:...
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Ender's Game Graphic Novel

Chris Yost · Marvel
Format: Paperback

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is 6 years old, bullied, resented and alone. And he might be humanity's only hope. Ender is recruited to the International Fleet's child warriors in training, to fight in defense of the planet. His promise is high, and his teachers are sure he will...
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The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics

Ilya · Running Press
Format: Book

Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these cult comics are lost classics of underground and independent British and American comic-strip art.The comics collected in this anthology are the hidden gems of the comic worldindependent artists and writers who greatly influenced...
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5,000 km Per Second

Manuele Fior · Fantagraphics Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

A love story told elliptically in stunning watercolors. Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize of the 2010 Angouleme Comics Festival, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tells -- or almost tells -- the love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · Doubleday
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback

"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John BrunnerTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed...
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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff · First Second
Format: Paperback

In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Deshi, a hapless young man living in northern China, is suddenly expelled from ordinary life when his brother dies in an accident. Holding Deshi responsible for his brother's death, his parents send him on a mission to acquire a corpse bride to accompany...
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The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996

Charles M Schulz · Fantagraphics
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

This is the twenty-third (out of twenty-five) volume of the New York Times best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts comic strips; it will coincide with a new feature film. In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996 (Vol. 23) , Charlie Brown starts taking...
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Avengers vs. X-Men

Olivier Coipel · Marvel; Reprint edition
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The Avengers and the X-Men - the two most popular super-hero teams in history - go to war! This landmark pop-culture event brings together Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Magneto and more in the story that changes them forever!...
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Goodnight Darth Vader

Jeffrey Brown · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

It's bedtime in the Star Wars galaxy, and Darth Vader's parenting skills are tested anew in this delightful follow-up to the breakout New York Times bestsellers Darth Vaderâ„¢ and Son and Vader'sâ„¢ Little Princess. In this Episode, the Sith Lord must soothe his rambunctious...
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The Walking Dead Volume 19 TP: March to War

Robert Kirkman · Image Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled:...
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Snoopy's Thanksgiving

Charles M. Schulz · Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This is a gift-book-size collection of Snoopy/Thanksgiving-themed Peanuts strip story arcs. Sometimes getting together with friends and family for Thanksgiving isn't all that it's cracked up to be, as Snoopy learns when his brother Spike invites him to spend Thanksgiving in the desert,...
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The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem

Stephen King · Cemetery Dance Pubns; World's First Edition Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King first wrote about the Dark Man in college after he envisioned a faceless man in cowboy boots and jeans and a denim jacket forever walking the roads. Later this dark man would come to be known around the world as one of King's greatest villains, Randall Flagg, but at the time...
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