Battle Action #1-2 (2024) English | CBR | 2 Issues With blistering action on every page, Battle Action returns with a ten-issue maxiseries of all-new stories! Each issue will feature the multi-episode Johnny Red story "A Couple of Heroes" written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Keith Burns, which sees Johnny facing his fate high above the Arctic Ocean in the dying days of World War II. Johnny will be joined each issue by a guest-feature including Dredger, Hellman, Nina Petrova and Major Eazy - alongside new takes on Hookjaw, Death Game and Kids Rule OK. The Obscure Cities v06 - The Leaning Girl (2014) English | CBR | 179 pages | 264.69 MB Winner of the coveted Gaiman Award as the No. 1 translated foreign comic book series published in Japan in 2013, this story of perseverance and a young girl's search for love has been translated from it's original French into ten languages. Author and publisher Stephen D. Smith has now translated The Leaning Girl into English and it features an introduction by Karen Green, Graphic Novel Librarian at Columbia University. After a freak accident on the Star Express roller coaster, 13 year-old Mary Von Rathen begins to lean. Doctors can not help her, so she is sent by her selfish mother and hen-pecked father to a private school in Sodrovni. Mary escapes and joins the Robertson Circus where she remains for several years, until she hears from newspaper editor, Stanislas Sainclair, that a scientist, Axel Wappendorf, might be able to help her. Wappendorf is working on a rocket to reach a planet that could hold the secret to Mary's trouble. Meanwhile an artist, Augustin Desombres, has run away from the busy world and buys an empty building on the High Plains of Aubrac in the French countryside. He begins painting murals of strange globes. Now as a young woman, Mary decides to join Wappendorf in the rocket. On the alien planet, they discover an area with many globes where she has a chance meeting with the artist. Nominated for two 2015 Eisner Awards: BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL and BEST PENCILER/INKER - François Schuiten. Come Prima (2015) English | CBR | 224 pages | 270.27 MB A TURBULENT TRIBUTE TO ROAD MOVIES AND ITALIAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES. In the early 60s, after the death of their father, two brothers, Fabio and Giovanni, are returning home for the funeral in their Fiat 500. Their journey, punctuated with bitter arguments and long silences, memories and encounters, will take them back to their native Italy, where Fabio has not been for years. We learn, piece by piece, about their father, and about the stormy relationships they had with their family, and how fascism divided them. Lulu Anew (2015) English | CBR | 162 pages | 297.03 MB At the end of yet another unproductive job interview, Lulu, on a whim, takes off for the shore just to get away from it all. She's got a husband and kids left bewildered but it's nothing against them. This is just her time, getting away from the grind and being taken for granted with no other plan than savoring it. Surprised at her own temerity, she meets other people on the edge of the world. It wasn't meant to be for long. It wasn't meant to be anything but in the end, thrilling, fun, and possibly dangerous, this improvised experience will make of Lulu a different woman. By the author of the acclaimed The Initiates. |
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