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Kobane Calling is the autobiographical memoir of a young Italian cartoonist, writing and drawing under the nom de plume Zerocalcare, who volunteers with the Rojava Calling organization and heads into the Middle East to support and observe the Kurdish resistance in Syria as they struggle against the advancing forces of the Islamic State. He winds up in the small town of Mesher, near the Turkish-Syrian border as a journalist and aid worker, and from there he travels into Ayn al-Arab, a majority-Kurd town in the Rojava region of Syria. nAs he receives an education into the war from the Kurdish perspective, he meets the women fighting in the all-female Kurdish volunteer army (the Yekeineyen Parastina Jin, or Women's Defense Units), struggling to simultaneously fight off the Islamic State even as they take strides for Kurdish independence and attempt a restructuring of traditional patriarchal Kurdish society. In a story and style at once humorous and heartbreaking, Zerocalcare presents clear-eyed reportage of the fight against the Islamic State from the front lines.

Collects Defenders (1972) #42-57 and material from FOOM #19.
The Defenders, Marvel's "non-team" with an ever-changing roster, brings together its most famous members (Doctor Strange, the Hulk, the Sub-Mariner) with new comrades (Red Guardian, Moon Knight, Nick Fury) and fan-favorites (Luke Cage, Hellcat, Valkyrie, Nighthawk) - and the result is nothing short of classic! The creative team of Kraft and Giffen jump into the series feet first and spin some of the Defenders' greatest adventures: Doctor Strange, possessed by the Red Rajah, becomes a mystic threat to the entire universe! Scorpio and his Zodiac launch a kidnapping conspiracy involving S.H.I.E.L.D.! Valkyrie struggles to reclaim her life! Also featuring an all-new Emissaries of Evil, the origin of the Red Guardian, Atlantean mega-monsters and the debut of Lunatik!

Maud is quite happy living her simple life with her father and learning the exciting art of sword fighting. But when her father is murdered, Maud is whisked away from the life she knows by her rich and lordly grandfather. He wants to give her a home - on his terms - and help Maud become a real lady. All Maud wants to do is keep on fighting, so that she can have her revenger on her father's killer. High adventure and historical fiction come together in a swashbuckling thriller! Swords, vengeance, and a dashing highwayman known as the Fox comprise the key components to The Scarlet Rose, as Maud learns everything she thought she knew about her life wasn't true, and how to grow and grieve after losing her father. The Scarlet Roseblends exciting, thrilling action with grounded, emotional characterization.

Things are heating up in this supernatural fantasy as young heroine Emmy Crawford prepares to face off against old foes in the horror-plagued town of Harrow County
Something evil has returned from the grave and joins forces with Emmy's wicked family for a brewing monster war! Will she be able to protect her home and herself alone, or will Emmy need to gather some allies in order to defeat this evil once and for all in this coming of age tale?
Collects issues #25-#28 from Eisner-nominated series which was recently optioned for TV by SyFy Channel.

As the guardian of Harrow County, Emmy is not surprised that someone has come to ask for her help. But she is surprised that her visitor is a haint! Someone (or something) has been attacking Harrow County's supernatural residents, and Emmy is surprised to learn that one of her oldest friends may be turning against her. While Emmy has been focused on dealing with threats from the outside world, perhaps a much bigger problem has been brewing at home.
This paperback collects issues #21-24 of the award-winning horror comic Harrow County.

The Abandoned, that hulking figure with haunting yellow eyes, rarely leaves his ramshackle cabin deep in the woods of Harrow County. But it wasn't always so. And when hunters travel to Harrow County in search of big game, they get a lot more than they bargained for. As Emmy meets more visitors from the outside world, she discovers secrets of her own past and the very foundations of Harrow County.
Including a story illustrated by guest artists Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee, this paperback collects issues #17-#21 of the award-winning horror comic Harrow County.
• Eisner-nominated series!
• Includes a two-part stort with guest art by Carla Speed McNeil and Jenn Manley Lee!
• Cullen Bunn is winner of the 2011 Broken Frontier Best Writer Independent Award!
• Winner of the 2015 Ghastly Award for Best Ongoing Title!

Emmy believes she is one of a kind, that there is no one else in the world quite like her. As strangers arrive in Harrow County, though, she discovers just how wrong she is. Are these beings, each possessing strange and ghastly supernatural abilities, her family? Collects Harrow County #13-#16. Harrow County is under development to become a SyFy show!

The Skinless Boy seeks to understand the mysteries of his past, Emmy investigates a haunted house, and a malevolent serpent sows madness and malice in the minds of the Holler's residents. Collects issues #9 - #12 of the hit series!

After uncovering Harrow County's twisted history and her bizarre connection to its populace, Emmy forges a profound new relationship with the land and its creatures - but a familiar and sinister presence lurking just over the county lines seeks to wreak havoc on Emmy's new harmony. Collects Harrow County #5 - #8.

At last, a deluxe oversized hardcover collecting the best-selling debut and first year of adventures of the Valiant Universe's first-ever superteam!
From their first explosive confrontations with X-O Manowar to their head-on assault on the alien strike-force known only as the Armor Hunters, the most dangerous and most ruthless team of heroes ever united comes together right here in this prestige-sized collection from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (THE VALIANT, NINJAK) and an all-star cast of artists including Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS), Cary Nord (Conan), CAFU (Action Comics), and Stephen Segovia (Convergence)!
To kill a king, he has created an army. The world's most dangerous man, Toyo Harada, has been struck by the one thing he never thought possible - fear. Halfway across the globe, a new power threatens to topple modern civilization and, to preempt the cataclysm that is to come, Harada will unite the most lethal, most volatile, most unforgiving team the world has ever known - UNITY. Their mission: defeat the warrior king armed with the universe's most powerful weapon. Kill X-O Manowar!
Collecting UNITY (2013) #0-14, this deluxe oversized edition comes packed with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras, direct from the Valiant vaults.

A reality TV show starring a clone of Jesus Christ causes chaos across the U.S. of the near future in PUNK ROCK JESUS, a new graphic novel written and drawn by Sean Murphy, the acclaimed illustrator of JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE.
J2 causes both outrage and adulation. Religious zealots either love or hate the show, angry politicians worry about its influence on the nation, and members of the scientific community fear the implications of cloning a human being at all, let alone the Son of God.
Thomas McKael is the clones's bodyguard and former IRA operative, who despite his turbulent past is hired to protect the new Jesus--a baby who captivates the world, but grows up to become an angry teenager.
When falling ratings force the network to cut Jesus's mother from the series the young star runs away, renounces his religious heritage and forms a punk rock band. And what starts off as babysitting for Thomas becomes an epic battle, as Jesus goes to war against the corporate media complex that created him.
Along with his artistic credits on JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, Murphy also wrote and illustrated the graphic novel OFF ROAD (Oni Press), and cowrote OUTER ORBIT (Dark Horse Comics). Collects Punk Rock Jesus #1-6

It's the big, bad Lobo book that has something to offend everyone! In these fast-shooting, gut-wrenching tales from the 1990s, Lobo's out for revenge on whoever wrote an unauthorized biography of his life as a gun for hire! Then, the Easter Bunny hires Lobo to kill his biggest rival: Santa Claus! And Lobo signs on to kill the galaxy's greatest criminal, but promptly gets killed. And 200 of the main man's illegitimate offspring team up to knock off dear old dad! Collects LOBO (1990) #1-4, LOBO PARAMILITARY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #1, LOBO'S BACK #1-4, LOBO: BLAZING CHAIN OF LOVE #1 and LOBO CONVENTION SPECIAL #1.

"It started out as just another Superboy story - on the face of it, perhaps a bit more innovative than most, although it was published during one of the most creative periods in DC Comics history. It wound up changing the entire comics field.
The Legion of Super-Heroes was merely a clever title for a group of teenage superheroes (only three of whom were actually named) from the far future who went back in time to pay tribute to the greatest teenage superhero of them all - the Boy of Steel, Superboy. But the interest from comics fans was so great, the super-team was brought back time and time again, in the majority of Superman Family titles. Eventually, demand grew so strong that the Legion of Super-Heroes was awarded its own continuing series.
Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Vol. 1 collects stories from Adventure Comics (1935-1983) #247, #267, #282, #290, #293, #300-310, ACTION COMICS #267, #276, #287, #289, Superboy #86, #89, #98 and Superman #147.

The world is a dangerous place, and sometimes you need heroes who are equally dangerous. When a specific threat needs to be dealt with and the Justice League is just too large to tackle it, the United Nations needs a special task force - the Justice League Task Force!
Led by Hannibal Martin, a United Nations ambassador and strategist, and handpicked by their field leader, the Martian Manhunter, the Justice League Task Force is charged with dealing with specific threats that the U.N. would prefer just disappear. Be it disposing of misguided freedom fighters and their sonic death weapon or protecting the United States from the bioengineered plague of the Aryan Nation, the Justice League Task Force is ready for action!
Writer David Michelinie (Action Comics), artist Sal Velluto (Black Panther) and others introduce the world to a new, edgier Justice League in the classic tales from JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE VOL. 1: The Purification Plague.
Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE (1993-1996) #1-12!

Shunned by their parents and mentors in the Justice Society of America, Infinity, Inc. is a team made up of the best and brightest new heroes from the next generation of DC Comics. Collected at last from INFINITY INC. (1984-1988) #1-4, ALL-STAR SQUADRON #25-26 and ALL-STAR SQUADRON ANNUAL #2, INFINITY INC. follows the adventures of the Justice Society of America's sons and daughters as they pick up the role of crime-fighters from their parents. Denied membership by the JSA, the young cast of Infinity Inc. decides to train themselves - including heroes Power Girl, Huntress, Jade, Obsidian, Nuklon and more!

The Green Lantern Corps, now only made up of Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Arisia, Katma Tui, Ch'p, Salakk and Kilowog, have made Earth their new home. Now the Green Lanterns must battle cosmic threats while dealing with the national politics of the United States and the Soviet Union! Plus, the alien members of the Corps are eager to explore their new home and learn all about strange new human customs!
GREEN LANTERN CORPS: BEWARE THEIR POWER VOL. 1 collects for the first time ever GREEN LANTERN CORPS (1986-1988) #207-215 and GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2-3, from the veteran Green Lantern creative team of Steve Englehart, Joe Staton and Mark Farmer!

Elseworlds. Distinctive stylist Mike Grell brings a new twist to Batman in the grand tradition of The Phantom of the Opera! In turn-of-the-century Gotham City, rising young ballet star Laura Avian has acquired an "admirer," a stalker whose infatuation leads him careening down a path toward obsession and violence. She soon finds herself ensnarled in a treacherous web of murder, betrayal and deadly deception when the fan perceives that there are rivals for his affection. But who is the secret admirer? Rich playboy Bruce Wayne, the mysterious vigilante Batman, or is it the work of another sinister, scarred mind?

Welcome to the world of Baggywrinkles-a rollicking, educational survey of maritime lore, built around cartoonist Lucy Bellwood's time aboard tall ships. From the scourge of scurvy to the exhilaration of climbing the rigging for the first time, Lucy's comics bring the reader into a world of high seas history and informative adventure with "a sheer and unremitting sense of joy" [Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier].

Judge Death v01 - Young Death - Boyhood of a Superfiend (2008)
Rebellion graphic novel collecting the twelve-part 'Young Death: boyhood of a superfiend' (the origin of Judge Death) from the Judge Dredd Megazine.
Young Death - Boyhood of a Superfiend (reprint from Judge Dredd Megazine 1.01-1.12) (John Wagner (writing as Brian Skuter) - Peter Doherty)
Masque of the Judge Death (reprint from the Judge Dredd Mega-Special 4) (Si Spencer - John McCrea)
Judge Death v02 - My Name is Death (2005)
Collects some of the Judge Death stories from 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine.
Judge Death, a twisted alien being from a dimension where all life is crime, has escaped from a Mega-City One containment facility and headed out into the radioactive hell of the Cursed Earth. Here his path of destruction continues as he searches for the means to destroy all humanity.
This macabre road trip takes Death through the twisted remains of Las Vegas, teams him up with two cold-blooded serial killers, and shows him that the true path to annihilation lies deep below the desert sands.
This blackly comic story is written by John Wagner (Judge Dredd, A History of Violence) and illustrated by Frazer Irving (Klarion the Witchboy, Hellblazer).
THIS VOLUME INCLUDES THE STORIES
MY NAME IS DEATH (2000AD progs 1289-1294)
THE WILDERNESS DAYS (THE JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 209-216)
PLUS!
Creator Bios
Sketches
Gallery

English translation of the Japanese manga Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun (地縛少年 花子くん).
"Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?" At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!