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It's Archie's third volume in our all-time bestselling The Best of Archie Comics graphic novel series, featuring even more great stories from Archie's eight decades of excellence! This fun full-color collection of more of Archie's all-time favorite stories, lovingly hand-selected and introduced by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material, is a must-have for any Archie fan and fans of comics in general, as well as a great introduction to the comics medium!

Following in the footsteps of last year's smash hit Best of Archie Comics comes this second full-color volume jam-packed with over 400 pages of the best and most iconic Archie stories of the past 70 years hand-selected by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material. Each story has its own introduction explaining why it's one of the all-time favorites. A must-have edition for anyone who has ever enjoyed Archie comics.

For 70 years, Archie Comics has been a vital and constant presence in American entertainment and pop culture, selling over 1.5 billion comic books. The Best of Archie Comics features classic tales from some of the biggest creative names in the company's history, including Bob Montana, Harry Lucey, Dan DeCarlo, Sam Schwartz, Stan Goldberg, Dan Parent, and more. Hand-picked by Archie historians and experts, the stories collected in The Best of Archie Comics take readers on a veritable pop culture tour of America, from the World War II era to the swingin' 60s to the present - including anecdotes, memories, historical highlights, exclusive content and more from Archie creators.

Meet Scott Lang, the astonishing Ant-Man! To save his daughter, Cassie, Scott is forced to return to a life of crime, stealing Hank Pym's original costumed identity. But when his noble intentions win the Avengers' approval, he takes over as the all-new Ant-Man, full-time! Electronics whiz Scott secures a job with Tony Stark, but the size-changing super hero must save Iron Man after a brutal battle with the Hulk. No shrinking violet, Scott holds his own in astonishing adventures with Spider-Man, the Thing and the Avengers. And when Ant-Man and Hawkeye join forces, somebody's gonna get it!

Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series continues in comic form with the revolutionary Season 8! This deluxe hardcover edition collects Predators and Prey and Retreat, the fifth and sixth arcs of Season 8, along with three short stories originally published in MySpace Dark Horse Presents. In a strange turn of events, Buffy begins to experience Twilight's reach through the growing mass popularity of vampires - they even have a spokesperson with a reality TV show, Harmony Kendall! Rebel Slayer Faith continues on her journey to help other directionless Slayers, and Slayer Simone has also come back onto the Scoobies' radar. Meanwhile, Dawn finally deals with her ongoing growing pains. Then, as more and more of the world seems to envision Slayers as public enemy number one, Buffy takes her troops to a refuge in the Tibetan mountains, where she hopes to receive some help from Oz.

Big Dog and V-8 are in the crosshairs of the world's most dangerous special operative: Joe Ledger. And the members of V-8 are tasked to hunt down and obtain plans for a stolen vampire gene screener. Collects issues #6-11.

V-Wars is set in a world transformed by a global pandemic caused by a millennia-old virus that, once triggered, affects individuals differently depending on their DNA. The result is vampires as unique as their cultures, a response from unaffected humans like never before, and a story that is old-school, scary and complicated. Collects issues #1-5.

A fascinating girl... with a hammer. And zombies... being hammered. A story with the flavor of those old horror books and fanzines. Pure fun... with a hammer! This One-Shot is plenty with insane fun for the sake of it, artwork and words by the renowned Spanish artist Massacre, with colors by Daniel Seijas.

The first five issues of FRACTION and WARD's epic science fiction, gender-broke, mind-expanding retelling of THE ODYSSEY. Collects ODY-C #1-5.

A Daredevil graphic novel by Frank Miller. Published in 1986, it builds upon Miller's previous work on Daredevil, providing further insight into the relationship between Daredevil and Kingpin.

Darwyn Cooke is the Eisner Award-winning writer/artist of such classics as DC: The New Frontier, Selina's Big Score, and last year's smash-hit, The Hunter. Now, Cooke is back and following up the New York Times best-selling Hunter with a heart-pounding sequel: The Outfit. After evening the score with those who betrayed him, and recovering the money he was cheated out of from the syndicate, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until, that is, he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to the Outfit for the price they put on his head... and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave! Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner- and Emmy-winning creator whose adaptation of Richard Stark's first groundbreaking Parker novel has earned him multiple 2010 Eisner Award nominations!

A special historical one-shot issue featuring the marriage of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, with appearances from characters throughout the DC Universe and with stories and art by creators from throughout the Man of Steel's career!

Collects Avengers: Millennium Infinite Comic #1-6; Avengers (1963) #56, 71.
At a secret Hydra installation in rural Japan, the Avengers discover a time portal that sends them on a millennia-spanning adventure! But what kind of bad guys have a time machine that they don't use to change the past? Bad guys who know that they win! Now the Avengers must leap through time to figure out what kind of horrors Hydra's cooked up for the world, but something goes horribly wrong. And suddenly the only thing standing between our immutable past and our wasted, ruined future are the Avengers - united against a doomsday weapon thousands of years in the hatching! Plus: classic tales of time travel! Captain America returns to the fateful day he lost Bucky, and the Avengers face their WWII counterparts: the Invaders!

The worlds of FABLES and THE UNWRITTEN collide in the epic comic event by Mike Carey and Bill Willingham! Tommy Taylor is thrust into the world of Vertigo's hit series Fables! But a dark and terrible foe has seized the fairy-tale homelands and our world. In desperation, the witches of Fabletown gather to summon the greatest mage the worlds have ever seen. But they are in for an unpleasant surprise. Collects #50-55 of The Unwritten

NEW STORY BY Michael Avon Oeming and RON ADRIAN; CLASSIC SONJA STORIES BY Doug Moench, Howard Chaykin AND MORE; COVER ART BY Mel Rubi AND Howard Chaykin (50/50 SPLIT) A Red Sonja 35th Anniversary Historic Event - the very first "Giant Size" Red Sonja! Featuring an all-new story by Red Sonja writer Michael Avon Oeming and art by Ron (Supergirl) Adrian, GIANT SIZE Red Sonja #1 also contains a selection of classic, never-before-reprinted material - all remastered and recolored (and featuring the Howard Chaykin story present in color for the very first time ANYWHERE)! Included are: Episode" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema - remastered by Jose Villarrubia (from Conan Saga #48) Red Sonja She Devil With a Sword" by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin - remastered and in color for the very first time (from Kull and the Barbarians #2)! Day of the Sword" by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin - remastered and in color for the very first time (from Kull and the Barbarians #3)! Pin-Ups from Dick Giordano, Neal Adams, Frank Thorne, Esteban Maroto and more!

"In all historical and modern state systems / regimes a Messiah, like all those who go in the opposite direction to the brute majority, is undesirable because he asks questions that the authorities consider indisputably settled (in their favour). That's why jails (and cemeteries) are full of those who dared to speak differently than desired and prescribed by demonstrating and defending their natural rights and freedoms. Those who read these comics are fighting for freedom and the sharpness of their own consciousness against a faceless, followers' numbness." (150 colour and b/w pages)

You will need to employ a bit of effort to delve into the detailed picture stories by Lunacek, but you will be delighted with the richness of narrative and humour. Lunacek perceives God as a big headed, manipulative boss, and that is just the beginning of his characterisation of Christian religious icons (100 pages, b/w, A4 landscape, introduction by Lunacek, plus some other things by Lunacek - trivia bits, commercial breaks, supplements).

A Blaze of Glory chronicles continuing saga of Mack and the 518th Gun Truck - the most decorated convoy escort company during Operation Iraqi Freedom.