Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Volume 3 (TMNT Ultimate Collection, #3) (, #3)
by Kevin B. Eastman and Peter Laird
A thorough look back at the TMNT's comic book origins with their first stories plus insightful annotations from co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Rediscover the underground roots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with this special collection of Mirage Studios' issues #12, 14, 15, 17, and 19-21 including the stories "Survivalists," "The Unmentionables," "Dome Doom," and the multi-part "Return to New York." With over 280 pages of mutated-martial arts action along with annotations f...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Kevin Eastman Notebook Series: 2014 Annual (TMNT Notebook)
by Kevin Eastman
TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman has been making comics for 30 years—and across three decades he’s amassed mountains of developmental character sketches, script notes, page roughs, and even alternate pages. Along the way he’s created one-of-a-kind notebooks filled with the detritus of his process, entirely unique collections exploring the inner workings of his creative methods. But now these unattainable treasures are ready for fans far and wide, tirelessly reproduced from the original notebooks, a...
The formidable power of the rift has attracted the attention of several violent and ambitious factions, and the globetrotting team of Lance Valiant, Tasha Kolchak, and John Cabot must do everything possible to keep that power from falling into the hands of military extremists and secret cults.When a notorious assassin with a connection to Lance's people threatens to send Team Freelance to the grave, the heroes find themselves tested like never before. Meanwhile, a strange visitor with his own ag...
"Welcome David Rubín to the table. He is a big talent and the real deal. The Hero is a strong statement of intent.”—Paul Pope (creator of Battling Boy) In ancient Greece the first superhero was born. Heracles, the son of Zeus, came into the world with strength, charm, and a fighting spirit. Groundbreaking storyteller David Rubín (Illustrator on Paul Pope's The Rise of Aurora West) reexamines the life of the world's greatest champion in The Hero, chronicling Heracles's incredible adventures, f...
In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under...
Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened "adventure of reading" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds...