Called to adventure, young boys Lou and Shiro find themselves on an inter-dimensional submarine captained by an off-the-hinges old man that takes them on a journey through time to save humanity itself! THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME(S)! Called to adventure, young boys Lou and Shiro find themselves on an inter-dimensional submarine captained by an off-the-hinges old man. They soon discover Lou's missing father might still be alive as they are transferred into fully grown warriors headed straight...
Running away from the nightmare of sexual abuse, Helen Potter finds herself treading in the footsteps of the children's storyteller, Beatrix Potter. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than that of one.
Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War features adventures of Shigeru Mizuki s beloved yokai boy. In the epic title story, Kitaro battles the tanuki, a Japanese animal that features prominently in the country s yokai legends. The furry beasts draw on the power of the blood moon to awaken the monstrous catfish that lives in the depths of the Earth. The twisting of the catfish causes earthquakes that threaten to destroy all of Japan. With his yokai allies captured, Kitaro is...
The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childho...
The legacy of Frankenstein’s monster collides with the sociopolitical tensions of the present-day United States. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein beseeched his creator for love and companionship, but in 2017, the monster has long discarded any notions of peace or inclusion. He has become the Destroyer, his only goal to eliminate the scourge of humanity from the planet. In this goal, he initially finds a willing partner in Dr. Baker, a descendant of the Frankenstein family who has lost her teenage s...
Pete Morisi's Superior Stories
by J H Ingraham, William Clark Russell, and O Henry
Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics,...
Since the character of Monsieur Jean first walked onto the page in 1998, he has endeared himself to readers, maturing with each frantic, surreal, heart-warming episode. Beginning as a young Parisian bachelor, defeatist writer, and urban bon vivant, Jean has reluctantly transitioned into a family man of forty, learning how to live with, and ultimately love those around him unconditionally. Constantly surrounded by a group of childhood class- mates, an unbearably idealistic live-in friend Felix an...
Classic Bible Stories
by Frank Hampson, Marcus Morris, and Giorgio Bellavita
Some of Britain's finest English comics artists of all time, including Frank Hampson (creator of "Dan Dare") and Frank Bellamy (creator of "Heros the Spartan") also produced strips for the classic British comic Eagle based on stories from the Bible. Now, for the first time ever, all these Bible Stories are being collected, beginning with Frank Hampson's "Road of Courage", the life story of Jesus, and 'Mark: The Youngest Disciple', the story of the man who wrote the first New Testament gospel to...
Price-Forecasting Models for Sunstone Hotel Investors SHO-PF Stock
by Ton Viet Ta
Lose houses three stories: "Living Outdoors" tracks two high school students as they explore a zoo and experiment with hallucinogens. "Muskoka" features a cowboy on the road home to see his family. "Recent Hires" follows a young author's descent into the criminal underworld in order to win over a girl.
Haunted by the memory of his successful father and desperate to escape his personal demons, a novelist seeks solace in a rural town-but, of course, no one can outrun their troubles for long, especially not in Melvile. Samuel Beauclair's life has hit the skids. He's late with his second novel, he's going through a rough patch with his pregnant wife, and the bank is foreclosing on his apartment. Desperate, he flees to Melvile, an idyllic small town in the middle of nowhere where he once spent vac...
This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don’t. Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko! But she isn’t as exciting and wonderful as he remembered. And she...
After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to met a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.
Clive Barker's Great And Secret Show Deluxe Edition
by Chris Ryall and Clive Barker
The master of horror's epic tale, adapted into a twelve-issue comic series and collected here in its entirety in a new deluxe paperback edition. From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe's quest to possess the Art sets into motion a battle between forces light and dark. This lushly illustrated tale is equal parts horror, fantasy, and love by one of the masters of the genre. Also included is the one issue adaptation of the short story "Seduth," as well as annotations by writer C...