(W/A/CA) James Stokoe
With one last gambit aboard the space station, Wascylewski finds himself ambushed by two more deadly xenomorphs that will stop at nothing until he's dead.
The conclusion to Orc Stain creator James Stokoe's thrilling and claustrophobic Aliens story!
(W) Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook (A) Tyler Crook, Alise Gluskova (CA) Tyler Crook
An evil spirit that looks exactly like Emmy is wreaking havoc in Harrow County, aiming to hit Emmy where it hurts her most. In order to defeat this mighty adversary, Emmy seeks help wherever she can find it... even if that means doing things she once found reprehensible.
(W/A/CA) Victor Santos
When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.
Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi.
o Part 1 was originally only published in Spain; this volume collects both parts in one complete hardcover.
(W) Mike Mignola (A) Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (CA) Mike Mignola
Preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless vampire killers question a man hidden away in a monastery on the Baltic Sea. The mysterious Mr. Higgins wants nothing more than to avoid the scene of his wife's death, and the truth about what happened to him in that castle. However, these heroic men sworn to rid the world of the vampire scourge inspire Higgins to venture out and to end the only suffering he really cares about-his own.
This sendup of classic vampire stories sees Mignola teaming with British artist Warwick Johnson Cadwell (Solid State Tank Girl, No. 1 Car Spotter) for an original graphic novel as outlandish as The Amazing Screw-On Head.
(W/A/CA) Francesco Francavilla
The masked American hero ventures to the Middle East incognito (as Tom Sawyer) to fight Nazis in pursuit of a mysterious object of terrible power-a weapon of unknown origin, older than the pyramids, which could fuel the Thousand-Year Reich of Hitler's dreams. This story originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents #28-#32.
Afterlife with Archie co-creator returns to his acclaimed original series!
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) David Rubin
A science-minded adventurer gets mixed up in the mysteries of a fantasy world in this charming new adventure from an award-winning creative team. Boone Dias is an interdimensional explorer, a scientist from Earth who has stumbled into great responsibility. He's got an explanation for everything, so of course the Ether's magical residents turn to him to solve their toughest crimes. But maybe keeping the Real and the Abstract separate is too big a job for just one man. Collects issues #1-#5.
"Kindt is one of the smartest genre writers in comics."-Mental Floss on Ether
(W/A/CA) Geof Darrow
It ain't Arby's but we got the meats when the Shaolin Cowboy goes to Halal and back. Caught between the cloven and the clawed, can a karate chop beat the pork chop and still win in a pinch? Hog Kong and King Crab and his band of minimum-wage assassins all say, "NO!" Will our hero win by popular "smote"-or die by electoral carnage?
Let's face it, the world of comic books or "Graphic Novels" as they are referred to currently, is overwhelmingly impenetrable for a lot of people these days. The sheer volume of new titles that ship each week make it hard to remember previously published books or even something that came out last Wednesday, but have no fear, Zanadu is here to help you discover what you didn't know you needed in your collection! We have thousands of titles available, but these are a few of our favorite forgotten gems kicking around the store.
And please don't ever hesitate to ask for recommendations or hazy recollections regarding books you might have missed while shopping at the store. Your friendly neighborhood comic monkeys are here to help! Remember, there is a comic for literally everyone on the planet--it's just a matter of unearthing it!
(W) Tim Seeley & Various (A) Bruce Timm & Various
Dark Horse Comics
The toy juggernaut Masters of the Universe and its subsequent action figure lines featured memorable pack-in minicomics that aided in playtime for children across the world. This oversized hardcover collection features sixty-eight US releases, including all minicomics from the '80s Masters of the Universe line, the '80s Princess of Power line, and the '80s and '90s He-Man line, plus an introduction to the minicomics in the current Masters of the Universe Classics toy line. Relive the illustrated adventures that fueled your imagination!
(W) Alex De Campi (A/CA) Tony Parker
April 1971. The CIA is handed the espionage coup of the decade when a KGB general defects with a list of all Soviet intelligence assets in Asia. Including spies within the US Army in Vietnam. All Jack Hudson has to do is get the defector and his microfilm from Hong Kong to California...and keep Palm Springs' overzealous FBI office from turning everything into a freakshow.
All Codename: Felix has to do is kill the defector and get the microfilm back to the USSR, by any means possible. Easy, right? Now throw in a beautiful woman, a fast car, and a whole lot of drugs. The bloody new thriller from ALEX DE CAMPI (NO MERCY, Grindhouse, Archie vs. Predator), TONY PARKER (This Damned Band) and BLOND!
Collects MAYDAY #1-5
Let's face it, the world of comic books or "Graphic Novels" as they are referred to currently, is overwhelmingly impenetrable for a lot of people these days. The sheer volume of new titles that ship each week make it hard to remember previously published books or even something that came out last Wednesday, but have no fear, Zanadu is here to help you discover what you didn't know you needed in your collection! We have thousands of titles available, but these are a few of our favorite forgotten gems kicking around the store.
(W/A) Alex Toth & Various
//Published by Dark Horse Comics//
A brilliant storyteller who wielded a dynamic, minimalist style, Alex Toth is considered a master in the fields of comic book storytelling, animation, and design. With Creepy Presents Alex Toth, all of his vibrant stories from Creepy and Eerie are collected in a deluxe hardcover for the first time ever!
Manga or Japanese comics, is one of the greatest things to ever happen to the American comic market since the advent of Super-Heroes. While we know a lot of our customers only truck with the 'Merican made books we all know and love, Manga offers a VAST array of subject matter, genres, art/writing styles and situations that appeal to age groups from wee little ones to grumpy old people! Even the most jaded comic book reader will find something new and exciting in the world of MANGA!!
This week we focus on Kenichi Sonada and his loveable, violent, trigger happy and fun lovin GUNSMITH CATS! "Burst," the follow up series to first volume chronicles the further adventures of Rally and Minnie as they blow shit up and try to save enough money to pay rent. Super fun, high flying action adventure comedy from master Manga-Ka SONADA!
(W/A) Kenichi Sonada
Rally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins are two regular American girls. Regular American girls who own a gun shop, and might have dabbled in prostituion, respectively. And who happen to be a crack shot and an explosives expert, respectively.
These might be odd skills for American girls, but these two happen to be Chicago's top bounty hunters. Rally can shoot the trigger off a gun from a good distance, and May generally wreaks havoc with explosions and cuteness. And together, with some very useful friends and associates, they make up the Gunsmith Cats.
"Burst" finds our ladies back at work, back in action, and . . . back in trouble. Now presented in the favored Japanese, right-to-left format, Gunsmith Cats: "Burst" aims to please.
(W/A) Geoff Darrow
Who doesn't like Surf and Turf? Well, what do you do when Surf and Turf doesn't like YOU??? The Eisner Award-losing and -winning drawing room talkfest, The Shaolin Cowboy, returns and will try to answer those questions as the titular hero of the series finds that his road to hell is paved not with good intentions but old nemeses hell bent on bloody revenge... AGAIN!!!
New Comic Book Day Highlight reel for new comics shipping on February 8th, 2017! Be sure to check out the new episode of the Comics Should Smell Good Wednesday morning as your favorite comic monkeys bring you the very best in recommendations, hype and general nonsense! Visit our Youtube channel or check back here to watch!!
(W) John Arcudi (A) Toni Fejzula (CA) Dave Johnson
Linda Caruso is investigating the murder of an inmate in the Mariposa County Jail. With a short list of suspects who can't escape, she thought it would be an easy case to solve. However, as new evidence comes to light, she only gets further from finding an answer.
(W) Peter J. Tomasi (A/CA) Ian Bertram
A horrific take on the true story of the Winchester haunted house and one woman's mission to wash away the blood curse of the Winchester rifle from claiming her own life and soul.
This is a tale of guilt, ghosts, and guns . . . of how fortune brings misfortune as a grim and determined woman oversees the construction of a house twenty-four hours a day for twenty years, with the simple motto of keep busy building or get busy dying. Collects the six-issue miniseries.
"Highly expressionistic and dripping with atmosphere, House of Penance will haunt you long after you close the issue."-The Fandom Post
(W/A/CA) Richard Corben
The master of supernatural horror is back with bizarre tales of terror in his signature black-and-white style. Running through the entire series is the continuing story of Corben's new warrior character, Denaeus, reminiscent of his best-loved creation, Den from the classic Heavy Metal series.
New stories from 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame award winner Richard Corben!
(W/A/CA) MOEBIUS
Working closely with Moebius Production in France, Dark Horse puts the work of a master storyteller back in print-with some material in English for the first time! Stel and Atan are interstellar repairmen trying to find a lost space station and its crew. What they discover about the universe and themselves on the mythical paradise planet Edena, though, changes their lives forever. Moebius's long-out-of-print World of Edena story arc gets a deluxe hardcover treatment, with its five main chapters-Upon a Star, Gardens of Edena, The Goddess, Stel, and Sra-collected here!
This first American reproduction of these stories in 20+ years. A true masterpiece of the medium. It's fu***ing Moebius--don't ask, just buy!
(A) Sean Cooke & Various (CA) Sean Cooke
Join the crew of the Serenity on an adventure through the 'verse where you can relive your favorite moments from the Firefly series-and more! This stunning adult coloring book is filled with 45 detailed and completely original black-and-white illustrations for you to color however you desire.
A must-have for fans of the 'verse!
(W/A/CA) Kengo Hanazawa
Having avoided being eaten by his zombie girlfriend and torn apart by his infected coworkers, Hideo Suzuki continues to head away from civilization and the bloodthirsty hordes taking over Japan. In a "suicide forest," Hideo finds a young girl who needs help-and who could also help him more than he realizes!
(W) Gene Yuen Lang & Various (A/CA) Gurihiru
When Aang leaves to aid Zuko with the Kemurikage, Katara and Sokka return to the Southern Water Tribe by themselves. Katara is shocked to find that her beloved village has become a bustling city, with none other than their father, Hakoda, in charge! A northerner named Malina seems to be behind this change, pushing the North and South to be more unified . . . but what are her true goals?
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