EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1/17!!

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ASSASSINISTAS #2

(W) Tini Howard (A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez

"Pregnant Pauses and Campout Makeouts" Dominic Price is a college-age cutie pie who just wants to spend the semester making out with his boyfriend, Taylor, in between rounds of TurboLight Fighter and maintaining a solidly passable 3.2 GPA. His mom, Octavia, formerly a badass action-movie-quality bounty hunter, didn't pay his tuition, because she had to get back in the business and spend 40K on black market weapons and body armor And she's bringing Dominic with her, because the alternative is making lattes for a semester, and he'd rather die. Good thing in mom's line of work, dying is an option!

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 12/20!!

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NIGHT BUSINESS HC

(W/A/CA) Benjamin Marra

Night Business is a tale of street justice from the author of The Terror Assaulter. A killer is committing extreme acts of violence on exotic dancers and only one man has a will powerful enough to stop this psychopath: Johnny Timothy. 1980s trash culture is refracted through
Marra's brain to become a nasty brew about serial killers, vigilante strippers, and dangerous men raining street justice upon their enemies. This is the long-awaited collection of Marra's career-launching cult comic book series, including the never-published conclusion!

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 12/6!!

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LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #4

(W) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez (A/CA) Jaime Hernandez

The 2017 Eisner Hall of Famers are still at the top of their game! In Jaime's half, when the cat's away how will the mice play? Maggie's out of town and Ray is determined to do something outside of his usual routine... but what? And what kind of trouble could Maggie and Hopey possibly get into in Barrio Hoppers at 3AM? Meanwhile, there's a funeral in Palomar and Pipo is deciding if she should attend or not. The rest of the story is a Palomar flashback of Pipo and her two adult lovers Manuel and Soledad.

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RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/30!!

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UNREAL CITY HC

(W/A/CA) D.J. Bryant

Unreal City contains five stories about relationships, addressing gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification as the characters attempt to make sense of love, sex, art, and life. Existential and elliptical, the artwork echoes such masters as Jaime Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. In Unreal City, characters cannot walk into a room without their world turning inside out. Readers will be similarly upended by the discovery of this major new talent.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/9!!

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MY PRETTY VAMPIRE HC

(W/A/CA) Katie Skelly

Clover yearns to be the girl she once was before becoming a fanged bloodsucker and, imprisoned by her brother, she plans her escape. The result is a sexy, sophisticated horror romp that wears its colorful Pop sensibility on its sleeve. Katie Skelly's sex-positive attitude and emotionally rich work makes for a wonderfully moody, progressive, and engaging read.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/2!!

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LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #3

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

What is "punk"? What did it all mean? What does it mean now? What will it mean in the end? The Locas girls's punk reunion has come to a close but the evening has just begun. Also, the Animus situation has gotten too BIG for reunited sisters Lumina and Isla. Meanwhile, on the Gilbert side: Fritz starred in a Dr. Who ripoff only to see her 10-year-old daughter take over the role before returning to the show's last episode 5 years later. Meanwhile, Fritz's newly reunited twin daughters get to (uncomfortably) know one another and meet a classic Palomar character (or three)!

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 6/28!!

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NEW LOW GN

(W/A/CA) Johnny Ryan

A New Low collects some of the most transgressively hilarious and politically incorrect comics to ever grace a glossy, national magazine (Vice). Johnny Ryan skewers G.G. Allin, Caddyshack, Bill Cosby, E.T., Everybody Loves Raymond, Ireland, Italy, Kenny G, Kid Rock, D.H. Lawrence, Ted Nugent, Russians, Small Wonder, The Shield, Spain, Two and a Half Men, Vice magazine, Wall Street, and many more. In an age when comics are aspiring to more mature literary heights, Ryan builds on the tradition that cartooning has had on our collective funny bone for over a century, and A New Low collects almost 100 full-color examples.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 10/5!!

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GARDEN OF FLESH HC

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez

Garden of Flesh is a sexually explicit retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, but one that blurs the lines between erotica and pornography, as only Gilbert Hernandez can. Leave it to Hernandez to explore the story of original Sin from a perspective you didn't get in Sunday school. As an added bonus, longtime Love and Rockets fans will recognize some beloved characters/actors portraying key players.

RECOMMENDED BY ERIN.

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 10/5!!

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AMERICAN BLOOD GN

(W/A/CA) Benjamin Marra

American Blood is a collection of cartoonist Benjamin Marra's (Terror Assaulter) provocative short stories from the past several years. 1980s trash culture and exploito entertainment are filtered through the prism of Marra's brain, producing a nasty brew of revenge, power and passion- all of the things that America celebrates and for which it is scorned. This is the definitive assembling of Marra's most underground work.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/31!!

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LONGEST DAY OF THE FUTURE HC

(W/A/CA) Lucas Varela

Argentinian cartoonist Lucas Varela has crafted a wordless thriller reminiscent of the work of Jason (I Killed Adolf Hitler). In a futuristic city, two mega-companies engage in a battle to eliminate the other. Will the crash of an extraterrestrial flying saucer change that? Under the guise of a science fiction fable, Varela has spun a searing indictment against consumerism and unfettered capitalism.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/31!!

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BLUBBER #3

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez

Unleashing the unfettered Id of the great Gilbert Hernandez! Absurd, explicit, and profanely comical, Blubber makes all other comics blush. Pupusi (last seen in Gilbert's Garden of the Flesh) gets it on with a hideous monster, a couple of lustful faun follow suit, an alien takes a substantial bowel movement, a guy with a large member gets it on with a little alien, and so much more!

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #87 7/20

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Mountains and mountains of comics....and not just any comics, but FREAKIN awesome comics are what your favorite comic monkeys are offering up this week in the latest episode of CSSG! With the Prof still out of commission after a deadly dealing with the Suicide Squad, Morgan and Casey keep it short and in your face with the best books dropping this NCBD!

And don't forget to watch the DC Rebirth video with Casey this week!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/4!!

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JESSICA FARM TP VOL 02

(W/A) Josh Simmons

Jessica Farm fuses adventure, fantasy and psychological horror, all stamped with Josh Simmons' macabre sensibility. In Book 1, Jessica arrives at her Grandparents farm and the banality is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread, as we discover that Jessica's increasingly nightmarish house is filled with creatures around every corner. In Book 2, our hero comes upon the Groovy Room, where the atmosphere is different and if you configure your mind just right, you can hover in the air. These books are the beginning of a life-spanning project which will continue for 50 years, until Simmons amasses a 600-page body of work.

From local creator JOSH SIMMONS!

Recommended by erin.

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/20!!

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MEGG & MOGG IN AMSTERDAM & OTHER STORIES HC

(W/A/CA) Simon Hanselmann

Fresh off their star turn in the New York Times best seller Megahex, Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple time, although the trip gets off to a rocky start when they forget their antidepressants. Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam collects all of Simon Hanselmann's contributions to Vice. com, the Ignatz Award-nominated short story "St. Owl's Bay," and other surprises that will add additional color and background for fans of Megahex.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 3/16!!

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PATIENCE HC

(W/A/CA) Daniel Clowes

Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story that swings from violent destruction to deep personal tenderness. It is also the first all new graphic novel from master cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, Eightball) in over a half-decade! This full-color story is the biggest book of his career and affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberantly breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet. This is the graphic novel of 2016.

RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 11/25

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ETERNAUT HC

(A/CA) Francisco Solano Lopez

Now published for the first time in English, this seminal 1950s Latin-American science-fiction graphic novel has it all- Cold War tensions, aliens, and time-travel. Illustrated in a gritty, realistic style and rich with historical and political commentary, The Eternaut is an allegory based upon contemporary global events. The lasting power of the story of Juan Salvo's fight to save Argentina has proved a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/12!!

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HIP HOP FAMILY TREE GN VOL 03

(W/A) Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor's acclaimed graphic novel series continues! Book 3 highlights Run DMC's rise to fame and introduces unassailable acts like Whodini, The Fat Boys, Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh. The Beastie Boys become a rap group. Rick Rubin meets Russell Simmons to form Def Jam. The famous TV pilot to the dance show Graffiti Rock and the documentaries Style Wars and Breakin' and Enterin' are all highlighted in this comprehensive volume spanning 1983-1984. Ed Piskor continues to deliver the goods in this comprehensive history of hip hop.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/27!!

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TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE TP VOL 01

(W)/A) Michael Kupperman
 

The smash hit humor comic is now finally available in paperback! Tales Designed to Thrizzle are about evil girls and their owls, Mysterious Avengers, Dick Crazy, scary snakes, delicious bacon, the Silver Knight, Murder She Didn't Write, the Mannister, the Space Patrol, portraits where the eyes move, Pablo Picasso, sex blimps, soccer jousting, Hercules the Public Domain Superhero, Cousin Granpa, Mister Bossman, the silent robot Citobor and, of course, the '30s. Acclaimed and sought, get your thrizzles while you can!

recommended by erin.

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/20!!

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HIP HOP FAMILY TREE TP VOL 02

(W/A) Ed Piskor

The best-selling nexus of comics and Hip Hop culture continues with this 2nd volume covering 1981-1983 when Hip Hop made the transition from parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs. Established icons such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash appear along with new superstars like NWA, The Beastie Boys, Doug E Fresh, KRS One, ICE T, and early Public Enemy plus cameos by Dolemite, LL Cool J, Notorious BIG, and New Kids on the Block(?)!

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!