EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 12/13!!

ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT #4

(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!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/26!!

ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT #1

(W/A/CA) James Stokoe

After a horrific accident strikes a space station, an engineering officer must use all available tools-a timer, utility kit, and his wits-to survive an attack from the deadliest creature known to man.
Orc Stain creator James Stokoe pens a thrilling and claustrophobic Aliens story: Dead Orbit!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/2!!

WONTON SOUP TP COLLECTED ED

(W/A) James Stokoe

James Stokoe's crazy space trucker cooking epic returns to print bigger and badder than ever before! Join Johnny Boyo and Deacon as they cruise the intergalactic superhighways in search of legendary ingredients and amazing adventure. Collects Wonton Soup volumes 1 and 2.

Now that Stokoe has hit it big drawing the Avengers and Godzilla, Oni Press is finally reprinting Stokoe's first book and my personal favorite, the absolutely insane WONTON SOUP!! Imagine an Iron Chef manga remixed through the lens of Cowboy Bebop, Paul Pope, Geoff Darrow and featuring a guest appearance by Brandon Graham himself (well, kinda) all injected directly into the bloodstream in a flash of psychedelic gradients and naughty parts!! (sooooo many naughty parts) This is truly a wonderful comic and I guarantee it will leave a warm, fuzzy feeling deep down inside...

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 12/31!!

SULLIVAN'S SLUGGERS HC

(W) Mark Andrew Smith (A) James Stokoe

Long past their former glory, the minor league sluggers get an invitation to play a baseball game in a cursed small town. After the 7th inning stretch, the sun goes down and the dysfunctional teammates find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of flesh-eating monsters! Now it's up to coach Casey Sullivan to help his team escape from being the next dish in the town's terrifying feeding frenzy. This edition of Sullivan's Sluggers comes in a slipcase, a print on the inside front cover, a baseball card sheet, danging ribbon boomkark, and a three page monster gate fold.

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RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/22!!

GODZILLA: HALF CENTURY WAR TP

(W/A) James Stokoe

Introducing a new and exciting look at Godzilla's reign of destruction, courtesy of Orc Stain creator James Stokoe! The year is 1954 and Lieutenant Ota Murakami is on hand when Godzilla makes first landfall in Japan. Along with his pal Kentaro, Ota makes a desperate gamble to save lives... and in the process begins an obsession with the King of the Monsters that lasts fifty years!

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That's right, I'm takin two picks this week--deal with it. Arguably the coolest looking Godzilla comic ever drawn, James Stokoe, self confessed Godzilla nerd supreme, wrote and drew this epic tale of one man's 50 year battle with the king of all radiated monsters. Featuring more space alien, ancient god, mutated lizard/moth/whatever monsters than you can shake a stick at, this comic will melt your eyes like Space Godzilla's crystal beams, son!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

ZANADU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1/16/13

ONE TRICK RIP OFF HC

(W/A) Paul Pope

Young lovers Tubby and Vim want to escape - escape the mistakes they've made, the lives they've lived, and the dirty city weighing them down. Their plan is simple -all they have to do is rip-off Tubby's pals, the One Tricks - the toughest street gang in LA.
If they pull it off, they're set for life. If not, their lives won't matter much anyway.
What was going to be a smooth, straight-forward heist becomes a fast-paced battle to the death.
From Eisner Award-winning writer/artist PAUL POPE (Batman: Year 100, THB, Heavy Liquid, 100%) and presented for the first time in color by JAMIE GRANT (All-Star Superman). ONE TRICK RIP-OFF/DEEP-CUTS is 288 pages of raw power, of which over 150 pages are comprised of new, rare, and never before seen stories created during POPE's time traveling the world in the '90s.
Included in the "Deep Cuts" section is a bounty of unpublished and rare work POPE did in the '90s, including the legendary "Supertrouble" manga, created for Kodansha in Japan, appearing here in print for the first time.
It's a tour de force of pure, kinetic storytelling that will keep your eyes peeled until the very last page.


Alright boys and girls, bust out your wallets and thank the comic book gods that you can even buy something this awesome, something this rare all in one nicely crafted package! Paul Pope, known recently for his work on Batman Year 100, cut his teeth in the cutthroat industry of Japanese publishing as the only American to ever produce a weekly series for Kodansha with his totally rad, cutie-pie strip "Supertrouble" which is presented here for the first time, along with his inky rendition of L.A.'s slimy underbelly, "One trick Rip Off." Grat for fans of Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, Moebius, Hugo Pratt and anyone looking for supercharged, down and dirty comix!! RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

ZANADU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 8/8/12

GODZILLA: HALF CENTURY WAR #1

(W/A) James Stokoe

Introducing a new and exciting look at Godzilla's reign of destruction, courtesy of Orc Stain creator James Stokoe! The year is 1954 and Lieutnant Ota Murakami is on hand when Godzilla makes first landfall in Japan. Along with his pal Kentaro, Ota makes a desperate gamble to save lives... and in the process begins an obsession with the King of the Monsters that lasts fifty years! Don't miss the first decade in a tale of a lifetime!

It's here. It's really really really here. After months of praying to the god of ink and gradients, James Stokoe, the biggest Godzilla freak in the world, is being let loose on the official Toho world of his dreams! Prepare your feeble human mind for the most intense and jaw dropping rendering of reptilian space monsters ever to crush our puny cities under their scaly feet! DO YOU SEE THAT AWESOME COVER??!!! YES I HAVE TO YELL AT THIS POINT CAUSE I"M SO DAMN EXCITED!! OH MY GOD I CANT HGSAHASNKASCJKACNACN (we're sorry, but Casey is experiencing technical difficulties...he'll be back one he pulls himself off the floor and changes his pants) RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!