EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/14!!

STARLIGHT #3

(W) Mark Millar (A) Goran Parlov

Duke and his young companion begin their first adventure together! To the people of Tantalus, Duke is a hero and savior. Now, he's their last chance to vanquish the new menace that has invaded the peace-loving world he left behind. But four decades have passed: Duke's not the young man he once was, and the enemy he faces is more powerful than anything he faced in the good old days. The stakes are raised, and the weight of Duke's own conscience might be his heaviest burden yet!

RECOMMENDED BY ERIN.

NEW INDY COMIX!!

A CRAMPED, WELL-PRESSURIZED PLACE

(W/A) Scott Kroll

From the windy city of Chicago comes a sci-fi tale of small, yet epic proportions as two astronauts try to navigate the never ending maze of wires and technology that is their "highly advanced" spaceship while facing the terrible threat of-- SPACE RATS!!!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 12/18!!

HAWKEN MELEE #2

(W/A) Jim Mahfood

Hi-action mech combat from the world of HAWKEN, the award-winning online video game! This issue is written and illustrated by street-funk, fan-favorite artist Jim Mahfood, spreading a madcap, cautionary tale of celebrity arrogance in the midst of heavy metal corporate warfare entitled 'Friendly Fire'! Featuring cover art by Jock!

From the funkiest white man to ever hold a pencil (w/Jim Rugg firmly in 2nd place) Mr. FOOD1 himself comes the balls to the wall, scratchy ink splattered tale of one Mech pilot's life altering trek across the desolate battlefield of nextGEN conflict!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

AUTOFAC #3

(W/A) Mark Falkey

Local artist, Mark Falkey is back with another installment of his bizarre sci-fi cyborg tale, but this time brings out the big guns--space frog soldiers. Oh yeahhhh. Each issue has been looking better than the last as Mark constantly refines his abilities and even managed to put this issue out in record time compared to the other 2!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 11/27!!

BLACK SCIENCE #1

(W) Rick Remender  (A) Matteo Scalera

Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: he has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. But what lay beyond the veil was not epiphany but chaos. Now Grant and his team are lost, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds, barreling through the long-forgotten, ancient, and unimaginable dark realms. The only way is forward. The only question is how far are they willing to go, and how much can they endure, to get home again?

Join writer RICK REMENDER and the superstar art team of MATTEO SCALERA & DEAN WHITE for this face-melting science fiction epic spanning the lifetimes of a cast of dimensional castaways lead by the man that caused it all.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 10/9!!

ROCKET GIRL #1

(W) Brandon Montclare (A) Amy Reeder

A teenage cop from a high-tech future is sent back in time to 1986 New York City.  Dayoung Johansson is investigating the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for crimes against time.  As she pieces together the clues, she discovers the "future" she calls home - an alternate reality version of 2013 - shouldn't exist at all!

Blast off with the new ongoing series by BRANDON MONTCLARE (Halloween Eve) and Eisner Award nominee AMY REEDER (Batwoman, Madame Xanadu)

Hot girl with a space helmet hanging out in darkened alley ways under fire escapes. One look at this ad and I fell in love with my dream girl from the future. Having grown up in the late 80s/early 90s, everything about this comic seems to resonate within my bones to the point where I even hung this ad up on my wall because it so perfectly transported me to the glamorously gritty world of 1986 New York that I remember so well from my dreams.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!

TRILLIUM #2

(W/A) Jeff Lemire

In the heart of the Amazon jungle, Nika, a scientist from the year 3797, and William, an explorer from 1921, struggle not only to survive but to make sense of the mind-bending events that have pulled them together across space and time. The mysteries continue to pile up as Vertigo's new sci-fi epic launches into high gear!

recommended by erin.

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

COLLIDER #1

(W) Simon Oliver (A) Robbi Rodriguez

 It started small: temporary gravity failures, time reversal loops, entropy reversals. With much fanfare a new government agency was formed with a mandate "to prevent and protect." Its official title: The Federal Bureau of Physics. Humans, if nothing else, adapt to the changing parameters of their existence. What was extraordinary soon became ordinary, a part of people's daily lives. They move on and do what people have always done: survive. But even that new status quo is now under threat. Things are getting worse, and it falls to Special Agent Adam Hardy and his FBP team to figure out what's going on, before it's too late...

recommended by erin. 

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/10!!

PROPHET TP VOL 02 BROTHERS

(W) Brandon Graham (A) Giannis Milonogiannis, Simon Roy

 The distant future war continues, Old man Prophet is awake now and searching across the universe for old allies that have survived the centuries since the last war.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

SHIPPING LIST FOR 6/26!!

Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, June 26th! 

LAZARUS #1

(W) Greg Rucka (A) Michael Lark

 "FAMILY," Part One
In a dystopian near-future government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and posession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there....

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 6/19!!

SAGA TP VOL 02

(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A) Fiona Staples

Collecting the epic second storyline of the smash hit series Entertainment Weekly called "the kind of comic you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic."  Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet:  the grandparents.

Collects SAGA #7-12

recommended by erin.

FALLING SKIES SEASON PREMIERE!!

On June 9th, the 3rd season of TNT's hot sci-fi show, FALLING SKIES premieres and as usual, the Zanadu has got your back with some free swag!! Stop in to get an exclusive 'Berskerkers' bandana, only available at participating comic shops across the country!! We will have them as long as supplies last, so don't wait, make a trip to the land of imagination and forget about your troubles for the day!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/15!!

DREAM MERCHANT #1

(W) Nathan Edmonson (A) Konstantin Novosadov

​A double-size issue to kick off a new sci-fi series from Nathan Edmondson and newcomer Konstantin Novosadov. Haunted by recurring dreams, a boy named Winslow is hunted by mysterious beings and protected by an old traveler. Soon Winslow will realize that what is in his dreams is what the rest of the world has been made to forget--and what strange entities will stop at nothing to erase from his mind.

From the writer of 'Who is Jake Ellis?' and 'The Activity' comes a new sci-fi thriller that tackles the underlying meaning of our dreams and the consequences of remembering things best left forgotten. This surreal thrill-trip is gorgeously illustrated by 'another fantastic artist you've never heard of,' which is why I think Image is the best publisher on the market these days. I mean, who else is finding cutting edge talent and not trying to force them into molds created by artists and writers over 30 years ago, but rather evolving with the times, elevating the medium and delivering comic books for the future, today.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/10

MIND MGMT HC VOL 01

(W/A) Matt Kindt

​Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story, the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the flight's missing passenger, the man who was MIND MGMT's greatest success-and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees? Collects MIND MGMT #1-#6.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

NEW INDY COMIX!!

IRON CITY #1

(W/A) Joseph Laney

Iron City Vol 1. is a collection of comic short stories that take place in front of the gritty back drop of Iron City.

Bogart meets H.G. Wells in this Sci-Fi adventure rag. It is my nerdiest endeavor yet.

Z WEST #1, 2

(W/A) Joseph Laney

The Z is for Zombies and West refers to the Wild West. Z West is a multi-book series about four primary characters in the Texas territory. Due to the barbarism of an army regiment an ancient curse is visited on a small border town.

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/3

ADVENTURES OF JODELLE HC

(W) Guy Peellaert (A) Pierre Bartier

Fantagraphics proudly presents Guy Peellaert's long out of print 1960's Pop-Art masterpiece The Adventures of Jodelle in a lush, oversized hardcover edition. A satirical spy adventure set in an eye-popping psychedelic ancient Rome of horsedrawn Cadillacs, billboards and vampires, Jodelle has been re-translated and re-colored and features a huge annotated bonus selection of never-beforeseen archival art and photographs

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

Drop into the world of Plastic Souls; a blending of sci-fi and fantasy in the vein of Moebius featuring tales from the furthest reaches of space to the high seas brought to you by the one man army of Mike McGheeee! Check out his website for more stories from the outer depths!

PLASTIC SOULS: PIRATE TALES

(W/A) Mike McGheeee

http://plasticsouls.net/

NEW INDY COMIX!

From Ginger Rabbit Studios in Hollywood, CA comes not 1, not 2, but 4!! books featuring everything from rainbow bearded priates to fighting clowns all in full color!! Show some love, check out their site and eagerly await more, more, more from this prolific studio!!

http://gingerrabbitstudio.blogspot.com/

CLOWN FIGHT

(W) Rob Harrington  (A) Ger Curti

An epic, Tex Avery-infused fight to the death... with clowns!

PLUTO MOON BASE

(W) Rob Harrington  (A) Claudio Munoz

The dysfunctional crew of a research base, located on one of Pluto's moons, haplessly go about their business. They're blissfully ignorant until alien visitors land outside their door. Lacking any weapons, the crew is forced to use creativity to fight off certain death. Wacky hijinks ensue!

RAINBOWBEARD

(W) Rob Harrington  (A) Bruno Chiroleu

Pirate. Rainbow beard. What more do you need to know?

BY THE SLICE

(W) Giulie Speziani  (A) Cecilia Latella

It's a slice of life story about a girl working at a pizza place. Her boss' business practices make it really difficult to keep the job. Can her witty humor help her survive the service industry?

ZANADU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2/13/13

KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA TP VOL 01

(W/A) Tsutomu Nihei

One of the manga world's most intriguing artists returns with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post-apocalyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes, and a traditional Japanese aesthetic. In his follow-up from the hit Biomega series, Tsutomu Nihei tackles the world of hard science-fiction by creating a modern space comedy inspired by the genre's hits from his youth.

Former architect turned crazy bad ass manga-ka, Tsutomu Nihei crafts biotech worlds of cybernetic apocalypse filled with hook handed soviet bears, techplague corporate zombies and motorcycles that put Kaneda's to shame, all blanketed in a bleak greyness of the all to real near future. A true visionary, both of Nihei's previous works, Blame! and Biomega, stand as pinnacles of not only hardcore Sci-Fi, but cyberpunk, bio-punk and any other edgy adjective placed here-punk. We can only thank our good fortune that he had the insight to realize architecture was clearly not as important as making stupid funny books for less money. RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!!!!!! (cause my ! quota was not met in the above paragraph)

ZANADU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1/16/13

HIGH WAYS #1

(W/A) John Byrne

Humanity has not yet reached for the stars, but the Solar System is still a busy, exciting, and sometimes very dangerous place, as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover, when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along THE HIGH WAYS. John Byrne's all-new, space-faring series begins here!

RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!