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This is a Batman story like no other-the harrowing and eloquent autobiographical tale of writer Paul Dini's courageous struggle to overcome a desperate situation. The Caped Crusader has been the all-abiding icon of justice and authority for generations. But in this surprising original graphic novel, we see Batman in a new light-as the savior who helps a discouraged man recover from a brutal attack that left him unable to face the world. In the 1990s,...
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100 Bullets volume 20
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In the fourth collection of this series, Agent Graves continues to offer immunity to everyday people to carry out their innermost desires of vengeance with the 100 bullets that he supplies. But as these self-serving manipulations take place, pieces of the mystery of the Minutemen and the organization that created them start to come together, and we discover the research and conspiracy theories of Mr. Branch. As more is revealed about the series' main...
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FBP Federal Bureau of Physics volume 20
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The critically acclaimed series reaches its apocalyptic conclusion! Humanity's final hope rests with Lance Blackwood's Project Audeamus, a last-ditch attempt to punch a hole between dimensions and restore the laws of physics to an increasingly chaotic universe. For this Hail Mary pass to work, FBP agents Adam Hardy, Rosa Reyes, and Cicero DeLuca will have to travel beyond the boundaries of what they believed to be possible-and the further they go,...
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100 Bullets volume 37
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This sixth volume features six stand-alone chapters, each focused on one of the story's main players: Dizzy, Cole, Benito, Lono, Graves, and Wylie. And behind each individual's story, the war between Shepherd and Graves continues to escalate, and the uneasy alliance of the 13 Families continues to fracture.
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100 Bullets volume 1
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In this dark and intriguing collection, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attache case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his 'clients' full immunity for all of their actions, including murder. In these opening chapters, Dizzy Cordova, a Latina gangbanger who has just finished a prison sentence, is given...
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100 Bullets volume 43
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Brian Azzarello's and Eduardo Risso's VERTIGO crime saga 100 BULLETS continues its collected editions with 100 BULLETS: SAMURAI, of the critically acclaimed and award-winning ongoing series. This seventh volume, featuringthe story arcs 'Chill in the Oven' and 'In Stinked,' features a new cover by Dave Johnson and an introduction by legendary Argentinean comics writer Carlos Trillo. This volume returns first to the character of Loop Hughes, who is...
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American Carnage volume 1
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Richard Wright is a white-passing African-American former FBI agent offered a chance to right the wrongs of his past as his old mentor sends him deep undercover to infiltrate a radical and dangerous white supremacist group believed to be responsible for the death of a fellow agent. For Richard, this is his last shot to turn his life around. With the ghosts of the past constantly reminding him of the man he once was, he will have to not only find the...
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Invisibles volume 1
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For countless millennia the world has been subjected to an all-encompassing apocalyptic conspiracy. Through clandestine movements, a sinister secret organization has been creating a hypnotic state of conformity and control through their manipulation of the government, business, and entertainment industry. But from the shadows, a subversive group of anarchists called the Invisibles have opposed their plot and looked to create self-awareness and freedom...
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ALL FALL DOWN L.A. was once the City of Angels, but that was before the Great Quake came and shattered everything about her that was civilized. In the aftermath, two new cities grew up from the rubble-one of gleaming towers and untold luxury for the haves, and one of barbed wire and grinding misery for the have-nots. Ringed by high walls and merciless guards, New Angeles is now an island of wealth in a sea of poverty. Outside its borders, a new generation...
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Dmz volume 67
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A New York Times bestseller. As New York City starts the healing process, the political realities on the ground are impossible to ignore. Matty's seen to it that everyone's voice is being heard, but will the social order devolve into anarchy, or is there a new New York to be discovered somewhere underneath the rubble?
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Road to Perdition volume 2
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These thrilling tales are set during the six-month period in which Michael O'Sullivan and his son were on the run. In Oaisis, Michael Jr. contracts a life-threatening illness, forcing him to hide out in an oasis of tranquility. The story continues in Sanctuary, as the O'Sullivans seek a hiding place from the vicious bounty hunters on their trail. And in Detour, Michael O'Sullivan is headed for a showdown with the murderous kingpin's heir whose history...
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After discovering Batman's identity, Tim Drake must now endure months of intensive physical training before he can publicly debut as the Caped Crusader's new partner. Given an all-new hi-tech costume and the encouragement of former Robin Dick Grayson, Tim is finally ready to don the identity he was born for: Robin! But when his parents are kidnapped by the Obeah Man will Batman be able to save them or will tragedy find Tim Drake? Then, Robin must...
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Matty Roth reluctantly lands an interview for Liberty News with an enlisted U.S. solider who's found guilty of a massacre within the DMZ. What follows is a look at how the DMZ came to be, from the perspective of a kid who came from the Midwest and walked right into a nightmare.
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100 Bullets volume 68
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The noir masterpiece continues in 100 BULLETS VOL. 10: DECAYED of the acclaimed Vertigo series. Following Lono's ascension to warlord for the houses of the Trust, the last remaining Minutemen are activated as the players on both sides ready themselves for the endgame of their private war.
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100 Bullets volume 50
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Unraveling the tangled mystery of the Trust as Wylie Times becomes the latest Minuteman to be reactivated by the Trust's one-time enforcer Agent Graves. But which side will he choose?
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Scalped volume 12
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Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation searching for something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchuks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "the Rez" - short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime. In this...
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Losers volume 1
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This collection introduces The Losers, formerly an elite U.S. Special Forces unit that served as the covert bloody hand of America until they stumbled across a C.I.A. secret they couldn't ignore. The C.I.A. tried to kill them, but they're about tolearn that it takes more than one try to eliminate The Losers.
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100 Bullets volume 76
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The acclaimed series by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso and Dave Johnson! The Trust, Agent Graves and the Minutemen arrive in Mexico for a showdown that will mark the end for at least one major player, while the mystery behind the Atlantic City job is finally revealed.
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The ninth volume in the critically acclaimed series that looks at life during wartime--America's 21st century Civil War. After the shattering events of DMZ VOL. 8: HEARTS AND MINDS, M.I.A. takes Matty to a remote and desolate section of the city.
Self-exile forces him to take a good, hard look at himself and his conduct since he entered the DMZ, and he doesn't like what he's seeing. His discovery presents him with an opportunity that he's tempted...
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The world and characters of the DMZ - a futuristic, war-torn Manhattan - are expanded and enriched in this eighth volume of the acclaimed series. Journalist Matty Roth redefines his role in the DMZ following the tumultuous events of the past year No longer content to be merely a citizen journalist or a mouthpiece for Parco Delgado's struggling city government, he now rolls with his own private security force and self-defined mandate to heal the city....
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