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10 best books like The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon (Jacques Tardi): Flora's Fury, Leave It to Chance Volume 1: Shaman's Rain, Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 1: A Sea of Troubles, NonNonBa, The Wrong Place, Hopeless Savages: Greatest Hits 2000-2010, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Castle Waiting, Vol. 2, Grandville Bête Noire, How Loathsome

Flora's Fury
AuthorYsabeau S. Wilce
Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her...
Leave It to Chance Volume 1: Shaman's Rain
AuthorJames Robinson
ISBN1582402531
Fourteen-year-old Chance Falconer has the occult in her blood. Her father, Lucas Falconer, is the supernatural defender of the Devil's Echo, an amazing city where the supernatural is an everyday occurrence. This is a family tradition handed down from one generation to the next and so Chance feels...
Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 1: A Sea of Troubles
AuthorConor McCreery
ISBN1600107818
This is such an amazing concept, and when I first heard about it, I was taken aback by how unbelievably awesome it might be. Some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters face off against each other in a desperate race to find a wizard named William Shakespeare. Othello, Juliet, Falstaff, and others...
NonNonBa
AuthorShigeru Mizuki
ISBN1770460721
The first English translation of Mizuki's best-loved work

NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre;...
The Wrong Place
AuthorBrecht Evens
ISBN1770460012
Wanton youth seen through lush, dreamy, and sweeping watercolors.

Rendered in vividwatercolorwhere parquet floors and patterned dresses morph together, The Wrong Place revolves around the often absent Robbie, a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebrity who has the run of a city that...
Hopeless Savages: Greatest Hits 2000-2010
AuthorJen Van Meter
ISBN1934964484
It's the total swerval return of the First Family of Punk! Dirk Hopeless and Nikki Strange went from the parties, touring, and recording studios of rock stardom to the quiet of the suburbs, but that's no reason they can't still be themselves. Join Dirk and Nikki, along with their kids Rat, Arsenal, Twitch,...
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
AuthorThomas Ott
ISBN1560978759
Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...
Castle Waiting, Vol. 2
AuthorLinda Medley
ISBN1606994050
Ohhhh these graphic novels are like cookies. Book cookies. Nom nom nom nom. The kind of book cookie you don't know you're craving until you see it on the shelf. I guess they're like cookies that someone else is making and you don't realize until you smell them baaaaaaaking and all of a sudden you NEED one....
Grandville Bête Noire
AuthorBryan Talbot
ISBN1595828907
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
How Loathsome
AuthorTed Naifeh
ISBN1561633860
The new series by the artist of Gloom Cookie and Courtney Crumrin! Do the town with gender outlaw Catherine Gore and her disreputable friends. It's Friday night and Catherine is dragged to an S&M play party to see what passes for sex these days. There, the beautiful, enigmatic fem fatale Chloe takes...
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0547223242
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?

Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving...
Fairy Tales
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0871406586
The four tales in this enchanting, newly illustrated volume, tell of lonely and extraordinary characters finding friendship in unlikely companions. In "The Old Man Who Said Why" a wise fairy's kind nature is taxed when one old man's questions throw the entire heavens into madness. In "The Elephant...
Britten and Brülightly
AuthorHannah Berry
ISBN0224077902
'Nowadays I don't get out of bed for less than a murder. I don't get out of bed much...Until today.'

'Private Researcher' Fernández Britten is the messenger who would view being shot as a blessing. The years spent uncovering people's secret dramas and helping to confirm their darkest suspicions...
Ruse, Vol. 1: Enter the Detective
AuthorMark Waid
ISBN1931484198
The world no longer holds any mysteries for Simon Archard, the greatest detective of his age. The stupidity of the common criminal, the ease with which he's caught, the paltry stakes of the game all of it has pushed Archard to the verge of retirement. Then a mysterious new menace takes the stage, a hideous...
The Dreamer Vol 1: The Consequence of Nathan Hale
AuthorLora Innes
ISBN1600104657
Creator Lora Innes writes and illustrates the tale of 17-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Whaley, a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren... a member of an elite group known as Knowlton's Rangers that fought during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping...
Clubbing
AuthorAndi Watson
ISBN1401203701
A spoiled, rebellious London girl takes on the stuffy English countryside in Clubbing. The crime: getting caught with a fake I.D. at a posh London nightclub. The punishment: spending the summer at her Grandparent's stuffy country club. But Charlotte "Lottie" Brook, best known for her mile-high platforms,...
Astro Boy, Vol. 3
AuthorOsamu Tezuka
ISBN1569716781
A timeless comics and animation classic, Osamu Tezuka' Astro Boy is still going strong nearly half a century after its creation, and Dark Horse brings Tekuza's original Astro Boy manga to America for the first time in an English-language edition. In the novel-length "The Greatest Robot on Earth,"...
The Dream Thief
AuthorJ.M. DeMatteis
ISBN0007233396
I read this book immediately after reading the first in the series The Road to Inconceivable back to back, so I am doing a sort of joint review. Even if you haven't read the first book, please check out my journal entry on it as there are a couple of great stories there.

This book is grand, even better...
Paradise X, Vol. 2
AuthorJim Krueger
ISBN0785111212
I dunno what to say. Maybe this series is better if you sit down and power through all the collected volumes at once, which is a pretty lengthy read. Paradise X was a big disappointment to me - but similar to Universe X in that it has some interesting points, but they are swallowed up in the lengthy, lengthy...
Super Spy
AuthorMatt Kindt
ISBN1891830961
Super Spy is fifty-two interwoven short stories about cyanide, pen-guns, heartbreak and betrayal. Each story follows the life of a spy during World War II. Spanning the globe from Spain to France and Germany, this book takes the reader on a tour of the everyday life of the spy. From the small lies and deceptions...
The Best American Comics 2009
AuthorCharles Burns
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
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