Astro Boy, Vol. 3
10 best books like Astro Boy, Vol. 3 (Osamu Tezuka): Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War, Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1, The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, A Night in Terror Tower, Ghost Beach, Phantom of the Auditorium, Dr. Slump, Vol. 01, Return of the Mummy
Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1534306900 |
A new, cataclysmic chapter of the Descender saga is here! All the various factions who have been hunting Tim-21 finally converge around the ocean planet, Mata just as the robots launch their galaxy wide revolution! But nothing can prepare the young android Tim, or the readers, for what happens next....
Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1534303456 |
The first major DESCENDER event is here. This is what it has all been building to. The Robot Resistance rises up and tightens its iron grip in the universe as the origins of the Harvesters are finally revealed and the galaxy is thrown into all-out war! A new chapter of the sci-fi epic begins here by superstar...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Author | Chris Ware |
ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
Author | Hayao Miyazaki |
ISBN | 1591164087 |
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air....
The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0439568439 |
This book was actually scary!
Jodie and her brother Mark spend every summer on their grandparents' farm. But this summer, things are different. Instead of just one scarecrow in the fields, there are over a dozen. Stanley, the hired hand (who around here would be called one can short of a six-pack),...
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0439671116 |
All locked up and no place to go!
Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower.
No way they'd...
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0439568307 |
I recall my mom reading me this story when I was a kid. So that meant I already knew the story ending beforehand. I have read the exact same copy that that mom read for me that turned up to be a vintage now with all its pages transformed into yellowish colour and cracked cover which adds to the story horror!
Anyhow,...
Phantom of the Auditorium
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0590483544 |
LIGHTS...CURTAIN...PHANTOM?
Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has just been given the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke thinks Zeke's getting a little too into...
It’s weird that I’ve never read anything else by Akira Toriyama considering Dragon Ball might be my favourite comic ever. So I picked up the first volume of Dr Slump, the series he did before Dragon Ball, annnnddd… it’s ok but definitely not of the same quality.
Dr Senbei Norimaki creates...
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0590477455 |
DEAD...OR ALIVE?
After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all of those creepy mummies.
Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies to life....
Author | Matthew Loux |
ISBN | 1596438495 |
The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history.
When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last thing...
Author | James Patterson |
ISBN | 0316034045 |
A secret buried for centuries
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine...
Author | Chris Bradford |
ISBN | 0141332530 |
Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home. . . But the Shogun's samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs...
Author | Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro |
ISBN | 1421535106 |
Food tastes better when you have to gather it with your blood, sweat and tears!
R to L (Japanese Style). In a savage world ruled by the pursuit of the most delicious foods, it's either eat or be eaten!
While searching for the tastiest foods imaginable, Gourmet Hunter Toriko and his bottomless...
Author | Stefan Petrucha |
ISBN | 1597075019 |
Nancy stars in a horror movie about a monstrous River Heights urban legend — but is it really an urban legend? And will Nancy, Bess, and George live long enough to find out? Plus, it's double trouble for the world's greatest teen super sleuth in "Writ in Stone!" A sweet young boy Nancy has often babysat...
Skip School, Fly to Space: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
Author | Stephan Pastis |
ISBN | 1449436374 |
Take a flight of fancy with the Pearls Before Swine crew in their third AMP! Comics for Kids collection!
Hokey lessons and ancient textbooks are no match for a good Rockitt Shipp, kids. The poorly behaved cast of Pearls Before Swine invites you to a magical world filled with silly talking animals...
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0590477439 |
THEY'RE CREEPY AND THEY'RE CRAWLY‑THEY'RE TOTALLY DISGUSTING!
Obsessed with worms? That's putting it mildly. Todd is so fascinated with worms, he keeps a worm farm in his basement! Most of all, Todd loves torturing his sister and her best friend with worms. Dropping them in their hair....
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0439863945 |
He's having a really, really bad hair day...
Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. "Rub on a dark suntan in minute" - that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do. But nothing much happens.
Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spiky...