Captain Freedom
10 best books like Captain Freedom (G. Xavier Robillard): Sloth, Uncle, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists, Tank Girl: The Gifting, Welcome to Tranquility, Vol. 1, Capote in Kansas, The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation, Power Up, Heroes: Volume One, Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1401203663 |
Troubled teenager Miguel Torres has had it with life. The only alternative he sees is to willfully slip into a coma. But one year later, Miguel becomes a walking urban legend after he wakes up virtually unchanged -- except for his sloth-like pace. Soon, a haunted lemon orchard, the mysterious goat man,...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...
| Author | Gideon Defoe |
| ISBN | 0375423974 |
London, 1840: Wagner’s latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain––his disguise proving something of a letdown––finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in...
| Author | Alan C. Martin |
| ISBN | 1600101097 |
In these days of ultra-serious mega-crossovers, comics gets exactly what it's been needing -- a jolt of adrenaline courtesy of the too-long-absent Tank Girl!
Co-creator Alan C. Martin is back to offer redemption to anyone who sat through the Tank Girl movie, and what's more, this time the book's...
| Author | Gail Simone |
| ISBN | 1401215165 |
Tranquility is like any other small town in America, except for one fundamental difference--it's the town where super-powered beings go in order to retire and raise families. From the Golden Age to the Modern Age, heroes and villains alike reside in Tranquility and it creates a unique blend of personalities...
| Author | Ande Parks |
| ISBN | 1932664297 |
Murder. Not an intricately plotted "whodunit" or fiery passionate fury. But dirty, sad, disturbing actions from real people. That's what Truman Capote decided to use for IN COLD BLOOD—his bold experiment in the realm of the non-fiction "novel." Following in that legacy is CAPOTE IN KANSAS, a fictionalized...
From the creation of the earth to the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil, this is the greatest story every told...as you've never seen it before.
A graphic novel adaptation of the Holy Bible, The Manga Bible tells the story of God's relationship with His people, from the creation...
| Author | Doug TenNapel |
| ISBN | 1607060930 |
This is a pure fun story from TenNapel that I can't help wondering if it contains a bit of biographical detail on how he got started with his "Earthworm Jim" character. This stories features a game designer working on an "Earth Dog Jim" character. Power Up contains all the usual elements of TenNapel's...
| Author | Tim Sale |
| ISBN | 1401217052 |
This stunning hardcover collects the amazing online comics based on the smash-hit, Emmy Award-nominated NBC show HEROES!
This volume -- featuring a cover by comics legend Alex Ross -- also includes an introduction by Masi Oka (Hiro), all 34 chapters of Season One, and Tim Sale's artwork as...
| Author | Shawn Levy |
| ISBN | 0385498578 |
It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes,...
| Author | Salam Pax |
| ISBN | 0802140440 |
Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept dyring the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the...
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History
| Author | Phil Baker |
| ISBN | 0802139930 |
La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous "special" ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium,...
Freddie and Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody
| Author | Mike Dawson |
| ISBN | 1596914769 |
High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen.
All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it's...
| Author | Rick Bowers |
| ISBN | 1426309155 |
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force....
| Author | Joe Ollmann |
| ISBN | 1770462678 |
In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend―participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding...
The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up
| Author | Budd Friedman |
| ISBN | 1942952430 |
Have you heard the one about the aspiring Broadway producer who bought a closed restaurant and changed the course of American comedy?
It’s no joke—his name is Budd Friedman, and his legendary club helped shape the stand-up comedy that is still a staple of entertainment today.
From...
The Shroud of the Thwacker
| Author | Chris Elliott |
| ISBN | 1401360114 |
It's gonna be hard to give two craps about this book and review if the following do not apply to you:
--You have a mild crush on a balding man who used to write jokes for David Letterman.
--You read and had a violent reaction to Patricia Cornwell's Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper - Case Closed,...
| Author | Jody Houser |
| ISBN | 1682152197 |
Introducing the ultimate supervillain revenge squad!
The villains are coming! Faith’s most fearsome foes and ruthless rogues—including Chris Chriswell, Murder Mouse, Dark Star, and Sydney—have finally united, creating an unstoppable coalition of evil with one goal in mind: Destroy...
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
| Author | Justin Martin |
| ISBN | 0306822261 |
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists— regulars at Pfaff’s Saloon in Manhattan—rightly...
Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents
| Author | Robert Strauss |
| ISBN | 1493024833 |
Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening and highly entertaining account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.
But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading...
"Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . "Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now...
