Concrete, Volume 1: Depths
10 best books like Concrete, Volume 1: Depths (Paul Chadwick): Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event, Mister Miracle, Doctor Star & the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows, Sunstone, Vol. 2, The Walking Dead, Vol. 31: The Rotten Core, The Last Conversation, Emergency Skin, Le jour le plus long du futur, Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1506701981 |
4.25ish stars.
Maybe my favorite on-going title. Great character work and a solid, clever plot that deftly balances Golden Age superheroes with New Age struggles. It makes the '90s flashbacks feel like the '40s but it works. This is a big improvement over the first volume; now that the character...
Author | Tom King |
ISBN | 1401283543 |
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick–and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect...
Doctor Star & the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1506706592 |
This dual-narrative story set in the world of the Eisner-award winning Black Hammer series chronicles the legacy of a Golden Age superhero. Collects the first four issues of Doctor Star from New York Times bestselling and Eisner-winning creator Jeff Lemire!
An aged crime fighter desperately...
Author | Stjepan Šejić |
ISBN | 1632152290 |
«Don't overthink it.»
Ally and Lisa are your typical couple - they play videogames, go on dates, and indulge in extreme BDSM sex while awkwardly avoiding discussing their deeper feeling and desires. Okay, maybe the last bit isn't so typical. Regardless, as the two move further away from the realm...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 31: The Rotten Core
Author | Robert Kirkman |
ISBN | 1534310525 |
The shitshow that is The Walking Dead staggers on for yet another volume in the aptly named, Volume 31: The Rotten Core. Who knew that the Commonwealth, an authoritarian group obsessed with hierarchy enforced through an overbearing police presence, would turn out to be gasp kinda evil oh right everyone...
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.
Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...
Le jour le plus long du futur
Author | Lucas Varela |
ISBN | 2756063444 |
Dans une ville futuriste, un robot et un employé de bureau sans histoire vont voir leur existence chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un étranger portant une mystérieuse valise. Cette dernière donne accès à une étonnante pièce permettant la matérialisation des désirs inconscients. Des désirs...
Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins
Author | Jeff Lemire |
ISBN | 1616557869 |
Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which...
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Author | Kieron Gillen |
ISBN | 1534312706 |
The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage...
Author | Ed Brubaker |
ISBN | 1534314407 |
Just in time for Convention Season, the ultimate comic con crime tale!
Comics won't just break your heart.
Comics will just kill you.
Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting to receive a lifetime...
Trees, Vol. 2: Two Forests
Author | Warren Ellis |
ISBN | 1632155222 |
Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they...