Fear Agent, Volume 4: Hatchet Job
10 best books like Fear Agent, Volume 4: Hatchet Job (Rick Remender): Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War, Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots, Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil, Mister Miracle, Batman: Strange Apparitions, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Akira, Vol. 2, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, Akira, Vol. 3, Akira, Vol. 5
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...
Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil
Author | Mike Mignola |
ISBN | 1593070950 |
A murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the nobleman vampire, Vladimir Guirescu. Nazi scientists, revived in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, prepare for the...
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...
Batman: Strange Apparitions
Author | Steve Englehart |
ISBN | 1563895005 |
One of the true and unanticipated highlights on a dull and tepid comic book scene in the late 1970's, the Steve Englehart/Marshall Rogers/Terry Austin run in Detective Comics is one of the most memorable eras of the Dark Knight's adventures. Now available in a single volume, Batman: Strange Apparitions...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Author | Étienne de La Boétie |
ISBN | 1551640880 |
Proust takes me many time but I try to read other books. I wanted to re reread Montaigne but I begin by it. Short text but genius.
"À vrai dire, il est bien inutile de se demander si la liberté est naturelle, puisqu’on ne peut tenir aucun être en servitude sans lui faire tort : il n’y a rien au...
Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
ISBN | 1569714991 |
You just cannot put this book down. Akira's second volume is pure, non-stop action from start to end. I love how Katsuhiro Otomo brings in all the characters and play their part without making the reading experience overcrowded. Even without the film as a reference, this book is oozing with cinematic...
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 | Katsuhiro Otomo |
ISBN | 1569715254 |
In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly...
Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
ISBN | 1569715270 |
In the 21st century, the once-glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic giant, Akira. Now a wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, a ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister,...
Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
ISBN | 1569715262 |
"When a man tries to see into the distance, what does he do? He narrows his eyes. Even with your eyes opened as wide as they will go...you cannot perceive something so large that it is beyond the range of your vision."
Kaneda doesn't take part in this novel. Tetsuo returns to us. The novel...
Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
ISBN | 1569715289 |
The explosive finale to one of graphic fiction's greatest achievements is here! The mad psychic colossus Tetsuo, the world's military, and the remaining psychics of The Project face off -- with the child psychic god, Akira, the wild card -- in what may not only decide the fate of mankind, but may determine...
Swamp Thing: Roots of Terror
Author | Tom King |
ISBN | 1401295878 |
Well-known writers Tom King (Batman, Heroes in Criris) and Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned, Joker) pay tribute to the legendary creators of Swamp Thing as they join forces for earth-shattering Swamp Thing tales that will send chills down your spine!
From some of comics' greatest writers...
Fullmetal Alchemist Kanzenban 05
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With this Volume 5, we are deep in the story with Al and Ed still seeking the means to return their bodies to them. They've teamed up with Izumi, their former teacher, and she is one tough character. Although there wasn't much...
Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes....
Deadpool, Vol. 1: Mercin' Hard for the Money
Author | Skottie Young |
ISBN | 1302911724 |
Deadpool is back to mercin' for a living! It's been a while since Wade Wilson has struggled to make ends meet, but things are tough all over. While Deadpool tries to get his humble mercenary-for-hire business back off the ground, a catastrophic threat so unfathomably huge - so mind-breakingly cataclysmic...
my thoughts thorough the volume:
86: Is It Because I’m The Caped Baldy?
How come after all this time, King is STILL the one who gets all the credit for Saitama’s greatest victories?? I’M SO FRUSTRATED PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE MY BOY.
Blast: *the shade intensifies*
You can call...
Salvage And Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse,...