Love and Rockets: New Stories #3
10 best books like Love and Rockets: New Stories #3 (Gilbert Hernández): Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities, They Called Us Enemy, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Black Hole, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Sandman: Overture, Beverly, Jerusalem: A Family Portrait, Hobo Mom
Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1632158787 |
Volume 3: 5 issues, each devoted to the backstories of principal characters dating back to ten years up to the present action, to help us better understand what is going. Which is a lot. Tim 22, Telsa, Effie (and Andy), Bandit the Robot dog, Driller (the Killer). This is not Vaughn’s Saga with clever...
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
To read Ocean Vuong's
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1534308466 |
The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.
Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560971169 |
Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401248969 |
Twenty-five years since
The Sandman
first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition!
The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s return to the art form that made him famous, ably...
| Author | Nick Drnaso |
| ISBN | 1770462252 |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak.
A group of teenagers...
| Author | Boaz Yakin |
| ISBN | 1596435755 |
Jerusalem is a sweeping, epic work that follows a single family—three generations and fifteen very different people—as they are swept up in chaos, war, and nation-making from 1940-1948. Faith, family, and politics are the heady mix that fuel this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel.
With...
| Author | Charles Forsman |
| ISBN | 2390040101 |
Chemise à carreaux, veste en jean, sac sur l’épaule et casquette bien vissée sur sa tête rousse, Tasha parcourt l’Amérique et ses grands espaces. Clandestine à bord des trains de marchandises, elle vit la bohème, au rythme de ses envies et de ses rencontres, comme les Clochards célestes...
