Northlanders, Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy
10 best books like Northlanders, Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy (Brian Wood): Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities, Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead, Young Liars, Vol. 1: Daydream Believer, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad., Chrononauts, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 4: The Four Disciplines, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 5: The Cold War, American Vampire, Vol. 3, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule
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...
Moon Knight, Vol. 1: From the Dead
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 0785154086 |
Marc Spector is Moon Knight! Or is he? It’s hard to tell these days, especially when New York’s wildest vigilante protects the street with two-fisted justice and three — that’s right, count ’em — three different personalities! But even with the mystical force of Egyptian moon-god Khonshu...
Young Liars, Vol. 1: Daydream Believer
| Author | David Lapham |
| ISBN | 1401219780 |
From the cover:
"A firecracker of a book... Lightning in a bottle." -- Ain't It Cool News
"Reads like a great rock song sounds." -- Variety.com
"Meh. Garth Ennis does crazy better." -- Seizure Romero
Ok, I'm lying about the last one. Nobody asked me. I mean, I ignore...
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607066084 |
Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....
And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.
I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...
I'll...
| Author | Mark Millar |
| ISBN | 1632154064 |
Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly are two red-blooded American guys who also happen to be scientific geniuses. With the whole world watching, they embark on the world's first time-travel experiment. But when their planned routine goes off-course, they're left to fend for themselves - leading to an era-hopping...
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 4: The Four Disciplines
…and the weirdness continues, like a salamander that really enjoys peanut butter.
After reading the first volume of Manhattan Projects, I had high hopes that Manhattan Projects might be a new Preacher or Transmetropolitan for me, two series that I love and that are f—ked up beyond the...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1563894459 |
After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his...
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1632151847 |
This series, and this volume in particular, is like a barium enema—on the surface (or, I guess, well below the surface, once it gets where it’s going), it’s simultaneously intriguing and uncomfortable, but, when you’re done, you’re left scratching your head, wondering what all the fuss...
| Author | Scott Snyder |
| ISBN | 1401233333 |
Two epic World War II tales in one massive volume!
In the Pacific, Pearl's husband Henry joins a clandestine group on a secret mission to Japan to hunt a new breed of bloodsucker. Meanwhile, Skinner Sweet has plans of his own...
And in Europe, vampire hunters Felicia Book and Cash McCogan go behind...
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607067269 |
Three stars? Maybe?
I don't really know here.
On one hand, this is a nice follow-up to the opening volume.
It continues the plot and character development for all the varied story arcs, and adds new complications and elements to the world.
If I had to explain this series,...
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607067536 |
I'm really uncertain what sort of ranking I should give these books in terms of 1-5 stars.
Because the truth is, this volume is very well written, well-plotted, there's good tension and character development. Good action. It's funny and odd and suprising in turns.
But I've read all...
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1934964956 |
The Six. A set of cursed pistols with the power to reshape the world. The Knights of Solomon will stop at nothing to possess this power. Captured, isolated, and tortured, Drake Sinclair is offered a choice: join the Knights’ quest… or die. Meanwhile, Becky Montcrief’s search for Drake brings...
Django/Zorro: The Official Sequel to Django Unchained
Oscar Award-winning writer/director and Django creator Quentin Tarantino teams with Eisner Award-winning comic book creator Matt Wagner to write the official Django Unchained sequel, uniting the gun-blazing Western hero with the legendary swordsman of literature, film, and comics: Zorro!...
100 Bullets, Vol. 12: Dirty
This dark and intriguing Eisner Award-winning series features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attaché case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees...
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1607066777 |
Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema, and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world...
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785119205 |
Cap is awakened in the dead of the night by agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., who need the kind of help only he can provide. But the corpse he finds on the Helicarrier brings him face-to-face with the unthinkable, and opens doors to terror and manipulation he never dreamed possible!
It's a new beginning...
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 2
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 0785119213 |
First off, before I say anything about the plot of this, I just wanted to take a brief moment to say how awesome I think the Winter Solider actually looks. Whether it’s on screen or in this comic, Bucky looks sooooooooo damn cool. Who agrees with me?
I wish I had a metal arm.
Also...
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606900072 |
From acclaimed writer Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher, The Punisher) and artist Carlos Ezquerra comes this post-apocalyptic tale It's eight years after the Burn - when the Sun began to die and boiled the Earth's oceans dry. The Earth is now a desolate wasteland, ruled by pirates who terrorize and murder...
Scalped, Vol. 5: High Lonesome
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1401224873 |
Jason Aaron, the hot new writer of the critically acclaimed limited series, THE OTHER SIDE, teams with gritty artist R.M. Guéra for an intense crime drama that mixes organized crime with current Native American culture. Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty...
Battlefields, Volume 7: The Green Fields Beyond
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606904167 |
Stiles, how I missed ye! He returns to battle in the Korean War. The younger brother of the gunner whose life he saved joins his new tank crew. He is worried about being viewed as a hero by the young man. During a night mission Stiles and the lad get lost and eventually find a British squadron that is slowly...
Battlefields, Volume 8: The Fall And Rise Of Anna Kharkova
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606904264 |
Acclaimed graphic novelist Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher) chronicles the two-decade journey of Anna Kharkova, the Russian ace pilot and war hero of World War II. When Anna's aircraft crashes behind enemy lines, her harrowing survival through Nazi prison conditions unwittingly makes her an outcast...
| Author | Jim Starlin |
| ISBN | 0785121056 |
Warning: for those of you looking for a comic relating to the Infinity War movie, keep on moving. I can't imagine this will have much of anything in common with it other than the name.
Ok. What you need to ask yourself before you dig this up is whether or not you're a big fan of Marvel's cosmic...
100 Bullets, Vol. 13: Wilt
| Author | Brian Azzarello |
| ISBN | 1401222870 |
Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's riveting crime saga "100 Bullets" reaches its epic conclusion!
This dark and intriguing Eisner Award-winning series features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person...
100 Bullets, Vol. 7: Samurai
Written by Brian Azzarello; Art by Eduardo Risso; Cover by Dave Johnson Brian Azzarello's and Eduardo Risso's VERTIGO crime saga 100 BULLETS continues its collected editions with 100 BULLETS: SAMURAI, reprinting issues #43-49 of the critically acclaimed and award-winning ongoing series. This...
Battlefields, Volume 5: Firefly and His Majesty
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606901451 |
The Tankies' Sergeant Stiles returns, recently promoted and angrier than ever! He's got a new crew and a new tank - a Sherman Firefly with a high-velocity gun capable of taking out even the fearsome German Tiger. Too bad the enemy have a new tank of their own - the mighty King Tiger, with twice the armor and...
Battlefields, Volume 6: Motherland
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606902210 |
The sequel to 2009's The Night Witches! Lieutenant Anna Kharkova is posted to single-seat fighter aircraft and sent straight into action. Hardened and embittered by the loss of her comrades, Anna is only too keen to get her teeth into the enemy - but with Russian and German armies about to collide in the...
Alan Moore's The Courtyard
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1592910157 |
The best Lovecraftian story I've ever read, bar none. And that's counting the stuff written by Lovecraft himself.
Fair warning though: It's dark. But, y'know, Lovecraft. You shouldn't be surprised by that. You can't complain if the Lovecraft story you read make you a little cringy, then sticks...
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 6: The Sun Beyond the Stars
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1632156288 |
So apparently what happened is Manhattan Projects was canceled after issue 20, then relaunched more than year later for a short run that told a different story that focused on different characters, different plot, different everything.
Then when they reprinted things, they just labeled...
Sweet Tooth, Volume 6: Wild Game
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1401240291 |
Here is my full series review for volumes 1-6.
The big "reveal" for the series came in volume 5 and it was supremely not what I expected. Volume 6 continues down that path of "not what I expected" EXCEPT that it fully delivered on the one thing I knew would happen and that would promptly destroy...
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1632155273 |
Nameless tells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as "Nameless" who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. A massive asteroid named Xibalba — the "Place of Fear" in Mayan mythology — is on collision course with the...
