Power Up
10 best books like Power Up (Doug TenNapel): Herobear and the Kid Volume 1: The Inheritance, The Saga of Rex, Axe Cop, Vol. 2: Bad Guy Earth, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography, The Homecoming, Wolf Story, Captain Freedom, Salt Water Taffy, vol. 1: The Legend of Old Salty, Amelia Rules! Volume 7: The Meaning of Life... and Other Stuff, Janes in Love
| Author | Mike Kunkel |
| ISBN | 0972125914 |
A delightful all-ages tale of a boy and his stuffed bear who can turn into a superhero. A Herobear. Imagine Calvin and Hobbes if Hobbes was more than just part of Calvin's imagination. This is filled with a similar spirit and heart. In addition to beating up giant robots with Herobear, Tyler has a wild imagination...
| Author | Michel Gagné |
| ISBN | 1607062771 |
SPOILERS: The art is beautiful....I will give it that. The story however is really weird. I'm open to most storylines, but as I was reading this with my 9 and 6 year old, they were just confused a lot of the time...they didn't understand why the god-like creatures had to take the other creatures away from...
| Author | Malachai Nicolle |
| ISBN | 1595828257 |
Now Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of psychic brothers barge in from outer space and turn the army into bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop!
This volume, with art from Eisner...
J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 0809095033 |
A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)
In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage....
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0060859628 |
The WISP series (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces) represents an ingenious marriage of two creative forces: the artistry of today’s foremost illustrators and the literary legacy of beloved authors of popular short works for adults. The resulting offspring of this union are captivating,...
| Author | William McCleery |
| ISBN | 0208021914 |
This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story.It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes...
| Author | G. Xavier Robillard |
| ISBN | 0061650684 |
Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!
Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management.
The Superhero lifestyle is...
| Author | Matthew Loux |
| ISBN | 1932664947 |
Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam and his eighth-year-old brother Benny are being dragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family. And not to somewhere cool like Disney World, but to a little port town in Maine named Chowder Bay, far away from anyplace fun. But what promises to be a...
| Author | Jimmy Gownley |
| ISBN | 1416986138 |
Amelia McBride may be growing up, but she's feeling down. If there's one theme to her life, it's that nothing lasts: not her parents' marriage, not Aunt Tanner's support, not the clubhouse for the Gathering of Awesome Super Pals (G.A.S.P.), not even her new spot on the stupid cheerleading squad. And...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1401213871 |
"This graphic novel for girls feels like a teen movie and teaches young women the joy of being original." -- USA Today on THE PLAIN JANES, Best Graphic Novels of 2007
The art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays...
| Author | Chris Grine |
| ISBN | 0545485088 |
Chickenhare: half chicken, half rabbit, 100% hero!
What's a chickenhare? A cross between a chicken and a rabbit, of course. And that makes Chickenhare the rarest animal around! So when he and his turtle friend Abe are captured and sold to the evil taxidermist Klaus, they've got to find a way...
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,...
Doctor Who Volume 3: Final Sacrifice
| Author | Tony Lee |
| ISBN | 1600108466 |
Suddenly it all makes sense, this final volume really tied everything together in a surprisingly exciting and successful way.
I absolutely love when cause and effect get all twisted up, that's what I want from a story involving time travel. Visiting the past and seeing how it changes...
| Author | O.T. Nelson |
| ISBN | 0761349030 |
A DEADLY VIRUS KILLED EVERY ADULT ON EARTH, LEAVING ONLY US KIDS BEHIND.
My parents are gone, so I'm responsible for my little brother Todd. I have to make sure we stay alive. Many kids are sick or starving, and fierce gangs are stealing and destroying everything they find. Lots of people have given...
Malinky Robot: Collected Stories and Other Bits
| Author | Sonny Liew |
| ISBN | 1607064065 |
Street urchins Atari and Oliver are out to steal bicycles, watch Giant Robot movies, and spend some Large Denominational Bills! Malinky Robot collects five tales by Eisner-nominated artist Sonny Liew (My Faith in Frankie, Wonderland, Sense & Senisibility) featuring stinky fish, philosopher-labourers,...
Daisy Kutter: The Last Train
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0975419323 |
Daisy Kutter's bandit days are behind her. She and partner Tom have gone legit, and now she is a respectable small-town citizen, owner of the local general store--and bored out of her mind. Frustration with the tedium of normal life and her own discontents gets her into trouble after she loses the store...
| Author | Kyle Starks |
| ISBN | 1632153009 |
The Former World's Greatest Assassin leaves the world of killing to a small town only to be pulled back in. An exciting action romp in the style of classic '80s Action Film.
"SEXCASTLE is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good,...
| Author | Brian Wood |
| ISBN | 1401232914 |
The long-awaited sequel to THE NEW YORK FOUR! There’s nothing more exciting than college life in the big city. But complications can follow you from dark places – and not just from your boring hometown. In THE NEW YORK FIVE, Riley’s sister Angie is making a name in the Lower East Side with her new...
| Author | Mark Crilley |
| ISBN | 1595826653 |
Brody knew that being mixed up with Talia, a dead girl turned ghost, was going to change his life forever. He just didn't realize it was going to involve going head-to-head with one of the most vicious gangs in the whole city. But here he was, giving himself over to the bizarre training methods of Kagemura,...
| Author | C.B. Cebulski |
| ISBN | 0785122079 |
The Fairy Tale genere comes to the X-Universe, at the pen of C.B. Cebulski for this collection of one-shots. The first tackles the Momotaro fable of the boy in the giant peach, with a certain optic-blasting X-Man cast in that role. Asked by a bald monk to rescue the emperor's daughter from a gang of Brotherhood...
RASL, Vol. 2: The Fire of St. George
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 1888963220 |
Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel. The secrets of RASL's technology and his hidden past are exposed when a mysterious, lizard-faced stranger starts killing the art thief's girlfriends in multiple universes....
