Rat Catcher
10 best books like Rat Catcher (Andy Diggle): Hope Rides Again, しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1], Snow, Glass, Apples, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion, Apple Cider Slaying, The Push Man and Other Stories, Why Art?, Dark Entries, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, Bad Weekend
There was not a single chapter where I did not laugh out loud at least once. Delightfully campy and a much needed joyride. Almost like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Barry and Joe.
But that being said there were also some truth bombs scattered throughout the storyline.“Truth” had somehow...
しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1]
Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
ISBN | 4091874193 |
僕はゲイかもしれない。だから苦しいんだ。
クラスメイトに「ホモ動画」を観ていることを知られた、たすく。
自分の性指向…ゲイであると皆に知られたのではないかと怯え、
自殺を考えていた彼の前に、「誰かさん」と呼ばれる
謎めいた女性があらわれた。
彼女は、たすくを「談話室」へと誘う。
そこには、レズビアンである大地さんがいて…。
尾道を舞台に描かれる、性と生と青春の物語、第1集。...
Author | Neil Gaiman |
ISBN | 1472262913 |
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion
Author | Gerard Way |
ISBN | 1506711421 |
With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!
Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...
Author | Julie Anne Lindsey |
ISBN | 1496723473 |
Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year's crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . .
ONE ROTTEN APPLE
Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny's beloved twenty-five-acre...
The Push Man and Other Stories
Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
ISBN | 1896597858 |
A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics.
Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi...
Author | Eleanor Davis |
ISBN | 1683960823 |
What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things....
Author | Ian Rankin |
ISBN | 1401213863 |
HELLBLAZER's John Constantine must become part of HAUNTED PALACE -- a closed-set reality game-show (think BIG BROTHER or SCI-FI's new reality show, ESTATE OF PANIC) in order to deal with a supernatural murder of one of the contestants. He enters as a 'surprise' contestant and meets the other participants,...
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...
Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
ISBN | 1632155729 |
Because retailers, readers, and ROBERT KIRKMAN demanded it, the online sensation from PanelSyndicate.com’s BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) and MARCOS MARTIN (The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange: The Oath) is finally coming to print with this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition, presented...
Something City is an exploration of modern day living through representations of the lives of different groups of people in an imagined place. Segregated communities of young people, elders, fanatics, techies and the religious live side by side, interweaving and cohabiting in a city they build around...
Author | Dan Berry |
ISBN | 1906653585 |
As I've said in other reviews, my local library has a nice assortment of comics and I try to check out anything new they get. This was a pleasant surprise from an author I don't think I've ever heard of.
The Suitcase is (as the title might suggest) a portmanteau book, consisting of three stories involving...
The Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet
Author | Geof Darrow |
ISBN | 1616557265 |
"A little less conversation, a little more action!"--Elvis
The saga of one man's fight against the walking dead as you've never seen it before! The action never lets up as a chainsaw of events pits the comic world's favorite Shaolin Cowboy against a legion of gourmets from the fourth level of...
Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek
Author | Geof Darrow |
ISBN | 1506709036 |
The original Eisner winning series published by Burlyman Entertainment in all its bloody glory.
It's fat, it's fast, it's furious!!!
The Shaolin Cowboy walks the action-packed path of three enemies:
Those from the past, who still pursue him, those from the future who are...
Daredevil: In den Armen des Teufels
I almost passed over checking out Guardian Devil from the library - I was not a fan of Kevin Smith's mostly talk / lacking action take on Green Arrow in Quiver, which I read earlier this month - but I'm glad I reconsidered because his assured work here on 'DD' was really good.
Matt Murdock / Daredevil...
Marvel Knights Punisher by Golden, Sniegoski, & Wrightson: Purgatory
Author | Christopher Golden |
ISBN | 1302916084 |
Frank Castle is put through purgatory in a Punisher era like no other! Frank died - but that wasn't the end of his story. Heaven had other plans for the Punisher, and now he's back from the grave as an angel of vengeance! With a new armory of supernatural weapons, the Punisher renews his war on crime! He's...
Author | Stephen L. Petranek |
ISBN | 1476784760 |
Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.
It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We'll need...