Ruse, Vol. 1: Enter the Detective
10 best books like Ruse, Vol. 1: Enter the Detective (Mark Waid): Guts, Super Sons: The Polarshield Project, Seafire, Carl Barks' Greatest Ducktales Stories, Volume 1, The House with Chicken Legs, Positively Izzy, Thor (2014-2015) #1, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952, Sci-Fu, The Breakaways
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
Super Sons: The Polarshield Project
Jon Kent and Damian "Ian" Wayne are opposite in every way except one—they are the sons of the World's Greatest Heroes! To uncover a global conspiracy, this unlikely dynamic duo will need to learn to trust each other and work together to save the Earth. But who is the mysterious Candace, and what secrets...
| Author | Natalie C. Parker |
| ISBN | 0451478800 |
After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because...
Carl Barks' Greatest Ducktales Stories, Volume 1
| Author | Carl Barks |
| ISBN | 1888472367 |
First of two collections of Uncle Scrooge stories by Carl Barks, long known only to comic book fans as "the good duck artist," that inspired and were adapted into episodes of Disney's DuckTales cartoon. Not quite a Barks Greatest Hits collection, but pretty darn close. A great place to start for people...
The House with Chicken Legs
| Author | Sophie Anderson |
| ISBN | 1474940668 |
All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian...
| Author | Terri Libenson |
| ISBN | 0062484966 |
Award-winning comics creator and author of the bestselling Invisible Emmie Terri Libenson returns with a companion graphic novel that captures the drama, angst, and humor of middle-school life. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Holm, and Victoria Jamieson.
Middle school...
Thor!
I can't
wait
to read the whole volume!
Unfortunately, this one issue was the only thing I could get my hands on.
Yeah, yeah, I know I'm late to the party...
The issue starts out with an attack on an underwater complex of some sort, by the Frost Giants and that squirrely...
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952
This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to Peanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected...
| Author | Yehudi Mercado |
| ISBN | 1620104725 |
Hip-Hop, Sci-Fi and Kung Fu all hit the turn-tables for the mash-up mix of the year! Cartoonist/force of nature Yehudi Mercado (Pantalones, TX, Rocket Salvage) sets his sights on 1980s Brooklyn and Wax, a young mix-master who scratches the perfect beat and accidentally summons a UFO that transports...
Quiet, sensitive Faith starts middle school already worrying about how she will fit in. To her surprise, Amanda, a popular eighth grader, convinces her to join the school soccer team, the Bloodhounds. Having never played soccer in her life, Faith ends up on the C team, a ragtag group that’s way better...
| Author | Max Brallier |
| ISBN | 0670016616 |
Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no...
The Untold Legend of the Batman
| Author | Len Wein |
| ISBN | 0812520424 |
To the fear-filled eyes of criminals everywhere, he is a man without a past--a Darknight Defender of the helpless and oppressed, a towering symbol of swift and vengeful justice, a wraith-like guardian of Gotham City's asphalt corridors. But to comic book fans throughout the world he is...Batman and...
S.H.I.E.L.D.: Architects of Forever
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 0785148949 |
Leonardo Da Vinci was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. So was Issac Newton. So were Imhotep and Zhang Heng and Galileo and many other geniuses throughout time. They were the first heroes to defeat Galactus and the Brood and turn Celestials back. They saved the world long before Captain America or Iron Man were...
The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, Vol. 1
| Author | Bill Finger |
| ISBN | 0930289668 |
THE GREATEST BATMAN STORIES EVER TOLD is an anthology that takes the reader through the many different incarnations of Batman through the last 60 years. Reprinting stories from the Dark Knight's entire career, this book portrays the Batman as equal parts crime fighter, detective, and super hero....
Elseworlds: Justice League Vol. 1
| Author | Chuck Dixon |
| ISBN | 1401263771 |
The Justice League as enforcers in the Wild West? A world where Superman and Batman never came to be and instead Supergirl and Batgirl protect Metropolis and Gotham City? Wonder Woman fighting Jack the Ripper in Victorian England? In Elseworlds, anything is possible.
These reimagined, alternate...
| Author | Brian Michael Bendis |
| ISBN | 1582406979 |
Cleveland: 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland and went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. Dismembered body parts have started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328530825 |
Olive and Willow are happy campers!
Or are they?
Olive is sure she’ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow – but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows – Olive. It’s...
| Author | Torrey Maldonado |
| ISBN | 1524740551 |
Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .
Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up.
And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him...
