Skullkickers, Vol. 2: Five Funerals and a Bucket of Blood
10 best books like Skullkickers, Vol. 2: Five Funerals and a Bucket of Blood (Jim Zub): Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War, Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots, Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics, Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities, Wolverine: Weapon X, Fell, Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift, The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 1, The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 2, The Fade Out: Act Three
Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534306900 |
A new, cataclysmic chapter of the Descender saga is here! All the various factions who have been hunting Tim-21 finally converge around the ocean planet, Mata just as the robots launch their galaxy wide revolution! But nothing can prepare the young android Tim, or the readers, for what happens next....
Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534303456 |
The first major DESCENDER event is here. This is what it has all been building to. The Robot Resistance rises up and tightens its iron grip in the universe as the origins of the Harvesters are finally revealed and the galaxy is thrown into all-out war! A new chapter of the sci-fi epic begins here by superstar...
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534301933 |
Tim-21, Telsa and Quon finally escape the Machine Moon and head out on a quest to find the ancient robot who may hold the key to the Harvesters. Meanwhile Andy and his rag-tag team close in on Tim, but their fragile alliance is shattered by Driller's revealtions.
A new chapter of the heartfelt Sci Fi...
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 | Barry Windsor-Smith |
5.5 stars!
Brief history:
Ever since I heard so much about Wolverine’s past in the Weapon X program and how much that played a huge role in the character he has become, I wanted to try and read more on his back story of being apart of Weapon X. To be honest, “Wolverine: Weapon X”...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1582406936 |
Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1607068710 |
My name is Sarah and I am naught but a harebrained nitwit. Why? Because I almost gave up on this most wondrous series after reading this instalment. I thought it was disappointing. And kinda sorta meh. And kinda sorta boring. So I wasn't exactly excited and enthusiastic and thrilled at the prospect of...
The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 1
| Author | Al Feldstein |
| ISBN | 1888472553 |
EC Comics (Entertaining Comics) were all published from the late 1940s until around 1956, when the Comics Code Authority whitewashed all comic books to remove all themes of horror and violence. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency attacked...
The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 2
| Author | Al Feldstein |
| ISBN | 1888472715 |
From stories by the legendary team Bill Gaines & Al Feldstein come the classic horror tales written by Feldstein and illustrated by the all-star line-up of Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Johnny Craig, Feldstein himself, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, and Marie Severin. Reprints 24 stories...
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1632156296 |
The Fade Out is a meticulously researched, seedy yet stylish period piece set in post-WWII Hollywood. At the time, a small number of studios dominated the American film industry, producing movies on their own lots with the help of creative long-term personnel that usually also lived on the lot. Like...
Star Wars, Vol. 5: Yoda's Secret War
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1302902652 |
With one member of the rebel crew captured and imprisoned, we turn once more to the journals of Ben Kenobi and a legendary adventure with Jedi Master...Yoda! He's trapped on a world full of vicious, mysteriously powered children. Not easy, will this be. Overpowered and captured, the Master must become...
Star Wars, Vol. 6: Out Among the Stars
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1302905538 |
As varied as good!
I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.
This TPB edition collects “Star Wars” #33-37.
This comic book run is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New...
Star Wars, Vol. 7: The Ashes of Jedha
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1302910523 |
The possibility-and destruction-of the Death Star has changed everything. The Death Star's destruction proves the Empire is not irresistible. But a Death Star has been built, and it can't happen again. The specter of the Empire's true power has brought together a patchwork cloth of people, united...
Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1616559004 |
Evil twin!
Yeah, it's been done to death, but it's still a fun trope.
Ok, so this was one of the many times when irony kicked me in my tits. Just as soon as I gave up on the library ever finding their missing copy of this volume (it had been in book limbo for 3 or 4 months), and decided to go...
Harrow County, Vol. 3: Snake Doctor
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506700713 |
I think the first thing I should mention is that I haven't been able to read volume 2 of Harrow county yet. Apparently, something happened to my library's copy, so after a few months of waiting...? Yeah, I just decided to go ahead and read this anyway.
But even without having read the previous...
| Author | Zŏng In-Sŏb |
| ISBN | 0930878264 |
His book is sure to arouse the keen interest of the general reading public. While the scholar will be able to collect further information from the detailed introduction and the carefully worked out indexes, the main part of the book has on purpose been kept free from any learned apparatus so as to enable...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1684151155 |
Three brothers who rule their own trailer park kingdom must face off against the sheriff of a neighboring town who wants their territory.
From The New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and artist Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust) comes the critically acclaimed rural mystery...
| Author | Jeff Parker |
| ISBN | 1401261051 |
Back to the Swingin' '60s as DC Comics reimagines the classic Batman TV series in comics form. These all-new stories portray The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and their fiendish Rogues Gallery just the way viewers remember them.
When False Face goes looking for a shape-shifting formula,...
