The Fade Out: Act Three
10 best books like The Fade Out: Act Three (Ed Brubaker): Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War, Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots, Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics, Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities, Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon, Paper Girls, Vol. 6, Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man, Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn, Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins, Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift
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...
Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1632156768 |
I was so happy to pick this up in my local comic shop and I knew I would love it as I did with the first one. This one I felt was even better with not only artwork that's stunning but also a beautifully developing story line which is really starting to make a bit more sense now. I love the emotional connection we...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1534313249 |
THE END IS HERE!
After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG,...
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1632150166 |
Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick. From the acclaimed team of JASON AARON and...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534308520 |
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534310673 |
In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and urban horror collide in the second volume of the runaway best-selling series by JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO, the acclaimed creative duo behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan.
The lives of...
| 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...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1534304886 |
I had been rather lukewarm about Rucka and Lark’s dystopian Lazarus series, until volume 5, The Cull, when you feel things are finally heating up. But that was a year ago, and over those five volumes you are focused on several futuristic families, all of them rich and powerful. The lower, or serf, class,...
Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1632152258 |
In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1632155230 |
Actual rating: 4.82 stars. And a half.
This series =
YES. So much of it. It keeps getting better. And more intense. And bloodier. With lots of delicious scheming and backstabbing and stuff. YUM.
Okay, so I can't really say anything about this scrumptious volume because...
Southern Bastards, Vol. 2: Gridiron
The second Southern Bastards arc, Gridiron, is told mostly in flashback. The main story is more or less frozen while we’re told the secret origins of the villain of the series, Coach Boss, instead of what happened after Earl Tubbs mumblemumble...
When he was a kid, Euless Boss wanted to be...
Southern Bastards, Vol. 3: Homecoming
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1632156105 |
Almost every time they’ve played each other the Craw County Runnin’ Rebs have beaten their rivals, the Wetumpka County Warriors, thanks in part to Coach Big, the Rebs’ long-time defensive coordinator. Following the brutal murder of Earl Tubb on the orders of Coach Boss, Big is ashamed to be in...
East of West, Vol. 5: All These Secrets
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1632156806 |
A volume that goes more in depth into the politics... and it’s bad-a**.
What’s it about?
This volume pretty much focuses on the current political stuff happening in the world of East of West.
Why it gets 5 stars:
The story is very interesting, especially in this volume...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1934964379 |
Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change....
Sex Criminals: Volume Five: Five-Fingered Discount
Jon and Suze have broken up. She’s moved back to her mom’s place only to discover her mother’s gotten wayyyy too sexual in her retirement, while he’s moved in with a bisexual lady who he’s in an open relationship with. So they’re both still messes! Meanwhile the villainous Kuber Badal is...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1934964891 |
From Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth comes a new Stumptown mystery! Dex Parios has finally opened her own office, and her first case is to find rock star Mim Bracca's baby - her prized guitar - which disappeared after her band Tailhook's Portland show....
Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1534310630 |
The crew returns to Kings Dominion to discover things have changed in their absence. The program has changed. Master Lin's schemes revealed. Betrayal. Mystery. The secret of the catacombs beneath the school. A reckoning for the corrupt. Our friends try to hold everything together as Freshman finals...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534313443 |
The hot horror series that WIRED magazine named one of the best books of 2018 returns from the creative team that BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS said "will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!"
After the mind-blowing events of the second arc, our story heads right through the looking glass....
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1534300244 |
The fifth collection of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling series by Eisner winners Michael Lark and Greg Rucka plunges the Sixteen Families into chaos as the world goes to war. But Forever Carlyle, the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family, has been sidelined, and her loyalties are now in...
Southern Bastards, Vol. 4: Gut Check
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1534301941 |
Coach Boss holds sway over Craw County for one reason: he wins football games. But after the biggest, ugliest loss of his career, the coach must become more of a criminal than ever before, if he's gonna keep ahead of his enemies.
Enemies like Roberta Tubb, who's come to town with a machine gun and some...
Ice Cream Man, Vol. 3: Hopscotch Melange
| Author | W. Maxwell Prince |
| ISBN | 1534312269 |
Ice Cream Pants begins its slide from a fairly mediocre series to a crappy one with Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange. None of its four stories were all that.
There’s a cliched Latin soap opera-esque romance story about a couple of star-crossed lovers in 1919 Mexico where the woman is betrothed...
Assassin Nation, Vol. 1: Number One With a Bullet
Hot off her breakout success at Marvel, two-time Eisner award winner Erica Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Jughead) teams up with Kyle Starks (writer of sales beast Rick and Morty) for a hilarious twist on the hitman trope that will have readers laughing in the aisles. Full of swears, an excessive...
Revival, Vol. 4: Escape to Wisconsin
| Author | Tim Seeley |
| ISBN | 1632150123 |
The Revivers may have a twistier origin than they originally thought.
What the hell?!
What do you mean, Anne?
Sorry, random Goodreader, but I've already said too much.
This volume is full of non-answering answers that just lead to more questions. And I mean that in a good...
Royal City, Vol. 1: Next of Kin
In his most ambitious and most personal project to date, JEFF LEMIRE spins the captivating and engaging story of a family from the small factory town of ROYAL CITY and the ghosts that haunt them.
In a return to the literary and thematic territory of Lemire's breakthrough graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY,...
Locke & Key, Master Edition Volume Three
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1631406868 |
The final parts of the Locke and Key series, I’m sad to say goodbye! Everything that has happened in the previous instalments, the functions of all the different keys… it’s all coming to a head in these final two segments: “Clockworks” and “Alpha and Omega”.
“Secrets are the...
