Welcome to Tranquility, Vol. 1
10 best books like Welcome to Tranquility, Vol. 1 (Gail Simone): Blue Beetle, Vol. 1: Shellshocked, Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, Tank Girl: The Gifting, Captain Freedom, The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Volume One, Heroes: Volume One, Medusa Jones, DC Comics Bombshells, Vol. 3: Uprising, Irredeemable, Vol. 2
| Author | Keith Giffen |
| ISBN | 1401209653 |
3.5 stars
It has potential.
The origin story of the new Blue Beetle is a tad shaky, and could have used a more in-depth approach. Especially when it came to his missing year...but maybe that will be addressed in later volumes?
Also, the bad guys aren't very scary, and there's some pretty...
| Author | Dave Roman |
| ISBN | 1593620527 |
Agnes Quill is the story of a teenage detective, the haunted city she lives in, the strange cases she solves and the ghosts who help, hinder or just plain annoy her. Set in Legerdemain -- a congested, fog-filled, cobblestone-paved Victorian city built around a cemetery the size of Central Park -- Agnes'...
| Author | Alan C. Martin |
| ISBN | 1600101097 |
In these days of ultra-serious mega-crossovers, comics gets exactly what it's been needing -- a jolt of adrenaline courtesy of the too-long-absent Tank Girl!
Co-creator Alan C. Martin is back to offer redemption to anyone who sat through the Tank Girl movie, and what's more, this time the book's...
| 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...
From the creation of the earth to the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil, this is the greatest story every told...as you've never seen it before.
A graphic novel adaptation of the Holy Bible, The Manga Bible tells the story of God's relationship with His people, from the creation...
| Author | Van Jensen |
| ISBN | 1593621760 |
One of the best things about my job is when my boss wants me to read and write a review about a certain book that I never intended to read but thoroughly enjoyed. (Let me tell you, I have read some stiiiiiinkers!!) Anyways, I was minding my own business, surfing the web and reading anything besides the stack...
| Author | Tim Sale |
| ISBN | 1401217052 |
This stunning hardcover collects the amazing online comics based on the smash-hit, Emmy Award-nominated NBC show HEROES!
This volume -- featuring a cover by comics legend Alex Ross -- also includes an introduction by Masi Oka (Hiro), all 34 chapters of Season One, and Tim Sale's artwork as...
| Author | Ross Collins |
| ISBN | 0439901006 |
It's off to ancient Greece for a split-your-side funny take on the politics of junior-high popularity.
In ancient Greece lived a little girl called Medusa Jones. Medusa was a Gorgon, but apart from that, pretty normal. So she has snakes for hair instead of gorgeous blond ringlets like Cassandra....
| Author | Marguerite Bennett |
| ISBN | 1401268773 |
Based on the hit DC Collectibles product line! As World War II rages across Europe, the Allied forces issue a call to arms for the greatest heroines the world has ever known! With an old villain arising from beyond the grave, Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Kara Starikov, Kortni Duginova and Mera must aid the...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1608860000 |
Writer Mark Waid takes superhero comics to the next level asking the question, "What if the world's greatest superhero decided to become the world's greatest super-villain?"
A "twilight of the superheros"-style story that examines super-villains.
In this volume readers learn...
Astro City, Vol. 6: The Dark Age, Book One: Brothers and Other Strangers
| Author | Kurt Busiek |
| ISBN | 1401218687 |
Today Astro City is a shining metropolis on a hill where super-heroes patrol the skies. However, things were not always as bright as they are today. In the early 1970's, in the wake of a global catastrophe, two brothers, one good and one evil must deal with family secrets and social upheaval, involving...
| Author | Marc Andreyko |
| ISBN | 1401263283 |
The classic series finally comes to the comic page in WONDER WOMAN '77 VOL. 1, continuing the adventures of the TV series starring Lynda Carter!
Travel back to the sizzling '70s as the undercover Amazon Princess joins forces with special agent Steve Trevor to defend America against Cold War-era...
| Author | Mark Millar |
| ISBN | 1563897695 |
It is well known that the demise of the super group StormWatch led to the birth of their successors, the Authority. But until now the inner origins of how the most powerful team in the WildStorm Universe came together has never been revealed. Seen through the eyes of Jenny Sparks, "The Spirit of the Twentieth...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401218598 |
"Ex Machina" is a series that puts a number of hot potato political issues into its issues - protesting illegal wars, legalisation of cannabis, gay marriage - and now Vaughan has Hundred confront the role of religion. Vaughan shows Hundred as the progressive mind that we all hope Obama is, fighting against...
Seventeen-year-old Sonia, a medical student with dreams of becoming a modernist painter, is caught up in Fidel Castro’s revolution from the moment it captures Havana on New Year’s Eve 1958. While her eccentric mother hatches an increasingly desperate series of plans to flee Cuba, Sonia joins...
StormWatch, Vol. 3: Change or Die
The High, a legendary hero from centuries ago, returns to Earth with a new super-human team and a lethal mission, the rebirth of humanity. Believing that the world's worst enemy is itself, the only thing between this supremely powerful being and his goal, is StormWatch, the United Nations' International...
| Author | Brian Michael Bendis |
| ISBN | 0785122613 |
A dead Cosmic Avenger shows the world that there are forces at work that no mere mortal cop could possibly understand, but it doesn't matter either way because Internal Affairs has set their sights on Deena Pilgrim. Walker and Pilgrim have been homicide detectives and partners for years, but secrets...
