Best Comics Books

"I often give [this book] to people." - Evan Goldberg

This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a nearfuture Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampan...

This illustrated memoir is about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family_x0092_s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new liv...

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THE ULTIMATE BINGEREADCollecting the first nine volumes of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series into one massive paperback, this compendium tells the entire story (so far!) of a girl named Hazel and her starcrossed parents. Features over 1,300 pages of gorgeously graphic fullcolor artwork, including a new cover from Eisner...

Finally, the entire Eisner Awardwinning epic in one complete volume, featuring a new cover from cocreator CLIFF CHIANG!Four twelveyearold newspaper delivery girls from the year 1988 uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this critically acclaimed series about nostalgia, first jobs, and...

The Eisner Awardwinning 12issue series from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is available in Absolute format! The Man of Steel battles Bizarro, Zibarro and more before facing the final revenge of Lex Luthor. Plus: a bonus sketchbook section and more!...

Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and almost every other character from DC Comics must cho...

March is a vivid firsthand account of John Lewis? lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis? personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.Book One spans John Lewis? youth in rural Alab...

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral CityAbraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbaliennow lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their...

"Favorite childhood comic." - Naval Ravikant

Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago_x0092_s south side, the _x0093_Bottomyards_x0094_ is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her imageobsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the wall...

They're ugly. They're mean. But up until today, they've always been loyal. So when one of their own betrays them, COPRA has no choice but to turn their nightmarish skills back on everyone who ever even looked at them...

This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End Times for humanity, and our best hope for life, lies in Death.Collecting: East Of West 15...

In this graphic novel, a hitman travels back in time tokill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong....

Patience is a psychedelic sciencefiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially "Clowesian"and utterly unique in the author's body of work. This 180page, fullcolor original graphic novel affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuber...

PRINCE OF CATS is the B side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, played at an eighties block party in a NY where underground sword dueling blossomed alongside hiphop, punk, disco, and no wave. It's a deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet's romantic meta narrative focussing on the minor players with Tybalt at the center. RONALD WIMBERLY's criticallyac...

A New York Times Bestseller!A reality TV show starring a clone of Jesus Christ causes chaos across the U.S. of the near future in PUNK ROCK JESUS, a new graphic novel written and drawn by Sean Murphy, the acclaimed illustrator of JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE.J2 causes both outrage and adulation. Religious zealots either love or hate the s...

GET READY TO RUN!The "IT" book of the early 2000s with the original cast is backNico! Karolina! Molly! Chase! Old Lace! And, could it be...GERT! The heart of the Runaways died years ago, but you won't believe how she returns! Superstar author Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Carry On) makes her Marvel debut with fanfavorite artist Kris Anka (ALL...

Suzie_x0092_s just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we_x0092_d ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!Collecting: Sex Criminals 15...

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every alternate universe one by one. And now despite the best eff orts of scientists, sages and superhumans the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided...and been destroyed! All that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single, titanic patchwork...

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Spinning out of GRAYSON comes a solo series starring the man who can predict your every move... but no one will be able to predict what he_x0092_ll do next! A theft at the God Garden has unleashed a wave of dangerous biotech weapons on the world, and Midnighter intends to put that genie back in the bottle by any means necessary. But something else was st...

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It's Marvel's most critically acclaimed comic in recent memory! Clint Barton, breakout star of a little Marvel movie you might have seen a while back, continues his fight for justice...and good rooftop BBQs! With Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to get some downtime from being one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes...but when the apartment ...

The greatest love story ever told is finally available in an affordable softcover omnibus edition! This twobook package contains all 2128 pages of Terry Moore's epic tale featuring Katchoo, Francine, David, and Casey as they face life's biggest challenges by facing them together. All 107 issues of the series are here, including the spinoffs Molly...

The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!Tommy adjusts quickly to the fast pace of their new neighborhood, befriendin...

For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point and go mad, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), the Joker kidnaps the commissioner...

An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback.Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pretechnological valley, spending a year there making new friends and outrunning dangerous enemies. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley B...

Writer/illustrator Darwyn Cooke's critically acclaimed masterpiece DC: THE NEW FRONTIER is celebrated in this oversized Absolute edition featuring new story pages, detailed annotations, alternate sequences and an extensive gallery of sketches, pinups, action figure art and much more! In the 1950s, Cold War paranoia has resulted in the mystery men o...

When downandout alien exterminator Heath Huston stumbles upon an extraterrestrial plot to commit genocide against the human species, he must put down the bottle and resume his role as a peacekeeper...the last Fear Agent!Acclaimed writer Rick Remender (Uncanny XForce, Venom) is joined by superstar collaborators Tony Moore (The Walking Dead, Venom...

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you_x0092_re smart and talented and _x0093_good enough,_x0094_ you can do anything.Except get pregnant.Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she_x0092_d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages,...

Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto is framed as a traitor by the agents from a rival clan. With his wife murdered and with an infant son to protect, Ogami chooses the path of the ronin, the masterless samurai. The Lone Wolf and Cub wander feudal Japan, Ogami's sword for hire, but all roads will lead them to a single destination: vengeance.A samurai e...

No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick_x0096_and escape death itselfSomething has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his wife Big Barda have made for them...

It's ADVENTURE TIME! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for allnew adventures through The Land of Ooo.The totally algebraic adventures of Finn and Jake have come to the comic book page! The Lich, a superlame, SUPERSCARY skeleton dude, has returned to the the Land of Ooo, and he_x0092_s bent on total destruction! Luckily, Finn an...

Following his groundbreaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight as with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics_x0097_The New 52!After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps thes...

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victi...

A NEW YORK TIMES #1 Bestseller.In "The Black Mirror," a series of brutal murders pushes Batman's detective skills to the limit and forces him to confront one of Gotham City's oldest evils. Helpless and trapped in the deadly Mirror House, Batman must fight for his life against one of Gotham City's oldest and most powerful evils!Then, in a second sto...

A woman in trouble, friends on the run from cops and mobsters, and a secret no one is prepared to face! Five years ago, Jake was a happy family man, longretired from the life of crime he grew up in, and then the police made him the prime suspect in a horrible crime and ripped his life apart! Now, years later, Jake is less than a shadow of his form...

What are the most important days of your lifeMeet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of a worldfamous Brazilian writer, Brás spends his days penning other people's obituaries and his nights dreaming of becoming a successful author himself_x0097_writing the end of other people's stories, while his own has barely begun.But on the day that life beg...

Heavens to Murgatroyd! HannaBarbera_x0092_s very own Snagglepuss is reimagined in a brandnew series, EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES, by author Mark Russell (THE FLINTSTONES)!It_x0092_s 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. B...

_x0093_Hilda is the little girl. And this is her folk tale. And pretty much everything you need to know about how good this is, is there on that absolutely gorgeously delightful cover above. By the end of it, you_x0092_ll have exactly the same smile as Hilda has._x0094__x0097_ Forbidden PlanetHilda sits in her tent listening to the thunder passing overhead when she hears ...

Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour our world. This is the Marvel Universe, where the ordinary and fantastic interact daily. This is the world of Marvels.Witness the birth of this fantastic universe from the insi...

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set EditionOne of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Lit...

What happens to the World's Finest if the world ends With death spreading across the planet, who will live and who will turn in this apocalyptic tale of heroism, sacrifice and annihilationIt's the end of the world as we know it!Six hundred million people worldwide are instantly turned into violent, monstrous engines of destruction when their mind...

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Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: T...

After saving the world in The Storm and the Fury but sacrificing himself and Great Britain, Hellboy is dead, cast into Hell, where he finds many familiar faces and a throne that awaits him.Mike Mignola returns to draw Hellboy_x0092_s ongoing story for the first time since Conqueror Worm. It_x0092_s a story only Mignola could tell, as more of Hellboy_x0092_s secrets ...

From one of the great comic innovators, the longawaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire_x0092_s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.(With fullcolor illustrations throughout.)...

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late _x0092_60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10yearold Karen Reyes, filled with Bmovie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the int...

They were six normal teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting_x0085_until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: their parents are the secret criminal society known as the Pride! For years, the Pride controlled of Los Angeles' criminal activity, ruling the city with an iron fist_x0085_and now, with their true natures exp...

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a neverending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy, and science fiction are wed like never before i...

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mindblowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will ...

Welcome to Astro City, a shining city on a hill where super heroes patrol the skies. Each chapter in this collection is a standalone story, highlighting different aspects or characters in the Astro City world...The city_x0092_s leading super hero tries to be everywhere at once, and berates himself for every wasted second as he longs for just a moment of ...

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Young Robot boy TIM21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by awardwinning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling ep...

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her fathe...

THE RETURN OF BRUCE BANNER! You know Bruce Banner. He's quiet, calm, never complains. He's a man who believes he can use the darkest elements of his personality to do good in the world. If someone were to shoot him in the head... All he'd do is die. But the horror lives deeper. A horror that refuses to die. When night falls something other than the...

Marvel Comics presents the new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City _x0097_ until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel Teenager Muslim Inhuman Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala ...

Awardwinning author Tom King's critically acclaimed Omega Men is now available in deluxe hardcover format for the first time ever!A group of alien freedom fighters pose as terrorists to accomplish their mission, from the mind of exCIA analyst Tom King. The Omega Men are back in an allnew seriesThey've murdered White Lantern Kyle Rayner, and no...

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 JASON LATOUR, the same bastards who brought yo...

The entire modern day retelling of Superman _x0097_ from his early days in Smallville with Lana Lang and Lex Luthor, to his first meeting with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White in Metropolis _x0097_ is recounted in this lavish hardcover collection by writer Mark Waid and artists Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan! SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT collects the bes...

Eisner Awardnominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (XFactor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on womeninprison scifi exploitation.In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patri...

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of handwringing boys, _x0093_personal experimentation,_x0094_ influenza, mysterymold, nuchauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of _x0093_academia,_x0094_ they may be lucky just to ...

Infinite Kung Fu walks you through familiar corridors in the house of martial mayhem, but still smashes your face through walls of wonder and into rooms where kung fu is afraid to go! The Martial World is ruled by a mysterious emperor whose five armies are each headed by a cruel and highly skilled kung fu master. Lei Kung, a soldier in one of these...

Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed super hero...but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the amazing abilities of the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, Jessica Jones never found her niche. Now a chainsmoking, selfdestructive alcoholic with a mean inferiority comp...

Ragnarok... the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology... the destruction of the Nine Worlds. And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance. Collects issues #16. Walter Simonson returns to comics in a BIG way with an allnew series....