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Vendor: Marvel Comics |
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W) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Narcisse, Evan (A) Paul Renaud, Javier Pina (CA) Brian Stelfreeze The secret origin of T'Challa, the Black Panther! Wakanda has always kept itself isolated from Wester... | |
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Vendor: Image Comics |
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(W) Marjorie M. Liu (A/CA) Sana Takeda
The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past...and discover a terrible new threat.... | |
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Vendor: Image Comics |
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(W) Marjorie M. Liu (A/CA) Sana Takeda
Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl w... | |
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Vendor: DC Comics |
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(W/A/CA) Sam Kieth
When a supernatural creature begins to kill in Gotham City, Batman tries to fight something that he can't even touch. Further complications arise when the monster says he... | |
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Vendor: IDW |
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(W) Sam Kieth, William Messner-Loebs (A/CA) Sam Keith
Sam Kieth's opus The Maxx is collected here in all its freshly-colored glory. Taking remastered pages from The Maxx: Maxximized hardcovers, this ... | |
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Vendor: Dark Horse |
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(W) Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (A/CA) Wendy Pini
The latest collection of the classic fantasy series by Wendy and Richard Pini continues the canonical adventures of the Wolfriders. With Cutter ... | |
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