Todd Klein
21) A game of you
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Series
The Sandman volume Vol. 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The fifth installment of Neil Gaiman's seminal, New York Times best-selling series, A Game of You, celebrates its 30th anniversary with an all-new edition, featuring a new cover from artist Dave McKean! Take an apartment house, add in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of The...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
Now a Netflix TV series, the first volume of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel masterpiece returns in a new edition! One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which...
23) Castle Waiting
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Is a community in which the emphasis is on diversity and tolerance, and in that sense it can be read as a political statement and a feminist treatment of a genre that's for the most part concerned with heroes and villains wielding swords and sorcery.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write nonfiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
"A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On the way, Morpheus encounters Lucifer and demons from Hell, the Justice League, and John Constantine, the Hellblazer. This book also includes the story "The Sound...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Batman: Creature of the Night, written by Kurt Busiek (Astro City) and drawn by John Paul Leon (Mother Panic) is a standalone story set outside of regular continuity in 1968 Boston, Massachusetts. The survivor of the brutal murder of his parents, young Bruce sees grief and rage build inside himself...until something strange starts taking wing in the Gotham night! Something similar to the comics he's been reading his whole life. As life begins to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A fox, having assumed the form of a woman in order to lure a solitary monk from his temple, thus winning a bet with a badger, ends up falling in love with the young man; and when she overhears a group of demons who have been dispatched to kill the monk and steal his inner peace, the fox/woman begins her struggle to save him.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"James Gunn's The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history--from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright peculiar Savant and the Javelin, and more. Discover the legacy of the film's eclectic characters in this second of two collections featuring their stories from throughout DC history! The Suicide Squad Case Files 2 features tales starring Captain Boomerang,...
30) Fables: Witches
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 14
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The leaders and witches of Fabletown discuss how to defeat Mister Dark. Meanwhile Bufkin finds himself trapped in the lost business office with Baba Yaga and many other monsters.
31) Marvel 1602
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
1602, England. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings and at the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole...
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Description
Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case -- and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams.
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Series
Sandman library volume 5
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine, and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of the Sandman series. This story stars Barbie, who first makes an appearance in The Doll's House, who here finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld.
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Swamp Thing volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Created by a freak accident, the Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to rail against a polluted world's self-destruction"--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
For millennia, the Amazons of Paradise Island have created a thriving society away from the blight of man. One resident, however, is not satisfied with this secluded life--Diana, Princess of the Amazons, knows there is more in this world and wants to explore, only to be frustrated by her protective mother, Hippolyta. Diana finds her escape when Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, the first man she has ever seen, crashes onto their shores. With his life...
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...