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Naming Monsters

Hannah Eaton’s idiosyncratic psychodrama is an absorbing mix of the quirky, the sinister, and the very human, and yet another perceptive publishing choice for the Myriad back catalogue. It’s the…

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Science Tales, New Edition

Darryl Cunningham’s use of the comic strip form in Science Tales as an investigative journalistic tool to bust some of the popular myths about contemporary scientific issues was one of the…

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Kick-Ass 3 #1

Mark Millar hits the ground running in his new volume of Kick-Ass as the young hero and his gang of awkward vigilantes attempt to break Hit-Girl out of her cell….

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East of West #3

Death leads the Horsemen on a bloody chase through a futuristic western dystopia poised on the brink of apocalypse. Jonathan Hickman’s crisp script deftly reveals the underlying causes of the…

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X-Men #1

Right from Olivier Coipel’s striking cover it’s clear that these X-women mean business. After getting his feet wet for twelve issues on the previous X-Men volume, Brian Wood is back…

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Ten Grand #2

In Ten Grand #2, grit, gore, and a dark dash of occult mystery seep from the pores of every hard-boiled panel. The daunting task of living up to the promise…

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The Wake #1

A new terrifying tale rises to the surface in Snyder & Murphy’s The Wake! The U.S. Department of Homeland Security invites cetologist Lee Archer to join a diverse cast of…

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The Private Eye #2

The Private Eye is modern noir without the shadows. The bursting of the Internet and stampede of secrets that toppled lives, businesses, and the culture of information resulted in a…

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Cyborg 009, Chapter 000

The classic Shotaro Ishinomori manga returns revamped for a fast-paced Western audience. A young boy awakens after a hazy dream and finds he’s cuffed to a table with maniacal robots…

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The Dream Merchant #1

Edmondson and Novosadov create a strange, new modern mythology plumbing the depths of our dreams. There once was a boy named Winslow, who dreamed big dreams every night. In fact,…

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Welcome to Your Awesome Robot

Viviane Schwarz’s Welcome to Your Awesome Robot was the first title to be published under Nobrow Press’s Flying Eye Books imprint for children. Nobrow, of course, already have a proven…

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Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas!

With an Eisner Award nomination for the previous volume, Philippe Coudray’s Benjamin Bear books are a series with an established pedigree. Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! contains twenty-seven playfully inventive…

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Chin Music #1

Stunning artwork and a script that keeps you guessing anchor Image’s latest high-profile creative coup, in Niles and Harris’ occult investigation of Al Capone’s Chicago. There are very few comic…

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X #1

Fast-paced, straight-ahead action and a new vulnerability herald the return of Dark Horse’s mysterious, ultra-violent vigilante. Formerly the product of Dark Horse’s ill-fated but critically acclaimed 1990s superhero initiative, Comics’…

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Dockwood

McNaught has a canny knack for finding something compelling in the humdrum and the monotonous; of imbuing each tiny moment with a flowing, rhythmical splendour of its own. Jon McNaught…

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