A man wakes up mid-flight to find the plane empty of people - except for the cockpit where all he hears is quiet weeping. A street-level vigilante is interviewed in the woods at night. An escort shares the harrowing story of her dead friend with a middle-class couple looking for a threesome. And the fallout from the real-life Sony hack during the release of the 2014 movie The Interview starring James Franco and Seth Rogen is told from the perspective of James’ fictional(?) assistant.
A young boy leaves the funeral of his grandpa to walk through some menacing woods… to visit his grandpa??
Guys, did you know racism is bad? Well, in case you didn’t and needed a superhero comic to edumacate you, check out Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom aka the worst comic of 2022!
After enduring a number of harsh setbacks including war and natural disaster, Chinese peasants in the late 19th century began an anti-colonial, anti-Christian uprising that grew and became known as the Boxer Rebellion (the Chinese militia practiced Chinese martial arts like kung fu which was known at the time as “Chinese boxing”, hence why they were referred to as “Boxers”). Gene Luen Yang captures the broad strokes of the historical event, from the Boxers’ perspective, in this book.
Akira Toriyama’s short manga from the late ‘70s to mid ‘90s was previously collected in three omnibuses and this new hardcover edition collects all three omnibuses. I love Toriyama’s Dragon Ball books (except almost all of Super - what a misnomer!) so it’s weird how everything he did outside of that series wasn’t even half as good. I’ve tried Dr Slump, Cowa, Jaco, Sand Land, and now Manga Theater, and they’re all stinkers!
Time for DC to throw out another Batman title to the already absurd amount out there right now because those are the only books they publish that sell! The series concept for Urban Legends is limited arcs featuring lesser characters with Batman somewhere in the background. This book’s characters are Batman first pairing up with Red Hood and then in the second half mixing it up with Grifter.
Arisu is 18 years old and aimless, unhappy with his life and wishing he could just go away to another world… and then, one night, he and his two friends witness a massive fireworks display and wake up in the same city they used to live in but nobody else is there. Everything’s covered in dust and all the food is expired - it’s like they’ve been magically transported to the far future. Wandering the eerie city, they stumble across a brightly lit area with food and working toilets - and are trapped. They must play - and win - a seemingly simple game. If they win, they get to live. If they lose, they die a horrible death. Welcome to Borderland!
Julia Wertz made a lot of short gag strips early in her comics career which got collected in the books The Fart Party, Volumes 1 and 2, and are collected here in Museum of Mistakes, along with the unpublished Volume 3 and a buncha miscellaneous crapola.
It’s the winter of 1989 and Ethan Reckless is out of town when his assistant, Anna, is approached by a new client: the actor who played the Elvira-esque Evilina. She’s just inherited a mansion in the Hollywood Hills and wants Anna to find out if it’s haunted. Heeeeere’s… The Ghost in You!
It’s five years after the zombie apocalypse and, because it’s the last book in the series, the disembodied head of Cyborg has conveniently found a cure to the undead version of the Anti-Life Equation! Lured back to Earth by Cyborg’s intergalactic distress signal, the surviving heroes prepare to save the world - but standing in their way is an Amazo army for the 1% and Trigon, who’s emerging from the fiery pits to wipe out the remains of humanity and start life all over again. Could… could the heroes somehow save the day against impossible odds? Duh…
Taro Sakamoto was the most feared and respected hit-man in the business - until he fell in love and left the mob life behind to start a family and work an ordinary job as a store manager. But nobody leaves the organisation alive and, now that he’s been tracked down, the assassins are swarming to take out Sakamoto and collect the price on his head…
Christophe Chaboute adapts filmmaker Benoit Cohen’s 2017 book Yellow Cab into a comic of the same name, wherein Cohen decides to slum it as a NYC taxi driver for a few months in 2016 to gather material for a new film.
An entire school suddenly disappears someday for no reason - including the hundreds of students and faculty inside - and winds up in an eerily isolated, rocky landscape. Wha’ happen? So begins the strange mystery of The Drifting Classroom…
Huck and Nadia are a highly sexual couple working for a tech/social media giant (basically Google/YouTube). Though their group-sex experimentation fantasies remain just that, a friend one day gifts them a prototype sex doll that can morph into a number of set models. And then Nadia hacks the menu so that anyone with images on the internet can be turned into their sex doll. Oh, the depravity of the future!
Doctor Strange is back as the Sorcerer Supreme but oh no - he’s used up all of Earth’s magic, or something, and, on the advice of Iron Man, decides to seek out new sources of magic… across the universe! Jai guru Tony, om?
Deadpool finally gets his wish: he can join the Avengers! But he’s gotta go to Japan to be a member. Also, he’s going to be in an Avengers spin-off group called Samurai Squad. And none of the Avengers are part of it. Yup, Wade’s finally made it! To celebrate, he’s gonna do Avengers stuff like fight Loki.
Death is fired after being told a boy called Darius has been born who will grow up to unlock the secret for humans to live forever - no more death, no more Death. Corporate downsizing for the non-corporeal! Until Death is also made mortal, filling the body of a recently-deceased young lady called Laila Starr. Now stuck on Earth with the rest of us schmucks, Death/Laila hatches a plan to get her job back: kill Darius…
It’s Black Adam’s turn to go zombie in the third instalment of DCeased, the series where superheroes deal with the zombie apocalypse by basically doing the same thing in each book: retreat to a safe place then get overrun as some obscure portal-making character portals in zombies behind non-zombie lines to turn them into zombies! Is there hope to be found at the end of the world? Probably. But not before DC crank out one more volume!
Like most mothers, Seiko is protective of her kid and will do anything to keep her son Seiichi safe - even moider?!
