Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Pia Guerra, Illustrator, Goran Parlov, Illustrator . Vertigo/DC Comics $12.95 (141p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0232-3
Vaughan and Guerra have crafted a frequently funny, sometimes compelling, postapocalyptic American road story with a twist. A mysterious plague has wiped out every man around the globe, except for one: a sardonic 20-something romantic named Yorick....
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Pia Guerra, Illustrator, Jose Marza, Jr., Illustrator . DC Comics $12.95 (166p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0201-9
In this addictive follow-up to the brilliantly imagined Y: The Last Man
, we're still in the near future and Yorick Brown and his monkey sidekick, Ampersand, are still the last two males on Earth. It's been some months since the mysterious...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Pia Guerra, Illustrator, Jose Marza, Jr., Illustrator DC/Vertigo $14.99 (188p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0487-7
An adolescent male daydream becomes a nightmare in this convoluted SF thriller. Having somehow survived a plague that instantly killed all the other men on Earth, Yorick Brown finds himself the object of universal desire. Unfortunately, some of the...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Pia Guerra, Illustrator, Pamela Rambo, Illustrator DC Comics/Vertigo $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56389-980-5
Yorick Brown is an escape artist; has a fabulous girlfriend who's traveling in Australia; and possesses a genetic make-up that's allowed him to survive a plague that killed every male being on the planet except for him and his pet monkey....
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Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Image (Diamond, dist.), $9.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-60706-601-9
Eisner-winner Vaughan (Y the Last Man) teams up with veteran illustrator Staples (North 40) in the epic, galaxy-spanning war story of a star-crossed couple protecting their infant daughter. The story opens with the narrator’s birth, in the middle of
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Brian K. Vaughan and Roger Petersen. DC/Vertigo, $19.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4012-4304-3
Eisner Award–winner Vaughan’s brilliantly plotted series, launched in 2000, describes the wanderings of Tefé Holland, the daughter of the Swamp Thing, and her human mother, Abby. This volume explores Tefé’s origins, and the horrific series of...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente. Image, $49.99 (300p) ISBN 978-1-63215-572-6
Vaughan (Saga) and Martin (Batgirl: Year One) team up for a noirish SF adventure that’s as absorbing as it is gorgeous. Decades after “the cloud” bursts, pushing everyone’s secrets into the open and destroying all semblance of online security, the...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Adrian Alphona, Illustrator . Marvel $7.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1379-9
This unusually clever, fun teen comic is based on the novel premise that parents don't just seem evil, they actually are
evil supervillains. Or so some kids find out one night while eavesdropping on a dastardly meeting they take to be a...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Tony Harris, Illustrator , Tony Harris and Tom Feister. DC Comics/Wildstorm $9.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0612-3
Set somewhere between The West Wing
and an alternative future, this tale
asks the question: What if the mayor of New York was a superhero? Vaughan (Y: The Last Man
) and Harris (Starman
) answer with intelligence and dash. In classic superhero...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Steve Rolston, Illustrator, Jason Shawn Alexander, Illustrator . Dark Horse $15.95 (175p) ISBN 978-1-59582-361-8
Ambition outpaces execution in Vaughan and company’s graphic novel semisequel to Michael Chabon’s celebrated novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
. Most installments in the “Escapist” comics franchise to date...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Author, Tony Harris, Author, Tom Feister, Author . DC/Wildstorm $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0626-0
What would you do if a mysterious explosion left you with the ability to control machines? Become mayor of New York, of course. Mitchell Hundred gave up crimefighting years ago, and now fights evil with a pen and a mayoral seal. His mysterious power
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Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Image, $9.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-63215-674-7
Like some great 1980s teen sci-fi/horror cult classic, this aggressively awesome new series from Vaughan (Saga) and Chiang (Wonder Woman) throws alien invasion and time travel plots together and steeps the whole thing in suburban angst and attitude.
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Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce. Image, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-63215-702-7
Canada has often had a rocky relationship with the United States, from the colonial era to the War on Terror. American writer Vaughan (Saga) and Canadian artist Skroce (Doc Frankenstein) take this occasionally hostile friendship to its fictional...
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Michael Chabon and Brian K. Vaughn. Dark Horse, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-50670-403-6
Vaughan (Saga) takes a playful metafictional approach to imagining the rebirth of a classic comics hero, set within the world of Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon opens the volume with a prose introduction in which his Sam...
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