Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, Ray Fawkes, J.M. DeMatteis, et al. DC, $29.99 hardcover (320p) ISBN 978-1-40124-519-1
As the superhero genre moves into film and television successfully, superhero comics are increasingly left to justify their existence with huge, multilayered spectacles—event comics that offer super-cameos in sprawling stories. This collection,...
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Ray Fawkes, Jeff Lemire, Renato Guedes, and Marcelo Maiolo. DC, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-4323-4
When a group of evil sorcerers becomes dead set on retrieving Croydon’s Compass, an artifact that would allow them to find any magical resource on Earth, one of the most powerful mages in the world, John Constantine, must travel from Norway to...
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Jeff Lemire. Gallery 13, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6099-8
Lemire (Essex County) dives into the murkiest depths of addiction, abuse, and family trauma in this heartbreaking volume. Derek Ouellette’s glory days in the NHL are far behind—now, he’s known mostly for alcoholism, public urination, and bar fights.
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Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire and various. . DC, $39.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4012-5244-1
Years from now, the heroic DC Universe is on the verge of becoming a nightmare dystopia. Green Arrow is dead, Superman hides behind a faceless helmet, and heroes and villains alike are being transformed into killer cyborg insectoids. Bruce Wayne...
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Jeff Lemire, Emi Lenox, and Jordie Bellaire. Image, $16.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-63215-601-3
This tense SF graphic novel opens with four wordless panels. A young woman lies dead, her long blond hair, white boots, long white gloves, and black Colombina mask stark against the forest floor. The tightly paced sequence that follows introduces...
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Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston. Dark Horse, $14.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-61655-786-7
Lemire’s best stories (the Essex County trilogy) are permeated with loss–his characters are always pining for something that once was and can never be again. While reveling in the pulp fantasies of silver age superhero comics and EC’s lurid sci-fi/ho
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Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman. DC, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3507-9
In this thrilling reconception of the classic DC character, Animal Man and his daughter attempt to combat the Rot and its representatives—a hideous trio of ravenous otherworldly hunters intent on annihilating all life. Foreman’s masterful artistic...
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Jeff Lemire, Terry and Rachel Dodson. DC, $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-4556-6
Rather than more minor tinkering with the teenaged super-hero team, this graphic novel is a full-scale reboot: what if, in an alternative world, circumstances brought together young people who echo the regular Teen Titans but are totally different...
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Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen. Image, $9.99 (160p), ISBN 978-1-63215-426-2
This smart and beautiful graphic novel is an extremely promising start for a science fiction series. The nine planets of the United Galactic Council were smugly allocating their resources until gigantic threatening robots called Harvesters appeared...
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Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan. Valiant, $9.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-939346-67-4
There are so many different ways to approach a narrative about the rebirth of a superhuman character, but Lemire (The Valiant, Essex County) takes one of the strongest. The story begins six months after the end of The Valiant, with Bloodshot having...
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Jeff Lemire. Image, $9.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0262-4
In Royal City, a factory town teetering between obsolescence and rebirth, Peter Pike suffers a stroke and hovers between life and death. Meanwhile, his wife and children each stand at the brink of dramatic personal decisions, played out under the...
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Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. Image, $17.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-5343-2224-0
Lemire and Sorrentino, the writer-artist team behind the horror hit Gideon Falls, reunite for another series that builds a chilling sense of dread, but have trouble anchoring it to a story. John Reed, a geologist, ventures to a remote coastal spot...
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Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. Image, $24.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5343-2216-5
Lemire and Sorrentino (the Gideon Falls series) reunite to craft a darkly curious animal allegory about the costs of the Cold War, which swells with empathy and imagination but fails to deliver on its inventive premise. The story opens in an...
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Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. Image, $9.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0852-7
In this spooky supernatural noir, disgraced priest Wilfred “Fred” Quinn, who struggles with alcoholism, gets ordered by his superior to the “nice little town” of Gideon Falls, where he replaces its deceased pastor. Things turn weird when the...
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Jeff Lemire and Wilfredo Torres. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0841-6
The Eisner Award–winning Black Hammer series by Lemire (Essex County) returns with a new cast of retro-futuristic characters. The once-teenage heroes of the Quantum League series have become a ragtag band of rebels, striving to save the universe...
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Jeff Lemire and Jock. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-5067-2648-9
The gripping first volume of this postapocalyptic adventure by Lemire (the Sweet Tooth series) and Jock (the Batman series) hurls readers into a snowbound world where 12-year-old Milliken, her younger sister Mae Mae, and their father hunt on skates...
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Jeff Lemire et al. Image, $9.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-53431-649-2
Readers are left guessing at every turn of this offbeat supernatural thriller series launch by Lemire (Frogcatchers) with art by Phil Hester and others. Loretta, a single mom in a small Maine town, is forced to fight for her family’s life when her...
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Jeff Lemire, Author, Jose Villarrubia, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $9.99 (123p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2696-1
The latest entry in the postapocalyptic survivalist fantasy stakes has a peculiar sentimental streak in it. Gus, an almost parodically naïve young boy with antlers sprouting from his forehead and a taste for chocolate, is one of the few...
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Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera. Valiant, $9.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-939346-60-5
Gilad is a warrior who cannot die but must, time after time, face the terror of a murderous creature known only as the Immortal Enemy. He must also desperately attempt to protect a reincarnated figure named the Geomancer who, despite all efforts, is
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Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubín. Image, $17.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-5343-9945-7
With reality itself falling apart, it’s up to one world-weary gumshoe to save the universe in this trippy noir thriller from Eisner Award winner Lemire (Gideon Falls), Kindt (Mind MGMT), and Rubín (Beowulf). At the behest of his shadowy employers,...
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Jeff Lemire. DC/Vertigo, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4012-4900-7
Writer/artist Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County) turns his gaze to the stars in this mind- and reality-bending science fiction graphic novel. Nika and William are thousands of years and millions of miles apart—she, a scientist in a dark future where
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Jeff Lemire. Top Shelf, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-60309-074-2
Lemire (Essex County) returns with another Twilight Zone–style story of horror, love, and redemption. Jack Joseph lost his father, a diver and treasure hunter, on Halloween night as a child. As an adult, Jack, an underwater welder, is still looking...
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Jeff Lemire, Author, Jeff Lemire, Illustrator . Top Shelf $9.95 (127p) ISBN 978-1-891830-95-2
The plot to the concluding volume of Lemire's trilogy of graphic novels about the residents of a quiet Canadian farming region is as low-key as they come: a nurse makes her rounds of her patients and learns that one of them has died; a few...
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Matt Kindt et al. Valiant, $59.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-68215-221-8
Comprising the various Divinity comics, with added process art and a gallery, this deluxe edition of the award-winning series is an exemplar of what is possible in visual storytelling. Abram Adams, a cosmonaut whose archetypal origin story sees him...
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Jeff Lemire. Gallery 13, $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-982-10737-6
Eisner Award–winner Lemire (Sweet Tooth) hooks the reader with a mystery in this slim, dreamy fable in which a man wakes up in a hotel room with no memory of how he got there. This scene is preceded by a seemingly unconnected one of a boy catching...
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