Kyle Baker, J. Bone, John Byrne and various. IDW (Diamond, dist.), $24.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-61377-401-4
This second volume of adventures featuring the late Dave Stevens’s skyward bound hero is a wonderful testament to the enduring legacy of the Rocketeer. Cliff Secord is just your “typical” ace stunt pilot from a pulp-fiction-inspired version of the...
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Matt Wagner, Author, Tim Sale, Illustrator, John K. Snyder, III, Illustrator . Dark Horse $28.95 (303p) ISBN 978-1-59307-967-3
Wagner's multifarious Grendel character takes a leap several centuries into the future with his 10-part God and the Devil series, originally serialized in 1989 and remastered in 2003, collected in a dense graphic novel that will serve as a...
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Matt Wagner, Author, Michael Wm Kaluta, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2624-4
Wagner and Kaluta team up to provide more backstory for the glamorous and powerful Madame Xanadu in Exodus Noir
. Collecting issues 12 through 15, the volume toggles between New York in 1940 and Spain in 1493, at the height of the Inquisition. In...
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Matt Wagner. Dark Horse, $24.99 (600p) ISBN 978-1-59582-893-4
Bestselling author and socialite Hunter Rose is secretly Grendel, an expert assassin and criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on running crime in 1980s New York. His nemesis is Argent the wolf, a hero of mysterious origins who often does more harm...
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Matt Wagner, Simon Bisley and Thomas Tull. Legendary (Diamond, dist.), $7.99 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-937278-02-1
John Tower has everything the well-equipped supernatural bounty hunter should possess: a square jaw, a fetching scar, a taciturn demeanor and the cash flow to fund all the tools the well-equipped vampire hunter might need. As we meet him in this...
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Matt Wagner, Author, Bernie Mireault, Illustrator . Dark Horse $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-56971-604-5
Grendel is a character who comes close to defying description. He's inhabited a number of people over time, and the only constants through these stories are his psychosis and distinctive mask. In this chapter of Wagner's multi-generational...
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Matt Wagner, Author, Rich Rankin, Illustrator . Dark Horse $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-59307-736-5
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his 25th anniversary edition reprints what began as an inconspicuous backup feature but has blossomed into a classic dark saga of the ultimate counter-Batman. Hunter Rose is a wealthy and glamorous socialite who also is the masked assassin Grendel,
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Peter Milligan, Author, Chris Bachalo, Author, Matt Wagner, Author , illus. by Chris Bachalo and Mark Pennington. Vertigo/DC Comics $17.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0046-6
This collection of the first six issues of Milligan's Shade, The Changing Man
tells the story of Rac Shade and Kathy George. Shade has come to Earth from his home planet, Meta, to suppress Earth's bubbling insanity, which has created an "
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