Michael Avon Oeming, Illustrator, Mike Carey, Author, Mel Rubi, Illustrator . Dynamite Entertainment $19.99 (205p) ISBN 978-1-933305-36-3
Sword and sorcery mainstay Red Sonja is back in all her chain-mail bikini glory, once more hurling vitriol at her barbaric male counterparts while removing appendages from any man stupid enough to attempt invasion of her personal space. This spinoff
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Mike Carey, Author . Vertigo/DC Comics $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0009-1
Lucifer Morningstar is a fallen angel of Heaven, who ruled Hell for a time, then left for Earth before growing disenchanted with his time there. He later created his own realm and universe to have a place where his beliefs about life and the...
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Mike Carey, Orbit (IPG, dist.), $8.99 mass market (512p) ISBN 978-1-84149-655-9
The pulse-pounding pace never slackens as Carey's superlative fifth supernatural thriller featuring London exorcist Felix "Fix" Castor picks up where its predecessor, Thicker Than Water, left off. Castor's closest friend, Rafi Ditko, who's possessed
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Mike Carey, Orbit (IPG, dist.), $8.99 mass market (512p) ISBN 978-1-84149-656-6
Carey's fourth supernatural thriller featuring London exorcist Felix Castor (after Dead Men's Boots) compares favorably with the better known work of Jim Butcher. When the slashed body of Kenneth Seddon, who tried to kill Castor when they were much...
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Mike Carey, Author . Grand Central $25.99 (420p) ISBN 978-0-446-58032-8
Every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller (after Vicious Circle
). Felix “Fix” Castor, a London-based exorcist who uses music to fight evil spirits and...
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Mike Carey, Author . Warner $24.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-446-58030-4
A
violent ghost in a world where spirits are rarely mean-spirited is a clue to a deeper mystery in this engrossing dark fantasy debut from comics-writer Carey. Felix “Fix” Castor is an itinerant exorcist who (like a certain famous group...
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Mike Carey, Author . Hachette/Grand Central $24.99 (437p) ISBN 978-0-446-58031-1
In Carey's fine second supernatural thriller (after The Devil You Know
), FelixCastor, an exorcist with paranormal abilities who lives in a near-future England where ghosts and zombies are an accepted reality, is suffering from guilt after an...
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Mike Carey, Author, John Bolton, Author . DC/Vertigo $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0303-0
In Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio compared drugs to Queen Mab, queen of the faeries. In this new graphic novel, rebellious teenager Linda finds out how literal that comparison is. Linda's father has left, and her mother crawled into a bottle months...
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Mike Carey, Author, Peter Gross, Illustrator, Ryan Kelly, Illustrator et al. DC/ Vertigo $14.95 (165p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0210-1
Yes, it's that
Lucifer Morningstar—former ruler of Hell, now a free agent dealing with the messy internal politics of his former domain—who is the protagonist of this Sandman spin-off comic book. Writer Carey is as irreverent as...
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Mike Carey, Linda Carey, and Louise Carey. ChiZine (Consortium, U.S. dist.; PGC, Canadian dist.), $16.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-77148-312-4
In 1740, a company of Austrian soldiers arrives at Narutsin, a village on the Prussian border. Lodged in Pokoj, a ramshackle ruin of a house, they discover that the previous garrison has vanished and the villagers are strangely unwelcoming to their...
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Mike Carey, Author, Sonny Liew, Illustrator, Marc Hempel, Illustrator . DC/Minx $9.99 (148p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0371-9
Carey's (God Save the Queen
) story of a young martial artist in love is funny and touching in equal parts and is carried off in fine style. Jen Dik Seong (Dixie) is Korean-American, and her outlet is
hapkido
, a form of martial arts that...
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Mike Carey, Author, Sonny Liew, Illustrator, Marc Hempel, Illustrator . Vertigo $6.95 (97p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0390-0
This delightful, theological satire-as-romantic comedy follows Frankie Moxon, an adorable 17-year-old with a religion of her own. She's the sole worshipper of a god named Jeriven, who's protected her since infancy from all sorts of dangers
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Mike Carey, Author, Leonardo Manco, Illustrator . DC Comics $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0316-0
When a hideous, inexplicable plague starts stealing children's souls and leaving the victims in a coma all across London, who else but the "antihero" John Constantine can stop it? The punk-rock magician is called in by his sidekick, Chas,
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Mike Carey, Author, Jim Fern, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $9.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1341-1
A fun, often suspenseful addition to Carey's already notable fantasy/horror-driven work. The premise reads just like the modern Japanese horror movies on which Crossing Midnight
is clearly based. A man, Yasuo, prays for a child to be born, and
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Mike Carey, Author, Michael Kramer, Read by Tantor Media $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0515-1
Kramer easily creates the persona of the novel's narrator, Felix Castor. Castor is a practicing exorcist in London, where he is able to see the ghosts of a small number of British dead. Kramer, using a mild nasal tone with emphasis on vowels, plays...
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Mike Carey and Peter Gross. DC/Vertigo, $22.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2976-4
Tommy Taylor’s father destroyed his childhood by penning popular novels about a boy wizard based on his son. In the ongoing Unwritten comic, fantasy literature’s wish-fulfillment machine gets coated in a sardonic darkness reminiscent of Lev Grossman.
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Mike Carey, Author, Peter Gross, Illustrator, Bill Willingham, Introduction by . DC/Vertigo $9.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2565-0
A taut thriller that slyly plays off the real-world mania for imaginary ones like that of Harry Potter, Carey's new series undercuts the mythology of such all-pervasive media-hyped creations while at the same time hinting at a brilliantly...
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Mike Carey, Author, John Bolton, Illustrator . Vertigo $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0093-0
If there's an heir to the comics writing tradition of Neil Gaiman's Sandman
, it's Carey, who currently writes the spinoff series Lucifer
and peppers his stories with Gaiman's brand of clever, learned theology. This tale is a sequel
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Mike Carey, Linda Carey, and Louise Carey. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (440p) ISBN 978-1-92685-153-2
The family Carey (spouses Mike and Linda, daughter Louise) team up to explore the ancient city of Bessa and the horrors that befall it. When the sultan of the city is killed in a religious uprising, his concubines barely escape. Trapped in the...
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Mike Carey. Subterranean, $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-64524-133-1
Freelance exorcist Felix Castor makes a welcome return (after 2009’s The Naming of The Beasts) in Carey’s entertaining urban fantasy. Castor lost his steadiest source of income after he was implicated in the destruction of a London paranormal...
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