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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Ivory Pearl" is the final work by the French master of noir fiction, Jean-Patrick Manchette. But this wide-reaching geopolitical thriller, blending action and adventure, was only known to readers in its unfinished form, as written by Manchette before his passing in 1995. Now, using his fathers notes, Doug Headline has finally put together the full tale, alongside artist Max Cabanes. Together, they have brought Ivory Pearl to vivid life in a graphic...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Ivory Pearl" is the final work by the French master of noir fiction, Jean-Patrick Manchette. But this wide-reaching geopolitical thriller, blending action and adventure, was only known to readers in its unfinished form, as written by Manchette before his passing in 1995. Now, using his fathers notes, Doug Headline has finally put together the full tale, alongside artist Max Cabanes. Together, they have brought Ivory Pearl to vivid life in a graphic...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A humorous adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's short story about a farmer in a small village who develops a lust for acquiring ever more land and who, against the advice of his much more reasonable wife, will stop at nothing to become the biggest landowner around, traveling to a distant part of the country where the soil is said to be fertile and virgin and abundant and where grass grows chest high.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The forces of darkness converge on Argos. Perseus, Odysseus, Jason, and Achilles the greatest heroes of ancient Greece stand together against a mad Gorgon. Out to avenge the death of her sister, Medusa, the sinister Eurydale resurrects the Kraken to destroy Perseus and the city of Argos once and for all.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Perseus is reunited with his bride to be, Andromeda, only to discover she is being transformed into a horrible Gorgon by Medusas sister. As Perseus is desperate for a cure, the one man who could find one is being driven mad by visions from the gods conspiring against Zeus.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Perseus is back once again to face off with the Titans of legend. Set immediately after the his defeat of the indomitable Kraken, Perseus wife-to-be, Andromeda, is kidnapped by one of Medusa's gorgon sisters out for revenge. Perseus must assemble the greatest heroes of the ancient world for a wild adventure against the monsters of myth.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongestkind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H.P. Lovecraft
An adaptation of H.P. Lovecrafts The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath unlike anything you've read before.
Rescued from his would-be captors and returned to solid ground, compelled by his haunting dreams, Randolph Carter continues his journey to the Island of Oriab to set his eyes upon the giant face of Mount Ngranek....
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Perseus is back to face off once again with the titans of myth. Set immediately after the defeat of the mighty Kraken, Perseus plans to rebuild the city of Argos. But his wife-to-be Andromeda is kidnapped by one of Medusa's gorgon sisters out for her ultimate revenge.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The insane minds of Adam F. Goldberg, Hans Rodionoff, and Jeff Zapata continue their ransacking of your childhood in Garbage Pail Kids: Trashin Through Time #4!
In this issue: The Kommandos chase Nasty Nick across history through prehistoric times, ancient Greece, the days of Prohibition, the Old West, and more and they meet many a classic GPK character along the way! The ride comes to an end in the future, though, where we catch a glimpse of...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
You've got to hand it to him, The Woodsman knows how to use his head...but maybe he should try bait that is a bit less "severed" and not quite so much of a "twisted, unliving mockery of God and nature." In other news, Rapunzel tries babysitting, Prince Charming picks a fight he can't win, and Snow White keeps her nose in a book like a nerd. All the while The Wolf is at their door! Unless things go exactly right, no one will live to see the dawn!
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Having just awakened to Prince Charming's kiss, Snow White is thrown headlong into a vicious love triangle with him and his bad-ass paramour Rapunzel. Now the three of them must come together to survive the pack of blood-thirsty Wolf Zombies hot on their trail. Blood, Sex, Kung Fu, and Gender Politics to follow.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Just outside Delhi, the capital of India, a man called Mowgli rents a house on the outskirts of the jungle, where he plans to live out the rest of his days. The forest is not nearly as vast as it once was, but the air, the trees and the hills still retain a thousand memories: the cries of birds long departed, the calls of brother wolves that have since died off, the rage of a jealous tiger For Mowgli, the jungle is the stomping ground of his childhood...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Aa-shanta nygh! You are off! Send back earths gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms... for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos!
Randolph Carter, a traveler to dreamland, tries not to wake up before reaching his goal, the elusive Kadath: the home of the gods, a place of fantasy and overflowing imagination. Carter walks through a world full of threats and abominable...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Old Mowgli tells the tale of the promise made in his youth to kill Shere Khan the tiger, who gets more dangerous by the day as he is consumed by blood lust. Every summer, the sun burns the savannah and dries up the rivers. But this year, water is especially hard to come by and the animals must endure a dreadful thirst. Thankfully, a marsh forms in the empty riverbed and Hathi the elephant decrees a water truce. With all hunting forbidden, every...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully rendered graphic adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated novels of all time, about the misadventures of Pierre Bezkhov, Natsha and Ily Rostv, and company during the Napoleonic era of Russia. With richly detailed settings re-creating the villas and ballrooms of the 19th century, character design based on the real-life inspirations for the figures in the...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
With a rotting pack of once-human zombified wolves hot on their heels, Snow White-the quintessential fairytale princess-joins forces with her One-And-Only True Love, Prince Charming... and his other True Love, the unbelievably badass Rapunzel. Together, this star-crossed trio sets out into the unknown depths of the forest; following an oddly suspicious trail of breadcrumbs into what is most assuredly, a deadly ambush. Blood, Sex, Kung Fu, and Gender...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The quest for the last true copy of the Necronomicon brings Elvira and H.P. Lovecraft to the crumbling mansion of an old friend and colleague an ancient pulp writer with disturbingly animated bookshelves. Will the Mistress of the Dark survive her visit to the Strange High House in the Mist, where the Terrible Old Man and the Haunters of the Dark guard the Lurking Fear From Beyond? All these and even more storied hijinks can be found in this exciting...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Wanna-be hero, Jack the Giant Slayer, lives up to his his namesake in this beautifully offbeat prequel story to the twice Ringo Award-nominated dark fantasy series, Snow White Zombie Apocalypse. Will the "Beautiful Bean Magic" of a vagrant wizard be enough to save Jack from the machinations of a cunning, ruthless, and soon-to-be undead monarch? Moreover, what the heck happened to Jack's cow after he traded her for a handful of enchanted legumes?
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The comedy duo of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Howard Phillips, Neurotic Ghost, take their show on the road to Arkham, Massachusetts! With the Cult of Nyarlathotep hot on their pointy heels, the two horror icons visit storied Miskatonic University where the last copy of the Necronomicon may be hidden deep in the college library!
Secret knowledge is uncovered, hideous space gods are revealed, and late fines go unpaid in this madcap monster...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of H.P. Lovecrafts The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath unlike anything you've read before.
For the first time since his journey began, Randolph Carter finds safety. But the comforts and luxuries offered to him are not enough to quiet the calls of the place he has seen in his dreams. Will he throw it all away to continue on a journey that may more than likely lead to his end?
As a bonus, also includes the original prose story!
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