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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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This month marks 10 YEARS OF KICK-ASS the greatest superhero comic of all time! It 's been a decade since teen comic book nerd Dave Lizewski donned his homemade Kick-Ass costume and took to the streets of NYC to fight the city 's hardest criminals. This New York Times bestseller became a worldwide phenomenon overnight, spending three months at the top spot on the Diamond Direct Market chart and spawning the KICK-ASS movie that opened at No.1 in the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Super Rabbit Boy falls down a pipe and discovers himself in a mirror reality where everyone good is now evil, including his mirror self, Super Rabbit Boss, and he must make friends with King Viking (now one of the good guys) and somehow defeat his alter ego in order to save this world--and somehow find a way back to his own reality.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Judo Girl has accepted Steel's offer to join his anarchist group The Revolution in exchange for the location of her missing brother. As Judo Girl fights along side her new team, she struggles if she should remain a mole for Agent Riley. When a mysterious figure from Judo Girl's past warns her that both Agent Riley and the Revolution are playing her, she finds her loyalties divided. Soon, Judo Girl finds herself crossing the thin line between super...
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Marla is drawn deeper into the mystery surrounding the missing ship plans even as she comes to grips with her own troubled past. But who - or what - is stalking her through the snowy streets of New York? As friends are unmasked, enemies circle... leaving Marla's alter ego Miss Fury all alone to fight a foe she can barely comprehend!
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jared, a new father, fears parenthood. An old comics fan, he turns to them for comfort. But when he unwittingly lets loose his favorite character, Killstrike - a single-minded, vengeance-loving anti-hero - onto the world, Jared must find a way to send him back before he harms all the people he loves the most. Collects the complete mini-series, issues #1-4.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
NOTE: This version has language appropriate for younger readers.
A boring assignment brings local TV reporter Bridget Primavera face to face with the Cailleach -- the primeval Celtic spirit of the killing frost -- and Bridget's world changes forever. In an instant, she is awakened to her own role and responsibility as the equally ancient, balancing spirit of Brighid, teacher of poets and physicians, guardian of the hearth, and warrior of the Tuatha...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Man, The Myth, The Amulet? Legendary star of the small and silver screen, ADAM WEST, has his career youth-enized in this hip-whimsical,trans-dimensional epic of an adventure. When a mysterious fan delivers an exotic amulet to Mr. West's doorstep he is Dorothy-fied on an odyssey that will change his career, his love life and inadvertently make him the man that saves the universe!
10) Green Hornet #20
Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
A new exhibit has opened in Century City; a look back at the mysterious figures from the city's crime-ridden past, the original Green Hornet and Kato. The heirs of the Green Hornet legacy have decided to take in the displays, remembering what it was like to grow up with legendary fathers. But, as Britt Reid, Jr. and Mulan Kato stroll through the relics of their fathers' past, their peaceful day ends with a bang. A villain from the past wants something...
11) Green Hornet #22
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the first issue of an all-new arc that will change Green Hornet forever changed, new villains arrive on the Century City scene, and an old hero dies. Britt Reid tries to manage a newspaper, fight the gangs of Century City, and figure out his relationship with the new Kato. Meanwhile, a new politician attempts to rise to the top of Century City's power structure on a simple platform: stopping the Green Hornet's "Reign of Terror". Fear, loathing,...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
What if the Silver Star had never existed? Tracy Coleman wakes up from her decades-long slumber to find a utopian world full of Kirby superheroes, but Silver Star isnt among them. Tracy is the only person who remembers the most powerful superhero ever, and she is hunted for her forbidden knowledge. Can Tracy survive when everyone in the superpowered world is out to get her? And what happens when she finally finds the powerless Morgan Miller? Alternate...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Back from the brink of oblivion, Silver Star and his allies team up to take on the most fearsome villains ever assembled. These apocalypse cultists don't want world domination or subjugation, they only want death. And they have an ace up their sleeve. Can Silver Star choose between the lesser of two unimaginable evils?
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you never had to sleep again? What would you do with all that extra time? Would you make the world a better place, make yourself a better person, or would you use that time for something more self-serving and sinister? That's the question mankind must answer when visionary billionaire Grant Auden develops an eye-opening new medical procedure, The Wake-Up Call, which eliminates the need for sleep. The world's most powerful protectors,...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Stan Lee, the great innovator of the entertainment industry, teams up with BOOM! Studios to deliver a brand new line of superhero comics. In THE TRAVELER, Stan teams up with critically acclaimed writer Mark Waid (IRREDEEMABLE, KINGDOM COME) and fan-favorite artist Chad Hardin (AGE OF HEROES, AMAZING SPIDERMAN) to bring you a man out of time! A mysterious hero known only as the Traveler battles the forces of evil in a time-bending thriller that finds...
17) Malignant Man #4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Alan Gates, a cancer patient with a terminal diagnosis, is resigned to his fate...until he discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite! Granted a second lease on life and incredible, otherworldly powers, Alan must fight against an evil army buried beneath society's skin, all the while unlocking the secrets of his forgotten past.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Norse (and comic book) legend says Thor is the son of Odin. But, what if he was really the spawn of alien overlords, who harness volcanoes for ammunition for their intergalactic war, and inspire a sci-fi writer to create a church? What if that church was created to deal with the fallout of that war, and recruits movie stars to aid their cause? Another piece of The Avengefuls parody saga, Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston welcomes us to a religion whose...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Nearly driving off a cliff after finding himself once again young and vibrant, Adam West discovered he had somehow been transported inside the screenplay for an espionage thriller. After the true nature of this surreal scenario is revealed, Mr. West must find a way to dispense justice, or become trapped in this fictional universe forever."
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As Britt Reid fights to live up to the legacy of The Green Hornet, will he ruin his fathers other legacy? The newspaper industrys plight hits the Daily Sentinel, and a harsh round of layoffs puts Britt on edge. As the elder Kato helps him grasp a problem he can't beat with his fists, Britts frustration drives him to shocking brutality in a search for the source of a human trafficking ring. Written by newspaper veteran Mark Rahner of The Seattle Times,...
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