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1) War Bears
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3.
Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing.
A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal...
2) War Angels
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It's the year 2504. In the aftermath of an apocalyptic war, the surviving humans are ruled by the Beasterians, animal-human hybrids created to be the ultimate soldiers, but who instead became merciless tyrants. Doomed to extinction, humanity's future rests with the savior whose birth is foretold by the Post-Testament Bible.
3) War Birds
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two renegade AI minds want to simply make conversationnot war!
When a bipedal, independent robot soldier makes a unique connection with an injured, flying drone, they flee the warzone theyre in to seek lives of their own. Their military builders want to destroy them, though, while a sympathetic pair of humans tries what they can to free the errant bots from military service!
Steve Parkhouse, artist and co-creator of Resident Alien, joins writer...
4) Zombie War
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When the denizens of Earths military cemeteries begin to rise from the dead, who will stop them? Over ZOMBIE WARs two giant-sized issues, Jina, a tough-as-nails fighter pilot sets about uncovering what reanimated these heavily armed monsters and more importantly, what will stop them?!
5) Monster War
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
BY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN AND TOM SNIEGOWSKI; ART BY JOYCE CHIN AND VITOR ISHIMURA; COLORS BY SCOTT KESTER; COVER BY MARC SILVESTRI AND JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER (50/50 SPLIT) The first appearance of the Classic Monsters is now available in one trade paperback collection! Debuting in a special cross-over with the Top Cow Universe, the Classic Monsters have their sights set on Ash in the current AOD storyline, but see where it all began in this new TPB! Reprinting...
6) Cold War
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed creator John Byrne releases his latest creation, MI-6 agent Michael Swann. In Swann's opening adventure, "The Damocles Contract," the secret agent is called on to stop a defecting British scientist from granting the Soviets complete nuclear dominion over the free world... promising ample doses of intrigue and espionage.
7) God of War
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The God of War takes on the world of Norse gods, starting with a cult of bear berserkers!
Kratos, God of War, has returned! His war on the gods of Olympus long past, Kratos builds a new life for himself in the remote Norse wilds. Seeking to put the rage that defined most of his life behind him, Kratos inadvertently sparks a feud with a mysterious cult of berserkers after attempting to save a stranger being mauled by a monstrous bear. But for the...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Long ago, soldiers from Greece and Troy battled in a deadly war that began over a woman's love and ended with the infamous Trojan Horse. Discover how warriors such as Achilles and Hector became legends in the Trojan War. Follow the exciting events as the Greeks and Trojans clash in graphic novel format.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Europe, 1942-the world is at war! As the Allies battle against the Axis, able bodied men everywhere enlist in the war effort, including Cliff Secord. Secord, also known as The Rocketeer, has been thrust full throttle into the heat of battle, and-with or without his jet pack-he will depend on his wits and daring if he is to survive! Collects issues #1-4.
10) War Mother #1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Out of the pages of 4001 A.D., the breakout hero of the 41st century charges onward in an high-powered tale of tomorrow from New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and high-octane artists Stephen Segovia (NINJAK,Action Comics) and Toms Giorello (X-O MANOWAR)!
Two millennia from today, Earth is not the hospitable home we once knew. Ravaged by an endless onslaught of war, disaster, and time, the world is littered with...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
During World War Two, an American squad encounters a superhuman German unit and starts a Eugenics Race that carries into present day. Collecting the War Stories of the Grunts, there are contributions from Kevin Grevioux (New Warriors), Christopher E. Long (Wetworks), Dwight MacPherson (Archibald Saves Christmas), Howard Wong (After The Cape), Marc Bernardin/Adam Freeman (The Authority), Mike Bullock (The Phantom), Jimmie Robinson (Bomb Queen), Rob...
12) War and Peas
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From the creators of the hugely popular Instagram comic War and Peas, this offbeat four-panel comic features a dark, fairy-tale aesthetic and a twist ending each time. War and Peas: Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers combine twisted humor with a beloved cast of characters including the grim reaper (seen here as an unintentionally lethal man of leisure), a robot in hopelessly in love with his scientist creator, and a promiscuous yet self-assured witch....
13) God War #2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Odyssey arrives in the Underworld only to find a renegade Mayan priestess trying to resurrect the glory of an ancient empire. A depleted and exhausted Odyssey is the only thing standing between an undead army fueled by Soul Fire and the world of the living. The team battles valiantly through countless foes to restore balance, to bring shadow back to the land of eternal darkness. As the battle rages, Venus is forced to confront her past and make a...
14) God War #1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Darkness spreads for the goddess of love. Venus struggles to pull her life together after the death of the man she treasures above all others, only to learn of a terrible scourge now growing deep inside her own body. Then, the call comes. Odyssey is mustered to confront evil happenings in the Underworld. Hitherto one of the groups most powerful members, Venus struggles to find her place. Some view her as more of a liability as she copes with looming...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Your compassionate portrayal of Lieutenant B.D.'s recovery and struggle . . . has touched our Warrior family and opened the eyes of the rest of the world to the physical, emotional, and personal challenges our soldiers face."
The initial stages of B.D.'s recovery from losing a leg in Iraq were dramatically portrayed in The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time, but his healing journey was far from over. As this powerful sequel shows, the "war within"...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Rear Admiral Steve Kunkle, commander of the carrier strike force, grimaced at a Doonesbury comic strip from the Japan Times. It showed a Navy pilot thinking 'Oops!'" As Doonesbury shifts to a wartime footing, the strip's major players find themselves pre-positioned for the coming cakewalk. Weekend warrior B.D. leaves the Fighting Swooshes of Walden in the care of acting Coach Boopstein, returning to the sands of Kuwait as Camp Blowback's Public Affairs...
17) Cla$$war #3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay – A team of super-powered heroes, created by the US government as instruments of American foreign policy, help bring order to a chaotic world. But, all is not well. AMERICAN – the figurehead of the team – is AWOL and angry as hell, posing a major security alert to both the President and the entire nation. But why? What made this national hero take such drastic action and turn his back on the country that made him? And how can the government...
18) Cla$$war #6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay – A team of super-powered heroes, created by the US government as instruments of American foreign policy, help bring order to a chaotic world. But, all is not well. AMERICAN – the figurehead of the team – is AWOL and angry as hell, posing a major security alert to both the President and the entire nation. But why? What made this national hero take such drastic action and turn his back on the country that made him? And how can the government...
19) Cla$$war #4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay – A team of super-powered heroes, created by the US government as instruments of American foreign policy, help bring order to a chaotic world. But, all is not well. AMERICAN – the figurehead of the team – is AWOL and angry as hell, posing a major security alert to both the President and the entire nation. But why? What made this national hero take such drastic action and turn his back on the country that made him? And how can the government...
20) Cla$$war #2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Enola Gay – A team of super-powered heroes, created by the US government as instruments of American foreign policy, help bring order to a chaotic world. But, all is not well. AMERICAN – the figurehead of the team – is AWOL and angry as hell, posing a major security alert to both the President and the entire nation. But why? What made this national hero take such drastic action and turn his back on the country that made him? And how can the government...
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