Dave Gibbons
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This volume is a companion reference to the comic book series Watchmen. The series was originally published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The Watchmen comic series depicts an alternate history where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s, helping the United States to win the Vietnam War. The author (and co-creator of the Watchmen comics) gives his own account of...
4) Watchmen
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Formats
Description
This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin. Originally published as a 12 issue series in 1986 and 1987, WATCHMEN remains one of DC Comics' most popular graphic novels.
Series
Captain America volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Captain America lives again! But the Sentinel of Liberty wakes from the ice in a very different world - one where, in his absence, the Nazis won the war! Can Steve Rogers, and a resistance movement filled with familiar faces, re-turn the tide of history? Back in familiar surroundings, Captain America is forced to look at his homeland afresh when he serves on a military tribunal for an anti-war activist accused of being a terrorist! Then, as the Avengers...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The story begins in the squalied corridors of a maximum-security housing project, where a young girl will rise from the war-torn streets of Chicago to battle injustice in a world insane with corruption. Her fight will take her far: from the front lines of the second American Civil War, to the cold, unforgiving reaches of space. She will be called a hero, a traitor, and nearly everything in between, but all along the way, her courage, her integrity,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"From the writer of Kick-Ass and the artist of Watchmen comes a collaboration decades in the making! The world's greatest secret agent is on the most exciting case of his career. But will the end of the world as know it take a back seat to training his street-punk nephew to be the next James Bond? meanwhile, what's the secret link between a series of kidnapped sci-fi stars, the murder of an entire town, and a dark secret from inside Mount Everest?...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Experience the groundbreaking graphic novel, in a whole new way. Each of the original 12-chapters are brought to life with mild animation, music and voice over. Perfect for the die-hard Watchmen crowd, as well as the casual fan, looking to get reacquainted with the story.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based upon the acclaimed comic book, the movie tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
13) Watchmen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the secret organization headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads the agents to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that's becoming...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tales of the Black Freighter chronicles a castaway's increasingly desperate attempts to return home to warn his family of the impending arrival of the Black Freighter, a phantom pirate ship which houses the souls of the damned.
Under the Hood details the establishment and disbandment of the superheroes known as the Watchmen.