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3) Black river
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors" --provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.
Author
Series
Stickman Odyssey volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Continues the misadventures of ancient-world stickman Zozimos, who after surviving numerous catastrophes returns to his family but then embarks on a perilous sea voyage, where mercenary centaurs and giant boar gods keep Zozimos questing.
6) Next stop
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Still grieving her brother's death, Pia, a soft-spoken middle-schooler, embarks on a bus tour that changes her life.
7) Ody-C
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015?-
Language
English
Description
An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Following the catastrophic final jump of the Pillar, the last Dimensionaut is stranded in the furthest reaches of space, adrift on the wreckage of his former self. Before he can reclaim his mantle as protector of the Eververse, he must first overcome the demons that lurk within his own soul. And when he emerges from this dark night he'll find that all of reality is more in need of a hero than ever before."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Stranded on a world ravaged by plague, Grant McCoy realizes that every dimension they've passed through has been devastated by Pillar technology. Even as Grant tries to reclaim the Dimensionaut credo 'Leave every world better than how we found it,' his team threatens to tear itself apart from within. With the timer to the Pillar's final jump ticking down, Grant risks losing everything he's fought to protect while fighting to save a world that isn't...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Grant McKay forges a path through the ravaged Eververse, determined to undo the damage he caused. His first stop is a world where his estranged daughter Pia has managed a peace offering between three godlike races, ending eons of brutal warfare. Grant's appearance threatens to destroy the fragile truce, sending him on a quest to finally bring his family home...but what he finds waiting for him there may be worse than the multitude horrors he encountered...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Alone at the end of the world, Aria is a woman with a mission! As she traipses through an overgrown city with a cat named Jelly Beans, Aria is on a fruitless search for an ancient relic with immeasurable power. But when a creepy savage sets her on a path to complete her quest, she'll face death in the hopes of claiming her prize" --
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The witches Andy, Claire, and Jolene find themselves back on the road traveling across the American Southwest when a mysterious dark force possesses Claire. Spells and confessions fly as the group confronts phantoms, cryptids, and personal drama. As they make their way along the I-10 toward the elusive presence possessing Claire, they discover you can't go home again, not really, and they're running out of time."--Provided by publisher.
15) The closet
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Collects a tale of existential horror by James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Razorblades) and Gavin Fullerton (Bog Bodies, Bags). Thom is moving cross-country with his family and dragging the past along with them. When his child, Jamie, is seeing monsters in the bedroom closet, Thom reassures him that they will stay in the apartment after the move. But Thom is very wrong about many things and the monsters do continue to find young Jamie."--...
16) Low
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015-
Language
English
Description
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope. Dive into an...
17) Compass south
Author
Series
Four points volume 1
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Setting out to explore the remote Outlands of Crutonia are the brave and multifarious crew of the H.M.S. Gwaniimander, under the command of Captain Quenterindy Quirk--a leader whose confidence exceeds his competence by several lengths of his own bushy tail. Quirk's voyage of discovery is quickly plunged into disaster and mystery, as the expedition encounters carnivorous giants, an unstable sorceress, and a valley of indestructible creatures. With...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: he has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality with his creation, the Pillar. But something went wrong, and now Grant and his team are lost, barreling through the boundless expanses of the Eververse, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.