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Crime, Graphic NovelsPages Strangers In Paradise TPB Vol. 17: Tattoo Free spirit Casey finds new roommates in Vegas showgirl, Rusty, and her adorable son, Cody. She soon becomes entangled in their heartbreaking story and realizes that a stalker is lurking around every corner. Katchoo and David arrive in Las Vegas with big news as the stalker makes his move. Stagger Lee TPB On Christmas Eve 1895 shots rang out in a St. Louis barroom. A hundred years and a thousand songs later this ordinary little murder had become a legend. This is the true story of what happened after Stagger Lee shot Billy. Small Gods Vol. 1: Killing Grin TPB In 1991, after decades of skepticism and disbelief, the existence of psychic powers was finally, definitively proven. Today, an estimated 1% of the world's population possesses psychic abilities. These people are not superheroes. In most ways, they're just ordinary people, living ordinary lives. They have families, careers and dreams; they eat, sleep, live - and die. One such person is precognitive Detective Owen Young. Small Gods Volume 1: Killing Grin tells the story of the terrible decision he faces when a secret he's kept for years - a secret that could send not only him, but many of his friends to prison - falls into the hands of an opportunistic criminal. This trade paperback features the sold-out, critically acclaimed Small Gods #1-4, plus sketches, pin-ups, covers and special bonus features never before seen! Strangers In Paradise TPB Vol. 16: Molly & Poo Molly has a secret, a very bloody secret. From a teenage Death wannabe to convicted axe murderer, Molly's story is told in her own words, offering a fascinating insight into the mind of a psychopath. This trade paperback collects the entire Molly & Poo saga, from quirky beginning to shocking end. Vatican City Las Vegas TPB In the last night of time, in a Vegas casino fashioned after the Vatican, author Thomas Carlyle is as good as dead. Swilling a mortal dose of alcohol, he will perish among the ridiculously grotesque patrons of Vatican City, Las Vegas as they pursue an elusive jackpot token called The Godhead. Carlyle unwittingly bumbles through corporate mafia intrigue as Vatican City's management, the Medici Crime Family, plots to enslave all the casino patrons to dreams of eternal wealth.Desperate to restore some meaning to life in his last hours, Carlyle, in the company of his 'squire', the French midget Soo Soo, undertakes a surreal Grail quest to renew his failed love affair with casino cocktail nun Mona Mour. As the night deepens and the forces of Vegas evil threaten to rob human existence of all nonmaterial significance. Carlyle dreams a final reckoning that will bring the Medici Crime Family and all of Vatican City's managerial clergy to justice in a shocking cinematic twist. A brutal and brilliant satire of modern...... Outlaw Nation TPB The complete saga complete in one volume! Story Johnson, a 100 year-old semi-deranged amnesiac pulp fiction-writer returns home from 25 years MIA in Vietnam. All Story wants is to recover his missing time and catch up with some legendary, larger-than-life Johnson Family members. Trouble is, a lot of cousins have 'disappeared,' and those that are left have put the blame on him. 100 Bullets TPB Vol. 10: Decayed Following Lono's ascension to warlord for the houses of the Trust, the last remaining Minutemen are activated as the players on both sides ready themselves for the endgame of their private war. Enslaved By The Dragon Vol. 1 GN The street punk Noah Grant pick-pockets a crime lord right before he has a meeting with an embassy official. When crime lord Tokihiko can't produce his identification he misses the important meeting. Tokihiko captures Noah to torture him to death. When he sees how beautiful Noah is he makes him his slave instead. Maze Agency Vol. 1 TPB Mike Barr (w); Adam Hughes Rick Magyar (a) Represented for the first time since their original publication The Maze Agency Vol. 1 collects writer Mike W. Barr's first adventures of private eye Jennifer Mays and her boyfriend true-crime writer and amateur sleuth Gabriel Webb. Their expanding relationship plays a backdrop to the cases they investigate all of them whodunits that the reader can solve along with Jen and Gabe-if you're quick enough! This is the Eisner-nominated series that brought artist Adam Hughes to the attention of comics fandom inked by comics vet Rick Magyar. Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight TPB Jack Herriman isn't the kind of guy to run away from a tough case, but the death of a young woman he was hired to find will test his limits. What starts as a simple missing persons case will lead him down a crooked path of sex, drugs and murder where the only thing more elusive than the killer is the truth, hiding among the emotional wreckage of the past. This Vertigo story is written by Ed Brubaker, with pencils by Michael Lark and inks by Sean Phillips. Sandman Mystery Theatre TPB Vol. 4: The Scorpion Wesley Dodds, a man goaded by unquiet dreams to fight injustice in the night, is a person of considerable means. But wealth cannot insulate him from the evils of a world descending into total war, or protect him form the rage of those damaged souls who inhabit its shadows. In his masked excursions as the Sandman, Dodds has gazed upon some of the darkest faces of human corruption, all the while struggling to keep himself in the light. The love growing between him and Dian Belmont has been a lifeline in this effort, but the weight of his secret life is straining their bond to the breaking point - and when The Scorpion comes calling, Dodds will learn just how much he needs Din, both in and out of the mask. Collecting issues #17-20 of the acclaimed reimagination of the original Sandman. Sandman Mystery Theatre TPB Vol. 3: The Vamp Cloaked in the mask of the Sandman, Wesley Dodds exposed those festering secrets that can cripple the souls of the guilty and the innocent alike. So it is with the case of The Vamp, a serial murderer whose methods and motives speak of a horror long nurtured in shame and rage. Independently searching for the truth behind that horror, Wesley and his paramour Dian Belmont find themselves on converging paths - each full of danger, and each a window onto the world's hidden sins and joys. The third collection of the Eisner Award-nominated reinvention of the pulp detective genre, Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Vamp reunites the title's founding creative team of writer Matt Wagner and artist Guy Davis, and also marks the series debut of co-writer Steven T. Seagle. |
