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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Written by Alan Moore; Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben Created out of the Swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction. Inspired by the creation of writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson, Alan Moore took the Swamp Thing to new heights in the 1980s with his unique narrative approach. His provocative and groundbreaking writing, combined with masterly artwork by some of the medium's top artists, made SWAMP THING one of the great comics of the late twentieth century. This volume includes Moore's first seven issues, SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #21-27.

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman sold over 12 million copies for DC Comics and internationally during its seven-year run and is the most successful, most imitated, and most honored adult comic of all time. Winner of the first World Fantasy Award ever given to a comic, Gaiman's moody, twisted tales made Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, an icon recognized across the globe. Now Neil Gaiman has moved onto an even bolder undertaking. He has invited the most celebrated names in the fields of fantasy and horror to enter and expand the Sandman's shadowy realm in a spectacular collection of stories.

Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord over their respective realms. In this highly imaginative book that boasts a diverse styles of breathtaking art, these seven peculiar and powerful siblings each reveal more about their true being as they star in their own tales of curiosity and wonder. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS.

Lee. Kirby. Gruenwald. Byrne. Four of Marvel's unchallenged masters send us back beyond the Big Bang to see a past universe die, only to birth one of the greatest threats to the current one: Galactus! See his first victory over his first victims and join the world in awe at his arrival upon Earth, heralded by the Silver Surfer to face the Fantastic Four! But the Surfer has his own story to tell, and it may end in Earth's future, where Galactus stands poised to be humanity's destroyer, its god...or both. Includes art by award-winning French illustrator Moebius! Collects Super-Villain Classics #1, Fantastic Four #48-50, Silver Surfer #1 and Silver Surfer: Parable.

"Batman: Year One" is the first story in the collection (actually the last one of the three written) and it is a story that many Batman fans had hoped the fisrt Batman movie would have been based on. It is well told, and the major players in the Batman saga are introduced: Batman, Gordon, Alfed and Selina Kyle (Catwomen). Wanted: Santa Claus-Dead or Alive." "The Dark Knight Returns." This four chapter story is spectacular and a great piece of work: both in story telling and various artist expression. This psychological drama deals with an aging Batman, who at the age of 55, comes back to fight crime after a ten year absence. Miller insightfully deals with many subjects now addressed by our popular media. For example, the idea of a liberal soceity blaming crime on the agents of heroism instead on personal evil. Miller writes and demonstrates that victims are innocent people who try to live a virtous life, and Batman fights to protect a city dying of a cancer

This volume features the gritty, street-level action and moody atmosphere that made Miller's Daredevil classic -- including appearances by the Kingpin, Elektra and Bullseye.

Collects Daredevil (2019) 16-20. Will the Devil of Hell's Kitchen make his return? As Matt Murdock rekindles his alliance - and possibly more - with Elektra, New York Mayor Wilson Fisk works on some deadly allegiances of his own. But a war is building in Hell's Kitchen as Hammerhead makes his move, and the Owl takes a stab at the Kingpin! Matt Murdock must come to terms with what being Daredevil truly means. And he had better do it soon, as a new and deadly foe has arrived on the scene with a decisive strike - and all hell is about to break loose. As the streets burn, a gang of lethal super villains runs riot, and the Kitchen is left hanging by a thread. That thread...is Daredevil.

Welcome back, Frank! The Punisher returns, more brutal than ever, courtesy of writer Garth Ennis - and his perfect artistic partner, Steve Dillon! The critically acclaimed creators that brought you Preacher restore one of Marvel's most popular characters to ultraviolent glory - as a one-man army locked, loaded and ready to take out anyone in his way. And Frank starts with Ma Gnucci and her entire crime family! Spacker Dave, Joan the Mouse and Mr. Bumpo all await in one of the most celebrated Punisher stories ever told! And Frank's war on crime continues as he targets disgraced General Kreigkopf, and has a very unique team-up with Spider-Man! Plus, in Ennis' very first Punisher story, watch as Frank Castle unleashes his fury on the entire Marvel Universe!COLLECTING: PUNISHER (2000) 1-12, PUNISHER (2001) 1-5, PUNISHER KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE

The Green Door is completely open and Hell has ascended in New Mexico. Now the ruler of Hell has come to collect. It whispers through many mouths. It destroys with many hands. Its only weapon is hate. It wears human souls like masks to work its will. But in the lowest hell, underneath all others, all the masks come off - and The One Below All is fi nally revealed! Bruce Banner belongs to him. But the Hulk...not even Hell is strong enough to stop his horrific anger. In another life Rick Jones was the Hulk's best friend. He was there on the fateful day the Hulk was born. When the Hulk was a mindless brute, Rick was the only one who believed in him. But now Rick is dead and his body has been exhumed and stolen! And the Immortal Hulk wants to know why. To find the answers he seeks, Bruce Banner will have to face roaming gamma experiments and a ruthless assassin out for his blood. And when the Immortal Hulk is depowered it may be time for the return of Joe Fix-It! The fan-favorite run that's redefining Hulk mythos gets even more intense! COLLECTING: IMMORTAL HULK (2018) 11-20