Recommendations based on "Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea"

How can Marc Spector fight someone no one knows? Out for blood, Moon Knight hits the streets armed with only a name: Zodiac! But sometimes the streets hit back - and Marc, fighting his way through the underworld to answer a question he's barely grasped, had better watch his back! Then, when an unnatural labyrinth swallows up his people, Moon Knight faces an impossible challenge! And as an assassin infiltrates the Midnight Mission, another hidden enemy strikes where Marc is most vulnerable. Attacked on two fronts, the Fist of Khonshu is on the defensive - but that's where he's most dangerous! Plus: Arrested during the DEVIL'S REIGN event, Moon Knight must fight for survival in a high-tech prison filled with the very criminals he helped put away! Collecting MOON KNIGHT (2021) #7-12 and DEVIL'S REIGN: MOON KNIGHT.

WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSKIMONO DRAGONS brings the hunt for Ampersand—the monkey who could unlock the mystery of the male-killing plague— to its explosive climax, as the last man on Earth and his companions finally reach Japan and discover the truth behind Ampersand's abduction. Collects issues #43-48 of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning Vertigo series.

The world of internationally acclaimed author Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak brought to life as you've never seen it before! Darren Shan was an average kid until destiny brought him to the Cirque du Freak. Now Darren's been immersed into a shadowy world inhabited by vampires, werewolves, and strange creatures the likes of which he's never imagined, and his life will be changed forever!

Only Doctor Strange can protect our world from the darkness beyond - but every spell he casts comes with a cost! Now, witness the full toll taken on Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, courtesy of the comic book wizardry of Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo! Dark forces are destroying everything mystical in the Multiverse, and their sights are set on this dimension. The Empirikul are coming. Magic's days are numbered. Doctor Strange - and his fellow practitioners of the mystical arts - are not ready! And as Strange finds himself at the weakest he's ever been, his greatest foes return from the shadows ready to strike - starting with his oldest rival, Baron Mordo! Can Stephen survive his lethal rogues' gallery? Plus: the spellbinding debut of the Sorcerers Supreme! Collecting: Doctor Strange (2015) 1-20, Doctor Strange Annual (2016) 1, Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic (2016) 1

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults. This specially priced volume collects the first six issues of the smash-hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make." Voted one of the top graphic novels of the year by the NYT, IGN, the Examiner, and SF Weekly. Voted Best Comic of the year by MTV Geek and Best New Series by Paradox Comics. Voted a finalist in the GoodReads Best GN of 2012 contest.

Collects Daredevil (2018) #6-10. The Man Without Fear is missing! Daredevil has disappeared from Hell's Kitchen - and in his absence, the real devils are starting to come out to play. Detective Cole North may think he's stopped Daredevil, but there are bigger problems coming his way! Meanwhile, Matt Murdock has emerged from his recent ordeals a changed man - but has he changed for better or worse? As he faces up to the choices he has made, Matt grapples with who he is and who he wants to be. Can he truly live a life without the suit?

Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn's hilarious, nonstop reinvention of the Merc With a Mouth continues! First, it's a lost adventure from the groovy seventies as Deadpool hits the streets with Power Man and Iron Fist! Then, when Deadpool's Weapon X past returns to haunt him, he recruits fellow Weapon Plus "alumni" Wolverine and Captain America! The reluctant team learns that Deadpool's past has been weaponized, but can they unite to take this new threat down? And when S.H.I.E.L.D. stiffs Deadpool on a bill, he declares a one-man war on the agency! But as S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers someone has been betraying them - and it seems to be Agent Preston - Deadpool faces down Agent Phil Coulson on the Helicarrier! Plus: Take another trip back to the past as the Deadpool wreaks havoc on a cosmic level! COLLECTING: Deadpool 13-25

Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan continue their Deadpool double act - and they're there for Wade Wilson's good times, bad times and downright ugly times! Things take a turn for the dark as the Merc with a Mouth is haunted by his Weapon X past. Can his brothers-in-arms Wolverine and Captain America help Deadpool through his most harrowing story ever? Better hope so, because he needs to be in good shape for his next battle - against S.H.I.E.L.D.! And he'll want to be on top of his game for a tomb-raiding adventure filled with action, romance - and vampires! Wade is running the gauntlet to retrieve a bride for Dracula - but when Shiklah the Succubus Queen makes her monstrous debut, will Deadpool win the fair heart of the fearsome lady? COLLECTING: DEADPOOL (2012) 15-19, 21-25; DEADPOOL: DRACULA'S GAUNTLET 1-7

Scott Pilgrim has two girls on the go. When he's with Knives Chau, he feels like he can erase his past and start over. When he's with Ramona Flowers, he's ready to accept all that, grow up and move on. His life is fantastic. He is twenty-something years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until the seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. In book 6, six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, but didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour!

God is dead! And Walker and Sunrise are investigating his murder. Yeah. God. Don't believe me? Then buy the book and find out what's going on in this cops and capes drama that has NO RULES!! Oh, and Deena Pilgrim returns and the how and why is going to surprise you!! All that and Retro Girl finds herself infected with a deadly alien virus.COLLECTING:Powers #7-11