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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.

Dreams and nightmares! Moon Knight wrestles with revelations from a savage murder - and there's more blood on the streets as assassins work their way through the list of names who once formed his Shadow Cabinet! But with a number of potential targets and no idea who's next, how can Moon Knight save his former associates? And when a sinister pied piper plays a deadly tune - one that spells death and chaos to all who hear it - Marc must figure out how to fight someone whose will is not their own! Tigra stalks the Midnight Man across the concrete jungle, and the Midnight Mission welcomes a surprising traveler in need of aid: Venom! But when the boundaries between the waking world and the realm of sleep grow porous, Moon Knight must face his old enemy Morpheus! Collecting MOON KNIGHT (2021) #19-24.

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.

A "New York Times" Best Seller! Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. This edition of WATCHMEN, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore, the award-winning writer of V FOR VENDETTA and BATMN: THE KILLING JOKE, and Dave Gibbons, the artist of GREEN LANTERN, features the high-quality, recolored pages found in WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION with sketches, never-before-seen extra bonus materials and a new introduction by Dave Gibbons.

When the rocket carrying an infant Superman lands in the U.S.S.R. instead of the United States, his presence creates a very different universe for the familiar DC Comics characters.

"First: a low-yield nuclear bomb rips through a crowded market in Africa, incinerating everyone in its radius, the tech residue left behind determined to have Stark written all over it. It's the awakening of Tony Stark's worst nightmares: a leaner, meaner, younger and more advanced version of his genius, tinged in pure evil. As Iron Man faces Ezekiel Stane-- the genocidal son of one of his oldest enemies-- events conspire that will change the life of loyal friend Pepper Potts forever! Then: Tony Stark has locked the registration database of super-hero secret identities in the one place nobody would think to look for it: his brain. Nobody, that is, except Norman Osborn, who as newly installed vanguard of national security sends a message to all points: 'Bring me the head of Tony Stark!' The manhunt is on for the formerly invincible Iron Man, resulting in a shock ending that could mean the downfall of Osborn's Dark Reign-- or just the beginning! Guest-starring black Widow, War Machine, Sub-Mariner and Madam Masque, it's a tale for the armored ages" -- dust jacket flap.

A BOLD NEW CHAPTER IN STEPHEN KING'S THE DARK TOWER SAGA! Twelve years have passed since the fateful Battle of Jericho Hill and the fall of the gunslingers. Since the Affiliation's resistance against John Farson became little more than a faint memory. Since the friends that stood by young Roland Deschain burned to ash in the Good Man's razing of Gilead. But Roland survived...and now he stalks the desert, hunting the spectral Man in Black in his quest for the Dark Tower. Join Robin Furth, Peter David and Richard Isanove as they welcome superstar artist Sean Phillips (INCOGNITO) into the ka-tet of creators entrusted by Stephen King himself to bring the adult adventures of his most personal creation to life! COLLECTING: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger #1-5

Knight's end! The past comes back to bedevil Moon Knight as he pursues his latest enemy - someone at once familiar and new. Hunting for answers, he is haunted by the last mission of the Karnak Cowboys - a mercenary crew counting among its members Marc Spector, Jean-Paul Duchamp, Robert Plesko...and Layla El-Faouly! Meanwhile, as Moon Knight is left to deal with apocalyptic events, Khonshu's other faithful Fist, Hunter's Moon, leads new converts to war. But was his most recent resurrection flawed? And does this new weakness spell doom for Dr. Badr? Both Moon Knight and Hunter's Moon are searching for the Black Spectre, with the fate of Manhattan - and a pivotal life - hanging in the balance! With all hope of another resurrection gone, everything is on the line for Moon Knight! Collecting MOON KNIGHT (2021) #25-30.

When Frank Castle's family was gunned down by mobsters, he became the obsessed vigilante known as The Punisher. In this new volume, the acclaimed creative team of Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, and Jimmy Palmiotti take the Punisher on a blood-soaked round-the-world cruise. From the heights of New York's Empire State Building - where an old enemy returns to battle both Castle and the Amazing Spider Man - to the criminal sanctuary called Grand Nixon Island, the Punisher cuts a swath of destruction throguh criminals and corrupt military men alike. Then it's back to Manhattan for the offbeat short story "Do Not Fall in New York City," and a haunting, wordless epilogue. It's a night with the Punisher that you'll never forget

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