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Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Death awaits us all. Really, it's the one thing we all have in common. But that doesn't make it easy to talk about. None of us can agree on what happens after the end comes, how much we should think about it beforehand, or even what death should mean to the living. And these questions make a lot of folks uncomfortable. So let's get into it! This anthology features an introduction by death positivity movement pioneer and activist mortician Caitlin...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's...
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"What if we found a cure for death? Years after the discovery of a genetic cure for mortality, one man starts to questions everything, leading him on a mind-bending journey that will bring him face-to-face with his past and his own personal legacy." -- page [4] of cover.
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Series
Angel beats! Heaven's door volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Based on the hit anime, Angel Beats!, this brand new manga series delves into the early years of the Angel Beats! universe, as we learn the origin story of heroine Yuri, who assembles a motley crew of deserted souls in their fight against God.
6) The sea
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A fisherman traversing the ocean&is used to danger and surprise, but what happens when he pulls up his net and catches a newborn baby and a talking fish? Thus begins a story full of provocative symbolism and a madness that doesnt just bubble beneath the surface of the water, but drenches the sailor and reader like a tidal wave. Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen makes her English-language debut with this seafaring tale soaked in surrealism that is...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Marvel Comics artist Scott Koblish (Deadpool, Spider-Man) has been illustrating his own demise for many years in morbidly funny, 4-panel black-and-white comics. He's the one person struck by a comet, suddenly overrun by a pack of baboons, resting under the precarious rock tipped by a single bird, or the target of his daughter's (of course homicidal) teddy bear come to life. Though it's always Scott on the receiving end, the comics perfectly capture...
Author
Series
Soul Eater. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Weapon meister Maka is determined to turn her partner, a living scythe named Soul Eater, into a powerful death scythe, and Maka and her fellow meisters work to master their weapons as they attempt to collect and devour the tainted souls of ninety-nine humans and one witch.
10) Suncatcher
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beatriz loves music. More than her schoolmore than her friendsand definitely more than her homework. After Beatriz discovers that her grandfathers soul is trapped in his guitar, she becomes determined to get him out. But the only way to free him is to play the perfect songhis perfect song, a song that he never actually wrote down& Fixated on freeing her grandfather, music slowly consumes Beatrizs life. She soon finds herself growing obsessed with...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this deeply moving first-person story, an introverted high school boy finds his classmate s diary and learns her biggest secret. Yamauchi Sakura is dying from a pancreatic disease and now he is the only one person outside her family to know the truth. The last thing the boy wants is to be her friend, but Sakura s cheerful demeanor and their shared secret draw them together in this heartrending tale of friendship and mortality."-- cover page 4....
13) Frogcatchers
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. The padlocked doors and barren lobby reinforce the strangeness of this place. This is as he reads from an old-fashioned keychain beside his bed the Edgewater Hotel. Even worse, something ominous seems to be lurking in one of the rooms. But when he meets a young companion the only other soul in this vast, enveloping emptiness his new friend begs him not to...
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Scarper Lee's world, parents don't make children--children make parents. Scarper's father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a billowing sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world, it rains knives and household appliances have souls. There are no birthdays--only deathdays. Scarper knows he has just three weeks to live. As his deathday approaches, he is forced from his routine and strikes out into the unknown--where...
Author
Series
Death note volume 5
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
L asks Light, though he is still under suspicion, to join the taskforce and help locate the second Kira. Light agrees so he can access the taskforce resources, but when he finally meets the new Kira, she's not at all what he expects.
19) Shadow life
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko's well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it's not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping...
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