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Author
Publisher
Aella Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The graphic novel 2184 ½ is about a hero who rises to stop the country from destroying itself. Set in the distant future, the Deconstructed States of America are ruled over by the Ones, descendants of America's richest families who were inspired by the radical nationalists of the 21st century. The country is broken up into Tribes fighting for scarce resources: among them, a young female biker mechanic of mysterious origins starts the revolution that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly-what exists beyond the wall. Her only source of information is a talking TV monitor in her living room called Shiatsung....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Here’s the deal—on midnight of January 1st, 2000, the world ended. But it wasn’t technology that killed it: It was magic. Now, years later, the Earth has transformed. Magic works (sort of). People are happy (sort of). But this new world isn’t stable, and unless Marguerite de Pruitt and her canine pal, Daisy, do something about it, it’ll tilt into deadly chaos. Good thing they’ve been training their whole lives for this and are destined...
Series
Knee deep volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk, their home, the bowels of a utopian city that was never completed. Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH wants to get their claws...
Series
Everything is fine volume 2
Publisher
Webtoon Unscrolled
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After a mild disagreement and a tiny bit of unpleasantness, things are back on their way to being fine and dandy. Sam and Maggie just need to clean up a very big mess. This is the story of a couple doing their very best to get by in a world where things are absolutely, totally, and unquestionably fine.
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers...
Series
Horizon (Manhwa) volume 1
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move forward. But against broken adults and devastating despair, how long will they be able to keep going ...?"--Page 4 of cover.
9) Happy hour
Author
Publisher
AHOY Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In future America, being happy isn't just a right -- it's the law. While the Joy Police brutally enforce the cheery code, two young people go on the run, searching for a haven of melancholy where they can safely bask in the blues"--
Author
Series
Ballad of Halo Jones volume 1
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Halo Jones grows bored with the life in The Loop a futuristic slum where jobs are scarce and excitement is non-existent she yearns to escape and see the galaxy. But in a city where dangerous riots happen at the slightest provocation and even going to the shops is an ordeal requiring careful planning and a handful of zen-inducing-grenades, the price of freedom might prove to be more than she bargained for!
11) A-Do: 2
Series
A-Do volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An explosive confrontation between Eito, Riko, and the army ends with Riko grievously wounded by Renji. Just when all hope seems lost, the sight of Riko's body awakens a terrible power in Eito, and the mercurial Renji turns on his masters. Eito and Renji then go plunging over the bridge guardrails and into the river below. As the army issues a search for the two renegades, Colonel Tsujiura descends into the depths of the research facility to enlist...
12) A-Do: 3
Series
A-Do volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Double trouble After successfully dispatching the hulking assassin known as Demian, Eito finds himself facing down two of his comrades, Rin and Ain. He soon discovers that this new pair of foes won’t be half as easy as Demian. Between fending off Ain’s venomous vines and Rin’s drill-like appendages, Eito is hard-pressed to land a single blow. What follows is a desperate defensive battle that will push Eito’s abilities to the limit."--
13) A-Do: 1
Series
A-Do volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Following a wave of immigration, Japan has became a volatile mix of people and cultures, rocked by the protests of xenophobic extremists unhappy with the new status quo. A brash, job-hopping young woman named Riko is driving her scooter through one such protest when she sees a boy about to get run over by a truck. Riko just manages to shove him out of the way, and, in the hours that follow, she finds herself looking after the boy, named Eito. Riko...
Series
Touring after the apocalypse volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Youko and Airi's next stop is Umihotaru, a rest stop in the middle of Tokyo Bay famous for its nighttime views--but with the Aqua-Line tunnel from Kawasaki flooded, they're forced to take a huge detour all the way to Kisarazu! On the way, the two swing by Akihabara to investigate a mysterious radio signal.. Could someone still be alive there...?" -- Back cover.
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him. Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Street urchins Black and White have skyscraper-sized chips on their shoulders, but are fiercely loyal to each other. Black is especially quick to avenge any slight against his dim-witted pal. The result? The citizens of Treasure Town are afraid of them, the police are afraid of them--even the local yakuza gangsters are afraid of them! But when the crime boss known as the "Rat" returns to Treasure Town, it looks like there's gonna be a rumble..."--...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""I need you to do something. Something only you can do." Forever Carlyle disobeyed her father's orders to kill her own brother, during the Conclave that plunged the Families into a global war. Now, unknown to anyone but Forever, Jonah Carlyle is on the run...and after years of battlefield combat, Forever brings the attack into the homes of Carlyle's enemies."-- provided by publisher.
18) Space junk
Author
Publisher
Tops Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder "what's the point?" Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who've spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into one another's orbits as they try to stay in place in a universe that is moving all...
19) Gachiakuta: 3
Series
Gachiakuta volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to find a way back to the Sphere, Rudo returned with The Cleaners to their HQ. Unfortunately, the one person who might have had answers, their boss, was out of town. In an effort to be useful, he volunteered himself for what should have been a simple job. But it turns out that using his newfound powers is harder than it looks! To make matters worse, there's a dangerous group called "Raiders" who have their sights set on Rudo, and they'll do...
20) Bad island
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A starkly beautiful, wordless graphic novel about the end of the world by the cult artist and long-time Radiohead collaborator. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and man appears, with clubs, with spears, with crueler weapons still--and things do not go well for the wilderness. Civilization rises as towers...
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