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My favorite thing is monsters volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around...
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Series
Puella magi Suzune magica volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With the entrance of a new magical girl who stands in opposition to Suzune, she finds herself struggling for the first time in her fate to become the ultimate magical girl assassin.
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Series
Black butler volume 12
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The decks of the Campania run red with blood when the corpses brought back to a semblance of life by the Aurora Society's 'absolute salvation' turn on the ship's passengers in a ghoulish farce. With their investigation waylaid by this primitive struggle for survival, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his exceptional butler, Sebastian, are trapped at the mercy of both the unnatural and Mother Nature herself.
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Series
Velvet (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director of the Agency. But Velvet has a dark secret buried in her past...a secret that's about to tear her whole world apart.
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Series
Loveless manga volume 6
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The secret behind Seimei's disappearance and apparent death begins to be unveiled ...and the consequences are devastating to both Ritsuka and Soubi.
12) Chew: ,Flambé
Author
Series
Chew volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
What will happen to Tony Chu, the FDA's cibopathic agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from whatever he eats, now that alien writing has appeared in the sky and the once powerful FDA is becoming irrelevant?
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Holmes and Watson tackle brain-teasing crimes in modern-day London in this stunning Manga, presented in its original right-to-left reading order, and in the full chapters as originally serialized! Meet Holmes and Watson for the first time... all over again!"--Amazon.com
14) Ruby Falls
Author
Publisher
Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When 20-something Lara's grandmother Clara starts to share deeply-buried, violent memories of their small mining town's most mysterious cold case murder, Lana is hooked. She becomes obsessed with cracking the long-forgotten case, even if it means snapping the minds of everyone involved, splintering the peaceful town- and putting herself in grave danger. Ruby Falls is a mystery woven through three generations of women, and hinging on their individual,...
Series
Spectacle volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fan-favorite webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris (Yu+Me Dream) crafts a compelling tale of magic, deception, and wonder in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel about the bond between sisters. Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're...
17) Dying is easy
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Syd 'Sh*t-Talk' Homes, a disgraced ex-cop turned bitter stand-up comics turned...possible felon? When someone asks Syd how much it would cost to have Carl Dixon killed, Syd isn't surprised in the slightest. Dixon is on the verge of comedy superstardom and he got there the dirty way: by stealing jokes. He's got a killer act, an ugly past, and more enemies than punchlines. But once Syd's accuse of Dixon's murder, he's on the run and it's going...
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he''s a hell of a detective - as long as he doesn''t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit and why. He''s been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest,...
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