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Coffin: The Art of Vampire Hunter D - nick & dent
 For over twenty years, the character Vampire Hunter D has haunted the imaginations of people around the world, its image forever etched in the mind's eye through the dazzling artwork of Yoshitaka Amano. As the original novels appear in English for the first time, American readers are clamoring for a more extensive look at this singular creation. Coffin obliges. This gorgeous retrospective embraces the full scope of Amano's work with the character: in the novels, as inspiration for the animators of the two theatrical films, rare paintings, and illustrations created for release as limited edition prints. • Amano's illustrations for Neil Gaiman's Sandman series and Greg Rucka's Elektra and Wolverine: The Redeemer won him legions of new fans. • Coffin features an original Vampire Hunter D short story by creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, available nowhere else! • The definitive Vampire Hunter D art book. 113 black and white illustrations and 72 amazing color images! |
Fairies HC - nick & dent
 Yoshitaka Amano's lush ethereal paintings of magical creatures, spirits, goblins, and apparitions have been praised and admired all over the world. In Fairies he turns his considerable talent to capturing in breathtaking images characters from such beloved stories as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , the wizard Merlin and his muse the intoxicating Nimue, mermaids of the deep as well as his interpretation of fairies from Celtic and Japanese mythology. • Will appeal to the legions of Vampire Hunter D fans worldwide. • Fans of Amano's work on the multi-million-copy selling Final Fantasy series of video games and Neil Gaiman's Sandman are sure to love Fairies . |
Crossing Midnight #16
 Special anthology issue. With Kai's surprise discovery last issue, Kai and his allies regroup to collect themselves. And while it starts with each of them sharing a memory with the others, the outcome will lead Kai to a decision that will change the course of his quest. |
Lions, Tigers And Bears TPB Vol. 2: Betrayal
 Joey and his stuffed animal guardians must thwart the evil schemes of the Beasties in this all-ages series. Joey and Courtney's winter wonderland is shattered when the Big Cats of the Night Pride arrive with terrible news from the Stuffed Animal Kingdom. Now all that stands between the horrible Beasties and children everywhere are Joey, Courtney, and their imaginations! |
Naruto TPB Vol. 28
 Naruto returns! Two years have passed since Naruto left to train with Jiraiya. Now he reunites with his old friends to discover he's still not the most accomplished of his former teammates. But when one of them is kidnapped, it's up to Naruto to prove he's got the stuff to save him! This volume ties into 2008's exciting new cartoon storyline! |
Worlds of Amano - nick & dent
 Worlds of Amano provides a rare look inside the creative process of one of the most influential popular-culture artists working in Japan in the last thirty years. Originally published in France, Worlds of Amano presents a unique overview of Yoshitaka Amano's diverse work. This vast introduction allows one to take in the full measure of the immense talent of this famous Japanese illustrator, who is so well known for his designs of the Final Fantasy video games. Eclectic and apparently without limit, Amano's art is stunning. Drawing on numerous projects from over the last thirty years with many rarely seen illustrations, this book captures the rare beauty and inspiration of Amano's vision. * Available for the first time in English. * Contains 107 color and 10 black and white illustrations, plus a rare appreciation illustration by comics legend Jean Giraud ( Moebius ). |
Preacher: Dead or Alive - Covers by Glenn Fabry TPB
 The magnificent paintings of Glenn Fabry are showcased in this TPB edition collecting his covers for the widely acclaimed Vertigo series Preacher. Featuring an introduction by Preacher writer/co-creator Garth Ennis, a foreword by Fabry, and running commentary on the creative process by Ennis and Fabry, PREACHER: DEAD OR ALIVE provides a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of every single cover of the series, as well as covers for all specials, trade paperback collections, and related projects. Each cover painting, reproduced free of logo and text, is accompanied by black and white reproductions of the artist's initial cover sketches - the rejects and the ones that made the final cut - so you can see for yourself what went on between initial concept and final execution. |
American Virgin TPB Vol. 1 Head
 Adam Chamberlain is a 20-year-old youth minister, a best-selling author, and most important, the head of a rabid national virginity movement. But practicing virgin or not, Adam is about to lose it when his girlfriend is killed. |
Fables TPB Vol. 9: Sons Of Empire
 Pinocchio suffers seriously divided loyalties between his father, the evil Adversary, and his fellow Fable refugees in New York. Plus, Bigby Wolf reluctantly decides it's finally time to square accounts with his long-estranged father, the North Wind, and makes a journey with Snow White and their kids to find him. |
Sandman Vol. 2 TPB: The Doll's House
 This trade paperback edition collects issues 9-16 from the acclaimed and award-winning series by Neil Gaiman. Introduction by Clive Barker. Morpheus raises desire's ire. Rose goes on a quest to find her lost brother and encounter's Fiddler on the Green and the Corinthian at a serial killer convention. Brute and Glob commit treason against Morpheus with the involvement of Sandman. And the Lord of Dream makes a friend. |
Dawn HC Vol. 3: Three Tiers
 Here is the collection you've been waiting for! Joseph Michael Linsner has put three long years into creating this epic work - but you get to read it all at once! In a post-apocalyptic Europa Dawn leads New York warrior Darrian Ashoka through wars disasters and fire. His dangerous liaisons bring him up against the three faces of the Goddess. Is Dawn a virgin, a queen or a whore? Is Darrian the earthly manifestation of Death the Horned God? On his quest for Dawn Darrian faces dragons fights duels and shatters mirrors. Will Dawn ultimately make his dreams come true or his nightmares a reality? |
Phonogram TPB Vol 1 - Rue Britanna
 Britannia is ten years dead. Phonomancer David Kohl hadn't spared his old patron a thought for almost as longÖ at which point his mind starts to unravel. Can he discover what's happened to the Mod-Goddess of Britpop while there's still something of himself left? A dark modern-fantasy in a world where music is magic, where a song can save your life, or end it. |
Books of Magic TPB Vol. 1: Bindings
 Timothy Hunter is on a quest. Is his real father the one-armed drunk in the front room or is he the man who can turn into a hawk? Is his mother dead and buried or is she Titania, Queen of Faerie? And Death herself has something so say about the subject of identity. This book collects: Books of Magic Vol. 2 #s 1-4 |
Neil Gaiman And Charles Vess' Stardust TPB
 A new masterpiece of fantasy from the genius of Neil Gaiman, illustrated by none other that Charles Vess. They are the only comic team to ever win the World Fantasy Award! This is a prose story of young Tristan Thorn enamored of a village girl. To prove his love he vows to journey to the land of faerie to bring her a fallen star. What happens next is a story of coming of age and true love. |
Knights Of The Dinner Table #134
 Knights of the Dinner Table is a multiple award-winning periodical featuring the gaming industry's most popular comic strip, as well as being a full-fledged gaming magazine. More than half of each issue is devoted to reviews, adventure ideas and tips, maps, monsters, NPCs, magic items, and many other articles for a wide variety of games and game systems, written from a gamer's perspective. A hilarious and hysterical slice of (fantasy) life in strips, features and a wonderful celebration of the gaming culture! |
Stardust Kid Vol 1 TPB
 From the best-selling creative team behind Abadazad comes the collection of their conceptual sequel! Last night, when Cody DiMarco went to bed, life was the same as it's always been. This morning, when he woke up, the world he knew... was gone. A magic older than time. An ancient evil. And four children whose only chance to restore their families, and their world, is to solve the mystery of The Stardust Kid. |
Northlanders #4
 After suffering under Sven's one-man terrorist campaign, Gorm and Hakkar get it together and retaliate, sending Sven into the hills with an unlikely companion. But what brings him back out is much, much worse…express delivered from Constantinople. |
Path TPB
 The first release from Com.x in three-and-a-half years! In a harsh, desolate landscape, Doppler, a lone rabbit, narrowly escapes his imminent demise when near-sighted elephant Dodge falls from his foiled cliff-side climb onto Doppler's assailants. Dodge and Doppler agree to unite in their quest to escape their inhospitable surroundings, thus embarking on the adventure of their lives! |
Fallen Angel IDW #25
 The battle for Bete Noire is at hand! In an epic climax of a story building for more than two years, the defenders of The City that Shapes the World face off against an incursion by the forces of the Hierarchy, with the fate of the entire city at stake! An anniversary issue with a stunning wraparound cover by series artist J.K. Woodward and ten pages of special features, including galleries, interviews and more. Written by New York Times Best-Selling author Peter David. |
Jackson 500 Vol. 4 HC
 Tim Biskup continues to enchant and inspire us with the business card-sized illustrations that fill his Jackson 500 volumes. This fourth book in Biskup's The Jackson 500 series presents one hundred entirely new compositions, containing some of Biskup's recurring characters and themes, documenting evolving emotions and color theories, and bringing fans face-to-face with the raw energy that fuels some of Biskup's larger gallery works. With a fondness for James Flora, Japanese monsters, and chaos, Tim Biskup has honed his infectious style. His surreal, dense, colorful paintings evoke Paul Klee and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as animation pioneers Ward Kimbal, Bob Clampett, and Mary Blair. Biskup's career in animation led him to work on countless cartoons, including his own short for Nickelodeon, "Freddy Seymore's Amazing Life." The spontaneous compositions in The Jackson 500 , volume four, show why he's one of today's most wanted multi-media artists, working with everything from toys and sculptures to...... |
Red Sonja: She Devil With a Sword TPB Vol 3 - Rise Of Gath
 This brand-new Dynamite trade paperback collects the Red Sonja storyline that forever changed the world of the 'She-Devil with a Sword,' when Sonja faced 'The Return of Kulan Gath!' After the events of issue #12, Red Sonja faced the growing menace of an unseen Kulan Gath as he operated from behind the shadows through his puppet god, the Borat Na-Fori! Now, in these very pages, Gath's true play will be revealed, and Sonja and her companions will be left reeling and stranded half a world away when the dust settles! |
Megatokyo Volume 3 TPB - nick & dent
 The wildly popular American manga web comic hits its landmark third volume! Piro and Largo are still stuck in Japan, and this odd couple of an anime/manga-obsessed fanboy and a hard-core gamer, are both stirring up trouble, and stringing together awkward crushes. It's a true fantasy existence, as the insane and destructive Largo fights "zombie hordes" and Piro pursues the heart of a budding voice actress. All the while, an expanding cast of surprising and delightful characters keeps the chaos moving and the charm flowing. ï Boasting the series thickest book yet at the same affordable price, Megatokyo 3 will feature not only the 3 rd and 4 th chapters of the entertaining series, but also additional features not available online. ï Dark Horse has sold over 55,000 copies of the first two volumes of Megatokyo ! ï " Megatokyo is a delightful and imaginative work of American manga." -Publisher's Weekly ï "...a genuinely engaging story filled with...... |
Megatokyo Volume 2 TPB - nick & dent
 MEGATOKYO IS COMING TO DARK HORSE! The wildly popular web comic that spawned a best-selling trade paperback has found a new home! Fans andfriends of the Megatokyo web comic have come to love the characters andtheir offbeat adventures. Whether entangled in a fantasy gaming scenario,saving Tokyo from devastation by rampaging zombies, or taking timid steps towards love, swirling with youthful awkwardness, we get to experience Tokyo through many unique and drastically different points of view. New discoverers of the series may find familiar emotions and a dialogue that is freakishly similar to their own. Megatokyo is a graphic story that speaks directly to the hordes of manga/anime and gaming fans in America, and its a long overdue conversation. |
Bone Color Edition HC Vol. 7 Ghost Circles
 In the gripping seventh volume of the epic BONE series, the valley is ravaged by war while the Bone cousins, Gran'ma Ben, and a baby rat creature are on a dangerous trek to Atheia, the old city of the royal family, to bring Princess Thorn to safety. To get there, they must travel through fields of mysterious ghost circles, where reality and the supernatural collide-and one wrong step could drastically change the valley's fate forever. |
Dungeon Siege: The Battle for Aranna TPB - nick & dent
 Enter the mystic world of Aranna in Dungeon Siege: The Battle for Aranna . Based on the upcoming game Dungeon Siege II from Gas Powered Games, The Battle for Aranna tells the thrilling story of two of Aranna's most influential legends, Zaramoth the Unmaker and Azunai. The magical River of Souls holds the energy used to make magic possible. The evil giant Zaramoth seeks to claim the River for himself. The brave human chieftain Azunai knows that the River's magic belongs to all of Aranna. When Zaramoth and Azunai finally meet on the battlefield, Aranna will be changed forever! |
Oh My Goddess! Volume 26 - nick & dent
 Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the four literal young goddesses Belldandy, Urd, Skuld-and, like an occasional vowel, Peorth-to live in college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! The Devil came down to Tarikihongan! As Lind, the Fifth Goddess battles Hild to defeat the Eater of Angels, it is the weaponless, powerless Keiichi whose heart holds the key to victory. But the lingering Demon Angel within Belldandy is causing her magic to make strange hiccups, and it may be Keiichi again who must serve as the vessel of diabolic forces! Can he succeed without Chihiro finally catching on to the facts of his cosmic love life? Plus notes and commentary, and your letters! * Oh My Goddess! is the manga that inspired the brand-new anime TV series from Media Blasters. |