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Too Much Coffee Man's Parade of Tirade TPB - nick & dent
 Too Much Coffee Man has been applauded by both the Washington Post and Wired Magazine . Now, he takes control as the eminent icon of caffeine culture in his new book: Too Much Coffee Man's Parade of Tirade . Fill your cup with dark satire, and drink deep from these thoughtful, award-winning comics. Witness TMCM's secret origin! Marvel as our hero battles corporate oppression! Experience the anxiety of the author as he claws his way to the top! Gawk at Joel as he throws up on his girlfriend's doorstep! And revel in Too Much Coffee Man's wisdom: "If you can't be happy naturally, be unnaturally happy." This book collects through issue #8 of the original Too Much Coffee Man comic books, along with some new material. It's a complete book. All the characters are motivated. All the cliffhangers are resolved. All the plot threads are tied up. And all the jokes have punch lines. |
Too Much Coffee Man: How to be Happy TPB - nick & dent
 Too Much Coffee Man has been percolating in the comics underground for years now, and like everything else that was once "alternative," he's sold out, been used by the man (as an advertising tool for Hewlitt Packard and Converse, among others), and is now middle-aged, depressed, broke, and cynical. Who better to write a book, then, called How to be Happy ? In this, Shannon Wheeler's most timely and funniest book to date, the hyper-maniacal, coffee-cup-headed anti-hero laments the state of American democracy, global warming, living under the confusing cloud of terrorist threats, sexual politics, debilitating personal neuroses, and all sorts of other really fun and lighthearted topics! Combining his signature formula of hilarious art, absurd but insightful observations, and bold humor, with his quickly deteriorating hope for humanity, Wheeler has crafted a comics collection custom made for the disaffected and disenfranchised. • Too Much Coffee Man is the star of a long-running comic strip...... |
Madman Boogaloo! TPB - nick & dent
 Two of the wackiest crossovers in the tortured history of comics -- Nexus Meets Madman and Madman/The Jam -- are now stuffed kicking and screaming into a single package, bursting at the seams with rampaging robots, giant insects, optical illusions, and... well, the Gloved One. A four-alarm rush-hour pileup masterminded by the freshest creative talents in the industry. Boogaloo, baby! |
Penny Arcade Volume 5: The Case of the Mummy's Gold TPB
 Join us, intrepid explorers, as we journey once again into the depths of the Penny Arcade archives, facing eldritch curses and monstrous perils aplenty in our quest to unearth the ancient treasures of the year 2004 A.D.! Marvel at the mysteries laid bare within, at these tales of epic gaming, appliances gone bad, line-dancing blood feuds, and so much more! Face, if you dare, the ominous foreboding of The Last Christmas , the challenging depths of Twisp and Catsby , and the poignant tragedy of The Wandering Age ! * Includes every strip posted on penny-arcade.com during 2004, a treasure trove of bonus material, and creator commentary by writer Jerry Holkins! * Special foreword by actor, writer, and blogger extraordinaire Wil Wheaton! |
Wondermark Vol. 1: Beards of our Forefathers HC
 Dark Horse Comics is proud to present this handsome hardbound collection of David Malki's Ignatz-nominated comic strip Wondermark . One of the Internet's new generation of self-syndicated comic creators, Malki repurposes illustrations and engravings from 19th-century books into hilarious, collage-style comic strips. * New installments of Wondermark appear twice-weekly at http://wondermark.com/ along with a hilarious blog from David Malki! The Wondermark site enjoys over 172,000 unique visitors per month. * Beards of Our Forefathers includes 20+ pages of brand-new material created especially for this volume and never published online! * " Wondermark is a gloriously demented webcomic that finally puts to rest the age-old question, 'What if the illustrations from a victorian-era Sears & Roebuck catalogue starred in a Sid and Marty Kroft Saturday morning television series?'" -Francesco Marciuliano (of Sally Forth) |
Oh My Goddess! Volume 17: Traveler TPB - nick & dent
 It looks like Earthbound goddess Belldandy's powers are on the fritz--she can't even make a penny levitate! And to make matters worse, members of Earthling boyfriend Keiichi's motorcycle club come for a visit...with a bunch of junk for Keiichi to store, and now the crew is a bit short on space. But not to fear, it's sister goddess Skuld to the rescue, creating a computer that will alter space! With the click of a makeshift video game controller, a room becomes larger. Does it matter that the device, if used incorrectly, creates a room infinitely larger? It does if Keiichi and a powerless Belldandy get lost in that room and have no idea how to find their way out! Collecting issues #91 through #95 of the ongoing series. * Combined sales of the Oh My Goddess! graphic novels is well over 250,000 copies! |
Suburban Glamour #3
 Should she stay or should she go? Astrid faces the toughest decision of her life, and she does it alone, estranged from both friends and family. But she's not aware that Morgana is planning to make that decision much, much easier - by killing her. |
Over The Rainbow GN - nick & dent
 by Keiko Honda Arou and Keita are two clueless law students who open their own practice. Key is an amnesiac woman they meet at an amusement park. Before they know it their law office serves all manner of zany characters with way-out problems. But can the good-hearted young lawyers help Key retrieve her lost memories? and does she want them to? |
Pvp 10th Anniversary Special
 PvP 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL story SCOTT KURTZ art SCOTT KURTZ cover JEFF SMITH MAY 29 � 48 PAGES � FC � $4.99" |
Betty & Veronica Spectacular #83
 It's a special 'Summy Fun' issue with those teen scene dreams, Betty & Veronica! When both the boys and the girls claim the same exact spot in the cove as their exclusive place to hang out, 'The Battle For Riverdale Cove' is on! They hold a multi-game contest to determine who has dibs. When they get to the 'treasure hunt' portion of the competition, imagine their surprise when they stumble upon a bag of coins and jewels! Will the two teams put aside their rivalry long enough to team-up and solve this mystery? Plus, special features including 'Betty & Veronica's Favorite Summer Things,' 'Top 10 Beach Tips,' 'Good Summer Fashions,' and more! |
Jughead #189
 It's 'The Sound and the Fury' when Dilton invents a device to help Archie locate his car with an audio signal - and Jughead promptly swallows it, mistaking it for a mint! Worse, Reggie has made off with the remote that controls the audio signal, making sure Jughead 'goes off' at the most inappropriate moments! Then, a nice, quiet, comfy new doghouse for Hot Dog is tempting to Jughead as a new napping spot! And finally, 'Jughead Stuck in the Doggie Door' will be one of the funniest Jughead stories yet told! |
Big Brilliant Book Of Bart Simpson TPB
 Be among the best and the brightest with Bart Simpson's brilliant new comic collection! See Bart thumb his nose at social convention, defy authority, and outwit his classmates as he makes a little pocket change while he works for the Comic Book Guy, tries to save his beloved treehouse from demolition, and attempts to recover the grand prize-winning Krusty Burger game piece. But he also proves to be a little too big for his britches when he tries to sneak into the movies, stages a stink war and bath strike against his mother, and sails off untethered in a hot air balloon over Springfield. |
Cheeky Angel TPB Vol. 4 - nick & dent
 As the curse from the magic book worsens, boy-at-birth Megumi Amatsuka finds herself in a whirlpool of odd incidents and chance encounters with the most dreadful company-the yakuza! On a trip to Osaka with her father and best friend Miki, Megumi overhears a conversation about murdering a man to collect an outstanding debt and decides to take matters into her own hands. She hops into a taxi and gets sucked into a web of lies, deceit, and a suitcase filled with money stashed inside a hotel room closet. As if that weren't enough, her lovesick boy classmates decide to beat up the magic clown to end the curse that transformed her into a girl. Will Megumi escape the clutches of the yakuza and return to her (chaotic) high school life? And what secret will they find out about Ichimonji's mysterious personal life. |
Elvis Road HC
 Elvis Road unfolds into a 25 foot long infectiously joyful & amazingly beautiful cartoon landscape in which Hieronymus Bosch meets Richard Scary (a paradoxical mix of terrifying social commentary and cartooning fun!) Xavier Robel and Helge Reumann devoted almost an entire year to their collaboration on Elvis Road and the result is a single drawing that reveals a world overflowing with hundreds of mini-narratives with armed maniacs, rampaging crowds, chaotic policemen, overflowing hospitals, a tree-house of women, a forest of literal tree-huggers, and hordes of shoppers. The book features the most frenzied, inspired, and dense drawing you've ever seen: 8,433 characters, 3,546 vehicles, 1,847 buildings, 763 cartoon icons, 526 corporate billboards, 189 religious figures, 25 parade floats, 1 super-dildo, a junkyard purgatory, a porno strip-mall, and more. . .In its broadest strokes and finest details, Elvis Road delights, baffles, and provokes. |
Pvp #39
 Can Skull unlock the secret of the Angry-Goat-Clasp-Gypsy-Lockbox?! |
Uptight #3
 by Jordan Crane With Uptight #3 Jordan Crane continues to map uncharted territory of graphic melancholia with his masterpiece-work-in-progress Keeping Two. Jordan also continues to build upon his ghost story obsession with a moody tale following an undead man as he revisits his former life." |
Night of Your Life HC
 Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw turns the dreams of strangers into the most insightful, humorous, and clever four-panel comic strips you have ever read in The Night of Your Life . This hardcover volume captures the sublime pleasure of tumbling through the freewheeling narrative of our sleeping lives. Each strip is an adaptation of the many dreams submitted to Reklaw from all over the world, every one a unique and compelling journey into a landscape to which we all travel but each explore alone. Sometimes playful, sometimes thought-provoking, but always entertaining, The Night of Your Life is a testament to the ability of comics to illuminate the corridors of the imagination with wit, sincerity, and joy. * Containing the very best never-before-collected strips from Reklaw's comic Slow Wave , which appears in alternative newsweeklies with a combined circulation of over 500,000 per week. "Manages that rare blend of pointed humor and specially brewed whimsy." |
Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack HC
 The second (and likely final) collection of strips from the award-winning comic series The Perry Bible Fellowship . Spans the entirety of the strip's print run. Bonus features include lost strips, sketches, and a behind-the-scenes interview by Wondermark 's David Malki. Also includes an introduction by Diablo Cody. Praise for The Perry Bible Fellowship : "A work of sheer brilliance." -Jim Woodring ( Frank ) " PBF is hilarious and fucked-up in a very sublime way." -Scott McCloud ( Understanding Comics ) "Nick Gurewitch's strip is one of the few strips that makes me laugh out loud. It's really funny and if newspapers still cared about funny strips, he'd be in more papers, as he should. Except if they bump mine for him." -Tony Millionaire ( Maakies , Sock Monkey ) |
Too Much Coffee Man: Guide for the Perplexed Ltd Ed HC - nick & dent
 Too Much Coffee Man is not so much about coffee as it is about life and figuring things out; there's a lot of free-thinking, bad puns, slapstick humor, and nickel philosophy. This unique collection features three, eight-page stories, a 32-page DHP story, the notorious seven-page, bullet-hole story, at least 65 individual, one-page strips, and an introduction by "Beavis and Butthead" creator, Mike Judge. Available in both softcover and limited-edition hardcover collections, both fully caffeinated! |
Stupid Comics TPB - Phoenix Edition
 Fan-favorite Jim Mahfood offers a hilarious and satirical collection of his infamous Stupid Comics strips. Pulled from the weekly Phoenix New Times newspaper, these comics are universal in theme, lampooning government, war, pop culture, the entertainment industry, relationships, sex and technology. A must-have for comedy fans, political junkies, and anyone else slightly concerned with the world we live in. |
Mad Magazine #489
 Written and illustrated by The Usual Gang of Idiots The official magazine of April Fool's Day takes the hijinx up a notch! On sale April 9 ï 48 pg, FC/B&W, $4.99 US" |
Haunted HC
 Ten years after finishing the original French edition of Maybe Later, Philippe Dupuy set out on his own again with Haunted. Gone are the tightly constructed narratives and urbane, elegant graphics of his projects with collaborator Charles Berberian. In their place, roughed-in drawings give an urgent, spontaneous feeling to a series of hallucinatory stories and dreamlike sequences that register the raw distress of solitude and self-doubt. A jogging Dupuy runs around and sometimes through the stories of the misfit characters that haunt him: a self-amputating dog, a Left Bank artist in search of emptiness, an art-collecting duck, Lucha Libre wrestlers, and a group of single guys at the watering hole imagined as the anthropomorphic 'Forest Friends.' Heart pumping, gaze turned inward, the ground occasionally giving way beneath his feet, this alter ego concludes that sometimes you need to cross the line to figure out where it is. |
Living with the Dead TPB
 Two survivors of a global catastrophe disguise themselves as corpses to survive in a land of the walking dead. Soon the two friends save a lovely young gun-crazy woman named Betty, who becomes a source of rivalry between them. With hundreds of zombies out for a snack, the three try their best to blend in so as not become the next item on the menu. From the mind of Mike Richardson, creator of The Mask and The Secret , comes this hilariously frightening tale of Straw and Whip who have lived through a plague that's left the world with seven billion brain-hungry zombies. * Be sure to catch this heart pounding and hilarious graphic novel with art by Ben Stenbeck, and cover by legendary Richard Corben ( Hulk: Banner; Punisher: The End; and Hellboy: Makoma) . * Collecting the three-issue miniseries. |
Daring Students Association GN Vol. 01
 The students' association of Lexington High School is always broke, so it's time for them to pick up some odd jobs. Jobs likeÖ ghost-hunting? It's just another normal semester at this school for sorcerers. Join plucky president Shingiru, Teoh the brainy V.P., Roah the cosplaying secretary, and Kay the straight-laced treasurer as they band together to face both troublesome spirits and some high school drama! |
Pals N Gals Double Digest #121
 When it comes to keeping the students' attention spans from wandering, the faculty is no match for 'Sunny Daze!' Plus, puzzles, games, pin-ups, and other new and classic tales! |
Sonic Select TPB Vol. 1
 A new series of Sonic collections which will reprint many of the much-loved stories from the Sonic Super Specials! The best of the best will be featured in this series, including stories starring fan favorites Knuckles the Echidna, Miles 'Tails' Prower, and Princess Sally Acorn, plus characters who don't often get to hit center stage in the main series. Not only that, but Sonic Select will also be filled with everything from both the classic era of Sonic super-team Mike Gallagher and Dave Manak, to the later stories with varying artwork from such Sonic legends as Art Mawhinney, Patrick 'Spaz' Spaziante, Steven Butler, Ken Penders, and others! It also features the first appearances of many of the biggest fan-favorite characters! With reprints from Sonic: In Your Face, Sonic & Knuckles, Triple Trouble, and Sonic Live!, this is one Sonic compilation no fan of the Hedgehog will want to miss! Super-terrific cover by Patrick 'Spaz' Spaziante! |