Victor LaValle
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"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine"--
"Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life...
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"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage...
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Eve Children of the Moon volume 2
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While Eve courts the people with her determined and hopeful spirit, Selene loses herself in vengeful plotting.
Meanwhile, a recently activated A.I., long since separated from humanity with terrifying actions divergent from its intended purpose, brings apocalyptic tidings from a mysterious world at the very bottom of the sea…
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BOOM! Studios
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From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice... putting her on a crash...
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Pepper is a rambunctious big man, and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It's no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates...
7) Big machine
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Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God. Infused with the...
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 4
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English
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Akai and the Monster feud over the fate of the new Dr. Frankenstein, Josephine Baker. But just outside the remote Montana cabin, sinister forces arrive to eradicate any survivors of the battle -
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 2
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While Dr. Baker is being investigated, the Monster becomes entangled with a conflict at the U.S./Mexico border.
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 1
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When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice...putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. An intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States.
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Sabretooth volume 1
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The island nation of Krakoa has ushered in a bright new era for mutantkind - paradise after years of persecution. But even mutants must deal with monsters in their midst, and Victor Creed is perhaps the worst. One of the first acts of the Krakoan Quiet Council was to exile the savage Sabretooth to the pit beneath Krakoa, locked away in an endless darkness for his countless crimes against both mutants and humans. Now, you're about to find out what...
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 5
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As government forces close in on Akai, Dr. Baker, and the Monster, the Director unleashes a new player in the race to help capture the Frankenstein family.
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Sabretooth and The Exiles volume 1
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English
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Sabretooth takes his destiny into his own clawed hands! The powers that be condemned Victor Creed to the Pit for breaking the rules of Krakoa. But now he's free and ready to show the world that you can't keep a bad man down, even as his fellow Exiles from Krakoa speed along in hot pursuit! But will they find common ground with Sabretooth? Or will their next encounter be their last? The destructive power of one of their number, Orphan-Maker, is contained...
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 6
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Final issue! In the wreckage of the Lab, Frankenstein's Monster faces off against Akai with the fate of the world and the family lineage hanging in the balance.
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 3
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Dr. Baker holds Shelley and Byron in her underground lab as she unveils her rebooted son Akai for the first time.
16) Eve: Issue #1
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Eve volume 1
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For fans of Undiscovered Country and Little Bird comes a new adventure series from award-winning author Victor LaValle (Victor LaValle's Destroyer) and rising-star artist Jo Mi-Gyeong (Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal) about a dangerous journey across a future dystopian America to save the world. When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must...
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer volume 1
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English
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From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice… putting her on a crash...
18) Eve: Issue #2
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Eve volume 2
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English
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Will Eve escape the remnants of New York City in order to save her father and restore life to a dying planet?
Accompanied by Wexler, Eve must stay one step ahead of the mutants stalking them who want to consume them.
But when they are separated, she will discover that there are things even more terrifying in this new wasteland.
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Eve Children of the Moon volume 4
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English
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While a mysterious newcomer provides new revelations about his work to Eve's sister, it seems that the threats to humanity could also be from an unexpected source.
Meanwhile Eve, Wexler, and Selene form a fellowship to rescue Eve's sister–one that threatens to provoke civil war!
20) Eve: Issue #5
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Eve volume 5
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English
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Will Eve finally fulfill her destiny as humanity's last hope?
Eve's long journey is coming to a head as she finally arrives at the Vault, which is now sunk deep below the ocean surface off the coast of Washington State.
But what, or who, she finds within will either lead Eve to complete the most important mission of all time… or complete the world's destruction.
The epic conclusion to the dystopian fable no comic reader can afford to miss!