The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

Author: Ram V
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646684389
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past? A powerful new graphic novel from award-winning writer Ram V (These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing) and Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying through the lens of magical realism. Collects The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1-5.

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1

Author: V. Ram
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646684257
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
A powerful new series for fans of The Wicked + The Divine and The Dreaming from Ram V (Justice League Dark) and Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying in Mumbai through the lens of magical realism. * With humanity on the verge of discovering immortality, the avatar of Death is fired and relegated to the world below to live out her now-finite days in the body of twenty-something Laila Starr in Mumbai. * Struggling with her new-found mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born... * But will Laila take her chance to permanently reverse the course of (future) history...or does a more shocking fate await her?

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr SC

Author: Ram V
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 9781684158058
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a job… or is she? Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past? A powerful new graphic novel from award-winning writer Ram V (These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing) and Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying through the lens of magical realism. Collects The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1-5.

Free Pass

Author: Julian Hanshaw
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
ISBN: 1649360517
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Huck and Nadia are enjoying their twenties: working in Big Tech and developing an adventurous sex life. Together they fantasize about opening their relationship with a “free pass” to sleep with certain friends or celebrities. It's all in good fun. But Huck is leading a double life. As a national election looms, he grows more and more uncomfortable with his company’s unelected authority over internet discourse. When the couple receives a bizarre gift—a cutting-edge humanoid sex AI that can morph into anyone—their worlds of fantasy, trust, and consent are thrown into blissful chaos. In a society growing more divided each day, Huck struggles with the pressure to uphold boundaries at work... while everything is collapsing at home. Julian Hanshaw follows his acclaimed graphic novels Tim Ginger and Cloud Hotel with an intoxicating new tale of liberty, privacy, and shame, set in the sticky place where sex, politics, and technology come together.

Grafity's Wall

Author: Ram V
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783526866
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
When an aspiring street artist by the name of Grafity watches the tenements outside his home being razed, he finds an unlikely canvas at the one wall still left standing in the debris. Over the next weeks, he begins creating a mural on the wall, one that chronicles the lives of his friends: a local low-level fixer named Jay who harbours dreams of being a rapper. A brilliant and awkward boy named Chasma who writes love letters between shifts waiting tables at a local Chinese restaurant. And Saira, an aspiring actress with ambitions so fierce that they threaten to consume her and all those around her. As the mural progresses, the story gives us glimpses into these incandescent lives, their hopes and dreams both inspired and impeded by the impossible city that they live in.

The Nao of Brown

Author:
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
ISBN: 9781910593752
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contains colored map on lining of dust jacket.

Proctor Valley Road

Author: Grant Morrison
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646683234
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
August, Rylee, Cora & Jennie have organized a “Spook Tour” with their classmates on the most haunted, demon-infested stretch of road in America to fund attending the concert of their dreams. But when their visit turns deadly, these four friends race to rescue the missing students... before the town tears them limb from limb. Now they must slay the evils roaming Proctor Valley Road... along with the monsters lurking in the hearts of 1970s America.

Green Arrow: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1

Author: Benjamin Percy
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401293867
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
ÒDelightful and quirky.Ó ÑNerdist ÒA breath of fresh air.Ó ÑCBR ÒEach panel feels hand-painted, done in loving detail to convey not just the wonderful action sequences in this story, but also the emotions felt by all three characters as they face their individual journeys.Ó ÑTech Times As the Green Arrow, Oliver Queen fights tirelessly for social justice in Seattle. But sans crossbow, quiver and arrows, Queen is famous for being a playboy socialite and a high-tech entrepreneur. The dichotomy is clear: How can you fight Òthe manÓ when you are Òthe manÓ? ThatÕs a question he must answerÑespecially after meeting Dinah Lance (a.k.a. Black Canary), a superhero rock star who challenges everything he thought he knew about protecting the innocent. As his romance with Lance deepens, Queen begins to question the elitism and moral outrage that fuels his nighttime vigils. The events in the first volume of Green Arrow: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition will rattle the Emerald ArcherÕs status quo and change the way he lives forever. Collects Green Arrow: Rebirth #1 and Green Arrow #1-12, with special bonus material including character sketches, thumbnails and variant covers.

Mamo

Author: Sas Milledge
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646684508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Orla O’Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo’s passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo’s attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility of quieting her Mamo’s spirit, saving her hometown, and will she have to step up as the new witch of Haresden like Mamo always wanted? Collects Mamo #1-5.

The Age of Scorpio

Author: Gavin G. Smith
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 0575094788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602

Book Description
Praised by Stephen Baxter and Adam Roberts, reviewed ecstatically by SFX magazine, Gavin Smith's first novel VETERAN announced an exciting new voice on the SF scene. WAR IN HEAVEN, set in the same universe, followed. Now comes a new standalone SF thriller. Of all the captains based out of Arclight only Eldon Sloper was desperate enough to agree to a salvage job in Red Space. And now he and his crew are living to regret his desperation. In Red Space the rules are different. Some things work, others don't. Best to stick close to the Church beacons. Don't get lost. Because there's something wrong about Red Space. Something beyond rational. Something vampyric... Long after The Loss, mankind is different. We touch the world via neunonics. We are machines, we are animals, we are hybrids. But some things never change. A Killer is paid to kill, a Thief will steal countless lives. A Clone will find insanity, an Innocent a new horror. The Church knows we have kept our sins. Gavin Smith's new SF novel is an epic slam-bang ride through a terrifyingly different future.