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Dan Lee
Danny Oldham just can’t seem to stay dead. Trapped in a cycle of death and regeneration he finds himself in the bucolic Middle-of-Nowhere, Tennessee in hopes of finally getting some peace. Plagued by the demons of his past, more literal than figurative, he decides to help a local cop, Van Novak whose current investigation into a series of gruesome murders is leading the duo to discover that there are worse things in life than dying. Based on the short story Dinner at the Cross Roads Cafe (Unoriginal Magazine, Issue 4).
Those Things’ll Kill Ya’: A Charlie Stone: Undertaker Story
The world can’t end forever…right?
Charlie Stone is a misanthropic undertaker in a world where the dead have risen and taken over the world. Living in the quiet border town of Berry Hill beside the barrier fence that separates the living from the living dead, all he dreams of is a good smoke and a life without flesh hungry corpses trying to murder him. A mixture of twisted, sarcastic humor and zombie gore, Those Things’ll Kill Ya’ welcomes you to a world where the undead are just one of ‘those things’ you have to deal with.
Random Fears: A Collection of Strange Stories
A collection of strange, macabre, short stories in the tradition of Amazing Stories and Tales from the Darkside. Fifteen previously published and all new stories together in one volume for the very first time.
Deadman’s Tome: A Book of Horrors III
Book of Horrors III features terrifying stories transcribed from the website Deadman’s Tome and reinterpreted for a modern audience… All together, the stories make for a satisfying collection of horror.
Paul Brian McCoy
The Unraveling: Damaged Incorporated Book One
When a dubious scientific experiment goes awry deep beneath White Sands, NM and unleashes hell on earth, it’s up to a twenty year-old psychic girl, a gay monster-hunter, two sixty-something occult investigators, a robot, a brain-in-a-jar, and the most advanced artificial intelligence on the planet to shut it down.
But how do you stop arcane energies that can possess nearly anyone they come in contact with? And what is going on with those comatose psychic teens? Are they really influencing dreams?
It’s the end of the world and reality is unraveling all around them. Can these damaged individuals really pull together to save all of time and space?
A collection of short stories set in the fictional college town of Flannery, WV.
“Coffee, Sex, & Creation” – three young women dealing with love, sex, and art. While drinking a lot of coffee.
“Awakening” – a man suffers horrifying dreams and hallucinations. Or are they dreams and hallucinations?
“Stuck in the Middle with You” – A clown convention, a Telly Savalas lookalike convention, and a family trapped in between.
“Words, Words, Words” – a dark fantasy about the magic of writing.
Plus five 100-word flash fiction pieces providing glimpses of life (and death) around the town.
American Comic Book Chronicles: The 80s
The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows’ top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Keith Dallas headlines this volume on the 1980s, covering all the pivotal moments and behind-the-scenes details of comics during the Reagan years! You’ll get a year-by-year account of the most significant publications, notable creators, and impactful trends, including: The rise and fall of Jim Shooter at Marvel Comics! The ascendancy of Frank Miller as a comic book superstar with works like Daredevil, Ronin and The Dark Knight! DC Comics reboot with Crisis on Infinite Earths and its Renaissance with a British invasion of talent like Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman! The emergence of Direct Market-exclusive publishers like Eclipse Comics, Pacific Comics, First Comics, Comico, Dark Horse Comics and others! These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.Taken together, American Comic Book Chronicles forms a cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history, sure to be an invaluable.
Mondo Marvel Volume One: November 1961 – December 1962
Dr. Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, along with Sue and Johnny Storm, steal a rocket and are bombarded by cosmic rays! Dr. Bruce Banner is caught in a gamma bomb explosion while saving the life of teenage Rick Jones! High School student Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider! Dr. Donald Blake finds a magical hammer in a cave in Norway! Dr. Henry Pym, um, figures out how to shrink himself to the size of an ant! It’s Marvel New York in the Sixties and superheroes are popping out of the woodwork! But they’re nothing like what had come before. It’s a New York of paranoia, Red Scares, alien invasions, and the superheroes are as monstrous as the supervillains they fight!
Paul Brian McCoy returns to the Sensational Sixties to read and react to the creation of the Marvel Comics Superhero Universe, month by month, issue by issue! Sometimes irreverent, sometimes way-too-serious, he looks on in wonder at one of the greatest feats of world-building in Pop Culture, sharing insights and laughs along with heaps of praise and sprinkles of embarrassment (yes, Ant-Man, I’m looking at you).
Originally published as a series of columns on www.comicsbulletin.com, Mondo Marvel is a no-holds barred look back at what worked and what didn’t in that creative explosion engineered by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko that launched the Marvel Superhero Universe. Volume One covers comics from Fantastic Four #1 through everything published with cover date December 1962.
Mondo Marvel Volume Two: January – June 1963
From a cave in Vietnam, millionaire industrialist Tony Stark saves his own life by creating an amazing suit of armor! The Fantastic Four wins the Space Race! The Incredible Hulk loses his own title but makes a bigger splash elsewhere! Nurse Jane Foster keeps pining for Thor, while Thor secretly pines right back! Spider-Man tries to join the FF! Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos take the stage during World War II! Beautiful teenage heiress, Jan Van Dyne falls in love with Hank Pym and gets the gift of wings as he tries to not be creepy! Well, creepier! It’s the start of the first full year of Marvel Comics and it’s filled with paranoia, Red Scares, alien invasions, and superheroes as monstrous as the supervillains they fight!
Paul Brian McCoy returns to the Sensational Sixties to read and react to the creation of the Marvel Comics Superhero Universe, month by month, issue by issue! Sometimes irreverent, sometimes way-too-serious, he looks on in wonder at one of the greatest feats of world-building in Pop Culture, sharing insights and laughs along with heaps of praise and sprinkles of embarrassment (yes, Ant-Man, I’m looking at you).
Originally published as a series of columns on www.comicsbulletin.com, Mondo Marvel is a no-holds barred look back at what worked and what didn’t in the creative explosion engineered by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko that launched the Marvel Superhero Universe. Volume Two covers each Marvel Superhero comic published between cover dates January and June, 1963.
Mondo Marvel Volume Four: July – December 1963
Iron Man goes through a creative rough patch! Thor does some struggling of his own before finally getting it together with giant-sized adventures! Spider-Man proves the high school is just awful! Ant-Man finally realizes his powers are kind lame and gets gigantic instead! Wasp continues to hang around! The Fantastic Four travel through space and time! The Howling Commandos keep on fighting the good fight! Doctor Strange debuts and brings a distinctively darker tone to the Marvel Universe while Lee and Kirby go back to the creation of humanity and show us it’s a Norse World, baby! Best of all, The Avengers arrive on the scene for those battles that are just too big for one hero, and The X-Men show us that being different is okay! As long as you’re not too different! Or evil! Or something!
Paul Brian McCoy returns to the Sensational Sixties to read and react to the creation of the Marvel Comics Superhero Universe, month by month, issue by issue! Sometimes irreverent, sometimes way-too-serious, he looks on in wonder at one of the greatest feats of world-building in Pop Culture, sharing insights and laughs along with heaps of praise and sprinkles of embarrassment (yes, Ant-Man, I’m looking at you).
Originally published as a series of columns on www.comicsbulletin.com, Mondo Marvel is a no-holds barred look back at what worked and what didn’t in the creative explosion engineered by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko that launched the Marvel Superhero Universe. Volume Three covers each Marvel Superhero comic published between cover dates July and December 1963.
Mondo Marvel Volume Four: January – June 1964
The Fantastic Four continue to bicker and then have awesome adventures! Sue Storm and Alicia become real characters, while the Wasp continues to be an embarrassment! Even being Giant Man isn’t working out for Hank! Spider-Man becomes Marvel’s flagship title thanks to excellent writing and amazing art! Iron Man continues to flounder, but we meet his Doctor Doom: The Mandarin, and he’s not the racist caricature I expected! We also learn that if you’re a scientist in the Marvel Universe, you’re just a small discovery away from using your inventions for crime! Also, there are aliens EVERYWHERE! The blind adventurer Daredevil makes his debut! Thor’s adventures start to get bigger and bolder! Sgt. Fury confronts racism! Evil Mutants debut in The X-Men, and The Avengers feature the dramatic return of Captain America!
Paul Brian McCoy returns to the Sensational Sixties to read and react to the creation of the Marvel Comics Superhero Universe, month by month, issue by issue! Sometimes irreverent, sometimes way-too-serious, he looks on in wonder at one of the greatest feats of world-building in Pop Culture, sharing insights and laughs along with heaps of praise and sprinkles of embarrassment (yes, Ant-Man, I’m looking at you).
Originally published as a series of columns on www.comicsbulletin.com, Mondo Marvel is a no-holds barred look back at what worked and what didn’t in the creative explosion engineered by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko that launched the Marvel Superhero Universe. Volume Four covers each Marvel Superhero comic published between cover dates January and June 1964!
Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá is one of the most beloved graphic novels. In this compelling book, a team of five writers analyzes the beloved Daytripper to help the reader find depth and resonances in the story. More than just a companion, this book will help readers get a deeper insight into not just the brilliant work that Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá created but also into themselves.
Rick Shingler
The Perilous Journeys of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Intergalactic action! Daring escapes! Perils at every turn! Overlong, pedantic footnotes that may or may not pertain to the story! All this and more awaits!
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