Writer:Derek Kirk Kim
Artist:Derek Kirk Kim
Selected as one of the best books of 2003 by Publishers Weekly! After searing through the self-published run of Same Difference and Other Stories in just a few short months, Derek Kirk Kim proudly moves his debut collection to Top Shelf! Through a series of sensitive - and often hilarious - short stories, Kim deftly explores the not-so-average 20-somethings' quarter-life crisis, romantic neurosis, and a refreshing slice of Korean-American life. Kim's self-effacing wit, ear for dialogue, and meticulous art style earned him the Xeric Grant as well as an Ignatz award in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Find out for yourself why Derek Kirk Kim is considered a standout among the new generation of cartoonists and a fresh new voice in Asian American literature.

Writer: Ian Edginton Artist: D'Israeli. A decade after the Martians' abortive assault on the Earth and their attempt to establish an invasion bridgehead on the British Isles, the industrious Victorians have assimilated the Martian technologies into their everyday lives. Hansom cabs now scuttle along the Capital's streets on multi-limbed crab legs and the terrible monopoly of the Martian heat-ray has assured the dominance of the British Empire over two-third's of the Earth's surface. However, there is something rotten at the heart of empire. When the bodies of several young women are found washed up on the Thames, drained of blood, enter Captain Robert Autumn and his former Sergeant Major Archie Currie. Together they are drawn into the mystery which leads them from the gin palaces of the East End, and the grinding poverty of North, to Whitehall's corridors of power and the very Hall of the Martian King!

Writer: Ian Edginton
Artist: D'Israeli
The front line of the War of the Worlds has been taken to the red planet itself! After almost four decades of conflict, the British invasion of Mars has ground into a bloody stalemate. The nation is cracking at the seams, and liberties are being revoked as Prime Minister Spry struggles to maintain order at home while waging war another world away. What does Spry have up his nasty little sleeve? Robert Autumn, aged gentleman adventurer and hero of Scarlet Traces, is determined to find out!
He approaches the gifted photojournalist Charlotte Hemming with an offer she can't refuse-a covert mission that will send her straight to Mars, and into the heart of the beast! As the last great battle in the War of the Worlds rages around her, and the Martians close in, she stumbles across a secret history of the planet . . . and an even greater revelation that could spell the extinction of all human life on Earth.

Writer: Shannon Wheeler
Artist: Shannon Wheeler
For longer than a decade Shannon Wheeler’s flagship character Too Much Coffee Man has cast his tender, cynical gaze on lots of stuff that deserves to be made fun of, from the insipidity of coffee consumer culture to the horrendous reality of dating. This latest collection of short cartoons takes a step back from the cartoonist’s usual scrutiny of mundane pettiness and takes a somewhat sweeter look at life’s bigger issues. The result is the funniest, most sharply executed collection of Wheeler’s comics ever.

Writer:Rick Remender, Kieron Dwyer
Artist:Salgood Sam, Kieron Dwyer
Reprints:SEA OF RED #1-4 and many extras
Since being turned undead by the crew of the cursed Pirate ship, The Black Galleon, Marco Esperanza has spent the past 400 years tied to the bow of a sunken vessel, clinging to life in the dark, briny, deep. His confinement at the bottom of the sea ends when he is discovered by film director Joel Cameron's submarine on a scouting expedition for his next film. Hungry to film a live vampire battle, Cameron urges Marco to seek out the man responsible and have his revenge. (Image)

Amber Benson, Christina Z (w); Ben Templesmith, Ashley Wood (a & c)
This special collection presents the fantastic art of Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith under one cover. In "Demon Father John's Pinwheel Blues," Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Tara) and Ben craft a tale of a syndicate of vampire street children that is turned upside down by new recruit Pinwheel. In "Shunt," Christina Z and Ash present the tale of the perfect woman, who gives up the perfect life to uncover a heinous human slavery ring run by an elite group of vampires. Vampires who transform their beautiful female victims into the most sensually marketable product. Within the torture and depravity lies a twisted tale of obsessive passion and furious loyalty. Also contained within: a gallery of covers from Wood and Templesmith.

Written by Scott Beatty
Art by Daniel Indro
Cover by Francesco Francavilla

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dauntless detective returns in an all-new series of adventures exploring the sleuth's untold origins! Join Dr. John Watson as he meets young Sherlock Holmes in a fateful encounter that will forever shape both men's destinies! Mysteries and murders most foul abound as we discover clues that reveal just how Holmes became the world's most famous detective. Collecting the 6-issue series in one volume, plus bonus material and a complete cover gallery timed to coincide with the new Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie, A Game of Shadows, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law slated for theatrical release December 16, 2011!

by Anthony Lappe, Dan Goldman
The global war on terror is raging out of control. The president is popping Prozac. And the #1 selling videogame in 2011 America is the terrorist-simulator Infidel Massacre: Los Angeles. On the streets of gentrified Brooklyn, videoblogger Jimmy Burns' latest anti-corporate rant is cut short by a terrorist bombing of a Starbucks...but his live feed isn't. When his dramatic footage is uploaded by Global News ("Your home for 24-hour terror coverage") and rebroadcast across the planet, the obscure blogger is transformed into an overnight media sensation. The next thing he knows he's on a Black Hawk helicopter inbound for Baghdad, working for the same mainstream media monster he once loathed. Burns soon finds that everyone from his ratings-ravenous network overlords to Special Ops troops with messianic complexes to a charismatic band of tech-savvy jihadists all want to make him their pawn. Shooting War is an irreverent and unflinching graphic novel satirizing network news, the Iraq War, and the burgeoning "citizen journalism" movement that Rolling Stone magazine calls "a scary-smart take on what the horrors of the future may hold."

by Nick Sagan
Publisher: RADICAL PUBLISHING
The last free colony in the Solar System has yet to fall - but how long can it withstand the siege? Under constant barrage from orbit and kept from replenishing much-needed supplies by a planetary blockade, the colonists of Venus find themselves in desperate circumstances. But, unwilling to let their stand be in vain, the surprise hero of the war, notorious ex-marine Vijaya 'Sam' Narayan, must reverse their fortunes before time runs out on humankind's last hope of resisting tyranny!

by Michael Turner, Frank Mastromauro, Michael Gunnell & Jason Gorder
Everyday we're faced with choices. Left or Right? Stop or go? Love or hate? Yes or no? With each decision affecting our life, our fate. But what if those choices affected more than that, like the fate of the universe? What if they already do? What would you choose? From Michael Turner, the creative mind that brought you Fathom and Soulfire, comes the next wondrous step in comic book entertainment! For every right, there is a wrong. For every action, there is a reaction. For every up, there is a down. And for every decision Theo makes, there is someone making the decisions for hiM — and all of us! Welcome to Perspecta, and the reasons behind your wildest thoughts and darkest desires. If you thought you knew anything about our world, think again! Collecting together Shrugged Volume 1 in its entirety, including the sold out Preview and Beginnings issue, along with issues #0 through #8, with an extensive cover gallery featuring artwork by series artist Micah Gunnell, along with creator Michael Turner and a host of others, this jam packed collection is not to be missed!

by Nikolai Maslov
The story of Nikolai Maslov begins in 2000 when he, then a night watchman, opens the door of Emmanuel Durand, a French book salesman in Moscow and the publisher of Asterix in Russian, and shows the Frenchman three pages from a graphic novel, asking him to finance the rest. Stunned by the intensity of the work and life in those panels, Durand allows Maslov to quit his job to concentrate for three years on his work. The result is one of the most disturbing and astonishing visual renderings of the Russian spirit.
Awash in alcohol from the first pages to the last, SIBERIA (originally entitled "Une jeunesse soviétique," or "A Soviet Youth") describes the path of a young ordinary Russian across the desolation of the Siberian countryside, and through the labyrinths of the Soviet system - from construction site, to his military service in Mongolia, all the way to the psychiatric hospital where he was admitted after the death of his brother.
Drawn entirely in pencil on paper, SIBERIA bears witness to the life of the Russian people. It draws on images of faces deformed by alcohol, the fat, laughing mouths of officers, the bullying, the violence, the cynicsim of Soviet Russia...yet a world also from time to time illuminated by a ray of light, through a birch forest or on the river Ob, captured by a man who loves the natural world of Siberia.

Written and art by Tatsuya Ishida.
Sinfest is one of the most-read and longest-running webcomics, and explores religion, advertising, sex and politics. In an era when most syndicated newspaper strips are watered down and uninspired, creator Tatsuya Ishida draws on influences ranging from Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts to manga and pop culture to bring us a breath of fresh air

Ben Templesmith (w & a & c)

Revisit artist Ben Templesmith’s (30 Days of Night) first solo creation! Earth is forever changed one dark summer night when tiny alien machines known as nanites drift down from outer space. They transform a normal human into a god-like being known as the Singularity, who drives the remnants of humanity underground and to the brink of extinction. Now Earth’s only hope lies in the hands of a rag-tag group of "Specials" - humans mysteriously immune to the nanites’ destructive power. The odds are stacked against them, but will a defector from the other side grant them the edge they need to prevail?

by Andi Watson
Andi Watson's Slow News Day stands out as some of the cartoonist's best work, and to take advantage of the Andi Watson groundswell created by his DC/Minx and Image comic series Slave Labor is re-releasing this collected edition in a smaller, manga-friendly format.

(W) Stan Lee, Paul Cornell (A) Javier Pina, Sergio Arino
Specially priced at $9.99! Stan Lee, the most colossal force in the history of comics, teams up critically acclaimed writer Paul Cornell (Action Comics, Doctor Who) and artist Javier Pina for the dramatic, action-packed, superhero scorched Soldier Zero! Half-Human. Half-Alien. All Weapon - and all in this brand new collection! Compiling the highly celebrated first arc, find out Soldier Zero's origin and how wheelchair-bound college lecturer Stewart Trautmann becomes an intergalactic weapon of war.

Writer - Scott Allie
Art - Mario Guevara
Cover - Mike Mignola
Robert E. Howard's vengeance-obsessed puritan begins his supernatural adventures in the haunted Black Forest of Germany in this adaptation of Howard's "The Castle of the Devil." When Solomon Kane stumbles upon the body of a boy hanged from a rickety gallows, he goes after the man responsible-a baron feared by the peasants from miles around. Something far worse than the devilish baron or the terrible, intelligent wolf that prowls the woods lies hidden in the ruined monastery beneath the baron's castle, where a devil-worshiping priest died in chains centuries ago.

Story Rick Remender & Seth Peck
Art Francesco Francavilla
Cover Kieron Dwyer
In 1952, the U.S. Government's nuclear testing killed all of the good people of Sorrow, Nevada. Today, the sign in front of town reads "population zero". The locals, however, will tell you a very different story... When a car accident strands four young travelers in this desolate ghost town, they soon find that not all that is buried is dead

Writer:J.T. Krul
Artist:Micah Gunnell

by Michael Turner, Jeph Loeb & J.T. Krul
Magic is no longer a myth! This special Soulfire paperback collects together the first five sold-out issues of the Soulfire series, along with the sold out #0 issue and the rare introductory Soulfire Preview. Adding to its appeal, a complete cover gallery and a brand new cover by Michael Turner and Peter Steigerwald, makes this a must-have for every comic book collector! Come and join Michael Turner, Jeph Loeb, J.T. Krul and Peter Steigerwald as their world of magic and adventure unfolds in this wonderful tale unlike anything you've ever seen before!

by J.T Krul & Marcus To
A Soulfire tale lost in time returns as a trade paperback edition! This special Soulfire: Chaos Reign collection brings together the acclaimed 3-issue miniseries, along with the sold-out #0 issue! Adding to its appeal, the Soulfire: Chaos Reign trade paperback also contains a complete cover gallery and features a brand new cover by series artist Marcus To and colorist Peter Steigerwald! In a time where power ruled over the primal landscape of the world, a hidden savagery lurks, and the only thing one can hope to do among the chaos is survive!

by Laurence Hyde
Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas is a stunning wordless novel told in 118 wood engravings about the atomic bomb testing performed by the United States in the South Pacific following World War II. This new hardcover edition is a facsimile of the original edition, published in 1951. Laurence Hyde was infuriated with the United States' continued testing in the Bikini Atoll, following the mass destruction and unthinkable horrors resulting from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Southern Cross includes the original introduction by Rockwell Kent and two essays by Hyde in which he provides the idea for his book, a detailed description of the process of wood engraving, and a short history of the woodcut novel. A new introduction is provided by the woodcut novel historian David A. Beronä.

Written by Carlos Trillo
Art and Cover by Domingo Mandrafina.
This decades-spanning story of four young Italian immigrants starts in 1910 and follows them as they grow up to become a gangster, an actress, a Catholic priest, and police officer. Volume One captures the first stories of love and hate of this Italian American family.This thrilling story, presented in a deluxe hardcover edition and published in English for the first time, is like no other crime comic and will appeal to fans of the Godfather saga.

Carlos Trillo (w) Domingo Mandrafina (a)
This decades-spanning story of four young Italian immigrants starts in 1910 and follows them as they grow up to become a gangster, an actress, a Catholic priest, and police officer. Volume Two concludes the stories of love and hate of this Italian American family. This thrilling story, published in English for the first time, is like no other crime comic and will appeal to fans of the Godfather saga.

Written, Art and Cover by Kyle Baker.
Zone, the unwitting pawn of a corrupt recruiter, is a mentally disabled soldier. Felony is a three-time loser who enlisted to avoid life in prison. When the rest of their unit is massacred in Baghdad, these brave American teenagers are democracy's last hope against the villainy of the notorious terrorist known as The Desert Wolf! Collects issues Special Forces #1-4.

Writer - Norvell W. Page, Howard Hopkins
Art & Cover - Gary Carbon
If you like your justice served ice cold, baby, The Spider is it! A murderous ghost of crime terrorizes New York City, dealing gruesome agonized death to any who stand in the way of his quest for power. The city reeling, threatened with wholesale murder, The Spider finds himself wounded and caught in a desperate battle within America's very symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. At stake, the fate of millions and the life of the woman he loves - Nita van Sloan! Painted in gorgeous noir black & white!

Writer:Aaron Renier
Artist:Aaron Renier
With an ensemble cast straight from a box of Animal Crackers, this delightful tale of ambition, morality, and self-discovery is the first major work by extraordinary newcomer Aaron Renier. Drawn in a decidedly beautiful fashion, reminiscent of Richard Scary and Lewis Trondheim, Renier has given us a fully-realized and compellingly adventurous narrative, at once both achingly naive and profoundly worldly.

Author: Ryan Schifrin & Larry Hama
Story: R.A. Salvatore, Geno Salvatore and Ryan Schifrin
Artist: Adam Archer & Jonny Rench
Cover Artists: Greg Staples
This is the untold story of SPOOKS, the secret branch of the government that protects humanity from things that go bump in the night! But when the king of vampires forms an alliance with the deadliest of witches to launch an invasion of classic monsters on Washington, D.C, the Spooks find themselves in an all-out battle for the fate of the planet!

What is the squirrel machine? Is it a rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one's guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable? A meaningless diversion? Set in a fictional New England town in the 1800s, the narrative initially details the relationship and maturation of Edmund and William Torpor. But the two brothers quickly elicit the scorn and recrimination of an unamused public when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses.

Writer:Megan Kelso
Artist:Megan Kelso
In the short stories of Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Megan Kelso, inner need cohabits uneasily with real-life obligation, harsh decisions betray ideals, and the illusion of innocence soon gives way. A single mother follows her muse (or her demons) and abandons her children; a well mannered child cleans her room but not without exacting revenge against her stuffed bear; a seventh grader finds that learning how to dance isn't a dreary chore but a transcendent flight. In this new collection by the creator of Queen of the Black Black, the spare expressiveness of Kelso's drawing perfectly complements the intimacy of her writing to create characters who will linger in your memory.

(W) Chris Roberson (A) Khary Randolph (C) Humberto Ramos

Specially priced at $9.99! Stan Lee, the most colossal force in the history of comics, teams up with critically acclaimed writer Chris Roberson (Superman, iZombie) and artist Khary Randolph (Spider-Man) for the action-packed, sci-fi superhero scorcher, Starborn! Compiling the jaw-dropping first arc, down-on-his-luck fantasy writer Benjamin Warner learns that he is the heir to an alien throne, and soon finds himself in the middle of a galactic war, forced to face the truth that he is...not of this world! This can't-miss volume features a cover by fan-favorite artist, Humberto Ramos!

by J.M. DeMatteis & Mike Ploog
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. This edition collects this hard-to-find mini-series!

Written by Elaine Lee
Art & Cover by Michael Kaluta

The classic, galactic-spanning saga of Starstruck, the renowned stage play/radio drama/heady science fiction classic, continues!
Collecting all 13 issues of the completely remastered Starstruck series by Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta. 280 pages of Starstruck and Galactic Girl Guides adventures, covers, pin-ups, glossary, postcards, and so much more!
The first truly comprehensive collection of this material in a grand, over-sized hardcover edition. This beautiful book features some of the finest art ever by put to paper by Kaluta, including many pages that were never printed in the original run.
Additionally, Kaluta painstakingly added approximately 20% of art to NEARLY EVERY PAGE to ensure the aspect ratio of the comic would be consistent and correct. The end result is unlike anything you've ever experienced, a head-spinning, synapse-snapping, soul-searing ride to a world like no other; the world of Starstruck.

Steve Niles (w) Breehn Burns, Hector Casanova, Chuck BB, Chee, Milx (a) Milx (c)

This HUGE collection of Steve Niles’ graphic novels includes Aleister Arcane, The Lurkers, Secret Skull, and Wake the Dead (recently optioned by Holding Pictures). Niles’ 30 Days of Night came to life last year on the big screen, and now fans have the chance to collect more of the dark fiction he’s made a name for himself creating.

by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti

He lives day to day and hand to mouth, this shambling lug of a man, wrestling with his demons, picking up work where he can, and drinking himself into oblivion. Until one days his palms begin to bleed… These newfound stigmata lose him his job, and he ends up as part of a traveling carnival, where he even finds love. But his past catches up with him — violently so. Has he lost his last chance at redemption?

This stunning graphic novel, executed in a mad, expressionistic swirl of black lines, is the result of a unique collaboration between the preeminent Italian cartoonist/graphist Lorenzo Mattotti (RAW, The New Yorker, and the graphic novels Fires and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and the award-winning Italian screenwriter Claudio Piersanti.

Writer:Cole Haddon
Artist:M. S. Corley
Cover Artist:M. S. Corley
Published by Dark Horse

Sometimes good police work just isn't enough, as Inspector Thomas Adye of Scotland Yard finds out when he's assigned to the Jack the Ripper case. He'll need the guidance of imprisoned madman and amoral libertine Dr. Henry Jekyll, whose mind-splitting serum Jack might be using to commit his bloody murders. With London's two greatest monsters pitted against one another, will Adye -- and his soul-survive intact?

Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the first Original Graphic Novel from filmmaker/writer Luke ("Red Sonja/Thulsa Doom") Lieberman with Kevin McCarthy and artist Rodney Buchemi!

New York is a place of magik; not the fairy tale kind, but hard magik, dangerous magik - Street Magik. Yet the City dwellers live, work, play unaware of the sourcery everywhere hidden in the shadows. Jake Conner is about to discover the danger, and the Magik!

Writer - Glenn Eichler
Art - Nick Bertozzi
When Tim and his wife inherit his father's museum of curiosities and find therein a taxidermied African warrier "The Savage" - or so the museum's placard labels him, Tim's quiet suburban life starts spiraling out of control. In this dark comedy about family, race, and politics, Glenn Eichler and Nick Bertozzi explore what's buried under the surface of middle-class America.

Originally written in 1845 by Heinrich Hoffmann, Der Struwwelpeter reads like a fairy tale breaking loose from a doomed rollercoaster and splashing into the miasmic ooze of Hell -- but somehow still managing to float. Mesmerized as a child by the nightmarish prose and haunting images contained in the book, noted author/illustrator Bob Staake (MAD magazine, Cartoon Network) gives a 21st century spin to these 14 stories. The nastiest things happen to children who disobey the wishes of their parents: thumb suckers have their digits cut off, the pyro-fascinated are set ablaze and, of course, picky eaters rot away and die prematurely. Do not read these to your children, unless you want them to turn out like Bob. Picture book format; hardcover, color.

Writer/Artist:Debbie Drechsler The graphic novel from the series NOWHERE, about a young teenager entering high school in a new town.

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Writer:Brian Wood
Artist:Kristian Donaldson
n the future world of Supermarket, it's the literal truth - legitimate and black-market economies rule the City, overseen by the vying factions of the Yakuza and Porno Swede crime families. Convenience store clerkette and 16-year old suburban wise-ass, Pella Suzuki suddenly finds herself in the middle of it all, heir to an empire she couldn't possibly inherit, but hitmen on both sides aren't taking any chances.
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Writer - Jim Monroe
Art & Cover - Shannon Gerald
The concrete shell of Detroit has cracked open to reveal loamy soil, rich with potential. But someone knows there's more profit in controlling hunger than selling food... the world was simpler before the righteous floated away into the sky, and magic started working. The all-new story spinning out of the acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent! continues here.