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Watchmen (collective work)

by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most influential graphic novels of all time... (learn more about this book)

V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore, David Lloyd

V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first... (learn more about this book)

Y: The Last Man: Book 1

Unmanned (collective work)

by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

Collects Y: The Last Man #1-5

When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious... (learn more about this book)

Transmetropolitan: Book 1

Back on the Street (collective work)

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis, Ray Krissing

Ellis's dystopic narrative, with its full-color tale of a gonzo journalist, shares with mainstream superhero comics a macho ethos that undermines the otherwise cool Watchmen-like script. Spider Jerusalem, a hip reporter of the Hunter Thompson mode, breaks a five-year drug binge on a... (learn more about this book)

DC Elseworld

Kingdom Come

by Mark Waid, Alex Ross, Todd Klein

Writer Mark Waid, coming from his popular work on Flash and Impulse, and artist Alex Ross, who broke new ground with the beautifully painted Marvels, join together for this explosive book that takes place in a dark alternate future of the DC Superhero Universe. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman,... (learn more about this book)

Y: The Last Man: Book 2

Cycles (collective work)

by Brian K. Vaughan

Collects Y: The Last Man #6-10

When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey... (learn more about this book)

Serenity: Book 1

Those Left Behind

by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, Will Conrad

Penned by Whedon and Brett Matthews, who wrote several episodes of Firefly as well as Dark Horse's final Angel comics series and the animated Chronicles of Riddick feature "Dark Fury," Serenity follows a ship full of mercenaries, fugitives and one law-abiding prostitute in their pursuit for... (learn more about this book)

Y: The Last Man: Book 9

Motherland (collective work)

by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Pia Guerra, Goran Sudzuka

Collects Y: The Last Man #49-54

Featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills... (learn more about this book)

Y: The Last Man: Book 3

One Small Step (collective work)

by Brian K. Vaughan

Collects Y: The Last Man #11-17

When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey... (learn more about this book)

Transmetropolitan: Book 2

Lust for Life (collective work)

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st Century through black humor as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics' superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE... (learn more about this book)