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Burning Up

On Tour with the Jonas Brothers

by Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas

Burning Up: On Tour with the Jonas Brothers is your backstage pass to life with Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It includes never-before-seen photos of the Jonas Brothers' Look Me in the Eyes tour and exclusive images taken during Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus's Best of Both Worlds tour. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the band warming up, performing, and having fun backstage. This sizzling souvenir will... (more)

Jonas Brothers (Junk Food: Tasty Celebrity Bios)

Jonas Brothers (Junk Food: Tasty Celebrity Bios)

by Maggie Marron

LOEG Black Dossier (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

LOEG Black Dossier (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

by Alan Moore

England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted...some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried... (more)

DMZ: Book 1

DMZ 1: On the Ground

by Brian Wood

In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand –... (more)

The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius

The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius

by Judd Winnick

Barry Ween is every boy's fantasy personified. His intellect is beyond any that has existed before. In his presence, Einstein looks like a moron. Working in the secret lab in the back of his house, Barry slowly inches towards dominating the world, and he would, too, if the laws of chaos weren't so strongly enforced. Protecting obnoxious aliens seeking asylum, getting transported to the pedophilic old west, being... (more)

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

by Kevin Roose

No drinking. No smoking. No cursing. No dancing. No R-rated movies. Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days drinking fair-trade coffee, singing in an a cappella group, and fitting right in with Brown's free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University, a conservative... (more)

Top Ten: The Forty-Niners (Top Ten)

by Alan Moore

This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metr-opolis with a citizenry made up exclusively of super beings. In this city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. The officers of Precinct 10 encounter all manner of the super powered and the supernatural on a routine basis. The Eisner Award-winning TOP 10 team of writer Alan Moore and artist Gene Ha... (more)

Smax

by Alan Moore, Zander Cannon

Jeff Smax, a major character in Alan Moores enthralling TOP 10 series, must return to his homeworld after many years on Earth. Accompanied by his fellow Neopolis Precinct Ten police officer Robin Toybox Slinger, he must face a myriad of challenges ranging from cutting through mountainous red tape to go on a quest, doing battle with the most monstrous of all dragons and adapting to a world where the laws of physics... (more)

Death: the High Cost of Living

by Chris Bachalo, Neil Gaiman

From pages of The Sandman graphic novels, Morpheus' sister, Death, returns for a second solo outing in a haunting tale of music, mortality, friendship and the power of love in the face of death. Fan favourite author Neil Gaiman reintroduces and expands upon the characters introduced in his acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living in this all-new collection. This lushly illustrated... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

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 mountaintop to replenish his resources. The city he returns to resembles the post-apocalyptic Blade Runner and all its funky visual... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 2

Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

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 AUTHORITY. In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

Transmetropolitan: Book 3

Transmetropolitan Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 21st Century surroundings while working 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 AUTHORITY. In this third volume, Spider Jerusalem begins to crumble under the pressure of sudden and unwanted fame. Having had enough of the warped... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 5

Transmetropolitan Vol. 5: Lonely City

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, Transmetropolitan: Lonely City, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit less nihilistic... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 4: The New Scum

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

It's no wonder he hates it here. Spider Jerusalem, journalist and heroof sorts in Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan, wades through a sewer ofpoverty and high-tech despair daily in his efforts to understand and report onAmerica. In The New Scum, Ellis contrasts the powerful, in the form ofpresidential candidates, with the powerless, who are begging and hustling on thestreets. The satire is savage and rarely subtle,... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 6

Transmetropolitan Vol. 6: Gouge Away

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

Despite -- or perhaps with the aid of -- drugs, drinking, and paranoia, Spider Jerusalem and his filthy assistants are hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly-elected President's campaign. Features three stand-alone stories: "Nobody Loves me, "The Walk" and "Dancing in the Here and Now," and also includes the three-part "Gouge Away" storyline.

Transmetropolitan: Book 9

Transmetropolitan Vol. 9: The Cure

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

This collection of the popular Transmetropolitan series follows the adventures of famous renegade journalist Spider Jerusalem. He spends his time in the future dystopia The City avoiding hit men and dealing with government corruption, media infiltration and conspiracy paranoia. In this installment, Jerusalem and his assistants are racing against government assassins to find the last living transient sex worker who... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash

Transmetropolitan: Book 7

Transmetropolitan Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

Transmetropolitan Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste

Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste

by Warren Ellis

Meet Spider Jerusalem, the smart-mouthed, heavily-armed, cigar-smoking gonzo reporter of the future (a sort of cyberpunk Hunter S. Thompson) as he reacquaints himself with his city's fringe elements in this final farewell to Transmetropolitan. This graphic novel features a host of one and two page stories from comics' finest artists, illustrating excerpts from the Word columns of crazed outlaw journalist Spider... (more)

Death: At Death's Door (Vertigo, Number 1)

Death: At Death's Door (Vertigo, Number 1)

by Jill Thompson

When a tired Lucifer closes up Hell, leaving Dream in charge, Death finds the suddenly homeless souls are drawn to her like moths to a flame. What's a girl to do? Her sister Delirium throws a party, and in the ensuing chaos, Death is left to save not just the afterlife but the crockery as well.

Alias: Book 1

Alias Vol. 1

by Brian Michael Bendis

Meet Jessica Jones, one-time costumed heroine turned private investigator. After realizing that her powers were unremarkable compared to those of the icons in the Marvel Universe, Jones gave up being a super hero and eventually opened up a detective agency. While her intent to help others is intact, her personal behavior is anything but valiant: She is bitter, resentful and self-destructive. In lieu of... (more)

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On Tour with the Jonas Brothers

by Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas

by Maggie Marron

by Alan Moore

by Brian Wood

by Judd Winnick

by Kevin Roose

by Alan Moore

by Alan Moore, Zander Cannon

by Chris Bachalo, Neil Gaiman

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

by Warren Ellis

by Jill Thompson

by Brian Michael Bendis