Mike Carey
Author
Language
English
Description
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.
When Castor accepts...
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.
When Castor accepts...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Love at first sight leads to a wedding that may finally unite the feuding Thieves and Assassins guild--or set them at war like never before! Discover how Remy LeBeau's mutant powers put him on a collision course with Mister Sinister, the Marauders and the Mutant Massacre! Then watch as Gambit enters the world of the X-Men--when he comes to the aid of a Storm hounded by the Shadow King!"--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
The X-Men awaken to find the all the world's humans gone. From normal everyday folks to the Avengers and Fantastic Four, all homo sapiens have disappeared. It's up to the disparate sides of the X-Men to come together, get to the bottom of this mystery and find a way to get the humans back. But do all of the mutants want their human brethren to return?
Author
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angles. Emerging from the pages of writer Neil Gaiman's award-winning series The Sandman, the former Lord of Hell is now enjoying a quiet retirement as the propretor of Lux, L.A.'s most elite piano bar. But now an assignment from the Creator Himself is going to change all that. If Lucifer agrees to do Heaven's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Felix Castor has three items on his to-do list: stop a lawyer from stealing a corpse; track down a long-dea serial killer who might have committed a very recent brutal murder; and win a legal battle for the body--if not the soul--of a possessed friend. He can't shake the feeling that his three problems might be related."-- From the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the Fantastic Four help out with the excavation of the Mole Man's underground city, they awaken something that should have been left sleeping! Just who is Agatha Harkness, and what are Salem's Seven? New Ultimate characters! Plus: Someone has the hots for the Human Torch!" -- p. [4] of cover.
11) The stranded
Author
Language
English
Description
What if your entire life - your childhood, your family, your memories - was a lie? A group of seemingly ordinary people that must face the terrifying reality that they're all, secretly, from another world, implanted with false memories to keep them safe from harm. But a deadly, otherworldly force has targeted them for death, and their only hope is a dark, mysterious woman sent to Earth as their protector. One by one, she must awaken The Stranded's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"John Constantine arrives on the scene, a dagger in one hand and an engraved human skull in the other while the Beast is burning its mark into the world. Constantine's fragile coalition has fallen apart in death and recrimination. It looks as though John's fortunes have finally reached rock bottom. But when he faces the Beast in its lair, things get unimaginably worse."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seed Nineteen is the bizarre name for the most bizarre characters ever to enter the lives of the Fantastic Four: Threshold, Fountain, Magnificent Brute, Dreamcatcher. These incredible entities hold the key to a cosmic conflict that has raged for untold millennia and now involves the Fantastic Four.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The tenth volume of the critically-acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team, Mike Carey and Peter Gross is the perfect jumping on point, as Tom Taylor is stranded at the beginning of all creation! Lost in the unwritten scenes of all the world's stories, Tom Taylor is headed back to reality -- and all the gods and beasts and monsters ever imagined can't stop him. But there's a toll on the road that may be too high for him or anyone...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The psychic vampire Selene and her nihilist followers have resurrected a legion of the X-Men's former friends and foes-and send them to storm Utopia, the X-Men's island home ... Amid the chaos of Selene's siege, Cyclops dispatches a formidable X-Men strike force to deal with this newest returnee-but can even Nightcrawler, Colossus, Psylocke, Rogue and the newly joined Magneto deal with the unstoppable reality-altering power of Proteus?"--P. 4 of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tom Taylor has spent his entire life a prisoner of his father's literary legacy-- and the famous, fictional boy wizard, Tommy Taylor, whose name he shares. But now he's a prisoner of an entirely different kind. Framed for the murder of a houseful of famous authors by forces he's only beginning to comprehend, Tom finds himself behind bars in a foreign land. Prison walls may keep him inside, but they won't keep out his powerful enemies-- who want him...
Author
Language
English
Description
The fictional adventures of Tommy Taylor are the biggest publishing sensation of the still-young century. And now, years after the last volume, Tommy's creator Wilson Taylor--long missing and believed dead--is unleashing a brand-new Tommy Taylor book upon the world. There's just one problem: It's not a new Tommy Taylor book at all. This volume also includes the origin story of Lizzie Hexam.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Messiah Complex, there are no X-Men. But where does that the mutants that were X-Men? Some of the industry's hottest creators bring you stories of your favorite mutants as they make their way in a world without the X-Men. And only those who adapt will survive.