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What's to Love: Part social commentary, part family drama, Americatown asks: What if the American Dream gave way to the American Nightmare? In their inaugural comic series, screenwriters Bradford Winters (Oz, Boss, The Americans) and Larry Cohen (Netflix's Borgia), give us a story great for fans of Transmetropolitan, Children of Men, and the TV show Black Mirror.What It Is: After an economic collapse and other disasters in the near future, Americans...
9) The switch
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On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending in lawlessness-- and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing.
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In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language. In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies--...
11) One trick pony
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In a future where alien beings consume technology as a few humans try to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way back.
12) The testaments
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
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Every year, publishers and movie studios churn out piles of new zombie yarns, but none have rivaled the originality of this tale about a reanimated priest from an ancient cult and the zombie outbreak he creates in order to sacrifice mankind to his dark gods. Dark horror and high adventure mingle as a team of heroes race against an unstoppable evil bent on the end of mankind. * Written by Hellboy and B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola! * Collecting...
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America has entered the war, throwing its weight against the Axis powers. And the gods have joined ranks with them. The Snow Queen and the Dancer are sent on a recon mission in Bavaria, at the site of the last castle built by Louis II. The area is strangely devoid of military activity, and its their job to figure out why. Little do they know that the secret they uncover could change the face of the warwhether it's at the hands of the Nazis on the...
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1943: as winter gives way to spring in a small town in America, the Japanese-American god Rising Sun takes flight for Germany. There Marshal Goering awaits, with two secrets that will open Rising Sun's eyes to the truth, and perhaps change the course of the entire war.
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Ever since the Great Crash in 1929, the world has been grappling with an altered reality, as a new order of gods has joined humans on Earth. Fast forward to several decades later, in 1970, when it is rumored that a certain goddess can help humans to become gods. We follow one man, who epitomizes the American Dream, as he gives up everything to find Lilith, the "Mother of Evolution." But another goddess, The Queen of the Night, intercedes. Why? Just...
19) The Dark North
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Originally crowd funded for publication in 2015, this illustrated prose-art book fusion features five unique tales ranging from Norse mythology to apocalyptic science fiction to fantasy. The Dark North showcases artwork by Scandinavia's leading illustrators and concept artists--including Peter Bergting, Henrik Pettersson, Joakim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson, and Lukas Thelin--and is written by Martin Duneland. With a foreword by author and filmmaker Clive...
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Julian Lethercore is on the run, dodging police across the state of Colorado to reach Senator Pershing at his estate in the Rockies. Meanwhile, a menacing and unexpected midnight visitor at Kate Cliffbridges home sends her comfortable suburban life spinning into disarray, dredging up secrets from her past as an experimental subject in a top-secret program. Her rescuer, the brilliant former scientist Stephen Hack, brings his own set of problems: hes...