Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

ITEM # Life Sucks

Life Sucks

Life Sucks is a graphic novel written by Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, with artwork by Warren Pleece. Published in 2008 by First Second Books, it blends elements of slice-of-life drama, romance, and supernatural satire. The story follows Dave, a young vampire stuck in a dead-end job at a convenience store, navigating the monotony of modern existence while yearning for connection and meaning. Far from the glamorous image of vampires, Dave’s life reflects themes of alienation, underemployment, and unfulfilled dreams.

Notable for its grounded and character-driven approach to the vampire mythos, Life Sucks stands out in the comics landscape for its subversion of supernatural tropes, combining sharp social commentary with a distinctive indie comics sensibility.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

ITEM # 0105A X-Force Vol.3 # 1 - 28 + Annual

X-Force Covers

There are lines that the X-Men have sworn never to cross. But in the wake of the cataclysmic events of Messiah Complex, Cyclops sees the grim reality: some threats can never be contained, only eliminated. In secret, he forms a covert strike team — a black-ops unit that will do what the X-Men cannot. Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, and Wolfsbane are the claws in the dark, operating without mercy or hesitation. This is the birth of X-Force, a shadow team waging a hidden war where the cost is blood, the mission is absolute, and failure means extinction.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

ITEM # Eureka # 1 - 4

TV's smash sci-fi hit comes to BOOM! In what Eureka creator Andrew Cosby calls “Season 1.5,” Cosby and writer Brendan Hay (The Daily Show) bring all-new stories from everybody’s favorite town of eccentric geniuses! Things start off with a bang when something menacing escapes from Global Dynamics, and it has a target! It’s up to Carter and Jo to put together the pieces, but will elements from Jo’s past stop her from getting the job done?

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

ITEM # Transformers – Reign of Starscream # 1 - 5

The official continuation of the first blockbuster TRANSFORMERS movie is here! When MEGATRON falls in battle, STARSCREAM assumes the role of DECEPTICON leader on Earth. Mustering his surviving allies, he sets out to put his own plan in motion. But before he can do that, he'll need to retrieve a fallen comrade, carry out a plan of revenge, and leave the Earth to meet up with a major player in the DECEPTICON army. Picking up where the film ended, "The Reign of Starscream" also reveals the fates of other surviving film characters, as co-writers Chris Ryall (Transformers Movie Prequel) and Chris Mowry present a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and dark ambition featuring both old and all-new TRANSFORMERS characters.

ITEM # Transformers – Saga Of The Allspark # 1 - 4

Set in the movie continuity, Saga of the Allspark reprints the first eight issues stories from the 2007 UK's Titan Magazine.

Monday, August 4, 2025

ITEM # Marvel Masters: The Art of John Byrne


 

ITEM # First Born

Building on the success of First Born and Broken Trinity, Top Cow finally reveals the secrets of all 13 Artifacts, which include The Darkness, Witchblade, Angelus, Magdalena's Spear of Destiny, and many more. Launching a massive 13 issue event series in July 2010, this series will literally define and redefine the nature of the Top Cow Universe. The final identity of the remaining hidden Artifacts will be revealed, characters will perish, and the very existence of the Top Cow Universe will be at stake. And it begins here!

 

ITEM # Witchblade: Art of Witchblade

Beautiful artwork has always been a hallmark of the WITCHBLADE franchise, and now for the first time you can have the creme de la creme in one high end art book! This over-sized 9" x 12" softcover coffee table art book features selected works from the artists that defined the Witchblade legacy including Marc Silvestri, Michael Turner, Stjepan Sejic, Mike Choi, Francis Manapul, Randy Green, Keu Cha, Greg Land, Terry Dodson and many, many more! Featuring additional interviews and text pieces, this collection can't be missed!

 

Sunday, August 3, 2025

ITEM # The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

"The ultimate guide to the man behind the mask... and the mythology behind the man!" Featuring complete details of Batman's origins as well as biographies of almost every character in the Batman universe, this comprehensive, fully illustrated encyclopedia contains everything Batman and comic book fans ever wanted to know about the Dark Knight.

A fantastic chronicle detailing every thing in Batman's world down to the smallest detail. Essential reading for all Batman fans.



 

ITEM # Vertigo Encyclopedia

Although this Vertigo Encyclopedia wasn't published by Vertigo, it blows the original one out of the water, not just because the original was made around the birth of the Vertigo imprint to detail the characters that switched over and this one deals with the life of it. But also because this one goes into great depth into the volumes Vertigo has released rather then just the characters, like others comic encyclopedias are known to do. But just because Vertigo didn't publish this doesn't mean it wasn't worked on by some of their greats, both Neil Gaiman (writer of Vertigo's The Sandman) and Karen Berger (the Executive Editor at Vertigo) provide forewords and still others helped with the content.

 

Friday, August 1, 2025

ITEM # Helen Killer # 1 - 4

 In 1901, twenty-one year old college student Helen Keller, with the aid of a fantastical device invented by her friend and mentor, Alexander Graham Bell, regains her sight and hearing as well as near super-human strength and agility. Helen is enlisted by the Secret Service to protect President William McKinley who has been targeted for assassination by Anarchists. As a deeper conspiracy to destroy America unfolds around her, Helen discovers that her new abilities come with a dark and terrifying price!

Friday, July 25, 2025

ITEM # Jack and the Zombie Box

 Jack''s parents gave him a new toy and he can''t believe how silly it is! Sometimes it''s funny and other times it''s scary. Sometimes it talks to him and other times it hides. At first, Jack loves all the surprises that his toy can offer, but after a while he starts to think his toy is a little too silly - in fact, it''s gone out of control!

 

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

ITEM # Bomb Queen V: The Divine Comedy # 1 - 6

Bomb Queen is framed for a series of murders in the small town of Littleville. Trapped in her city of crime, the Queen employs a ragtag group of fanboys to discover the truth - before Littleville brings justice in the form of the ULTIMATE SUPERHERO!

 

Monday, June 30, 2025

ITEM # Solomon Kane # 1 – 5

Robert E. Howard's vengeance-obsessed Puritan begins his supernatural adventures in this five-issue expansion on Howard's chilling, unfinished fragment "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 responsiblea baron feared by the peasants for 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. Dark Horse's original Conan editor, Scott Allie, writes the series, with art by Mario Guevara and Dave Stewart, who reinvents his revolutionary color technique from Conan.

 

ITEM # Kick-Ass # 1 - 8

Kick-Ass is the first "book" (volume) in Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's creator owned series published by Marvel's independent imprint, Icon Comics. Book three of the Series entitled Kick-Ass 2 ran from Dec 2010 through May 2012, while book two entitled Hit-Girl began Aug 2012 and is currently being released monthly. The first series was collected in Kick-Ass.