P. Craig Russell
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Hailed as his finest work, this Eisner Award-winning and critically acclaimed mini-series was adapted by legendary writer and artist P. Craig Russell in direct collaboration with Michael Moorcock.
Elric: Stormbringer marks the final, climactic chapter in the epic Elric story, concluding the saga of doom-driven adventurer Elric of Melniboné, the Eternal Champion and wielder of the Runeblade Stormbringer. The stage is set for an apocalyptic battle...
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Ring of Nibelung volume 1
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The Eisner Award-winning series, finally collected in one volume, presents one of the grandest stories of Western civilization, now one of the most explosive epics in the history of comics. Giants plot against gods, who in turn tear human lovers apart, while the lives of great warriors are ruined, and murder after murder is committed in the name of love and gold. It's the epic as it was meant to be read. This new high point in Russell's distinguished...
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Arguably the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde's nine fairy tales, this particular rendition stands apart from the others due to its brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art. After dying young, the Happy Prince's soul inhabits a beautiful ruby-encrusted statue covered in gold leaf which is perched high above the city. But when he sees the poverty, misery and desperateness of his people, he enlists the help of a barn swallow to remove...
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One of comic art's most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes. This volume includes The Selfish Giant and The Star Child.
5) The Giver
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Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
6) Coraline
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 2
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The concluding volume of the graphic novel adaptation of the book about a boy, raised by the inhabitants of the local graveyard who rally to protective from a league of villains named Jack who seek to destroy him.
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American gods volume 1
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"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent."--
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"In the Victorian era, an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike? Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all...a man with other matters to attend to. His name? No one knows for sure. Most people know him only as Jack. Jack the Ripper. Brian Augustyn (The Flash), Mike...
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"Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and experience. Where the incarnations of the months of the year sit around a campfire sharing stories, where an older college professor recounts a Narnian childhood, where the apocalypse unfolds, and where the importance of generational storytelling is seen through the Goldilocks fairytale."--Provided by publisher.
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"The sixth installment of Neil Gaiman's seminal, New York Times best-selling series celebrates its 30th anniversary with an all-new edition, featuring a new cover from artist Dave McKean! Fables and Reflections continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and fictional characters throughout time. Featuring tales of kings, explorers, spies and werewolves, this book...
13) Coraline
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Cuando Coraline atraviesa una de las puertas de la casa nueva de su familia, se encuentra que hay otra casa extranamente similar a la suya (aunque la nueva sea, definitivamente, mejor). Al principio, todo parece maravilloso: la comida es mas sabrosa que la de casa y el cajon de los juguetes esta repleto de angelitos de papel que vuelan solos y de calaveras de dinosaurios que parecen vivas y se arrastran haciendo castanetear los dientes. Pero resulta...
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"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard-thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy,...
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"Now presented in stark black-and-white pencils and inks, it's Batman vs. Jack the Ripper in Victorian-era London in this legendary graphic novel tale. In Victorian-era Gotham City, Bruce Wayne is operating as the bat-garbed vigilante, the Batman, who is feared by the guilty and the innocent alike. One night Batman saves a wealthy couple from being robbed by three orphans (Dickie, Jason and Timmy) and defeats their handler, Big Bill Dust. At the same...
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Endless Nights is an original graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman as a follow-up to his Sandman series. The book is divided into seven chapters, each devoted to one of the Endless, a family of brothers and sisters who are physical manifestations of the metaphysical concepts Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium, Despair, and Destiny.
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"The fourth installment of Neil Gaiman's seminal series, Season of Mists, celebrates its 30th anniversary with all all-new edition! Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make it right, Morpheus must return to Hell to rescue his banished love -- and Hell's ruler, the fallen angel Lucifer, has already...
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Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
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Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. The six chapters in this first volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of The graveyard book features illustrations from a team of renowned artists.
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In "Sandman Midnight Theatre," a mysterious suicide leads Wesley Dodds to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries; in "Sandman Endless Nights," the seven siblings of the Endless are introduced; and in "The Dream Hunters," a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox find themselves romantically drawn together.
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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack -- who has already killed Bod's family.