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Ion Mud (2021)

Lupo, a lone human, wanders the bowels of a gigantic ship, trying to survive and find the aliens who kidnapped him nearly 50 years ago. He's faced with a contamination from a hostile organism transforming all forms of life into mutant creatures and causing major malfunctions to the ship. Is this what has forced the aliens to take refuge behind monumental doors, impassable to all others? Left to himself in a world far beyond him, this man will have to use all his wits and stubbornness to unravel the mysteries of his very existence! Amaury Kundgen.

He Who Fights With Monsters 001 (2021)

It's World War 2 and the struggle between good and evil is in full force. In Prague, the great Bohemian city is being oppressed by the Nazi occupation and the population lives in terror, while the resistance forces try to organize themselves in the shadows.  It is an almost impossible task. With the ruthless SS tightening their grip on every street and neighborhood with overwhelming might, only one hope feeds the struggle. A crazy hope, which rests on the fragile foundations of an ancient, monstrous legend... (W) Francesco Artibani (A) Werther Dell'Edera (CA) Moy R.

Lugosi - The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula (2021)

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's stardom would be assured...but with international fame came setbacks and addictions that gradually whittled his reputation from icon to has-been. Lugosi details the actor's fall from grace and an enduring legacy that continues to this day (Humanoids: 163). Koren Shadmi.

Gunblast Girls

After a job that went wrong, Zdenka and the other “Galactic Sistas” decided to go their separate ways. But now Zdenka has found something that seems to offer big rewards for zero risk, which is why she’ll need to convince her “sistas” to get the old gang back together. The job? Taking the director of the Economic Consortium’s daughter safely across Alliance lines. Fearing that too large a protection detail could attract unwanted attention, the director has requested something more discreet. But his headstrong teenage daughter isn’t going to make things easy. And as if that wasn’t enough, certain people seem to have a score to settle with Zdenka… Action, comedy, girls, and big guns are all on the menu in this first-rate space opera. Script by CRISSE - Art by CRISSE

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Dracula - Vlad the Impaler (2021)

A prince of Wallachia and son of Vlad Dracul (The Dragon), Vlad Dracul the Younger (Vlad Dracula) is taken hostage as a young man by Sultan Mehmed I to ensure his father's loyalty. When his father is killed at the hands of traitorous nobles in his own land, he assumes the crown and wages a cruel war to regain his lands and avenge his father. Throughout his life, he continued the fight to retain his kingdom, committing acts that would later lead to the formation of the famous character created by Bram Stoker.

Streamliner 01 (2020)

An abandoned stretch of road in the middle of the desert, a rusty old gas station, and a plume of dust rising in the distance… When Billy Joe steps onto old Evel O’Neil’s property, trouble follows close behind: misfits, criminals, cops, and media, all of them in search of freedom, justice, and glory… But only the fastest one among them will get it. Story and art by Fane.

Palimpsest - Documents from a Korean Adoption (2021)

Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. “Be thankful,” she was told; surely her life in Sweden was better than it would have been in Korea. Like many adoptees, Sjöblom learned to bury the feeling of abandonment. by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom (Author).

Creatures

In a post-apocalyptic New York City obliterated by a Big Night that wiped out most of civilization, bands of children struggle to stay alive in the wreckage, hunting for food under billowing clouds of toxic fog and running from hungry zombies. One child is endowed with the power to keep them at bay, but will it be enough to protect the survivors from the terrifying creature that has just risen out of the Hudson River? Meanwhile, a raving old man with a house full of books says the worst is yet to come...

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Lucy (Heavy Metal compilation)

The oldest story in the world, magnified by Liberatore At the end of the 1970s, a discovery changed the face of the world: the almost complete skeleton of a specimen of Australopithecus, the oldest common ancestor of mankind, was unearthed in the Afar triangle in Ethiopia. But who was this woman named "Lucy" after the Beatles song? In this comic book with a romantic breath, remarkable for its scientific veracity, we follow the timid footsteps of our ancestor in his awakening to consciousness. A journey made of dangers and discoveries, rocked by the starry night where all the mystery of the world is hidden. Told with poetry by Patrick Norbert, carried by the breathtaking ultra-realism of Liberatore and produced under the supervision of Yves Coppens (author of a very nice afterword) Lucy is an album for dreaming and reflecting on ourselves. A wonderful album to go back to the sources of our history.

World War X v1 - Helius (2015)

2017. Mysterious boxes covered with curious signs are unearthed in various parts of the world - warnings from a long forgotten civilization. These strange and ancient cubes awaken monstrous creatures in prepared to annihilate all life that stands in their way. It is clear that humanity is not ready for this new type of world war. This alien-apocalypse horror is by Jerry Frissen, writer of Lucha Libre, with stunning art by Peter Snejbjerg (Starman, The Light Brigade, The Books of Magic).

Elias The Cursed T01 (03) - The Game of Celestial Beings

A Sword and Sorcery story about the redemptive journey of a once cruel king to reclaim his identity. Writer : Sylviane Corgiat. Art : Corrado Mastantuono. Fallen king Elias is on a quest to reclaim the face that was stolen from him by the mighty sorcerer Melchior. With the help of an unlikely gang, of all fantastical shapes and sizes, and amidst magic both good and evil, Elias The Cursed will attempt to save his face, and perhaps his soul.

Aloma

Aloma lives and works in Barcelona with her uncle Cyrus, an antiquarian and restorer of works of art of all kinds. In his huge shop, he keeps the last remnants of an old galleon, the Thrill Seeker, in which a few gangsters suspect part of the treasure it once transported. This will put the lives of the protagonists in danger again and again throughout the story. Cyrus and Aloma hire Gerald Quer, a private investigator, to find the treasure, if it really exists. Some traces lead Gerald to Panama, where Aloma wants to sell a Vermeer painting to a millionaire. Gerald decides to accompany her and the suspicion grows in him that Aloma is hiding a very dark secret. But on the island of San Jose, where the Thrill Seeker landed four hundred years earlier, a deadly threat awaits... by Alfonso Font (Author, Illustrator).

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Anais Nin - On the Sea of Lies (2020)

It is the beginning of the 1930s. Anaïs Nin lives in the Parisian suburbs and struggles with the anguish of her life as a banker's wife. Uprooted several times uprooted as a child, she grew up between 2 continents, 3 languages, and struggles to find her place in a society which relegates women to supporting roles. She wants to be a writer, and since childhood has kept a diary. It is her drug, her companion, her double, the thing that allows her to explore the complexity of her feelings and to come to grips with the sensuality that smolders within her. Then she meets Henry Miller, a revelation that proves to be the first step towards great upheavals. Leonie Bischoff.

The Ring of the Seven Worlds

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action/Adventure and Manga all blend into this Steampunk saga about interconnected worlds at the mercy of an invasion. Seven planets linked to one another by the multidimensional gates of a giant ring. Only the passage to Nemo, one of the Seven Worlds, has remained sealed for three centuries, in order to confine its people after they savagely attacked the rest of the Empire. When the infamous gate reopens and unleashes the ancient enemy, Timo and Luce, two teenagers from the planet Mose, are caught up in a war they were not prepared to fight.

Philosophy - A Discovery in Comics

This illustrated primer on philosophy is a great way to be introduced to a complex topic. In her easily accessible style, Margreet de Heer visualizes the history of Western philosophy and makes it approachable for those with little knowledge of the subject. The book explains the thoughts of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche, and ponders questions such as What is thinking? What is reality? Is there free will? and Why are these ideas still important? A perfect introduction to exploring philosophical concepts, this humorous yet substantive graphic account strips the subject of unnecessary complexity.