In the last volume we learned that no one is safe. Now, after the staggering losses they've sustained, Rick and Carl are left to pick up the pieces and carry on, knowing that they could join their fallen friends and family at any moment. This volume collects The Walking Dead issues #49-54.

This graphic novel has been adapted from the successful urban fantasy series by Patricia Briggs. Mercy is a walker, a shapeshifter who becomes a coyote. She lives in the Northwest and has neighbors who are werewolves, vampires, and all variety of the fae, most who are dangerous.

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A sucessful architect has his life turned upside-down when his New York City apartment goes up in flames.

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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of "Watchmen" with this oversized hardcover collection, packaged inside a beautifully designed slipcase. Each page of art has been restored and re-colored by WildStorm FX, and 48 pages of supplemental material offer a cornucopia of rare and historically valuable treasures, including samples of Moore's "Watchmen" scripts, the original proposal, conceptual art, cover roughs, and much more.DC Comics

Coraline discovers a hidden "mirror world" in her old, rambling house. 

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High school: a time of friends, memories... and biting cats? Leering teachers? And is that penguin carrying a tray?! Welcome to Azumanga Daioh, the acclaimed story from writer/illustrator Kiyohiko Azuma (Yotsuba #38;!) about the humor and wonder of teenage life. Join the brainy Chiyo-chan, spaced-out Osaka, over-the-top Tomo, soft-spoken Sakaki, hair-trigger Yomi and brash Kagura as they fumble their way toward graduation and the future, collected here for the first time in a single volume.

Way, of the East Coast rock band My Chemical Romance, makes his comics writing debut in this outrageous superhero epic that Grant Morrison calls "an ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit and ideas.

1. First published by Shogakukan Inc. in Japan in 2006 as Neko-me-Kozou.
   
2. Printed in Japanese right to left format.
   

The next volume in the striking collection in co-publication with the Louvre Museum. An art assessor must evaluate the vast collections of the Louvre in an alternate Kafka-esque world where all is warehoused in an endless succession of basement levels. Mathieu, an artist who marries Escher with Kafka, brings stinging irony to the pompousness of art history. After Glacial Period, another stunning volume. Glacial Period has been nominated for an Eisner Award in 2007. (Comics' highest honor in the USA.)

1. "Nobody is born whole"--P. [4] of cover.
   
2. "Originally serialized in Japanese as Dororo in Shukan Shonen Sunday, Shogakkan, 1967-68"--T.p. verso.
   
3. "A young swordsman's hunt for the demons who stole his body parts and the tale of his little thieving friend"--P. [310]
   

1. Translation of: Appunti per una storia di guerra.
   
2. Originally published: Bologna, Italy : Coconino Press, 2004.
   

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Noemie has left her home in France to study abroad. In Onion City there are new friends, new environments, and new loves. There are also new dreams. And not ordinary dreams. Vivid visions of life in a different time and in a different place, but more than that, of a different existence. In Noemie's sleep she's not a woman, but a horse. A noble creature aiding a sick little girl. But how does this effect Noemie's own journey?

"Harvey Comics classics"

This book demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that you can use to help you write your memories and stories.

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