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Spent : a comic novel
by Alison Bechdel
In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile, Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel's beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy-and when Alison's Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral-Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show...like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!
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Saga, Volume 12
by Brian K. Vaughan
The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world.
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The Department of Truth. Volume 05, What your country can do for you
by James Tynion
"Confronted with an enemy intent on exposing their secrets to the world, the Department of Truth made a shocking choice--go public first. But to understand Lee Harvey Oswald's risky gambit, we have to return to where it all started: Dallas, 1963, as President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the grassy knoll...and a woman in red with X's for eyes picked up a rifle in the window of the Texas Book Depository"
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Holy Lacrimony
by Michael Deforge
Jackie is the "saddest living person in the entire world"... according to a mysterious team of alien abductors. To these extraterrestrial shape-shifters, he is an emotional superstar, his misery by far superseding his earthly musical celebrity. Hoping to master this quintessential human emotion, they force him to perform his sadness over and over again. Until just like that, he is returned to his old life. Trying to comprehend what happened, he joins an alien abductee support group. But as each person tells their story, Jackie realizes he may never know.
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Falling in love on the path to hell. Volume one
by Gerry Duggan
"The sun set on samurai and gunslingers at roughly the same time, but our two leads didn't die off quietly. In the East, a samurai would rather die with her weapons than surrender them to a sword hunt. In the West, the gunslinger follows his revenge to the bitter end. The future lovers are mortally wounded a world apart and awake together in a purgatory ruled by a ruthless society of damned warriors. Asami and MacRaith will need to overcome the dead, the dying, and the undead. Can love redeem them?"
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Public Domain 2 : Build Something New
by Chip Zdarsky
Dallas Comics is up and running! But can the team make a Domain comic for a new generation before Jerry Jasper and Singular Comics beat them to it? Or will familial tensions, shocking revelations, and a visit to San Diego Comic Expo ruin the series before their rivals can?
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Vagabond : Definitive Edition 1
by Takehiko Inoue
At 17 years of age, Miyamoto Musashi--still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezåo--is a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword. In the aftermath of the epic Battle of Sekigahara, Takezåo finds himself a fugitive survivor on the losing side of the war. Takezåo's vicious nature has made him an outcast even in his own village, and he is hunted down like an animal. At this crucial crossroads in Takezåo's life, an eccentric monk and a childhood friend are the only ones who can help him find his way.
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Beat It, Rufus
by Noah Van Sciver
Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately - delusionally - hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience members ducking when he tosses promo t-shirts at an open-mic night). The rest of his bandmates in Funky Cool died decades ago in a horrible plane crash on the cusp of their first big break. When he gets kicked out of the Denver storage unit he's been illegally sleeping in, his only prospect is a last-second wedding gig the very next day - in Wyoming. A hop in his car, and possibly a peyote button or two, sends Baxter on a psychedelic and existential road trip through his past, and forces him to confront every bad decision he's made along the way. Beat It, Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Van Sciver's Fante Bukowski series, a comedic character study both played for laughs but also infused with a surprising gravitas that has you rooting for Rufus despite having every reason not to. Van Sciver's comedic and graphic talents are in peak form in this original graphic novel, his follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed graphic bio, Joseph Smith and the Mormons.
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