Image Comics 25th Anniversary | Arlington Public Library

1) age of bronze vol 1 a thousand ships

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2) The walking dead: Vol. 1,Days gone bye

Author

Kirkman, Robert

Series

Walking Dead graphic novels volume 1

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Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.

3) Chew: Vol. 1,Taster's choice

Author

Layman, John

Series

Chew: the omnivore edition volume 1

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"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and...

4) Fatale: Book one,Death chases me

Author

Brubaker, Ed

Series

Fatale volume 1

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Secrets, lies, horror, lust, and monsters from the time before time all collide in Fatale: Death Chases Me. In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those who cross her path, on a quest for ... what? Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bestselling series will leave you craving more!

5) Saga: Vol. 1

Author

Vaughan, Brian K

Series

Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1

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"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 universe" -- p. [4] of cover.

6) MP: the Manhattan projects.1,I am not my brother

Author

Hickman, Jonathan

Series

Manhattan Projects volume 1

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Originally published in single magazine form as The Manhattan Projects #1-5. The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.

7) East of West: 1,The promise

Author

Hickman, Jonathan

Series

East of West volume 1

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This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End Times for humanity, and our best hope for life lies in DEATH.

8) Rat queens: Vol. 1,Sass and Sorcery

Author

Wiebe, Kurtis J

Series

Rat Queens volume 1

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Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they're in the business of killing all god's creatures for profit. It's also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief.

9) Sex criminals: Vol. 1,One weird trick

Author

Fraction, Matt

Series

Sex criminals volume 1

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"Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!" -- from publisher's web site.

10) Pretty Deadly: Vol. 1,The Shrike

Author

DeConnick, Kelly Sue

Series

Pretty deadly volume 1

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Presents the collecting opening arc of author's series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. This book tells a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.

11) Southern bastards: Vol. 1,Here was a man

Author

Aaron, Jason

Series

Southern bastards volume 1

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Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever seen! Collects Southern Bastards #1-4

12) The wicked + the divine: Vol. 1,The Faust act

Author

Gillen, Kieron

Series

Wicked + the divine volume 1

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Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.

13) The fade out: Act one

Author

Brubaker, Ed

Series

Fade out volume 1

14) Low: Vol. 1,The delirium of hope

Author

Remender, Rick

Series

Low volume 1

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Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope.

15) Ody-C: Vol. 1,Off to far Ithicaa

Author

Fraction, Matt

Series

Ody-C volume 1

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An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors.

16) Descender: Vol. 1,Tin stars

Author

Lemire, Jeff

Series

Descender volume 1

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" One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet" -- summary provided by publisher.

17) I hate fairyland: Vol. 1,Madly ever after

Author

Young, Skottie

Series

I hate Fairyland volume 1

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Follow Gert, a forty year old woman stuck in a six year olds body who has been stuck in the magical world of Fairyland for nearly thirty years. Join her and her giant battle-axe on a delightfully blood soaked journey to see who will survive the girl who HATES FAIRYLAND.

18) Paper girls: Vol. 1

Author

Vaughan, Brian K

Series

Paper girls volume 1

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In the early hours after Halloween on 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time.Suburban drama and supernatural mysteries collide in this series about nostalbia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood -- page 4 of cover.

19) Monstress: Vol. 1,Awakening

Author

Liu, Marjorie M

Series

Monstress volume 1

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"Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers,"--Amazon.com.