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Publisher
[Alternative Comics]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Chainmail Bikini is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers! Forty cartoonists have contributed comics about the games they're passionate about -- from video games to tabletop role-playing to collectible card games. The comics in Chainmail Bikini explore the real-life impact of entering a fantasy world, and how games can connect us with each other and teach us about ourselves. Alliances are forged, dice get rolled, and dragons get slain!...
Author
Series
Adventure zone volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate call for help interrupts holiday celebrations at the Bureau of Balance, and sends Taako, Magnus and Merle on a high-stakes mission to find and reclaim a fourth deadly relic: a powerful transmutation stone, hidden somewhere in the depths of a floating arcane laboratory that's home to the Doctors Maureen and Lucas Miller. An unknown menace has seized control of the stone, and is using it to transform the lab into a virulent pink crystal...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You'll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was...
Author
Series
Last man volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Marianne Velba won't stop until she finds out why Richard Aldana had left the Valley of Kings. She and her son Adrian track the champion fighter into another universe and arrive in Paxtown, an illustrious modern megalopolis, where something sinister lurks behind the glitz and glam. In order to answer burning questions about Richard's past, they enlist in the Fighting Fists Funeral Cup, that world's famous boxing tournament. Using their otherworldly...
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
Author
Series
Homestuck volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve trolls start playing a game. Their extensive and convoluted journey will involve extreme role playing, dreadful cinema, emotional theatrics and romantic intrigue, doublecrossings and backstabbery, payback scenarios, miracles, a levitating ghostly amphibian, and the troll disease called friendship.
Author
Series
Cat + gamer volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A woman who lives to play video games unexpectedly adopts a kitten, changing both of their lives forever"--
9) Glass Town
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The entrancing story of the Brontë sisters' childhood imaginary world. Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt... Welcome to Glass Town."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Years in the past, but not many, a webcomic launched that would captivate legions of devoted fans around the world and take them on a mind-bending, genre-defying epic journey that would forever change the way they look at stairs. And buckets. And possibly horses. Now this sprawling saga has been immortalized on dead trees with notes from author Andrew Hussie explaining what the hell he was thinking as he brought this monster to life. A must-have for...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When chaos besieges the kingdom of Arcadia, warrior Amala Citlali uncovers a shocking truth-she's a non-player character in an advanced video game. With her very existence at stake, Amala embarks on a journey across worlds-to escape her prison, find her creator, and demand answers to the fundamental questions of her existence. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food. Including stellar...
Author
Series
Homestuck volume 3
Publisher
Viz Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Four kids start playing a game. Along the way they're bound to encounter sprites, exiles, guardians, consorts, time-hopping future selves, mystical dream oracle doppelgangers, paradox clones, a Secret Wizard, too many Daves, incompetent trolling, and the human emotion called friendship."--
Author
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As the game sessions tick down into their final hours, the players spin up into frenzied action. Their rivalries and ridiculously elaborate competing plans entail 2pooky paranormal phenomena, random teleportation murders, grimdarkness, crazy suicide missions, lipstick chainsaw retribution, wrecking some havoc, and being santa"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Die volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the world of DIE, the players are now real players. Countries are their pieces and the board threatens to run red with blood. Who is the Queen and who are pawns? Who's playing to win? Who's forgotten what they're playing for? And what will they do when they're reminded of the real stakes?" --
Author
Series
Die volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the commercial and critical hit of bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes' pasts. There's always the chance they'll escape DIE. They'll never escape themselves. -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Adventure zone volume 5
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, and this time it's...time? A small mining town called Refuge has been locked away behind an arcane bubble, and somewhere inside it the Temporal Chalice is causing unknown mayhem. Taako, Magnus, and Merle are launched into their investigation, but they've barely had a chance to get their feet under them before the situation literally falls apart. When the town clocktower strikes noon, Refuge...
18) Die: Vol.4,Bleed
Author
Series
Die volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"We've had dragons. The award-winning bleak deconstruction couldn't end without turning its unblinking eye upon a dungeon. There's no escape. There's only down." --
Author
Series
Die volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron's in a rush, he describes it as "Goth Jumanji", but that's only the tip of this obsidian iceberg.
Author
Series
Villains are destined to die volume 2
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Penelope Eckhart's fate may seem grim, but she's determined to avoid it by rescuing sympathetic love interest Eckles. Yet when her very way out of death turns out to be more dangerous than she thought, Penelope realizes she needs a backup plan-and a backup man...! "--
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