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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? In Murder Book, lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is a funny, thoughtful, and highly personal...
Author
Series
Red room volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphic Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Aided by the anonymous dark web and nearly untraceable cryptocurrency, a criminal subculture has emerged. It livestreams murders as entertainment. Who are the killers? Who are the victims? Who is paying to watch? How to stop it? Red Room is constructed as a series of interconnected stories, shining a light on the characters who exist in the ugliest of corners in cyberspace.
4) Wraith
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Joe Hill's New York Times Bestselling novel, NOS4A2, introduced readers to the terrifying funhouse world of Christmasland, and the mad man who rules there: Charlie Talent Manx III. Now, in an original new comic mini-series, Hill throws wide the candy cane gates to tell a standalone story that is at once both accessible to new readers, and sure to delight fans of the book.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When an unassuming man stumbles upon a dark-web contract assassin's vicious plot to kill an innocent target, he turns himself into one. The Professional meets Road to Perdition in this story of a family's unlikely guardian being hunted by rich and pwerful men who are used to getting away with everything."--Back cover
6) Stray dogs
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meet Sophie, a dog who can't remember what happened. She doesn't know how she ended up in this house. She doesn't recognize any of these other dogs. She knows something terrible happened but she just.. can't... recall... Wait! Where's her lady? It's all coming back to her now, and it's enough to raise Sophie's hackles. Now Sophie has to figure out where she is, what's happening and how she's going to survive this.
Author
Series
Cemetery girl volume 3
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious investigator and hardened killers on her trail, Calexa's true identity is about to be revealed, but will she live long enough to learn her real name?--Page [4] of cover.
8) Jenny Finn
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
London's dockside is threatened by the twin terrors of a plague leaving bodies covered in tentacles and a slasher killing women in the night. Desperate for answers after the wrong man is executed for the murders, a group of Londoners holds a séance to contract the supposed killer, and his story of a girl born of the sea who has brought a terrible curse only brings them more questions. Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey's acclaimed standalone series is...
Author
Series
Magic Order graphic novels volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces...
Author
Series
Adventure zone volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters. You know, the usual things you find...
Author
Series
Inuyashiki volume 5
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Shishigami's identity as a vicious murderer is known to the nation, prompting him to take refuge. As public outcry calls for him to be brought to justice, a tragic event pushes Shishigami over the edge, and his once violent pastime turns into a mission of revenge. With vengeance on his mind, Shishigami strays further from his humanity into a killing machine, but the affection of a new friend may cause him to have a change of heart. "Take Gantz, add...
12) John Flood
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"John Flood no longer needs to sleep. His eternal insomnia symptoms may include precognitive visions of murders and irritability. As the result of shady corporate experiments, John Flood no longer needs to sleep. A side effect of his supernatural insomnia allows him to see patterns and make connections no one else can. This ability serves Flood well in his "new career" as a makeshift private investigator, and he's recruited an ex-cop looking for...
Author
Publisher
Rocketship Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Roost - the world's most prestigious military academy - has never accepted a Crow into its ranks. Until now. However, the conditions surrounding Scra's acceptance are shrouded in conspiracy, and his new roommate Ky won't rest until he finds out just where he goes every night. Between flight tests, classes, and Murders, Scra, Ky, and Ree must band together to uncover the truth about their utopia and the whispers of a superweapon - "The Croaking"...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When an unassuming man stumbles upon a dark-web contract assassin's vicious plot to kill an innocent target, he turns himself into one. The Professional meets Road to Perdition in this story of a family's unlikely guardian being hunted by rich and powerful men who are used to getting away with everything."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Lion Forge LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Someone is committing barbarous murders throughout Barcelona, focusing on locations designed by renowned visionary architect Antoni Gaudi. The police have no clues, but a young woman is thrust into the investigation by a man resembling the late Gaudi himself, led to the scenes of the crimes before they even occur... could be a precognizant ghost? A visual tour through the beautiful streets of Barcelona on a true edge-of-your-seat thriller written...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphic Books Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The smash-hit, most-talked-about comic of 2021 is back with its second "season" and trade paperback! Collecting the four-issue comic book series Red Room: Trigger Warnings, with tons of extras! In this second Red Room collection, fan-favorite the Decimator presents...The Rat Queens! And unfortunately for them, they're front and center in the Decimator's most horrific red room broadcast yet! Also, hoodie horror comes to Red Room by way of the Punkinz:...
Author
Series
Rivers of London graphic novels volume 8
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in fifty years, must immediately deal with two different but ultimately inter-related cases. In one he must find what is possessing ordinary people and turning them into vicious killers, and in the second he must broker a peace between the two warring gods of the River Thames.
Author
Publisher
Berger Books/Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn, 1969. 17-Year-Old Kathy Santori is attacked and thrown into Sheepshead Bay. Brooklyn, 2019. She crawls ashore. Kathy discovers an eerie doppelganger has been living out her life. Soon Kathy will confront not only this strange double but the madman who "murdered" her five decades earlier. Will Kathy find the key to her missing years or become a ghost of herself destined to live out her life on the edge of the world she desperately wants...
Author
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's 1973, the town of Baths, cozy middle-of-nowhere American heartland. Traveling musician Wegg rolls in, content to busk for a beat and be on his merry way once more. That is, until he meets Mr. Neighbor, the disarmingly sweet man made of cloth who offers him company and a place to stay. As the two grow closer, they click together just right, each harmonizing with the other's most secret self. Yet their growing romance is haunted by uncertainty...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Huntress is being being framed for murder and while avoiding G.C.P.D (Gotham City Police Department), and the Bat Family she revisits her childhood with The Question in hopes of trying to discover the true culprit. Even as the Huntress--aided by the Question--seeks clues to prove her innocence, more murders implicating her are committed. Batman and Nightwing are forced to confront her in a showdown with unexpected results! The Huntress finally...
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