Ever since she was a little girl, Rose has had a special and troubling power: the ability to “double” herself and travel outside her body. She always saw it as something wrong with her… until now. When her father is murdered, Rose’s strange ability gives her a chance to find her father’s killer, solve a series of mysterious cold cases, and untangle a centuries-old curse. But maybe some secrets should stay buried…
“Vernay’s artwork is especially successful here, depicting light-hearted intrigue that shares space with a dark underbelly. The characters are especially well-wrought, particularly the ghosts, and Vernay’s backgrounds and historical passages are gorgeous.” Comics Beat
In the Depression, times are tough all over for tobacco farmers, and the Cry family is no exception. They may have set out for California to start over, but the baggage of the past never gets left behind. Crippled Billy, filled with inchoate rage from a childhood run-in with a sadistic neighbor, resents having to look after his older brother Milton, a lumbering gentle giant who was born simple. Billy starts venting his revenge fantasies into Milton’s innocent ears, causing his brother gruesome nightmares. But when a series of hideous murders occur, Milton’s bad dreams seem to be coming true.
The renowned producer Raoul Rosenstroch dies at the age of 97 in a car park in Prague. Accident? Suicide? Thomas, a young director will discover the life of his sponsor, through his “deceitful autobiography”… The passionate life of a man whose destiny was always related to cinema and to the era he lived in.
John Chinaman tries to lead a peaceful life logging in Blue Hill while his companion Ada runs the local schoolhouse, both uncertain about starting a family. With the repercussions of the Chinese Exclusion Act sweeping the land, the townspeople aren’t exactly warming to the mixed-race couple—especially when more Chinese immigrants looking for a home show up. But Chinaman’s past isn’t done with him yet. When the master of a San Francisco martial arts school sets out with his best students to challenge him, the various hostile factions meet head-on. Will John and Ada’s love survive the explosive violence?
Lorenzo works for proTECTO, an agency of not-exactly-guardian-angels whose jobs are to protect the lives of mortals who have important roles to play in the future. Lorenzo’s charge, a carefree teenage girl named Kim, is one of the most important clients, classified as “major elite.” Unfortunately, Lorenzo gets distracted and his charge is run over by the heartless and not-entirely-stable Madame, a sort of grim reaper cruising around in a black Citroën. Lorenzo decides to go against the rules of proTECTO and fate itself to save Kim with the help of his fellow protector, Aegis, and Kim’s heartbroken older sister, Alicia.
More mayem and misadventures follow Theodore Poussin after he’s left stranded in Singapore, desperately trying to work his way toward a return passage to Europe. Things seem to be looking up when he inadvertently inherits a pirate ship and starts making a living peddling merchandise to various ports in the Pacific, until his fate catches up with him yet again. Soon he’s wanted for murder, hiding out in opium dens, running from law enforcement with the help of mysterious new allies, and being recruited for a most unlikely mission on a faraway island…
Jessica Blandy hasn’t been the same since her brush with death in the Florida Everglades. Back in San Francisco, she tries to drown her sorrows in whiskey and the kisses of a dark, handsome stranger… a saxophonist with sad eyes and a deep connection to Charlie Parker. But how much does she know about him, really? And what does he have to do with the women who keep disappearing from the club where he plays?
An exiled princess, a knight and his young companion travel across a kingdom in turmoil to rally support so the princess can reclaim her throne. On a journey fraught with danger, they briefly find sanctuary in an isolated community of woman warriors before departing for the city of Ohman. Not only is a mysterious treasure said to be hidden there, but a peasant uprising, inspired by a mythical text about equality, is in full, bloody swing. This is the second part of the first volume of this breathtaking graphic novel.
Thermonuclear tentacles or something ressembling them – dangle from a space medusa floating in the infinite blue of the universe. Deadly things, to be sure – achievements of mankind’s destructive genius. Up until that moment, nobody had ever seen the Taurans, knew what they looked like, or was aware of their true intentions. But the extraterrestrial enemies destroyed an earth-built rocket, or at least that is what was presented on television. Immediately both politicians and generals decree that it is high time that these bastards are finished off, once and for all. Thus begins the Big Conscription of 2009 and the formation of expeditionary elite corps. Marygay Potter was one of them. Now, after having turned her back on these murdering gobs, she remembers the prophesy of good old Einstein: “I do not know what weapons will be used in the third world war, but the fourth will see the survivors fight with clubs.” Does she already know that war is eternal?
Is it an earthquake? Is it a typhoon? No, it’s a disaster of the supernatural variety!
Nelson, the unbearable imp who’s crashed into the lives of Julie, a pretty young singleton, and Floyd, her dimwitted Labrador, is back. And like a hole in the ozone layer, he’s turning up the heat. Nobody is safe from the little orange curse… especially not the contents of the refrigerator!
