Description: SIX GRAPHIC NOVELS THE LIVES OF SACCO AND VANZETTI By Rick Geary (Treasury of XXth Century Murder) First Printing, June, 2011 NBM Comics Lit. Hardcover & Dust Jacket, unpaginated (80 pages) MAUS II - A SURVIVOR'S TALE - And Here My Troubles Began By Art Spiegelman 1991 Pantheon Books Trade Paperback, 136 pages THE WALKING DEAD VOLUME 1: DAYS GONE BY By Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore 2013 (14th Printing) Image Comics, Trade Paperback, unpaginated (146 pages) DEAD BODY ROAD (Vol. 1) By Justin Jordan, Matteo Scalera, Moreno Dinisio 2014 First Printing Image Comics, Trade Paperback, unpaginated (136 pages) THE SURROGATES By Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele First Printing, July, 2006 Top Shelf Productions Trade Paperback, 208 pages CURSE OF THE WENDIGO (Vol. 1) By Mathieu Missoffe & Charlie Adlard 2011 First Printing Dynamite Entertainment Trade Paperback, 56 pages THE LIVES OF SACCO AND VANZETTI: The fourth entry in Geary's chronicling of famous XXth century murders tackles the extremely controversial case of Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Geary delves into his most political case yet in this series, however, all his favorite elements are the murders are unsolved, the attention of the media is tremendous, there are multiple theories as to what really happened. What's unusual about this particular event is how this polarized and galvanized the world. A possibly biased judge they could never get rid of no matter how many appeals, thanks to Massachusetts law, and a prevailing attitude, especially among the ruling elite, about eradicating anarchists and communists, may have contributed to what many decried as a monkey court trial. Many pieces of evidence were inconclusive, much testimony questionable. Riots erupted all over the world. They lived in a time when class differences were at a raw edge worldwide, the US included, and this struck far too many as more evidence of repression by the ruling elite. In this volume, we are not dealing with some outlandish fait divers but a clash of classes and a justice system that may have failed to treat these men with any equanimity. The tension throughout the book is palpable as a result. MAUS II - A SURVIVOR'S TALE: The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read” A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma. THE WALKING DEAD VOLUME 1: DAYS GONE BY: Taking a well-worn genre—flesh-eating zombies overrun the world and the unlucky surviving humans must deal with the gruesome aftermath—and approaching it from a purely character-driven point of view propels this series into the spotlight from out of nowhere. This collection of the first six issues of the ongoing series opens with police officer Rick Grimes awakening from a gunshot-induced coma. From here, he's immediately dragged into a world where dangerous revenants are shambling amok without any sort of an explanation. From the moment Grimes comes to, it's a harrowing battle to avoid hordes of decomposing zombies and a hope-against-all-odds search for his missing family. Grimes makes his way to Atlanta, the nearest large city where there may be other living people, and events take several unexpected turns upon his arrival, as he meets up with a rural encampment of survivors. Of course, as in recent hit movies 28 Days Later... and Dawn of the Dead, the last humans may turn out to be as much a danger as the zombies. Forceful scripting that gives the book a strong grounding in reality, crisp b&w artwork, a shocking final sequence and brisk, gory proceedings elevate this book from the trash heap of pedestrian horror comics. DEAD BODY ROAD: Orson Gage is no good man. His wife's death thrusts the only kind of righteousness he's ever known upon him: Revenge! Her murderers must die. All of them! In Dead Boy Road, writer Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and artist Matteo Scalera (Black Science) follow Gage on the dark road he's chosen to travel — a road that looks more and more like a highway to Hell! THE SURROGATES: The year is 2054, and the Central Georgia Metropolis is held in a grip of fear by a series of crimes committed by the mysterious lightning-wielding techno-terrorist dubbed Steeplejack. His attacks stem from an agenda that seeks to disconnect humanity from its dependence on "surrogates," androids that the consumer can link with and allow to carry out the user's life, acting as a full-time stand-in. For investigating detective Harvey Greer, Steeplejack's anti-surrogate rampage unearths possible connections to a fanatical prophet. Years earlier, this prophet incited riots while preaching a gospel of returning society to a time when people actually lived their lives instead of merely experiencing them, a point of view that Greer is slowly coming to agree with. Basically a straight police procedural laced with science-fiction trappings, Venditti's script offers a convincing future in which mankind doesn't realize that the virtual reality of the surrogates is potentially worse than any narcotic. This quietly bleak scenario is capably illustrated by Weldele in a straightforward style reminiscent of film storyboards. CURSE OF THE WENDIGO: From the New York Times Bestselling artist of the Walking Dead hit series comes another horror classic! July 1917. The night air is rent by sentries' screams. Everyone thinks it's a trap laid by the enemy, but soon they hear screams from the German lines. Both camps are obliged to declare a truce and send a team of men, French and German, to solve the mystery. With them goes Wohati, a Red-skin, one of the 12,000 Indians in the U.S. Army. And probably the only man who knows what's out there, lying in wait. Illustrated by Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), this is the story of a strange phenomena to strike the French and German trenches. Their only chance: to unite, and survive, the Wendigo! All are ungraded but in generally very good or better condition. The Lives of Sacco & Vanzetti is ex-library with some markings. The Walking Dead has a sticker from a local comic book store on the front and rear covers. Nice lot of graphic novels for not a lot.
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Publication Year: 2011
Artist/Writer: Charlie Adlard, Justin Jordan, Matteo Scalera, Moreno Dinisio, Robert Kirkman, Robert Venditti, Tony Moore, Various, Rick Geary, Art Spiegelman, Mathieu Missoffe
Type: Graphic Novel
Format: Trade Paperback
Tradition: US Comics
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Series Title: Various
Publisher: Image Comics
