Team Superfriends|Fighting the good fight

Okay, I saw this and couldn’t wait until Monday to get in to the office and blog about it. The Great Fables Crossover has been collected in one volume and we’re now taking pre-orders for Fables TPB Vol. 13!

If you’ve been reading Fables, you know what’s up, but for those of you who are uninitiated, the title is tremendous. Bill Willingham brings us a new take on our favorite bedtime fable characters, and in this volume, he threatens to undo existence with the introduction of The Literals. It’s a great jumping-on point for new readers and I really can’t sing enough praises for Willingham’s writing. The art is pretty stellar to boot! ;0)

This volume collects all nine issues of the Great Fables Crossover story arc: Fables #83-85, Jack of Fables #33-35 and the three-issue Literals miniseries. It’s worth it, even at the cover price, but as with all pre-orders at TFAW.com, you’ll save 20% off the cover price–just $14.39.

Did you read all nine of the Great Fables Crossover floppies? Did you dig it as much as I did? Let us know below!

Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest American cartoonists.

Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a series of cynical, brutal gangster stories, have abandoned their guns and gals for this cycle of suburban stories. But in King of the Flies the violence has just (for the most part) been internalized.

King of the Flies first appears to be a series of unrelated short stories, each starring (and narrated by) a different protagonist, but it soon becomes obvious that these seemingly disparate episodes weave together to form a single complex narrative–with events that are only briefly seen (or even referred to), and then revisited from different perspectives–revolving around Eric, a ne’er-do-well, drug-taking teenager at war with his stepfather and, apparently, the whole world. (He is the titular King.)

King of the Flies is designed as a trilogy of albums, which will combine to form a single graphic novel of stunning intricacy and intensity. (Vol. 2, “The Beginning of All Things,” will be released by Fantagraphics in the Summer of 2010.)

I don’t know about you, but after seeing the five-page First Look, my interest is piqued. May have to add this to my winter reading list.

Scouring through this month’s new offerings, I happened upon a title that sounded pretty cool and thought I’d share. Extinction sounds like just the thing for the person who loves post-apocalyptic yarns.

Dr. Chris Perry spent the good part of his adulthood dealing with the dead. A brilliant pathologist, his position as Chief Medical Examiner at Queen Elizabeth Hospital provided him with the perfect working environment. A deadly virus swept across the globe, wiping out 90% of life on Earth, but some who were infected didn’t die. Chris must find a cure for the disease before a madman, calling himself Hannibal, and his army sacks Chris’ haven on Prince Edward Island and harvests the uninfected population as cattle.

So if you’re interested, we’re offering a pretty sweet discount on this title: now through 10/9, nab Extinction for 30% off the cover price!

Check out other horror books here.

Okay, I couldn’t wait until I get into work in the morning to blog, so I’m coming at you in the wee hours of the morning, posing a question: How do you kick off horror month? By busting out the big guns and starting with a classic series, that’s how!

With over 350 pages in each Aliens Omnibus, you’re in for a good long read, chock-full of dismembered, disemboweled bodies . . . and aliens.

Here’s a taste of Aliens Omnibus Volume 6: Mankind has always struggled to balance exploration and exploitation when stepping into new lands. In the era of the colonization of space, the discovery of new wonders is countered by the awful realities when species once separated by light years of airless void are suddenly thrown together, and the heady intoxication of discovery becomes the feral nightmare of a battle for supremacy.

Humanity’s arrogance and greed have helped the Alien plague spread, and now men and women must step forward to ensure that the future of the galaxy does not become the age of the Alien!

Sound like it’s up your alley? Go ahead and check out the three-page preview, and try before you buy.

See all our Aliens Omnibus volumes here.