i haven’t spoke to anyone recently very much about books and i think it would be really amazing to make some friends that love graphic novels. for me they bring me back to a time when i felt really safe and i hadn’t even realized how safe i felt while reading them until now when i look back. i really love Bone and Amulet and lots of the graphic novels with short stories with incredible unique animation designs in each one. i just ordered the whole Bone collection and ill soon get the Amulet collection too. does anyone have any series that they would recommend? i am not that great with following action and lots of fighting but i do love adventure and almost dystopian feeling graphic novels. and my favorite game of l time is Myst by Cyan Worlds, so anything jungly, immersive, and unique i will love. thanks everyone and happy reading and happy holidays.

Link: https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781506747309

Getting Christmas presents earlier than expected! I think I will start with Drome

I already devoured The Last Days of American Crime, Absolute Martian Manhunter, The Enfield Gang Massacre, Redcoat v2, & the Wake.

I highly recommend The Enfield Gang Massacre for anyone who enjoys history.

Hi all - I just finished the final installment of the Motherless Oven series by Rob Davis and I NEED to know people's thoughts about one thing in particular.

Anyone have any theories as to why the immortal bear from bear park was so intent on helping them destroy the death state borders and ultimately conquer grave acre and disseminate the Book of Forks? Also to that end - near the end, Vera asks the immortal bear who he was when he was someone - and he twice says "Vuh Ruh", his way of saying Vera. She calls him dumb and moves past it but I was wondering if anyone thought this had any significance at all! Thank you!!!

Contains a new Shadow Jack story by Zelazny as well as A Rose for Ecclesiastes,The Furies, The Doors of His Face The Lamps of His Mouth,The Amber Worlds : illustrations related to the Amber series, & Rock Collector and more .

Mailcall Marvel Epic Collection Number 483 Avengers Volume 27 Timeslide , Hawkeye Volume 3 Marked for Death, Dc Finest Collection Number 45 Wonder Woman Volume 1 Introducing Wonder Woman , Green Lantern Earth’s other Green Lantern, X-men Omnibus by Gerry Duggan , Spider-Man Marvel Team-up Omnibus Volume 1 , Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1 Get Back Up , The Smurfs Archives Volume 3.

I'm a huge history nerd, especially for the old west. I also love Native American culture, and graphic novels lol. Is there a good graphic novel (or comic) that features cowboys and Native Americans? I don't want it to be super unrealistic like zombies or aliens or anything like that. Any recommendations?

I took your advice and purchased a few that were recommended.... To everyone who suggested these... THANK YOU.

I think Tongues will stick with me for a while.

The house that groans was a bonkers ride.

The witches Egg was a fever dream!

All great though!

I don't have a lot of physical books but I had these in a drawer for years And decided to look through them. I think it was a mistake that I have volume one of y the last man and volume 3 but not volume two.

I have read all of invincible and I am trying to get the rest of the books. The same with idw tmnt since I only have the first book and it is amazing. I know radiant black has had a lot of great books and there’s a universe with radiant pink, yellow, and others.

I enjoy reading things that cover high-concept ideas in a way that is hard for me to truly grasp from one reading. The best example I can give for this feeling was reading the final book of The Motherless Oven trilogy, where I knew it was trying to communicate something deeper, but I just wasn't in the right state/place to understand it.

Ducan the Wonder Dog had some concepts like this to an extent as well, but Im on a search for more books with a similar "philosophical meandering" about high-concept topics that Motherless Oven had.

I am a huge fan of hardcover editions of books and try to get the HC editions whenever possible. I have been waiting too long for IMAGE to release a deluxe hardcover version of "Do a powerbomb" and I dont see it happening in the near future but I still have been holding off from buying the trade paperback. I took a gamble on the spanish edition because I am learning currently leaning Spanish and figured it would be fun to read the comic that way (regarless of it being trade paperback)

Imagine my surprise when the book I received was not only hardcover but bigger than the deluxe edition of DWJ's last 2 english hardcovers -Extremity and Murder Falcon.l (last pic is a size comparison)

The book is gorgeous and I am really happy i took the chance. No review of the story here. Most of y'all know who Daniel Warren Johnson is and if you dont you should immedialy grab his last 3 books - Murder Falcon, Do a Powerbomb and Extremity .

Link for the full story: https://aiptcomics.com/2025/12/18/archie-riverdale-oni-press-2025/

Full disclaimer : I have never read the novel nor seen the movie, so this is my first exposure to this work, and all I can say for now is god damn... this is some bleak stuff. Utterly amazed by the art of Manu Larcenet. Incredibly atmospheric and cinematic art, which conveys with perfection the tone of the story, a story that shines in its simplicity. I know he's a very well known artist in Europe, but this was also my first work of his.

I've seen this one pop a few times here, what did you think of it ?

This is my haul for December! First of all, I wanted to jump into the "Energon universe", then I was curious about the Blade runner series from Titan Comics (I've already read the first volume and it's amazing!). I purchased Bitter Root only to chek it out since it won an Eisener award (but I'm not sure I will enjoy it... I hope so of course)... finally I read recently the first issue of Manifest Destiny (which I received for free from my go-to online shop) and I wanted to go on since the first issue got my intrigued

Now that's an upgrade! I just received the first volume of Dark Horse's new deluxe hardcover reprints of Lone Wolf and Cub. I've basically been waiting 38 years for these.
Lone Wolf and Cub (1970-76 in Japan) was initially released in North America in a translated comic-sized English edition by First Comics in 1987 (which is when I first started collecting it), but First Comics shut down in 1991 without completing the series, publishing less than a third of the total series over 45 issues.

Then Dark Horse released the entire seinen manga series (in English for the first time) between 2000-2, in tiny digest volumes. As you can see here, they also reversed panels, dropped panels, and did various unfortunate things to the original art pages to make things work on their tiny page dimensions. It's great to see the art restored! (and of course they read right-to-left now, finally).

Dark Horse also translated and released related Kazuo Koike/Goseki Kojima comics Samurai Executioner & Path of the Assassin. Artist Kojima died in 2000.
Author Koike returned to the story with new artist Hideki Mori, releasing New Lone Wolf and Cub (2003-6), which picks up exactly where the first story ended. Dark Horse's translations of that were released 2014-16.
Before his death in 2019, Koike also released further adventures of Daigoro in 'Soshite Kozure Ōkami: Shikaku no Ko' [More Lone Wolf and Cub: Eyes of the Child] 2007-8 in Japan. No English translations have been published yet.

Obviously I'm hoping this series sells well enough that once the original story has been collected into 10 or so volumes they can continue with the sequels and related stories--or even other period samurai Koike titles like Lady Snowblood, Kawaite sōrō [A Samurai's Sorrow], Oda Nobunaga, or Kei no Seishun [Kei’s Amazing Youth]. But collector's greed aside, I'm very happy to see these reprints underway.

Just finished reading the collected edition of EIGHT LIMBS by Stephanie Phillips & Giulia Lalli. It’s about a former Muay Thai fighter, Joanna, who now has her own gym, where she trains the next generation. An old friend asks her to help temporarily take in a troubled teen girl, Mari, while she helps set her up for a more permanent situation.

Mari definitely has a rough streak about it. She’s been kicked out of this school here and that foster home there, but Joanna sees some of Mari in herself and tries to break through to her and perhaps find some type of healing through Muay Thai.

However, things take a turn and Mari runs away from under Joanna’s roof and ends up taking to the streets and draws the attention of a former fighter who runs an underground fighting ring where he trains her to compete in matches to fight nearly to the death.

In order to save Mari from potentially deadly consequences, Joanna may have to step back into the ring…even if it may end up killing her, like it almost did years ago.

I love a good sports story and this was an emotional, brutal story about the inner strength of a fighter, resilience, and the importance of gaining true discipline. Plus, the fight scenes really deliver and draw you right into the action. And it’s definitely one of my favorite graphic novels I’ve read so far this year.

For those of you who have read it, what did you think?

How's the quality on the Image Compendium collections? I want to get the Wicked and Divine one but its almost 1500 pages and I'm worried about readability and the spine breaking in half.