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Karmen
What if you were granted a second chance to correct past mistakes and set things right in your life? What if you could influence and reshape how events would have turned out had you made ...
Step by Bloody Step
A young girl and her giant metal guardian trek across a fantastic world full of beauty, conflict, and danger in this bittersweet tale of coming-of-age and survival.
From Image Comics, Step by ...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
I am beginning this review with two caveats. First, I am a mother of a daughter who works in the trades and while she has not worked in Fort McMurray, she has experienced many of the same ...
Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1
Private Detective John Blacksad considers it a good day when he can get home with peace of mind and his knuckles intact. Sadly, days like that are all too rare, particularly when Blacksad is ...
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
Lewis Hancox’s teen years were much like anyone else’s, filled with the typical high school drama, perpetual awkwardness, and desperation to fit in. For him, however, it seemed like there were ...
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Gender Queer: A Memoir begins with an arresting image. As a student, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, taped over two pages of eir sketchbook with blank pieces of paper. The pages ...
M is for Monster
Shaken from the accidental death of her sister Maura, the grief-stricken Doctor Frances Ai vows to bring her back to life with all the scientific and magical power at her disposal. And it works. ...
Chivalry
Originally published in 1993 in Angels & Visitations, this short story was apparently written in one weekend and is one of Neil Gaiman’s most reprinted stories.[i] The story is charming with ...
Radiant Black Vol. 2
Volume 2 of Radiant Black begins with a massive fight between all the superpowered Radiants, following up on the cliffhanger ending from the first volume. If volume one was about exploring a ...
The Legend of Brightblade
Everyone in the realm of Skald knows the legend of Lady Brightblade, the hero who vanquished the dreaded Bone Drake and brought peace to the land, her story immortalized in story and song. Now, ...
Bliss
In a dark fantasy world where deities walk free and a mystical drug steals the memories of those who use it, a hitman for the gods must face his past while his conflicted son tries to save his ...
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
It begins with a knock on the door from the FBI. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a silent invasion permeated the United States, targeting Japanese American citizens as enemy ...