Bad Machinery: The Case of the Team Spirit by John Allison is the first volume in the web comic about the middle grade sleuths of Griswald's Grammar School in Tackleford, England (available July 3, 2013). This volume collects the first story arc of John Allison’s acclaimed web series, Bad Machinery. It follows the exploits of…
The Victories Volume I: Touched by Michael Avon Oeming is an adult superhero adventure from the cocreator of Powers (available June 25, 2013). In an unnamed American city of the near future, super powers exist, corruption is rife and a designer drug called Float provides the junkies’ high of choice. In an effort to combat…
Enigma Of China by Qiu Xiaolong, the 8th book in the Inspector Chen series, involves political machinations in Shanghai (available June 18, 2013). China is a country in flux, with a government determined to retain its communist heritage while also accommodating demands from a technologically advanced citizenry for increased personal liberties. These contradictory impulses birthed…
R.I.P.D. City of the Damned by Jeremy Barlow, Peter M.Lenkov, and Tony Parker is an anthology billed as a prequel to the R.I.P.D. comic book series and the upcoming feature film starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds (available May 28, 2013). This second collection of R.I.P.D. comic books, based on characters created by Peter M.…
Red Handed by Matt Kindt is an artistic graphic novel and so much more (available May 7, 2013). Red Wheel Barrow is your average American city except for one significant trait: none of their crimes go unsolved. While this seems to have had no effect on the crime rate, the good people of Red Wheel…
Mind MGMT Vol 1: The Manager , written and illustrated by Matt Kindt, begins an espionage series involving mind control and government conspiracy (available April 23, 2013). There is no such thing as magic: there is only mind over matter. This is the basic premise behind Mind MGMT, a trade paperback centered around the activities…
Mumbai Confidential Book 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde is a hard-boiled graphic novel set in Mumbai (available April 23, 2013). Hard-boiled crime fiction the world over, whether it’s set in Los Angeles or Mumbai, Moscow or Tokyo, poses the same basic question to the reader: who can you trust…
Fool Moon, Volume 2, by Jim Butcher is a graphic novel adaptation of the second novel in the Harry Dresden series (available April 23, 2013). Jim Butcher is the author of a wildly popular paranormal crime series called The Dresden Files, which features Harry Dresden, wizard and private eye. As with other popular titles in…
Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock is the third espionage thriller featuring renegade MI-6 agent Daniel Marchant (available March 26, 2013). Daniel Marchant has been through hell and high water while working to protect his country, Great Britain, from its foreign foes. As a spy in the service of MI-6, he has followed in his…
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman is a debut thriller featuring a former FBI agent who has retired to Arizona, but hasn’t been able to leave her job behind (available March 12, 2013). Brigid Quinn is a tough-talking former FBI agent, forced into retirement after fatally shooting an unarmed perp. She’s haunted still by…
