The Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2009: Fiction
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A Distant Neighborhood, Vol. 1
by Jiro Taniguchi
by Jiro Taniguchi
Fanfare/Ponent Mon
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Hiroshi Nakahara takes the trip of his life when he boards a train that ends up taking him back to his 14-year-old self in this strange, wonderfully beautiful story.
Asterios Polypby David Mazzucchelli
Random House
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David Mazzucchelli shows just how far the boundaries of graphic storytelling can be pushed in this new novel about a retired architect, professor, and author. This mysterious man will take a mind-bending journey through his own past in this new classic.
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Bayouby Jeremy Love
Zuda
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What began as an acclaimed webcomic is now available as a traditional graphic novel. Jeremy Love’s groundbreaking Bayou is a warm and funny story of the daughter of a black sharecropper in Depression-era Mississippi and her journey into a strange and magical alternate world.
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Pixu: The Mark of Evilby Gabriel Ba, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and Fabio Moon
Dark Horse
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Five strangers living in an urban apartment house uncover a dark and powerful symbol on the building’s walls. What comes next is shocking, horrifying, and unforgettable in this work from the writer of The Umbrella Academy.
Goats: Infinite Typewritersby Jonathan Rosenberg
Del Rey Books
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Another long-running webcomic, Goats: Infinite Typewriters is funny and unpredictable, with no topic considered off-limits.
Sleeper Season One
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
WildStorm
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Holden Carver is a secret agent infiltrating an incredibly covert criminal agency. As he seeks to blow the cover of the entire operation, he is forced to match wits with the agency’s diabolical leader. Tao.
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The Big Kahn: A Fake Holy Man’s 40-Year Lieby Neil Kleid and Nicholas Cinquegrani
NBM Publishing
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When Rabbi David Kahn dies, his family is bereft. But when they discover that he was never actually Jewish, they’re devastated—and forced to reexamine every single thing they thought they knew about themselves and their lives.
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Wasteland: The Apocalyptic Edition, Vol. 1by Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten
Oni Press
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The Harvey-nominated, critically acclaimed ongoing series gets the deluxe hardcover treatment with this new massive collection! Reprinting the first 13 issues of the series, including the fan-favorite "Walking the Dust" prose shorts, this impressive tome chronicles the opening adventures of Michael, a mysterious wanderer struggling to find the answers to both his past and his future.
The Surrogates, Vol. 2: Flesh & Boneby Robert Venditti and Brett Weidele
Top Shelf
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The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone explores the dark world Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele created in The Surrogates. This prequel to the bestselling series (soon to be a movie) details how the synthetic replacements for humans came into being...for better or for worse.
Flight: Volume 6edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Villard
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The groundbreaking anthology series continues. This powerful new volume contains work by such talents as Graham Annable, Kean Soo, Steve Hamaker, Mike Dutton, Rodolphe Guenoden, Phil Craven, and more.
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunterby Darwyn Cooke
IDW
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Donald Westlake’s Parker series, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark, was classic dark noir. This graphic novel adapts the first volume in Stark’s series, the story of Parker traveling across country to have his revenge on the woman he coldly betrayed him.
The Lords of Misruleby John Tomlinson, Dan Abnett, and Steve White
Radical Press
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An evil is spreading through a haunted English estate. The Lords of Misrule was originally published more than a dozen years ago, but here gets collected in a new edition that brings this dark, eerie tale to a new audience.
The Nobodyby Jeff Lemire
Vertigo
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A stranger wrapped entirely in bandages arrives in the small town of Large Mouth, bringing with him a strange crime wave that the townspeople immediately suspect him of. What he’s hiding behind his bandages, and what really happened to him, is something that one young woman in town will discover. Jeff Lemire follows up his award-winning Essex County Trilogy with this distinctive new story.
Dark Entriesby Ian Rankin and Werther Dell’Edera
Vertigo
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The first graphic novel from bestselling author Ian Rankin places legendary comics antihero John Constantine in the midst of a mystery unlike any he’s encountered before: a reality TV show plagued by hauntings.
-- John Hogan
Union Station was delayed by the publisher, so we've removed it from the list for now. As soon as it becomes available, we'll cover it here on the site. Sorry for the confusion.
--John
What's the deal with Union Station? Amazon just lists an out of print 2003 version (with different cover art). Is there a reissue coming?