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ADVENTURES OF DIETER LUMPEN GN

(W) Jorge Zentner (A/CA) Ruben Pellejero

The first English translation of the entire Adventures of Dieter Lumpen series, the most famous work of the Angoulême award-winning team of Jorge Zentner and Rubén Pellejero!

Dieter Lumpen is a man of the world, an adventurer who wants no part of adventure. Nonetheless, he is swept along to exotic locations from Turkey to the Caribbean, from China to Venice. He is not quite so hard-boiled as the typical adventure hero. As written by Zentner, Dieter's irony is gentler, more subtle, more reflective, and more tongue-in-cheek than hard or bitter. Pellejero is quite simply one of Europe's top comics artists, who was chosen for the plum job to illustrate the new adventures of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese. Dieter Lumpen began in 1981 and continued until 1994.

This definitive omnibus collects all eight short stories and the three graphic novels with a foreword by Tim Sale.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

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POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #6

(W) David Walker (A/CA) Flaviano

CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN!
• They're off on a job - and it's predicted to end with LUKE CAGE back in the place he hates most!
• The Marvel Universe has split in two - will the conflict split up POWER MAN and IRON FIST?
Rated T+

RECOMMENDED BY ERIN.

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HOUSE OF PENANCE #4

(W) Peter J. Tomasi (A/CA) Ian Bertram

A tale of horror from creator Peter Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Green Lantern), illustrated by the terrifyingly talented Ian Bertram (Bowery Boys, Batman: Eternal)!

The chaotic construction is no longer enough to keep Sarah's ghosts at bay, so she tries something more extreme to ease her conscience. Peck's nightmares are growing worse, too. Brought together by their dark visions, the heiress and the outlaw are getting closer, but Sarah's sister doesn't like it one bit.

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!

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WACKY RACELAND #2

(W) Ken Pontac (A/CA) Leonardo Manco

As the Racers roar through the ruins of San Francisco, Dick Dastardly takes a detour that uncovers a shameful secret from his pre-apocalypse days. Dick has a difficult decision: repeat the mistake that shattered his past, or man up and do the right thing? But does Dick even know what the "right thing" means? Meanwhile, Peter, Penelope and the others face a swarm of flesh-eating nanites that threatens to strip them to the bones

RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!

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CONAN THE SLAYER #1

(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Sergio Davila (CA) Lee Bermejo

Alone, battle weary, and with nothing but his sword, Conan of Cimmeria faces his inevitable death in the arid wastes . . . but instead stumbles into a camp of Kozaki raiders. With a knife at his throat and a band of Turanian hunters at his back, will the half-dead barbarian find a new ally in the Kozaki chief?

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMICBOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

BEN HORAK
ARTIST/WRITER

Ben Horak is a Seattle-based cartoonist and graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. Ben has had art appear in many different publications including The Stranger and Intruder Comics. (which is having its final release party TONIGHT at Fantagraphics in Georgetown!) Ben also publishes his own short-story comic anthology, Grump Toast! 

Check out a preview of the books we have in stock below and make sure to peruse the local section next time you visit the store!
http://grumptoast.com/

 

GRUMP TOAST #1+2 COLL .ED

(W/A) Ben Horak

The first two issues of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! That's right, two comics combined into one! Featuring the alcoholic "detective" Asphalt, good-natured lounge singer Pinky Palms, pratical junksters, Monkanonee's dream funeral and loads of extra goodies! FOR MATURE READERS! (40 pages, black & white, 2011)

GRUMP TOAST #3

(W/A) Ben Horak

The highly anticipated third issue of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! Featuring Asphalt's epic drunken bender, sad dogs, Boysenberrius the Pie Devil, people turning into trees and Monkanonee's secret fantasy. FOR MATURE READERS ONLY! (40 pages, black & white, 2013)

GRUMP TOAST #4

(W/A) Ben Horak

The long awaited fourth collection of Ben Horak's comic anthology Grump Toast! Featuring the friendship of Business Baby & Infant Insidious, the brotherhood of the Man-Os, the exciting return of Pinky Palms and the bitchin' trials and tribulations of Cheese Hammy Sammy! FOR MATURE READERS ONLY! (44 pages, black & white, 2014)

GRUMP TOAST #5

(W/A) Ben Horak

The heavily anticipated fifth collection of Ben Horak’s comic anthology Grump Toast! This issue features eight brand new stories filled to the brim with hideous aliens, ugly humans, hideous aliens disguised as ugly humans, the joys of customer service, underage drinking, vengeful skeletons, guilt, Abba, steamy sex, pizza, ritualistic human sacrifice and cat discos! It’s hilarious! It’s shocking! It’s Grump Toast! (44 pages, black & white, 2015)

COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #85! 7/6

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Once again, the doodly duo of comic monkeys known as Morgan and Casey! bring you the best of the bestest books this week as chosen by these fine purveyors of sequential art. Do not question their choices! Just listen and learn!!
Ahem--anyway, with Will out of commission after an unfortunate volleyball maneuver, Casey! steps in for the Prof to showcase another week of the exciting DCU REBIRTH!

2 videos for the price of 1 on Comics Should Smell Good!! The internet's best video cast-y thing!

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ANIMA DRUNNA 0 HC

(W/A/CA) Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri

About 30 years after Morbus Gravis, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, one of the masters of erotic graphic novels, reveals a new chapter of Druuna's Saga. This exciting prequel is set in a still pristine world, immersed in a dreamlike silence, where you can better perceive sounds, tastes, tactile sensations. This graphic novel, wordless to envelop you in its artistry, features a short introduction in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

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MOON KNIGHT #4

(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Greg Smallwood

"NOT IN BLOOD, BUT IN SAND."
• MARC SPECTOR and his fellow asylum patients - FRENCHIE, GENA and MARLENE - finally reach street level.
• But Marc doesn't see streets. He sees New York City sinking in the sands of NEO-EGYPT!
• How much of himself - and how many more friends - will Marc lose before he reaches his true enemy?
Rated T+

recommended by erin.

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SUPERMAN #2

(W) Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason (A/CA) Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray

"THE SON OF SUPERMAN" Chapter Two: In #2, Superboy takes flight as he accompanies his father, the Man of Steel, on their first mission together to confront a creature more dangerous than anyone realizes. Will the duo triumph...or will they die when they face the lethal force of the Eradicator?

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

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THE FLINTSTONES #1

(W) Mark Russell (A/CA) Steve Pugh

Welcome to Bedrock, where Paleolithic humans head to dinner for a taste of artisanal mammoth after shopping at Neandertall & Big Men's Clothing, where Wilma shows her modern art, and where, if you take a plane, you could literally end up sitting ON the tail section. Join Fred and Barney as Mister Slate sends them on a mission to show some Neanderthals a night on the town in hopes of luring them into this new system called "working for a living." In Slate's Quarry, of course. Is Fred's ship about to come in? Find out when the gang finishes out the evening at the employee hot tub party, where they learn how the one percent lives here in Bedrock, home to the world's first civilization and the modern stone-age family-The Flintstones. Don't miss this extra-sized debut issue!

RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!

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KIM AND KIM #1

(W) Magdalene Visaggio (A) Eva Cabrera (CA) Tess Fowler & Various

Kim & Kim are twentysomething besties out to make a name for themselves in the wild world of interdimensional cowboy law enforcement. In a massive "screw you" to their parents and the authorities, they decide to hijack some high stakes bounty - and end up in way over their heads. Kim & Kim is a day-glo action adventure that's bursting with energy and enthusiasm. It puts queer women and trans women front and center, with a story that embraces the absurd alongside realistic pathos. It's a mature book that focuses on the power and meaning of female friendships as engines of validation.

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!

HOMETOWN HEROES - A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEATTLE COMIC BOOK SCENE!

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Here at Zanadu, we have always prided ourselves on stocking independent and small press comic books that you won't find anywhere else. It is our continuing goal to highlight the vibrant comic book scene that exists here in the Pacific Northwest and across the country.
Our newly expanded local section, dubbed, "Hometown Heroes" is overflowing with energetic, exotic and exciting new creations from the best and brightest of Seattle's comic book underground.

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting different books and their creators, so keep checking back for the latest in local comix!!

This week's feature--

MARC J PALM
ARTIST/WRITER

Cartoonist going on 20 years. Created mini comics in the vacuum of a small town in Michigan now creates comics on the internet and in Seattle, Washington. Goes by Swellzombie to some and created the Lair of the Psychic Creature comics and is known for creating an homage R. Crumb and Jim Henson in a piece called Muppets Rawk and also parodying Shepard Fairey with a They Live poster. Currently he creates posters for comedy events, paints single cels of animation and backgrounds for cartoons that don't exist, and keeps making comics for mostly self-satisfying reasons.

Check out a preview of the books we have in stock below and make sure to peruse the local section next time you visit the store!
http://marcpalm.tumblr.com/


PUNCH TO KILL #1

(W) Kevin Clarke , Wil Long, Marc Palm (A) Marc Palm

Punch to Kill lives up to it's name, as a captured man fights his way through an assortment of scum and one powerful drugged up beast that forces his ultimate fighting style to be revealed.

24 pg b/w with full color cover comic sized R

SLAUGHTER

(W/A) Marc Palm

HAVE A LITTLE FUN

(W/A) Marc Palm

FOOTBALL FANTASY

(W/A) Marc Palm

COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #84!!

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As you can see, after the battle of the three, there are now only two. The LEGIONS of Morgan fans have spoken once again, officially crowning Morgan as KING COMIC MONKEY here at Zanadu (applause, applause, please no poo throwing thank you applause) The Professor came in second, but Casey threw him to the wind like the American media did to Bernie Sanders and we're just gonna move right along here like nothing happened.

Next week! Behind the scenes of the vicious three way battle! and better tag lines! All here on the internet's best comic book videocast-y thing, COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!!

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JADE STREET PROTECTION SERVICES #1

(W) Katy Rex (A) Fabian Lelay (CA) Annie Wu, Kiki Jenkins

In this new series that mashes The Breakfast Club with Sailor Moon, Kai, Saba, Noemi, Divya, and Emma are (bad) students at Matsdotter Academy, an elite private school for magical girls. When they all meet for the first time in a totally unfair detention, these punk rock witch delinquents cut class and discover the fates Matsdotter has in store for them are even more sinister than they suspected. With JSPS, the creative team of writer Katy Rex, penciler/inker Fabian Lelay, colorist Mara Jayne Carpenter, and series cover artists Annie Wu and Kiki Jenkins channel Black Mask's edgy, subversive sensibility into a whipsmart adventure for delinquents young and old.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!