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OPTIC NERVE #15

(W/A) Adrian Tomine

Optic Nerve 14 brings Adrian Tomine's multifaceted, expressive cartooning to a new peak with a short autobiographical strip and two stories. "Killing and Dying" is about a father's struggles to be supportive: it centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. "Intruders" depicts a man obsessively trying to find his way back to a former life by revisiting places he once knew. Optic Nerve 14 will appear on the twentieth anniversary of Tomine's beloved comic book series, in whose pages the landmark graphic novel Shortcomings was first published. Each story in Optic Nerve 14 reveals new dimensions to Tomine's unique visual sensibility and complex, character-driven stories.

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ALL-NEW COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD! NOW!! ep. #27 5/13

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It's yet another Wednesday here in grayish sunny Seattle and your favorite comic monkeys are back once more for CSSG!! Secret Wars rolls out the big guns (or big hammers) for issue #2 as the clash of the massive events continues! Plus, a buttload of new Image #1's hits this week featuring Injection, Mythic, The Mantle and more!! Press play and watch with your miiiiiiinnnnnnddddd....

All-New Comics Should Smell Good! NOW!! ep. #27! It's yet another Wednesday here in grayish sunny Seattle and your favorite comic monkeys are back once more for CSSG!! Secret Wars rolls out the big guns (or big hammers) for issue #2 as the clash of the massive events continues!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/13!!

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SPACE RIDERS #2

(W) Fabian Rangel (A/W) Alexis Ziritt

After the mind shattering events of Vortex of Madness, the Space Riders find themselves crash-landed on an unknown planet. They encounter an alien warrior tribe, as well as the beautiful and fierce Dona Barbara. Also in this issue, our heroes find themselves in the presence of a Space God. Ride along as Capitan Peligro and his crew escape from the haunted planet!

AND we're also getting the 2nd print of #1 with the SUPER RAD Ralph Niese cover!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/13!!

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INJECTION #1

(W) Warren Ellis (A) Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire

Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try and save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life.

INJECTION is the new ongoing series created by the acclaimed creative team of Moon Knight. It is science fiction, tales of horror, strange crime fiction, techno-thriller, and ghost story all at the same time. A serialized sequence of graphic novels about how loud and strange the world is getting, about the wild future and the haunted past all crashing into the present day at once, and about five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal and numinous as well as the growing weight of what they did to the planet with the Injection.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/13!!

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MANTLE #1

(W) Ed Brisson (A) Brian Level

Robbie never asked for any of this. While drunkenly walking home from a punk show, he's hit with lightning and wakes to find that he's been chosen as the new host for The Mantle, a power set of unimaginable scope. Despite his lack of interest, he's forced into action. The Plague, a being who has spent 50 years killing every previous host of The Mantle, is already coming for him.

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!

ALL-NEW COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! ep. #26!

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The great Secret Crisis crossover event of the summer has begun and my poor comic racks will never be the same!! As DC and Marvel battle it out for yet another summer, we have lots of other great stuff from the often overlooked, yet never underrated comics that you need in your lives!! Prepare for the end of the world (well, one possible reality) here on CSSG!!

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NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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THE BADNESS #1

(W) Keenan Reed (A) Kellin Doyle

Suzy Cortex and her young band of misfits, The Fantasticles, are on a quest to rid the Earth of a bizarre alien occupation by The Nameless Dread, an advanced race of sinister creatures whose ultimate goal is unclear, but who insist on carefully observing our day-to-day behavior no matter how awkward it becomes. To achieve their goal our young heroes must recruit the services of the legendary superhero known as the Conquistador… who no one has seen in years and whose mysterious absence all but guaranteed the success of the alien invasion in the first place.

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

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We are happy to present another wonderful addition to our ever growing local/indy section here at Zanadu with a double shot of mini comics from local artist/writer, ELK PAAUW. In her own words, "Drawings, paintings, cards, sticker sets, and comics straight from the heart of a fairy weirdo." Yep, sounds good to me! Check out her website for more cool stuffs!

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LIFE

(W/A) Elk Paauw

A collection of new and old autobiographical comics from the webcomic Otherwise Known As Life, including popular favorites Self Imagination, Love Comix ("What is Love?"), Artist Problems, and a previously unpublished bonus comic! A little bit funny, a little bit sad, these comics will leave you in a contemplative, wistful mood.

Snippet Reviews:

"A beautiful, bittersweet comic."
"Cute!"

12-page saddle-stitched booklet, printed on 40% recycled paper with 6 possible colors for the cover, including purple, orange, blue, pink, yellow, and green. Contains one page with cartoon female upper body nudity.

 

unspeakable

(W/A) Elk Paauw

Upon seeing her father weeping on the anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the author is impelled to investigate the nature of national tragedy in this heart-wrenching autobiographical minicomic.

Snippet Reviews:

"I got chills! What an amazing comic."

"It was not what I was expecting at all as a story about the JFK assassination, and it was incredibly well-written."

"Reading this really took me back to my own experience in dealing with 9/11 as a teenager, and dug up some very intense emotions."

16-page saddle-stitched booklet, printed on 100% recycled paper with a transparent cover. Contains graphic imagery, recommended readership: 13+

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/6!

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LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST GN

(W/A) Shotaro Ishinomori

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adaptation of the beloved, internationally bestselling video game originally released for Nintendo's Super Entertainment System. This comic book version by Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider) was first serialized in Nintendo Power magazine and later collected into a graphic novel.

Long out of print, this stunning, full-color graphic novel is now available once again!

Remember way waaaaay back in the days of the pre-internet video gaming world a little magazine called NINTENDO POWER?!! It had tips, tricks and FREAKING AWESOME COMICS that barely ever saw the light of day other than those dusty, crinkled pages!! Now, FINALLY, the masterpiece that is Zelda by Manga-Ka Shotaro Ishinomori is finally available to us ignorant westerners! REJOICE!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

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DEAD DROP #1

(W) Ales Kot (A) Adam Gorham

Four issues. Four stories. One ticking clock! Red-hot writer Ales Kot (Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier) and rising star Adam Gorham (Zero) start the countdown to DEAD DROP as an unlikely cast of superhuman operators fall in deep for an undercover conspiracy action thriller in the darkest corners of the Valiant Universe...

There is a secret black market in New York. It is hidden in plain sight - in our streets, trains, restaurants. Those who know how to navigate it exchange secrets of extraordinary nature. But when the secret in circulation is a biological weapon derived from Vine technology, the gloves are off - and the most extraordinary agents
are released to stop the disaster before it occurs.

Otherwise, in less than thirty minutes, there will be no world to come back to.

X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott, Detective Cejudo and Betamax are ready to save the world.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 5/6!

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SWORDS OF SORROW #1

(W) Gail Simone (A) Sergio Fernandez Davila

DYNAMITE'S FIERCEST FEMALES IN THEIR BIGGEST EVENT EVER! Fan-favorite GAIL SIMONE (RED SONJA, BATGIRL) and rising art star SERGIO DAVILA (LEGENDERRY) combine to tell the ultimate pulp adventure, featuring Vampirella, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja, Kato, Jungle Girl, and many, many more! Villains and heroes from a dozen worlds and eras face off against a legendary evil that threatens all their homelands. Don't miss this thrilling epic tale, an event supported by one-shot side adventures written by the hottest writers today, like G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett, Nancy Collins and more!

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COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! NOW!! EP. #25 4/29

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Worlds end! Worlds die! Things will never be the same!! This was the tagline of the first and original universe destroying crossover that has spawned endless variations over the years with reverberations into the very comic books we are showing off this week!! So, so much stuff is dropped on this, the last New Comic Day before FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015!! Plus, y'know there's that Avengers thing this weekend, too... So sit back and let your favorite comic monkeys guide you through the onslaught of awesomeness that hit the shelves today!!

All-New Comics Should Smell Good! NOW!! ep. #25! Worlds end! Worlds die! Things will never be the same!! This was the tagline of the first and original universe destroying crossover that has spawned endless variations over the years with reverberations into the very comic books we are showing off this week!!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/29!!

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WHITE TRASH HC

(W) Gordon Rennie (A) Martin Emond

The greatest buddy road comic ever! Join slacker surfer dude Dean and The King, legendary gold-laméd rock'n'roller, as they take their pink Cadillac into the soft, white supremacist, Evangelical brimstone underbelly of the good ol' US of A! White Trash is Welcome To The Jungle, Deliverance, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, jammed in a blender and blasted into overdrive!

recommended by casey!

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 4/29!!

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ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #6

(W) Rick Remender (A) Stuart Immonen

• Baron Blood vs Captain America, Hydra's war is won, and Zemo's atrocities continue.
• Sam Wilson will earn his strips--the single greatest sacrifice in a lifetime of them--and he will never be the same again.
• The end of the first story arc that sets the stage for the coming Age of Hydra.

recommended by sam the video monkey!