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Four of Richard Matheson’s classic tales of terror are collected in this graphic novel collection: I Am Legend (Steve Niles with Elman Brown), Hell House (Ian Edginton with Simon Frasier), Duel (Chris Ryall with Rara Garres), and The Shrinking Man (Ted Adams with Mark Torres). Matheson’s classics come to vivid life in these inspired comic book adaptations.

November 11th, 2041…Nobody celebrates Veteran’s Day anymore. Victor Sheppard is an old man in a new world. He remembers a time prior to the War of the Third World, when cops still carried guns and there was a ghetto in every city. All that’s history now. Now the third world no longer exists. A new age of peace and equality has begun, but it didn’t come cheap. Millions of people died and the world is a better place, but nobody remembers why. Haunted by his dead comrades, Victor decides to do the one thing he thought he’d never do: Spill his guts.

The legends behind this book cast shadows long and inky, both the impetus for the story and the man executing it. This was initially composed as a Batman tale where he would battle Al-Queda. It almost makes sense when one assembles the Frank Miller tome of Bat-lore that has come before, this would be the next logical step. For various reasons, Miller eventually took his story away from DC and changed the characters, slightly. Here, we have the Fixer reacting in superheroic fashion to the terrorist attacks on Empire City, his city. It will be hard for anyone to read this comic and not spend most of the time finding the parallels to Batman. The hero looks familiar enough, his foe/love interest is a cat burglar with claws, the mustached police officer, and the city of darkness and water towers all sing familiar tunes. You can see where this story started and then how it so easily shifted. The problem is, we transfer to completely new characters and yet Miller spends little effort in ma

What if it’s all connected? That’s the question lingering at the core of Gideon Falls, the new Image Comics ongoing series from and writer Jeff Lemire, artist Andrea Sorrentino, colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Steve Wands. A bleary, disorienting blend of paranormal mystery and horror, its narrative twists around the fevered visions of Norton, a disturbed young man rummaging through an unnamed city’s garbage, collecting splinters of wood and nails he believe come from a trans-dimensional structure called “The Black Barn;” and Father Fred, a Catholic priest plagued by his past actions, dispatched to the small town of Gideon Falls, where all is not as it appears in its placid corn fields. Given Lemire and Sorrentino’s track record, including high-profile runs together on Old Man Logan and Green Arrow, and Lemire’s work on books like Descender and Black Hammer, it’s easy to see why the demand for the first issue has resulted in an immediate second printing. But it’s easy to suspect t

After a terrorist attack on a Japanese nuclear facility, the country was paralyzed to act. After six months of searching for the perpetrators, the public is shown a video tape of two boys known as Sphinx that take credit for the attack. Threatening more mayhem, it is up to the police to catch these terrorists. Although this widely anticipated anime about terrorism fumbled the ball at the end, it still provided and intriguing ride about a subject that many find themselves curious about. If you are looking for similar anime recommendations, then perhaps we can help. For Fans of Cat and Mouse Games With Terrorists Death Note Light Yagami is a high school prodigy and genius. However, he has an ever-increasing boredom and disdain for the rotten violent world. One day, he happens upon a notebook, called a Death Note, which states that if you write a name in it, the person will die. To his surprise, the notebook’s claims turn out to be true. This Death Not