The Adventures of Tintin follows the exciting exploits of a young reporter, his dog, a sea captain with a drinking problem, and a couple of bumbling Interpol detectives as they travel from Europe to the Sahara and Morocco in pursuit of a pickpocket, model-ship collectors and long-lost treasure. Steven Spielberg’s and Peter Jackson’s long-awaited full-length film, based on the original Tintin comics by Hergé, combines the stories “The Secret of the Unicorn,” “Red Rackham’s Treasure,” and “The Crab with the Golden Claws” into a generally fast-paced adventure that feels just a tad too long.

The individual stories and the characters Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and Thompson and Thomson are all quite faithfully represented. The motion-capture animation is similar to that of Polar Express and is both fascinating and a bit odd at times. As in the comics themselves, the characters are highly stylized and instantly recognizable, but Tintin’s facial expression is eerily stoic and there’s a hint of strangeness that’s hard to put a finger on. Snowy is delightfully funny to watch, though he is a bit fluffier than in the original comics, and the real animation standouts are the secondary characters like Thompson and Thomson and Captain Haddock, who somehow seem absolutely perfect.

Devoted fans will revel in the abundance of small details that reference the comics and suggest a true love for Tintin on the filmmakers’ parts, but even viewers who don’t know a thing about the comics will thoroughly enjoy this exciting adventure.
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Star Wars: Droids:The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO is an animated television series set in the Star Wars galaxy. It features the exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the famous droid duo who have appeared in all six Star Wars feature films. Throughout the series, the droids face off against such threats as gangsters, pirates, Boba Fett, IG-88 and agents of the Galactic Empire. Over the course of their adventures, the duo often find themselves in the company of new masters, and in new dangerous and difficult situations as a result. The series is set in 15 BBY – which is between the events depicted in the Star Wars films Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
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Rocketed into space by his Junior CPA father, who thought his planet was going to explode. It didn’t – he traveled for 20 years until landing on the planet Levram (read it backwards) where everyone, has super powers, except him! Befriended by the witless Captain Everything – who can negate all known laws of physics, but forgets how to fly in mid-flight – normalman only wants to escape from this insane world (don’t we all)!
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The Fall, a graphic novel written by Brubaker and illustrated by Berlin creator Jason Lutes, published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2001. This work has previously been anthologized in five parts in Dark Horse Presents in 1998. The story involves a convenience store clerk who gets involved in a ten-year-old murder mystery after he uses a stolen credit card…
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The epic crime thriller that rejuvenated The Caped Crusader is now available in one place as a trade paperback!

In this story of murder, mystery and romance, Batman sets out on a simple mission to discover the identity of the mysterious villain wreaking havoc in his life known as Hush. But Batman ends up facing possibly the most intense case of his life as secrets from his past flood into the present, and the most notorious villains to ever haunt Gotham City’s street attack simultaneously!

Guest-starring The Dark Knight’s greatest allies and enemies, this collection features Batman #608-619 as well as the 6-page segment from Wizard #0 and a 2-page origin story that originally appeared at dccomics.com. From best-selling writer Jeph Loeb and superstar artist Jim Lee comes the long-awaited collection!
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If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller–known recently for his excellent Sin City series and, previously, for his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil–is probably the supreme contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children’s cartoon character into a hero for our times. In his introduction the great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argues that only someone of Miller’s stature could have done this. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task.
Miller went far beyond the call of duty. The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Firstly it does keep the core elements of the Batman myth intact, with Robin, Alfred the butler, Commissioner Gordon and the old roster of villains, present yet brilliantly subverted. Secondly the artwork is fantastic–detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, psychotic. Lastly it’s a great story: Gotham City is a hell on earth, streetgangs roam but there are no heroes. Decay is ubiquitous. Where is a hero to save Gotham? It is 10 years since the last recorded sighting of the Batman. And things have got worse than ever. Bruce Wayne is close to being a broken man but something is keeping him sane: the need to see change and the belief that he can orchestrate some of that change.
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Little Ego is a wonderful piece of European erotica that adopts the comics storytelling convention of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland. The innocent protagonist, a lovely woman named Ego, has various sexual and increasingly interconnected dreams, all ending in wakeful surprise and a commitment to explain it to her therapist. The women are gorgeous, the backgrounds are lushly illustrated, but my favorite part is the excellent use of page layout–anyone wishing to perfect their storytelling should rush to get this book that Kim Thompson describes as that which “like a bowl of fresh strawberries, leaves a sweet taste.”
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle’s internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel about the “hermit country”, was named among the best of the year by Amazon.com, TIME.com, CBC Radio One Talking Books, San Antonio Current, Vancouver Courier, Edmonton Journal, The Comics Journal, Young Adult Library Services Association and the Pennsylvania School Librarian’s Association.
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Back in print! Re-introducing the outrageous story of The Pro in a paperback version of the deluxe hardcover edition. Just when you think Garth Ennis has gone too far, just when you thought no one would go near the idea of the world’s first superhero prostitute… here comes The Pro! Plus, in “The Pro Meets the Ho,” our plucky heroine faces a super-powered “soiled dove” whose powers of perversion exceed her own!
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Sir Aymar, a knight of great skill and deep honor, journeys the countryside of Middle Age Europe, displaced from his own lands, fighting for his chance to return home and reclaim the towers that are “the tallest and most beautiful in all the land.” While visiting a friendly lord, Aymar becomes entangled in a matter of court intrigue, a twisted knot of murder and deceit that threatens to destroy old friendships and innocent lives — even when truth and honor prevail. Hermann, international comics superstar and creator of Jeremiah, Bernard Prince, Comanche, Blood Ties, and Rodrigo, is one of comics most skilled and versatile storytellers, a master of light, shadow, composition, and character. Few creators of graphic fiction are capable of producing such a sweeping, ambitious work that succeeds so gloriously on so many levels. The Towers of Bois-Maury is Hermann’s masterwork, a series of vast scope, breathtaking imagery, and emotional intensity
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After a profoundly disturbing vision leads Rei to sacrifice herself in combat against the penultimate Angel, Armisael, Kaworu takes the opportunity to try to get closer to his own target. But Shinji’s anger and confusion at Kaworu’s advances develop into even darker feelings.
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Nausicaa, a young princess who has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world’s remaining precious natural resources.
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“To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!” Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents’ killers . . . and his quest won’t end until the blood of a thousand has spilled!
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This graphic novel collects the all-new travels and travails of Hutch Owen, the outrageous homeless rebel that battles the corporate forces that control our lives. Included in this volume are: “Public Relations,” where Hutch is pitted against the Worner company and a PR firm bent on redesigning the World Trade Center Site; “Aristotle,” in which Hutch winds up in Worner’s employ as a slogan writer; as well as several other stories. Don’t miss this politically astute and heart-warming farce.
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Comics artist Geary returns with another typically superlative work, the third in his series, A Treasury of Victorian Murder. As in his Jack the Ripper, Geary uses a fictional narrator to present a stylish, painstakingly researched treatment of the gruesome 1892 ax-murders of Abby and Andrew Borden in Falls River, Mass., and of the investigation, trial, and public and media spectacle that followed. The unsolved Borden murders have passed into folklore (“Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks”) and the question of Lizzie’s guilt (she was acquitted but remained under suspicion for the rest of her life) remains unanswered in Geary’s book. It’s Geary’s artfully precise reconstruction of turn-of-the-century Falls River that makes his work so haunting, and such a delight. Geary carefully re-creates the layout of the town (complete with maps); the history, quirks and familial resentments of the prominent Borden family; and, of course, the bloody hatchet murders themselves, complete with minute details of the police investigation and a look at the forensic techniques of the time. His marvelous black-and-white drawings alternate a heavy, sensuous line with more delicate linear accents, deftly capturing the architecture, clothing, objects and everyday details of small-town life in the 1890s.
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