Presents the final act of the best-selling Hollywood noir comic written by an award-winning team. The final act of the best-selling Hollywood Noir comic from the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips!

Rathraq, an ancient warrior God, has been resurrected in a modern American city as a scarecrow! The enraged Rathraq went on a mad hunt to get his old body back, causing havoc for twenty-something bartender Bobby LaRosa and his friends! In this book, Rathraq's battle against the immortal monsters that killed him centuries ago takes a weird turn. Now, in the second volume of Rumble, Rathraq’s battle against the immortal monsters that killed him centuries ago takes a weird turn. Gradually, this rabid warmonger loses track of who his enemy is – and the formerly reluctant, levelheaded LaRosa gets drawn into the fray against a new kind of evil! Meanwhile, Cogan the trickster God plays both sides against each other – which has its own dangers. A strange, blood-spattered, unpredictable tale of anger and love that takes you from filthy city sewers to a prehistoric paradise where fantastic beasts and Gods fight over the birth of Humankind. Extended sketchbook section and lots of extras.

Julie Doucet is an artist who has mastered many voices and styles, from her landmark and medium-defining early work in comics with her comic-book series Dirty Plotte and the classic graphic novel My New York Diary, to her linocut and collage work in Lady Pep and Long Time Relationship. Most recently, Doucet has focused primarily on col- lage, crafting impeccable zines, prints, and other ephemera. In Carpet Sweeper Tales, her first new book in a decade, we see this multi-faceted artist combine her many talents into one genre-defying masterwork. Though Doucet stopped drawing comics over ten years ago, here she revisits the art form, pulling images from 1970s Italian fumetti, or photonovels, to create her own collage comics. Doucet collages a unique dialogue of love and travel between characters sitting in classic cars, driving through cities and pristine countryside. This book is the first to combine Doucet's love of collage with her gift at comics storytelling. The result is a collection of lighthearted stories that play upon the disconnects between 1970s imagery and our modern world. Lost in translation, the dialogue is stilted, the characters alien, the mood always playful. Carpet Sweeper Tales is a milestone in a career filled with milestone achievements.

From Robin to the Joker, Batman Character Encyclopedia is your guide into over 75 years of the Dark Knight's friends and foes. This compact, informative guide takes you through over 200 heroes and villains of Gotham City as well as tons of facts and information on the Caped Crusader himself. Organized alphabetically, each character profile is crammed with statistics, informative annotations, and exciting comic book art illustrated by leading DC Comics artists. Batman Character Encyclopedia is perfect for the newcomers to the Batman series or the die-hard DC Comics fan, and is an excellent addition to DK's best-selling collection of Batman titles. Copyright © 2015 DC Comics. BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. (s15)

"High atop the New York City skyline, an invisible war has raged for generations. As two nigh-immortal champions brawl for dominance of the ever shrinking extra-dimensional Zone 27, the populace below remains oblivious of the cataclysm that could cause their annihilation from the rooftops above!"--

Kieron Gillen blasts into an all new epic sci-fi series, Mercury Heat! Over the last few years, Gillen's work has gained a massive following from titles like Uber, The Wicked and the Divine, and Iron Man. Now he takes you to Mercury, a slow turning planet where you can outrun the sunrise along with the blistering heat it brings. This is the new frontier of space, where humanity's insatiable need for energy is being fueled by Mercury. It's a tough environment and it attracts a rough crowd. So Luiza is bringing her own heat as a cop on Mercury, since she's just a bit too intense to be one on Earth. Mercury Heat introduces the sci-fi world of the future where individuals are identified by genetic markers and personality types to fill roles in society, the troublemakers end up on Mercury. Luiza wanted to help people, she wanted with all her heart to be a police officer. But the automated Grapevine system had other plans for her. There are only a few legal options for someone branded with her neuroprofile. As an adult Luiza's dream came true - just on Mercury where she enforces laws with extreme prejudice as a bounty agent in a world of hard-as-nails miners and cyborgs. This volume collects issues #1 – 6 of the ongoing Mercury Heat comic book series.