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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
Author
Description
As the 20th century begins, a league of extraordinary people--Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde, Mina Murray--is formed in England to help the Empire deal with new dangers. Each self-contained narrative takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
April 2019.
Description
"To save a boy she barely knows, teenage orphan Olivia Twist joins The Esthers, a rag-tag girl gang of thieves running free in a dangerous future. Olivia's life in this London of internment camps and strange technology gets even more complicated when she discovers that she has more power and wealth than she's ever dreamed of. But it comes with a great cost."--Provided by publisher.
6) Injection
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Description
"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 to save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life. Injection... 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice...
Author
Publisher
Z2 Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain's elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field,...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Everyone remembers the day the monsters emerged. From deep within the earth, these huge creatures ran riot across Dalston, spreading terror. Then some kid rode one. Gangs formed, territorial battles ensued... and now two friends must fight for their lives as they discover the true depths of Dalston's darkest secret.
10) Wild's end
Author
Series
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Lower Crowchurch is a small English community enjoying the peace of the 1930s, but when the town becomes the victim of an alien invasion, the residents' lives are upended by the harsh realities of life-and-death violence. Led by the town's outsider and retired war veteran, they will have to rally together to uncover the secret of their invaders and hope to fight back"--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The year is 1940. As the Blitz destroys London and kills thousands, the Royal Family looks on. But in this world, the only people with special abilities are Royalty, and the purer the bloodline, the greater their abilities. So why don't they stop the carnage with their powers? A truce between the Earth's nobles has kept them out of our wars--until now. When England's Prince Henry can take no more and intervenes, will it stop the planet's suffering...
Author
Series
We only find them when they're dead volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Captain Malik and the crew of his spaceship are in search of the only resources that matter - and can only be found by harvesting the giant corpses of alien gods that are found on the edge of human space..and now they see an opportunity to finally break free from this system: by being the first to find a living god. THE GODS ARE ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL... ...AND THE GODS ARE ALWAYS DEAD. Captain Malik and the crew of the spaceship the Vihaan II are in search...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Fifty years have passed since Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II embarked on their fateful mission - and now Jason Hauer, one of the fated crew, is drawn into a conflict that threatens to tear apart the galaxy. NO ONE ESCAPES THE GODS. Fifty years have passed since Captain Malik and the crew of the Vihaan II embarked on their fateful mission - and the universe has changed in ways no one ever expected. Jason Hauer, one of the fated Vihaan...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"England in the mid 1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted ... some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return and are in search of some answers. Answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their headquarters,...
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