Arcane Comics Best Reads program offers our readers the first volume of a phenomenal series at a great price. Exposing you to new books you may have not read yet is our goal. Each month we will offer the first volume of a series to our readers at a discount of up to 40%. This discount will be valid through the last day of the month for each series featured. If we are out of stock on a series, reorders will be honored at that discount as long as the order is placed by the close of business on the last day of the month.
September 2010 Selection
The following book is available as a Hardcover at 40% off at both locations throughout September 2010.
STARMAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01
Published by DC COMICS
Written by James Robinson
Art by Tony Harris, Wade Von Grawbadger and others
At last - the hit series created by James Robinson (BATMAN: FACE THE FACE) and Tony Harris (EX MACHINA) of the 1990s is collected in a series of six spectacular hardcover
August 2010 Selection
The following book is available as a tradepaperback at 40% off at both locations throughout August 2010.
Atomic Robo Vol 01 TP Atomic Robo & The Fightin’ Scientists of Tesladyne
Written by Brian Clevinger
Art by Scott Wegener
In this Eisner-nominated series, Atomic Robo, the world’s greatest steampunk hero, battles Nazis, giant ants, clockwork mummies, walking pyramids, Mars, cyborgs and his nemesis, and Baron von Helsingard. Volume 1 is back in print and reprints the sold-out first series of the smash hit with all-new cover. Volume 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War, sees Atomic Robo battle the super-science of Nazi Germany. The third volume, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time, has the steampunk hero battling an ancient evil throughout time and space.
July 2010 Selection
The following book is available as a tradepaperback at 40% off at both locations throughout July 2010.
Proof TP Vol 01 Goatsucker
Written by Alex Grecian
Art by Riley Rossmo
If you believe in monsters… Proof doesn’t leave urban legends where it finds them. Bigfoot wears a suit to the office. Fairies devour anyone in sight. A lonely monster wears human skins for company. The h
June 2010 Selection
The following book is available as a tradepaperback at 40% off at both locations throughout June 2010.
Queen & Country Definitive Edition Vol 1
Written by Greg Rucka
Art by Various
Greg Rucka’s Eisner Award-winning espionage series gets a face-lift with a new series of massive trade paperbacks that collect the entire critically acclaimed series in just four volumes. The first volume collects Queen & Country #1-12 along with the short story from Oni Press’ second Color Special! In Volume 2, SIS Agent Tara Chase must contend with industrial espionage, ghosts from her director’s past, and politicians eager to use the Service for their own ends! Volume 3 sends Chase across the world to defend the British Crown, while Paul Crocker finds himself on the firing line.
The following book is available as a tradepaperback at 40% off at both locations throughout May 2010.
Hellboy Vol. 01 Tp Seed of Destruction
Written by Mike Mignola and John Byrne
Art by Mike Mignola
Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists’ artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding. Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar.
” … Hellboy is a brilliant example of how to elevate the comic of the future to a higher literary level while achieving a higher pitch of excitement.”
–Robert Bloch, from his introduction
The following book is available as a tradepaperback at 40% off at both locations throughout April 2010.
Air Vol 1 TP Letters from Lost Countries
Written by G. Willow Wilson
Art and cover by M.K. Perker
Collecting the story that started it all, from AIR #1-5! Blythe knew there was no time like the present more dangerous to be an airline stewardess, but the skies might be much more dangerous than anyone imagines. She’s just learned of the Etesian Front - vigilantes dedicated to take the skies back from terrorism - and they’re after Zayn, a man she’s just met. Whether he’s an average frequent flier or a terrorist, finding out will lead Blythe to discover the weird science of hyperaxis and the mysterious artifact that will change the way we see technology forever.
From the comics imprint known for innovation, G. Willow Wilson and M. K. Perker introduce a new way of looking at the magic of flight.
Criminal Vol. 01 Coward
Written by Ed Brubaker
Art by Sean Phillips
Published by Marvel Icon
Acclaimed as one of the best new series of 2006, the first edition of Harvey Award Winning Best Writer Ed Brubaker and Scream Award Winning Best Artist Sean Phillips ground-breaking new series is finally here! Collecting the sold-out and hard-to-find first arc “Coward” promises to be one of the trade highlights of the year, and readers of these white-hot creators other projects, such as Daredevil, Captain America, and Marvel Zombies will not want to miss it!
Coward is the story of Leo, a man who can plan and execute almost any heist, but only if he can convinced the plan is safe enough. But sometimes the reward is worth the risk, and when a woman from Leo’s past comes to him with a sure-fire score to nab a few million worth of diamonds from Police Evidence, all his rules and cautions go right out the window. But in the world Leo lives in, as he may soon learn, those rules may be the only thing keeping him alive.
Scott Pilgrim GN Vol 01 Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
Words and Art by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Published by Oni Press Inc.
Scott Pilgrim’s life is totally sweet. He’s 23-years-old, in a rock band, “between jobs,” and dating a cute high school girl. Everything’s fantastic, until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties!
Planetary Vol. 1 TP All Over the World and Other Stories
Written by Warren Ellis
Art by John Cassaday
The creator of the acclaimed series TRANSMETROPOLITAN, Warren Ellis delivers PLANETARY, hailed as a timeless story that turned modern superhero conventions on their heads.
This graphic novel features the adventures of Elijah Snow, a hundred-year-old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines. Tasked with tracking down evidence of super-human activity, these mystery archaeologists uncover unknown paranormal secrets and histories, such as a World War II supercomputer that can access other universes, a ghostly spirit of vengeance, and a lost island of dying monsters.”
Invincible TP Vol 01 Family Matters or Invincible HC Ultimate Collection Vol 01
Written by Robert Kirkman
Art by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
Mark Grayson is just like most everyone else his age. The only major difference being that his dad is the most powerful superhero on the planet! And, Mark seems to be inheriting his father’s powers! See Mark thwart super-villains, alien invasions and all sorts of craziness, as he gets the hang of all this superheroing stuff.
Written by Jason Aaron
Art by R.M. Guera
Jason Aaron, the hot new writer of the critically acclaimed series THE OTHER SIDE, teams with gritty artist R.M. Guéra for an intense crime drama that mixes organized crime with current Native American culture. This special low-priced volume collects the first five issues of the riveting Vertigo series SCALPED.
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation searching for something better. Now he’s come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucs, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on “The Rez” - short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime. Is he here to set things right or just get a piece of the action?
