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Review: White Tiger: A Hero’s Compulsion by Pierce & Liebe
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Roaring out of the pages of Daredevil, the new White Tiger makes a ferocious debut! Angela del Toro knows pain: Her uncle- Hector Ayala, the former White Tiger – Killed. Her FBI partner, murdered. Her career, ruined. Her mentor, Matt Murdock, jailed. The Yakuza’s bloodthirsty Sano Orii returns, a genocidal shadow organization appears, and a new-but-old super-powered madman is looking to put the squeeze on White Tiger. Armed with mystical amulets- and finally in costume – White Tiger demands answers! But will she survive long enough to ask the right questions?
Collecting White Tiger #1-6 – featuring the dynamic scripting of New York Times best-selling fantasy author Tamora Pierce (Trickster’s Queen, The Will of the Empress) with Timothy Liebe; and the masterful penciling of rising star Phil Briones (La Geste Des Chevaliers-Dragons, Les Seigneurs D’Agartha) with Al Rio and Ronaldo Adriano Silva.
Review: Rex Mundi by Arvid Nelson, Eric J & Jeromy Cox
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A quest for the Holy Grail unlike any you’ve ever seen begins here- in a world where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate, the Catholic Church controls Europe, and sorcery determines political power! When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Doctor Julien Saunière investigates, uncovering a series of horrific ritual murders and an ancient secret society. Julien cannot let these shadowy figures retreat into the darkness, lest they take up their killing once again. His investigation turns into a one-man quest into the bizarre secrets of Catholicism.
Review: Rex Libris: I, Librarian by James Turner
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In this first collection of librarian adventures, Rex must confront the powerful Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while his fellow librarians attempt to fend of a manifestation of blood-thirsty Vandals set on burning down the Middleton Library to the ground.
The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library. From ancient Egypt, where his beloved Hepatia was murdered, to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books, Rex upholds his vow to fight the forces of ignorance and darkness. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe from zombies to renegade literary characters.
Review: Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
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Mice struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world’s harsh conditions and predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed. They are not simply soldiers; rather, they are guides for common mice looking to journey without confrontation from on hidden mouse village to another. The Guard patrol borders, find paths through dangerous territories, watch weather patterns, and keep the mouse territories free of predators. Follow the adventures of three of the Guard’s finest-Lieam, Saxon, and Kenzie-as they seek to uncover a traitorous plot against the Guard.
Review: Damned by Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt
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Sometimes the only person you can trust is a dead man. Prohibition era gangsters grew rich on vice. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust and other sins to fuel a much more lucrative trade: mortal souls. The long-standing feud between two of the families is about to end thanks to a deal to consolidate power. But before things can be finalized, the bookkeeper tasked to broker the deal is kidnapped. Hoping to find the missing bookkeeper before the deal falls apart, Big Al pulls Eddie’s corpse out of a ditch and puts him on the case.
Our gumshoe Eddie now finds himself caught up in the middle of a sinister web of kidnapping, murder, and damnation. Things would go so much smoother if he could just stop getting himself killed. It’s a curse, but there are worse curses to have in this dark and crazy world.
Review: Maintenance by Jim Massey & Robbi Rodriguez
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You think your job is bad? Doug and Manny have you beat! These guys are janitors! But they’re not your typical custodial crew-no, sir! They’re the guys who keep things shiny and clean at TerrorMax Inc., the world’s biggest and best evil science think tank! When they’re not dealing with toxic spill monsters and talking mansharks, they still have to worry about mad scientists, crazy would-be dictators, and the cute girl who works at reception!
Review: PX! Book One: A Girl & Her Panda by Anderson & Trembley
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Follow along with a young girl named Dahlia and her trusty panda sidekick as she sets off on a journey around the globe to save her missing father, who has been kidnapped by Pollo – an evil goat mastermind bent on taking over the world.
Along the way she’ll meet Weatherby Ian Poppington III, a Victorian secret agent and Wikkity Jones, a roller-skating swordsman (or is it samurai?) whose mysterious motivations are not entirely clear. Paths will be crossed, alliances will be formed, and ninjas will be punched.
Review: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Otsuka & Yamazaki
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Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university find there’s little call for their job skills in today’s Tokyo among the living, that is! But their studies give them a direct line to the dead-the dead who are still trapped in their corpses, and can’t move on to their next reincarnation! Whether you died from suicide, murder, sickness, or madness, they’ll carry your body anywhere it needs to go to free your soul!
Review: Death Note v.1-3 by Ohba & Obata
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Light is a wide-eyed Japanese high school honors student who’s boredom with life is suddenly relieved when an equally bored Shinigami (death god) drops a Death Note into the human world in order to relieve his own tedium. The Death Note of the Shinigami gives Light the power to kill people by just writing down their name while thinking of their face. Light quickly decides that this is his chance to make the world ideal, to rid it of bad people and bring all the evil in it to justice.
Soon violent criminals the world over start dying of heart attacks while in custody and people begin calling the force behind these deaths “Kira”. When Interpol takes notice, the mysterious detective known only as L. steps in to capture Kira at any cost. But how far is Light willing to go to pursue his ideal world and protect “Kira” from capture?
Review: Delilah Dirk and the Treasure of Constantinople by Tony Cliff
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A tale of adventure told in twenty-five illustrated plates. Delilah Dirk, English-Greek heroine and master of forty-seven different sword-fighting techniques, has been captured breaking into the palace in Constantinople. Her goal: to “repatriate” several of His Majesty’s prized ancient scrolls. But how will she accomplish that from the dungeon? And what does her arrival mean for mild-mannered, dutiful and loquacious Captain Selim?

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