BEYOND TIME AND AGAIN GN

(W) Derek Van Gieson (A) Derek Van Gieson (CA) Derek Van Gieson

Beyond Time and Again, George Metzger's 1967 counter-culture comic strip, combines high fantasy with prescient views of science, climate change, and political authoritarianism. Faithfully reproduced from the original art and collected for the very first time, this reprint of a classic and seminal underground work brings Metzger's exquisite craft and mind-bending imagination to a new generation.

BLUBBER #4

(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez

Explore the Tower of the Sindog in the latest issue of Gilbert (Love and Rockets) Hernandez's solo side project, Blubber - the craziest underground comic on the market! Mummies! Zombies! Fauns! Sex! The Snow Man! The super heroine Red Tempest! Plus much more, all of which really must be seen to be believed -- and to never again be unseen! Find out why Hernandez is considered by many to be one of Earth's greatest living cartoonists.

COSPLAYERS XMAS SPECIAL #0

(W) Dash Shaw (A) Dash Shaw (CA) Dash Shaw

What do you get the Cosplayer who has everything? What do you get your best friend to show her how much she means to you? Cosplayers Annie and Verti return to do some holiday shopping in this all-new, one shot special from the acclaimed Dash Shaw, appearing hot of the heels of his feature film directorial debut, the animated My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea.

LAID WASTE GN

(W) Julia Gfrörer (A) Julia Gfrörer (CA) Julia Gfrörer

Laid Waste is a graphic novella about love and kindness among vermin in the putrid miasma of a plague-ravaged medieval city. Julia Gfrörer's delicate, gothic drawing style perfectly complements the period era of the book's setting, bringing the lyricism and romanticism of her prose to the fore.

PRINCE VALIANT HC #14

1963-1964

(W) Hal Foster (A) Hal Foster (CA) Hal Foster

This volume opens with Val being sent to thwart an attack by King Cidwick and closes with his returning to Thule to find a guerilla war being waged against King Aguar. This volume also includes an introduction by comics writer Roger Stern, who looks back at the artists inspired by Hal Foster. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant is the most magisterial strip ever conceived, and Fantagraphics Books' series is the loveliest production of this masterpiece ever published.

ROY CRANE BUZ SAWYER HC #4

ZAZAROFS REVENGE

(W) Roy Crane (A) Roy Crane (CA) Roy Crane

This volume picks up where Book 3 left off and continues Roy Crane's classic strip through the end of the 1940s and into the 1950s - ten complete stories. And all of it is brought vividly to life through a rollicking series of adventures filled with knockout women, brutal assassins, and precarious situations. Also: Roy Crane's acceptance speech for the Banshee Silver Lady Award; letters of congratulation from Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and Richard Nixon; and rare illustrations of Crane's own trip to Europe in 1922.

TURN LOOSE DEATH RAYS & KILL HC COMPLETE FLETCHER HANKS

(W) Fletcher Hanks (A) Fletcher Hanks (CA) Fletcher Hanks

This deluxe hardcover collects for the first time all of golden age artist Fletcher Hanks' previously published material, plus several newly discovered gems, making this the very first complete collection of the works of Hanks. Edited by cartoonist and critic Paul Karasik (City of Glass), who also provides an insightful introductory essay and illustrated afterword.