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The Blue Lotus

2011
While trying to track down the leader of an opium smuggling ring, Tintin and Snowy travel to China where the trail leads them to an opium den called the Blue Lotus.

Emily the strange

2007
A graphic comic featuring Emily the Strange as she conjures up the ghost of her favorite guitar god, plays the piano with her teeth, and spends an afternoon in Traffic School with Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Star wars, episode I, the phantom menace

1999
Two Jedi knights fight to save a young boy and the trading rights of Naboo.

Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery

2011
Graphic novel adaptations of several of Edgar Allen Poe's poems and short stories, including "The Tell-tale heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop-Frog," and "The murders in the Rue Morgue.".

Wake up, Percy Gloom!

2013
"Kindhearted, Candide-esque Percy wakes up from a 200 year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. Searching for his mother, lamenting his long-lost love and soul-mate Miss Margaret, Percy meets bizarre, wise, naive, and sometimes dangerous characters, encounters inspired inventions, and forges friendships, discovering a few unexpected verities along the way"--Publisher.

The art of Vampire knight

2011
Collects artwork from "Vampire Knight, " in a text that includes author comments, a fold-out poster, and how-to tutorial.

H.G. Wells's The time machine

2008
A graphic novel retelling of H.G. Well's "The Time Machine" in which a scientist invents a time machine and travels 800,000 years into the future where he discovers humans have evolved into two groups--the Eloi and their Morlock oppressors.

Spider-Man Noir

2009
It was 1933, four long years after Wall Street crashed and took the rest of the world with it, and the Great Depression was just getting started. And so was the Goblin. A master at turning hopelessness into a commodity, the corrupt mob bossled a colorful gang of circus sideshow freaks--including the cannibalistic Vulture--in a corrupt stranglehold on the city. Peter Parker came of age during this time of struggle and hardship. Raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, two stemwinding Socialists commited to positive change for the people, Peter would have been a boyis beacon of optimism in any other era. But in this world of noir, he was an embittered angry young man in search of justice. And then along came a s[pider After a fated meeting with a mystical arachnid and its life-changing bite, he may have just inherited the force to honor the phrase, "If those in power can't be trusted, it's the responsibility of the people to remove them"--dust jacket back cover.

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