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1. The Walking Dead:  Compendium One
The Walking Dead: Compendium One
by Robert Kirkman
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4.7
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Image Comics
May 19, 2009
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Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Collects The Walking Dead #1-48. This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television se... Read more

2. Masters of the Nonsenseverse: A Get Fuzzy Collection
Masters of the Nonsenseverse: A Get Fuzzy Collection
by Darby Conley
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5.0
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
December 13, 2011
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At the center of this warm and fuzzy romp is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad executive and guardian of Bucky and Satchel, anthropomorphic scamps that still live by their animal instincts. Bucky is a temperamental cat who clearly wears the pants in th... Read more

3. The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future (Captain Underpants)
The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future (Captain Underpants)
by Dav Pilkey
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3.8
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The Blue Sky Press
May 1, 2011
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Gr 3-6–The year is 500,001 BC. The town is Caveland, OH. Ook Schadowski and Gluk Jones have a knack for getting under the skin of no-good Chief Goppernopper, the ruler of Caveland. When one of his distant descendants uses a portal to travel back in time from AD 2222 ... Read more

4. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye (v. 1)
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye (v. 1)
by Robert Kirkman
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4.4
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Image Comics
September 26, 2006
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Price:$9.99

From Publishers Weekly
Taking a well-worn genre—flesh-eating zombies overrun the world and the unlucky surviving humans must deal with the gruesome aftermath—and approaching it from a purely character-driven point of view propels this series into the spotlight from out of nowhere. This collection of the first six issues of the ongoing series ... Read more

5. Amulet #4: The Last Council
Amulet #4: The Last Council
by Kazu Kibuishi
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4.9
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GRAPHIX
September 1, 2011
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Praise for Amulet "Five--no, three pages into Amulet and you'll be hooked." --Jeff Smith, creator of BONE "[The] action-packed adventure sequences move at an exciting clip. . . . Part fantasy . . . and part manga, this volume has much to appeal to reade... Read more

6. Smile
Smile
by Raina Telgemeier
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4.7
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GRAPHIX
February 1, 2010
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Grade 5 Up—When she was in sixth grade, Telgemeier tripped while running and lost her two front teeth. In the years that followed, she went through a torturous series of dental surgeries and repairs, the trauma of which was mirrored by the social struggles she experienced during her adolescence. ... Read more

7. The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks
The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks
by Alan Moore
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2000 AD
November 15, 2011
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For the Future Shocks series of short stories with a twist ending, Alan Moore created some of his most exciting, memorable and explicitly entertaining work. Also featured in this outstanding collection are his short Time Twister tales - including the famous and poignant story The Reversible Man where ... Read more

8. Blankets
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
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4.6
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Top Shelf Productions
August 5, 2003
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From Publishers Weekly
Revisiting the themes of deep friendship and separation Thompson surveyed in Goodbye Chunky Rice, his acclaimed and touching debut, this sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author's rigidly fundamentalist Christian... Read more

9. V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta
by David Lloyd
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4.5
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Vertigo
October 24, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts ... Read more

10. The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Gareth Hinds
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4.9
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Candlewick
October 12, 2010
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Gr 7 Up–Taking a world-famous epic poem and adapting it into a graphic-novel format for modern readers is certainly an enormous endeavor. But since Hinds already performed the same feat quite admirably with Beowulf (Candlewick, 2007) he has proven himself more than capable of the task. To sum up ... Read more