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"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...

"A brutal, original graphic novel crime noir from comics legend Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets). Femme fatale Maria M.'s life south of the border is a sordid cacophony of sex, drugs, and power. She emigrates to America in search of a better life, only to find that it takes more than a change of scenery to break the cycle of violence..."--Back cover.

"Comics won't just break your heart. Comics will just kill you. Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting to receive a lifetime achievement award, Hal's weekend takes us on a dark ride through the secret history of a medium that's always been haunted by crooks, swindlers, and desperate dreamers."--Provided by publisher.

"After years away, con man David Gold returns to the city he once called home and finds nothing as it was. But the man known as "Goldfish" has come back for one reason, and one reason only: his son. This enigmatic grifter returns to his old haunts to find his old flame practically running the city's underbelly. His oldest friend and ex-partner in crime a police detective. The town itself seems to have turned on him. With everything going against him,...

"Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?"--Provided by publisher.

"November follows the lives of three women intersecting in a dark criminal underground. As fire and violence tears through their city on a single day and night, they discover their lives are bound together by a mysterious man that seems to be the cause of it all."--Page [4] of cover.

"Though Kazuto has lived for years with a bullet lodged in his brain, the childhood injury is starting to take its toll. Uncertainty over his future may explain why he has chosen to reach out to Senri after so long, even if his methods remain frustratingly roundabout. Meanwhile, Senri and Enan are on the cusp of unraveling the events that separated the twins in the first place--but not if the "fire" man has anything to say about it!"--Page [2] of...

"Meet Lou Rossi - a Generation X slacker - out of step with the rave culture of Miami, 1990. Freelance newspaper artist, aspiring author, 21-year-old virgin and amateur detective. What begins as a fairly hum-drum narrative slowly builds into an exciting story of a young man hell-bent on tracking down the woman who he's recently, and quite quickly, fallen in love with - the young and beautiful Janet Laughton, a Texan-born gal new to the wilds of Florida."...

"The first chapter of the final arc of Rick Remender and Wes Craig's critically acclaimed DEADLY CLASS! The promise of what could have been, a life that never was--Marcus and Saya are the deadliest couple on Earth, but what happens when they're hired to kill each other? Will she choose to take her place as head of the Kuroki Syndicate, or will she choose revenge? We drive further into an unrecognizable future where scars are a physical reminder of...