10 Popular Indie Graphic Novels

Title: Saga, Volume 1

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults.
This specially priced volume collects the first six issues of the smash-hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make."

Author(s): Brian K. Vaughan

ISBN 13: 9781607066019
Pages: 160

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Title: The New Deadwardians

In post-Victorian England, nearly everyone of the upper classes has voluntarily become a vampire in order to escape the lower classes who are all zombies. Into this simmering cauldron is thrust Chief Inspector George Suttle, a lonely detective who's got the slowest beat in London: investigating murders in a world where everyone is already dead! When the body of a young aristocrat washes up on the banks of the Thames, Suttle's quest for the truth will take him from the darkest sewers to the gleaming halls of power, and reveal the rotten heart at the center of this strange world.

Author(s): Dan Abnett

ISBN 13: 9781401237639
Pages: 176

Title: Strange Nation

Originally published digitally by Monkeybrain Comics as STRANGE NATION issues #1-8.

Author(s): Paul Allor Juan Romera

ISBN 13: 9781631403828
Pages: 128

Title: How to Fall Forever (Black Science)

Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. But what lies beyond the veil is not epiphany, but chaos. Now Grant and his team are lost, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds, barreling through the long-forgotten, ancient, and unimaginable dark realms. The only way is forward, through the madness of the lightning sea-swamp and a futurepast trenchworld, where the Sons of the Wakan Tech-Tanka wage never-ending war on the savages of Europe! How did the Anarchist League of Scientists end up this deep in the onion? And, who among them sabotaged the Pillar?

Author(s): Rick Remender;Dean White;Matteo Scalera

ISBN 13: 9781607069676
Pages: 152

Title: Ash and the Army of Darkness

"This volume collects issues 1-8 of Ash and the Army of darkness by Dynamite Entertainment."

Author(s): Steve Niles

ISBN 13: 9781606905166
Pages: 192

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Title: Reagan Youth (Deadly Class)

“Deadly Class is a solid read for those who want a combination of Mark Millar's Wanted and Harry Potter with Garth Ennis's (Preacher) style.” - Library Journal (Starred) “A good start to a wicked series.” -- Booklist It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical. Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer Rick Remender (Black Science, Fear Agent) and rising star artist Wesley Craig (Batman).

Author(s): Rick Remender

ISBN 13: 9781632150035
Pages: 160

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Title: Mind Mgmt, Volume One

Author(s): Matt Kindt

ISBN 13: 9781595827975

Title: Zero Volume 1

"First printed in magazine form as Zero #1-5."

Author(s): Ales Kot

ISBN 13: 9781607068631
Pages: 172