David Lapham - Böcker

Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking,intimate and epic—SUNSHINE & ROSES tells the story of a boy and agirl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimoreunderworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS, and withSUNSHINE & ROSES, the uncompromising EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID& MARIA LAPHAM take the series to a newhigh.Collects STRAY BULLETS:SUNSHINE & ROSES #1-8

What would you do for love? How far would you go for revenge? “SUNSHINE & ROSES” tells the story of a boy and a girl: how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with “SUNSHINE & ROSES”, the uncompromising, Eisner Award-winning team of DAVID AND MARIA LAPHAM craft a heist story like you never seen. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #9-16 About the STRAY BULLETS series:Beginning in the 1970s and carrying on into the 1990s, Stray Bullets is a period crime drama with moments of humor and absurdity. David Lapham’s crime noir masterpiece follows the lost lives of people who are savagely torn apart by events beyond their control: The innocent world of an imaginative little girl is shattered when she witnesses a brutal double murder. An introverted young boy on the verge of manhood gets a lesson on just how far is too far when he falls for a needy woman who lives life in the fast lane. Or party with a pair of low-rent hoods who learn what is really important in life just when they shouldn't. What makes Stray Bullets so brilliant is that it’s a crime comic, but it’s also about growing up, about being frustrated with your lot in life, about the disappointment of settling down, and the mundanity of suburban life. Lapham shrewdly presents almost every type of criminal behavior imaginable in stories that can be both unflinchingly honest and heartbreakingly sympathetic. The almost Altman-esque mix of characters provides seemingly endless pathos and drama, and there is a level of realism to the violence that makes it truly startling. If movies like Oceans 11 are about the sexy allure of the criminal worlds, then Stray Bullets is about the desperation and rage of characters whose lives are ultimately defined by a series of bad choices.

The getaway is always trickiest part of any heist.It gets even trickier when the one place you go to hide and the one personyou're counting on hiding you is just about the worst place and worst person youcould have ever picked. Is it self-sabotage or a secret plan ofrevenge?....Sunshine and Roses tells the story of a boy and a girl, how theyfell in love, and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There isno crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with Sunshine & Roses, theuncompromising, EISNER AWARD WINNING team of DAVID AND MARIA LAPHAM craft aheist story like you never seen.Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE &ROSES #17-24

Steal the money and drugs—check. Get gone—check. It wassupposed to be all over. These were supposed to be the good times--the days ofsunshine and roses. So why don't they feel that way? Why does life suddenly feelmore horrifying than ever....Sunshine and Roses tells the story of a boy and agirl, how they fell in love, and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimoreunderworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with Sunshine& Roses, the uncompromising, EISNER AWARD WINNING team of DAVID AND MARIALAPHAM craft a heist story like you never seen.Collects STRAY BULLETS:SUNSHINE & ROSES #25-32

"Eisner Award-winning Stray Bullets team of David and Maria Lapham present the haunting story of a small town rocked by tragedy...and the residents who will do anything to protect the dark secrets behind it.The Emissary Bridge has always connected the citizens of Port Lindon to hope and opportunity.But when one man shockingly sets himself on fire, the bridge now brings something else to the town: CERTAIN DEATH.Now, Sheriff David Calhoun must dig up the town’s--and his family’s--most rotten secrets, before he runs out of time...Eisner Award-winners David & Maria Lapham (Stray Bullets) unleash a chilling tale of crime, death, and a small town under siege.Collects GOOD AS DEAD #1-6."

A brutal supernatural crime story involving a small town lawman investigating a secret culture of murderous werewolves. It offers gore and hot liaisons in the tradition of "True Blood".

Ferals presents a 21st Century werewolf drama — complete withviolence, sex, and the most ferocious reimagining of the classic mythology evercreated! Dale Chesnutt has lost all control. The feral wolf blood within himleads him towards the murder of the man that killed his love and unborn child.And that bloodlust has driven him rabid with purpose. But when the community ofFerals feels trapped by the encroaching military confinement of theirpopulation, the proud bloodline responds in kind. All the while the insaneDoctor Cherry’s experiments turn from understanding the condition tobecoming a slave to it. The end has come — it’s the brink of war!David Lapham as redefined the werewolf mythology into one of the mostmesmerizing stories in comics today. This volume takes the Feral and human racesto the brink and kicks them both over snarling and screaming for mercy. Collects Ferals issues #13-18.

For the complete collector, comes the highly anticipated second volume inThe Darkness Compendium series! This volume picks up where the first oneleft off, as Jackie Estacado, bearer of The Darkness, returns from Hell itselfto gain revenge on his former mob family for the death of his one true love,Jenny. It contains the seminal run by Paul Jenkins and Dale Keown which inspiredThe Darkness video game, along with story arcs by noted authors includingDavid Lapham (Stray Bullets), Scott Lobdell (X-Men), and Ron Marz(Artifacts), and the first twenty-five issues of Phil Hester'srevolutionary relaunch of the series to coincide with The Darkness videogame. Join Jackie as he goes from resurrected assassin to mob boss to drugkingpin to bagman for an ancient demon!The Darkness Compendium Volume 2 collects The Darkness Volume2 #1-24, The Darkness Volume 3 #1-10, and the "Legacy Numbering" issues#75-89 for a total of 50 complete issues collected into one deluxe hard covervolume.

The original five story arcs of one of the all-time greatest crime comicseries are collected in this GIANT 1,200 page volume. "The Innocence ofNihilism," "Somewhere Out West," "Other People," "Dark Days," and "HiJinks andDerring-Do" appear in their entirety.Collects Stray Bullets #1-41.

“Lapham, an Eisner Award winner (forStray Bullets), has expertly crafted a tale with great dialog. Hiswell-paced panels of stark black-and-white illustration convey the story'smovement through the dark recesses of his narrative.” - Library Journal(Starred Review)“Very nifty,so much so that this mainstream edition of a decadeold indie original is aswelcome a revival as can be.” --BooklistAfter a decadeout-of-print, another great El Capitán graphic novel returns!Hanging from the ceiling fan in theirlavish Hollywood home. That's where Steven Russell finds his estranged wife, atear-stained note in her pocket pouring out years of pain and regret. Is itsuicide? The police think so. But his wife's rich and powerful family isconvinced otherwise, and they'll do everything in their power to make him pay.As Steven's life is systematically destroyed by a lascivious private detective,a chance meeting with an old friend drives him back toward a simpler time whenthe world was full of hope-to a downtrodden neighborhood he had long left behindand a fateful reunion with a woman who lovedhim....David Lapham's love letter toclassic noir takes you down the long, dark road of obsession, sex, betrayal, andmurder. Peeling back the carefully constructed facades of each character, heexposes the true nature of their humanity and propels you toward a final,horrifying revelation.

With the return of Stray Bullets, it's time to roll out the “bystory arc” trades of David Lapham’s influential crime masterpiece!These are their stories. Follow the lost lives of people who are savagely tornapart by events beyond their control. As the innocent world of an imaginativelittle girl is shattered when she witnesses a brutal double murder. Or anintroverted young boy on the verge of manhood gets a lesson on just how far istoo far when he falls for a needy woman who lives life in the fast lane. Orparty with a pair of low-rent hoods who learn about what is really important inlife just when they shouldn’t. And even learn the story of the mostinfamous gangster who ever lived, Amy Racecar, who talks to God, lunches withthe President, and just may be responsible for the end of the world. These aresome of the tales that will rip out your guts and break your heart.Collects Stray Bullets #1-7.

A little boy learns too late that running your mouth can get you run over. Ayoung babysitter gets in way over her head when she's hired to sit by adangerous man with a strange request. A young couple's hopeful visit to the cityturns anything but when they step into the middle of a mob turf war and watchmore than just friends die. And a young man just trying to help his hustlercousin out of a bad spot instead becomes the ultimate killer. These are onlysome of the eight stories comprising “Killers,” the newest arc inthe ongoing world of Stray Bullets. Each story stands on its own, butcollectively they tell the twisted story of two teens — Virginia and Eli— both scarred by tragic childhood intersections with the Baltimoreunderworld, drawn together in the sleepy seaside town of Sandcastle, unable toescape their dark pasts....

Somewhere out West is a town no one knows about-a desert town-whoseinhabitants wait for the day a great earthquake will bring them beachfrontproperty. Here, three desperate friends on the run from the Mob and a youngrunaway Virginia Applejack will try to escape the nightmares of their pasts. They'll band together to battle the demons that threaten to destroy them fromwithin while taking on a corrupt town full of sex, drugs, and inbreeding. Eventually, they'll be forced to make horrifying choices when their dark pastsfinally catch up with them....

Beth and Virginia have relocated to Los Angeles where things only appearmore normal... Take a ringside seat for these brutal tales of twisted emotionthat will knock you to the mat and have you seeing stars...CollectsSTRAY BULLETS #15-22

Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far she'll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41

Because the future is getting weirder everyday, we give you XINO—an intra-ocular lozenge of subversive, surrealist science fiction to cure your awful awareness of it all. Try not to worry—the insertion process will be guided by the megawatt brilliance of comics’ brightest talents as they slowly tune your hopes, dreams, desires, paranoia, alienation, anxiety, and adrenaline to produce the desired results.Join Melissa Flores (The Dead Lucky, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) as they surgically activate the hidden dimensions of the human senses; cult phenoms Christopher Condon (That Texas Blood) and Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade) debut the world's first intravenous video game system; underground radicals Jordan Thomas (Weird Work) and Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin) surveil the suburbs for signs of covert infiltration; plus much, more from a startling cast of megawatt talents, including Phil Hester (Gotham City: Year One), David Lapham (Stray Bullets) and Maria Lapham force our collective psyche into unrecognizable new dimensions; award-winning and bestselling author Alex Segura (Secret Identity) and Zander Cannon (Kaijumax) embark on an intergalactic journey of revenge; François Vigneault (Titan) and Artyom Trakhanov (First Knife) deliver bleeding-edge technology to Paleolithic man; Dan McDaid (DEGA) takes weaponized incompetence to the next level; Connor Willumsen (Bradley Of Him) digs deep into our capacity for self-delusion—which doesn’t seem to be getting any better.