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THE BEST SUPERHERO UNIVERSE SERIES IN THE UNIVERSE! By now, everyone in the world knows Invincible. But what about the rest of the Invincible Universe’s heroes and villains? Atom Eve! Rex Splode! Brit! Best Tiger! This collection reveals the secret history of Invincible's closest allies, as well as the formation of a brand-new Guardians of the Globe team to fight the largest gathering of supervillains ever: The Order. Collects INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE #1-2, INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE & REX SPLODE #1-3, GUARDING THE GLOBE (VOL. 1) #1-6, GUARDING THE GLOBE (VOL. 2) #1-6, and INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1-12.

Jackie Estacado, having relocated to the secluded nation of Sierra Muñoz, teams with a scientist to elevate his powers but must face the Darkness itself, leaving a lasting impact on his soul. On his journey home, Jackie battles witches, wannabe gangsters, and even Aphrodite IV along the way. All without the power of the Darkness to help him. But can the devil known as the Sovereign, help return his soul and powers from the depths of Hell? Find out in this fourth complete volume of the Darkness. Featuring the beginning of the landmark run by writer Phil Hester and a myriad of all star artists. Collects THE DARKNESS Vol 3 #1-10 (Legacy #65-74), #75-88, The Darkness: Butcher, The Darkness: Lodbrok's Hand, & The Darkness: Shadow and Flame

Jackie Estacado, having relocated to the secluded nation of Sierra Muñoz, teams with a scientist to elevate his powers but must face the Darkness itself, leaving a lasting impact on his soul. On his journey home, Jackie battles witches, wannabe gangsters, and even Aphrodite IV along the way. All without the power of the Darkness to help him. But can the devil known as the Sovereign, help return his soul and powers from the depths of Hell? Find out in this fourth complete volume of the Darkness. Featuring the beginning of the landmark run by writer Phil Hester and a myriad of all star artists. Collects THE DARKNESS Vol 3 #1-10 (Legacy #65-74), #75-88, The Darkness: Butcher, The Darkness: Lodbrok's Hand, & The Darkness: Shadow and Flame

Picking up right where Kevin Smith's Green Hornet left off! The BlackHornet is history, but a new, even deadlier threat has grown right in the heartof Century City, and it may already be too late for The Green Hornet and Kato tostop it. How can Green Hornet scare a street gang out of business when the gangmembers themselves have no fear of anything — even death? Is thehorrifying power behind their fearless ferocity truly supernatural? And just whois Saint Death?Collects issues #11-15 in one volume, along with complete covergallery.

The mysterious and deadly Redhand makes his move against the Kato family.With Mulan ailing, and Hayashi guarding her, it falls to Green Hornet to standalone against the deadliest foe he has ever faced. An enemy with training andknowledge surpassing even his, an enemy who can't be found... until he strikes.Don't miss the introduction of the greatest villain in the Green Hornetuniverse!This volume collects issues #16-21 of the ongoing Green Hornetseries, including a complete cover gallery.

Jackie Estacado, the current bearer of The Darkness, was blackmailed andlied to by a devil who calls himself The Sovereign. Now free from TheSovereign's grip, Jackie has assembled a motley crew of criminals with one goal— destroy every last one of The Sovereign's reliquaries! His quest willpit him against a former Russian mob boss turned art collector, a mute mystic,countless of The Sovereign's statues, and even traitors within his midst! Collecting The Darkness #85-89, this volume concludes the second yearof writer Phil Hester's (Firebreather, Wonder Woman) epic run withEstacado confronting The Sovereign. Featuring art by Sheldon Mitchell (PilotSeason: Stealth) and Romano Molenaar, and a special stand-alone "Tale of TheDarkness" issue set in the Wild West by Joshua Hale Fialkov (Tumor,Echoes) and Matt Timson (Impaler, Popgun).

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.

In the aftermath of INVINCIBLE: THE DEATH OF EVERYONE, Dinosaurus has left his mark on the world. Can heroes from across the universe — Invincible, the Guardians of the Globe, Tech Jacket, the Astounding Wolf-Man, and more — contain the damage? Or are the end times of the Invincible Universe ahead? Collects INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1-6

In the aftermath of Invincible : The Death of Everyone, Dinosaurus has left his mark on the world. Can heroes from across the universe — Invincible, the Guardians of the Globe, Tech Jacket, the Astounding Wolf-Man, and more — contain the damage? Or are the end times of the Invincible Universe ahead? The greatest heroes in the Invincible Universe take on their greatest threats: Red Eye, the Lizard League, and...marriage?! Collects INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #7-12

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.

There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That s about to change. Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the kidnapping of the century as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn.

Spellbinding Swamp Thing tales from superstar writer Mark Millar and acclaimed artist Phil Hester are back in print, and collected in the omnibus format for the first time! Before Mark Millar was the superstar writer behind Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman, some of his first high-profile work in comics was more than 30 issues of DC/Vertigo s Swamp Thing, following the seminal work of writers like Alan Moore and Nancy A. Collins. In this run, Millar was joined by Phil Hester, one of the most celebrated artists in comics, also in an early point in his career. Hester subsequently gained renown for his work on Green Arrow, Firebreather, The Irredeemable Ant-Man, and more. This formative work from two of the medium s top creators returns in Swamp Thing by Mark Millar and Phil Hester Omnibus, collecting their full run on the series in the omnibus format, along with a slew of extras! This volume collects Swamp Thing (vol. 2) #140-171, with a brand-new introduction by Hester, a brand-new afterword by Millar, and a gallery of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes artwork.

#1 New York Times best-selling writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis) and acclaimed artist Phil Hester (Green Arrow: Quiver) take Oliver Queen from the grave and onto the road for an adventure of past, present, and future! Oliver Queen has recently returned from the dead and like all iconic ghosts he s looking to get closure on some unfinished business. Packing his bags and hitting the road, Green Arrow will travel cross country with his old apprentice, now known as Arsenal, in search of lost treasures. Alongside encounters with Shade, Solomon Grundy, and Catman, Green Arrow will discover what it means to really live a life worth living. Honoring the Emerald Archer s past, present, and future Brad Meltzer and Phil Hester craft a quest that s sure to leave Green Arrow fan satisfied. Collects: Green Lantern #162-164; Green Arrow #1-39; Green Arrow Secret Files & Origins #1.

Gotham s darkest truth doesn t begin with Batman it begins with a crime that rewrites the soul of a city. Tom King (Mister Miracle) and Phil Hester (Green Arrow) deliver a razor-sharp noir that delivers the definitive origin of Gotham City! Gotham City, 1961. Helen Wayne, the 'princess of Gotham' and heir of Richard and Constance Wayne has been kidnapped, and P.I. Slam Bradley finds himself embroiled in the case. As his investigation deepens, Gotham s history of police corruption and fragile race relations is revealed. And as the threat of a race riot grows with every new revelation, Slam begins to realize that the city he grew up in still has lots of secrets to hide. This deluxe edition, written by Eisner Award winning writer Tom King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and illustrated by Eisner-nominated artist Phil Hester (Swamp Thing), collects Gotham City: Year One #1-6 and features a brand-new cover and foreword by Phil Hester, a director s cut of issue #1 showcasing the final lettering script and inks, behind-the scenes art by Hester, a variant cover gallery, and more!