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Named by James Gunn as an influence for Gods and Monsters, the first chapter of the new DC Universe film and television slate! This New York Times bestselling story inspires the upcoming film THE AUTHORITY. The Authority are heroes in only the strictest sense of the word. Ruthless and unforgiving, this group of insanely powerful superhumans face down countless menaces to Earth, protecting mankind with their cold version of justice. An invasion from an alternate Earth, an international terrorist who is laying waste to major cities and a hostile alien intelligence who calls himself God all fall under their rule. This is THE AUTHORITY. Pay allegiance. Or get your head kicked in.

AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S 'BETWEEN THE COVERS'THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.'NICK CAVE'Such a mad, happy book about art and music and obsession. I'm so glad I got to read it. It made the world feel lighter.'NEIL GAIMAN'In praise of meaning-rich relics and magical things. Totally heartwarming project.'MAX PORTER'A unique study of a fan's devotion, of transcendence and of the artistic vocation - it's got depth and great warmth. It's a beautiful piece of work.'KEVIN BARRYI hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied. The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more important than the gum itself.On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem, his creative muse, a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects, growing in significance with every passing year.Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love. 'This is such a beautiful f*@king book. Thank you, Warren. I highly recommend this motherf*@ker.'FLEA'A beautifully written book about the power of music and objects. I powered through it in two days.'COURTNEY BARNETT'A moving, inspiration insight into a beautiful mind.'JIM JARMUSCH'The year's most eccentric and joyful musical memoir.'DAILY TELEGRAPH (Books of the year)'[Nina Simone's Gum] is a metaphor for [Ellis'] creativity - the blossoming of a small idea into something bigger and bolder - but also a journey inside the impulsive, improvisatory mind of Warren Ellis, his passions, obsessions and superstitions.' OBSERVER'[A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . . . [Ellis] sees signifiance where others might not.'MOJO'A glorious piece of object fetishism . . . Marvel as Ellis' collection of eccentric personal mementos morphs into a celebration of the intangible wonder of music.'UNCUT'Wonderful.' THE TIMES'The most peculiar book I've ever read.' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAY'Delightful . . . A joy from start to finish.' BIG ISSUE'A joyous work full of love, connection, creativity and gratitude.' THE SPECTATOR'Completely charming and joyful . . . glorious.' LA REVIEW OF BOOKS'Beautiful . . . remarkable.' NEW EUROPEAN

A burned-out private detective is enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the U.S. Constitution...the real one.

Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geo-engineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former are paid by non-profits and charities, the latter by global security groups and corporate think tanks. For both types, if you're good at it, and you spend your days and nights doing it, then it's something you can't do for long. Depression sets in. Mental illness festers. And if the "abyss gaze" takes hold there's only one place to recover: Normal Head, in the wilds of Oregon, within the secure perimeter of an experimental forest. When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total.As the mystery of the disappeared man unravels in Warren Ellis's Normal, Dearden uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future-and the past, and the now.

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVEI hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied. The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more important than the gum itself.On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem, his creative muse, a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects, growing in significance with every passing year.Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love.'The year's most eccentric and joyful musical memoir.'DAILY TELEGRAPH (Books of the Year)'A meditation on art and value, connection and collaboration [...] Fantastic.'THE TIMES (Books of the Year)'One of the most strange, illuminating and wonderful 'music' books ever.'MOJO (Books of the Year)

Written by WARREN ELLIS • Art by DARICK ROBERTSON & RODNEY RAMOS • Cover by TIM BRADSTREET After losing his job, bank account and home, Spider Jerusalem has gone underground, the better to implement his plan. Collects TRANSMETROPOLITAN #37-42.

Planetary has been hailed as a timeless story that turned modernsuperhero conventions on their heads.Written by Warren Ellis(Transmetropolitan) with stunning art by John Cassaday (AstonishingX-Men), this critically acclaimed, landmark series took a look at theinter-dimensional peace-keeping force known as Planetary. The trio on the groundincludes Elijah Snow, a hundred-year-old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremelypowerful woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate withmachines. Tasked with tracking down evidence of super-human activity, thesemystery archaeologists uncover unknown, paranormal secrets and histories, suchas a World War II supercomputer that can access other universes, a ghostlyspirit of vengeance, and a lost island of dying monsters.All 27 issues of the Planetary original series are collected in thishardbound omnibus edition.

The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging to someone who's been killing a long time. Secretly. And very, very effectively. This is the impossible case that New York detective John Tallow has to solve, before the killer catches up with him. This is GUN MACHINE: a crime novel like none you've read before.

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him, the full range of an operation that's much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire... and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all-new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy). Reviews: ""We are officially spoiled when it comes to the adventures of Agent 007, for casual and diehard fans of the character alike."" - Ain't It Cool News ""Tense and fast-moving."" - Comic Book Resources ""This debut from Dynamite Entertainment is everything I could have wanted."" - Newsarama ""An amazing interpretation of the James Bond characters and his world in a way that feels like it's an ode to both Fleming's writing and the film adaptations."" - Multiversity Comics ""A slick, action-packed action thriller... Bloody entertaining."" - Big Comic Page ""The art team of Jason Masters and Guy Majors steals the show."" - Geek Tyrant ""Strong action pieces... full of pace and movement."" - Comic Crusaders ""This is classic Bond here. Odd, strong henchmen, brutal fighting, lots of bodies, and a maniacal mastermind leaving Bond in a deathtrap..."" - Bleeding Cool ""Wonderfully highlight(s) character and motivations for 007 and his foes."" - Comic Buzz

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags... and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist... Collecting issues #7-12 of the ongoing James Bond comic book series written by Warren Ellis, the New York Times bestselling author of Gun Machine and critically-acclaimed comic book writer (Iron Man, Planetary, Astonishing X-Men), and featuring artwork by Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated). Reviews: ""(Proves) that the perfect Bond experience doesn't always have to be on the silver screen or in... a vintage novel. 10 out of 10."" - Newsarama ""Gorgeous locales, vicious action, and a willingness to experiment. 5 out of 5."" - Pop Culture Uncovered ""Not only are the characters great, the story itself is engaging as hell."" - Big Comic Page

An archaeological dig in Cornwall has gone very wrong, very quickly. And Maria Kilbride has her hands full already, as the effects of the Injection begin to dig in. So Brigid Roth, her old comrade from the CCCU, gets hired to go to a stone circle in the middle of a moor, under a granite tor, to find out why a ritual murder might have torn a hole in the world. What is the Cold House? "If you’re looking for an intense, moody exploration of how loud and strange the world could get, this is the one for you." - Kirkus Reviews Collects issues 11 through 15.

A professional pathfinder breaks out of a torture cell,his only ally a disaffected young murderess, in pursuit of his worst extractionscenario ever: escaping on foot across a sprawling and secret off-world colonyestablished a hundred years ago and filled with generations of lunatics. FromWarren Ellis and Jason Howard, the creators of the critically acclaimed TREES(currently being adapted fortelevision).Collects CEMETERY BEACH 1 -7

“Clever, funny, romantic,sad and absolutely essential” - KirkusThe acclaimed TREES series, currently beingadapted for television, returns with a brand new story of murder and ghosts. In the remoteRussian village of Toska, there's a dead body by the leg of the Tree that landedeleven years ago. Police sergeant Klara Voranova, still haunted by that day,has no idea how this murder will change everything, nor what awaits her in theTree's shadow.Collects TREES: THREE FATES 1 -5

Sample eight of the hottest new comic book series on the market with thisshelf-busting sampler of #1 issues collected together for only$5.99!Lush fantasy worldbuilding, characters that leap from the page,and plot-twisting mysteries unfold in these first chapters to stories created bytoday’s top talent in comics. Included are:IMAGE FIRSTS: ICECREAM MAN #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: CRIMINAL #1IMAGE FIRSTS: COPRA #1IMAGEFIRSTS: OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN & DE FELICI #1IMAGE FIRSTS: GIDEONFALLS #1IMAGE FIRSTS: ISOLA #1IMAGE FIRSTS: TREES #1IMAGE FIRSTS:UNNATURAL #1

This first collection of the bestsellingseries created by MARC SILVESTRI, DAVID WOHL, BRIANHABERLIN, and MICHAEL TURNER equips streetwise cop SaraPezzini with the mysterious Witchblade, a weapon of prehistoric origin anduntold power. As the artifact's bearer, Sara goes toe to toe with aMachiavellian industrialist, supernatural serial killers, and far worse, as thesupernatural underworld of New York alters the course of her destinyforever.Gorgeously rendered and painstakinglyassembled as the first in a series of absolute collected editions.Collects WITCHBLADE #1-19, THE DARKNESS #9& 10, TALES OF THE WITCHBLADE #1/2 & 3

The saga continues, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Witchblade! In this second absolute collection of the best-selling original series, New York cop Sara Pezzini falls further down the supernatural rabbit hole of ancient artifacts, illuminati industrialists, and all manner of occult outlaws. But while the mysterious power of the Witchblade has chosen Sara as its bearer, she's less convinced of her qualifications. When an opportunity to surrender the gauntlet and live a normal life presents itself, she just might take it! Plus, witness the birth of the shared Top Cow Universe, as the Darkness makes its first crossover appearance.Collects WITCHBLADE #20-36, TALES OF THE WITCHBLADE #4-8, WITCHBLADE INFINITY one-shot, WITCHBLADE/DARKNESS #1, DARKNESS/WITCHBLADE #1, and DARKNESS #28.