Jock
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It was the sort of mission Batman had run a thousand times. From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman supervillain known as E.M.P. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. E.M.P.'s electrical powers posed a dangerous threat, but the situation was well in hand. Until it wasn't. Now every light in Gotham is out, the...
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Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is no surprise then that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety; one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps going... Until the day we meet him; middle aged and in the boot of a car, and everything pointing towards a shallow grave...
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In Canberra, a Federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the Talakar. When a storm breaks, these stories collide...
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In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna-a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.
He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and...
5) JoggerKill
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A pack of wild attack dogs are tracking down and killing joggers. After the fourth victim is slaughtered, the Police Chief of Southampton, Long Island, whose daughter was the first victim, is determined to avenge her death. He suspects there is a serial killer behind these tragic killings. But it is the Chief's son and girlfriend who discover a horrifying fact-someone from a Long Island high school is purposely tracking and hunting down students in...
6) The Glitch
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Kaila Kinsworth lives inside of a video game, where monsters lurk in the shadows and adventures lie around every corner. Yet, life has always been wonderful for her – She lives in a cozy village in the middle of the forest, with a sweet little sister and a caring, adventurous mother. But when somebody closest to her passes away, she finds her heart shattered into a million pieces, scared and confused and not ready to move on.
But Kaila is also...
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A chance meeting with an orphaned young woman in a seedy port bar, leads a well-seasoned, salty old dog into a chaotic adventure on the high seas involving money, drugs and violence, with a little bit of romance thrown in for good measure.
The fishing vessel he becomes trapped on, is not all that it appears to be at first sight, whilst its owner, the Fat Russian, displays a cruelty and cunning well beyond the norm. A climactic conclusion will leave...
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A father's obsession. A daughter's quest.
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity.
When Joshua Grayling is offered the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis, Eliza is horrified. It involves a sea voyage with...
9) 0012
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"Frank Jones is a jerky man or journeyman. After failing at being a cop and a not so Private Investigator, he is now known as Double 0 12 or 12 Gauge. Now an US International Agent, his chaos continues to Paris and Moscow. From the beaches of Charleston to cafes and bars around Europe his mission is to recruit or kill Ivan Modragovich. Ivan is the top FSB Officer in the Kremlin. The second part of his mission is to force the Russian President to...
10) Quota
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Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a colleague slings him a prosecution brief for the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees to go. The case is murder. The victim was involved in illegal abalone trading and even more illegal drug trafficking. And the witnesses aren't talking. As Dauphin closes ranks around him, Charlie finds his...
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Dark Horse Books
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2022-
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v. 1: "Collects issues #1-4 of Snow Angels from the ComiXology original digital series" -- v. 2: "Collects issues #5-10 of Snow Angels from the ComiXology original digital series"--
"Two of the most acclaimed comics creators of their generation--writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock--together for the first time in this ten-part science fiction saga set in a brutal world like no other! Milliken and Mae have never left the Trench--it's all they've ever...
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Wytches volume 1
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When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry.
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Losers volume 1
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English
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This collection introduces The Losers, formerly an elite U.S. Special Forces unit that served as the covert bloody hand of America until they stumbled across a C.I.A. secret they couldn't ignore. The C.I.A. tried to kill them, but they're about tolearn that it takes more than one try to eliminate The Losers.
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Losers volume 13
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International action and intrigue explode in the new title that inspired the 2010 Warner Bros. movie. THE LOSERS BOOK TWO finds the hard-luck black-ops band flying from Qatar to Turkmenistan amid oilydealings and flying bullets. Includes a new introduction by Ian Rankin and new cover by Jock.
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Hellblazer volume 175
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After spending a year and a half wandering through the darkest corners of America, John Constantine has returned home! His port of entry is Liverpool, where the decaying landscape and gentle undercurrent of despair match his frame of mind. Of course, no sooner does he set foot upon his native land than he stumbles into a small-time necromancy-and-murder ring centered on his own sister's apartment building. More worrying than this sordid little power...
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Hellblazer volume 261
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In this volume, England's favorite low-rent mage skips town to avoid incarceration and heads to India. But Constantine's quest for purity in an attempt to resurrect the love of his life is quickly interrupted when an expat friend gets him mired in a series of grisly murders. Then, Constantine reluctantly becomes embroiled with a group of anarcho-punks who worship a powerful effigy of Sid Vicious. Plus, discover the centuries-long history of the King...
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Spinning from the upcoming epic 3-D film Immortals from visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) and starring Mickey Rourke and Henry Cavill comes Immortals: Gods and Heroes, a stunning, two-sided hardcover featuring ALL-NEW tales of Greek myths as you've never seen them before! Featuring incredible untold tales by Jock (Detective Comics, The Losers), Brian Clevinger (Atomic Robo), Francesco Francavilla (Black Panther), Dennis Calero (X-Men...
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{C}yan. {M}agenta. {Y}ellow. Blac{K}. From these basic building blocks, the entire spectrum of comic book coloring is formed. Now the medium is returning the favor. Building on the innovative tradition that has made it one of comics' most cutting-edge imprints, VERTIGO is proud to present CMYK - a bold new anthology of original stories from dozens of the art form's greatest creators. The short graphic fiction collected here all originates with the...
19) Haunted Trail
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A group of college friends visit a local haunted trail. After many screams and a few nervous laughs, an actual killer approaches the group. Scared out of their minds, the friends run through the trail, trying their best to get to the end without being killed. After much of the group is slaughtered, the remaining friends make a horrific discovery about who the killer really is.