After an epic seventeen-year journey through the entirety of human culture, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. This six-issue miniseries is a celebration of everything comics were, are and could be.
Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe.
This is literally, and literarily, the story to end all stories. Here’s how it begins.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol IV): The Tempest #1 (of 6) by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (JUNE 2018) $4.99 (US) – Diamond: APR180310 – For mature readers (16+) 32 pages in (mostly) full color – saddle stitched – 6 5/8″Â x 10 1/8″Â (standard comic-book size) Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics. Read a 2-page preview now and pre-order from your favorite retailer!
“A magical mystery tour through Alan Moore’s head.” –io9
“The completed Century sits happily alongside the previous League volumes as arguably one of the greatest comics of all time.” –Comic Book Resources
New in paperback: the New York Times bestselling “Century” trilogy sees our famous fraternity of meta-fictional marauders romping across the modern age, blending countless strands of British culture into a thrilling tapestry.
The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her lover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting new talents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased or missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific pirate island to decline in surly isolation.
Now it is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation and indeed the world, even were it to take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition.
From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era.
And a lot of things can happen in a CENTURY.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol III): Century (TPB) by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (JUNE 2018)
$19.99 (US) – ISBN 978-1-60309-437-5 – Diamond: APR180309 – For mature readers (16+)
Full-color softcover graphic novel – 6 5/8″ x 10 3/8″ – 256 pages
Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics. Check out 3 sample pages now and pre-order from your favorite retailer!
“Magnificently evocative… Simple, line-based art provides a perfect complement to her keen narration, giving this an indie, intimate feel and leaving readers feeling like they really know her. Lizâs story, captured with wry humor and a deft, visceral eye, is a must-read” – Kirkus (starred review)
“Charming… gloriously herself.” –People
“Prince’s tongue-in-cheek black-and-white line drawings, in a charming style reminiscent of Jeffrey Brown’s autobiographical comics, pack a punch.” – Booklist
Liz Prince invites you to spend a year walking in her (Converse) shoes! Look Back and Laugh collects the 365 comic strips she drew to document every day of her life in 2016. Follow Liz through such life-changing adventures as: buying a house, moving to a new state, getting married, crippling insomnia, and as always, lots of cats, cats, cats! Full of humor, pathos, and insight, these comics reveal the ups and downs that make up the glamorous micro-celebrity life of a freelance cartoonist.
Look Back and Laugh by Liz Prince (JULY 2018)
$19.99 (US) – ISBN 978-1-60309-434-4 – Diamond: APR180322 – For mature readers (16+)
Softcover graphic novel (with B&W interiors), 7″ x 4″ (landscape) – 416 pages Read a 4-page preview now and pre-order from your favorite retailer!
Legendary talents team up for a jaw-dropping action-romp starring the baddest dudes in the TMNT universe: Raphael and Casey Jones. It’s a must for grown-up Turtles fans and anyone nostalgic for the grim ‘n’ gritty days of 90s comics.
“Pure, unfiltered and unhindered Kevin Eastman.” – TMNT Entity
After years out of print, a grindhouse-style classic returns – better than ever. Inspired by the magazine Heavy Metal and the films of John Woo, legendary cartoonists Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley present a much darker take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, spinning a pulse-pounding yarn of over-the-top action and more than a bit of the old ultraviolence.
In gritty 1990s New York, our boys Raphael and Casey are swept up into an international murder/revenge/assassination plot, complete with gangsters, thugs, cops, cyborgs, machine guns, and (of course) hockey sticks. Don’t miss what might just be the longest-running gunfight in comic book history!
Collects Bodycount issues #1-4 in deluxe hardcover for the first time, with a new cover by Eastman & Bisley.
Congratulations are in order for one of our amazing Australians, Campbell Whyte, as his staggering debut graphic novel Home Time (Book One): Under the River has just been announced as a finalist – two times over – in the new Excellence In Graphic Literature Awards!
Campbell’s great book is not only a finalist in the Young Adult Books (Fiction) category, it’s also one of the eight books contending for the honor of Book of the Year!
Attendees of the massive Denver Comic Con in June will get a chance to pick up Home Time from the IDW Publishing booth, along with its fellow EGL finalist Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary by Christian Perrissin & Mattheiu Blanchin, published by our friends at IDW, before the winners are announced at a ceremony during the convention. For more details, keep an eye on the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards web site. Congratulations to all the nominees, and we’ll see you in Denver!
