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Patata added Frogcatchers to their pull list Oct 8, 2019

Frogcatchers

Experience a surreal descent into one man's psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from Jeff Lemire, the New York Times-bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth. A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. The padlocked doors and barren lobby reinforce the ...

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Patata added Underwinter to their pull list Mar 24, 2017

Underwinter

SERIES PREMIERE! "SYMPHONY," Part One-Critically acclaimed creator RAY FAWKES launches his new monthly horror series: UNDERWINTER, twisted portraits of our dark world, beginning with the perverse, topical SYMPHONY - a beautifully painted tale of music and cruelty in the modern age.

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Patata added Octavia Butler's Kindred to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Octavia Butler's Kindred

A graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking science-fiction classic offers an unflinching look at slavery, race, and the role of women in society. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the...

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Patata added Savage Things to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Savage Things

25 years ago, a secret government organization kidnapped children and trained them to be chaos agents who went on to foment unrest and execute enemies of the state around the world. When these cold and unfeeling creations proved too difficult to control, the powers that be exterminated their kill squad with extreme prejudice. Too bad it didn't w...

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Patata added Extremity (2017) to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Extremity (2017)

SERIES PREMIERE! Thea dreams. Not of a better life, but of revenge on the clan that ruined her family. With ferocious battles between man, machines, and monsters ahead...who knows where her quest for vengeance will take her? Creator DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (Space Mullet) and colorist MIKE SPICER present a bold new vision, where the beauty and imagina...

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Patata added Royal City to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Royal City

DOUBLE-SIZED DEBUT ISSUE! NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, A.D., Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly...

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Patata added Arclight to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Arclight

A lady of the blood house has had her mind trapped in a strange alien root-body. She's hiding on the outskirts of her kingdom until she learns that the alien monster pretending to be her has returned.

The first issue of a shared fantasy universe. Sharp genderqueer knights, blood magic, music, dancing, and a goose.

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Patata added X-O Manowar (2017) to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

X-O Manowar (2017)

Born under the oppressive thumb of the Roman Empire, Aric of Dacia learned warfare at an early age.

It was amid such violence that he was abducted by an alien race. Forced into slavery, he survived where others perished. His escape would come from bonding with a weapon of immeasurable power: the X-O Manowar armor. With it, he returned to E...

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Patata added Rebels: These Free and Independent States to their pull list Mar 23, 2017

Rebels: These Free and Independent States

In 1775, Seth Abbott fought to win his fellow Americans their independence. In 1794, his savant son, John, comes of age as their new nation faces multiple threats: high seas terrorism, fresh aggression from Britain, and intense political division at home. When Congress authorizes building America's first navy, the famous "six frigates," John Abbott...

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Patata dropped Frederik Peeters from their creator watch list Mar 22, 2017
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Patata dropped Frederik Peeters from their creator watch list Mar 19, 2017
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Patata dropped Gene Luen Yang from their creator watch list Mar 19, 2017
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Patata added Gotham Academy: Second Semester to their pull list Mar 17, 2017

Gotham Academy: Second Semester

GOTHAM ACADEMY is back with an all-new storyline for its second semester! When you're Olive Silverlock, winter holidays can be a drag. Luckily, when a new student shows up at Gotham Academy to keep her company while the other students are away, Olive finds what could be a brand new friend...or a whole lot of trouble!

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Patata added Punisher (2016) to their pull list Mar 17, 2017

Punisher (2016)

FRANK CASTLE LOSES CONTROL!
A by-the-numbers drug bust is about to take Frank Castle by surprise...and he HATES surprises. The horrible fallout threatens to send The Punisher into the heart of darkness, but Castle won't make that journey alone: A DEA agent is on his trail and attempting to get into his head...but what horrors will she find ther...

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Patata added Becky Cloonan to their creator watch list Mar 17, 2017
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Patata added The Power of the Dark Crystal to their pull list Feb 27, 2017

The Power of the Dark Crystal

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, return to the world of Thra in an official sequel to the beloved fantasy film.
Discover an all-new race of creatures called Firelings that live in a realm near the planet's core, based on official character designs by Brian Froud.
Years have passed since the events of ...

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Patata added Quantum Teens Are Go to their pull list Feb 27, 2017

Quantum Teens Are Go

Mad science is the punkest s*** there is. Teenage sweethearts Nat & Sumesh spend their nights breaking into abandoned superlabs to steal the parts they need to build a time machine - and they've just found the most important part. But mysterious entities keep trying to stop them turning it on. Now all they've gotta do is hang on long enough to figu...

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Patata added The Belfry (One Shot) to their pull list Feb 27, 2017

The Belfry (One Shot)

AN ALL-NEW HORROR ONE-SHOT FROM GABRIEL HARDMAN! When an airliner crashes in a remote jungle, everyone walks away unscathed only to find you can't escape the lush, brutal world of the Belfry. From Hugo Award-nominated writer/artist GABRIEL HARDMAN (INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, KINSKI, Star Wars Legacy), THE BELFRY is a self-contained one-shot that may just ...

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Patata added Old Guard to their pull list Feb 27, 2017

Old Guard

Eisner-winning writer GREG RUCKA (LAZARUS, BLACK MAGICK, Wonder Woman) and critically acclaimed artist LEANDRO FERNANDEZ (THE DISCIPLINE, Deadpool, Punisher: MAX) team up together to introduce THE OLD GUARD, the story of old soldiers who never die...and yet cannot seem to fade away. Trapped in an immortality without explanation, Andromache of Scyth...

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Patata added Silver Surfer (2016) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Silver Surfer (2016)

"Fantastic Planet"
The Surfer has taken Dawn Greenwood to the end of the universe, and now he's going to show her the most fantastic planet of them all: Earth! It's your homeworld like you've never seen it before: with monsters, magic and...a secret that will change everything! The perfect jumping-on point for the book everyone's talking abou...

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Patata added Spider-Man (2016) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Spider-Man (2016)

Miles Morales has been doing the super hero thing for a while, now, but after SECRET WARS, he'll be a full-fledged member of the Marvel Universe. Swinging next to The Invincible Iron Man, The Mighty Thor and the All-New Captain America as a card-carrying member of the Avengers is an adventure, but it's not all fun and games for New York City's main...

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Patata added Flash (2016) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Flash (2016)

"LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE" chapter one
A new storm brews over Central City and disproves the old adage about lightning never, well...you know. Just as Barry begins to feel overwhelmed fighting crime, a new speedster debuts-but just where did this amazing new friend come from?
FLASH FACT: "2016 is the 60th anniversary of Barry Allen becoming ...

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Patata added Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps

"SINESTRO'S LAW" Chapter One
With no backup and only his ring and battery to keep him alive, Hal Jordan streaks toward battle with the Sinestro Corps, while his greatest foe prepares to wipe the last Green Lantern of them all out of existence!

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Patata added Curse Words to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Curse Words

"THE DEVIL'S DEVIL," Part One
The new ongoing series from CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Death of Wolverine, Star Wars) and RYAN BROWNE (GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS) is COMING FOR YOU! A wizard has appeared in New York City, and he's casting wonderful spells, getting famous, getting rich-it's great! But it's not. This wizard has everyone fooled. He is actu...

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Patata added Beowulf to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Beowulf

SANTIAGO GARCÍA and DAVID RUBÍN unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf, which has endured for a thousand years and inspired an epic poem of the same name, become a foundational piece of English literature, and inspired generations of authors, from Tolkien to Hollywood screenwriters.
  
BEOWULF tells of the tale of a Scandinavian hero...

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Patata added Loose Ends (2017) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Loose Ends (2017)

SERIES PREMIERE
No one seemed to notice Sonny Gibson as he stepped back into "The Hideaway," a dusty little honky-tonk nestled off the Carolina highway. But before the night was over, Sonny would be on the run-from the law, from the criminals, even from himself.
  
LOOSE ENDS is a gritty, slow-cooked, Southern crime romance that foll...

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Patata added Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016)

"Dark Trinity" part one! When a turf war puts Black Mask in Red Hood's crosshairs, Jason discovers that the False Face Society is not what it seems, and that the organization is about to auction off a powerful weapon. As criminals from all over the globe descend on Gotham City, Jason must prove that he belongs amongst the city's worst in order to g...

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Patata added Aquaman (2016) to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Aquaman (2016)

"THE DROWNING" chapter one
Black Manta returns, and as Aquaman attempts to broker lasting peace between Atlantis and the surface world, his greatest foe engineers a plan to destroy everything and everyone the undersea hero loves.
THEY SAID IT: "I'm excited to draw a vast undersea world with all the visual flourishes of fantasy and science f...

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Patata added The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom

"Blowback" part one! Captain Atom hasn't been seen or heard from in years-and even if you think you know what happened to him...you're  wrong! But you're not alone. To this day, no one on Earth-not even the other superheroes-has an inkling of the missing Captain Atom's true fate. At last, the truth is about to be revealed in a saga that transcend...

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Patata added Green Lanterns to their pull list Feb 6, 2017

Green Lanterns

"RED PLANET" chapter one
New Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz promised to protect others in brightest day or blackest night, but as "Red Planet" begins to rise, the partners find themselves confronted with a unimaginable threat from Bleez and the Red Lanterns!
THEY SAID IT: "I am psyched for GREEN LANTERNS!" says writer Sam Humphries. "M...

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