Books by David Lapham and Complete Book Reviews
Kyle Baker, J. Bone, John Byrne and various. IDW (Diamond, dist.), $24.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-61377-401-4
This second volume of adventures featuring the late Dave Stevens’s skyward bound hero is a wonderful testament to the enduring legacy of the Rocketeer. Cliff Secord is just your “typical” ace stunt pilot from a pulp-fiction-inspired version of the...
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David Lapham and Patric Reynolds. Dark Horse, $14.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-59582-986-3
Even for those who can’t get enough of humanity-on-the-brink stories with high-octane explosions, nonstop action, and lots and lots of tattoos, this adaptation of Dom Mazuran’s 2013 film deserves to be called “action-packed.” The story is set in...
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David Lapham. Image, $19.99 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0799-5
Lapham returns to his popular noir series with this first volume of a new story arc—an intricately woven tapestry of underworld violence in 1980s Baltimore. College-bound Orson is smitten with criminally connected, sociopathic party girl Beth and...
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David Lapham, Author, Dave Lapham, Author, David Lapham, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1048-9
Lapham’s new graphic novel doesn’t stray far from his best known work, the noir comic Stray Bullets
. Daniel is a killer, a man who believes that silverfish live in his brain and tell him to commit murder. All of his scenes are...
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David Lapham. Image, $19.99 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-63215-079-0
Murder-mystery noir comics are as old as the medium itself, with many pedestrian outings blunting the edge of the genre, but a handful of modern creators like Darwyn Cooke, Frank Miller, and Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips have produced contemporary...
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David Lapham. Dark Horse, $13.99 ISBN 978-1-61655-438-5
Weeville, Calif., is afflicted with a plague of giant bugs, who live in caves around town, but the Juice Squeezers, a team of kids who, posing as a basket-weaving club to misdirect adults, go underground and slaughter the bugs before they do harm....
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David Lapham, Author, Lee Loughridge, Author, Jared K. Fletcher, Author . DC/Vertigo $14.99 (137p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2272-7
In this second Young Liars
collection from Stray Bullets
creator Lapham, heroine Sadie Dawkins, whose personality is drastically altered following a bullet to the head, leads her friends on an adrenaline-filled adventure. Sadie's friend,...
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Dave Lapham, Author, David Lapham, Author, Dave Lapham, Illustrator . El Capitn $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-9727145-6-3
This unforgettable epic of lowlife criminals in Baltimore in the 1980s pulls no punches. An obsessed junior gunsel in love with a corpse; an abused little girl who takes refuge in violent fantasies of robbing banks; a lonely woman who picks up a...
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Dave Lapham, Author, David Lapham, Author, Dave Lapham, Illustrator El Capitan $34.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-9653280-5-0
The fictional world of Lapham's Harvey Award-winning comics series, Stray Bullets, is populated by an iconoclastic collection of cold-blooded thugs, hapless dope fiends and smart kids running from bad homes. This volume, sequel to Innocence of...
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