Kurt Busiek, Author, Alex Ross, Illustrator . Marvel $49.99 (398p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1388-1
Ten years ago, Marvels
was the breakthrough work for both of its creators: a worm's-eye view of the spectacle of Marvel comics history—35 years of glorious superheroes and terrifying super-disasters, told from the perspective of Phil...
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Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey. Image, $9.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-63215-277-0
Busiek (Astro City) and Dewey (I Was the Cat) bring together high fantasy and brutal science fiction in this lush new series. When a world of anthropomorphic animals is drained of the magic that sustains it, its ruling wizards seek help from the...
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Kurt Busiek, Author, Carlos Pacheco, Author, Carlos Pacheco, Illustrator . DC/WildStorm $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0299-6
In the first of a proposed series of Arrowsmith books, Astro City
writer Busiek builds a clever extended metaphor to play with the tropes of smalltown-boy-learns-that-war-is-hell stories. It's 1915, and Fletcher Arrowsmith is a Connecticut farm
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Kurt Busiek, Author, Cary Nord, Illustrator, Thomas Yeates, Illustrator . Dark Horse $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59307-301-5
The popular barbarian is back in full-color painted adaptations of the original pulp novels by Robert E. Howard. Conan, the dark-haired Cimmerian warrior, leaves his homeland, inspired by his grandfather's tales of Hyperborea, a paradise in the...
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Kurt Busiek, Author, Len Wein, Author, Kelley Jones, Illustrator . Dark Horse $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59307-648-1
Robert E. Howard's memorable villain finally gets an origin story of his own in this volume, which collects a four-issue miniseries of the same name. Thoth is a beggar "in the blighted city of Memphia," his morals slowly eroded by an...
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