SALE! THIS WEEK ONLY!

Image Comics is having a huge holiday trade paperback sale, and we’re looking to pass the savings on to you! The books range from 25 – 50% off.  Let us know what volumes you’d like before THIS Thursday (14 November 2019) at 8am! All you have to do is CHOOSE YOUR COMICS!

Place your order by emailing us, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or using our web contact form here. You can also call us at 617-492-6763.

Fans of Jonathan Hickman rejoice! His first project,The Nightly News, a one volume story about a war against The American Media that he wrote, drew, colored, and lettered himself! He got help on his also wonderful all-in-one collections: Pax Romana, Secret, and Transhuman. Also, the entire runs of Black Monday Murders, East Of West, and Manhattan Projects are all available.

If you enjoy creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirman’s work, the full and complete run of that series is currently available in trade, as well as Outcast (which is also a TV series on Showtime), Thief Of Thieves, Oblivion Song, and his all-ages series, Super Dinosaur. Also, his full run on Invincible, as well as his related series, Brit and Astounding Wolfman, are on sale!

Our best selling ongoing series from any publisher is Saga, which we recommend to pretty much anyone over 18 (it’s not porny, it just has some language, drug use, and sexuality issues), is by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples. We don’t have anything else in the catalogue by Fiona, but Brian’s other series, Paper Girls (a Stranger Things-esque sci-fi series is soon to be a show on Amazon Prime) is, as well as his all-in-one collection of We Stand On Guard, book about our war with Canada.

Mark Millar has been creating comics for decades now. Some of his old school, more shock-value comics like Kingsmen (basis of the movie franchise), Nemesis, Super Crooks, Superior, Wanted (the basis of the Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy film), and American Jesus are all available, as well as Kick-A** and Hit Girl (from the Kick-Ass movies) are on sale. You can also get your hands on his more recent books, Chrononauts, and the Jupiter’s Circle and Jupiter’s Legacy (the basis for an upcoming Netflix series) .

Do you love noir? Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been doing the pre-eminent comic noir runs, Criminal, for almost two decades now. The first seven volumes are available during the sale, as well as their Lovecraftian-noir  series, Fatale, and their forced vigilanteism fable, Kill Or Be Killed.

Greg Rucka is another extraordinary crime writer, and his series: Lazarus, Velvet, and Black Magick are all on sale, as well.

There are a variety of cool Image books by female creative teams that feature strong women of color, such as Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine DeLandro’s Bitch Planet, DeConnick and Emma Ríos’s Pretty Deadly, Chynna Clugston Flores’s Blue Monday and Scooter Girl, Tee Franklin’s Bingo Love, and Leila Del Luca’s Afar.

Rat Queens by Kurtis J Weibe may be written someone male-identified, but its cast of all female foul-mouthed fantasy characters on a D&D like quest is also amazing.

If horror is more your thing, don’t think that, just because Halloween is over, you can’t get your necessary comic-related scares. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran and Martín Morazzo’s Ice Cream Man, and Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson’s Nailbiter series are get for getting creeped out. Tim Seely’s Hack/Slash gives you a bit of satirical relief with your jumpscares. Former MYP employee, Pohnsack Pichetshote has a modern xenophobic haunted house story, Infidel, which is already on NPR’s “Top 100 Horror Stories Of All Time” list.

If you like your horror Southern, we’ve got a Prohibition-era werewolf series called Moonshine, and barbecue vampire series, Redneck. There’s also a cute queer monster barista all-ages series called Moonstruck that we recommend!

If you’re more in the mood for Classic Image Titles, the sale also includes Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon, Jim Valentino’s Shadowhawk, Marc Silvestri’s Witchblade and Darkness.

There’s a wide range of Rick Remender science fiction books available, including Black Science, Fear Agent, Tokyo Ghost, Seven To Eternity, and Low! Remender also wrote Deadly Class (also a Syfy TV series). And another Syfy series, Grant Morrison’s Happy is on sale. You can also pick up Morrison’s Nameless, which isn’t currently in TV development.

Jeff Lemire is also writing a ton of books for Image, and his sci-fi series, Descender is available, as well as Plutonia, and Royal City.

The ever prolific Warren Ellis’s Injection, Trees, Ministry Of Space, and Fell are all on discount for this event.

The Wicked & The Divine is another of our favorite series to recommend,and if you enjoy Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s work, we have their previous series, Phonogram and Suburban Glamour.

The Luna Brothers have been working together, and apart, for a little over twenty years, and many of their Image titles: Ultra, Sword, Alex + Ada, and Eternal Empire are available.

Chew,  a series by Jonathan Layman and Rob Guillory, is available in its entirety, as well as Guillory’s new series, Farmhand!

For those more into erotica, Stjepan Šejić’s BDSM lesbian series, Sunstone, is on sale, as well as Mirka Andolfo’s pig girl naughty love story, Unnatural.

Brandon Graham loves to draw and write about puns, and we have a whole slew of his books including King City, Multiple Warheads, and Royal Boiler, as well as his sci-fi epic, Prophet.

Some personal favorite series: Andrew MacLean’s great warrior satire, Head Lopper; Skottie Young’s adult-oriented ordinary young girl trapped in a world of madness satire, I Hate Fairyland; Joe Kelly’s fantasy tear-jerker, I Kill Giants; Jason Aaron and Jason LaTour’s football-town deconstruction, Southern Bastards; Ales Kot’s Zero and New World.

Other titles available include Age Of Bronze, a retelling of the Trojan war; Autumnlands,  a fantastical war story about a human set to protect a world filled with magical non-humans; a horror-esque story where Beauty is an STD; a sci-fi police procedural called Copperhead; the gorgeous fable about animal soldiers being acclimated into society, Elephantmen; the thoroughly weird and wonderful sci-fi collections: God Hates Astronauts, Grizzly Shark, Motor Crush, Morning Glories, No Mercy, Revival, Sex Criminals, Shutter, Skyward, Think Tank, and Wayward; Farel Dalrymple’s It Will All Hurt and Proxima Centauri; Scott Snyder’s Wytches; the examination of The X-Men if Charles Xavier was evil, They’re Not Like Us; Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Snotgirl; Michael Allred’s Madman and the somewhat related It Girl; Matt Wagner’s  three-decade long epic, Mage; David Lapham’s Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead; Otis Frampton’s charming all-ages Oddly Normal; Matt Hawkins, Bryan Hill, and Isaac Goodhart’s Postal; Joe Keatinge’s wrestling-themed Ringside; Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts’s Manifest Destiny; Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kersch’s Isola; and A.J. Lieberman and Riley Rossmo’s Cowboy Ninja Viking.

Here’s a complete list of the titles available:

Afar
Age Of Bronze
Alex + Ada / Sword / Ultra / Eternal Empire
Astounding Wolf-Man /Brit / Invincible
Autumnlands
Beauty
Bingo Love
Bitch Planet
Black Monday Murders / East Of West / Manhattan projects  / Nightly News  / Secret / Transhuman /  
                                 Pax Romana
Black Science / Fear Agent /Seven To Eternity / Tokyo Ghost / Low / Death Or Glory
Blue Monday / Scooter Girl
Chew / Farmhand
Chrononauts / Jupiters Circle / Legacy
Copperhead
Cowboy Ninja Viking
Criminal / Fatale / Kill or Be Killed /
Lazarus  / Velvet / Black Magick
Deadly Class / Happy
Descender / Ascender / Plutonia / Royal City
Elephantmen
God Hates Astronauts / Nameless
Grizzly Shark / Shirtless Bear fighter
Hack/Slash / Ice Cream Man / Nailbiter
Head Lopper
I Hate Fairyland
I Kill Giants
Infidel
Injection / Trees / Ministry Of Space / Fell
Isola
Kick-Ass / Hit Girl
King City / Multiple Warheads / Prophet / Royal Boiler
Kingsmen / Nemesis / Super Crooks / Superior / Wanted / American Jesus
Madman / It Girl
Mage
Manifest Destiny
Monstress
Moonshine / Redneck /Moonstruck
Morning Glories
Motor Crush
Stray Bullets / Murder Me Dead
No Mercy
Walking Dead / Oblivion Song / Outcast / Super Dinosaur / Thief Of Thieves
Oddly Normal
Paper Girls / Saga / We Stand On Guard
Phonogram / Wicked & Divine /Suburban Glamour
Postal
Pretty Deadly
Proxima Centauri / It Will All Hurt
Rat Queens
Revival
Ringside
Savage Dragon / Spawn / Shadowhawk / Witchblade
Sex Criminals
Shutter
Skyward
Snotgirl
Southern Bastards
Spawn
Sunstone / Unnatural
Theyre Not Like Us
Think Tank
Wayward
Wytches
Zero / New World

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Shortages

40 DAYS DANS LE DESERT B HC EXP ED
ABSOLUTE CARNAGE LETHAL PROTECTORS #3 (OF 3) AC
DIARY GN BERRYBROOK SCHOOL
FLEETWAY PICTURE LIBRARY SC JET ACE LOGAN
FLEETWAY PICTURE LIBRARY SC LARRIGAN
FREEDOM FIGHTERS #10 (OF 12)
HEX WIVES TP (MR)
ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #27
OMNI #3 (MR)

Delayed by Diamond

GOLDEN KAMUY GN VOL 12 (MR)
LA FAUNE DE MARS MARTIAN WILDLIFE HC
LE MAJOR HC EXP ED

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 23 October 2019

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Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Shortages

KOMI CANT COMMUNICATE GN VOL 03
MIDNIGHT VISTA #2

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 16 October 2019

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE #4 (OF 5) AC
ABSOLUTE CARNAGE AVENGERS #1 AC
ABSOLUTE CARNAGE SCREAM #3 (OF 3) AC
ABSOLUTE CARNAGE VS DEADPOOL #3 (OF 3) AC

ALIENS VS PREDATOR ESSENTIAL COMICS TP VOL 01 (MR)

(W) Randy Stradley (A) Chris Warner, Karl Story, Robert Campanella, Rick Leonardi, Mike Manley, Jim Hall, Mark G. Heike, Mark Pennington, Ricardo Villagran (A/CA) Phil Norwood

Two of cinema’s greatest monsters clash in a battle that spans the galaxy and extends across one woman’s lifetime! Collected in one volume for the first time is the complete Machiko Noguchi/Aliens Versus Predator trilogy-over 400 pages of extraterrestrial action! Collects the original AvP series, AvP: War, and AvP: Three World War.

APOCALYPSE GIRL VOL 2 PROVOCATION #1 (OF 4)
AQUAMAN #53 YOTV
ARCHIE #708 (ARCHIE & SABRINA PT 4)
BABY BLUES COLLECTION TP SURVIVING GREAT INDOORS
BAD LUCK CHUCK TP VOL 01
BATMAN #81
BLACK HAMMER STREETS OF SPIRAL TP
BLACK PANTHER AND AGENTS OF WAKANDA #2
BLADE RUNNER 2019 #4 (MR)

BRAIN BATS OF VENUS BASIL WOLVERTON HC VOL 02

(W) Greg Sadowski (A/CA) Basil Wolverton

This is Vol. 2 of the biography of the legendary midcentury cartoonist, who created the comically grotesque “Lena the Hyena.”

This volume continues Sadowski’s biography of the famed Mad cartoonist. It includes scores of letters between Wolverton and his editors and publishers and excerpts from his personal diaries, providing documentary insight not only into Wolverton’s day-to-day life and career, but also the inner workings of the early comic book industry. It is also chock full of Wolverton’s comics stories from this period, including 17 science-fiction and horror tales fully restored and never before collected in a single volume.

CALAMITY KATE TP VOL 01
CAPTAIN AMERICA #15
CAPTAIN MARVEL #11
CHARLIE BROWN ALL TIED UP TP
CODA TP VOL 03
COMICS JOURNAL #304
CONTAGION #3 (OF 5)
CROW HACK SLASH #4 (OF 4)
DARK RED #7
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION GN VOL 07 (MR)
DEATH-DEFYING DEVIL #3
DOLLAR COMICS BATMAN #497
EXCELLENCE #6
FEMFORCE #187
FILMFAX #155
FIREFLY #10
FLASH FORWARD #2 (OF 6)
GIDEON FALLS #17 (MR)
GIDEON FALLS TP VOL 03 STATIONS OF THE CROSS

GODDESS MODE TP (MR)

(W) Zoe Quinn (A/CA) Robbi Rodriguez

In the near future all of humanity’s needs are administered by a godlike artificial intelligence called Azoth, and it’s Cassandra Price’s humiliating job to do tech support on it. The advent of Azoth has deepened inequality and robbed humanity of its soul, but Cassandra’s life changes when she finds herself dragged violently into Azoth itself, manifested as a secret digital world beneath our own, one built on a combination of magic and metadata. There she encounters a group of apparently magical girls locked in a war with mysterious monsters for the power to fix the world-if only they could agree on what the world should be. Why was she chosen? What is the omnipotent Hermeticorp up to? Who created the Azoth world? And who are these girls anyway? Collects issues #1-6.

GOGOR TP
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #10
HERALD LOVECRAFT AND TESLA BUNDLES OF JOY #3
HG WELLS THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU #2 (OF 2)
HINAMATSURI GN VOL 05
HISTORY OF MARVEL UNIVERSE #4 (OF 6)
HIT-GIRL SEASON TWO #9 (MR)
INFERIOR FIVE #2 (OF 12)
IRONHEART GN TP RIRI WILLIAMS
JOURNEY STAR WARS RISE SKYWALKER ALLEGIANCE #2
JUSTICE LEAGUE #34 YOTV
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK TP VOL 02 LORDS OF ORDER
LIFE IS STRANGE #9 (MR)
LOIS LANE #4 (OF 12)
LUCIFER #13 (MR)
MAD MAGAZINE #10

MAKER COMICS GN DRAW A COMIC

(W/A) JP Coovert

Inside this volume of the popular new DIY comic series you’ll find all the tips and tricks you need to create and print your own comic books! The International Comics Library is in a lot of trouble! If Maggie can’t come up with $500,000 in a week, Dr. Carl is going to bulldoze her grandfather’s library and turn it into a parking lot! To save the day, she’ll need all her comic drawing skills, the loyal library watchdog, and her new assistant (that’s you!). With Draw a Comic! you’ll learn to create and print your own comics books! Follow these simple steps to sketch out your story ideas and ink a comic page. Learn which art supplies are best for drawing comics, you can use a pen, a brush, or even a computer! With the help of photocopy machine, you can even self-publish your own comics and share them with your friends!

MARKED #1 (MR)
MARVEL ACTION BLACK PANTHER #4
MARVEL VISIONARIES TP STEVE DITKO
MERMAID IN THE BATHTUB GN
METAL MEN #1 (OF 12)
MMW DOCTOR STRANGE HC VOL 09 DM VAR ED 282
MONKEY & ROBOT HC GN
MS MARVEL BY SALADIN AHMED TP VOL 01
NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS MOMENT OF STORM #6
NIGHTWING #65 YOTV
ONCE & FUTURE #3 (OF 6)
ORVILLE #4 WORD OF AVIS (PT 2 OF 2)
PRE CODE CLASSICS SPACE ADVENTURES HC VOL 01
PRE CODE CLASSICS STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES HC VOL 01
PROVIDENCE COMPLETE SLIPCASE SET
PSI-LORDS #5
REALM #15 (MR)

REINCARNATION STORIES HC KIM DEITCH

(W) Kim Deitch (A/CA) Kim Deitch

The award-winning cartoonist returns with a graphic novel that spans the past, present, and future of human history, in which Deitch himself, in a parallel reality, meets his spiritual nemesis, Waldo the Cat.

Kim Deitch is an underground cartoonist-i.e., a contemporary of Spiegelman, et al., whose craft just keeps getting better and better. Aesthetically inspired by silent film and 1930s animation, Deitch’s comics are infused with 1960s psychedelia and spiritualism. Reincarnation Stories is a collection of comics narratives that combine into a graphic novel. It spans the past, present, and future of human history, with appearances by Frank Sinatra, monkey gods, a forgotten cowboy star of the silver screen, and a tribe of Native Americans that successfully resettled on the moon. In a parallel reality, Deitch himself is the mega-successful creator of a series of kids books about a superhero called Young Avatar, who helps marginalized souls lead better lives and whose alter ego is a carpenter. Deitch’s spiritual nemesis (an incarnation of Judas Iscariot), Waldo the Cat, makes an appearance.

ROBOTECH REMIX #1
RUMBLE #17 (MR)
RUNAWAYS BY RAINBOW ROWELL TP VOL 04 BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #10
SAVAGE TALES HALLOWEEN SPECIAL ONE SHOT #0
SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN #2
SPARROWS ROAR ORIGINAL GN
SPIDER-MAN #2 (OF 5)
SPOOKHOUSE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
STAR WARS ADVENTURES RETURN TO VADERS CASTLE #3
STAR WARS TIE FIGHTER TP
STEEPLE #2 (OF 5)
STRANGELANDS #4 (MR)
STRANGERS IN PARADISE FRANCINE & KATCHOO LTD ED PIN SET
STRAYED #3 (OF 5)

SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN #1 (OF 3)

(W) Gene Luen Yang (A/CA) Gurihiru

The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Metropolis’ Chinatown to the center of the bustling city. While Dr. Lee is greeted warmly in his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to their famous hero, Superman!

While Tommy adjusts to the fast pace of the city, Roberta feels out of place, as she tries and fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. As the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. When the Lee family awakens one night to find a burning cross on their lawn, they consider leaving town. But the Daily Planet offers a reward for information on the KKK, and their top two reporters, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, dig into the story.

When Tommy is kidnapped by the KKK, Superman leaps into action-with help from Roberta! But Superman is still new to his powers-he hasn’t even worked out how to fly yet, so he has to run across town. Will Superman and Roberta reach Tommy in time? Inspired by the 1940s Superman radio serial “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints, The Terrifics, New Super-Man) presents his personal retelling of the adventures of the Lee family as they team up with Superman to smash the Klan.

SUPERMAN YEAR ONE #3 (OF 3)
SUPERMANS PAL JIMMY OLSEN #4 (OF 12)
TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE BATMAN KNIGHTFALL #1
TANK GIRL #7
TEEN TITANS #35 YOTV
TITANS BURNING RAGE #3 (OF 7)
TOKYO GHOUL RE GN VOL 13
TOPSIDE GN
TREES THREE FATES #2 (OF 5) (MR)
TRUE BELIEVERS X-MEN JUBILEE #1
UNPLUGGED AND UNPOPULAR GN
VAMPIRELLA #4
WONDER WOMAN COME BACK TO ME #4 (OF 6)
WONDER WOMAN GIANT #1
X-MEN #1


(A) = Adult Readers
GN = Graphic Novel
HC = Hardcover
(MR) = Mature Readers
OGN = Original Graphic Novel (never released as issues)
SC = Softcover
TP = Trade Paperback
YR = Young Reader

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