Todd Klein
1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth. But there's another mother and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go....
2) Fables
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 20
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2002-<c2007>
Language
English
3) iZombie
Author
Series
iZombie volume 4
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
c2011-2012
Language
English
Description
Every time Gwen, a zombie, eats someone's brains she also inherits some of their memories and the latest morsel she devoured gives her memories of a murder she and her friends need to solve.
4) Black Hammer
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Language
English
Description
"Wiped out of their superhero universe by a multiversal crisis, the forgotten heroes of Spiral City now live as a dysfunctional family on a mysterious farm in a small town from which they have no escape"--Back cover of Volume 1.
"When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City and its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...
7) Doom Patrol
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Language
English
Description
Casey Brinke is a young EMT, working the graveyard shift and dealing with a past so bizarre, she's not sure what's real and what's make-believe. With her partner, Sam Reynolds, she's about to blaze a path through the darkest alleys and blackest hours of the city. The people she finds there--Robotman, Crazy Jane, Negative Man, and Flex Mentallo-- will blow your mind. Together, these incredible beings have redefined what it means to be a superhero....
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"Sherlock Frankenstein lies at the heart of the mystery of what happened to Black Hammer, Spiral City's greatest hero, and Black Hammer's daughter is determined to uncover his role. Doctor Andromeda, an aged crime fighter, desperately struggles to reconnect with his estranged son as he takes on personal demons and interstellar battles."--
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the groundbreaking BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, legendary creator Frank Miller weaves a masterful tale that takes place three years after Batman's defeat of Superman. Faking his own death and creating an underworld civilization, Bruce Wayne has been keeping his eye on the world above. As that false Camelot reaches its breaking point, it's is up to the Dark Knight to emerge from the underground shadows and once again return order...
10) Chivalry
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop setting her off on an epic visit from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup"--
Author
Series
Fairest volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
FAIREST has explored the secret histories of the most stunning beauties in Fabletown: Cinderella, Snow White, Briar Rose, Rapunzel, and the list goes on and on. In FAIREST IN ALL THE LAND, the best names in comics take their turns fleshing out the pasts of the loveliest Fables in existence.
12) Troll bridge
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As a monster from his childhood sups upon a lifetime of Jack's fear and regret, Jack must find the courage within himself to face the fiend once and for all"--
14) Batwoman
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Batwoman (aka. Kate Kane) faces deadly new challenges in her war against Gotham City's underworld, and new trials in her personal life.
15) Pride of Baghdad
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
16) Kingdom come
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Kingdom Come-the critically acclaimed Elseworlds saga by Mark Waid and Alex Ross-has been collected into a single-volume hardcover, produced by DC Comics and Graphitti Designs. With the addition of 12 new pages of story and art, previously available only in the deluxe slipcase edition, the hardcover edition offers readers the complete version of the DC Universe's ultimate battle. An extensive 18 page design section includes some of Ross's exhaustive...
17) Fairest
Author
Series
Fairest volume 2
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
They call her Sleeping Beauty, but life's always been ugly for Princess Briar Rose. Cursed at birth by a pissed-off fairy godmother, she wound up acting as a one-woman weapon of mass destruction against the Adversary in the last days of his war against the Free Fables. She won the day, but at the cost of sending herself into a permanent nap from which one true love's kiss can awaken her. Few would have guessed that it would be Ali Baba, Prince of...
18) Batman
Author
Series
Batman white knight volume 2
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After years of epic battles, the Dark Knight finally finds a way to cure the twisted mind of his archenemy. The Clown Prince of Crime has now changed his ways, fighting for good in Gotham City, and it may just cause Batman to go over the edge of his own sanity"--
Author
Series
Publisher
America's Best Comics, LLC
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When alien invaders from Mars attack London, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire. They prepare a defense, but when the Invisible Man joins the Martians' cause, all may be lost. Includes "The New Traveller's Almanac," a 19th-century travelogue.