They Choose Violence
Comic - Crime
A revenge thriller like you've never seen before! Laneka, Deidre and Karen, three HBCU besties turned professional career women, enraged by the systemic injustice plaguing their community, band together to form a vigilante squad that targets White Supremacists deemed to have circumvented the justice system and gotten away with protected murder. Serving up grisly justice in increasingly creative ways, the vigilante posse becomes front-page news while always staying one step ahead of the law. It’s liberating, it’s addictive and it’s kinda fun — until a copycat killer emerges. They Choose Violence asks what happens when you go down the dark, unforgiving road of revenge? What happens when the only path forward is escalation? There’s no turning back now — for anyone.
100 Bullets
Comic - Crime
In this dark and intriguing collection, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attache case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his 'clients' full immunity for all of their actions, including murder. In these opening chapters, Dizzy Cordova, a Latina gangbanger who has just finished a prison sentence, is given the chance to avenge her family's murders, and a downtrodden bartender receives the opportunity to exact revenge against the woman that ruined his life.
DMZ
Comic - Crime
In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered acrossthe 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand - Manhattan. Or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ. Matty Roth, a naive aspiringphotojournalist, lands a dream job following a veteran war correspondent into the heart of he DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: finda way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in this savage war zone long enough to report the truth?
Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives (2001-)
Comic - Crime
Edwin & Charles, the British school boys who cheated Death of The Endless in THE SANDMAN: SEASONS OF MISTS, set up shop as detectives-for-hire from their tree house in back of a haunted mansion. But their first case may be more than they can handle.
The Sheriff of Babylon (2015-2016)
Comic - Crime
Baghdad, 2003. The reign of Saddam Hussein is over. The Americans are in command. And no one is in control.
Former cop turned military contractor Christopher Henry knows that better than anyone. He's in the country to train up a new Iraqi police force, and one of his recruits has just been murdered. With civil authority in tatters and dead bodies clogging the streets, Chris is the only person in the Green Zone with any interest in finding out who killed him-and why.
Chris' inquiry brings him first to Sofia, an American-raised Iraqi who now sits on the governing council, and then to Nassir, a grizzled veteran of Saddam's police force-and probably the last real investigator left in Baghdad.
United by death but divided by conflicting loyalties, the three must help each other navigate the treacherous landscape of post-invasion Iraq in order to hunt down the killers. But are their efforts really serving justice-or a much darker agenda?
Inspired by his real-life experiences as a CIA operations officer in Iraq, writer Tom King (BATMAN) teams with artist Mitch Gerads to deliver a wartime crime thriller like no other in THE SHERIFF OF BABYLON VOL. 1: BANG. BANG. BANG., collecting issues #1-6 of their groundbreaking Vertigo series.
Suiciders: Kings of HelL.A. (2016-)
Comic - Crime
A whole generation has grown up since the Great Quake, and people like Trix and her brother Johnny don't know what life was like before New Angeles crumbled. Suffice to say, they've learned how to make the most of living inside the walled city, and particularly within their 'hood. Johnny is the leader of the Kings of HelL.A., a street gang ready to protect its turf against any and all comers-though Johnny may have taken things too far when he crossed Leonard, a former Suicider known as the Coyote. Things are about to get a whole lot more violent.
Meanwhile, Trix is finding love in the arms of Johnny's best friend, and their star-crossed romance is going to bring trouble of an entirely different kind.
The second chapter in Lee Bermejo's acclaimed SUICIDERS series shows us a completely different side of life in New Angeles. Joining Bermejo for KINGS OF HELL.A. is artist Alessandro Vitti (RED LANTERNS), whose kinetic style perfectly fits SUICIDERS' brutal landscape.
Scalped
Comic - Crime
Comics acclaimed writer Jason Aaron (Thor, Original Sin, Wolverine) and artist R.M. Guéra (BATMAN ETERNAL, DJANGO UNCHAINED) take the crime genre to a whole new corner of the world with their tale of violence, betrayal, mysticism, despair, hope and the terrible things history leads men to do to one another in SCALPED BOOK ONE.
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and despair on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Now he's back, but this time he's got something to hide: Dash is an undercover FBI agent sent to investigate tribal leader Lincoln Red Crow, former "Red Power" activist and current crime boss. Surrounded by the same mess of meth labs, murder and organized crime he thought he'd left behind, Dash must decide how far he's willing to go-and how much he's willing to lose-to uncover the bloody secrets of the Rez.
Collects issues #1-11.
Jonny Double (1998-)
Comic - Crime
When Jonny Double agrees to keep tabs on a rich man's wayward daughter, Faith, he becomes ensnared in a tangled web of deceit, murder, and double-cross after he decides to help Faith and her friends with a get-rich-quick scheme involving a long-forgotten bank account belonging to Al Capone!
American Way: Those Above and Below
Comic - Crime
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way!
In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government—powers he used to defend the nation as the New American. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes.
Except that it was all a fraud. A conspiracy. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps' surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. Missy Devereaux—a.k.a. Ole Miss—is transitioning from the First Lady of Mississippi into a candidate for governor and defender of a vanishing and hateful way of life. Amber Eaton—formerly known as Amber Waves—has become a domestic terrorist, using her powers to infiltrate and destroy the country's centers of power.
Somewhere in the middle stands Jason Fisher, who has remained a crime-fighter even as evidence mounts that he is accomplishing nothing besides propping up a system that's rigged against him as a black man in America.
In a nation being torn apart, what does it mean to fight for the American way?
A decade after the debut of their groundbreaking WildStorm series The American Way, Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) and artist Georges Jeanty (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8) revisit their parallel Earth for a look at its gritty 1970s—a time frighteningly like our own—in The American Way: Those Above and Those Below. Collects issues #1-6.
Sleeper (2003-2004)
Comic - Crime
SLEEPER is the critically acclaimed series written by Eisner Award winner Ed Brubaker (AUTHORITY, BATMAN: WAR GAMES) and stylishly presented by legendary artist Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies) and is now collected in a new format with SLEEPER BOOK ONE.
From Eisner Awardwinning author Ed Brubaker comes two thrilling stories collected together for the first time in SLEEPER BOOK ONE.
POINT BLANK, a fiveissue comic book limited series published by WildStorm, stars the popular character Grifter from the Wildcats, who is investigating an attempted murder of his friend John Lynch. Meanwhile, Holden Carver, a covert operative, has been placed undercover in a villainous organization led by TAO. As Holden and Grifter cross paths, will cooler heads prevail? The answer? Hell no.
Riddled with noir undertones and the action of a spy thriller, SLEEPER BOOK ONE highlights all the attributes that have made writer Ed Brubaker one of the most soughtafter writers in all of comics!
Join the wild ride in SLEEPER BOOK ONE. Collects POINT BLANK #15, SLEEPER #112.