The Girl Who Would Be Death (1998-)
English
Clean Room
Comic - Fantasy
Fan-favorite Gail Simone's (BATGIRL, WONDER WOMAN) debut Vertigo series begins here!
Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiancé Philip's decision to pick up a book by enigmatic and compelling self-help guru Astrid Mueller would change her life forever-by ending his! Three months after reading Mueller's book, Philip had blown his brains out all over Chloe's new kitchen-and something in that book made him do it.
Now, Chloe will stop at nothing as she attempts to infiltrate Mueller's clandestine organization to find the truth behind Philip's suicide and a "Clean Room" that she's heard whispers of-a place where your deepest fears are exposed and your worst moments revealed.
Collects CLEAN ROOM #1-6.
Promethea
Comic - Fantasy
Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease herinvestigations. Ignoring the cautionary notice, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature when she learns the secret of Promethea. Surviving the encounter, Sophie soon finds herself transformed into Promethea, the livingembodiment of the imagination. Her trials have only begun as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy. Collects issues #1-6.
Madame Xanadu (2008-2010)
Comic - Fantasy
Chapter the First' part 1! In a medieval kingdom beset by intrigue and foul sorcery, a fair sylph with magic of her own is thrown into the world of war and men—where she encounters a dark stranger who knows not only her past, but her most intimate future as well.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (2005-)
Comic - Fantasy
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
Egypt (1995-)
Comic - Fantasy
Subjected to an ancient Egyptian ritual, a hopeless drifter awakens to a fantastic world where magic exists and gods walk the earth.
Goddess (1995-)
Comic - Fantasy
Rosie Nolan was an ordinary girl until the day her violent paranormal powers first erupted. Seeking to gain control of her abilities, Rosie embarks on a desperate quest across the globe, aided by a radical animal rights activist, hounded by an obsessed C.I.A agent, and hunted by a corrupt British cop.
Sandman Presents: Petrefax (2000-)
Comic - Fantasy
PETREFAX takes us to Malegrise, a land with the look of 18th-century England and a culture of magic all its own, where nearly every citizen is a sorcerer. When the beautiful, stubborn Calcinia Smith tries to escape a forced marriage by using gypsy magic to feign her death, she becomes trapped in a physical limbo her soul intact, but her body dead and deteriorating fast. Hired to embalm her, Petrefax is now the only one who knows her secret and the only one who can keep her "alive" with his skills. Pulled into Calcinia's cross-country quest to escape her fate, Petrefax must contend with supernatural monsters, bigoted aristocrats, and the sorcerous wrath of her jilted groom in a rousing tale that finds humanity in magic, and humor in the trappings of death.
Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire (2004-)
Comic - Fantasy
Former lover of The Sandman, Thess is embroiled in her most impossible situation yet as the ruthlessly practical witch finds herself the unwitting and unwilling dispatcher of demons, beasts, and other arcane monstrosities.
Witchcraft (1994-)
Comic - Fantasy
Focusing on Cynthia the Maiden, the Three Witches attempt to help a medieval bride escape her marriage to a sorcerous killer.
Witchcraft: La Terreur (1998-)
Comic - Fantasy
Isadore Hibbert arrives to free her lover, jailed for his aristocratic connections. Fueled by romantic innocence and the support of two mysterious old shopkeepers, she makes a bid for her lover's freedom by first approaching the famed witch Catherine La Voisin.