Welcome to Feudarnia-part pirates' cove, part space station, and part steampunk battlefield. It's under attack by "Meteormaster" Phantom Blot and his Meteorbeasts- giant predatory animals made of enchanted stone! The sky city's only hope is wannabe "Beastbuster" Donald Duck... but with the terrible Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, and Pegleg Pete hot on his heels, are Feudarnia's days numbered? And will Uncle Scrooge pluck Donald if he fails? It's a wild alternate-universe, steampunk epic starring Donald, Mickey and the gang in an entirely new world. Jump in for fantasy like you've never seen... and cowardly Donald can only wish he hadn't! Collects IDW's Donald Quest #1-5
Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.
Secrets revealed! After the dramatic events of the last two issues and the secret of Dr. Eggman, Sonic races off to shut down the organized Badniks at the source. Unfortunately, there's more at play than Sonic has realized...and more powerful players...
Catch Darkwing Duck, Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn, and others in this fan-favorite revival of the smash-hit Disney Afternoon animated series. More slapstick crime-fighting adventures await—starting at the origin of the dastardly Fluffy and culminating with a botanical battle royale against an army of vicious potatoes led by, well, not quite who you might be thinking! Fans of the daring duck of mystery will love this collection of issues 5–8 of the original comic series from Joe Books.
King Arthur went to Avalon with Morgan and her eight sisters. In this book McHardy traces similar groups of nine maidens throughout the ancient Celtic and Germanic worlds and far beyond. In Pictland, Wales, Ireland, Scandinavia, Gaul and Iberia the nine Maidens were known in mythology and as practising priestesses. As far away as Kenya the Kikuyu people claim descent from nine sisters, while a cave painting in Catalonia shows nine dancing maidens from almost 15,000 years ago. Weather-workers, shape-shifters, diviners and healers - the Nine Maidens are linked to the Old Religion over much of our planet.
Mickey begins his reign as the newly crowned Supreme Sorcerer...but it turns out being the Supreme Sorcerer is not a glamorous job! Faced with constant difficulties and demands, Mickey starts feeling drained...so when a mysterious figure introduces itself as the Shadow Guardian of the crown, Mickey is eager to heed its advice! But trusting the shadow might lead to problems far greater than Mickey could’ve imagined...
With the help of his magic stick Louie retrieves Huey's magic table and Dewey's magic donkey and proves to Uncle Donald that there is such a thing as magic.
