This is the entire collected run of Palmiotti/Gray/Conner on Power Girl, and I make a wholehearted recommendation to read this to anyone who enjoys stories that don't have to take themselves so damned seriously.Fun, amusing and doesn't take itself so friggin seriously. Wait, did I say that about another Power Girl comic already? The writing is excellent, but this book wouldn't be half as much fun without Amanda Conner's deft flair for slight exaggeration. PG's facial expressions alone are worth reading this book.I love the inside joke eye-rolling between characters, and G/P make for some fun interactions between characters. There's more than a slight hint of Atomic Robo here in the writing and the art, so if that's you're kind of comic (or of you just happen to enjoy that on the side), c'mon down to Gray/Palmiotti/Conner country.Let's address this head-on: the team are embracing the boob window here, even to the point of an over-the-top prop comedy moment that would normally send me into a rage rant. Instead, I see the CU Next Tuesday t-shirt and I'm grateful for the irreverent Mike-biased sense of humour here. Anne, if you haven't read this stuff yet I think I see a gifting opportunity...I don't know what it is exactly about this kind of storytelling but it seems so effortless, casual - none of the trumped-up fists-on-their-hips-and-trumpeting-their-bravado garbage. I *try* to get into that shit, but I just feel so relaxed reading stories like this. Why aren't there more books like this, Robo and Hawkguy?There's villains and space aliens and corporate science research and cat-bathing...all the usual silliness to enjoy, none of the frowny-faced brutality or brooding grit. Are G/P usually this good, or just when they're working with great artistic talent? Hell, even the colourist is brilliant - lovingly makes all the figures and scenery just pop.The second half of this collection continues to have a helluva lot of fun. PG gets mixed up with a space-born lothario who needs to repopulate his planet, and found PG was his ideal candidate. The action is ridiculous, the dialogue is over the top and the interactions are so down-to-earth silly and low-tension - it's just the most playful ride I've had since discovering Atomic Robo. I grew to actually like the sleazy emperor of a remote planet who cop's with anyone he likes, and is just oblivious to reasons why a self-determined female wouldn't drop at his feet for the chance to experience his charms. *That's* how well this creative team sells the story - fun, witty and playful. The battle story with old foes was pretty cool, self-aware and a little saccharine. Here we're seeing more of Palmiotti/Gray's "PG is a softie on the inside" writing for our hero, and I'm willing to go along with it as long as they don't make her out to be a total sap. Which they come damned close to, but I give them a pass for not exaggerating - just spending a little quality time with the inner, not-entirely-sure-who-she-is Kara. Kara gets sucked in to a therapeutic session with her sidekick and ends up having some more emotional moments, and while I'm wary of being a little over-condescended-to by a couple of dudes trying to wax feminine, it's not a bad scene - just feels a little forced.Overall though I had a ton of fun with this team on their PG run, and I'm going to seek out both the writers and the artists and pray they channelled these fun/comedic/witty talents in other books too. Please?

Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains ... and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad Hardin and a slew of comics' best artists including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson and Art Baltazar!Collects HARLEY QUINN #0-8.

It's a cosmic adventure beyond your wildest imaginings: Power Girl and Harley Quinn, stranded in a forgotten dimension, on the homeworld of the amorous warlord Vartox! They'll sacrifice anything they have to in order to get home...except their dignity! Kidding! That'll be the first thing to go. This new series puts together two of DC Comics's most unlikely allies in their first ever team-up series. HARLEY QUINN AND POWER GIRL, from the same creative team as the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, collects issues #1-6.

congratulations! semifinalist in goodreads' best graphic novels &amp; comics category 2016!three stars with room to grow.\
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while impatiently waiting for more installments of saga to come out, i decided to check out this other brian k. vaughan book, because i liked the cover, the synopsis promised me plucky girls, 80's references, and this right here is how you get my attention:Suburban drama and supernatural mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.all my sweet spots = accounted for. because, yes - plucky girls:\
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nostalgia (for me, anyway - this picture made my heart soften):\
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and there are also some pretty funny 80's-flavored dream sequences:\
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i'm just not hooked yet. it's no saga, that's for sure. but in a more positive light, it's actually what i thought Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy was going to be, before realizing that series was for a much younger reading age. this one has all the girl-power and female bonding and general badassery-adventure setup as Lumberjanes, but with significantly more guns, cussin' and good-natured pal-ribbin', pterodactyls, and actual danger, and it is far less p.c. because it was the 80's, my friends, and twelve-year-old internetless kids from the suburbs didn't always have access to the rich spectrum of life and they sometimes said "faggot." but if time travelers can forgive a kid for their squeamishness:\
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so can we. and for being set in midwestern 80's suburbia, there's some decent diversity in the characters here - there's a jewish girl and a vietnamese(?) girl and an adopted girl of indeterminate race and everyone's favorite stereotype: a chain-smoking irish-american lass, tough and redheaded and on her way to becoming a criminal just like the rest of her family! but apart from her homophobia and the cliché of her, she's pretty rad - willing to step up and throw down for her equally-fierce pack of paper girls against the most unexpected foes.i didn't always understand what was going on, but i'm confident it will all become clearer in future volumes. i'm intrigued enough to continue with the series - i'm not in love with it, but it's got potential and i'll check back in next volume to see if it's getting there yet, if only to enjoy more 80's background details.\
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Living with the Alien has become a fact of life—and death—as mankind expands throughout the galaxy. And no matter how each encounter with the deadly xenomorphs inevitably leads to disaster, man's hubris and greed just as inevitably fuel the desire to try to unlock the secrets of the demonic beasts' biology or bring the creatures under control as tools to build an even more monstrous future.Dark Horse Comics' critically acclaimed Aliens series set the bar for how the universe of a popular film could be expanded through graphic fiction. Aliens Omnibus Volume 5 collects more of these comics classics, featuring over 350 story pages in full color by some of the finest creators in graphic fiction.* Collects Aliens: Alchemy #1-3, Aliens: Kidnapped TPB, Aliens: Cargo one-shot, Aliens: Survival #1-3, "Aliens: Alien" (DHC #17-19), Aliens: Earth Angel one-shot, "Aliens: Incubation" (DHP #101-102), Aliens: Havoc #1-2, Aliens: Lovesick one-shot, "Aliens: Lucky" (Decade of Dark Horse TPB)

From BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of Wonder Woman, this gorgeous oversized deluxe hardcover is the perfect way to experience the first two storylines of the smash-hit series that The Chicago Tribune named one of the "Best Books of the Year."In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this critically acclaimed story about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-10, along with exclusive extras and a brand-new cover from CLIFF CHIANG!

After a generation of rebuilding in the wake of Alien infestation, athletes from every corner of earth are flocking to the Goodwill Games. But some come with a dangerous new tool: a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of the Aliens' body chemistry. The military wants it. The pharmaceutical conglomerates want it. And the only place the essential ingredient can be found is on a world convulsed by Alien holocaust . . . Genocide is the fourth of the remastered Aliens trade paperbacks! This remastered edition boasts full-color art, an updated script, a new John Bolton cover, and a gallery of Alien art. Your Dark Horse Aliens library awaits this fourth fantastic volume!

Fresh off the excitement of her camping trip, Yotsuba initiates a very productive session of sandbox play in which she instructs Fuuka how to properly run a bakery. But even more exciting is a visit from Grandma! Yotsuba learns how to value and enjoy cleaning, how not to be rude when hoping for souvenirs, and most important, how to cope when Grandma leaves. But don't worry, she'll be back someday!

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