Ben Passmore
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Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
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"After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader."--Provided by publisher.
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Ben has been turned into a cockroach and in love with a woman formed from his sticky leaky guts. Meanwhile, murderous mutant cops, vampires, and TV-faced dragons wander the irradiated landscape. Heart warming, right? There is violence and comedy. Gory, punk, and kinda unromantic.
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How's your post apocalypse going?
Enjoying the irradiated deserts, menacing clouds of sentient porn magazines, mutant police, and hipsters on some street art kick?
No?!
This is the best the end of the world gets.
Social and political commentary mixed with punk nonsense and gore drawn in vibrant florescent colors.
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Ben Passmore emerges from his gestational cockroach form in his post-apocalyptic wasteland (like you do), having been dumped by his half-ghost girlfriend, and feeling like maybe he's learned a little bit more about himself. But then he sees that floating river of porn, and he's back to his old strokes.
It's another neon-colored night in Ben Passmore's apocalyptic wasteland. Dwelling in a loft in a giant robot, surrounded by an army of mutant cops,...
7) BTTM FDRS
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"Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago's south side, the "Bottomyards" is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele's Get Out and John Carpenter's The Thing, Daniels...
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For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what...
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"In this innovative collection of comics and essays, Rose Eveleth poses provocative questions about our future, which are brought to life in twelve b rand-new comics, each by a different acclaimed artist. Eveleth then reports on what is complete fantasy and what is only just out of reach. Introducing compelling visions of our potential to progress or wreak destruction, [this book] reveals how complicated, incredible, frightening, and curious our future...
10) Rolled & Told
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We're celebrating Halloween in Rolled & Told! Writers E.L. Thomas and Anne Toole go grim and give you all the shambling, undead horror you and your group of wild and ready role-players can handle! In our full adventure, a strange malady grips a small farming village; the last thing they need is a horde of undead rising from all around them. Your player characters will get to literally reap what has been sown!