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Horror fans! If you haven’t read the debut of Cinema Purgatorio from comics legend and for real wizard Alan Moore and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen artist Kevin O’Neill what the heck are you waiting for?

This monthly anthology series features five serialized stories with creative teams including Garth Ennis and Raulo Caceres, Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Calero, Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade, Max Brooks (World War Z) and Michael DiPascale and not to mention Moore and O’Neill. The stories feature wildly diverse art from EC Comics inspired anarchic black and white from Caceres, Calero, and Andrade to the spartan line of O’Neill. The stories are just as diverse with everything from giant monsters to an incredibly well-researched Civil War story from Max Brooks.

Everything about this books screams “not like mainstream” and it’s a rare treat to experience some master storytellers paired with incredible art that seems old-fashioned (in the most complimentary sense of the phrase) and at the same time refreshing. I would normally give you some semblance of plot summary but I spent a lot of words above on creator names and these stories are serialized and I don’t want to give anything away. There’s a story for everyone and it’s worth grabbing just to bask in the glow of this amazing art.

Josh Doyle-Elmer is comiXology’s email marketing specialist. After reading this on his bus trip home he ran to his car to avoid monsters, vampires and the like.

BEST BE QUICK, BOYS!  THERE’S A CRIME!

The blokes what brought you The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, turn their talents to the silver screen in Cinema Purgatorio, also featuring comics by Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen @kierongillen, Max Brooks, Christos Gage and more!

A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

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Man oh mannnn, if you’ve never read Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing, you need to do that now! You can get a taste of the first handful of issues as part of our Convergence Week 3 Sale happening all week!

1980’s - Deconstruction of the Superhero

In the wake of two off beat decades, comics began to push the limits of the medium to the extreme. Stories that touched on much weightier and darker topics such as identity, police states, and the human condition. Alan Moore brought the world Watchmen and V For Vendetta and the modern Graphic Novel was born.

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Kick off your weekend #ComicBinge with Alan Moore’s classic Swamp Thing. First issues on us!

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↳Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One

Before WATCHMEN, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book THE SWAMP THING. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history. With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, SWAMP THING’s stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance.

SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING BOOK ONE collects issues #20-27 of this seminal series including the never-before-reprinted SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, where Moore takes over as writer and concludes the previous storyline. Book One begins with the story “The Anatomy Lesson,” a haunting origin story that reshapes SWAMP THING mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond.

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↳Nemo: The Roses of Berlin

From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…

Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father’s weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.

Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni’s raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany’s notorious ‘Twilight Heroes’, a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse.

Continuing in the thrilling tradition of Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive THE ROSES OF BERLIN.

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