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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower by Damian DuffyRetells, graphic novel format, Octavia Butler's tale of how, in 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
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The Lab by Allison ConwayThe Lab is a wordless visual journey into the grim machinery of exploitation. Its nameless protagonist is in solitary captivity, alternately poked, prodded, starved, drugged, and worse. There are few and far between glimpses of other test subjects undergoing their ordeals . But is all this abuse and isolation purely arbitrary? Or is there a purpose?
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The Harrowing of Hell by Evan DahmEvan Dahm draws upon a wide array of texts, both ancient and modern, religious and historical, to create a brand new window into the life and death of Christ, a vision of a dying man’s revolutionary drive and genuine belief in humanity’s salvation from all manner of jailers.
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Infinitum : An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim FielderAn Afrofuturist graphic novel that presents a new universe, tackling racism, classism, and gender equality while exposing ancient mysteries.
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Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil GaimanA graphic-novel rendering of Gaiman’s dark reimagining of the Snow White story depicts a not-so-evil queen who resolves to save her realm from a monstrous stepdaughter.
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The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane GayFollow one woman's powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. As she challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival, she'll find that no matter the darkness, there remain sources of hope that can pierce the veil.
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Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-KimGrass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th-century Asian history.
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Starport by George R.R. Martin. Adaption by Raya GoldenWhen Chicago's Starport is finally built, it becomes a destination for alien diplomats, merchants, and tourists. Still, Chicago's finest must find a way to stop an assassination plot against a controversial trade envoy.
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The Adventure Zone : Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroyA graphic novel adapted from the popular role-playing game podcast follows the exploits of Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus, the human warrior.
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After the Rain by NNedi OkoraforThe drama occurs in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage to survive.
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The Book Tour by Andi WatsonA page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.
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Monsters by Barry Windsor-SmithThe year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II.
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