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The fourth installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Adventure Zone graphic novel series, a hilarious meta-fictional D&D adventure story based on a smash hit podcast.

This deluxe boxed set collects the first three volumes of the New York Times-bestselling Adventure Zone graphic novel series from the McElroy brothers-Here There Be Gerblins, Murder on the Rockport Limited! and Petals to the Metal-plus an exclusive poster! Join our hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades in arms Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human fighter on a grand and grandly hilarious adventure through gerblin-infested mountain lairs; a locked-room murder mystery on a speeding train; and a rollicking round of battlewagon racing, the world's greatest high-stakes, low-legality sport.

Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology.In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were common. Only the most heinous cases stood out-chief amongst them, the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Latonya Wallace. Originally published in 1991, Simon's Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show Homicide: Life on the Streets and inspired HBO's The Wire. Now, this true-crime classic is reimagined as a gritty two-part graphic novel series.

When a team of brilliant kids-turned-astronauts find themselves in serious trouble in outer space, they must work together to get back home in this incredible middle-grade graphic novel created by real life astronaut, Leland Melvin! Launch into action in T-Minus 3, 2, 1... When Tia Valor takes a test for an exclusive NASA program, she never thought she'd pass. After all, she's been skipping school to work at her brother's auto shop and her grades have taken a nosedive. But Leland Melvin, a famed astronaut, sees Tia's potential, and before she knows it she's part of an elite group of brilliant kids training to go to an advanced NASA space station orbiting the earth. But the perils of space are unpredictable and Tia finds herself with only half her crew and no adults around to help. Now she must rely on her instincts and the quick thinking of her fellow kid astronauts to save the space station and their lives! Created by real-life astronaut Leland Melvin, Eisner-Award nominated comic writer Joe Caramagna, and brought to brilliant life by Alison Acton, STEAM TEAM is a space adventure like no other.

"The InvestiGators are back...to school?! Mango and Brash have always been a class act but can these alligator detectives convincingly go undercover as average middle-school students? Why has the super-spy organization S.U.I.T. been assigned protection detail for a small-town team mascot? Is it a coincidence that the school happens to be the same one that Agent Mango (just barely) graduated from? Is Mango's family in danger? Will Brash pass home economics? Is Friday still pizza day?"--Provided by publisher.

In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces the path his family takes as it's uprooted by war, Nazi occupation, and everyday marital strife.1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is upended by World War I.1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi regime and reunite with his family on the other side of the Atlantic.2015. The creator of a world-famous video game franchise weighs the costs of uprooting his family and moving to France as the cracks in his marriage begin to grow.Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner calls on the voices of his father and grandfather to weave a powerful story about the enduring challenge of holding a family together in the face of an ever-changing world.