Peter Gross
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 8
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Language
English
Description
Imagine that all the characters from the world's most beloved storybooks were real -- real, and living among us, with all their powers intact. How would they cope with life in our mundane, un-magical reality? Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans since being chased out of their own worlds by an enemy known as the Adversary.
Author
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...
Author
Series
American Jesus volume 1
Language
English
Description
American Jesus returns with "The New Messiah." A virgin pregnancy in '70s New York leads a young couple to flee for their lives as evil forces close in to destroy them. Yet more bloodshed lies ahead for their daughter, Catalina, who refuses to accept her destiny as the savior of mankind.
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 13
Language
English
Description
The fictional adventures of Tommy Taylor are the biggest publishing sensation of the still-young century. And now, years after the last volume, Tommy's creator Wilson Taylor, long missing and believed dead, is unleashing a brand-new Tommy Taylor book upon the world. There's just one problem: It's not a new Tommy Taylor book at all. Sinister forces have created a fake book in Wilson's name, a fraud designed to destroy his literary legacy and coax the...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 36
Language
English
Description
A year after The War of Words and nearly unbearable tragedy and loss, Tom Taylor's life is finally knitting itself back together. However, disconnected from the power of Leviathan and the manipulation of the Cabal, the real world and the fictional world are facing a sweeping tide of chaos, and the damage seems to be spreading. When a rash of mysterious disappearances catches the eye of young detective Didge Patterson, it becomes apparent that the...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 6
Language
English
Description
Tom Taylor-the real-life counterpart of his father's famous fictional boy-wizard creation, a living bridge between our reality and the realities of every tale ever told-knows the power of stories only too well. Now he's the star of his most important story yet. It's a quest straight out of King Arthur, filled with black knights, ensorcelled swords, and maidens who are fair to a fault. If his heart is pure and his courage true, he can enter the Chapel...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To be born a slave is a fact, not a fatality. And facts can be changed. In the country of Ossaniul, there is a fortress that is as disproportionate as it is inaccessible: the Highest House. Its masters, the noble family of Aldercrest, reign over a veritable army of slaves. At the bottom of the ladder, young Moth performs the most thankless tasks and has little hope of living past childhood. Until the day he meets Obsidian, a mysterious prisoner of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Collects Strange Tales (1994) #1, Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #76-90, Ashcan Edition; Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? A new look for Strange - but will it be his last? The Sorcerer Supreme has a youthful appearance, yet he's still taking care of business - including Nightmare's hunt for an heir! But long hair and dark glasses don't suit a man as urbane as Stephen Strange. It's time for a dapper new wardrobe and a new source...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 1
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES best-selling series! Stories Are the Only Thing Worth Dying For Tom Taylor has spent his entire life as a hostage to his father's literary legacy. Wilson Taylor's wildly successful 13-volume series chronicling the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard named Tommy Taylor made him the most popular author on Earth-and destroyed his son's future. On the day that the 13th title was published, Wilson vanished, leaving young Tom alone beneath...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the get go. His father created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series, boy-wizard novels with popularity on par with Harry Potter. The problem is Dad modeled the fictional epic so closely on Tom's real life that fans are constantly comparing him to his fictional counterpart, turning him into the lamest variety of Z-level celebrity. In the final novel, it's even implied that the fictional Tommy will cross over into the real...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 19
Language
English
Description
Tom Taylor is more than just the son of one of the world's most popular authors and the namesake of his most beloved creation, the boy wizard Tommy Taylor. He's a living weapon in a literal war of words, in which a shadowy cabal uses the power of storytelling itself to shape the world according to their own dark designs. And he was born and bred to close the book on them forever. But now his own story is headed for its most dangerous twist yet - a...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 1
Language
English
Description
The tenth volume of the critically-acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team, Mike Carey and Peter Gross is the perfect jumping on point, as Tom Taylor is stranded at the beginning of all creation! Lost in the unwritten scenes of all the world's stories, Tom Taylor is headed back to reality -- and all the gods and beasts and monsters ever imagined can't stop him. But there's a toll on the road that may be too high for him or anyone...
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 42
Language
English
Description
In this eighth volume of the critically acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team, Mike Carey and Peter Gross, Tommy ventures into the land of the dead to find and rescue Lizzie. But the journey through Hades pits Tommy againstall kinds of enemies of undead. But none of these encounters prepare him for his meeting with the king - or for the responsibilities he has to take on for some very familiar damned souls.
Author
Series
American Jesus volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Chosen." After surviving a freak accident, a twelve-year-old boy discovers he's the returned Jesus Christ. He can turn water into wine, make the crippled walk...he can even raise the dead. How will he deal with his destiny and lead the world through a conflict that's been thousands of years in the making?
Author
Series
Unwritten volume 25
Language
English
Description
Before his mysterious disappearance and untimely death, the world-famous fantasy author Wilson Taylor helped bring two enduring creations into the world: Tommy Taylor, the fictional boy wizard who starred in his best selling books...and Tom Taylor, his real-life son. Armed with his father's journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey to uncover the truth behind how he came into this world. Was he born of flesh and blood, or written into existence by sheer...
Author
Series
Lucifer volume 46
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angles. Emerging from the pages of writer Neil Gaiman's award-winning series The Sandman, the former Lord of Hell is now enjoying a quiet retirement as the propretor of Lux, L.A.'s most elite piano bar. A deadly new threat to all of Creation emerges and battles lines are drawn. As forces in Hell and on Earth...
Author
Series
Lucifer volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Heaven, thrown down to rule in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his post and abandoned his kingdom for the mortal city of Los Angeles. Emerging from the pages of writer Neil Gaiman's award-winning series THE SANDMAN, the former Lord of Hell is now enjoying a quiet retirement as the propretor of Lux, L.A.'s most elite piano bar.
But now an assignment from the Creator Himself is going to change all that.
If Lucifer agrees to...
Author
Series
Lucifer volume 14
Language
English
Description
The Lightbringer is hard at work on a New Creation outside the bounds of any authority but his own, complete with a new pair of inhabitants for a new Garden of Eden. But as he tries his hand at universe building,back on Earth (and in Hell) schemes and betrayals continue to grow. And in the tale 'Nirvana', a beautiful angel with an ancient score to settle puts out a contract on Lucifer Morningstar. But can the Devil really die? Also features LUCIFER:...
Author
Series
Dollhouse Family volume 1
Language
English
Description
On Alice's sixth birthday, her dying great-aunt sent her the birthday gift she never knew she always wanted: a big, beautiful 19th-century dollhouse, complete with a family of antique dolls. In no time at all, the dollhouse isn't just Alice's favorite toy...it's her whole world. And soon, young Alice learns she can enter the house to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming children's novel: the Dollhouse family.
But while the...
Author
Series
American Jesus volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's the end of the world as we know it. Antichrist Jodie Christianson is now the president of the United States and organizing the collapse of the global economy via wars and pandemics as he ushers in the microchipping of the human population and his father's infernal New World Order. Christ has returned in the form of Catalina, but what chance does she have with the whole world against her?