Peter David
1) Knight Life
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More than 1,500 years after his disappearance into the mists of Avalon, King Arthur has returned. This time, he's prepared to rule the Camelot of a new millennium: New York City. Handsome, charismatic Arthur Penn is running for mayor on a platform of common sense, humor, and knightly virtues. His advisors include a gifted ten-year-old named Merlin; Percival, an immortal accountant; and Gwen, a lovely young woman with no end of problems. Their grassroots...
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Everyone loves a hero...but sometimes you can't help but root for the villain. Turn your allegiance for the other side's story. We bring you seven stories of mayhem and machinations by Peter David, James M. Ward, Aaron Rosenberg, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Janine K. Spendlove, Drew Bittner, and James Chambers.
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Captain Mackenzie Calhoun und die Crew der U.S.S. Excalibur sind zurück! Und es geht direkt nach den atemberaubenden Ereignissen in New Frontier: Mörderisches Spiel weiter. Calhoun hat bei seiner Suche auf Xenex keine Überlebenden gefunden und ist nun fest entschlossen, das Volk, das die Xenexianer getötet hat—die D'myurj und ihre Verbündeten, die Brüder—aufzuspüren und Rache an ihnen zu nehmen. Calhouns Suche führt die Besatzung der Excalibur...
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Based on the classic comic book series by Joss Whedon and John Cassady, a prose adaption of the X-Men as they reunite as super heroes against alien forces.
The X-Men are back. Except now, instead of outcasts shunned by the world for their mutant powers, Emma Frost is rebranding the team as super heroes poised to protect society by wielding their astonishing gifts. Just as Frost, Cyclops, Shadowcat, Beast, and Wolverine burst onto the scene,...
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Everyone loves a hero…but sometimes we can't help but root for the villain…
Indulge both impulses with this nostalgic flipbook anthology-The Side of Good / The Side of Evil. After all, everyone is the hero of their own story and sometimes a change in perspective can make a world of difference.
Superheroes inspire us to be more than we can be, and on the flip side, Supervillains are reminders of the potential for darkness within us all. The...
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What if...Lincoln governed America in enemy territory? The United States annexed Persia? North Alaska and South Alaska went to war? Los Angeles spread across the world? These and many more questions are answered in this gripping alternate history anthology by some of the finest writers working today, from screenwriters to historians to speculative fiction practitioners to activists, in twenty-one tales of a United States of America that's not quite...
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"Things Change" – Childhood best friends, Frank and John, witness an accident and in the commotion they drop their baby turtles into the sewer. Years later the two friends couldn't be more different: Frank, now a police officer, is protecting the community from robot monsters while John has become a member of the evil gang the Purple dragons, yet they both have had strange interactions with a mysterious group of ninjas and their master, Splinter....
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"Meet Casey Jones" – As a child Casey Jones' father was tormented by the criminal gang, the Purple Dragons, driving both his father and mother to abandon him. Now Casey has become a vigilante, taking out the Purple Dragons one by one, in a quest for revenge for what they did to his family. Even though the Turtles and Casey fight for the same cause, Casey's methods are bringing him into conflict with one of the Turtles.
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"Of The Mousers" – Dr. Stockman is bent on destroying the city with his army of "Mousers". Luckily, a group of mysterious ninjas have teamed up with Stockman's old lab assistant, April O'Neil, and together they are determined to save the city. Meanwhile, Stockman's boss, the head of The Purple Dragons criminal gang, is starting to piece together the identity of the mysterious ninjas that are thwarting his plans.
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"A Better Mousetrap" – April O'Neil is an inquisitive research assistant for Dr. Stockman, a scientist who claims to have created a new kind of rat extermination method. But when Dr. Stockman reveals his true plan to wreck havoc upon the city, a mysterious group of ninjas known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come to April's aid and her life is changed forever.
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"Bend it Like Turtles" – Dheeraj, a boy who works for April O'Neil, wants to use his skills as a black belt to impress a girl, but things go terribly wrong as he is overtaken by two thugs from a gang known as the Thoogs. With guidance from the Leonardo, Dheeraj wins his next confrontation with the Purple Dragons but things don't end there. The Thoogs now want to recruit Dheeraj and won't take no for an answer!
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Collects What If? Avengers Disassembled, Spider-Man the Other, Wolverine Enemy of the State, X-Men Age of Apocalypse, X-Men Deadly Genesis. Marvel once again poses the question, "What If...?" What if Peter Parker had been completely consumed by his inner, bestial impulses and became more spider than man in "The Other?" What if the greatest threat in Avengers history had gone undetected in "Disassembled?" What if Wolverine, the world's deadliest killing...
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Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) volume 83
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In the House of M, it's the Hulk like you've never seen him before! In the Australian outback, Bruce Banner has found a peace he's never known among a tribe of Aborigines. But when their safety is threatened by a battle between a sect of AIM and the ruling totalitarian mutant government, the Hulk is forced to intervene in a BIG way.
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Symbiote Spider-Man King In Black volume 1
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Knull has set his sights on Earth in the present day, but his hand has been at work at the edge of the Marvel Universe for years! Witness one of the King in Black's earliest attempts at birthing life from the darkness of non-creation! Take a wild trip with Spider-Man as he aligns himself with...Kang the Conqueror?! That can't be right! The Black Knight sounds like a more sensible team-up to stop an otherworldly plot threatening to turn every living...
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Spider-Man 2099 volume 11
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Miguel is back in 2099 - but it's a world he doesn't recognize. One that's altogether more...sinister. He wakes to find himself held captive by six villains. But how has his native timeline become so different from the one he left behind? Can Spidey escape his tormentors, find a way back to the past and fix the future? Or will the Sinister Six reign supreme in 2099? Meanwhile, Roberta Mendez, a.k.a. Captain America 2099, returns to her own time in...
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She-Hulk (2005-2009) volume 34
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The Lady Liberators have burst on the scene! She-Hulk has been capturing the bad-guys as a bounty hunter, but is that enough for our conflicted hero? Time to kick things up a notch - and that means calling in Valkyrie, Thundra, and the Invisible Woman to dispense some hard justice as the Lady Liberators!
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Incredible Hulk by Peter David volume 331
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Peter David's 100-plus-issue run on INCREDIBLE HULK remains one of the character's most popular periods. Now, see how it all began in David's first string of Hulk stories as the gray-skinned goliath - or is that the sardonic strongman? - leaps into action against horrors from the grave, the stars and the house next door! Featuring the revitalization of one of the Hulk's longtime foes, the Leader! Guest-starring the original X-Men!