Alina Not

Gangsters, kidnappers, maniacal killers, and thugs of all stripes had their lurid stories recounted in Crime Does Not Pay, a seminal '40s comic-book series. Bob Wood, its editor, brutally murdered his girlfriend, did prison time, and was then murdered himself! This fascinating sidebar is described in an essay by cartoonist, historian, and co-editor Denis Kitchen. Featuring thrilling, disturbing, and brutal tales and despicable characters, Crime Does Not Pay enthralled a nation. With a claimed readership of over 5 million it was the most popular comic book of its day. The series was a favorite target of Dr. Frederic Wertham and other censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the Comics Code Authority, yet it was an inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's reality-based EC Comics. See why this series was revered and reviled!

Freed from the influence of The Voice, Syd and her companions discover that life on their own presents painful new challenges and even greater threats.
Collects THEY'RE NOT LIKE US #7-12

Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is currently publishing archive editions of the 1950's most vile crime comics, Crime Does Not Pay, and is now creating new crime stories under that title. This is the first of them.

Generation after generation, it's the same old S.O.S.: There's no hope for the future, because young people think only of themselves.

Based on the real-life occurrence of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of floating trash in a remote area of the Northern Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Texas, I'm Not A Plastic Bag tells a moving story about loneliness, beauty, and humankind's connection to our planet.

Pirate Eye returns for another Pirate Noir packed story in Pirate Eye: A Pirate's Life Is Not For Me. The ex-pirate and now high-seas detective known as Smitty gets a rude reminder of his past when a pirate ship comes to town. With the pirates seeing Smitty as their best chance at recovering a valuable map stolen by a defector, he gets pulled into a deeper, darker world of deceit and debauchery. Cannon fire meets hard-boiled introspection in the latest chapter of 'buccanoir' adventure written by Joe Grahn and featuring the exquisite are of Carl Yonder."

In "Not Fade Away", Angel convinces his team that they must take out every member of the Circle of the Black Thorn in a defiant and probably futile stand against the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart. He tells his team to make the most of what may be their last day on Earth: Gunn visits his old neighborhood; Wesley tends to the wounded Illyria; Lorne spends some time onstage; Spike performs poetry at an open mic, and Angel visits his son. When night falls, the team divides and sets out to eliminate the members of the Black Thorn, incurring the wrath of the armies of hell.

Sparky Greene, Louis Pieper and Ben Templesmith collaborate on a graphic novel which depicts the struggle between one of earth s oldest life forms and one of its newest. Mankind has bred and discarded a new weapon, a hybridized creature, part human, part insect with no thought for the consequences. When the experiment is abandoned the hybrids are exterminated. Any survivors of the firestorm that destroys their island are hunted down by death squads. The war between Homo sapiens and his newest creation heats up when the embattled and persecuted hybrids fight back with a new ally the entire insect kingdom. Age Of Insects: Not Human tracks the fate of Flynn Morgan, a reluctant savior for the new species who resists his biology and his destiny as long as he can until he meets a woman who changes everything.