Matt Fraction
"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture."My mother was not happy about that," he said.But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick
Matt Fraction
Suzie’s just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we’d ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!
Collecting: Sex Criminals 1-5
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop
Matt Fraction
The second storyline from the Eisner Award winning Sex Criminals finds the honeymoon to be over for Jon and Suzie. Once the thrill of new lust fades, where do you go? Come along and laff and love with Matt and Chip as they brimp back ceaselessly against the past.
Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
Matt Fraction
The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster Avengers film, Clint Barton - aka the self-made hero Hawkeye - fights for justice! With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! SHIELD recruits Clint to intercept a packet of incriminating evidence - before he becomes the most wanted man in the world. You won't believe what is on The Tape! What is the Vagabond Code? Matt Fraction pens a Hawkeye thriller that spans the globe...and the darkest parts of Hawkeye's mind. Barton and Bishop mean double the Hawkeye and double the trouble...and stealing from the rich never looked so good.
Collecting: Hawkeye 1-5, Young Avengers Presents 6
Hawkeye, Volume 4: Rio Bravo
Matt Fraction
Reeling from recent events, even Hawkeye wants to know his new status quo. Who’s with him? Who’s against him? Who’s trying to kill him, and why? And just when Clint’s rock bottom couldn’t arrive fast enough, his brother shows up. After a lifetime of bad decisions, Clint and Barney Barton have to realize they have to save one another — If they don’t kill each other first. But when Clown and the Tracksuit Draculas lay siege to their building, round one doesn't go well. Deafened and bloodied, will the Bartons make easy pickings for the Tracksuits? Ever seen Rio Bravo? The brothers Barton double down in a new kind of shoot 'em up! Don't miss it bro.
Collecting: Hawkeye #12-13, 15, 17, 19, 21-22
Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia
Matt Fraction
WHO ARE THE DARK X-MEN?
He has his own Avengers team and now Norman Osborn has his own X-Men team.
The other shoe has finally dropped and Emma Frost has betrayed Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men. And that's just one of the huge surprises in "UTOPIA." Is that Namor? Cloak and Dagger? Professor X?!
The thing that you aren't ready for is that Osborn is right.
Collecting: Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia & Exodus, Uncanny X-Men 513-514, Dark Avengers 7-8, Dark X-Men: The Beginning 1-3, X-Men Legacy 226-227, Dark X-Men: The Confession, & material from Dark Reign: The Cabal
Sex Criminals, Vol. 4: Fourgy!
Matt Fraction
Everybody's favorite sex-having, time-freezing, bank-robbing crew of lovable love-misfits come together and ask themselves the big question: are we still into this? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU (if you think the answer is no). -Part romance, part sex comedy, and part heist drama, [SEX CRIMINALS] manages to turn a story about two lovers who rob banks with orgasms into the most emotionally realistic and relatable sex comic ever made.- -- Wired Magazine
Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman
Matt Fraction
Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles to get away from New York, life, and Clint Barton - but not away from trouble! Because Madame Masque is hanging out at poolside with the rich and famous as well! As Kate helps a reclusive and Sixties-damaged pop music genius find his lost masterpiece, Madame Masque finds Kate. By which we mean starts trying to kill her again. This one has it all! Characters! Plot! Story! Dialogue! Theme! Meaning! Message! Action! A little exposition! Fire! Arrows! Criminals! Neighbors! Large bodies of water! Clients! Cops who don't care! A system that victimizes the victims! The dog! In a broken town where cynicism and apathy has its claws around the throat of the good and decent, Lady Hawkguy is the only hero you can trust!
Collecting: Hawkeye 14, 16, 18, 20, Annual 1
Hawkeye, Volume 1 (Hawkeye, #1-2)
Matt Fraction
Clint Barton, Hawkeye: Archer. Avenger. Terrible at relationships.
Kate Bishop, Hawkeye: Adventurer. Young Avenger. Great at parties.
Matt Fraction, David Aja and an incredible roster of artistic talent hit the bull's eye with your new favorite book, pitting Hawkguy and Katie-Kate - not to mention the crime-solving Pizza Dog - against all the mob bosses, superstorms and mystery redheads they can throw at them.
Five Eisner Award nominations and two wins, bro!
Collecting: Hawkeye 1-11 & Young Avengers Presents 6
Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way
Matt Fraction
As seen on Late Night With Seth Meyers!
The Eisner- and Harvey Award winning raucous sex comedy that Time magazine called the Comic of the Year and Apple called "inappropriate for sale on iOS devices" returns in Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way.
So it turns out Jon and Suzie aren't alone ― other people around the world, like them, freeze time when they climax. A self-appointed group wants to regulate and control them through fear and intimidation. Jon and Suzie are falling in love and want their freak flags to fly, but if they're going to fight back they can't do it alone.
And really, isn't that a metaphor for the whole series? That we might all be alone but we're all alone together? I think so.
If you read only one comic with a semen-demon in it this year, please make it Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way.
“I wouldn’t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction, but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully.” –Paste Magazine
Collecting: Sex Criminals 11-15
Hawkeye, Volume 2: Little Hits
Matt Fraction
Ace archer Clint Barton faces the digital doomsday of—DVR-Mageddon! Then: Cherry's got a gun. And she looks good in it. And Hawkeye gets very, very distracted. Plus: Valentine's Day with the heartthrob of the Marvel Universe? This will be... confusing.
Collects Hawkeye (2012) #6–11.
Sex Criminals, Vol. 6: Six Criminals
Matt Fraction
The grand finale! The big finish! The climax! We speak, of course, about this, the end of the award-winning, boundary-pushing, taste-challenging SEX CRIMINALS. Suze and Jon have sex, stop time, and rob banks. The bank went after them. Now Suze and Jon finish off the bank, the Sex Police, and the bad guys all in one pop, hoping to dodge a huge load of trouble before it explodes in their faces.
Sex Criminals, Vol. 5: Five-Fingered Discount
Matt Fraction
Suzie and Jon have that special something—when they have sex, they freeze time and do crimes. Well—they HAD that special something. In the aftermath of what would appear to be a breakup, where do our two love-crazy time-freezing sex-having bank robbers go? REBOUND AHOY! Also everything gets more dangerous and complicated? But it's okay.
Big Hard Sex Criminals, Volume One
Matt Fraction
Collecting the first ten issues of the Eisner and Harvey awardwinning, TIME Magazine Best Comic of the year of our lord 2013, SEX CRIMINALS, in an oversized hardcover format guaranteed to embarrass you to order.
Hawkeye #19
Matt Fraction
While helping his brother Barney get back on his feet, Clint finds himself in hot water. And in the melee, he ends up with severe ear damage. In this special sign language issue, watch as Hawkeye makes his way in the world without hearing.
Hawkeye #11
Matt Fraction
“Pizza is my Business” …before it’s too late for us. THE breakout character of 2012… becomes the breakout character of 2013... as PIZZA DOG gets his own issue. Literally… the entire issue… it’s all from the dog’s point-of-view.Pizza Dog gets hired to solve a crime -- the grizzly murder that shocked Team Hawkguy -- and the only thing more shocking than THAT… is what happens the end of THIS. Seriously. This is not a joke! Even the coloring. Dog issue. We’re all gettin’ fired. PLEASE READ…
Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja Omnibus
Matt Fraction
Collects Hawkeye (2012) #1-22 and Annual #1 and Young Avengers Presents #6. Marvel's most critically acclaimed comic in recent memory! Clint Barton, breakout star of a little Marvel movie you might have seen a while back, continues his fight for justice — and good rooftop BBQs! With Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to get some downtime from being one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes — but when the apartment building he's moved into, and the neighbors he's befriended, are threatened by a tracksuit-wearing, dog-abusing gang of Eastern European mobsters who say "bro" an awful lot, Clint must stand up and defend his new adopted family…any way he can. It's Hawkguy, Kate, Pizza Dog et al. against the Clown, Madame Masque, the tracksuits and more in a fantastic, Eisner Award-nominated reinvention of the arrowed Avenger! Bro, you read this book. Okay, bro?
Sex Criminals #69
Matt Fraction
FINAL ISSUE! SERIES FINALE in which we skip ahead 39 issues and check in with how it all ends up a few years down the line. SPOILERS: pretty okay?
Sex Criminals #30
Matt Fraction
“THE END,” Part Five
Original Series Artist CHIP ZDARSKY returns for our FINAL ISSUE except for the one issue that comes next that's like a coda or reprise or something classy like whatever the WICDIV guys called it.
Sex Criminals #29
Matt Fraction
“THE END,” Part Four Well it's too late to stop now, gang.
Sex Criminals #3: My Sexual Errors and Misfortunes 2001-Present
Matt Fraction
Archived: Does not meet catalog guidelines
Sex Criminals #7: Break, Enter
Matt Fraction
Jon breaks into Kegelface’s house and oh my golly what on EARTH do you think he finds there. Not only are our beloved Sex Criminals not alone...they’re not unwatched, either. And Suzie learns once and for all the fate of her precious library.
Sex Criminals #10: Alone Together
Matt Fraction
In which Jon and Suzie learn just how alone together we all are, and the stakes get raised crazy-high in this, the second arc finale. By MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA, ODYC, SATELLITE SAM) and just a great big bunch of C.H.U.D.s with photoshop or something.
Sex Criminals #14: Ladies Please
Matt Fraction
Why can't we all just get along? Because then the comic would be boring.
Sex Criminals #21: Spaces
Matt Fraction
"FIVE-FINGERED DISCOUNT," Part One
Up is down and black is white and the sex isn't happening—neither is the crime. WHAT IS THIS BOOK EVEN? After the heartbreaking, albeit totally unsurprising, finale of FOURGY!, our leads find themselves in the arms of others while the fate of the whole universe hangs in the balance...ish!
Sex Criminals #28
Matt Fraction
“THE END,” Part Three
The bad guy comes into rack focus. I didn't mean anything dirty by that, I mean, like, we learn a lot about him on the eve of the Big Job. That sounds dirty too. It's not. I mean, not really.
Sex Criminals #23: My Epiphany
Matt Fraction
"FIVE-FINGERED DISCOUNT," Part Three
It’s all been building to this: Alix gets hit by a bus. (She’s okay.)
Sex Criminals #24: Do You Need Help With That
Matt Fraction
"FIVE-FINGERED DISCOUNT,” Part Four
The long-awaited return of the most beloved piece of the SEX CRIMINALS phenomenon that took the comics world by storm: the eight-panel grid! Wait, what do you mean you didn't even notice it was gone? How dare you!
Sex Criminals #19: Down With The Thickness
Matt Fraction
Everybody goes deeper and, no, for the first time, we do NOT mean it like that.
Sex Criminals #1: Suzie Down in the Quiet
Matt Fraction
A SEX COMEDY FOR COMICS
Suzie's a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night she meets John... who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping, couple would do: they rob banks. In the vein of THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN and BRIDESMAIDS, Image Comics invites you to come along with MATT FRACTION (Hawkeye, SATELLITE SAM) and CHIP ZDARSKY (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops) for the series that puts the "comic" back in “comics” and the "sexy" back in “sex crimes.”
Sex Criminals #2: Come, World
Matt Fraction
So who's the boy with the same sexy-time time-stopping gifts as Suzie? Meet John, who until last night thought he could freeze time with his junk. At long last not alone, what kind of horny hijinx will he and Suzie get up to together? What ANY of us would do if having sex stopped the whole world: We'd do crimes.
Hawkeye #1
Matt Fraction
The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster AVENGERS film and self-made hero Hawkeye fights for justice! He's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
Sex Criminals #12: We Think It's the Fluids That Keep Getting Us Banned On iTunes and Android
Matt Fraction
Suzie and Jon continue the worst recruitment plan in the history of entertaining second-act montage sequences. Getting the band together never had so many fluids.
By Hollywood jerkhole MATT FRACTION (ODY-C, SATELLITE SAM, Hawkeye) and literally a shed-full of car keys that somehow manages to draw comics.
Sex Criminals #25
Matt Fraction
"FIVE-FINGERED DISCOUNT," Conclusion How have we gotten through 24 issues already and not made an "exciting climax" joke in the solicits? C'mon, Matty, wake up and get your head in the game.
Sex Criminals #18: Totems
Matt Fraction
There's a line between fan and fetishist, right? Probably. Also: the long-awaited return of JAZMINE ST. COCAINE!!! [COLLECTOR'S ITEM]
Sex Criminals #20: Outs
Matt Fraction
END OF STORY ARC All good things, like sex, crime, and this arc of SEX CRIMINALS, come to an end. And this one ends with CHARACTERS doing THINGS and making CHOICES that CHANGE EVERYTHING! In terms of, y'know, the SEX CRIMINALS comic book. Everything's still the same over in, like, Batman or whatever.
Sex Criminals #17: The Skell
Matt Fraction
You think it's hard being a sex criminal? Try being a sex cop for, like, an issue, give or take. ALSO THIS ISSUE: a special sequence guest-colored by a MYSTERY COLORIST whose name rhymes exactly with "ELIZABETH BREITWEISER.”
Sex Criminals: Sexual Gary
Matt Fraction
Remember “Sexual Gary”? What was up with that guy? The brilliant RACHAEL STOTT (Supergirl, Doctor Who) drew a story so crazy it had to be told, but not by Chip, who was still a big part of the whole thing.
Sex Criminals #27
Matt Fraction
“THE END,” Part Two Suze and Jon inch closer to the big finish, albeit in very different ways, bringing Suze face-to-face with her future, and Jon—well, read it, it’s a whole thing.
Sex Criminals #26
Matt Fraction
• THE SERIES? It’s back. • JON AND SUZE? Also back. • THE BANK? MUST BE TAKEN DOWN. • THIS ARC? THE LAST. Gasp! • BULLET LISTS? How do you turn them off in Microsoft Word.
Sex Criminals #22: Follow the Honey
Matt Fraction
"FIVE-FINGERED DISCOUNT," Part Two
Ghosts! Ghoooooooosts! Okay, not literally. But still. Suzie and Jon find themselves haunted by their pasts, in different ways, for different reasons. Also: Ana, too. And Doc. And Kegel. DANG!
Sex Criminals #16
Matt Fraction
SEX CRIMINALS is BACK. Full sex! Deep crime! Big floppy 16th issue!
Sex Criminals #4: Sex Police
Matt Fraction
She can seemingly control time and space with her...parts. She's as relentless a manhunter as law enforcement ever created. And by day she's no one you'd particularly notice, with her quiet suburban life and pleasant-enough job, but when the temporal dimension is used to break society's laws they call...HER. Jon and Suzie get in too deep way too fast as one little sexy fun party crime begets another and the villains of the piece descend. Turns out Jon and Suzie aren't the only ones after all…
Sex Criminals #5: Going Down
Matt Fraction
The best part of a new relationship is the first three weeks, right? The rush of the new, the gravitational pull of the sudden other-ness in your life, the almost-illicit charge of nothing else mattering...and then it's time to pay the bills. Well, the honeymoon is over for the SEX CRIMINALS. Can Jon and Suzie survive Jon and Suzie?
Sex Criminals #6: Coming On
Matt Fraction
After their narrow getaway from the Sex Police, Jon and Suzie are learning that this is “just the tip” of a massive iceberg. And what happens after the rush of a new relationship fades? Are they in love, lust, like, or just lame? Sexy fun times returns: We missed you so much, brimpers.
Sex Criminals #8: Robert Rainbow
Matt Fraction
Jon and Suzie have had to deal with a whole lot in their time together but nothing can prepare them for...Robert Rainbow. Actually he's a pretty cool guy. And that's the problem.
Sex Criminals #9: Ana
Matt Fraction
Suze and Jon meet Ana. Or rather, meet Ana AGAIN. Or should we say, meet...Ms. Jazmine St. Cocaine AGAIN. Did we just put those words in that order in PREVIEWS? Yes. Yes we did. By MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS) and CHONNY ZDARKO (SEX CRIMINALS).
Sex Criminals #11: Manime
Matt Fraction
NEW STORY! NEW ARC! SAME OLD MATT AND CHIP. Jon and Suzie have a gift: when they have sex, they stop time. And they're not alone. Get on board the book that's been called "hilarious" and "arousing" — by Chip's mommy. OH! All these issues? They're all in a sealed bag because 1000 totally random blank covers have been "customized" by Matt and Chip. Will YOU be one of the lucky ones (thousand)? Will YOUR copy be worth a million dollars one day because it is one-of-a-kind and unique (probably not)? YES! (No.)
Sex Criminals #13: Bace
Matt Fraction
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Sex Criminals #15: The Crew
Matt Fraction
Kegel Face steals Jon's files from his therapist.
FF, Volume 1: Fantastic Faux
Matt Fraction
The Fantastic Four have formed a new team to guard the planet, and their wards in the Future Foundation, while they're on an interdimensional journey: Scott Lang, the incredible Ant-Man, Jen Walters, the gamma-spawned She-Hulk, Medusa, Queen of the Inhumans and Ms Thing.
But how does the world respond when this new FF making its public debut; how do the future Foundation kids feel about these new grown-ups running the show? And what does Scott Lang have in store for Dr. Doom, the man responsible for his daughter Stature's death? The war begins.
Collecting: FF 4-8
Inhumanity
Matt Fraction
After the fall of Attilan and the Terrigen Bomb explosion, thousands of people across the globe have transformed into Inhumans! Their new powers are dangerous and terrifying, making them targets. With Black Bolt believed dead, who can these new Inhumans turn to? As the Avengers face Karnak, who has discovered the Inhumans' secret, Medusa struggles to rule her vastly increased population, and Marvel's heroes - including the Hulk, Spider-Girl, the X-Men, the new Illuminati, Iron Man, the Jean Grey School, Avengers Academy, Luke Cage and the Superior Spider-Man - must cope with the fallout!
COLLECTING: Inhumanity #1-2, Avengers Assemble #21-23, Uncanny X-Men (2013) #15, Indestructible Hulk #17-19, New Avengers (2013) #13, Iron Man (2012) #20.INH, Inhumanity: The Awakening #1-2, Avengers AI #7, Mighty Avengers (2013) #4-5, Inhuman (2014) #1 and Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man #1.
Fantastic Four, Volume 2: Road Trip
Matt Fraction
The Fantastic Four's road trip through time and space continues! On an alien world, the team encounters a thousand-year-old prophecy...is the Invisible Woman a long-awaited intergalactic messiah? Then, the F4 sightsee in ancient Rome and dine with Caesar on the Ides of March. Did somebody say, "pass the knife"? And it's a visit to both the beginning and the end of time, as Marvel's first family witnesses the big bang and the big crunch! But to their surprise, they're not alone! What happens beyond the end of infinite time and space? Plus: one day a year, The Thing reverts to his human form. This year...Ben Grimm is going to go home again - as Ben Grimm! And when Franklin and Val have a sibling rivalry, all bets are off!
Collecting: Fantastic Four 4-8, 5.AU
FF, Volume 2: Family Freakout
Matt Fraction
They’ve handled media mockery, crippling self-doubt, kidnapping and the greatest fiends in the Negative Zone — but can the FF handle…the spooky kids? Shiver as they write the names of weird bands on their desktops! Quake as they use slang to hide their true conversations! Recoil at their monstrous cellphone data-plan bills! The generation gap has come for the Future Foundation — break out the black nail polish! Then, it’s Hulk vs. Thing — and it’s one for the ages! As the kids in the FF start growing apart, their adult supervision seems to be having some issues of their own. And when Doom the Annihilating Conqueror ascends, is this the beginning of the end of everything? Plus: Pool party! Impossibletown! The horrible secret of Underspace! And two students transfer in at the best worst moment imaginable.
Collecting: FF 9-16
Fantastic Four, Volume 3: Doomed
Matt Fraction
Did Ben Grimm's prank cause the accident that scarred Victor Von Doom? The Fantastic Four must deal with the Council of Dooms, who treat that event as their nativity - and who have traveled there to witness it! To make matters worse, Mr. Fantastic's sickness spreads to the others - and someone may be behind the illness that's befallen the First Family! The team must mastermind a planetary heist for technology that could save their lives, but spacetime has had enough of their traveling back and forth across it - and they soon find themselves trapped in a universe where the only five things left alive are themselves...and a cosmic, power-mad Dr. Doom!
Collecting: Fantastic Four 9-16
Fantastic Four, Volume 1: New Departure, New Arrivals
Matt Fraction
We have seen the future and it will be fantastic! When Reed and Sue decide that the family needs to relax, they take Ben, Johnny and the kids on a little vacation ... through all of infinite time and space! And in the real absence of Marvel's First Family, a substitute FF, hand-picked by the real deal - Ant-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk and the all-new Miss Thing - stand ready to guard the Earth and the nascent Future Foundation ... for the four minutes that the Fantastic Four will be gone. What could possibly go wrong?
Collecting: Fantastic Four 1-3, FF 1-3, & material from Marvel Point One.1
The Mighty Thor/Journey Into Mystery: Everything Burns
Matt Fraction
Archived: Does not meet catalog guidelines
ODY-C, Vol. 1: Off to Far Ithicaa
Matt Fraction
An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors. The journey to Ithicaa begins HERE, by Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals) and Christian Ward (Infinite Vacation, Olympus).
Collects ODY-C #1-5.
Hawkeye, Volume 2 (Hawkeye, #3-4)
Matt Fraction
Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Eisner Award-winning reinvention of the arrowed Avenger concludes!
Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles to get away from New York and Clint Barton — but she can’t escape trouble, because Madame Masque is hanging out poolside! As Kate helps a reclusive artist find his lost masterpiece, Madame Masque finds Kate. By which we mean tries to kill her again. Meanwhile, back in New York, Hawkeye is reeling from recent events. And just when Clint’s rock bottom couldn’t arrive fast enough, his brother shows up. After a lifetime of bad decisions, Clint and Barney Barton realize they’ll have to save one another — if they don’t kill each other first. And when Clown and the Tracksuit Draculas lay siege to their building, it doesn’t go well!
Read this book, bro!
Collecting: Hawkeye 12-22, Annual
The Immortal Iron Fist, Vol. 3: The Book of the Iron Fist
Matt Fraction
There have been sixty-six men and women to carry the mantle of The Immortal Iron Fist throughout the ages - men and women of great courage, valor, skill, and sacrifice. Sixty-six men and women have stood between man and the unstoppable forces of evil, willing to give all they have to hold back the hordes. This is the story of four of them - Wu Ao-Shi, the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay; Bei Bang-Wen, power-mad Iron Fist of the year 1860; Orson Randall, the Golden Age Iron Fist; and Danny Rand, the Iron Fist of today - as told in "The Book of the Iron Fist"!
Collecting: Immortal Iron Fist 7, 15-16; Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death; & The Origin of Danny Rand
The Defenders, Vol. 1
Matt Fraction
Springing out of Fear Itself! Everyone's favorite Marvel characters band together to solve a mysterious conspiracy deep at the heart of the Marvel Universe! They are the last line of defense against the forces of the unknown! They are The Defenders!
Secret Invasion: Thor
Matt Fraction
The Skrulls, in an attempt to take over Earth, attack the gods' realm of Asgard, and Thor must team with Beta Ray Bill to protect the city.
Punisher War Journal, Vol. 1: Civil War
Matt Fraction
He's back - with a vengeance. Taking no prisoners. Literally. With Civil War in full throttle mode, Frank Castle is feeling the heat. His safe houses have been raided and his munitions seized, and he's square in the crosshair of a Marvel Universe big gun who always gets his man. Covers #1-#4
Young Avengers Presents #6
Matt Fraction
Kate Bishop wants to be a hero. Kate Bishop never wanted anything more than she wants to be a Young Avenger. Kate Bishop wants to be Hawkeye. Here, she finally comes face to face with Clint Barton. Now Kate's gonna have to fight for each and every thing that she wants...especially her name.
The Defenders, Vol. 2
Matt Fraction
The Defenders find their way to Wakanda and team with the Black Panther to face the lethal John Aman, the Prince of Orphans! What is Aman protecting that's worth killing so many for so long? And just how is Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, going to steal it? Then: the Defenders are lost in space-time! What alternate universe will they find first ... and who is waiting for them? Finally, when the purpose of the Concordance engines are revealed, the team must act fast to save everything! What are the Death Celestials? How can the Defenders even hope to stop them? And how can you save the world when you can't tell anyone it's about to end? COLLECTING: Defenders 7-12
The Mighty Thor, Vol. 2
Matt Fraction
First: the critical Fear Itself prequel that couldn't be told until now! Discover the true story behind the Serpent & Odin's past! Then, in the wake of Fear Itself, Odin decides the final fate of Asgard, and the heroes of the Nine Worlds bid farewell to one of their own. Thor no more! But who is Tanarus, and why is he the new God of Thunder? Loki tries to expose the imposter god by enlisting the help of ... Doctor Donald Blake! And as the new All-Mothers of Asgardia battle their first threat to the Nine Realms, Thor struggles to free himself before the Demogorge consumes him...
Collecting: The Mighty Thor 7-12, Fear Itself 7.2: Thor
Fear Itself: Invincible Iron Man
Matt Fraction
Fear Itself reaches its hand deep into the heart of the City of Lights!
Iron Man races to Paris, France, to encounter one of "the Worthy" waiting there for him. How will the ultimate man of science react to a city turned to stone? And if that weren't bad enough, the world is going mad as the avatars of the Serpent start their rampages. How resilient is Resilient? How strong is Iron? And as if things weren't grim enough--Rescue engages Hammer Industries as one of the Serpent's avatars goes on the hunt...and Iron Man arms himself for the end of the world.
Collecting: Invincible Iron Man 504-509, Shattered Heroes: Iron Man
Fear Itself
Matt Fraction
In this time of global anxiety, economic turmoil and mass hysteria, Sin, the new Red Skull, has made an awesome discovery - a revelation that will divide father and son, turn friend against friend and herald the rise of Fear personified. Who is the Serpent? As Odin and the Asgardians leave the Earth to fend for itself, the Avengers and the world's remaining heroes battle the unstoppable tide of terror! And then - the Serpent's Hammers fall! Who shall rise up and join the Serpent as the Worthy, living avatars of his evil? And how can the Avengers respond...to fear itself? Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen bring fans the biggest Marvel event since Civil War!
Collecting: Fear Itself: 1-7, Book of the Skull
Adventureman, Vol. 1: The End and Everything After
Matt Fraction
WHERE HIS STORY ENDED...HER STORY BEGINS! Everyone knows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of all time, ended in a heartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing his very execution...now, learn the startling truth about how, 80 years after his seeming demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy light the spark of RESURRECTION! Can these inheritors of the Adventureman legacy rise up to face down the evil that bested the original?
Collects ADVENTUREMAN #1-4
Punisher War Journal, Vol. 5: Secret Invasion
Matt Fraction
With an alien armada laying the world to waste, Stuart RAMPAGE Clarke decides to make his move. Skrull Armageddon is just a backdrop for his ultimate revenge — against Tony Stark, against S.H.I.E.L.D., and against anyone that ever stood in his way! And what about Frank Castle? Where does The Punisher fit into Clarke's plans? It's the end of the world as we know it — time to cross some names off the old enemies list. Then, take a trip to the Helter Skelter Club — psychedelic hangout of every costumed wannabe, z-list villain, and spandex tryhard in NYC. Its retro-tastic owner — Captain Pepper — has been up to his paisley-print elbows in bad business, but now he's caught the attention of one decidedly ungroovy vigilante.
ODY-C #1
Matt Fraction
An epic 26 centuries in the making: In the aftermath of a galactic war a hundred years long, Odyssia the Clever Champion and her compatriots begin their longest, strangest trip yet: the one home.
A gender-bent eye-popping psychedelic science fiction odyssey begins HERE, by MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA, SEX CRIMINALS, SATELLITE SAM) and CHRISTIAN WARD (INFINITE VACATION, OLYMPUS).
INCLUDES SPECIAL EIGHT-PAGE FOLDOUT!
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen?
Matt Fraction
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen is a weird and wild trip throughout the DC Universe, with Silver Age energy and a distinctly modern sensibility courtesy of writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber!
Jimmy Olsen must die! Wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Jimmy Olsen lives! Superman's best friend and Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen tours the bizarre underbelly of the DC Universe in this new series featuring death, destruction, giant turtles, and more! It's a centuries-spanning whirlwind of weird that starts in Metropolis and ends in Gotham City.
Award-winning writer Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals, Hawkeye) makes his DC debut with Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, an irreverent, hijinks-filled journey across the weirdest and wildest corners of the DCU, illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Steve Lieber.
Collects Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #1-12.
Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop
Matt Fraction
Matt Fraction and David Aja’s complete, acclaimed run in a single sharpshooting volume! Clint Barton continues his fight for justice — and good rooftop BBQs! With Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he’s out to get some downtime from being one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes — but when the apartment building he’s moved into, and the neighbors he’s befriended, are threatened by a tracksuit-wearing, dog-abusing gang of Eastern European mobsters who say “bro” an awful lot, Clint must stand up and defend his new adopted family…any way he can. It’s Hawkguy, Katie-Kate, Pizza Dog and friends against the Clown, Madame Masque, the Tracksuit Draculas and more in a fantastic, Eisner Award-winning reinvention of the arrowed Avenger! Bro, you read this book. Okay, bro?COLLECTING: Hawkeye (2012) 1-22, Hawkeye (2013) Annual 1, Young Avengers Presents (2008) 6
The Five Fists of Science
Matt Fraction
True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of mankind.
November, Volume I: The Girl on the Roof
Matt Fraction
In this new sequence of three graphic novellas by Matt Fraction and Elsa Charretier, with colors by Matt Hollingsworth and exquisitely crafted lettering by cartoonist Kurt Ankeny, November follows the lives of three women intersecting in a dark criminal underground. As fire and violence tears through their city on a single day and night, they discover their lives are bound together by a mysterious man that seems to be the cause of it all.
One night. One city. Three women. November.
Casanova, Vol. 1: Luxuria
Matt Fraction
Meet Casanova Quinn: prodigal son of a law-and-order family hell-bent on keeping the world safe and sound; now blackmailed into betraying his father and the international law enforcement organization he controls. Luxuria collects the first volume of Casanova as its titular star transforms from devil-may-care thrill-seeker into the most dangerous man in the world. What happens when the ultimate player gets played? Find out in this genre-bending sci-spy epic.
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