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Staff Picks for May

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	series: Star Wars volume: 1 (of 5) title: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison binding: SC price: € 3,85 publisher: Dark Horse comments: The graduation celebration for the first class of Imperial cadets is disrupted by a sudden terrorist strike! But the real targets of the attack are the new Emperor and his second in command, Darth Vader. Only one man-a disabled, brilliant cadet who, up until the moment of the attack, was experiencing the best moment of his life-stands ready to fight alongside Vader for the life of his Emperor!		series: Batman volume: - title: Earth One binding: HC price: € 25,30 publisher: DC comments: Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art by GARY FRANK and JON SIBAL Cover by GARY FRANK • In this spectacular original graphic novel gives new insight into BRUCE WAYNE’S transformation into BATMAN and his first year as THE DARK KNIGHT. • In this all new take on the Batman mythos, Bruce Wayne is on the hunt for his parents’ killer. His target? The Mayor of Gotham City! • Plus, who is Alfred Pennyworth – and why is he so determined to put an end to the Batman?
	series: True Blood volume: 1 title: ongoing binding: SC price: € 4,40 publisher: IDW comments: Alan Ball's hit HBO series, the sensually sizzling story of the lives and loves of vampires, mind readers, and all manner of creatures, returns as an ongoing series! With creative collaboration from TRUE BLOOD creator/writer/producer Alan Ball, this series features writers Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Green Arrow) and Michael McMillian, with art by Michael Gaydos (Alias).		series: Loserville volume: 1 title: Volume One binding: GN price: € € 14,25 publisher: Amaze Ink/SLG comments: Deke has ambitions, he wants to be either a novelist, or screenwriter, or artist, or professional wrestler. He can't decide which. His wife Jenna, on the other hand, is a workaholic. She complains about having hot feet and that she might have the worst disease in the world: Multiple Sploderorsis, a disease that dooms you to a life of crippling pain, until the day you explode! Now Deke and Jenna are faced with the challenges of knowing that she might explode at any moment!
	series: Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal volume: 1 title: Creation Myths binding: HC price: € 21,95 publisher: Archaia comments: First in a three-part prequel series delving into the origins of the world of The Dark Crystal and its unique characters and denizens, including the Skeksis, the Mystics, the Gelflings, and the Dark Crystal itself. Spanning a time period from thousands of years in the past to the start of the original film, this graphic novel epic will tell the definitive origin of The Dark Crystal, told under the supervision of The Jim Henson Company and original conceptual designer, Brian Froud.		series: X-O Manowar volume: 1 title: - binding: SC price: € 4,40 publisher: Valiant comments: It's the comic book event a decade in the making! The all-new Valiant Universe kicks off with a landmark, oversized # 1 issue of X-O Manowar by New York Times-bestselling author Robert Venditti (The Surrogates, The Homeland Directive) and Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (Conan)! Born into battle, Aric of Dacia -- heir to the throne of the Visigoth people -- has never known peace. After a brutal encounter with a mysterious enemy known as The Vine leaves him a prisoner on an incomprehensible world, the only hope Aric has of returning to his family and saving them from slavery is to seize a weapon of incalculable destruction and become X-O Manowar! The Vine destroyed Aric's world. Now he will give them war.