Arcadia Public Library

A collection of all of Alan Moore's super-hero comics from the 1980s.

Written in graphic novel form, this work is set in 1985, in an alternate history in the United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight). It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront...

It's 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny as the new Nemo, captain of the legendary Nautilus. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father's greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing...

A team of half-human, half-alien superheroes get involved in a long war their alien ancestors have been fighting for thousands of years. After the war's end, they visit the planet Khera, where all seems peaceful-- but appearances can be deceiving.