Fred Van Lente Books in Order

The Silencers enforce the Provenzano crime family’s power while defending it against superheroes. When their leader Cardinal plans to retire, a rival syndicate attacks, threatening to drag him back into the violent life he hopes to leave.

Sam Garrison discovers that his bargain home sits in a neighborhood plagued by crime. Joining his neighbor Mark as a masked vigilante seems a way to protect his family, until Mark’s darker intentions entangle Sam in a dangerous agenda.

When Franklin stays with the Power family, siblings Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie recount how they became superheroes. Their experiences learning to understand and control their abilities reveal the challenges of growing up with extraordinary powers.

Tired of being pursued by A.I.M., M.O.D.O.K. recruits an unlikely team of villains for a major heist. Their powerful prize attracts rivals throughout the criminal world, making survival after the theft more difficult than stealing it.

Shape-shifting Skrulls impersonate the Power Pack and commit crimes in their names. Captured and sent to an intergalactic reform school, the four superhero siblings must confront the consequences of their stolen identities and find a way to clear themselves.

Odd and his friends investigate a new mystery as Odd’s abilities sharpen and the darkness around him grows bolder. This graphic installment mixes teenage life with supernatural danger, showing how quickly one good deed can turn into a fight.

After losing his company and fortune to Obadiah Stane, Tony Stark rebuilds in a struggling Los Angeles neighborhood. Bringing jobs and hope makes him an unwitting challenger to the Pride, the supervillains secretly controlling the district.

Iron Fist turns his resources toward helping people wrongly convicted of crimes, beginning with former secretary Jennie Royce. Partnered with volatile young Power Man Victor Alvarez, he must investigate her case while facing new enemies and training his inexperienced teammate.

A rumor that Taskmaster has become a traitor brings a billion-dollar bounty and armies of his former students hunting him. Fighting the criminals he once trained, he must uncover who framed him and confront questions about his own identity.

After sorcerers assassinate Vendhya’s king, his sister Yasmina vows revenge, but Conan’s decision to kidnap her upsets her plans. Mercenaries, tribesmen, an army and the Black Seers pursue them, turning the abduction into a struggle for survival.

Researcher Neela Sethi is about to discover time travel when competing travelers begin converging on her. Ivar arrives first, pulling her into a journey across history as he tries to prevent threats from the past and future from destroying her life.

With the universe nearing destruction, Ivar enlists Armstrong and Gilad to rescue Neela Sethi from the Prometheans. Old divisions between the brothers complicate their assault on Oblivi-1, where protecting her may depend on overcoming wounds time has not healed.

As history collapses, Neela Sethi must save Ivar and time itself with help from another version of him. Teaching an inexperienced Timewalker to navigate the timestream becomes a desperate task while the universe approaches destruction.

Hired by a criminal financier to kill the Punisher, Deadpool discovers that Frank Castle is a difficult target. Their escalating fight draws both into a larger conflict with their employer, but a shared enemy does little to end their hostility.

Former child soldiers with psychic abilities form Generation Zero to help other young people. Investigating the suspicious death of Keisha Sherman’s boyfriend brings them to a booming Michigan town whose apparent prosperity conceals something far more disturbing.

Generation Zero enters the Heroscape, a dangerous dimension shaped by imagination, to uncover their town’s hidden connections to it. Friends’ secrets and enemies’ fears become tangible threats as fantasies from Rook, Michigan turn into deadly encounters.

Nine comedians accept an invitation to a famous entertainer’s private island, only to find it deserted and cut off from communication. As guests begin dying, their competing personalities and professional grievances become clues in a murder mystery steeped in show-business satire.

A series of bizarre New York crimes points to horrors beyond space and time seeking to bring back the Old Ones. Detective Sebastian Green may be the only investigator capable of stopping them, because he is a monster himself.

Comic-book artist Mike Miller arrives at San Diego Comic-Con grieving his mentor, then becomes a suspect when a former editor is killed. Investigating connections between the deaths sends him through convention culture, industry rivalries, and buried disputes in an effort to clear himself.

On a devastated Earth in the forty-first century, War Mother protects a community holding scientific knowledge and engineered resources. With its survival at stake, she and her sentient rifle seek a new homeland beyond their enclave’s dangerous borders.

This graphic history traces animation’s development through its filmmakers, studios and characters. Moving from early experiments to television cartoons and computer-generated films, it follows creative breakthroughs, business rivalries and the international growth of an art form.

Assassin Giulietta Romeo’s extradition flight is shot down over an Atlantic island ruled by a displaced mob duke. Caught between feuding criminal brothers, she must survive their revenge and the monstrous servants who enforce the island ruler’s power.

Mobsters living under witness protection begin disappearing from the suburban streets of Bountiful, Utah. The killings resemble the work of Jennifer Blood, a housewife turned assassin believed dead, raising doubts about how safe their new lives really are.

A wounded woman arrives at a clinic serving criminals, where its surgeon believes he has captured Jennifer Blood. His plan to sell her collides with a dying hitman’s own intentions, turning the hospital into a battleground.

In 1861, Pinkerton detective Kate Warn and trainee Hattie MacLaughlin investigate a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Moving through rural Maryland and secessionist society, they face a crisis when Kate’s exposed identity forces Hattie to weigh friendship against their mission.

This graphic history traces the development of tabletop roleplaying games from their earlier roots to contemporary popularity. Fred Van Lente and Tom Fowler examine how players build shared stories, why the games endure and what they reveal about their participants.

Presented as comics, this history follows the people who shaped comic books, graphic novels and manga. Creators, publishers and critics drive a story of artistic ambition, controversy and changing ideas about what the medium can accomplish.