Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, York embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth.

Now, the entire critically acclaimed Y: THE LAST MAN saga written by Brian K. Vaughan, one of the writers of LOST, is collected into a new edition. In this second volume, a Russian space from the International Space Station is returning to earth carrying three passengers: one woman and two men. Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male? Plus, the group runs up against a roadblock in Arizona where the female remains of the Sons of Arizona militia have cut the interstate to keep out any vestiges of the U.S. government.

This volume collects Y: The Last Man #11-23

Harlan Ellison, science fiction's brightest luminary, has joined forces with multi-award winning artist Paul Chadwick, creator of the incomparable Concrete, to bring you SEVEN AGAINST CHAOS, a graphic novel that is singular, powerful and unpredictable. This extraordinary odyssey of mystery and adventure will take you to the rim of reality and beyond.

In a distant future, Earth is in grave danger: The fabric of reality itself in unraveling, leading to catastrophic natural disasters, displaced souls appearing from bygone eras, and sudden, shocking cases of spontaneous combustion. The only hope for Earth's survival is a force of seven warriors, each with his or her special abilities. But can these alien Seven Samurai learn to get along in time to find the source of the gathering chaos and save all of reality?

In un lontanissimo futuro, l'umanità ha colonizzato il sistema solare, dominato il proprio patrimonio genetico e asservito il proprio destino. Società decadenti sono sparse per tutti i mondi conosciuti, costruite sulle schiene degli schiavi - potenti robot e umani 'riordinati', modificati per la guerra, la fatica e il piacere. Ma l'arroganza dell'umanità sta per incontrare la sua nemesi. Un fuoco sepolto milioni di anni fa sta per eruttare e consumare tutto quanto, liberato da un nemico che non si fermerà davanti a nulla per vedere la razza umana cancellata dall'esistenza. E il fato della storia stessa è nelle mani di sette paria. Urr, il robot rinnegato. Mourna, l'amazzone con tenaglie al posto delle mani. Tantalus, l'uomo insetto. Ayleen, nobildonna venusiana i cui poteri pirici minacciano di consumarla. Hoorn, il ladro senza volto. Kenrus, il tecnico caduto in disgrazia, tanto paranoico quanto brillante. E il misterioso uomo intabarrato con le mani segnate dalle cicatrici, che li ha riuniti. Questi sette reietti sono l'unica speranza contro il caos incombente. Riusciranno a unirsi per salvare la razza che li ha respinti?

Harlan Ellison, science fiction's brightest luminary, has joined forces with multi-award winning artist Paul Chadwick, creator of the incomparable Concrete, to bring you SEVEN AGAINST CHAOS, a graphic novel that is singular, powerful and unpredictable. This extraordinary odyssey of mystery and adventure will take you to the rim of reality and beyond.

In a distant future, Earth is in grave danger: The fabric of reality itself in unraveling, leading to catastrophic natural disasters, displaced souls appearing from bygone eras, and sudden, shocking cases of spontaneous combustion. The only hope for Earth's survival is a force of seven warriors, each with his or her special abilities. But can these alien Seven Samurai learn to get along in time to find the source of the gathering chaos and save all of reality?

It's a cruel summer when Deadpool takes on the mob! Hired by a dirty cop to kill six Mafia dons, Deadpool soon falls for his contact, a beautiful tattoo artist - but all is not as it seems. Then, Deadpool gets an unwelcome sidekick, the youthful Pool Boy - but will the partnership kill them both?

COLLECTING: DEADPOOL (1997) 46-56, MATERIAL FROM X-MEN UNLIMITED (1993) 28

Intrappolato in un corpo alieno di roccia, Ron Lithgow è diventato suo malgrado una celebrità. A fargli la corte ora è un pezzo grosso in cerca di pubblicità per un programma molto controverso di controllo demografico. Concrete si lascia sedurre dalla causa della sovrappopolazione, e in una storia in cui vita e morte si intrecciano con risvolti drammatici spalanca ai lettori nuove inquietanti prospettive per una tematica scottante e sempre attuale.

Two-Fisted Science, a Xeric Award-winning and Eisner nominated original trade paperback, features true stories from the history of science. Some are serious, some are humorous, and most are a bit of both. Scientists highlighted include physicists Richard Feynman, Galileo, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, but you'll find a cosmologist and some mathematicians inside as well.

Echoes collects drawings from the myriad periods of Kaluta's notable career and reveals the artist's unique passion for historical accuracy and unbridled fantasy, traits that have inspired more than one generation of artists and aficionados. Michael William Kaluta has been referred to as the artist's artist. He has earned that reputation by immersing himself in the worlds he draws, offering up his visions with painstaking detail -- from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age through the noir era of The Shadow to the delightfully retro sci-fi worlds of Starstruck, and all places in between.

Com'è possibile che si facciano così tanti film da quattro soldi? È un mistero che non sfiora neanche lontanamente i pensieri di Concrete quando viene ingaggiato nel cast tecnico de I dominatori dell'Omniverso, un film realizzato per lanciare una nuova linea di giocattoli. Quello che si chiede Concrete è: ma come si fanno i film? La risposta è un elenco di risposte che sembra non finire mai: con le difficili intese tra produttori e Studios; con il talento dei presuntuosi; per intercessione della fortuna; grazie agli eroi che restano dietro le quinte; in mezzo a continui disastri; con lo scotto di infiniti salassi economici... Concrete si trova ad assistere a queste e ad altre vicissitudini direttamente sul set, nella sua veste di scorciatoia in carne e ossa (si fa per dire...) degli effetti speciali. Ma c'è una domanda che non appartiene all'elenco e che cerca risposta: è proprio vero che qualcuno sta cercando di sabotare il suo lavoro? E se cosi dovesse essere, c'è forse il rischio che Concrete ammazzi qualcuno per sbaglio?

A troubled man seeking spiritual renewal in the wilderness experiences a wholly unexpected rebirth-as a walking monolith, half a ton of animate stone able to perform astonishing feats of strength and endurance but forever denied many of life's fundamental pleasures. As Concrete, Ronald Lithgow becomes an overnight celebrity and the focus of dark government operatives desperate to keep the secret of his metamorphosis from the public. Concrete must struggle with the loss of his humanity while discovering, perhaps for the first time, what it truly means to be human.

Life as Concrete is about to change forever. Former speechwriter Ron Lithgow returns as the title character of Paul Chadwick's critically acclaimed and award-winning miniseries. Trapped in an alien's rock-hard body, Lithgow is an accidental celebrity whose high profile is being courted by a front-page CEO. Though Concrete believes overpopulation to be an important issue, does he want to become the spokesperson for a controversial population control program? While Concrete mulls this generous proposition over with his biologist, Maureen, his longtime aide Larry Munro mulls over an entirely different sort of proposal. Life and violent death take center stage in this compelling new collection from an industry-renowned creative master, and the subject of overpopulation is given the trademark thoughtful exploration that Chadwick fans have come to expect.

Standing in the shadow of celebrity has its ups and downs, as Concrete's personal assistant, Larry Munro, knows all too well. But there are darker places than any shadow, as Larry learns the hard way when he is taken hostage by a psychotic gunman who forces Larry to be his chauffer on a road trip destined to end in disaster... unless Larry can muster the courage to act. The return of Paul Chadwick's award-winning Concrete has ushered in a resurgence of interest in the acclaimed series, and Killer Smile is Chadwick's darkest Concrete work, a harrowing tale Frank Miller called 'edge-of-your-seat suspense, full of unpredictable twists and turns.' This value-priced volume collects Killer Smile plus bonus short stories.

When you're seven-feet plus of walking, talking stone, you're bound to draw the media spotlight, especially when you live in Tinseltown. Concrete's celebrity status is sometimes a pain in the buttress... but it does bring the occasional paycheck gig. When the producer of a low-budget science-fiction film approaches Concrete to use his prodigious strength to help save money on the film's FX budget, the siren call of Hollywood draws Concrete like a moth to a flame... a seven thousand dollar a week flame, that is.

Big as a boulder and strong as an ox, he's Concrete, seven-feet plus of stony celebrity. That he's a government-created cyborg is the cover story, but in truth he's the mind of one Ronald Lithgow trapped inside a rocky shell of alien origin. Possessing of powers allowing him to scale the highest mountain unaided or peel back the roof of a car like a pull tab, he is yet denied the simple human pleasures of fragile flesh. The return of Paul Chadwick's award-winning Concrete has ushered in a resurgence of interest in the acclaimed series that Harlan Ellison called '. . . [P]robably the best comic being published today by anyone, anywhere.'

Part man, part...rock? Over seven feet tall and weighing over a thousand pounds, he is known as Concrete but is in reality the mind of one Ronald Lithgow, trapped inside a shell of stone, a body that allows him to walk unaided on the ocean's floor or survive the crush of a thousand tons of rubble in a collapsed mineshaft...but prevents him from feeling the touch of a human hand. These stories of Concrete are as rich and satisfying as any in comics: funny, heartbreaking, and singularly human. Depths, the first in a series of new collections reprinting the classic early Concrete stories along with never-before-collected short stories, includes the Eisner-nominated 'Orange Glow' and 'Vagabond,' Paul Chadwick's autobiographical account of a cross-country hitchiking trip.

Collects stories set in the Matrix, the virtual reality world designed by machines in order to control the human race into believing it to be the real world, except for a few who have 'freed' themselves and now struggle to free others.

Before Luke Skywalker, the Rebel Alliance had another hero: Biggs Darklighter. For the first time, the full story of Luke's boyhood friend is revealed; from his departure from Tatooine to attend the Imperial Academy, to his decision to lead a mutiny against the Empire and join the Rebellion, to the fateful attack on the Death Star.

Dark Horse's horror line launches its new prestige format with this hardcover book filled with original short stories by some of the most respected names in comics. The longest story in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings is also Mike Mignola's only new Hellboy adventure in 2003! Come along as Hellboy investigates a haunted house and discovers his own unexpected connection to the spirits within. P. Craig Russell (Sandman, Murder Mysteries) adapts Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson's story about a child who leads friends and family into an abandoned house, and Paul Chadwick and his longtime Concrete editor Randy Stradley team up for a creepy short about a haunted suit. In the strangest entry in the book, Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) and Evan Dorkin (Hectic Planet) recount the legend of a haunted doghouse. With a Victorian ghost story illustrated by Gary Gianni, and an interview with real-life seance medium L.L. Dreller, plus a new Devil's Footprints story and outstanding contributions from international artists Uli Oesterle (Germany) and Lucas Maragnon (Mexico), this is the ultimate book for horror-comics enthusiasts and fans of fantastic artwork.

Da tempo la terapia cognitiva è stata riconosciuta come approccio efficace ai disturbi dell'ansia e della depressione, ma solo di recente alcuni esperti terapeuti cognitivi hanno cominciato ad affrontare altri disturbi più gravi, come i deliri, le voci e la paranoia, ossia quelli che gli psichiatri tradizionali (ma non gli autori del presente libro) classificherebbero come classici sintomi di schizofrenia. La strategia scelta dai terapeuti cognitivi è radicalmente diversa rispetto alle strategie tradizionali, perché cerca di curare i singoli sintomi più che intervenire ipotizzando una discutibile entità nosologica come la schizofrenia, basata su una presunta discontinuità tra pensiero normale e pensiero patologico. La ricerca più recente su questi argomenti indica fortemente che questo genere di sintomi non deriva da processi psicologici radicalmente diversi da quelli normali. L'ipotesi centrale attorno a cui si aggrega la concezione degli autori è piuttosto un punto di vista che è andato sempre più affermandosi anche nell'ambito di approcci e concettualizzazioni della terapia molto diversi da quello cognitivo, come ad esempio nella psicologia del sé.