Phoenix Resurrection

Phoenix Resurrection
Author: Matthew Rosenberg
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2018-04-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302503804

Collects Phoenix Resurrection: The Return Of Jean Grey #1-5. She will return, like a Phoenix from the ashes! Years ago, Jean Grey perished, and the X-Men mourned her loss. Now, when strange events start happening all over the world, the X-Men can only come to one conclusion: the one, true Jean Grey is back! Kitty Pryde, Old Man Logan and Cyclops lead squads across the globe, chasing events connected to the Phoenix — yet with friends disappearing and familiar enemies returning, they’re fighting a losing battle. Meanwhile, a young woman named Jean starts to go insane in her peaceful, suburban life. Nightmares and daydreams spill over into the world and reveal cracks in her reality. Jean needs to escape. The X-Men need to stop the cycle of death the Phoenix brings. And their worlds are about to collide — violently!

Jean Grey Vol. 1

Jean Grey Vol. 1
Author: Dennis Hopeless
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2017-10-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302500295

When the teenage Marvel Girl traveled through time and arrived in the present, she learned the terrible fate that befell her adult counterpart. Possessed by a cosmic entity called the Phoenix, that Jean Grey was trapped in an endless cycle of life and death. Now, determined to escape that future, young Jean sets out to write her own destiny. But when she has a premonition that the Phoenix is coming for her, she'll have to fight tooth and nail not to become its next victim! Jean enlists the help of some of its previous hosts - but will the ultimate brain trust of Rachel Grey, Quentin Quire and Hope Summers have the answers she's searching for? COLLECTING: JEAN GREY #1-6.

X-Men Red Vol. 1

X-Men Red Vol. 1
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302505831

Collecting X-Men Red #1-5 and Annual #1. Jean Grey is back — and recruiting her own team of X-Men! Reborn into a world very different than she remembers, Jean gathers allies including Nightcrawler, Namor and the All-New Wolverine to combat a growing anti-mutant movement that threatens to tear down Xavier’s dream! Jean has a vision and a plan — but first her Red squad must infiltrate a top-secret compound to save a mysterious new mutant. Avoiding guards with high-tech weapons, protestors with burning hate and gigantic mutant-killing Sentinel robots is all in a day’s work for the X-Men! But Jean’s newest recruit will be the key to the whole team’s survival as battles break out across India! Gambit finds himself caught up in the intensifying global frenzy of mutant hate as well — but could one of Jean’s oldest friends become a deadly foe?

Jean Grey Vol. 2

Jean Grey Vol. 2
Author: Dennis Hopeless
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2018-04-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302503766

Collects Jean Grey #7-11. One, two, three, four, we declare a Psych War! The Phoenix Force is coming, and death and destruction follow in its wake! Jean has sought advice from across the Marvel Universe — including Namor, Thor and Psylocke — and now her quest continues with the Scarlet Witch and Emma Frost?! The White Queen may be Jean’s only hope: a former Phoenix host who can prepare her and train her telepathic powers. But what price is the young X-Man willing to pay, and can Emma ever truly be trusted? As the arrival of the cosmic force of nature draws near, Jean calls in some backup: Quentin Quire, Hope Summers, Rachel Grey and the Cuckoos! But destiny decrees that everything will come down to this: Jean Grey vs. the Phoenix!

X-Men

X-Men
Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0785171479

The mysterious and powerful Phoenix Force is life incarnate, and yet it consumes whole worlds in a moment. Its long history with the X-Men is fraught with tragedy... especially concerning one of the most beloved of their number, Jean Grey. What will happen when the Phoenix returns to Earth in search of the one mortal who could ever contain its power... only to find her dead? Collects X-Men: Phoenix Endsong (2005) #1-5.

Dark Angel

Dark Angel
Author: Kia Asamiya
Publisher: Central Park Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781586649272

Filled with jealousy and hate, Nie, the Black Dragon, conspires against Leen, the Phantom Saint of the Blue Dragon. She plans to murder her rival and seize the Blue Dragon's kingdom, and a war begins that both women may not survive.

The Phoenix

The Phoenix
Author: Joseph Nigg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 022619552X

An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly

War Against the Mafia

War Against the Mafia
Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497685540

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.