Berlin (1996 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books 2008-2010

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Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; The penultimate chapter to Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume in Jason Lutes' trilogy about the decline of the Weimar Republic, finds its broad cast of characters searching for solid footing in a chaotic cityscape; The relationship between Pavel the scavenger and the orphaned Silvia Braun comes to a painful end, while tensions rise between the Cocoa Kids and their German manager; Meanwhile, Kurt and Marthe struggle to come to peace with their failed romance and the different ways they view changing world. 28 pgs., B&W. $3.50. Cover price $3.95.

Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Blood spatters the street, a life's work goes up in flames, and lovers take flight in the final chapter of Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume of the epic trilogy; Against the backdrop of the 1930 Reichstag elections, in which the National Socialists gain unprecedented political power, those citizens who have not yet chosen sides are forced to walk the knife's edge of history as it cuts irreversibly through their lives; Nazi assaults Communist, black confronts white, and Kurt Severing struggles with the futility of using language itself to strike at the dark heart of human nature. 28 pgs., B&W. $3.50. Cover price $3.95.

Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Kurt Severing, having forsaken his career as a writer, is a lost man; He finds himself drawn to the Communist party, the only viable opposition to the National Socialists, who in the election of 1930 have gained legitimacy in the national government; Silvia Braun, bent on asserting her strength in memory of her murdered mother, comes into her own as a Communist street fighter, compromising her relationship with the Jewish family that has taken her under its wing; And the true nature of the relationship between Marthe Muller and Anna Albrecht is discovered when their landlady surprises them in bed together. 28 pgs., B&W. $4.95. Cover price $4.95.