Steampunk
Wildstorm/Cliffhanger. "Created, drawn, and written by Chris Bachalo and Joe Kelly; inked by Richard Friend."
1
Manimatron (1-5). [From DC Comics: What would
you do… To save the love of your life? England, 1738… Cole Blaquesmith,
a simple fisherman, falls in love with Fiona, a beautiful, gentle teacher.
However, their blossoming romance is cut short when Fiona falls ill with
a terminal disease. Would you sell your soul to a madman? Dr. Absinthe,
town pariah, a sinister ghoul in his castle on the hill holds the key to
saving Fiona's life... But this "cure" comes with a terrible,
terrible price. Would you trade humanity for strength? The "Experiment"
requires a test subject... a Pilot. A young, strong healthy body to endure
the arcane rigors of science. Would you undo the course of human history?
As Cole loses himself behind a whirling tangle of steel and light and science,
he closes his eyes and prays that he has not made a grave mistake. When
his eyes open again... Would you change the World? He knows with all his
heart that his world will NEVER be the same again... Enter a world of madness,
action, dark science, fiction and shattered history where one man battles
to set right a world torn apart for love. Collecting the first arc of the
ground-breaking Cliffhanger! series by Chris Bachalo (Death, Generation
X) and Joe Kelly (Superman, X-Men) featuring Steampunk: Idiosincratica,
Catechism and issues 1-5 in one haunting and beautiful volume.] 
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Drama Obscura (6-12). [From DC Comics: "I
am Cole Blaquesmith and I will not be broken!" With a mechanical arm,
a furnace for a heart, and a hundred years of sleep behind him, Cole Blaquesmith
is no ordinary man, and his quest is no ordinary adventure. Having traded
his humanity to the treacherous Absinthe in exchange for a "cure"
for his lady love, Cole finds himself on the front lines of a revolution,
trying to take down the man who used him, killed his beloved, and took over
half the known world. With a ragtag band of stalwarts, Cole Blaquesmith
takes the fight to Lord Absinthe's door, and beyond. This volume, collecting
Steampunk issues 6-12, continues the madly original saga begun in the Cliffhanger!
book Steampunk: Manimatron, by the same brilliant team of Chris Bachalo
and Joe Kelly. Love and war, life and death, truth and lies—nothing
is as it seems in the darkly twisted world of Steampunk, and the unpredictable
is the only certainty.] 