Sex Criminal's Chip Zdarsky and Alien 3's Johnnie Christmas team up for the first time with this action-packed Hammerverse special. Before he was trapped with Spiral City's greatest heroes on a mysterious limbo farm, aging hero Abraham Slam found himself already an outcast in his own world. And with the arrival of a belligerent reboot hero named Uncle Slam he finds himself having to put on the old tights again to show that there can be only one Slam in town. ''As much as I love writing in the world of Black Hammer, it's nothing compared to the thrill of seeing creators I admire bringing their voices to these characters that Dean and I created.''–Jeff Lemire

This collection launches the second part of a special two volume series of exciting stories taking place in the world of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Moon Knight) and Dean Ormston’s (Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Books of Magick: Life During Wartime) Eisner Award–winning Black Hammer superhero comics. Creators such as Kelly Thompson, Cullen Bunn, Cecil Castellucci, Scott Snyder and many more of comics’ top talents take on some of the greatest heroes and villains of Spiral City! This graphic novel collects Black Hammer: Visions #5-8 and also features a sketchbook section and pinups by Yuko Shimizu, Veronica Fish, Dan Brereton, Annie Wu, Brian Hurtt, and more! Featuring tales of the cult heroes and villains of Spiral City such as the Horseless Rider, Ms. Moonbeam, Cthu-Lou, and Skulldigger!

Jeff Lemire! The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns in this ongoing series picking up twenty years later with new series artist Caitlin Yarsky. Now, it's twenty years later, and Lucy, and the world, have moved on. Living in the suburbs of Spiral City, Lucy is married and has children. But all is not blissful. Her marriage is falling apart, her job has reached a dead end, and for mysterious reasons, she hasn't picked up the hammer in years. But, as her domestic life begins to crumble, the secrets of the last twenty years, and the reasons Lucy really gave up being Black Hammer, begin to resurface, threatening her family, and the peace she has tried hard to find for herself. A new chapter in the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series!

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure! Collects Black Hammer #1-#6. The first chapter in Jeff Lemire (The Underwater Welder, The Complete Essex County, Animal Man) and Dean Ormston's (Lucifer) acclaimed series! “I don’t read many comics these days, and I can’t remember the last time I read a superhero comic, but I’m loving Black Hammer.” – Mike Mignola “Black Hammer is easily one of Lemire’s best creations.” – Scott Snyder “Amazing. Just flat-out amazing.” – Patton Oswalt

In Colonel Weird: Cosmagog, sanity-challenged space adventurer Colonel Weird embarks on a strange journey through space and time for something that he's long forgotten with his sanity and life at stake! In Barbalien: Red Planet, the shape-shifting superhero Barbalien struggles to find his place in the world during the AIDS crisis - something made all the more difficult when a Martian enemy from the past follows him to earth to take him back, dead or alive.

From the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series comes a bizarre, sci-fi adventure origin story! Wacky space adventurer Colonel Randall Weird leaves Black Hammer farm and embarks on a strange journey through space and time for something that he's long forgotten, with his sanity and life at stake! Collects Colonel Weird: Cosmogog #1-4 from the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeff Lemire and Harrow County's Tyler Crook!

"This collection launches the beginning of a special two volume hardcover series of exciting stories taking place in the world of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer superhero comics."--Provided by publisher.