The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library, and his unending struggle against the forces of ignorance and darkness. Rex travels to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe from zombies to renegade literary characters. In this first collection of Librarian adventures, Rex must confront the powerful Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while an energy manifestation of blood thirsty Vandals attempt to burn down Middleton Library, and all within, to the ground. Rex Libris is a huge hit with librarians and readers everywhere....

Middleton Public Library's Rex Libris, the world's toughest librarian, has led a life so extraordinary that it would take 239,200 years of quarterly released comic book to tell the story of his first 2000 years. In this second graphic novel collection of his exploits Rex and his fellow librarians Circe and Hypatia battle a never-ending onslaught of beasts unleashed from the most terrifying and confounding pages of fiction. Taking on shambling zombies, cannibal babies, and, finally, Cthullhu himseld, Rex and crew prove that brains and brawn - not to mention a killer arsenal - always win out over unfathomable evil. Book of monsters collects issues 7-12 of the Rex Libris comic book series by James Turner...