Fiction

Master of the Future by Brian Augustyn & Eduardo Barreto
(from Batman: Gotham by Gaslight)
Longer sequel to Gotham by Gaslight, which sees a Victorian-era Batman face an airship-owning madman who wants to burn Gotham to the ground. The added length allows Augustyn to develop his story more fully this time, though it still feels as if it's missing most/all of a second act. Barreto's art is more mainstream in style than Mignola's, and he produces some excellent splash pages, but it does make for an interesting contrast: Mignola's almost cartoonish style is on the grittier, more realistic tale, while Barreto's more realistic style covers the more fantastical, cartoonish one. Such is comics, I suppose.

Mouse Guard: Autumn 1152 (aka Mouse Guard: Fall 1152) by David Petersen
Chapters One - Six
Epilogue [the end]
The first collected volume of David Petersen's acclaimed Mouse Guard (currently publishing a second series, with at least three more to follow that). Beautifully drawn and well plotted, if quick to read (while each chapter/issue is a usual 24 pages, they're smaller than normal and filled with bigger, text-light frames).
The collection also includes maps of Mouse Territories and Barkstone, guides to Lockhaven and common mouse trades, a gallery of pinups by "esteemed authors & friends", and... a preface.