(W/A/CA) Ellinor Richey
What she once possessed? now threatens to possess her. Sweden's Ellinor Richey's debut graphic novel is an epic quest for the things left behind, with icy-cool artwork and astonishing sci-fi settings. What happens when our most precious belongings... no longer belong? When something we loved suddenly becomes junk, a powerful energy is unleashed. One night, ice-skating prodigy Florence Sato is overwhelmed by pressure and throws away her skates. This fateful moment accidentally summons a 'junkwraith,' a terrifying ghost which seeks revenge for its abandonment by attacking the memories of its former owner. Before she forgets who she is, and to find out who she really wants to be, Florence must set off (with her trusty digital assistant Frank) on a long journey into the Wastelands to put to rest the monster she created. --Ambitious debut from a tremendously talented young artist (under 30). --Perfect for fans of Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, and Steven Universe, with a combination of raw emotions, deep implications, and outlandish sci-fi creativity (in
(W) Philip Osbourne (A) Various (CA) Plume Studio
Martin is a student who is very passionate about science...which makes him very unpopular at school. One day, while sitting absent-minded on the school bus, he is dropped off at a bus stop earlier than usual and soon realizes that something is terribly wrong...he finds himself in the middle of a vast prehistoric land! He discovers a tunnel that leads him to a small village populated by early humans. Martin looks to help them out by teaching them what he knows about science, including some of his special inventions. The book contains a series of humorous sketches and strips, which have narrative and visual counterpoints between the modern world of Martin and the Jurassic one. A new book series by Philip Osbourne, International Bestselling Author of Diary of Nerd, soon to be an animated TV series, about a contemporary boy dealing in a Jurassik World...with humorous and educational results.
(W) Matt Bors, Ben Clarkson (A/CA) Ben Clarkson
Now in one volume: the acclaimed dystopian satire, co-created by cartoonist, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors and Adult Swim filmmaker Ben Clarkson! Outside the walls of prosperous Bubble City, two tense cops patrol the Uninhabited Zone, a vast slum where most of the population lives, many of them mutants. After his partner is killed by a self-driving bus, traumatized veteran Swamp Cop must teach na?ve rookie Schitt that the UZ can only be policed by breaking every rule!
(W/A/CA) David Mack
The Noh operatives believe Kabuki has gone rogue and is now deemed a liability. With instructions to infiltrate the Control Corps installation, they have one goal: find Kabuki. If she's dead, bring back her corpse. If she's alive . . . bring back her corpse. Kabuki's fellow assassins take center-stage and face the cost of being an agent of Noh. This edition collects the original Kabuki: Masks of the Noh and Kabuki: Scarab in an easy to read trade paper back. With extras! Includes David's work with Tim Bradstreet, Rick Mays, Michael Avon Oeming and more! Perfect for old and new fans of David Mack and the Kabuki series! Immerse yourself in the inspiration for Sony's upcoming Kabuki television series!
It was a certain summer day when they met, a day that would go on forever. As their enemies stood in their path, members of the Mekukashi-dan fell one after another. After temporarily stalling their opponents, Azami came up with a radical plan to seal them away, but it could only succeed at the cost of the life of one of their own?
(W/A) Spica Aoki
While Kuroe and Minami were planning to announce their relationship to their classmates?eventually?they weren't planning to do it over social media. And they certainly weren't planning to announce it while Kuroe was in her transformed state! Newly dubbed 'Kaiju Prince' by his classmates, can Minami withstand the fallout??!
(W/A) Ulysse Malassagne
Nills and Anaelle were looking forward to the first night in their rustic cabin in the woods. But the couple's idyllic vacation is suddenly thrown into turmoil when a strange flash of light bursts from the fireplace. A portal appears and out of it spill dragon-like creatures that are armed to the teeth. They grab Anaelle and flee back through the portal, leaving a distraught Nills with a sudden decision: stay behind or leap through after her? He leaps. And that's when things get really weird.
(W) Homura Kawamoto (A/CA) Toru Naomura
Yumeko has received a mysterious letter inviting her to engage in another election bet! Will she accept!? (Do you have to ask?) As the Hyakkaou Academy General Election rages on, Yumeko engages in a two-on-two gamble with votes on the line! It looks like a simple card game with simple rules, but is that all there is to it...?
(W) Homura Kawamoto (A) Toru Naomura
Kirari Momobami, Ririka Momobami, Mary Saotome, and...Yumeko Jabami. The end of the election campaign is down to these four and their wills. Yumeko wants to gamble with Kirari in a true test of skill and instinct-but it's Kirari's twin sister, Ririka, who appears before her....
(W) Homura Kawamoto (A) Toru Naomura
Kirari, Ririka, Mary. The table around which these three have gathered might as well be a battlefield. The sisters' wills burn stronger than ever, and Kirari's self-awareness wavers. And what will Yumeko choose now that she has been forced off the board?? Everything comes crashing down as the end of the student council presidential election approaches!
(W) Homura Kawamoto (A/CA) Kei Saiki
Thanks to their strong bond, Mary and her team overcome the coupling gamble, and the now-famous gambling star joins forces with Aoi Mibuomi. But as she climbs the ranks of the wealthy institution, more and more begin to challenge her seat. Will Mary be able to handle this baptism by fire?!
(W) Homura Kawamoto (A) Kei Saiki
The Full-Bloom Society is disbanded, and Aoi leaves the academy. It seems like everything is returning to normal?except Mary still feels like something isn't quite right. Indeed, something 'strange' appears in the academy, and visitors from the middle school begin wreaking havoc. How will Mary deal with this new turn of fate?
(W) Waco Ioka, Midori Yuma (A) Waco Ioka
Aoi is excited about her chance to finally try the famous Tejin-ya kaiseki meal and stay the night in one of the inn's lavish rooms. But unexpected guests throw the staff into an uproar and send Aoi and the hot springs manager fleeing into the night. What mystery has arrived at the Demon's Gate while the ?danna is away?! For teen audiences.
Momoko is a Lolita, devoted to French Rococo, 18th century fashion, Vivienne Westwood shoes and embroidery. Ichigo is a Yanki whose loyalty to her moped - and her all-girl biker gang - borders upon the fanatic. What could bring these two outsiders with incredibly different personalities together? Is it possible for a Yanki and a Lolita to coexist without copious amounts of bloodshed? Or are Ichigo and Momoko fated to form a bond that will transcend the boundaries of fashion and logic? Rating: T+
(W/A) Touya Mikanagi
Kafka's hidden passageway has been found! Circus agents Eva and Hirato attempt to sneak in so they can shut down Kafka operations, once and for all. Meanwhile, Eliska is desperately trying to save Nai from certain death at the hands of Uro-even at the cost of her own life...
(W/A/CA) Jesse Reklaw
Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw's other books (LOVF, Couch Tag) have dug deep into the themes of childhood trauma and mental illness. This new collection of diary comic strips takes the concept of 'art as therapy' even further, as Reklaw uses the comics form to help maintain stability in his everyday life.
There's plenty more boisterous new Friends for Kaban and Serval to meet and play with! Fun times, chaotic adventures, laid-back lazy days-this volume's stuffed full of all that and more! Ages 10 and Up.
(W/A/CA) Furai
Welcome to Japari Park! On an island of animal-human hybrids, friendship and laughter abound, but what else lurks beneath the surface? Based on the sleeper hit anime that took Japan by storm!
(W/A/CA) Sho Aimoto
Inugami is a Tokyo detective who specializes in the occult. One day, answering a call to a remote village leads him to Dorotabo: a peculiar boy nicknamed after a yokai that haunts muddy rice paddies. The boy has no parents and is somewhat unnerving, emitting a foul odor that draws the ire of those around him. Inugami, however, quickly realizes that there's something more monstrous about Dorotabo than just his nickname, a fact proven when the two of them investigate an inhuman creature attacking local livestock. Perhaps Inugami can take this mistreated boy under his wing and train him to face the secret, supernatural beasts hidden in the world… using the eerie powers of his own body. NOTE: Volume 2 will be offered in a future issue of PREVIEWS.
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Inugami is a Tokyo detective who specializes in the occult. One day, answering a call to a remote village leads him to Dorotabo: a peculiar boy nicknamed after a yokai that haunts muddy rice paddies. The boy has no parents and is somewhat unnerving, emitting a foul odor that draws the ire of those around him. Inugami, however, quickly realizes that there's something more monstrous about Dorotabo than just his nickname-a fact proven when the two of them investigate an inhuman creature attacking local livestock. Perhaps Inugami can take this mistreated boy under his wing and train him to face the secret, supernatural beasts hidden in the world... using the eerie powers of his own body.
(W/A/CA) Sho Aimoto
Inugami is a Tokyo detective who specializes in the occult. One day, answering a call to a remote village leads him to Dorotabo: a peculiar boy nicknamed after a yokai that haunts muddy rice paddies. The boy has no parents and is somewhat unnerving, emitting a foul odor that draws the ire of those around him. Inugami, however, quickly realizes that there's something more monstrous about Dorotabo than just his nickname, a fact proven when the two of them investigate an inhuman creature attacking local livestock. Perhaps Inugami can take this mistreated boy under his wing and train him to face the secret, supernatural beasts hidden in the world, using the eerie powers of his own body!
(W/A/CA) Sho Aimoto
In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye... and vice-versa.
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye... and vice-versa.
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye... and vice-versa.
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Inugami, Kabane, and Kon visit Yashima in Shikoku, a well-known home of tanuki kemono. Kabane agrees to undergo a trial in order to gain the tanuki's illusion stone, but this will be no ordinary trial. Meanwhile, Kon has secret orders to take Kabane's stone, but a change is brewing inside her?
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Having defeated Inari's assassins Akagi and Kaede in an intense death match, Kabane receives the flowstone from the Orochi clan and now has a total of four stones. Meanwhile, Inugami has gone to Fukuoka in search of the purestone, and has to fight a sumo match against the kappa. Elsewhere, the shadow of a fox creeps near Akira as he travels with Yui... are they in danger?
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Now with five kemono stones in her possession, Inari smiles bewitchingly and speaks of monopolizing the food supply. Learning of her evil plot to use the humans under her command as food to control the kemono, Kabane and his friends visit the Ouga Ham factory. They split up into two parties, one to destroy the factory and another to find the stones. But the foxes have arrived first, and our heroes are met by a scene out of a nightmare!
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
A friend, a family member, a lover... everyone has someone they care about. And because of that, sometimes, they will fight desperately not to lose that someone. Inside the Ouga Ham factory, Kabane and Inugami work together in a joint attack against Haru and the other foxes in a battle over the stones, but Inugami is taken hostage by an unexpected opponent. Can Kabane save him?
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Kabane and his friends are training in a special space created by Iyohime's father Tarouta. Meanwhile, Nobimaru visits Inugami and talks about the foxes' upcoming attack on Yashima and the possibility of working together to stop the mission. However, an unexpected and ominous shadow approaches... What will come of its beautiful yet cruel flames?
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
To protect the tanuki living behind the illusions at Yashima from their attackers, their leader Tasaburo Tanuki III challenges the foxes alone. Meanwhile, Kabane and his friends finish their training with Fukuhime while on route to Yashima, where they see that Kaede and Akagi have joined together to become a giant fire fox. Wanting to repay the Yashima tanuki for all their help, including trusting him with their treasure, Kabane meets up with Kon, and together they head to battle.
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
The assault launched against Reverse Yashima by the two foxes comes to an end when Akagi falls, burned up in the flames of the peace he always longed for. Kabane, his friends, and the Shikoku tanuki all breathe a sigh of relief over this hard-won victory, but the emotional fatigue takes an even greater toll than all their scrapes and bruises. As they discuss what to do with their prisoner Kaede and how to obtain the remaining stones, more sad news comes to Yashima...
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
Kabane and his friends have gone to see the Kyoto foxes to learn more about Inari's past, and they decide to try and find a member of Genji, the division of the Kyoto Police Department that specializes in kemono investigations. But every member of Genji is human, and it seems that their leader Minamoto Raiden has a 'special' place in his heart for tanuki.... As Genji works out a plan to infiltrate a Kyoto fox lair, they suggest a contest against Kabane and company, but can humans and kemono really play together?
(W/A) Sho Aimoto
In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye… and vice-versa.
(W) Ryan Ferrier (A/CA) Daniel Bayliss
Writer: Ryan Ferrier Artist: Daniel Bayliss Cover Artist: Daniel Bayliss Synopsis: ' Oliver is a good dog. A family dog. But without warning, he's sentenced to Jackson State Kennel, where he's instantly placed on Death Row with the rest of his fellow inmates, awaiting a lethal appointment if salvation doesn't come. ' He'll need help escaping the Kennel, but when the stress of prison life builds, he starts escaping reality instead, imagining a fantasy world of cartoon friends. It's time to break out...into a musical number? ' Rising star writer Ryan Ferrier (Sons of Anarchy, Curb Stomp) and Russ Manning Award-nominated artist Daniel Bayliss (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Dragons) explore loss, mental illness, and the horrors humans and animals alike endure when incarcerated in this inventive, heartfelt journey. ' Collects the complete limited series. ' '...hits the right notes with a compelling story and beautiful art.' - Comicosity
(W) Toru Shirogane (A) Keyyang
The labyrinth calls, and is answered by adventurers, profiteers, and anyone looking to make a quick buck. And in this town inhabited by the dregs of society live a man, and the woman who owns him. Arwen, the Princess knight with lofty dreams of restoring her homeland-and Matthew, the town drunk. As Arwen challenges the labyrinth, Matthew spends his days in taverns and brothels living off the money he gets from her. But the town laughingstock has a side that no one knows about. In service of Arwen, Matthew would do anything-no matter how dirty he might get.
(W/A/CA) Toshio Satou
Lloyd is a novice adventurer who's dream is to discover 'true strength' in the capital he's always admired. The story starts with him departing from his hometown, which happens to be located right next to...one of the most dangerous dungeons in the world?!
(W) Toshio Satou (A/CA) Nao Watanuki
To prepare for the sorcery tournament, Lloyd works hard to hone his magical abilities, even as he struggles with his super-low self-esteem. But when he pulls out a legendary holy sword as he's picking up some trash, the competition takes an unexpected turns!
(W) Toshio Satou (A/CA) Nao Watanuki
Hailing from the boonies that's birthed more than its fair share of legends, Lloyd is amped about his next challenge-to work part-time as a live-in employee at a luxury hotel! With his over-the-top skills, he has the place squeaky-clean in no time at all, getting everything in the kitchen mise en place. With a cast as eccentric as this one, issues are bound to crop up, but no matter the problem, Lloyd is delighted to be at their service! Ages 13 and Up.
Lloyd's exploits has drawn the ire of a second-year student named Micona, who challenges him to little competition in the dungeon to prove which of them is better! But something about Lloyd's presence triggers the entry-level dungeon to active danger mode and suddenly pump out dragons! Amidst the chaos, a shadowy figure approaches Micona, offering his forbidden tactics...from Kunlun. For readers ages 13 and up.
(W) Toshio Satou
To heal from the battle with the mysterious Sou, Alka has brought the entire crew from Azami back to Lloyd's hometown, the village of Kunlun. Life in the boonies couldn't be stranger!