(W/A) Hikaru Nakamura Buddha the Enlightened One and Jesus, Son of God have successfully brought the 20th century to a close, and after a few millennia of guiding humanity to salvation, these two sacred ones are in need of some rest and relaxation. They decide to share an apartment on Earth in Tokyo, but living among mortals in the 21st century is no cakewalk for the saintly duo. They may find it difficult to navigate modern Japanese living, but Jesus' carefree attitude along with Buddha's domestic qualities and maybe a few divine interventions will surely allow them to enjoy their new lives with peace and love.

(W/A) Hikaru Nakamura Buddha the Enlightened One and Jesus, Son of God have successfully brought the 20th century to a close, and after a few millennia of guiding humanity to salvation, these two sacred ones are in need of some rest and relaxation. They decide to share an apartment on Earth in Tokyo, but living among mortals in the 21st century is no cakewalk for the saintly duo. They may find it difficult to navigate modern Japanese living, but Jesus' carefree attitude along with Buddha's domestic qualities and maybe a few divine interventions will surely allow them to enjoy their new lives with peace and love.

(W/A) Hikaru Nakamura Buddha the Enlightened One and Jesus, Son of God have successfully brought the 20th-century to a close, and after a few millennia of guiding humanity to salvation, these two sacred ones are in need of some rest and relaxation. They share an apartment on Earth in Tokyo, but living among mortals in the 21st century is no cakewalk for the saintly duo. They may find it difficult to navigate modern Japanese living, but Jesus' carefree attitude along with Buddha's domestic qualities and maybe a few divine interventions will surely allow them to enjoy their new lives with peace and love.

(W) Gisele Lagace, Eisu (A/CA) Eisu Freckle-faced Sandra is the girl next door striving to become the next top model, but so far her career has been more booth babe than runway walker. As this crazy Canadian tries to make it in France, Sandra has to deal with a sadistic supervisor, an icy ex-model, a seductive chauffeur, and beautiful people at every turn trying to date, develop, or destroy her! Collects over 250 installments of the popular webcomic series, including print-exclusive bonus stories! By the creative team of writer David Lumsdon (Ménage à 3) and artist Saiful Remy 'Eisu' Mokhtar (Carmen Chamelia, No Pink Ponies).

(W) Eisu, David Lumsdon (A/CA) Eisu Sandra finds herself the center of everyone's attention! She's lusted after by men and women alike, and glared at by the stars of a rival modelling agency. As Sandra's Paris modelling career begins to lead to worldwide renown, will one bold move jeopardize it all? Collects over 250 installments of the popular webcomic series, including print-exclusive bonus stories! By the creative team of writer David Lumsdon (M?nage ? 3) and artist Saiful Remy 'Eisu' Mokhtar (Carmen Chamelia, No Pink Ponies).

(W) Buncololi Sasaki's pet bird (and otherworld sage) Peeps has bestowed him with powerful magic and the ability to cross between worlds, all in order to game the system and live the good life. But due to unforeseen circumstances on both sides, things are not going as planned. Sasaki's job as a government psychic is not all it's cracked up to be, and with a magical girl out for blood, a neighbor giving into dark temptations, and a former enemy changing sides, Sasaki and Peeps are looking at a big traffic jam on their road to success!

(W) Buncololi (A) Kantoku Thanks to Peeps getting a little lost in the sauce, the existence of the base that Futarishizuka established is leaked online! Without a way to point the finger at anyone in particular, the situation quickly erupts into chaos. Meanwhile, Sasaki gets a new assignment. And this time it's?dealing with a giant monster in the Pacific Ocean?!

(W/A/CA) Chynna Clugston Flores Take a ride to southern California and experience CHYNNA CLUGSTON FLORES' screwball dark comedy classic in FULL COLOR. A love letter to mod and scooter culture, SCOOTER GIRL is the story of Ashton Archer, the Vespa-riding, swanky suit-wearing man about town who has it all. That is, until lightning strikes when the girl of his dreams motors right past him on her Lambretta, causing him to lose it all. Convinced that her presence and antagonization has ruined his life, Ashton sets out to end the black curse put upon him by any means necessary.

It's finally here... Six years and almost one thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain - all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour!

(W) Mark Russell (A) Richard Pace & Various (CA) Richard Pace The book everyone's talking about, by award-winning writer Mark Russell (Wonder Twins, The Flintstones) and artist Richard Pace (Pitt, New Warriors) ...now in one volume! God commands Earth's mightiest superhero, Sunstar, to accept Jesus as his roommate and teach him how to use power more forcefully. Jesus, shocked at the way humans have twisted his message over two millennia, vows to straighten them out. Collects Second Coming #1-6.

(W/A) Doug Sneyd Veteran artist Doug Sneyd presents a collection of unpublished cartoon concepts created throughout his career with Playboy magazine. This novelty book is packed from end to end with one-liners and pretty girls-funny, charming, and risqu? jokes, each one full of all the life and expression that only a master artist can impart with a few strokes of the pen and brush! o Over 200 original cartoons! o Foreword by cartoonist Arnold Roth (The New Yorker, TIME, and Sports Illustrated).

(W/A/CA) Keith Jones When two simple hobos - a pigeon and his elephant buddy - are wrongfully accused of murdering Mr. Mouse Mouser, the consequences are dire. Jones delineates an alternate universe-a world that favors the rich and grinds the poor and unfortunate into paste. Each page is a brightly colored nightmare populated with vapid celebrities and lazily scheming businessmen. Secretimes is darkly funny in Jones's irresistibly off-kilter signature style.

(W/A/CA) Karino Takatsu On any given day in a certain city, in a certain public services office building down in the Health and Welfare Department, you just might run into a clerk with a tongue twister of a name, a huge flirt, a bundle of insecurity, and a cosplay maniac!

(W/A/CA) Karino Takatsu Romance is afoot and comedic misunderstandings abound in this professional (?) civil service office! Can Hasebe manage to successfully woo Lucy? Will Ichimiya and Chihaya come clean about their relationship (?) to Ichimiya's little sister? And what is up with the bunny rabbit office manager...? Seriously, that guy's just... wrong. It's the final volume, so it's all coming together somehow! Right...?

(W) Kikiki Tataki (A) Hotomura Gym teacher Tsuji-sensei has one mission: help with Japan's terrible modern sex education standards. The problem is, her students barely know their birds from their bees! Between a girl who already has a girlfriend, a hard-core BL lover, and a girl who only cares about cats, Tsuji-sensei has her work cut out for her.

(W) Kikiki Tataki (A) Hotomura Sexuality, gender, and sex. If you read this, your empathy levels go 120% up! 'When you're the one propositioning, what are your responsibilities?' 'What is the truth about false phimosis?' 'Is dressing up something you do for the opposite sex?' 'Are pads not the only sanitary product?' From consent to anatomy of the opposite sex to the topic of gender roles, the rebellious gym teacher Tsuji is ready to tackle her students' toughest questions!

(W) Kikiki Tataki (A) Hotomura Naoko Tsuji has been teaching her students all about sex, but how will she respond to feelings of love from a female coworker?! This final volume tackles important topics like whether you can fall in love with someone of the same sex, how the transgender experience varies, and whether not cooperating with birth control can be considered domestic violence. (STL211359) (C: 0-1-2) MATURE THEMES RES. from Previews Vol. XXXI #11 (NOV211871)

(W) Nanatsuki Takafumi (A/CA) Risumai Seikain Girls' School: an elite boarding academy for girls from only the richest and most prestigious of families. Here, the students are raised to be perfect young ladies, cut off from the real world to preserve their innocence and ensure that they're free from all distractions. This student body has never even met a boy their own age, until they abduct Kagurazaka Kimito, an average high school boy who will teach them about the world beyond the school's ivory gates - whether he likes it or not!

(W) Akinari Asakura (A) Takeshi Obata Ever since he failed to make his crush laugh, shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. Meanwhile, his classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might be able to create a wave of laughter that reaches to the heavens and propels them to the top of the comedy world! For teen audiences.

(W) Akinari Asakura (A) Takeshi Obata A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)! Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm! Three comedy duos have finished their acts for the Wara-1 Koshien championship, and none have come close to beating Broken Glass Slipper's high score! But with Brutus finally taking the competition seriously and an experienced group like Sprechchor waiting in the wings, could Broken Glass Slipper be looking at the end of their first-place reign?

Brian, Brad and Matt are good guys with no direction and zero motivation. They play video games, eat junk food, and kick around town without a care in the world. But their serene laziness disappears when Matt's crush, Amber, announces her intention to accompany Matt's nemesis, Richard the jock, to the big rock show. Determined to steer her away from the jerk, the boys must overcome an irate football team, a vengeful troop of Girl Scouts, and a seriously evil cat... in a giant rock 'n' roll videogame adventure!

(W/A) Various The wild adventures of the first Disney star created just for comics- and Donald Duck's hilarious funny-page debut! 1932 saw the launch of Disney's second-ever original comic strip, the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies, and with it came the debut of Bucky Bug, a daring, rhyming, mischievous squirt whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the terrifying trenches of the Great Flyburg War! With his brave lady friend June and bumpkin pal Bo, Bucky even travels to a mixed-up Mother Goose Land? where a not-so-merry Old King Cole has mayhem on his mind! Now in this latest stand-alone Disney reprint collection, readers can follow all of Bucky's adventures and the Symphonies Sunday sagas that followed, which also includes Donald Duck's debut as the barnyard's spoilt brat in 'The Wise Little Hen'? and further tales of golden age Silly Symphony cartoon stars: egotistical Max Hare, slow-but-sure Toby Tortoise, and that awful bandit Dirty Bill (who 'never took a bath, and he never will!').

(W) Al Taliaferro & Various The comic strips that made Donald Duck a star? and the huff-andpuff howls of Disney's legendary lobo! The 1930s were the heyday of Disney's second-ever newspaper comics feature: the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies! Fantagraphics' latest volume showcases Donald Duck's extended run as star of the strip: from his pranks on Goofy to his battles with Mickey's naughty nephews-and the unforgettable debut of Donald's own riotous relatives, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, first created for this strip by artist Al Taliaferro! Also in this volume: the perilous pork pursuits of Zeke the Big Bad Wolf, who witht he Three Little Pigs also made his comics debut in Silly Symphonies! Plus dog tales with Pluto? and two tales of Elmer Elephant, one plotted by comics maestros Carl Barks and Walt Kelly!

Sinfest is BACK, and better than ever! Viva la Resistance features over a year and a half of never-before-collected strips from the webcomic phenomenon that's 'head-and-shoulders above the rest [. . . and] superior to most print comic strips, too' (R. C. Harvey). What other series has had the chutzpah to make characters out of God, the Devil, Jesus, Buddha, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and corrupt Wall Street CEOs? As the Onion's AV Club remarked, Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest is 'irreverent and playful . . . [crossing] lines that few cartoonists would dare toe.' Widely acclaimed for both style and content, Sinfest is a frequent entry in critics' 'Best Comics of the Year' lists (The Comics Journal, MTV, Comics Reporter, Comics Worth Reading) and just hit its tenth year of serialization. Don't miss it! An entire volume of never-before-collected strips, for the first time since 2005! Web traffic on sinfest.net averages 2.3 million unique visitors per month!

(W) Yomi Hirasaka (A/CA) Kantoku Sister-obsessed author Itsuki Hashima is embroiled in a bitter struggle with his popular series Sisterly Combat. Between video games and mixed baths and cherry blossom viewing and making up excuses for his editor, he's slowly but surely making progress on his manuscript.

(W) Yomi Hirasaka (CA) Kantoku The gang gathers at Itsuki's to celebrate the premiere of his new anime! Naturally, tensions are high since it could be a flop, but they can't help feeling excited anyway. Between tentacles, maid outfits, and a confession of love, it's business as usual for our favorite light novelists! For readers 16 and up.

(W) Yomi Hirasaka (A) Kantoku Winter ends, spring arrives, and our protagonists take a new step forward. Haruto announces a new series. Miyako joins Branch Hill Publishing to finally become a professional editor. Chihiro becomes the life of her university's TRPG club. Finally, a 100,000-character love letter inspires Itsuki to pour more energy into his novel and become a genuine protagonist. A new everyday life dawns as the series enters the first half of its final chapter!

Kyoko's broken heart keeps her from getting into her talent agency of choice. The eccentric president of the agency decides to give her a second chance, but it requires her to wear a bright pink uniform, put up with spoiled stars, and try to live up to the name of her new position - the Love Me Section! Can Kyoko stand the indignity long enough to find her vengeance?

Kyoko needs to make some quick cash to pay for acting school, but an easy job as a seat filler for a variety show soon has her on stage - in a chicken suit! Her debut as Chicken Bo is just the break she needs, but a mess of rivalries could trip up her rise to the top. And things get even crazier when she's asked to sub for Ren Tsuruga's sick manager. Can her earnest hard work override a bad first impression, or will he become a powerful enemy?

Kyoko's dreams are finally coming true! She's landed a spot in Sho's new video, and revenge is in sight! But vengeance isn't as easy as she thought, and her rage starts to get in the way of her acting. When her performance catches the attention of some important people, Kyoko finds herself working with the terrifying Ren Tsuruga! Can she make it work, or will her growing fame be her downfall?!

Kyoko's been scouted for a role in the year's most anticipated drama, Dark Moon! It's a remake of the classic drama Tsukimori, and expectations from the producers are high. But disaster lurks around every corner as Kyoko and Ren struggle with their roles and costars. Can their growing friendship help them weather the storm, or will it prove to be a dramatic liability?!

Kyoko expected the drama Dark Moon to test her acting talents, but she never guessed that a pro like Ren would have trouble too! Even more surprising, Ren needs her help as a friend. But will her war with Sho and the sudden appearance of a new enemy keep her from Ren's side?! Age Rating: T

Saving Kyoko from Reino's attack has finally knocked some sense into Sho's head, but before he can tell Kyoko how he feels, Ren shows up to ruin the moment. But Kyoko's got bigger problems to deal with than their secret battle for her affections - she's in danger of being typecast as creepy and twisted! How will she ever get to play a beautiful princess if everyone just wants her to play the damaged bully?!

Kyoko and Ren have an embarrassment of mentors as Koo and Lory keep meddling in their lives and careers. The two veterans of show business just want what's best for their prot?g?s, but their methods are a bit unconventional. Will their well-meant assistance propel Ren and Kyoko to the next level, or will it make everything come tumbling down?!

Kyoko's recent efforts to improve her craft have really paid off! She's brought new life to her new bully role and really impressed the director and crew. But Kyoko's success sends her costar Chiori over the edge! Can Kyoko use her understanding of the dark side to help her fellow actress work past her personal demons, or will the clash of their personalities destroy the set?!

(W/A/CA) Yoshiki Nakamura Kyoko finally has Sho's attention, and now she doesn't want it! It's not that she's given up on her revenge, but she's busy focusing on her career and doesn't want Sho poking around and annoying her. And Sho proves her concerns right when his Valentine's Day prank goes horribly wrong and gets Kyoko in trouble with the president of L.M.E.!

(W/A/CA) Yoshiki Nakamura Ren's new roles are dredging up old memories best left buried. He's having trouble dealing with the emotional turmoil, and Kyoko's sudden popularity with her cast mate Kijima isn't helping matters! Can Kyoko keep Ren's warring personalities in check, or will his dark persona forget that his violent edge is supposed to be an act?!

(W/A/CA) Yoshiki Nakamura Ren is playing a strange double role as the half-British actor Cain Heel who's starring as the supernatural serial killer BJ in a new thriller. Normally Ren would have no trouble maintaining both roles, but playing BJ requires him to tap the darkest depths of his psyche, and it's starting to takes its toll on him. To help ease his strain, Kyoko has been assigned to keep an eye on him as Cain Heel's sister Setsuka. Kyoko seems to have a special insight into Ren's torment that lets her help him, but how can she keep things professional when she keep walking in on him in the shower!

(W/A/CA) Yoshiki Nakamura Kyoko has realized that she has feelings for Ren, and it's horrible! She's convinced he'll be disgusted with her for not keeping her heart in check. And she's worried that the president of LME will catch a whiff of love and spill her terrible secret! But instead she gets an unexpected reprieve when she's taken off Setsuka duty in order to study for finals and do some location shooting in Guam. Will time away from Ren help her clear her head, or will an unexpected reunion with an old friend just add to her confusion?! For teen audiences.

(W/A/CA) Honda Gain a glimpse with Honda and the staff into the whirlwind that comes with second edition printings!! And if you're wondering why you can't find the book you want at any bookstore...well, that's because everyone else is buying up copies, just like you were hoping to! For readers ages 16 and up.