(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)
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(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!').
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!
(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.
(W) Tyler Burton Smith (A) Vanessa Cardinali, Simon Robins (CA) Becky Cloonan
We all have nightmares. What if you could pay somebody to enter your dreams and shoot that nightmare in the goddamn face? That's where Stetson comes in. She's a nightmare hunter. A dream detective. She enters her clients' dreams through a door, investigates their dreamscapes, and kills their nightmares. But Stetson's past comes back to haunt her as she tracks down a nightmare serial killer responsible for the mysterious death of her daughter. Collects SLUMBER #1-6
(W/A) Valerie Minelli
Valérie Minelli's tremendously popular Mrs. Frollein comics have been stirring emotion in people all over the world with heartfelt and earnest strips making fun of the mundane. These perfectly poignant webcomics find inspiration in the everyday, encompassing rainy coffee mornings, playful relationship adventures, and quiet introspective moments. The small, unexpected minutes that quilt life together. In addition to many of the most recent fan-favorite Mrs. Frollein strips, Small Hours also includes twenty-five all-new, never before released comics as well as a foreword from fellow web-comic luminaries, Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich of War and Peas.
(W) Zack Keller (A) Gabriele Bagnoli
There is a town in Ireland where people still do Halloween the old-fashioned way: an annual sporting competition to honor the Spirits. Every year, the perfect, prestigious O'Dell family makes an absolute mockery of the lovable but laughable Flanagan family at The Spirit Games, dashing their dreams of winning. But this year, teenage troublemaker Pad Flanagan plans to change everything: he tricks the Spirit of an ancient Celtic hero into training his family for the big event… accidentally opening a supernatural floodgate of mischief, magic and monsters that threatens to destroy his town.
(W) Michael McDermott & Various (A) Franco Viglino & Various (CA) Jerry Gaylord
SMOSH, the Kings of YouTube Comedy, now bring their wildly popular humor sketches -- namely, Super Virgin Squad, Box Man, and That Damn Neighbor -- to comics! Behold, the Super Virgin Squad! Gathered together in the V-Cave, this group of unique individuals channel their sexual frustration into superhuman abilities to defend the physically weak, the socially awkward... the geekiest among us! Billy, Paulie, and Stevie's latest mission? To save one of their moms from the presumably slimy seductions of a website swinger! Beware of That Damn Neighbor! Benny Jean and Cletus just want to drink beer and admire their lawn flamingo, but the weirdo next door will not be ignored! Witness a tale of friendship, fame, and freak accidents as Box Man's origin springs to life, in crazy detail! Thrill as Box Man and friends try to make sense of his weird twist of fate, attempting to make him the first-ever cardboard hero and, when that fails, settling on celebrity spokesperson. But can a move made in desperation ever go wr
Double Fine Productions and Oni Press present to you, 'Snapshots,' a collection of captured moments brought to you by animator, artist extraordinaire, and Art Director at Double Fine Productions, Mark Hamer. This book collects the first 180 pieces Mark created over the years in a lovely little format. It features the whimsical, the tragic, and the humorous all wrapped in a layer of nostalgic imitation photographs.
(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz
Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron collects all of Schulz's daily and Sunday newspaper strips starring Snoopy as the famous World War I flying ace, as seen in next month's The Peanuts Movie, perennially battling the infamous German Red Baron. These Snoopy and Red Baron encounters are some of the most inspired-and most popular-episodes in all of Peanuts, and among the stories most beloved by children and adults alike.
(W) Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung (A/CA) Leslie Hung, Mickey Quinn
From bestselling BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY (Scott Pilgrim) and superstar newcomer LESLIE HUNG! Lottie Person is a glamorous fashion blogger living her best life-at least that's what she wants you to think. The truth is, her friends are terrible people, her boyfriend traded her up for someone younger, her allergies are out of control, and she may or may not have killed somebody! SNOTGIRL, VOL. 1 is the perfect introduction to one of 2016's most buzzed-about titles! Collects SNOTGIRL #1-5.
(W) Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung (A/CA) Leslie Hung
The biggest fashion disaster in comics is back! Fashion blogger Lottie Person just wants to live up to her flawless online persona-but why is real life so much harder?
(W/A/CA) Go Ikeyamada
Chiharu Uesgui's devious ploy to use Megumu against Aoi has only brought the lovebirds closer together. And it's also given Megumu an intriguing glimpse into Uesugi's past with her boyfriend. Can she figure out how their friendship went sour before Uesugi tries something even worse?! For teen audiences.
(W) Baba Okina (A/CA) Kiryu Tsukasa
I used to be a normal high school girl but in the blink of an eye, I woke up in a place I've never seen before and-and I was reborn as a spider?! How could something that's nothing more than a tiny spider (that's me) possibly survive in literally the worst dungeon ever? Are there no rules? There should be some rules! Who the hell is responsible for this? SHOW YOUR FACE!
(W) Okina Baba (A) Tsukasa Kiryu
The demon army is on the march, rushing toward the decisive battle that will rid the world of the elves and their evil once and for all. Meanwhile, the time is fast approaching for Shun and his friends to reunite with their friends and classmates who they assumed were long dead. But when that moment comes, who will they stand with-the elves they've been fighting alongside with, or people they knew in their former lives?
(W/A/CA) Ethan Young
? Pilgrim Finch is an adventurous astronaut bear who explores the cosmos with a mission to bring samples of life back to his home planet. But when he crash lands on a new planet full of surprises and danger around every corner, Pilgrim will be forced to question his orders and learn that there's only one mission that matters-compassion to all living creatures no matter the stakes! ? Award-winning cartoonist Ethan Young presents a timely, silent story perfect for readers of all ages about discovering the unknown and empathy for everyone we encounter, because every friendship begins with an act of kindness.
(W/A) Sankichi Hinodeya
It's the Final Splatfest, with Blue and friends vs. Team Hivemind! And then, during a new Turf War, Goggles and his team encounter a mysterious group of Inklings who look strangely familiar? Can Team Blue defeat the Shadows? For all ages.
(W) Hideki Goto
This sixth volume of the hilarious adventures of Hit and Maika is bound to even make their archenemies, the Salmonids, bust out laughing! For all ages.
(W/A/CA) Junko
From the creator of the hit manga and anime Kiss Him, Not Me! comes another off-the-wall, geeky shojo comedy! A series of mixups leads to God misplacing the souls of a girl and the handsome idol singer she adores-in each other's bodies! And they can switch back and forth by?kissing?! Azusa lives for only one man: Chika-kun, the cutest and most popular star in the idol group Prince 4 U. She goes to the shows. She watches the interviews. She ropes in her long-suffering best friend and makes him stand in line at dawn to buy the latest exclusive merch. But one concert changes her life, when she accidentally dies trying (and failing) to save his life! It turns out it was all a mix-up, and God agrees to return the two of them to Earth?but fate's mistakes don't end there, as they each wake up in the other's body! To make matters even weirder, they discover they can switch back and forth by kissing! What on Earth does heaven have in store for them?
(W/A/CA) Junko
Azusa lives for only one man: Chika-kun, the cutest and most popular star in the idol group Prince 4 U. She goes to the shows. She watches the interviews. She ropes in her long-suffering best friend and makes him stand in line at dawn to buy the latest exclusive merch. But one concert changes her life, when she accidentally dies trying (and failing) to save his life! It turns out it was all a mix-up, and God agrees to return the two of them to Earth? but fate's mistakes don't end there, as they each wake up in the other's body! To make matters even weirder, they discover they can switch back and forth by kissing! What on Earth does heaven have in store for them?
(W/A/CA) Junko
Azusa lives for only one man: Chika-kun, the cutest and most popular star in the idol group Prince 4 U. She goes to the shows. She watches the interviews. She buys the latest exclusive merch. But one concert changes her life, when she accidentally dies trying (and failing) to save his life! It turns out it was all a mix-up, and God agrees to return the two of them to Earth - but fate's mistakes don't end there, as they each wake up in the other's body!