(W) Dan Abnett (A) Mark Harrison The stunning second volume of the dystopian satire of alien immigration cops! North America, 2045. The Global Exo Segregation Zone (aka the 'Grey Area') is a huge holding area in Arizona housing aliens hoping to visit earth: The only thing standing in the way of chaos is the Exo Transfer Control squads: E.T.C. Captain Adam Bulliet has a lot on his plate; The Arakshu want revenge on humanity for their dead ambassador, increasing numbers of aliens are having rapturous visions, and his fraternisation with Officer Birdy isn't nearly as discrete as he thought. Not to mention a dizzyingly colossal god star is descending on Earth, and Bulliet's team are the ones suiting up to meet 'n' greet the second coming. But they might end up going further than they expect…

(W/A/CA) Erin Nations Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin's gender transition, anecdotal tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept love-struck teenager named Tobias. The wide-ranging series is filled with single-page gag cartoons, visual diaries of everyday life, funny faux personal ads, and real-life horror stories from customers at his day job. Gumballs offers a variety of flavors that will surely delight anyone with a taste for candid self-reflection and observations of humanity. This book collects Gumballs #1-4, plus 32 pages of brand-new content! Gumballs tips its hat to the classic alt-comic tradition of Eightball, Optic Nerve, and Box Office Poison, but speaks with a delightfully fresh voice for the modern age. 'Gumballs is funny, sincere, and just generally brilliant-when dealing with autobiography, fake personal ads, or any number of other events. Nations is a promising new voice in comics, and you need to read Gumballs.' -ComicsVerse 'Gumballs lays bare a lot of serious, complicated stuff and p

(W) Junji Ohno & Various (A) Katoki Hajime Based on the legendary 'lost' episode from the First Gundam TV series, this is the story of Cucuruz Doan like you've never seen it before. Created as a spinoff of original character designer and animation director Yoshikawa Yasuhiko's own manga retelling of First Gundam in Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN, this 5-volume series explores the ramifications of Cucuruz Doan's actions from the perspective of the Zeon soldiers under his command. Gundam veteran Junji Ohno brings us brand-new characters and a new view of the development of the original mobile suits, all with the imprimatur of Yasuhiko himself.

(W) Junji Ohno & Various (A) Katoki Hajime Former Zeon mobile suit squad leader Cucuruz Doan deserted, taking up residence on a small island where he helped to raise a number of orphaned children. But what about the other members of his squad? While the original story was told from federation pilot Amuro Ray's perspective, Ohno's limited series goes beyond the original television episode to explore the ramifications of Doan's actions on his own troops, bringing us a multilayered and emotionally complex view of the events from Zeon's perspective.

(W) Junji Ohno & Various (A) Katoki Hajime The Y-02 platoon is forced to make hard choices as the pragmatism of the battlefield collides with their intrinsic morality. We witness their participation in the early stages of Operation British, the disastrous consequences of which gave rise to the deaths of billions and caused the direct invasion of Jaburo currently underway. As that battle rages on, Vasily is confronted with not one but two Gundams, his Dom all that stands between them and the annihilation of Kitz and his entire unit!

(W) Junji Ohno & Various (A) Katoki Hajime Vasily is ready to throw away his own life to save his comrades from the threat of not one but two Gundams-but even the combined firepower of Ensign Kitz's entire platoon isn't enough to stop them, and the Federation's prototype beam weapon wreaks devastation on the forces invading Jaburo. The war goes from bad to worse for Zeon, and as the front lines move into outer space, the recollections of the Y-02 unit's former members bring us closer to the truth of Cucuruz Doan's desertion…

(W) Junji Ohno & Various (A) Katoki Hajime Former Zeon mobile suit squad leader Cucuruz Doan deserted, taking up residence on a small island where he helped to raise a number of orphaned children. But what about the other members of his squad? While the original story was told from federation pilot Amuro Ray's perspective, Ohno's limited series goes beyond the original television episode to explore the ramifications of Doan's actions on his own troops, bringing us a multilayered and emotionally complex view of the events from Zeon's perspective.

(W/A/CA) Captain Artiglio

The critically acclaimed sci-fi series is collected into a trade paperback for the first time! Paul Tobin and PJ Holden bring you a vision of an apocalyptic battle between mechs and nightmarish monsters on all fronts of the known universe, where countless versions of Cassandra Potts are entering battle after battle, searching for victory. This first volume will include bonus sketches and preliminary art designs, as well as a look at Tobin's original script.

(W) P.J. Herault, Mathieu Mariolle (A/CA) Livia Pastore Deep in space sits The Materedu, where the soldiers of the Terran Coalition are cloned from the best who came before them, and trained under an artificial sun to fight in the endless conflict with a fearsome foe. Among them, average combat pilot Gurvan dreams of surviving the seven years each Coalition fighter must serve, so that he may retire to the distant peace of Earth. But when Gurvan crosses paths with an opposing soldier, he begins to wonder if he knows his enemy? or even his allies. Explore the distant stars in this rare translation and adaptation of legendary French science-fiction writer P.J. H?rault's Gurvan, in English for the first time!

(W) Matt Miner, Matt Maguire (A/CA) Jonathan Brandon Sawyer From the depths of outer space to the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, punk rock and heavy metal's most shocking and blasphemous band of intergalactic blood spewing alien monsters has returned to kill everything and respect nothing in the pages of GWAR: Orgasmageddon! Banished to the past by the cold and calculating Mr. Perfect, the heroes of GWAR trample through time like a deranged Bill and Ted on bath salts - antics ensue as they stomp and smash and shape human history to what we accept as our current reality.

(W) Alyssa Milano & Various (A/CA) Marcus To Writers: Alyssa Milano, Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing Artist: Marcus To Cover Artist: Marcus To Synopsis: Nate Graft and Edward Hiccox were the young, brilliant co-founders of the social networking company YourLife while secretly running .sve_urs3lf, a hacker collective enabling revolutions around the globe. It's been six months since Ed was killed by a drone on national television while fighting for freedom. It's been six months since Nate lost his company, his best friend, and his mission. Now in charge of the government organization VIGIL, the front line of America's ongoing cyber operations, Nate has started to pick up the pieces of his life when the government comes under attack from a new breed of hacker? working under the name .sve_urs3lf. Collects the complete limited series.

(W) Chris Schlerf (A) Sergio Arino & Various (CA) Anthony Palumbo Following the events of Halo 4, Captain Thomas Lasky and Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer lead the UNSC Infinity into a battle against enemies without and within! The story of the Halo? universe continues in this thrilling collection of Halo: Escalation #1-#6. o From Chris Schlerf, lead writer of Halo 4!

(W) Brian Reed, Duffy Boudreau (A) Sergio Arino & Various (CA) Sparth The fall of New Phoenix, Master Chief's return to action, and a dark plot by the Office of Naval Intelligence-all in this volume collecting Halo: Escalation issues #7-#12 by Brian Reed (Amazing Spider-Man), Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre), Sergio Ari?o (Ms. Marvel), Ricardo S?nchez (Green Arrow), and Douglas Franchin (Person of Interest).

(W) Duffy Boudreau (A) Sergio Arino & Various (CA) Daniel Chavez Halo 4's Spartan Ops continues here as the UNSC Infinity battles the Covenant for control of the all-powerful Forerunner Janus Key. Plus, Spartan Tanaka's thrilling origin story revealed-all in this volume collecting Halo: Escalation issues #13-#18 by Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre), Sergio Ari?o (Ms. Marvel), and Douglas Franchin (Person of Interest).

(W) Brian Reed & Various (A) Marco Castiello (CA) TBD From the rise of Sarah Palmer to the rank of Spartan Commander aboard flagship Infinity to the UNSC's extraordinary efforts to stop the machinations of Jul 'Mdama and the Covenant, this stunning collection contains Halo: Initiation #1-#3 and Halo: Escalation #1-#24 and features scripts by Halo 5: Guardians lead writer Brian Reed and Halo 4 senior writer Christopher Schlerf. A must have for any fan of Halo!

Halo?-one of the most iconic video game franchises in history-comes to Dark Horse! Before she was a supersolider defending humanity as part of the Spartan-IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST-Orbital Drop Shock Trooper-carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines! Join her on her dramatic journey from the ranks of humanity's toughest leathernecks to the highest echelon of elite warriors in the galaxy. Collects the three-issue miniseries.

(W) Brian Michael Bendis & Various (A) Alex Maleev & Various Halo: Uprising follows the Master Chief as he single-handedly takes on the Covenant's miles-long Forerunner Dreadnought as it makes its way to Earth! Then, join the ranks of the UNSC's meanest, most battle-hardened Marines in Helljumper, as a group of ODST respond to a remote science colony's SOS call and discover an enormous Covenant military presence! Finally, a UNSC ship encounters a strange phenomenon that sends it plummeting toward an unknown planet. The Spartan Black fireteam needs to unlock the secrets of an ancient Forerunner installation if they're going to survive the experience but, to complicate matters, they're not the only ones shipwrecked.

(W) Peter Milligan (A/CA) Michael Montenat Collecting the timely series that SyFy Wire called 'a world-class comics satire in the making'! In future America, being happy isn't just a right-it's the law. While the Joy Police brutally enforce the cheery code, two young people go on the run, searching for a haven of melancholy where they can safely bask in the blues.

In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness by attempting suicide via starvation. One of the girls-Tuan Kirie-grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.

Based on Meteor Entertainment's Free-to-Play, Massively-Multiplayer online shooter Hawken, an immersive, fast-paced game featuring giant mechs on a technologized world, this original graphic novel serves as both prequel and sourcebook for the game world. It offers players a glimpse of what came before the game, and what might come in the months ahead. Hawken: Genesis focuses on the relationship between Rion Lazlo, the man who would be king, and James Hawken, the brilliant inventor who paved the way for Lazlo's success. What begins as a mutually beneficial partnership developing magnificent technology for the planet's largest corporation state devolves into betrayal and conflict that soon leads to a man-made cataclysm that changes the face of the planet forever.

(W/A) Tsuyoshi Takaki Synopsis After Roue accidentally activates Chrome without a base program, what's essentially his soul, she and Uncle Zett invite him into their makeshift family and encourage him to choose his own purpose. But when an insane machine attacks their home, will Chrome survive, much less find his purpose?

(W/A/CA) Paul Pope Celebrate the 20th anniversary of PAUL POPE's (Battling Boy, Batman: Year 100) Eisner-nominated sci-fi/cyberpunk classic with this new edition. Time Magazine listed HEAVY LIQUID among the 100 most important science fiction graphic novels of the decade when it originally debuted in the 2000s, and its relevance and influence has only increased since it was first published. In a future where New York has evolved into a sci-fi metropolis, a man named S becomes entwined in a mystery that's littered with love and drugs-and in particular, an addictive substance called heavy liquid that's both a drug and an art form. In his search for the one artist skilled enough to render heavy liquid into a perfect sculpture, S finds himself battling deadly psychopathic foes as well as the inner demons of addiction. If he can survive these physical and mental trials, S just might discover the shocking secret behind heavy liquid, and a love he thought lost forever. Collects HEAVY LIQUID #1-5.

(W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Arjuna Susini Welcome to planet Heist! It's the cutthroat capital of the entire Nehring System, home to billions of the worst men and women in the galaxy. The Pan-Galactic government has no idea what to do with the planet, but conman Glane Breld and his band of thieves know exactly what to do with Heist-they're going to steal it. It's Ocean's Eleven in space, brought to you by writer Paul Tobin (Colder and Bandette) and Arjuna Susini (The Replacer)-the only minds crazy enough to steal an entire world.

(W) Jean-David Morvan (A) Looky As war rages across the Galactic Frontier, one half-man, half-god super-soldier faces his greatest enemy - His own demons - In a bid for truth and redemption!

(W) Kizuka Nero The next target on Kaito's quest for vengeance is Grond the merchant, a money-hungry villain who goes as far as murder to satisfy his greed. But when Kaito finally gets Grond in his clutches, he forces the corrupt magnate to make an impossible choice: Would he rather part with his money or his life?

(W) Kizuka Nero Sights set on their next target, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria travel to the city of Kabanheim, where they find Minnalis's traitorous childhood friends leading carefree lives. But soon the partners in crime come across someone not even Kaito could have predicted-a woman named Leone who was also summoned from Earth. Still possessed of her morals, Leone attempts to interfere with their rampage of revenge?but there's no stopping Minnalis from exacting vengeance on the people who doomed her to slavery and caused the death of her mother.

(W/A) Nero Kizuka Metalia ambushes Kaito just after he completes his latest feat of vengeance, forcing him through a portal back to present-day Japan. Stripped of his memories, Kaito comes to terms with his tragic new reality-a world where almost everyone he knows is dead and the police surveil him around the clock on suspicion of committing a heinous crime. Even this fragile status quo is disrupted when an assassin nearly succeeds in taking his life. But the brush with death restores Kaito of his memories and powers, giving him the perfect opportunity to take revenge on his assailant and chart a course back to his partners in crime?

(W) Rafael Scavone, Rafael Albuquerque (A/CA) Rafael Albuquerque Hidden from ordinary eyes, there is a world alongside our own full of deities, demons, and danger-where magic wins out over science and dark secrets lie in wait. Ulloo, the last wizard from the Hidden Society, enlists the aid of a blind girl and her demon, a young magician, and a cursed bounty hunter in order to stop a group of nihilist warlocks from waking the Society's greatest nemesis: a primeval force that, unchecked, will scorch the planet bare of all life. Collects Hidden Society #1-#4, along with all covers, a sketchbook section, and pinups by F?bio Moon, Gabriel B?, Greg Tocchini, and Matteo Scalera.

(W/A/CA) Hidetaka Tenjin Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin captures the high-flying action of the series' iconic 'variable fighters' like no other artist through his hyper-realistic illustrations for model kits, magazines, promotional materials, and more. This second volume collects Tenjin's illustrations from the Macross FRONTIER films, Macross DELTA TV series & films, and WALK?RE LAUNCH!!!!!, as well as an archive of his work on videogames, novels, animation and more.

Space is dead. Why conquer other planets when there's a perfectly good Earth in the universe next door? Heidi, a girl born in garbage. Rex, a soldier gone rogue. The only thing between them and their destiny is an empire of a hundred different Earths, across a hundred alternate timelines. One majestic planet dominates them all: HIGHER EARTH. Created and written by Sam Humphries (OUR LOVE IS REAL, Marvel's THE ULTIMATES, FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES), HIGHER EARTH VOLUME 1 collects the first five issues of the sold out series, featuring arresting art by Francesco Biagini (ELRIC: THE BALANCE LOST). Also includes Higher Earth #5, the secret origin issue, drawn by MORNING GLORIES fan-favorite artist, Joe Eisma!

Heidi, a girl born in garbage. Rex, a soldier gone rogue. The only thing between them and their destiny is an empire of a hundred different Earths, across a hundred alternate timelines. Now, with nowhere else to turn, Heidi must ally herself with the last person she ever suspected. But can they be trusted, or has Heidi lost sight of the truth? Created and written by Sam Humphries (UNCANNY X-FORCE, FANBOYS VS. ZOMBIES) HIGHER EARTH Volume 2 collects issues 6-9 of the fast-paced epic of infinite possibilities featuring arresting art by Francesco Biagini (ELRIC: THE BALANCE LOST, DINGO).

(W/A/CA) Andrew Hussie Four kids start playing a game. Along the way they're bound to encounter sprites, exiles, guardians, consorts, time-hopping future selves, mystical dream oracle doppelgangers, paradox clones, a Secret Wizard, too many Daves, incompetent trolling, and the human emotion called friendship. For older teen audiences.

(W) Brandon Thomas (A) Juan Gedeon, Mike Spicer (CA) Jason Howard Zhia Malen has delivered the first crippling blow to Earth. Now, Chicago braces for a super storm as she kicks off the next phase of her invasion. But the connection between her world and Earth runs deeper than she imagined, making this planet hostile to EVERY species in the galaxy. Collects HORIZON #7-12

(W) Brandon Thomas (A) Juan Gedeon, Frank Martin (CA) Jason Howard Zhia Malen thought she'd killed Kepler's top agent-Lincoln. But now he reemerges, ready for a second round with the alien invader. Meanwhile, on Valius, no one is to be trusted. Collects HORIZON #13-18

(W) Anne Toole (A) Ann Maulina & Various (CA) Daniel Bura RETURN TO THE MAJESTIC, POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD OF HORIZON AND THE STORIES OF ITS INHABITANTS IN THE COMPLETE GRAPHIC NOVEL COLLECTION FEATURING ALOY AND FAN-FAVOURITES TALANAH AND EREND, THESE STORIES EXPAND ON HORIZON ZERO DAWN, SET BEFORE, AFTER, AND DURING THE EPIC GAME. COLLECTS HORIZON ZERO DAWN VOL.1: THE SUNHAWK AND HORIZON ZERO DAWN VOL.2: LIBERATION

(W/A/CA) Sophie Goldstein When Sarai and her fellow emissaries from the Empire disembark from their ship, they find themselves on a planet teeming with life and mystery. The natives, whom they intend to 'civilize,' are not as malleable as expected and their only other human contact, a man, causes further conflict within their ranks. House of Women is Sophie Goldstein's second solo graphic novel, following 2015's muchlauded The Oven.

(W) Kelman Nic (A) Pericles Junior (CA) Terry Dodson How to Pass as Human is an attempt on the part of the world's first android to understand the irrational, unpredictable, eclectic creatures known as human beings. In this field guide, complete with sketches, graphs, flow charts, and other reference materials, Android 0 (a.k.a. Zach) has compiled a variety of useful information for future androids on how to pass undetected as human beings.

(W) Christofer Emgard (A/CA) Gabriel Guzman 2054. The world has turned darker and harder in recent years. People have found solace in the HYPER SCAPE-a virtual landscape run by the world's greatest megacorp where recreation, entertainment, and social gatherings can be accessed. An upgrade to the system is about to revolutionize the experience . . . but an early rollout could have fatal results. o An immersive tie-in to the Ubisoft video game, Hyper Scape!

(W) Toudai (A) Jiro Heian An isekai fantasy that's more about making friends than making war! When you get summoned to another world, things are supposed to go a certain way: become a hero, battle monsters, and slay demons, right? But when Kaito gets his summons, things are a little different. First off, he's not even the hero...but it doesn't matter, because the world he's been thrust into is at peace. With nothing better to do, Kaito finds himself taking it easy in this unexpectedly mellow fantasy world. Now he can breakfast with its beautiful denizens, learn magic with the help of a spunky demon girl, go to barbeques, and so much more!