(W) Jos (A/CA) Sonia Moruno Action and adventure combine in an exciting new fantasy tale about a group of young friends eager to face challenges and prove themselves. By fire and rock, they will not admit defeat! Through rock and fire, they will fight to the end! In order to demonstrate their abilities, Ludna and his friends must complete one final test: a trek along the Rock Road! But, as their journey begins, they encounter the Children of Aramar, who have their eyes set on stealing some valuable relics. Can Ludna and his intrepid group of friends protect their people? Advance solicited for August. This fun tale is perfect for younger readers, with an art style full of vibrant color and a story that promotes the ideas of friendship and self-esteem.

(W) Eric Garcia (A) Javi Fernandez & Various (CA) Bernard Chang Writer Eric Garcia (Repo Men) introduces us to Ben Fischer, one of the key architects of Golden Shield-an invasive but advanced anti-crime surveillance system utilizing every security camera and internal system in San Francisco. Unfortunately, Shield's artificial intelligence is unable to distinguish real threats from harmless exchanges, and needs to be supplemented with a human element. Against his will, Ben becomes that 'mind in the machine,' with life-changing consequences for both himself and everyone around him.

Horror master Clive Barker's spellbinding tale of a boy's fight to regain stolen time concludes! Harvey Swick returns to the dangerous environs of Holiday House to face down the evil Mr. Hood... but first he'll have to get through three dangerous minions intent on stopping him dead.

(W/A/CA) Julian Hanshaw Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome? and it's time to check out. LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) returns with another feast of visual imagination and emotional intensity that will haunt readers' dreams long after the book is closed.

Advance solicited for February release! Dog Man author Dav Pilkey says: 'Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist!' DEAR DUMB DIARY has sold almost nine million books, and three recent titles in the series have been New York Times bestsellers. The series FRANNY K. STEIN has sold over a million books, and is now on the seventh book in the series.

(W) Denton J. Tipton (A/CA) Kagan McLeod Is Johnny really the good guy? See The Karate Kid in a whole new light this June in this retelling through the eyes of Johnny Lawrence, two-time All Valley Tournament Champion.

(W) Lozano, Camilo Moncada Navigate through monsters, mysteries, and the will of the gods with two young extraordinary adventurers in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica as they search for a missing father! Donaj? is a fearless Zapotec girl who - accompanied by the god that lives inside of her poncho - find her missing father. Along the way, she meets a 17-year-old winged Mexica warrior named Itzcacalotl, and over time their temporary partnership blooms into an incredible friendship. The search brings the young pair closer to danger and deeper into mystery than either could have predicted. What exactly was Donaj?'s father involved with? And how did a simple search for a missing relative lead Donaj? and Itzcacalotl into a fight with a terrifying bat monster to defend an entire village?!

(W) Peter Hoey (A/CA) Peter Hoey, Maria Hoey This first-ever collection by the award-winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey encompasses the very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. The compilation ranges from the Hoeys' early comics in Blab! Magazine to their groundbreaking newest series, Coin-Op. All in all, it's more than twenty short stories and vignettes-about music and film, the comic and the absurd, the past and the future-all sparkling with innovative storytelling and design.

Condemned for a crime he didn't commit, Scott Landus is sentenced to life without parole on COLONY- a galactic 'Devil's Island' where the fascist Galactic Confederacy disposes of its human and alien refuse. Colony is a science-fiction allegory to the founding of Australia? as hardened career convicts, alien species, and political dissidents from Earth band together to overthrow their technologically superior captors.

(W) Fred Van Lente (A/CA) Ryan Dunlavey From the team behind The Comic Book History of Comics comes the perfect companion piece telling the story of the triumphs and tragedies of the filmmakers and beloved animated characters of the past century and a half - essential for hardcore fans of the medium and noobies alike! It's all here, from Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in-between! Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton and the first American cartoon, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, and Felix the Cat! Find out about Margaret Winkler, the most powerful person in early animation, and Walt Disney, who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color! Discover how Fleischer Studios teaches us to sing 'Boop-boop-a-doop' and eat our spinach, and how Warner Bros' Looney Toons rivaled Disney's Silly Symphonies! Plus, icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age of toy-based TV shows including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man; and the new Golden Age of TV animation

(W) Fred Van Lente (A/CA) Ryan Dunlavey At last! The amazing, inspiring story of the comics medium in comics form goes global! In this volume, Fred and Ryan tackle the origins of Japanese manga, French graphic albums, the British Invasion of the American scene, the battle for creators' rights in the US, and how comics have invaded cyberspace and Hollywood! Plus: the Her-Story of Comics continues, and we spotlight other countries' funnybooks across five continents! The Comic Book History of Comics goes wherever comics go-which is everywhere!

What's cooler than comics about cartoonists? NOTHING! You are going to read comics about cartoonists by these TOP cartoonists: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Jack Cole, Dick Briefer, Winsor McCay, Chester Gould, Sheldon Mayer, Milton Caniff, Ernie Bushmiller, Basil Wolverton, Siegel and Shuster, Will Eisner, Elzie Segar, and Harvey Kurtzman! WHEW! Plus more by Charles Schulz, George Herriman and a 1940s comic about Walt Disney! A Who's Who of great cartoonists-drawing superhero, horror, funny animal, funny people, war and romance comics? about cartoonists!

Now with all the Sunday pages in full color! 'A House Divided (or Does Fate Trick Trixie?)' finds 'Daddy' Warbucks taking a new wife, Annie in the clutches of the Sisters of Suppression, and the spunkiest kid in America destined for adventures in Cosmic City. Containing every daily and Sunday strip from January 1932 through July 1933, printed directly from Harold Gray's original artwork. Edited and designed by Eisner-Award winner Dean Mullaney.

Together with the blind fiddler, 'Uncle' Dan, Annie squares off against the Chizzler, then embarks on her first novel-length adventure. In a story lasting nearly a full year, Annie's supposed 'real' parents-Boris and Libby Bleek, leaders of the criminal Ghost Gang-gain legal custody of her, while 'Daddy' Warbucks is hounded into jail by the unscrupulous politician, Phil O. Bluster. Contains every daily and color Sunday strip from July 10, 1933 through February 10, 1935, printed directly from Harold Gray's original artwork.

Axel's back and this time he's not taking any chances! Meanwhile, the lives of gangster Nick Gatt and crusading District Attorney John Tecum become inextricably linked. Plus, Annie crosses paths with the selfish movie star Pete LaPlata, his selfless elderly parents, his discarded wife Peggy, and his neglected son Billy. It's high emotional drama leading into the return of the very much alive 'Daddy' Warbucks, now converting his factories for the coming war?all in Volume Nine of The Complete Little Orphan Annie. Including dailies and Sundays from February 29, 1940 through November 23, 1941.

When America enters the Second World War, Annie protects the home front by forming the Junior Commandos, a group that inspired tens of thousands of real life children to collect newspapers, scrap metal, and other items needed for the war effort. The fictional 'Colonel Annie,' meanwhile, finds herself face to face with fifth columnists and a Nazi submarine! Daddy Warbucks, true to his name, is back making munitions and leads a mysterious army overseas.

(W/A/CA) Harold Gray In the depths of the Second World War, Harold Gray paints a dark vision of stateside America when Annie's most loyal friends turn out to be a boarding house full of thieves, forgers, and mind readers. The red-garbed orphan sees how petty politicians and their underworld companions can deprive a small town of freedom just as easily as foreign spies, and that a big city can be home to a larger and even more dangerous threat to national security. Reprints all Daily and Sunday strips from August 8, 1943 to April 14, 1945.

Now with all Sundays in color for the first time in more than 75 years. The action never stops as Annie gets shipwrecked with Spike Marlin for months on end. Then the Depression and rival businessmen wreck 'Daddy' Warbucks's empire, leaving him broke and ruined. Volume 3 includes every daily and Sunday from April 1930 until the end of 1931.

From Emma Caulfield, the popular actress who portrayed Anya on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and co-writer Camilla Rantsen, comes Contropussy, a story about a cat with a major itch to scratch. By day she is a mild mannered feline, but by night she comes alive, adventuring in the city, eventually finding herself a pawn in political schemes.

(W) Jordan Alsaqa (A/CA) Vivian Truong Hana Ozawa is the newest face at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat, a school that will teach her how to fight monsters and how to turn them into delicious meals. Hana is a natural, but so are her classmates, and she struggles to keep up-she's gotta stand out, especially if she wants to impress the warrior chef who saved her life as a child. Throw in a crush on a formidable lady rival and a dash of multicultural cuisine, and this unique and hilarious story is sure to hit the spot! Cooking with Monsters is Naruto with a cast of LGBTQ+ characters. It's Percy Jackson or Harry Potter without a straight white man in the pilot seat. It's perfect for every young reader out there who doesn't feel like they get to see themselves represented in the fantastical adventures they read.

(W) Crane, Ben (A/CA) Alves, Mimi Strap in for a colorful and action-packed space adventure about friendship, family, and fear of the unknown! Humanity has gone to the stars, and the ESS Khonsu and its crew are leading the charge to explore the galaxy. As the son of the ship's captain, Jimmil might not always live up to his mom's expectations? but right now he and his friends might be the galaxy's only hope. After they're stranded on a strange alien planet, they'll have to do what their parents couldn't: explore the surface, discover the secrets of the terrifying race that lives there, and try to prevent a full-scale war! In their debut graphic novel, Ben Crane and Mimi Alves serve up a heartfelt, thrilling, and vividly colorful and escapade about kids taking the lead, for middle-grade readers who are ready to seek out new life of their own!

(W) Andy Suriano, Matt Chapman (A/CA) Andy Suriano Two creators whose credentials include some of animation's best-loved properties come together for a sci-fi action bromance of galactic proportions, filtered through the lens of an '80s music video. Space-fairing bachelor scalawags Love Savage and Roshambo-along with a little mothering from their ship's AI, Mrs. Billingsley-shuttle from job to job and continually find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Despite their best efforts to look out only for themselves, they usually end up involved with alien crooks, shady black market baby schemes, and space sickness-inducing drugs. They're on the loose and on the run-from everyone! Bullet points: * Matt Chapman is the co-creator of Homestar Runner and has worked on Disney's Gravity Falls. Andy Suriano worked as an artist on both the Samurai Jack TV show and comic. * For fans of sci-fi action comedies with dysfunctional group dynamics, like movies Guardians of the Galaxy and The Fifth Element and TV shows Cowboy Bebop and Futurama. * Advance solicited for December release!

Advance solicited for September release! Pan's life used to be very small. Work in her dad's body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn't even matter that Tara was a princess… until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, when a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep, she finds that life might not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world… and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down. Combines the outer-space thrills of Saga and Star Wars with the glamour and revolution of The Hunger Games. A cathartic feminist liberation story in a time of massive cultural frustration at the patriarchy.

(W) Matthew Klein (A) Morgan Beem House meets Gotham Central in this powered up medical drama featuring a prized physician caught amid recovery from addiction and a polarizing campaign aimed to strip superpowered humans of healthcare rights. Rose Osler is a specialist. Her focus? Patients with Powers? at a hospital with a No Powered Patients policy. When a battle between Boston's protectors and destroyers erupts, Rose is trapped between saving the city's beloved hero by day and greatest villain at night. Except Rose could become a casualty when she's forced to risk her recovery. As Rose pushes past her limits to save everyone else, will she be able to save herself?

Straight from the pages of the hit digital series Double Barrel! All systems are whoa! In Crater XV, Kevin Cannon weaves together an intoxicating tale of swashbuckling adventure, abandoned moon bases, blood-thirsty walruses, rogue astronauts, two-faced femme fatales, sailboat chases, Siberian pirates, international arctic politics, and a gaggle of horny orphans. And mixed up in all of it is Army Shanks, the salty sea dog still reeling from the death of his nephew, and Wendy Byrd, the plucky teenager who wants nothing more than a one-way ticket off the face of the Earth.

(W/A/CA) Tom Twomorrow Return to? tomorrow as Tom Tomorrow's unique and celebrated perspective on American lunacy, This Modern World, returns to shelves! The gang's all here as the war drum of doom signals the encroaching apocalypse that is the 2016 American Presidential race-with special guest The Incredible Trump! Serious, elevated discourse and political correctness need not apply. One thing's for sure, in 2016 Crazy Is The New Normal, and Tom Tomorrow is the only guiding light fit to lead us into that darkness! This softcover volume collects select strips from 2013-2016.

Steve Ditko's most creative comics are lovingly reproduced in a beautiful large format hardback book, 'The Creativity of Steve Ditko,' a companion to Craig Yoe's previous 'The Art of Ditko.' Forward by Paul Levitz with revealing essays by Mike Gold, Jack Harris, Mikal Banta, and Amber Stanton. Amber, daughter of fetish artist Eric Stanton, gives ground-breaking background about when her father and Ditko shared a studio for nearly a decade and worked on each others projects during the creation of Spider-Man.

(W) Rob Anderson (A) Fernando Melek, Novo Malgapo (CA) Leandro Panganiban, Steve Bird Patchwork, hybrid animals are everywhere, and it's up to the Creature Cops to deal with them! From escaped gator-snakes to neglected Horned Mastiffs, burned out veteran Kaminski and his partner Marita Vasquez think they've seen it all... until they discover a nest of griffins, and end up on the trail of a ten-year-old cold case that nearly ended Kaminski's career-and life!

(W) Matt Anderson, Patrick Pidgeon (A/CA) Tim Lattie It's weird science gone wild! A trio of gifted lab students hatches a bizarre scheme that runs amok when they inadvertently create a mystical bunch of wildly creepy troll-creatures that wreak havoc on campus.

(W) Various (A) John Buscema & Various Relive the days when gangsters ruled the streets in this gripping collection of notorious vintage pre-Code crime comics! True life criminals Al Capone, Legs Diamond, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and John Dillinger are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze. These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits, living outside the law until getting their just desserts in the end. Features masterful creators Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Fred Guardineer, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Bernie Krigstein, Mort Meskin, Bob Powell, John Prentice, Mike Sekowsky, Leonard Starr, Marvin Stein, Alex Toth, and many others. These Senate-investigated stories are fully restored-over 20 full comic stories in all!

This first CSI Omnibus collection includes CSI: Serial, about a modern-day Jack the Ripper terrorizing Las Vegas; CSI: Bad Rap, when a duel between retro-punk rappers ends with one of them dead; and CSI: Demon House, where the CSI team finds themselves pulling double duty between a series of armed robberies and a body that turns up in a charity haunted house.

(W) Jim Zub (A) Max Dunbar, Eduardo Mello (CA) Max Dunbar Go beyond your tabletop campaign-or fuel it with new material-in this graphic novel collection featuring one of the Forgotten Realm's most popular settings! The Heroes of Baldur's Gate, led by fan-favorite characters Minsc and Boo, must once again risk life, limb, and dignity to protect the city they mostly love. Whether fending off the devilish forces of Avernus, rooting out a takeover of the city's elite by sinister mind flayers, or confronting their abundant personal problems, Minsc, Boo, Delina, Krydle, and the others never stop adventuring! Collects three graphic novels: Dungeons & Dragons: Evil at Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons: Infernal Tides, and Dungeons & Dragons: Mindbreaker.

(W) Ryan Ferrier (A/CA) Valentin Ramon After conquering 34RTH as the greatest robot war hero, then saving it from invading aliens, D4VE's next campaign gets political! In the wake of a robo-political assassination, D4VE begins a presidential campaign. A hip new app startup has other plans for the robot society, however, and creates the perfect political rival. The third arc of the acclaimed D4VE series returns in D4VEOCRACY.

(A/CA) J. Scott Campbell Sultry. Sexy. And stripped... of color! The luscious artwork of J. Scott Campbell is unmistakable and often imitated - and now it's yours to color in this collection of artwork from the comic book series Danger Girl. From thrilling scenes to chilling curves, Permission to Thrill brings the best of the comics medium to the world of coloring books!

Who is she? What are her skills? Where is she from? What are her measurements? You'll find those answers and more as she joins the world's sexiest spy agency in their most explosive adventure yet!

(W) Che Grayson (A) Kelsey Ramsay In search of a fresh start, teenager Cheyenne Rite and her mother, Rebecca, move to St. Augustine, Florida, where they cross paths with Jean McKnight, a disgraced big-city journalist determined to pay her dues and rebuild her career, starting with a fluff piece on the town's upcoming 450th anniversary celebration. When the quaint community's festivities give way to bloodshed and Cheyenne is the sole witness, Jean begins an investigation and the women find themselves at the heart of a supernatural conspiracy linked to St. Augustine's colonial past. Together, they vow to expose the town's historical sins, but the deeper Jean digs, the less clear it becomes: Who is Cheyenne Rite, and when does a quest for truth become a thirst for vengeance?

(W) Scott Snyder (A/CA) Hayden Sherman Legendary writer Scott Snyder presents Dark Spaces, a thrilling new anthology series exploring our deepest fears of the unknown. Six weeks into the slow burn of the historic Arroyo Fire, a crew of women from an inmate firefighting program are risking everything on the frontlines when their newest recruit-a white-collar convict with a deep network of shady dealers-discovers they're mere miles from her crooked former associate's abandoned mansion. When she proposes a plan to abandon their duties and hunt for riches under cover of smoke and ash, the team must decide if they're ready to jeopardize their one sure path back to normalcy for a shot at a score that would truly change their lives... but is this a flicker of fortune, or a deadly trap?

(W) Mike Carey, Arvind Ethan David (A) Brendan Cahill, Livio Ramondelli (CA) Brendan Cahill When the demons came, humanity reluctantly learned to share the world with another sentient race. Sixty years later, this uneasy co-existence has spawned an endless terrorist conflict. Detective Daniel Aston, charged with being the thin blue line between the two sides, is tested to the limit when a demon sets up house inside his soul. But to save his daughter, he'll pay any price-including genocide. Collects issues #1-6.

(W/A/CA) Dave Stevens Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the debut of The Rocketeer in comics with this beautiful book showcasing the art of one of the masters of the! In April of 1982, The Rocketeer debuted as a backup feature from Pacific Comics. From those humble beginnings the artistry of Dave Stevens caught the imaginations of countless readers and became a worldwide sensation, even being turned into a big-budget feature film! And in 2010 when IDW launched its award-winning Artist's Edition series, The Rocketeer was the inaugural release, even winning two coveted Eisner Awards that year. The book quickly sold out and went into a second printing. Now, more than ten years later, ?is soaring back with a new 40th anniversary printing. As with all Artist's Editions, the pages reproduced in this book have been meticulously scanned from the original art. Readers will be able to peruse these pages and see all the quirks and nuances that make original art so unique-blue pencil notations, white out, gradients in the ink, and so much more. Unless you were looking over Dave's shoulder as h

(W) Matthew Federman, Stephen Scaia (A) Michael Montenat (CA) Howard Chaykin Three highly trained Delta Force Operators embark on a high-stakes mission to obtain a mysterious serum. But when they are betrayed by one of their own, securing the drug immediately becomes a matter of life, death, and their own resurrection.