(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Joe Bocardo Six strangers, all broken and burdened, find themselves at the funeral for the father they never knew. Their father sold their souls to Hell on the days they were born. They are now destined to serve demonic masters in spreading chaos and misery. Jamison Kreel is dead. Six of his children from six mothers are attending the funeral of a father they never met. Each of the children possesses a different infernal power. These powers, though, come at a terrible price...a price Jamison Kreel has placed upon the heads of his offspring. And the demonic debtors have come to collect.

(W/A/CA) Toril Orlesky In the red days of the West, centaurs and humans coexist. The desolation of the American West, burning bridges, true love, and ancient mythologies--find all of this and more in the pages of Hotblood! Vol.1: The Land of Promise, a re-imagining of the popular webcomic! The year is 1871 and the centaur Evander Rook finds himself at rock bottom, working for would-be robber baron Asa Langley--a human! As the unlikely pair get closer, romance and conspiracy run wild and Rook finds himself caught up in Asa’s ambitions as they are both forced to face the ghosts of their interwoven pasts.

(W/A/CA) Paula Cheshire When someone dies, there?s a void?a loss. No matter what. There?s a whirlwind of feelings and confusion. We don?t know what happens to the dead after death, but we do know what happens to the living. Paula beautifully narrates the loss of her mother and how she copes with the sudden loss in this charming and moving graphic novel.

(W) Kodachi Ukyou (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Casshan?s most ruthless foe, the Buraiking Boss, has unmasked their greatest threat?none other than Emi?s own father, Kazumichi Kaido. With her world turned upside down, Emi is torn between family loyalty and the fate of humanity. As dark secrets rise to the surface, she must choose: stand by her father... or stand against him. And this time, the decision could change everything.

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri It all began when high school student Emi Kaido received a mysterious, wish-granting pencil. With her life on the line, Emi uses the pencil to call upon heroes for protection! Gatchaman! Tekkaman! Casshan! Polimar! These defenders of justice cross space and time to help Emi weave the greatest tale of all time!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Gatchaman! Polimar! Casshan! Tekkaman! By the unexplained power of one girl’s pencil, four heroes have been brought together to stand for justice! But where light shines, darkness is sure to follow. Prepare to encounter… Shadow Polimar!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Gatchaman! Tekkaman! Casshan! Polimar! The four heroes have begun to get used to their new home, but people are now disappearing one by one from Shibuya... including the heroes themselves! As evil looms near, will anyone remain to oppose it?

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Para Bellum’s plan has the world careening towards annihilation, but Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Casshan, and Polimar unite to confront this great evil! Time is running out, and it’s now that the heroes must prove their worth!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Casshan's ultimate foe is back! Casshan must face his nemesis, Buraiking Boss, who reveals that there's even more to this dimensional tangle than the heroes previously imagined--the evil wasn't defeated with Para Bellum! In fact, the fight may be just getting started...

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Casshan's ultimate foe is back! Casshan must face his nemesis, Buraiking Boss, who reveals that there's even more to this dimensional tangle than the heroes previously imagined--the evil wasn't defeated with Para Bellum! In fact, the fight may be just getting started...

(W) Ryan Parrott (A) Letizia Cadonici (CA) Jorge Corona Sarah Stern In the summer of 1996, Sutton Reed had it all. A popular teenage girl with amazing friends, a loving family, and a bright future. But it all came crashing down over one mysterious weekend that saw her friends brutally murdered and left Sutton as the sole survivor of the legendary Riverton Massacre. Now, three decades later, the death and disappearance of two local teens strike the Riverton community again, forcing Sutton, now a divorced single mother, to face the truth she tried so desperately to hide. Because to catch one killer, she'll have to dig up the real monster she buried away all those years ago.

(W) Stephen Desberg, Dan Panosian (A/CA) Dan Panosian John Tiffany is one of the best bounty hunters in the world. Given his precarious line of work, he has found that he can only truly trust four people: Pastor Lovejoy, an unorthodox priest; Wan Chao, an underworld geek; Dorothy, his conservative teammate; and Magdalena, a sex worker he has foolishly fallen in love with. But it seems that one of them has turned against him and now he?s the one with a bounty on his head. It's a race against time as he tries to survive being a high-priced target and find out which of his confidantes is the traitor.

(W) Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (A) Martina Niosi (CA) Skylar Patridge To control the population explosion that nearly crippled the city, New York has instituted Kill Train, a randomized, extermination program where designated subway trains are picked at random, and all the passengers are slaughtered by the end of the line. In this not-so-distant future, we meet Vanessa, a struggling single mom in the midst of a nervous breakdown, who discovers that she, herself, is on a Kill Train. Now, for once in her life and with everything to prove, Vanessa decides she's not going down without a fight.

(W) David Hazan (A/CA) Sami Kivela In Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936, Howard Berkowicz, the bookkeeper for the Jewish Mob finds himself on the wrong end of an enforcer’s gun when he tries to spur the Kosher Mafia into action against the rising tide of domestic Nazism in the German American Bund.

(W) Jasmine Walls (A/CA) Dozerdraws Erika, Jacob, Marcelle and Damien are popular in their own corners of the internet— corners that seemingly would never overlap. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that they used to be close friends until they drifted apart in high school, leaving their Dice & Deathtraps game unfinished. Now, four years later, their old game master, Amina, has reached out with a chance to reunite and not only to save the community center that fostered their creativity, but to finally finish their abandoned campaign. They have one night to do it, streaming live to their combined followings with tensions—and old grudges—on the rise. Can they mend their fraying friendship or will this last session cut their ties for good?

(W) Elliot Sperl, Amit Tishler (A) Rui Silveira (CA) Zach Howard With an alcoholic father and a hole in her wallet, Danielle Pryer’s life in the rustic town of Bleakwood goes from bad to worse when her long-lost brother, Bruce, returns from the Vietnam War. While Bruce is being plagued by a mysterious and monstrous mutation, he is also being hunted by an incompetent team of paranormal misfits, which leads to Bleakwood quickly becoming ground zero of a supernatural battle that forces Danielle to choose between everything she holds dear and the fate of the world as a whole.

(W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Arjuna Susini Something is wrong in the deep forests of Broke Tree Valley. Something deadly. Something mammoth. The legends speak of something larger than human comprehension?A monstrous phantom that disappears for decades at a time. Now, it?s back, and things are about to go Very Bad if four people?Olivia, Jess, Kokoro, and Mason, scientists who have come to the small city of Kasbro to investigate a bizarre series of seismic activities in this heavily forested valley?can?t put the Mammoth to rest. One real problem with this is?Olivia?s dead.

(W) Lee Loughridge (A/CA) Mack Chater When Paul Rinaldi sleeps, he sees things. But after his precarious career as a small-town clairvoyant dissolves under claims of fraud, he becomes the laughingstock of the small town of Ft. Arlington, VA. The fact is, Rinaldi is wildly gifted, only furthering his frustrations as a middle-aged mystic. But a string of missing persons cases, coupled with terrifying visions, gives Rinaldi new purpose. Rinaldi teams up with the town's rookie detective, Abigail Dahlin, to solve the cases using his psychic abilities. Together they will get to the bottom of things or die trying!

(W) Tim Daniel, David DB Andry (A/CA) Marco Finnegan 1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family's hopes and happiness turn to ashes. One year following her husband Nathan's death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure--to scatter her husband's remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett family in the Montana wilderness--something more powerful than their anguish and torment. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.

(W/A/CA) Wah Kee This semi-autobiographical story follows Chung Chuen Ming, a dedicated assistant in the comics industry who aspires to create his own manhua. Determined to pursue his dream, he quits his assistant job to focus on his personal project. Tragically, just before completing his debut work, Chuen Ming succumbed to a sudden illness. However, his story doesn't end there; his spirit lingers, driven by the unfinished dream. Throughout his journey, he encounters challenges that compel him to collaborate with a fellow novice artist, Cheung Shan, leading to a creative and emotionally significant partnership.

(W) Albert Ng (A/CA) Jerry Cho After a catastrophic accident, the souls of the dead find themselves in a liminal predicament that straddles life and death. Guided by the maiden messengers, they must face life's judgment. The plaintiff can channel his resentment into a murderous power, while the defendant can trade his own soul for a chance at life by destroying others? souls. They embark on a brutal journey of imbuing their souls with power and deciding how to wield it in order to survive.

(W) Albert Ng (A/CA) Jerry Cho The Naraka Warrior has defied the laws of the liminal area between life and death, leaving the blood of his accusers on his hands and the realm's maiden messengers concerned by his rebellion. Moreover, his actions have drawn the attention of something far more powerful. In the face of these relentless trials, he will have to summon all of his strength to carve a bloody path back to the world of the living... or be lost in the beyond forever! The battle is far from over.

(W) David Hazan (A/CA) Shane Connery Volk

(W/A/CA) Matthew Dow Smith Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairy tales and magic, but now she?s eighteen and facing reality: A future stuck behind the counter of her small town?s coffee shop. Is this really all there is to life? But then, suddenly, Autumn?s childhood imaginary friend re-appears, and her entire boring world is turned upside-down. Autumn secretly belongs to the strange world of the Night Folk?a society of magical creatures like the ones from the stories she used to believe in. But this magical world is also a dangerous one. Now, Autumn must protect her loved ones from the frightening Mr. Balloon long enough to untangle the mystery tying the Night Folk to her own past.

(W) Jay Sandlin (A) Antonello Cosentino (CA) Antonello Consentino Step Over the Ropes and into 1990s wrestling. Set in a fictional world, Over the Ropes dives into sports entertainment's biggest era. A young high-flyer named Jason Lynn goes off-script in a match to win the world title and sets the southern territory on fire as the face-painted wrestler, Phoenix. Jason's battles between the ropes are only outperformed by his struggles outside the ring. First dates. Crooked promoters. Cage matches. Factions and families. No matter what problems smack him with a steel chair, Collects issues #1-5.

(W) Peter Milligan (A) Val Rodrigues (CA) Nick Marinkovich England, 1349. Sir Hugh de Grey, the Pale Knight, returns from war to find a land ravaged by the Black Death, and his son dying of the plague. When he prays to God to save his son?s life, it is not God who answers?but Death himself. And Death is willing to cut a deal. The Pale Knight is a horrifying descent into a phantasmagorical Hell.

(W) Christopher Sebela (A/CA) David Stoll Haley and her brother, Max, are alone after their mother?s death and are sent to Wayfair Academy, a special needs boarding school. Eventually, they find family amongst other deaf children. One night the group decides to dip their toes into crime? the thrill is too much to leave behind. They soon find out that stealing from the wrong person, has its consequences. With no one to turn to but each other, they must make a choice, one where no one comes out the same.

(W) Christopher Greenslate (A) Riccardo Faccini (CA) Ornella Savarese Following in the massive footsteps of legends like Godzilla and King Kong, comes QUEEN KODIAK, a colossal, super-charged Kodiak grizzly bear... one who survived from the ice-age and whose been irreversibly enhanced by a mysterious geo-thermal energy pulsing in the unknown depths of an Alaskan ice cave. And although QUEEN KODIAK?s been asleep for thousands of years, melting ice and subsequent tectonic activity has disturbed her hibernation. And in her debut graphic novel, she wakes up to find her only cub missing.But as much as we want to meet her and watch her wreck shop on the pacific northwest (sorry Seattle), our story actually centers on JOEY FOX, an embattled 17-year-old girl, and natural empath, who befriends Queen Kodiak?s cub after a tectonic shift in her own life -- the recent passing of her mother. As a result, Joey?s been sent to Alaska?s Kodiak island to live with the man who left them ten years ago, her state trooper father. In many ways it?s a story about how families survive overwhelming odds.

(W) Ray Fawkes (A) Antonio Fuso (CA) Dan Panosian To catch a rampaging serial killer in Soviet era Leningrad, two detectives must match wits with the murderer while battling the oppressive rules of their own police force and a greater, hidden enemy.

After the incidents of Show?s End Vol. 1, what?s left of Daxton Rickles? Circus is now performing on street corners to get by, but a series of mysterious murders surrounding our troop forces them to head south for safety in a town operated and occupied by circus performers. However, the town is no longer what it once was. It is now ruled by a young, charismatic cult figure named Leviticus ?Miss Levy? Jones, who believes those born ?deformed? are the only ones truly perfect in the eyes of the creator. The longer the group stays, the more sinister the town is revealed to be. Meanwhile, a forgotten figure from Loralye?s past lurks in the distance and is coming to reveal her true path.

(W) Justin Richards (A/CA) Val Halvorson Riley, a horror-obsessed podcaster with a slasher villain fixation, is seeking a new career path: Helping her favorite legendary slasher, The Hopton Valley Killer, regain their long-lost notoriety while learning the ropes herself. Collects The Slasher?s Apprentice #1 - 5

(W) Francesco Barilli (A/CA) Alessandro Ranghiasci Athens, 399 BC. In what may be remembered as the first trial for crimes of opinion, Socrates is sentenced to death. Accused of corrupting youth with atheistic doctrines, the philosopher's line of defense is uncompromising and defiant. He is thus sentenced to drink hemlock by an even larger majority of jurors, and once in prison, awaiting execution, he refuses to flee lest he violate those laws to which he has always been devoted. Socrates was not only one of the best known and most influential philosophers in human history, but also the first martyr for his own ideas. His trial tells how the greatest democracy of the time could have sentenced the best of its citizens to death.

(W) Thomas E. Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson (A) Valeria Burzo (CA) Michael Sta Maria Amarantha is the last of her race, an ancient species that has lived among us for millennia, feeding on the life energies of humanity. Now enjoying a peaceful existence in a retirement community, she continues to consume just enough to survive. But Amarantha has made enemies throughout her long life and an ancient foe thought long defeated has returned and is out for blood, while a newer threat seeks to capture her for their own nefarious purposes! Now Amarantha must do everything in her power to vanquish her enemies and protect the life she has made for herself.

Melody Parker is losing her mind. Ada Latimer wants to be normal. Together, they will travel across the spectrum of the 20th century in search of madness: both the kind you inherit from your parents and the kind required to be an artist. Spectrum is a frenetic, genre-blending, formally inventive story about the magic and power of music with words by Rick Quinn and visuals by Dave Chisholm(Chasin? The Bird, Miles Davis and The Search for the Sound).

(W) Rick Quinn (A/CA) Dave Chisholm Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things. Androids. Aliens. Pigs in high fashion. And a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained: elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music. She invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question. You don't want to miss this stunning new release from writer Rick Quinn and music-comic-specialist Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound).

(W) Dave Justus, Lilah Sturges (A/CA) Joe Eisma At America's second-oldest university, four earnest, clever, and desperate teens on the interim student government exploit a charter loophole in an effort to save their school from being demolished, facing down pressures on campus and escalating hostility from the Board of Regents in a story both hilarious and heartfelt.

(W) Pierre-Alexandre Comtois (A) Pierre-Alexandre Comtois (CA) Pierre-Alexandre Comtois, Mark Englert When a mysterious book appears in the library of a young monk named Zeek, he must embark on a quest to find its rightful owner. Unbeknownst to him, another dark figure has been searching for this very book for a very long time, sending his minions across the known planets and using dark magic to find it at all costs. When this evil figure realizes the manuscript has finally resurfaced, it sets events in motion that will send Zeek on an adventure unlike anything he could have ever imagined?leading Zeek to discover his true identity and destiny

(W) Richard Ashley Hamilton (A/CA) Marco Matrone When her best friend vanishes, Bingo Finder ? the only literate person in a post-apocalyptic L.A. ? turns to her beloved, ancient books for inspiration, becoming the first detective in centuries. But to solve this mystery, Bingo must fight for her own life and uncover a conspiracy within this fragile civilization. Bingo and every other teen in the sprawling farming village of Ellay knows the tales of the old days ? of how their great-great-great-grandparents rebuilt what was left of society after some apocalypse or whatever. But that?s ancient history. Boring. Nah, for Bingo?s generation, today is about staying busy ? distracted, even ? while tilling the reclaimed City of Industry fields or unloading barges at the seedy port of Bel Air. Or in Bingo?s case, scavenging ruins for artifacts to upcycle and trade at the bartering bazaars ? including Bingo?s favorite leftovers, these old things called ?books.? Ever heard of ?em? Her favorites are the TECTIV books, the ones about men who walked rain-slicked streets at night in hats and trench

(W/A/CA) Mathieu Reynes The future, our world... After years of health, economic and ecological crises, a global civil war breaks out, ignited by a huge pharmaceutical and political scandal denounced by the activist group C.H.A.O.S. 15 years later civilization has recovered, divided between large urban centers, under military and medical surveillance, and freer rural areas, where those who refuse this system of health control take refuge. It is in this divided world that Beck sets out in search of her mentor Kal, who has been missing for several days. This quest leads the young orphan to the town of Bajara, known, among other things, for its free-fighting competitions.

(W) Mathieu Reynes (A) Mathieu Reyn?s (CA) Mathieu Reynes Freshly arrived in New Eden, Beck joins the Sport Academia, where she must face representatives from other combat schools-- martial arts champions who do not all take kindly to the sudden appearance of a stranger in their midst. While she finds her footing in the megalopolis governed by Dr. Darwin Drake's SEED, she continues to search for traces of her mentor, Kal. She is unaware that he made a dramatic reappearance on the outskirts of the city just a few days earlier, in critical condition...