Three years after the events of Past Lies, Amy Devlin, in her final days in Beverly Hill's Cold Case division, uncovers a series of murders that seem connected through time. Every 10 years, a sinner with a saint's name has been brutally murdered on All Saints Day. With a string of cases spanning 30 years, and another killing likely to occur within the month, can Amy convince anyone these unsolved crimes are connected? And when she starts digging, will she make herself the next victim?

(W/A) David Peterson (CA) David Petersen WHY WE LOVE IT: Whether you're of claw, wing or scale, fairy tales and fables never cease to warm our hearts and fill our imaginations. Every year, we look forward to Archaia's Free Comic Book Day MOUSE GUARD short story by Eisner Award?winning creator David Petersen. Now, four of the stunningly illustrated fables are collected for the first time, alongside two brand?new MOUSE GUARD tales in a beautiful hardcover. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If you like fantasy stories that not only feature action and adventure, but also a lot of heart, you'll instantly love MOUSE GUARD. Fans of J.K. Rowling's THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD, STUFF OF LEGENDS, or classics like WIND IN THE WILLOWS will love this collection of tales meant to be read again and again. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Every hero was once a child, listening to stories of the heroes who came before them. It is the same with the Mouse Guard. Six mouse fables are spun to a few familiar youngfurs, reminding us all to be brave, stay true to ourselves, and follow our hearts. Brand?new stories include 'Service to S

Much of Amber Albrecht's work is inspired by the dreaminess of childhood, whether expressing her cloudy recollections of the storybooks she read as a child or the forested West Coast landscapes that surrounded her. On the pages of Idyll, a series of interconnected myths emerges fully formed, each myth articulating a sense of wistfulness for a past that never was. Idyll employs female iconography in myriad way - many of these works feature female figures, the lushness of the natural environment, and female-associated textures. Albrecht's Idyll communicates questions about loneliness, passivity, and loss through investigations of femininity and nostalgia for an imagined past.

In the mid-eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created WATCHMEN, changing the course of comics' history and essentially remaking how popular culture perceived the genre. Popularly cited as the point where comics came of age, WATCHMEN's sophisticated take on superheroes has been universally acclaimed for its psychological depth and realism. Now, DC collects this series in the popular Deluxe Edition format. Includes sketches, bonus material and a new introduction by artist Dave Gibbons. Collects WATCHMEN #1-12.

Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl-she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon. • This volume collects the first three issues of the Dark Horse Emily comics series-'The Boring Issue,' 'The Lost Issue,' and 'The Dark Issue,' and includes one brand spankin' new story that you've never seen before! • Dark Horse also offers a line of Emily products.

Bat Boy! Ph.D. Ape! Manigator! UFO Alien! Ed Anger, the columnist who sits to the far right of the far right! These and many other tabloid newspaper staples from the Weekly World News are featured in their first-ever series, where they have to contend with the threat of? Chaos Cloud (as well as too many pop-culture gags to mention, but we try in the form of annotations in the back, anyway)! Also features an art gallery and original articles from the Weekly World News as additional bonus items!

The adaptation of the hit science fiction/comedy film of the summer Iron Sky follows the fate of Nazis who fled to the moon in 1945, and return in 2018 to conquer the Earth with their armada of flying saucers. With tongue firmly in cheek, the story parodies both the Nazis and more recent political parties and figures, with no holds barred. With special effects and a climactic ending only the Third Reich could deliver, Iron Sky is an action packed ride from start to finish.

(w) o (a & c) Often thought of as children's tales, the original stories from the Brothers Grimm are nothing of the sort. Dark, vindictive and full of hard-to-swallow life lessons, this collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales re-presents these lasting works with contemporary illustrations by Eisner Award-nominated artist Kevin Colden.

The multi-talented Don Oriolo has brought us Felix The Cat's adventures through movies, television, comic books, merchandising, and song. Don's paintings are colorful, imaginative, and a fitting tribute to his muse, the World's Most Famous Cat, Felix! Foreword by Craig Yoe and essays from cartoon aficionados Jerry Beck, Mark Evanier, David Gerstein, and Paul Castiglia. What Fun!

(W) Dan Mendoza, Jason Martin (A) TMChu & Various (CA) TMChu Collects the first full year of the wildly popular ongoing series in one deluxe hardcover volume! Once escort to the stars, turned zomibe, Janey Belle wanders the highways trying to maintain the balance between her former humanity and the monster that is... Zombie Tramp! Equipped with the Necronomicon, Janey sets out to learn dark magic while encountering even darker and stranger characters on the road. COLLECTS ISSUES 1-12 of the Zombie Tramp ongoing series.

(W/A/CA) Jeremy Dale All three collctions of Jeremy Dale's hit series Skyward in one handy package! Follow the adventures of Quinn and his dog Jack as they face off against fantastic, terrible threats, meet new curious allies, and find a new life amidst the invasion of their homeland. Collects Skyward #1-9 in three volumes!

The original 'Animal Zombie' epic is collected for the first time! Follow the terrifying tale of survival as a mutated rabies virus turns animals great and small into bloodthirsty, rampaging beasts. Civilization crumbles, and only a small group of farmers and scientists stand between us and total extinction!

(W) Kyle Puttkammer (A) Marcus Williams & Various (CA) Marcus Williams The cutest heroes on the planet have arrived! Meet the Hero Cats of Stellar City in this, their first spectacular graphic novel. Not your ordinary house cats, they're a tactical action-packed covert team dealing with extraordinary threats to humanity in ways that will amaze.

(W/A/CA) Katie Cook Gronk is a monster? and not a very good one. Follow Gronk's adventures as she leaves the monster world and joins up with her new family! Enjoy the first year's worth of comics from this popular, all-ages webcomic in a wonderful, full color collection!

(W) Alex Kain (A/CA) Rachel Bennett For over 100 years, the animal races of the Four Kingdoms have lived side-by-side in uneasy truce. But when conflict ignites in the north, old alliances threaten to send the world into chaos. Experience the beginnings of an epic all-ages fantasy in this first collected volume!

(W) Vito Delsante, Scott Fogg (A) Rosy Higgins, Ted Brandt (CA) Marcus Williams For five years, readers of Action Lab comics have wondered who the dog in the logo was?now, his story can be told! Join Percy, the titular Action Lab, as he and his Action Lab League take on the case of rescuing a French bulldog accused of biting a little girl! Read the book that EVERYONE is talking about!

(W/A/CA) Ricardo Delgado Ricardo Delgado's Age of Reptiles series returns and marks a bold, new direction in wordless storytelling! The steaming swamps of Cretaceous Africa teem with prehistoric life and primordial danger in a tale filled with villains, victims, and one of the most dangerous and unpredictable protagonists ever created-the lone, lonely antihero Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Collects Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians #1-#4.

In a gritty sci-fi/fantasy world where dinosaurs never became extinct, human history has unfolded side-by-side with the giant reptiles. The greatest of the dinosaur slayers are known as the Predator Defense League. When an act of kindness causes thousands of the beats to destroy the walls of Monanti City, it means culture vs. culture, mammal vs. reptile, friend vs. friend, and father vs. daughter. Collects the first eight issues of the critically-acclaimed series, Neozoic!

Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka's most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging. Initially set in the aftermath of World War II, Ayako focuses its attention on the Tenge clan, a once powerful family of landowners living in a rural community in northern Japan. The war and American occupation have begun to erode the fabric that binds them all together. The increasing influence of political, economic and social change begins to tear into the many Tenge siblings, and they decide to turn their collective rage on what they believe to be the source of their troubles - the newest member of the Tenge family, the youngest sister Ayako.

Birdy thought she knew her family and friends. She was wrong. The third volume in this thought-provoking series brings new challenges and intrigues to the Lost Colony as Birdy watches everyone's secrets being to unravel and nothing is quite what it had seemed. Who can Birdy turn to for help after her grandfather's death? Whom can she trust?

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world.

Collects all the classic, original (before he got his own comic) Usagi stories from Albedo, Critters, Doomsday Squad, and the Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special. Set in 17th century Japan, the age of civil wars has barely ended and the Shogun has established power. The samurai is the ruling class throughout the land, following a warrior's code of honor known as Bushido. Usagi Yojimbo Volume 1 chronicles this time of settling unrest and political intrigue, told through the story of a wandering and masterless samurai named Miyamoto Usagi, a.k.a. Usagi Yojimbo! This is where Usagi started - don't miss out!

Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a 30-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple (possibly married) who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally, an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady. The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything we have yet seen from this artist or in this medium.

The Hospital Suite is a landmark work by celebrated cartoonist and small-press legend John Porcellino, an autobiographical collection detailing his struggles with illness in the 1990s and 2000s. In 1997, John needed emergency surgery to remove a benign tumor from his small intestine. In the wake of the surgery, John had numerous health complications that led to a flare-up of his preexisting tendencies toward anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Hospital Suite is Porcellino's response to these experiences, simply told stories drawn in an honest, heart-wrenching style.

(W/A/CA) Bryan Talbot Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey, a journey which takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. Bryan Talbot constructs a very special story in The Tale of One Bad Rat which immediately endears the reader. The victim of child sexual abuse, Helen Potter becomes the armored knight before her own personal demons in this story of heroism and courage.

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. He leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this 'escape' really about? As the story shifts from present to past, the pieces of Polyp's life come together and we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she's gone; what has happened to her? Mazzucchelli's extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception becomes a masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

(W) Kurtis J. Wiebe (A/CA) Mindy Lee The Gadflies were the most wanted criminals in the galaxy-robbing corporations to redistribute wealth to the destitute. Now, with a bounty to match their reputation, the Gadflies are forced to abandon banditry for a career as bounty hunters . . . 'cause if you can't beat 'em, join 'em-then rob 'em blind! Collects issues #1-#5.

(W/A/CA) Skottie Young All hail Gertrude, the new Queen of Fairyland. After thirty years of wreaking havoc across this magical world to find her way back home, she must now overcome her biggest challenge yet...ruling the place she hates most. Join Gert as she continues her never-ending quest to get the FLUFF out of Fairyland. The hilariously brutal fairytale adventure continues by superstar cartoonist SKOTTIE YOUNG. Collects I HATE FAIRYLAND #6-10

(W) Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel (A) Niko Henrichon From acclaimed filmmaker DARREN ARONOFSKY (Black Swan, The Wrestler) and artist NIKO HENRICHON (Pride of Baghdad), NOAH is a fresh take on the biblical epic for the 21st Century. A fantastical world is about to be destroyed and one man is chosen to start a new one. As wicked forces try to take his Ark, Noah must hold his family together while they watch the annihilation of all they know. Infusing the Book of Genesis with fantasy and science-fiction, NOAH both reinvents the elements of the Flood story everyone knows and simultaneously takes the reader beyond them and into the unexpected.

(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A/CA) Niko Henrichon The acclaimed original graphic novel written by Brian K. Vaughan is back in a new, deluxe edition featuring previously unpublished developmental art and more! In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad in a desperate struggle for their lives.

Atomic Robo takes on Nazis, giant ants, clockwork mummies, walking pyramids, Mars, cyborgs, and his nemesis, Baron von Helsingard, in his first trade paperback collection! This edition collects the hard-to-find issues of Atomic Robo #1-6, complete with cover gallery, pin-ups, concept art, and bonus stories!

(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Christian Ward ODY-C, modeled after Homer's Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-broke science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens returning home after a centuries-long battle. Told in verse with a visual sensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium, this gloriously oversized hardcover also has exclusive bonus materials including essays by classicist Dani Colman, teaching aids, and a massive 10-page fold-out previously only available in the sold-out first issue. 'Fraction and Ward are doing wildly imaginative work combining fantastic Greek mythology with futuristic science fiction, and the book has a visual sensibility unlike anything else on the stands.' - A.V. Club Collects ODY-C #1-12

(W/A/CA) Camilla d' Errico Camilla d'Errico is a world-renowned painter, illustrator, comic artist, and toy and clothing designer. This gorgeous hardcover compilation of her artwork is the perfect addition to the collection of anyone that appreciates her fine art and manga-inspired style! Both beautiful and haunting, her paintings will mesmerize and enthrall all who look upon them!

(W) Joe Kelly (A/CA) JM Ken Niimura STORY: JOE KELLY ART / COVER: J.M. KEN NIIMURA Collects I KILL GIANTS #1-7 Celebrating the fifth anniversary of a modern classic, this hardcover edition of the Eisner-nominated, International Manga Award-winning miniseries includes interviews with the creators, design art, covers and more.

Dark Horse proudly presents the first Englishlanguage art book showcasing one of Japan's most sought-after painters and illustrators, Katsuya Terada! Dragon Girl and Monkey King collects Terada's art in every mood: sexy, brutal, bizarre, and humorous, including his distinctive Hellboy figurine work, commentary, and an exclusive interview with the artist!

In the dark and gritty town of Los Angeles, one man stands between humans and . . . everything else. Cal McDonald, private detective with scotch for blood, investigates the cases that no one else will. Mummies-she-demons, frankenstein creations, and possessed cars. Collects Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1-#5, 'A Letter from B.S.' from the Dark Horse comic Drawing on Your Nightmares, Love Me Tenderloin, Last Train to Deadsville #1-#4, Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine #1-#5, Hairball, and the prose Savage Membrane.

Collected for the first time in one deluxe hardcover edition, Peter Bagge's Bat Boy strips, which ran in the Weekly World News for two years, are filled with all the insanity, inanity, and cartoonish humor you'd expect from a team-up between Bagge (Hate) and the Bat Boy (beloved). See Bat Boy attain the office of the Presidency (alongside adopted First Lady Martha Stewart and Secretary of Defense Li'l Kim) and much other craziness.

(W) Jim Campbell, Amalia Levari (A) Jim Campbell, Cara McGee (CA) Jim Campbell Writers: Jim Campbell & Amalia Levari Artists: Jim Campbell & Cara McGee Cover Artist: Jim Campbell Synopsis: ' Based on the hit Cartoon Network miniseries created by Pat McHale, brand-new adventures await Greg and Jason Funderburker as they explore the uncharted depths of the Unknown, and pick up a few unusual friends along the way. ' On the other side of the forest, the Woodsman's daughter, Anna, begins her own journey and quickly learns what it takes to survive on her own, especially once she's confronted by the Beast. ' Collects issues #1-4 of the Eisner Award-winning, ongoing series. ' Jim Campbell returns to write and illustrate Greg's latest travels through the Unknown, and Anna's story is brought to life by show co-writer Amalia Levari and artist Cara McGee. ' '... Fun, light-hearted, kid-friendly reading that's reminiscent of the cartoon.' - Bounding into Comics

(W) Kurt Busiek (A) Cary Nord & Various (CA) Joseph Michael Linsner Conan's earliest adventures, now available in affordable omnibus format! Featuring the legendary run of comics greats Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord, This 472 page omnibus features favorites such as Born on the Battlefield, The Frost Giant's Daughter, The God in the Bowl, and more!

(W) Alan Moore (A) Stephen R. Bissette & Various (CA) Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben Collecting SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #28-34 and SWAMP THING ANNUAL #2, the Earth Elemental says goodbye to the illusion of his own humanity after learning that he is 100 percent plant, meets a crew of benevolent alien invaders and consummates his relationship with Abigail Arcane as only he could.