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"Discover the comic that inspired the Netflix Original zombie series Kingdom! Years of war and famine and have plunged Joseon into chaos. Young Prince Yi Moon, after losing all his bodyguards to an assassination attempt, has no choice but to turn to ...
"Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious ninja assassins ever to come out of the village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. There is only one hope: travel to a long-hidden island...
"The hilarious manga classic featuring beautiful space alien princess Lum! Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth on her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down! Will Lum become Earth's electrifying new leader? Or will...
"It's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest member of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife -- as a househusband....
"Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question--who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories? After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant...
"Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot...
"Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy began World War II with torpedo bombers that could devastate enemy warships and merchantmen at will. Britain's Royal Navy squadrons went to war equipped with the Fairey Swordfish. A biplane torpedo bomber...
"Time traveler Max Caulfield has been keeping a secret from her close friends, Chloe and Rachel. She's not from their reality! Now Max thinks she may have found a way home, back to her own Chloe... and so it's time for the truth to come out."--Provided...
"The bodies of citizens and the infrastructure surrounding them is constantly updating. People can't recognize themselves in old pictures, and they wake up in apartments of completely different sizes and shapes. Commuter routes radically differ day to...
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories,...
"Popular Instagram cartoonist and Muslim-American Huda Fahmy presents a hilarious, relatable, and painfully honest new collection of comics that break down barriers and show how universal our everyday problems, worries, and joys actually are."--Provided...
"In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also deal with every murderous cutthroat,...
"When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer's Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost. IT'S THE MONSTERS...
"Forceful, intense and visionary - in an incredibly short and turbulent life Jackson Pollock changed painting forever. This vivid graphic novel delves into his pioneering physical approach to making art, highlights the key characters surrounding the New...
"In hundreds of mesmerizing illustrations, PARASITE: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards is a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of one of the best films in years and a brand-new way to experience a global phenomenon. Drawn by Bong Joon Ho himself before...
"Ran Uruma can't wait to grow up and become a sorceress like her mother, so with the help of a magical pair of sneakers, she transforms into an adult and sets off! Her father and older brother Jin try to keep her home safe, but Ran is determined to advance...
"At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar—a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust?... As gray wolf Legoshi...
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"After a mysterious encounter in her childhood, Sakura Mamiya gained the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! Then one day she meets Rinne Rokudo, a boy who is far more than what he seems... Sakura and...
"High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a.....
"As a new era dawns, the Batman is facing the most dangerous threat of his career! The Arkham Knight has arrived in Gotham City with an entire round table of deadly allies, and their first encounter will leave Batman shaken to his core. After Batman's...
"Behind Dante's Gate, Arata and the girls lock horns with more of the Twelve Demon Commanders. Liese unleashes a form of mystic number magic that shocks even Miglione. Lilith squares off against Arbariccia's fierce attacks in a contest of strength an...
"The last of six volumes collecting MATT WAGNER's epic, modern-day fantasy trilogy, MAGE--BOOK THREE: THE HERO DENIED is the long-awaited conclusion to the saga of the reborn Pendragon, Kevin Matchstick. After his mystical enemies destroy his home and...
"Playing all sides against the middle is a dangerous game when there are demons in the mix. Nobody knows that better than Eddie, but he's got a special gift to help him through: his deaths are temporary, provided someone living touches his corpse. Then,...
"Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive...
"The terror organization Leviathan has transformed from a Batman menace to a global DC Universe threat, and Clark Kent is hot on their trail. But even Superman may be in for more than he bargained for as Leviathan undergoes a hostile takeover by a ne...
"These are the stories of what happened during the 1,000 years of Kaname’s slumber and the start of his human life... Yuki and Zero attempt to capture the 'Vampire King', who is responsible for the recent bombings. While trying to deactivate a bomb, Zero...
"Honda-san is stuck: It's hard to keep drawing about your bookstore job after you've quit! But being a full-time manga artist opens new doors - stories from the publishers' perspectives, to the nitty-gritty of e-books, and even to Taiwan's book industry....
"At long last, the much-awaited rematch between Toy Gun Gun and Star White has arrived! With Matsuoka's return to the team, Toy Gun Gun will finally be able to play in a match all together against their bitterest rivals... But with Matsuoka still injured,...
"A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending battle against evil! In April 1999, Jotaro Kujo travels to a town in Japan called Morioh to find a young man named Josuke Higashikata, the secret love child of his grandfat...
"In the world of Tokyo Ghoul, sometimes the only way to fight monsters is to become one! The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its u...
"A father and daughter carve their way across Europe to complete their revenge against the dwindling clan of Vikings that destroyed their lives so many years ago. Elsbeth Dagsdottir has not forgotten the oath her father made to her on that remote Ice...
"You have unlimited funds, a jet-set lifestyle, and extraordinary abilities. So what happens when you develop a sneaking suspicion you're working for the bad guys? Meet Eve Stranger, amnesiac for hire. Eve wakes up in a hotel room without knowing who...
"Guido and his pals Moreno and Katango are rebels without a cause living in a rural town of the Po Valley, a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside turned peripheral wasteland. Disaffected students of the local vocational high school, they spend their...
"Four kids in Mumbai are brought together by circumstances at a broken down wall--one that will become a canvas for the picture of their lives in a place that both inspires and oppresses, indiscriminately and in equal measure."--
"Follow artist Jane Zei through the everyday rollercoaster of a quarter-life crisis--when high-flying optimism meets cold, hard adulthood during the journey from college to a full-time career. With favorites from viral webcomic The Pigeon Gazette, along...
"Sir Winston Churchill is often referred to as the greatest Briton and is certainly one of the most important and central figures of the 20th century. Containing both his many pitfalls and triumphs, this graphic biography follows Churchill's upbringi...
"Time-traveling physicists and best friends Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly attempt to conquer the future in their latest adventure. But when their own mission goes awry, a face from the past calls upon them to fulfill a unique, and sinister, assignment....
"A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China's Cultural Revolution. In China, an entire generation's most formative years took place in remote rural areas when city-kids were sent to the countryside to b...
"This manga adaptation of the film by legendary director Wes Anderson features a new take on the story about this banished bowsers of Trash Island. Here we follow a young orphan boy and his dog Spots on an adventure that all fans of the film will want...
"An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them. For some reason, Taichi Ichinose just can't tolerate...
"As the game sessions tick down into their final hours, the players spin up into frenzied action. Their rivalries and ridiculously elaborate competing plans entail 2pooky paranormal phenomena, random teleportation murders, grimdarkness, crazy suicide...
"Hungry for humor? Tuck into these darkly funny horror stories starring creepy-cute food folk, presented in a photographed diorama-comic format that brings the stories to colorfully disturbing life. From an ice cream cone who makes a deal with the de...
"Life after college isn't turning out exactly as Rory and Angela had planned. Rory, recently dumped at the gate of her flight to Australia, needs to find a new life path ASAP. What do you do with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Southeast Asia...
"Howard's aspirations are modest. As long as he can sell ice cream and get the crossword done, he'll be happy. So what happens when his world collides with the rampant ambition of his ice-cream nemesis, Tony Augustus? Flake is a story of fate, friendship...
"In a world where the noble elite are supposed to fend off the threat of terrifying Chaos but instead engage in pointless, petty squabbles, young mage Siluca Meletes dreams of bringing justice to the land...Theo has pledged allegiance to Villar Const...
"It’s the 19th century, and the world has entered the Era of Rebirth, recovering from the devastating flames of war. The sport of mechanical martial arts has galvanized the nations. Cybernetically augmented fighters turn their blood into steam and their...
"'Year of the Villain' arrives in Harley Quinn, even if Harley is doing her best to avoid it! Lex Luthor has an 'offer' for Harley, and he won't take no for an answer--so get ready for Harley-er Quinn! And Harley asks the inevitable question--who is ...
"A new power called the Red Cloud has taken over the city's underworld, and it's like nothing Superman has ever faced before. As he chases down the story, his mind is preoccupied by the absence of his wife, Lois Lane, and their son, Jonathan--leaving...
"When a prominent Gotham City doctor is found dead with Joker toxin in his veins, all the clues point to Harley. The Dark Knight is on the case, and to clear her name, Harley will have to convince Batman of her innocence then team up with the Caped Crusader...
"'I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language,' writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from...
"The world's greatest detectives race to solve the mystery of Leviathan only to discover that this time, they're already too late. Leviathan is in control. With startling ease, a newly dangerous and aggressive secret organization called Leviathan has...
"The Dawn of X heralds fresh dangers! The X-Men face the surprising return of an old nemesis! Deadly choices carry dark consequences for X-Force - and Domino and Forge must pick up the pieces as the team faces a major setback! The battle of Madripoor...
"Izzy Tyburn has promised the world that if it won't have her in it, it'll have nothing of her at all. Chased by an unstoppable killer, she's retreading her life, leaving nothing behind but burned rubber, ash, and the sun-scorched bones of those who get...
"Rick and Morty Presents: Volume 2 explores the lives of four more characters from the hit adult swim TV show! Learn even more of the secret stories and hidden pasts of your favorite Rick and Morty(TM) characters. A frightful tale about everyone's...
"From spy to Avenger, the enigmatic Black Widow has lived many secret lives. But how do these disparate episodes add up to the life of the heroic Avenger, and what is the thread connects her past to her future? Get ready for the solo film Marvel's Black...
"One of Marvel Comics' longest-running female heroes finally gets her due! Natasha Romanoff is the deadliest spy in the Marvel Universe and the beating heart of the Avengers. But when a mysterious figure starts exploiting her past, the Widow may have...
"Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in America as she explores the nuances in searching for a place to belong. Baopu is a monthly serialized comic on Autostraddle, and this book includes beloved...
"Thena Khole and Cody Blue are among the universe's most wanted felons. Each the leader of their own criminal ops, they run heists across the galaxies -- hopping from ship to ship to fleece everyone inside. But when both women are betrayed by their crews,...
"THE NEW GATE--an online game transformed into a life-and-death struggle for its players. Thanks to the valiant efforts of Shin, the most powerful of them all, an end to the game and freedom for everyone seemed within reach. But just moments after Shin...
"Together with Spearman and Heavy Warrior, Goblin Slayer takes on the Demon's Tower. No doubt his plan of attack will be suitably inventive...! And while he's off on this adventure, Cow Girl and Priestess use their day wandering around town to... try...
"To save her kingdom, a simple village girl must live a royal lie. The powerful kingdom of Sigurd has slowly been conquering all the lands that share its borders, and now it has turned its voracious attention to the small, resource-rich Tyr. Tyr cannot...
"Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious assassins ever to come out of the ninja village of Iwagakure. He's ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. He has only one hope--in order to earn his freedom, he...
"Nurse Nanase has striven to once again meet the prince of her dreams, so how is it he's become such an aggravating doctor?! After witnessing a handsome and charming young doctor saving a stranger's life five years ago, Nanase Sakura trained to become...
"Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems......
"After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his previous life—or who replaced his head and why—Inui now scratches...
"How do you neutralize, for good, a master tactician who literally won't die? His opposite number in cold calculating genius, our boy anti-hero, thinks he has a plan. It involves a squad of elite soldiers, a hole dug in the ground, and just a tiny window...
"What happens when the woman who remembers everything... forgets who she is herself? In 1973, Ryozo, a young hiker on a mountain trail in far southern Japan, comes across a disoriented girl who doesn't know her own name, carrying on her the small change...
"After witnessing a handsome and charming young doctor save a stranger's life five years ago, Nanase Sakura trained to become a nurse. But when she meets the doctor again and they start working together, she finds Kairi Tendo to be nothing like the man...
"While reading a mysterious Harley Quinn comic book, H.Q. accidentally breaks all of reality. And you know the saying: if you break it, you bought it! Now it's up to Harley to travel through both time and space to fix all the continuity errors she cr...
"Death's wayward child drives him to become a patient of a recently-bereaved psychoanalyst. Featuring hand-chiseled images which have been carved into inked clay, this labor of love was composed using an astounding number of lines over the course of ...
"Victor Von Doom - scientist, sorcerer, disfigured face, twisted soul - has been spending much of his time warning against a trillion-dollar global effort to create the first 'artificial' black hole. Wrestling with visions of an entirely different life,...
"'J & K' follows the misadventures of an inseparable pair of idiots (Jay and Kay) as they navigate life in the modern world. These simple-seeming stories weave in and out of themselves and give you unexpectedly sad twists and hilarious turns; imagine...
"Bruce Banner is just getting started! He has an underground fortress. He has powerful allies. He's even got henchmen. He's got everything he needs to declare total war on human society. Bruce Banner is the most dangerous man in the world! Now, the I...
"The Batman Who Laughs was one of the premier villains crawling his way from the depths of the Dark Multiverse and wreaking havock on the DC Universe. Now he has been infecting some of the biggest heroes across the DC Universe with a mutated version of...
"The 80th anniversary of Batman collides with the 35th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in this stunning concluding miniseries to the Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy! Our heroes have battled the evil of the Foot Clan in Gotham...
"Twenty years in the future Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane. And...he's never been Batman. So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of familiar...
"Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma...
"Takigi Oze, detective in the army's Criminal Investigation Division and brother to Company 8's own Maki, investigates a case that takes him into the Nether. When he almost doesn't make it out alive, his father--the general--decides it's time for the...
"On the run from the law and pursued by a dogged Nick Fury, Steve Rogers must find a way to prove his innocence. But how? By taking the fight back to the Power Elite and their insidious minions - with a little help from the Daughters of Liberty! First...
"Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some sha...
"Marvel's critically acclaimed THE END line continues with a look at the final days in the life of Logan--The Man called WOLVERINE! It's the distant future, and a series of strange events sends the aging Wolverine on a globe-spanning quest to find the...
"The effects of Absolute Carnage are felt across the Marvel Universe! The late Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross was once the Red Hulk - and briefly bonded to the Venom symbiote! Now, Ross' corpse has been unearthed, though why and by whom remain unclear. But...
"The West Coast has been overrun with Frost Giants! But Otto Octavius doesn't settle for chaos--he plans to win the War of the Realms single-handedly. Well, maybe not single-handedly. He needs minions. Super-minions! So he recruits... the West Coast ...
"One of Spider-Man's greatest stories, in one truly deluxe package, as J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck craft the ultimate tale of revenge! Kraven the Hunter has stalked and killed every animal known to man. But there is one beast that has eluded him. One...
"Folk horror through the eyes of a modern teen in this atmospheric tale of obsession, suspense and magic. Something strange has been unleashed in the north of England. A modern-day druid commits a series of ghastly murders in an attempt to unleash the...
"Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew - able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: 'The Blowout' and 'The Hangover.'...
"God commands Earth's mightiest super-hero, 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."--Provided...
"ALL HELLS BREAK LOOSE! The Brothers Ghost Rider are back! Johnny Blaze ain't just the king of Hell--he's the warden too. He's the first line of defense between the demonic hordes trying to escape the joint and the lords of other hells making a play for...
"The Negative Zone is under siege! Now the Lord of the Negative Zone, Annihilus, makes a call for help to the very heroes he once fought against! It's an all-out battle as Nova, Silver Surfer and some of your favorite cosmic heroes try to prevent the...
"When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring King Arthur back from the dead, retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary...
"One of the biggest FF secrets of all time is finally revealed — and the fallout will be huge! First, newlyweds Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters are off on their dream honeymoon at last! It’s a remote tropical paradise — until someone decides to crash it....
"In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market....
"Life is a story. Hers is being rewritten. Still reeling from the sudden collapse of her coven, Manhattanite sorceress Esperanza tries to rebuild. But everyone in her life is saying she's done and said things that never happened -- terrible things. Before...
"Once upon a game, Rick, Morty and the Smith family went on magical D&D adventures...now, magical D&D adventures are coming to Earth, and no one will survive the Painscape! The world's greatest role-playing game returns to plague the world's most dys...
"A decade ago 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. Since then, Nathan Cole and others have worked tirelessly to rescue survivors of the Transference. But one thing remains in their way: the Faceless Men. Who are they? What...
"The Marvel Universe is a sprawling, interconnected web of rich history...and now, it's all coming together! Writer Mark Waid and artist Javier Rodriguez chronicle the definitive history of the Marvel Universe from its very beginnings to the modern day...
"The moving, provocative manga about the struggles and triumphs in love of a woman and a man who uses a wheelchair comes to print! An office party reunites Tsugumi with her high school crush Itsuki. He's realized his dream of becoming an architect, but...
"Bruce Wainwright, a comic book-reading kid obsessed with the Caped Crusader, loses his parents in a violent crime...and in the real world, no superheroes exist to save the day. Batman: Creature of the Night, written by Kurt Busiek (Astro City) and drawn...
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