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VERTICAL COMICS

ABANDONED SACRED BEASTS GN #6

(W) MAYBE (A) MAYBE (CA) MAYBE

From the editors behind Attack on Titan and Flowers of Evil comes a new action fantasy title that combines western mythology and supernatural beings with imagery of the American Wild West. An action fantasy set in a dystopian future where to combat monster attacks monster hunters in FUSE themselves with monster DNA but in the process lose their humanity resulting in the developement of a monster hunter extermination unit lead by a werewolf named Hank.

DC COMICS

(W) Dan Abnett (A) Paul Pelletier (CA) Paul Pelletier

When the town of Amnesty Island is besieged by a series of shark attacks, authorities call Aquaman for help! What's unusual about this case is that the shark isn't trying to kill people-he just wants to talk to them. The very con FUSEd Jabberjaw needs to get back to Aqualand, the future undersea utopia where he came from. But that peaceful city where man and sentient sea life have been living in harmony has been turned into a dystopian nightmare created by a new Ocean Master. Now the King of Atlantis and his friendly shark ally have to team up to set things right. Also includes a Captain Caveman meets the wizard Shazam in a short story by Jeff Parker and Scott Kolins.

DC COMICS

(W) Dan Abnett (A) Paul Pelletier (CA) Joshua Middleton

When the town of Amnesty Island is besieged by a series of shark attacks, authorities call Aquaman for help! What's unusual about this case is that the shark isn't trying to kill people-he just wants to talk to them. The very con FUSEd Jabberjaw needs to get back to Aqualand, the future undersea utopia where he came from. But that peaceful city where man and sentient sea life have been living in harmony has been turned into a dystopian nightmare created by a new Ocean Master. Now the King of Atlantis and his friendly shark ally have to team up to set things right. Also includes a Captain Caveman meets the wizard Shazam in a short story by Jeff Parker and Scott Kolins.

IMAGE COMICS

DEAD HAND #3

(W) Kyle Higgins (A) Stephen Mooney (CA) Stephen Mooney

"COLD WAR RELICS," Part Three-A new spy sets his sights on Mountain View. Roger's secret is revealed. Harriet re FUSEs to trust the killers that surround her.

DARK HORSE COMICS

INCOGNEGRO RENAISSANCE #5 (OF 5)

(W) Mat Johnson (A) Warren Pleece (CA) Warren Pleece

The long FUSE of Incognegro: Renaissance hits the bomb in this noir mystery's explosive conclusion. Zane Pinchback and his femme fatale Bette discover the story behind the murder that sent them on their quest, and now they must bring that truth to light without becoming its next victims. o For mature readers.

TASCHEN AMERICA L.L.C.

JAMIE HEWLETT INSIDE MIND OF JAMIE HEWLETT HC NEW PTG

From the legendary Tank Girl to live-action animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlett is one of the most energetic figures of contemporary pop culture. With influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. This TASCHEN edition, Hewlett's first major monograph, illustrates his thrilling creative journey with more than 400 artworks from the Tank Girl era through Gorillaz and up to the present day. Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches, we trace Hewlett's exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a polymath artist who re FUSEs to rest on his laurels.

DC COMICS

(W) Dan Abnett (A) Lan Medina (CA) Nicola Scott

Just as Mera and Orm prepare to fight side by side to save Atlantis from utter desolation, Nereus makes Orm a devious proposal that's hard to re FUSE: control of the Xebellian army in exchange for Tula's unwilling hand in marriage! Can the Ocean Master really resist the call of the sea? Or will Mera have to fight her own people to help Tula escape a fate that was once her own?

KODANSHA COMICS

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME GN #6

(W) FUSE (A) Taiki Kawakami (CA) Taiki Kawakami

Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's facing down a dragon, not as a knight or a wizard but as a blind slime demon. As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters.  But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero!

DARK HORSE COMICS

VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #7

NORTH SEA PT 1

(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano

A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel. Even a reluctant hero can't re FUSE the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series. Co-published with Digital Manga Publishing.

DARK HORSE COMICS

VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL #8

NORTH SEA PT 2

(W) Hideyuki Kikuchi (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano

The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-re FUSEd to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin. Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge? • More than seventeen million Vampire Hunter D books in print worldwide. •  Cover and six interior illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano!

POCKET BOOKS

WARHAMMER 40K FABIUS BILE CLONELORD PROSE NOVEL SC

(W) Josh Reynolds

Once a loyal son of the Emperor's Children, Fabius Bile now loathes those he once called brother. But when a former comrade requests his aid on a mission he cannot re FUSE, Bile is drawn once more into the sinister machinations of his former Legion. Now, accompanied by new allies and old enemies alike, Fabius Bile must travel deep into the wilds of the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, in search of a world unlike any other. A world which might hold the key to his very survival. A world called Solemnace.