LORDS OF EMPYRE SWORDSMAN #1 ANACLETO VAR #0
(W) Alex Paknadel (A) Thomas Nachlik (CA) Jay Anacleto
The swordsman has been resurrected! But there are more secrets than what lies beyond the grave... Join Swordsman and his son, Quoi, as they embark on a journey of discovery here on Earth - one they can't walk back from! Rated T+
LOST SOUL BE AT PEACE GRAPHIC MEMOIR SC
(W) Maggie Thrash (A) Maggie Thrash (CA) Maggie Thrash
A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi... who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her search begins - but Maggie's not even really sure what she's lost, and she has no idea what she'll find.
LOUVRE COLLECTION HC RED MOTHER WITH CHILD
(W) Christian Lax (A) Carriere Yslaire (CA) Carriere Yslaire
In Mali in Africa, a red Mother with Child, a 14th century African sculpture, is saved from the destructive madness of Islamists by Alou, a young honey hunter. In the company of other migrants, sisters and brothers of misfortune, Alou goes all out to reach Europe. His goal and his obsession: entrust the pre-cious statuette to the Louvre Museum! An epic adventure, touching upon the burning worldwide issue of refugees and immigration, in the ever-expanding Louvre collection commissioning graphic novels from leading world artists to spin tales around the famous museum.
LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY GILBERT JAIME MARIO GN AMOR COHETES
(W) Los Bros Hernandez (A) Los Bros Hernandez (CA) Los Bros Hernandez
The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume! Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida," the shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book," and much more!
LOVE AND LIES GN #9
(W) Musao Tsumugi (A) Musao Tsumugi (CA) Musao Tsumugi
"Love is forbidden. When you turn 16, the government will assign your marriage partner." This dystopian manga about teen love and defiance is a sexy, funny, and dramatic new hit! Yukari is dull. He doesn't even stand out enough to be bullied - he's just a generally lower-middle-class kid. He's in love with Misaki, the most popular girl in school. There's just one problem: He's 15, one year away from receiving his government-assigned marriage partner. He normally wouldn't have the courage to defy the law, but his sickly classmate Ririna still believes in love, and won't stop goading him into confessing his feelings!
LOW #25
CVR A TOCCHINI & MCCAIG
(W) Rick Remender (A) Greg Tocchini (CA) Greg Tocchini
"LIGHT BRINGS LIGHT," Part Three-Does hope make a difference when the world burns? Can Stel Caine save her fractured family in time to save mankind? The penultimate issue of the hit series!
LOW #25
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(W) Rick Remender (A) Greg Tocchini (CA) Matteo Scalera
"LIGHT BRINGS LIGHT," Part Three-Does hope make a difference when the world burns? Can Stel Caine save her fractured family in time to save mankind? The penultimate issue of the hit series!
(W) Dan Watters (A) Sebastian Fiumara (CA) Tiffany Turrill
Lucifer trespasses into the garden of Destiny of the Endless, but for what nefarious purpose? Nothing less than tearing a page from the Book of Destiny itself.
THE INFERNAL COMEDY
(W) Dan Watters (A) Sebastian Fiumara (CA) Jock
This is the one true tale of what befell the Prince of Lies, the Bringer of Light-Lucifer. The blind, destitute old man, who lives in a small boarding house in a quiet little town, where nothing is quite what it seems and no one can leave. He's trapped, you see? Trapped in a bizarre prison with no memory of how he got there or why. He has no recollection of setting out to find his offspring. He also does not remember that if he does not find him it could be the end of all things. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a cop who may have brain cancer is tasked with a mission: find and kill Lucifer. Collects Lucifer #1-6 and The Sandman Universe Special #1.
THE DIVINE TRAGEDY
(W) Dan Watters (A) Max Fiumara (CA) Tiffany Turrill
God is angry. Lucifer has committed an unthinkable act of sacrilege, and now the forces of Heaven have left him with nowhere to turn but the lands of the dead. Meanwhile: a cherub appears in a motel room, a witch queen walks the Earth for the first time in millennia, and Mazikeen gets to break a finger or two. Plus, things in Hell are heating up with too many potential leaders, as Mazikeen prepares to fend off a usurper with assistance from an unexpected ally. But with Heaven and Hell so engrossed in their own affairs, who's keeping track of what's happening on Earth? Collects Lucifer #7-13.
THE WILD HUNT
Lucifer, the prince of darkness, is playing house. The Devil arrives in the village of Haybury, West Yorkshire, with designs on building a quaint new life for himself. But when an uninvited guest by the name of John Constantine crashes the party, all hell breaks loose. Then, "The Wild Hunt" begins as Lucifer must discover the identity of the Hunted God. It's a mythic quest led by one of the most dangerous entities in existence: Odin himself. Collects Lucifer #14-19.
LUCY CLAIRE REDEMPTION TP #1
(W) John Upchurch (A) John Upchurch (CA) John Upchurch
Lucy Claire, once a celebrated hero, is now treated as a despised miscreant. Through a series of sinister events, Lucy's children were taken from her; she was slandered and defamed and is now broken and lost. But when an old danger re-emerges, Lucy will have to take on her hero's mantle again in order to right the wrongs of her past and, above all else, find a way back to her children. Collects LUCY CLAIRE: REDEMPTION #1-5.
LUDOCRATS #3 (OF 5)
(W) Kieron Gillen (A) Jeff Stokely (CA) Jeff Stokely
LUDOCRATS, the comic that makes its whole creative team shout, "Oh God. What have we done? Why didn't anyone stop us?" on a monthly basis.
LUMBERJANES #75
CVR A LEYH
(W) Shannon Watters (A) Kanesha C. Bryant (CA) Kat Leyh
It's Mal and Molly's turn to check off every to-do on their end-of-summer wish list. There's a lot of fun they want to get to, but they're perfectly happy to dilly-dally, just as long as they're wasting time together!
LUMBERJANES #75
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(W) Shannon Watters (A) Kanesha C. Bryant (CA) Harriet Moulton
It's Mal and Molly's turn to check off every to-do on their end-of-summer wish list. There's a lot of fun they want to get to, but they're perfectly happy to dilly-dally, just as long as they're wasting time together!
LUMBERJANES DISCOVER YOURS ED #1
(W) Noelle Stevenson (A) Brooklyn Allen (CA) Noelle Stevenson
Discover where the New York Times bestseller & Eisner Award-winning series began before selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together... and they're not gonna let any wacky quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!
LUMBERJANES TP #15
(W) Shannon Watters (A) AnneMarie Rogers (CA) Kat Leyh
* Jo's birthday is coming up, and April is determined to pull out all the stops for her best friend! But when her elaborate plans for a huge, over-the-top celebration fall through, April recruits the yetis and some fellow 'Janes to put on a play for Jo, instead. * Meanwhile, Mal has been tasked with keeping Jo busy to protect the surprise, but she might've done TOO good a job. Will the birthday girl make it back in time for her own party? And does she even want to? * Join the celebrations with this brand-new adventure written by Shannon Watters and Kat Leyh (Super Cakes) and illustrated by talented newcomer AnneMarie Rogers. * Collects issues #57-60.
It's the wacky for Jaffee issue! We're folding with one hand and saluting with the other as we celebrate the witty work of Al Jaffee, creator of the Mad Fold-In! In addition to his "crease-able" features, the issue includes rare Jaffee gems like revamped inventions, "Tall Tales," and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," plus an all-new "Mad Look at..." by Sergio Aragonés, "Spy vs. Spy," and a special never-before-seen piece by Al himself!
MAGICAL GIRL RAISING PROJECT LIGHT NOVEL SC #9
(W) Asari Endou (A) Marui-no (CA) Marui-no
From the very first Magical Girl Raising Project to ACES, dozens of magical girls have found a special place in our hearts. This collection of bonus stories tells of the more peaceful days in their lives and adds further context to previous events!
MAGICIANS NEW CLASS TP
(W) Lev Grossman (A) Pius Bak (CA) Qistina Khalidah
* New York Times bestselling series creator Lev Grossman returns with an all-new story in the world of The Magicians with award-winning writer Lilah Sturges and rising star artist Pius Bak that features the first appearance of the next generation of heroes and villains. * Long after Quentin Coldwater has graduated from Brakebills, Dean Fogg welcomes the first class in Brakebills history to include hedge magicians, who are known for being dangerous practitioners of unsanctioned magic. As these two student bodies clash, everyone at Brakebills is forced to take a side - not realizing a new threat has targeted them all! ? The malevolence behind the threat at Brakebills will rock everyone to their cores - and even shock longtime fans of The Magicians!
MAGIKA SWORDSMAN & SUMMONER GN #13
(W) Mitsuki Mihara (A) MonRin (CA) MonRin
For fans of Dragonar Academy comes an all-new fantasy adventure! Parallel to our dimension is a world filled with magic, home to a host of mystical beings and fantastical powers. Humanity has learned to harness these forces and bring forth that world's entities to do their bidding through the power of "summoners." Kazuki Hayashizaki is chosen as the first male summoner. His attendance at an all-female summoner school, however, is met with opposition, especially from his own sister, who is the school's most skilled swordsman. Kazuki struggles against the machinations of his sister and the other students. Can he overcome adversity and learn to become a first rate summoner?
MAGNIFICENT MS MARVEL #16
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(W) Saladin Ahmed (A) Minkyu Jung (CA) Eduard Petrovich
• AMULET RETURNS - just in time for C.R.A.D.L.E. and Dum Dum Dugan to crack down on the teen heroes of Jersey City! • An arcane horror threatens everything Amulet and Ms. Marvel hold dear - but can they do anything to stop it when they could be arrested at any moment?
MAISON IKKOKU COLLECTORS EDITION TP #1
(W) Rumiko Takahashi (A) Rumiko Takahashi (CA) Rumiko Takahashi
Yusaku Godai didn't get accepted into college on the first try, so he's studying to retake the entrance exams. But living in a dilapidated building full of eccentric and noisy tenants is making it hard for him to achieve his goals. Now that a beautiful woman has moved in to become the new resident manager, Godai is driven to distraction!
(W) Dave Wielgosz (A) Sumit Kumar (CA) Kyle Hotz
Man-Bat is on the run from the law following a horrific night of blood and mayhem on the streets of Gotham City. But the police aren't what Kirk Langstrom's monstrous alter ego should worry about... it's Task Force X, better known as the Suicide Squad! To undo the damage he has caused, Man-Bat must seek a cure for the innocents he has injured, all while staying out of the deadly sights of the world's most dangerous mercenaries!
MAN WHO EFFED UP TIME #5
(W) John Layman (A) Karl Mostert (CA) Karl Mostert
Time's up for Sean Bennett, the very unfortunate man who f#%&ed up time and now has a death sentence handed down by the dreaded cyborg Future Police. The past has been f#%&ed up, and it looks like irrevocably so. What does this mean for the future? Nothing good! A time-twisted sci-fi action-comedy, a butterfly effect noir, by multiple Eisner-winning writer John Layman (Chew, ELEANOR & THE EGRET) and talented newcomer Karl Mostert. Order it today...before time runs out!