COMIC BOOK STORY OF VIDEO GAMES GN
(W) Jonathan Hennessey (A) Jack McGowan (CA) Jack McGowan
From the co-creator of the New York Times best-selling The Comic Book Story of Beer, a complete, illustrated history of video games-highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion dollar industry/artform-told in a giftable graphic novel style. Jonathan Hennessey and Jack McGowan provide readers with everything they need to know about video games - from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today's app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokémon Go. Hennessey and McGowan also analyze the evolution of gaming as an artform and its impact on society. Each chapter features spot LIGHTS on major players in the development of games and gaming.
COMPLETE CHESTER GOULD DICK TRACY HC #23
(W) Chester Gould (A) Chester Gould (CA) Chester Gould
The adventures of this iconic square-jawed detective fighting a menagerie of grotesque villains remains one of the high LIGHTS in the history, of not just comics, but crime fiction in general. This series is ripe to introduce the strip to crime prose readers who haven't previously ventured into comics. Tracy is on the trail of the aptly named Mr. Bribery and his equally grotesque sister, Ugly Christine, in a story that also features a substance-abusing witch doctor and a shelf of shrunken heads. Meanwhile, newlyweds Junior and Moon Maid enter the story, and Dick Tracy's troubles are compounded when he comes face to face with master criminal Haf-and-Haf, one side of whose face is hideously disfigured. Included are all strips from December 27, 1965 to July 2, 1967. Bullet points: * "One of the best things to happen to the comic market in the last few years was IDW's decision to publish The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy." -Scoop * Advance solicited for December release!
FOOD WARS SHOKUGEKI NO SOMA GN #20
(W) Yuto Tsukuda (A) Yuto Tsukuda (CA) Yuto Tsukuda
Soma challenges Eishi Tsukasa for his first seat on the Council of Ten! Up against Tsukasa's delicately refined technique, Soma high LIGHTS his own creativity with a brand-new take on traditional French cuisine. Will he win that coveted seat or lose big and join Central? Even if he does win, Soma won't be out of the woods-not when the surviving first-years have just received notice of their biggest challenge yet! For older teen audiences.
GANGSTA CURSED GN #3
(W) Kohske (A) Syuhei Kamo (CA) Syuhei Kamo
After making the fateful decision to defy his fellow Hunters and save a young girl's life, Spas finds himself caught between the worlds of the Normals and the Twi LIGHTS. Branded a traitor by the Hunters, yet still considered an enemy by all the other factions, he's on the run and desperately trying to find his way through the carnage and chaos that surround him. For mature audiences.
INFERNOCT #1
(W) Mina Elwell (A) Eli Powell (CA) Eli Powell
In the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft., there's the InferNoct. As Sam attempts to discover the real reason the people of her town are being destroyed, she becomes aware of mind-rending creatures that feed off the sanity of their victims. It's up to her to do something about it... if she can keep her grip on reality. Sam is trying to turn her life around. Living in her tiny country town, she gets the only job she can, as an unofficial, untrained homecare nurse. However, it soon becomes obvious that her new client was willing to accept an unusual caretaker because this is an unusual job. Sam begins caring for an old man who won't sleep, doesn't talk, and never turns off the LIGHTS, but there's something else going on in the house at night.
MARVEL COMICS DIGEST #3
THOR
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Olivier Coipel
Marvel Comics' best-selling heroes are back in the ever-popular digest format! This third issue spot LIGHTS Thor, just in time for Thor: Ragnarok! This is a can't-miss collector's item that will only be printed once!
ORCHID GN
(W) Dylan Williams (A) Gabrielle Bell (CA) Mats
A cool compilation of actual Victorian stories interpreted by ten different artists. High LIGHTS include 'Tobermory', written by H.H. Munro and adapted by Gabrielle Bell, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" adapted by David Lasky; and, the compelling 'Green Tea' by J. Sheriden Le Fanu and adapted by Kevin Huizenga (Ganges). A Sparkplug production.
SKIN & EARTH #4 (OF 6)
CVR A LEGS
(W) LIGHTS (A) LIGHTS (CA) LIGHTS
Despite the thrill and renewed sense of freedom she is feeling under the influence of her new and mysterious companion, En is forced to discover a dark truth about her ex-lover, Priest. It seems the boundaries of spirituality and her world as she knows it are beginning to blur. Written and drawn by alt-pop phenomenon LIGHTS, Skin&Earth ties directly into her next full-length album, to be released in Fall 2017 on Warner Bros. records.
SKIN & EARTH #4 (OF 6)
CVR B BACK TO BACK
(W) LIGHTS (A) LIGHTS (CA) LIGHTS
Despite the thrill and renewed sense of freedom she is feeling under the influence of her new and mysterious companion, En is forced to discover a dark truth about her ex-lover, Priest. It seems the boundaries of spirituality and her world as she knows it are beginning to blur. Written and drawn by alt-pop phenomenon LIGHTS, Skin&Earth ties directly into her next full-length album, to be released in Fall 2017 on Warner Bros. records.
SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME TP #1
LIGHTS CAMERA SNACKTION
(W) Natalie Riess (A) Natalie Riess (CA) Natalie Riess
Collecting the first four issues of Natalie Riess's delectable series, SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME! Earth baker Peony gets the deal of a lifetime when she agrees to be a contestant on the Universe's hottest reality TV show, Space Battle Lunchtime! But that was before she knew that it shoots on location... on a spaceship... and her alien competitors don't play nice! Does Peony really have what it takes to be the best cook in the Galaxy? Tune in and find out!
STAR WARS DARTH VADER DARK LORD SITH TP #1
IMPERIAL MACHINE
(W) Charles Soule (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli (CA) Jim Cheung
The most fearsome villain of all time returns with a brand-new series! Picking up where Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith ends, follow Darth Vader as he receives his legendary red LIGHTSaber and begins his ruthless rise! Anakin Skywalker is now more machine than man. Having lost everything once dear to him, he must forge a new future - as a Dark Lord of the Sith! Join Darth Vader as he learns the way of Darth Sidious and his newly formed Empire - the way of the dark side. And on his first mission, Vader sets his sights on a Jedi who avoided Order 66, a Master who's long lived in seclusion - one more powerful than any he has faced before! Nobody said the path to power was going to be easy. Collecting DARTH VADER (2017) #1-6. Rated T
ZITS TREASURY WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT HC
(W) Jerry Scott (A) Jim Borgman
What Was That All About? looks back at the 20-year whirlwind life of the Duncan family, the inhabitants of the popular, modern family cartoon Zits. Always spot-on, sometimes chaotic, and often messy comic moments are immortalized by the true-to-life give and take between Jeremy and his often befuddled parents. Authors Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have sifted through the high LIGHTS (and some low LIGHTS!) over the life of the strip and have created a unique behind-the-scenes, insightful view into the history of Zits. They have selected their all-time favorite cartoons to fill the collection along with special features.