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FIGHT CLUB 3 #10

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(W) Chuck Palahniuk (A) Cameron Stewart (CA) Duncan Fegredo

There's no room at the Last Round Up, so this nativity scene is going to have to move it. The truth about Marla Singer's wild origin story is revealed, but we still can't tell who's Tyler and who's Balthazar.

FINAL FANTASY ULTIMANIA ARCHIVE HC #1

(W) Yoshitaka Amano (A) Yoshitaka Amano (CA) Yoshitaka Amano

Dark Horse and Square Enix are thrilled to offer the first of three volumes celebrating the entrancing lore and exciting development of the initial six entries into the Final Fantasy saga. This astonishing journey through the creation of the seminal roll playing epic is finally available in English under official license for the first time ever!

FINAL FANTASY ULTIMANIA ARCHIVE HC #2

(W) Square Enix (A) Square Enix

Explore the art and adventure of the quintessential entries in the Final Fantasy saga with this gorgeous 300-plus-page hardcover. Collecting concept art, design notes, creator retrospectives, and more from Final Faintasy VII, VIII, and IX, Dark Horse and Square Enix's journey through the creation of the groundbreaking role-playing masterpiece continues! Collecting the art and notes from the creation of Final Fantasy games seven-through-nine. Available in English for the first time!

GANTZ OMNIBUS TP #1

(W) Hiroya Oku (A) Hiroya Oku (CA) Hiroya Oku

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits . . . and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win their freedom or die for the final time? Over 600 story pages, value priced. Collecting Gantz vols, 1-3.

GANTZ OMNIBUS TP #2

(W) Hiroya Oku (A) Hiroya Oku (CA) Hiroya Oku

Ordinary Tokyo citizens resurrected from death by a mysterious black orb, the Gantz team is conscripted to fight bizarre, deadly aliens in a game that promises release from the game . . . or oblivion. But the game's purpose is unclear, and the stakes are far greater than survival!

GANTZ OMNIBUS TP #3

(W) Hiroya Oku (A) Hiroya Oku (CA) Hiroya Oku

The stakes raise for the conscripted Gantz team as they face an increasingly deadly array of bizarre alien adversaries. But while the team remain in the dark about the nature of the lethal "game" they're forced to play, the consequences of losing couldn't be more crystal clear! Collects Gantz volumes 7-9.

GANTZ OMNIBUS TP #4

(W) Hiroya Oku (A) Hiroya Oku (CA) Hiroya Oku

Kei Kurono's work as a Gantz fighter is a nightmare, but his personal life is looking up, with a new ladylove opening his heart. But when his beloved is threatened by a Gantz-obsessed schoolmate on a shooting rampage, Kei must face the killer without his Gantz suit for protection! * 680 pages, value priced! * Gantz has sold over fifteen million copies in Japan!

GEAR SCHOOL GN #1

(W) Adam Gallardo (A) Nuria Peris (CA) Nuria Peris

In the future, humanity is in a seemingly endless war with an alien race. The struggle is dominated by giant war machines called Gear. Only the best and the brightest are allowed to drive these behemoths. The process of elimination begins in junior high. Thirteen-year-old Teresa Gottlieb has just entered the most prestigious military academy, known to all as Gear School, to try and become one of those elite. But on top of all the usual troubles that a seventh-grader has to put up with-boys, social cliques, hellish instructors-she also has to deal with three-story-tall robots and alien invasions! Teresa needs to learn that when the bell rings, the adventure starts. •  Gear School is written by Adam Gallardo (Star Wars: Infinities-Return of the Jedi; 100 Girls) and illustrated by N ria Peris (Star Wars Tales, Karas). Original graphic novel!

GEAR SCHOOL GN #2

(W) Adam Gallardo (A) Nuria Peris (CA) Nuria Peris

In the far future, humanity is caught in an endless war against an alien menace. The struggle is dominated by giant war machines called Gear. Only the best and the brightest are allowed to drive these war machines. The process of elimination begins in junior high. Teresa Gottlieb is a thirteen-year-old freshman at the most prestigious military academy in the world. A little while ago she saved the school from an alien attack, but at Gear School "a little while ago" is ancient history. Her status as savior of the school isn't cutting her any slack with her teachers, her classmates, or the clique that runs the school. Now Teresa finds herself caught up in an adventure that has more at stake than the future of the school or even the fate of the planet. It could jeopardize her budding first love!

GRENDEL DEVILS ODYSSEY #1 (OF 8)

CVR A WAGNER

(W) Matt Wagner (A) Matt Wagner (CA) Matt Wagner

Grendel Prime searches the stars for a new home for mankind, and Matt Wagner returns to his darkest creation! As civilization comes to an end on Earth, the final Grendel Khan gives Grendel Prime a new directive: Find a perfect planet to be the new home for the human race. But will the deadly and relentless paladin ultimately save humanity... or destroy it? * Grendel Prime continues the legacy in a space adventure! * Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror combine.

GRENDEL DEVILS ODYSSEY #1 (OF 8)

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(W) Matt Wagner (A) Matt Wagner (CA) Matt Wagner

Grendel Prime searches the stars for a new home for mankind, and Matt Wagner returns to his darkest creation! As civilization comes to an end on Earth, the final Grendel Khan gives Grendel Prime a new directive: Find a perfect planet to be the new home for the human race. But will the deadly and relentless paladin ultimately save humanity... or destroy it? * Grendel Prime continues the legacy in a space adventure! * Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror combine.

GRENDEL OMNIBUS TP #1

HUNTER ROSE

(W) Matt Wagner (A) Tim Sale

Matt Wagner's masterpiece celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with the first-ever comprehensive collection of the complete Grendel saga! The first of four volumes presenting the entire series and following the chronology of the stories, this edition introduces millionaire Hunter Rose and his alter ego, the criminal mastermind Grendel! Volume 1 reprints Grendel: Devil by the Deed; the short story collections Grendel: Black, White, & Red and Grendel: Red, White, & Black, featuring a host of legendary guest artists; and the epic Grendel: Behold the Devil.

GRENDEL OMNIBUS TP #2

LEGACY

(W) Matt Wagner (A) Matt Wagner

The legacy of Hunter Rose lives on through the tortured life of Rose's adopted daughter Stacy, and once again finds full bloom in Stacy's own daughter Christine Spar. Reviving Grendel's reign of terror, Spar leads the way for its murderous identity to claim more hosts, each more powerful than the last, and more malicious! This volume also contains Wagner's return as writer and artist, in a series of groundbreaking stories looking back on the career of Hunter Rose. Collects Devil Tales, Devil Child, Devil's Legacy, and The Devil Inside trade paperbacks.

GRENDEL OMNIBUS TP #4

PRIME

(W) Matt Wagner (A) Matt Wagner (CA) Simon Bisley

The world belongs to Grendel-Khan Orion Assante and his elite warrior caste of Grendels, but when Orion dies, the world is thrown back into chaos. To protect young Jupiter Assante, rightful heir to the throne, those still loyal to the Grendel-Khan must turn to a new power, the terrifying Grendel Prime! The story of Orion's cyborg paladin unfolds in War Child, Devil Quest, and Past Prime, three tales that form the apotheosis of Wagner's groundbreaking, centuries-spanning epic!

HALO ADULT COLORING BOOK TP

(W) Christos Gage (A) Dan Jackson Rebekah Isaacs (CA) Rebekah Issacs

UNSC, Covenant, and Forerunner factions fill this volume of original illustrations based on the expansive video game universe of Halo! Bring to life these ready-to-color pages filled with your favorite characters, transports, and worlds in your own way in this Halo Adult Coloring Book. Forty-five original black-and-white illustrations give you the Master Chief, Cortana, and others all battling away with signature weapons and tech pulled directly from the Halo video games.

HELLBOY & BPRD LONG NIGHT AT GOLOSKI STATION #0

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Matt Smith (CA) Mike Mignola

A quiet night at a rundown Russian train station turns into an all-out demon battle for Hellboy when three sinister interlopers pass through.

HELLBOY AND THE BPRD SATURN RETURNS #3 (OF 3)

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Christopher Mitten (CA) Christopher Mitten

Theories and threads are coming up cold, but the bodies are still piling up in the terrified New Hampshire town. How many more will die before the creature is contained? Agent Kinsley and the local authorities must race to stop the bloodthirsty body-snatcher without Hellboy, who has been urgently pulled in another direction.

HELLBOY COMPLETE SHORT STORIES TP #1

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Richard Corben (CA) Mike Mignola

In 1994 Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse. Before that, he'd spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories volumes 1 & 2 present those early adventures. "The Crooked Man" and "Double Feature of Evil," both of which earned Mignola and his legendary collaborator Richard Corben Eisner Awards, are collected with the complete "Hellboy in Mexico" saga, featuring collaborations with Corben, Mick McMahon, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon, as well as one of Mignola's early masterpiece, "The Corpse."  This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1947 to 1961.

HELLBOY COMPLETE SHORT STORIES TP #2

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Richard Corben (CA) Mike Mignola

Collecting all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience. Unaware of his role as Beast of the Apocalypse, Hellboy has his first brushes with the royalty of Hell and the otherworldly Ogdru Hem, while shooting out the Baba Yaga's eye and getting a glimpse of his possible fate in the epic African adventure "Makoma." This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1961 to 1993, leading up to Seed of Destruction. It includes stories from the Hellboy collections The Troll Witch, The Chained Coffin, The Bride of Hell, The Right Hand of Doom, and The Crooked Man, including "Heads," "Buster Oakley Gets His Wish," and "A Christmas Underground."

HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP #1

SEED OF DESTRUCTION

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Mike Mignola (CA) Mike Mignola

The Hellboy saga begins-with over 300 pages drawn by Mignola! For the first time, Hellboy's complete story is presented in chronological order for the ultimate reading experience. The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, fighting alongside Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and drafting Roger Homunculus into his own ill-fated service with the B.P.R.D.   This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures published from 1994 to 1997, reprinting Seed of Destruction, Wake the Devil, and "Wolves of St August," "The Chained Coffin," and "Almost Colossus," from The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom.

HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP #2

STRANGE PLACES

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Mike Mignola (CA) Mike Mignola

The four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two volumes of The Complete Short Stories collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience. This 416-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1998 to 2005, reprinting Conqueror Worm, Strange Places, Into the Silent Sea, and "The Right Hand of Doom," "Box Full of Evil," and "Being Human" from The Right Hand of Doom and B.P.R.D.: Being Human.

HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP #3

THE WILD HUNT

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Duncan Fegredo (CA) Mike Mignola

The basis for the upcoming feature film Hellboy: The Rise of the Blood Queen! Terrible powers determined to kill Hellboy force him strike a deal with the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, and to confront the truth about his destiny. The human race hangs in the balance, as well as King Arthur's sword Excalibur, in a story that wipes England off the map and sets in motion the end of the world... Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's complete trilogy is collected for the first time in this 512-page volume, reprinting Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and the Fury, and the short story "The Mole."  The four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two volumes of The Complete Short Stories collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.

HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP #4

HELLBOY IN HELL

(W) Mike Mignola (A) Mike Mignola (CA) Mike Mignola

The Hellboy saga concludes, with the most ambitious chapter, Hellboy in Hell, collected in its entirety-all written and drawn by Mike Mignola. Hellboy is cast into Hell, where familiar faces reveal secrets of his origins, and previously unknown family members come forward. Hellboy forever alters the face of Hell, giving new significance to his role of Beast of the Apocalypse. While featuring big answers and one of the most momentous choices Hellboy's ever made, Hellboy in Hell also offers a return to the simplest and best Hellboy stories, as Hellboy roams a unique world only Mignola could present, filled with strange and magical encounters rich with the power of folklore and myth. The Hellboy Omnibus series collects Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON DRAGONVINE TP

(W) Dean DeBlois (A) Francisco De La Fuente (CA) Doug Wheatley

Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the dragon riders encounter two deadly, yet mysteriously linked, threats: One is an island consumed by Dragonvine-an uncontrollable force of nature that's poisonous to humans and deadly to dragons. The other is an all-new, all-terrifying dragon species-the web-spitting Silkspanners!

HOW TO WIN AT LIFE BY CHEATING AT EVERYTHING TP

(W) Mark Perez (A) Scott Shaw (CA) Scott Shaw

A lot of how-to books assume that the reader is a good and wholesome person who wants to follow the law and not rip other people off. This is FOOLISH! Let John D'Hough (not his real name) tell you all about the glorious world of grift, the science of scam, and the craft of criminality as he explains how he was able to fleece the entire town of Honest, Indiana. A biting comedic satire, this debut novel from Hollywood screenwriter Mark Perez pulls no punches, and everybody gets his fair share. Featuring a cover and interior cartoon illustrations from former Flintstones character designer Scott Shaw! o Darkly comedic debut novel by screenwriter Mark Perez.