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INSIGHT KIDS

BACK TO THE FUTURE TELLING TIME MARTY MCFLY BOARD BOOK

(W) Brian Froud (A) Brian Froud (CA) Brian Froud

Great Scott! Marty MCFly is always late. It's almost like he doesn't know how to tell time. Sometimes he's in bed when he should be at school. Other times he's back at school when he should be at band practice. Help Marty get through the day by turning the die-cut wheel in the cover and lifting the flaps throughout the book to find out where Marty should be at the proper time. Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty MCFly is an entertaining, nostalgic title in the PlayPop line of developmental board books.

TITAN COMICS

ADLER #5

CVR A ERSKINE

(W) Lavie Tidhar (A) Paul MCCaffrey (CA) Gary Erskine

THE FINAL BATTLE BEGINS! Adler and her team of Victorian heroines face-off against AYESHA'S army of AMAZONS. From the World Fantasy Award-winning writer Lavie Tidhar and artist Paul MCCaffrey (DC's Men of War, TMNT) comes an all-new story written in the vein of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

TITAN COMICS

ADLER #5

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(W) Lavie Tidhar (A) Paul MCCaffrey (CA) Paul MCCaffrey

THE FINAL BATTLE BEGINS! Adler and her team of Victorian heroines face-off against AYESHA'S army of AMAZONS. From the World Fantasy Award-winning writer Lavie Tidhar and artist Paul MCCaffrey (DC's Men of War, TMNT) comes an all-new story written in the vein of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

AHOY COMICS

ASH & THORN TP

(W) Mariah MCCourt (A) Soo Lee (CA) Jill Thompson

The apocalypse is ni gh! The world needs a Champion, and the only heir to a sacred mystical lineage is...a little old lady? Meet Lottie Thorn, reluctant savior of the world, and her also-elderly trainer Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss. They might not look it, but these women are prepared to take on any Big Bad that comes along. But first, perhaps a nice cup of tea? Collects issues #1-5.

HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE

BROOKLYN GLADIATOR #3 (OF 5)

(W) Dan Fogler (A) Kyle Strahm (CA) Simon Bisley

It's 2033, New Yorkers survive on scraps in a despoiled America. John Miller is an action hero for the ages, a rough and ready badass who could drink Han Solo, Jack Burton, and John MCClane under the table. Brooklyn Gladiator is a tribute to the comics, films, and experiences that have inspired author Dan Fogler.

BBC BOOKS

DOCTOR WHO TIME LORD VICTORIOUS HC ALL FLESH IS GRASS

(W) Una MCCormack

A wasteland. A dead world. No, there is a biodome rising from the ashes. Here, life teems and flourishes, with strange, lush plants and many-winged insects with bright carapaces - and one solitary sentient creature, who spends its days talking to the insects and tending this lonely garden. This is Inyit, the Last of the Kotturuh and these are The Dark Times. The tenth Doctor has sworn to stop the Kotturuh, ending death and bringing life to the universe. But his plan is unraveling; instead of bringing life, nothing has changed and all around him people are dying. Death is everywhere. Now he must confront his former selves, one in league with their greatest nemesis, the other manning a ship of the undead.

BOOM! STUDIOS

FIREFLY #21

CVR A MAIN

(W) Greg Pak (A) Dan MCDaid (CA) Marc Aspinall

THE BLUE SUN RISING EVENT CONTINUES! The Blue Sun Corporation has launched their new line of high-tech robots designed to help local law enforcement, and they already have their electronic eye on a new target-the Chang-Benitez Gang! Mal wants to help his former crew on Serenity, but can they trust him while he still wears the badge?

BOOM! STUDIOS

FIREFLY #21

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(W) Greg Pak (A) Dan MCDaid (CA) George Kambadais

THE BLUE SUN RISING EVENT CONTINUES! The Blue Sun Corporation has launched their new line of high-tech robots designed to help local law enforcement, and they already have their electronic eye on a new target-the Chang-Benitez Gang! Mal wants to help his former crew on Serenity, but can they trust him while he still wears the badge?

BOOM! STUDIOS

FIREFLY UNIFICATION WAR TP #1

(W) Greg Pak (A) Dan MCDaid (CA) Lee Garbett

From Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers) comes a new era of Firefly, as the definitive story of the Unification War is told at last! Captain Malcolm Reynolds thought he could outrun his past, but when a simple heist goes wrong, he's forced to make a choice: fix the past or fight for the future. Along with Whedon, writer Greg Pak (Mech Cadet Yu) and artist Dan MCDaid (Judge Dredd: Mega City Zero) take you back to the battleground where it all began...and reveal a secret history that might end it all. Collects Firefly #1-4.

ARTISTS WRITERS & ARTISANS INC

GRENDEL KY #2 (OF 4)

(W) Jeff MCComsey (A) Tommy Lee Edwards (CA) Tommy Lee Edwards

For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has honored its Faustian bargain with the monster living in its abandoned coal mine: a human sacrifice every season in return for agrarian prosperity the likes of which this rocky region had never before seen (including its greatest cash crop: the dankest weed in the land). When one town elder breaks this pact, Grendel's only hope is that its prodigal daughter will return home to face down the creature of her nightmares - and bring her all-female biker gang with her.

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HISTORY COMICS GN CHALLENGER DISASTER

(W) Pranas T. Naujokaitis (A) Pranas T. Naujokaitis

Turn back the clock with History Comics! This volume of First Second's new nonfiction series introduces readers to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of 1986. Turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts, including Christa MCAuliffe, the first teacher in space, boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what was intended to be a routine mission. But then disaster struck. What caused the mid-air explosion? Would future crewed space missions be permanently grounded? In this imaginative tale set in a far-off future a group of curious kids investigates the hard questions surrounding the Challenger explosion. Available in softcover and hardcover editions.

VAN RYDER GAMES, LLC

HOLD UP GRAPHIC NOVEL ADV HC

(W) Manuro (A) MC (CA) MC

In this Graphic Novel Adventure, you fail your first heist only to get taken under the wing of a more experienced criminal. You can have your own criminal empire up and running in no time with the right skills, a little know how, and maybe even Lady Luck helping you out. Will you become a criminal kingpin in the most daring adventure to date? It's your choices. Your story. Your Adventure.

IMAGE COMICS

LOW #26

CVR A TOCCHINI & MCCAIG

(W) Rick Remender (A) Greg Tocchini (CA) Greg Tocchini

SERIES FINALE "LIGHT BRINGS LIGHT," Part Four SPECIAL OVERSIZED FINALE! Our final journey with Stel Caine and what remains of her family. The final fate of mankind decided. Will optimism win in the end?

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT LLC

MY SENPAI IS ANNOYING GN #3

(W) Shiro Manta (A) Shiro Manta (CA) Shiro Manta

A full-color workplace ro MCom that started as a popular webcomic! Igarashi is a hardworking young office lady. Takeda, the senpai above her at work, annoys her constantly - and yet she finds herself growing closer to him. Every day is filled with comic mishaps and romantic moments as Igarashi tries to balance work, life, and love. This full-color manga, which started its life as a webcomic, is sure to charm audiences of workplace comedies like Aggretsuko and The Office!

WILLIAM MORROW

NEIL GAIMAN READER HC

(W) Neil Gaiman (A) Dave MCKean (CA) Dave MCKean

An outstanding array of selected fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world. Spanning Gaiman's career to date, A Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a A brilliant representation of his groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imagination fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane - and nearly fifty of his of short stories. Impressive in its depth and range, A Neil Gaiman Reader is both an entryway to Gaiman's oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to many times over.

DC COMICS

(CA) Eddy Barrows

Written by KYLE HIGGINS, TOM DeFALCO, TIM SEELEY, TOM KING, and SCOTT SNYDER

Art by EDDY BARROWS, EDUARDO PANSICA, TREVOR MCCARTHY, BRETT BOOTH, WILL CONRAD, CLIFF RICHARDS, JASON MASTERS, DANIEL SAMPERE, SANFORD GREENE, DOUG MAHNKE, GREG CAPULLO and others

It's a new era for Dick Grayson as Nightwing gets a fresh start -- one that takes Dick back to his origins. When Haly's Circus, where Dick Grayson once performed, returns to Gotham City, it brings a mysterious, superhuman evil. Nightwing works to uncover the mysteries that the circus brought with it, but he finds himself torn between his two lives: circus performer and superhero. Is it possible that the two are more connected than he ever realized? Nightwing will travel with Haly's Circus across the East Coast and beyond in his attempt to discover the dark truths that hide beneath the big top.

Back in Gotham, Nightwing will face off against villains like Lady Shiva and The Joker -- in this omnibus collection of Nightwing's memorable New 52 adventures! Collects Nightwing #0-30, Batman #17, Young Romance: A New 52 Valentine's Day Special #1, Nightwing Annual #1, and Secret Origins #1.

IMAGE COMICS

SCUMBAG #1

CVR A LAROSA & DINISIO

(W) Rick Remender (A) Lewis LaRosa (CA) Lewis LaRosa

"JAZZ APPLE ARMAGEDDON," Part One: The fate of the world rests in the hands of the worst person on it!   NEW ONGOING SERIES from the writer of DEADLY CLASS! RICK REMENDER launches an all-new comedy espionage series, THE SCUMBAG-the story of Ernie Ray Clementine, a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker with a fifth-grade education. He's the only thing standing between us and total Armageddon because this dummy accidentally received a power-imbuing serum, making him the world's most powerful super spy.    This new ongoing series will feature a murderers' row of all-star artistic talent rotating each issue. The first issue showcases the stunning work of LEWIS LaROSA, with subsequent chapters and covers by brilliant talents such as ANDREW ROBINSON, ERIC POWELL, TULA LOTAY, WES CRAIG, ROLAND BOSCHI, SIMONE DI MEO, MARGUERITE SAUVAGE, DUNCAN FEGREDO, YANICK PAQUETTE, MIKE MCKONE, DAVE JOHNSON, MORENO DINISIO, and many more!

IMAGE COMICS

SCUMBAG #1

CVR B ROBINSON

(W) Rick Remender (A) Lewis LaRosa (CA) Andrew Robinson

"JAZZ APPLE ARMAGEDDON," Part One: The fate of the world rests in the hands of the worst person on it!   NEW ONGOING SERIES from the writer of DEADLY CLASS! RICK REMENDER launches an all-new comedy espionage series, THE SCUMBAG-the story of Ernie Ray Clementine, a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker with a fifth-grade education. He's the only thing standing between us and total Armageddon because this dummy accidentally received a power-imbuing serum, making him the world's most powerful super spy.    This new ongoing series will feature a murderers' row of all-star artistic talent rotating each issue. The first issue showcases the stunning work of LEWIS LaROSA, with subsequent chapters and covers by brilliant talents such as ANDREW ROBINSON, ERIC POWELL, TULA LOTAY, WES CRAIG, ROLAND BOSCHI, SIMONE DI MEO, MARGUERITE SAUVAGE, DUNCAN FEGREDO, YANICK PAQUETTE, MIKE MCKONE, DAVE JOHNSON, MORENO DINISIO, and many more!

IMAGE COMICS

SPAWN #311

CVR A MATTINA

(W) Todd MCFarlane (A) Ken Lashley (CA) Francesco Mattina

"THE INFERNO FALLOUT," Part Two   New Heroes! New Villains! New Costume!   SPAWN continues down his path of eliminating those that have burned down the neighborhood he grew up in as a child. Fires, protests, and politics cannot hide them from Spawn's vengeful wrath...especially the mastermind behind it all called RED MEAT!   TODD MCFARLANE and GERARDO ZAFFINO continue to weave their tale of VENGEANCE!

IMAGE COMICS

SPAWN #311

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(W) Todd MCFarlane (A) Gerardo Zaffino (CA) Todd MCFarlane

Cult of Omega" (PART 1 of 3)   SPAWN raises some of the 'dead' as he storms a palace that has been hiding the secrets of a hidden society whose members can combine to become more powerful than any SPAWN throughout time!   Lead by their new king... the OMEGA SPAWN!   PART 1 of 3   TODD MCFARLANE and Carlo Barberi launch an exciting and dangerous new chapter for SPAWN!

IMAGE COMICS

SPAWN #311

CVR C ZAFFINO

(W) Todd MCFarlane (A) Gerardo Zaffino (CA) Gerardo Zaffino

Cult of Omega" (PART 1 of 3)   SPAWN raises some of the 'dead' as he storms a palace that has been hiding the secrets of a hidden society whose members can combine to become more powerful than any SPAWN throughout time!   Lead by their new king... the OMEGA SPAWN!   PART 1 of 3   TODD MCFARLANE and Carlo Barberi launch an exciting and dangerous new chapter for SPAWN!

DARK HORSE COMICS

SPY ISLAND #2 (OF 4)

CVR A MITERNIQUE

(W) Chelsea Cain (A) Elise MCCall (CA) Lia Miternique

Super-agent Nora Freud is fine, thank you. Yes, she's stuck on an island in the Bermuda Triangle without a clear mission. She's running low on sunscreen. Her sister has just arrived.  And the body of a man Nora recently assassinated just floated in with the tide. But. She. Has. This. Totally. Under. Control. Spy Island is a four-issue special limited series by the creative team that brought you Man-Eaters.

DARK HORSE COMICS

SPY ISLAND #2 (OF 4)

CVR B MITERNIQUE

(W) Chelsea Cain (A) Elise MCCall (CA) Lia Miternique

Super-agent Nora Freud is fine, thank you. Yes, she's stuck on an island in the Bermuda Triangle without a clear mission. She's running low on sunscreen. Her sister has just arrived.  And the body of a man Nora recently assassinated just floated in with the tide. But. She. Has. This. Totally. Under. Control. Spy Island is a four-issue special limited series by the creative team that brought you Man-Eaters.

ABRAMS

STEVEN UNIVERSE END OF ERA HC

(W) Chris MCDonnell

Steven Universe: End of an Era is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling behind-the-scenes companion book Steven Universe: Art & Origins. Showcasing new concept art, storyboards, background paintings, and exclusive interviews, End of an Era covers season four through to the critically acclaimed ?nale, "Change Your Mind," and beyond. Fans can expect a special focus on creator and showrunner Rebecca Sugar's elaborate process for creating the lore for the series. Steven Universe: End of an Era is a heartfelt send-off to one of the most progressive, imaginative, and beloved animated series of our time.

KODANSHA COMICS

SUE & TAI CHAN GN #2

(W) Konami Kanata (A) Konami Kanata (CA) Konami Kanata

The adorable new odd-couple cat comedy manga from the creator of the beloved Chi's Sweet Home and Chi's Sweet Adventures, in full color and formatted for English readers, just like Chi!     Sue is an aging housecat who's looking forward to living out her life in peace... but her plans change when the mischievous black to MCat Tai-chan enters the picture! Hey! Sue never signed up to be a catsitter! Sue and Tai-chan is the latest from the reigning meow-narch of cute kitty comics, Kanata Konami. The latest adorable cat manga from Kanata Konami, creator of the smash hit Chi franchise, which has sold more than 360,000 copies in English! Beautiful watercolor-style full color Flipped to read "Western-style," left to right, for the whole family, just like Chi's Sweet Home.