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DC COMICS

(W) Jody Houser (A) Shawn Crystal (CA) Tommy Lee Edwards

Mother Panic isn't the only one hunting for revenge in the streets of Gotham City. The terrifying Pretty is after the next NAme on Violet Paige's hit list. But is he a friend or foe-and how is he connected to the mysterious Gather House that made Violet who she is?

DC COMICS

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(W) Jody Houser (A) Shawn Crystal (CA) Shawn Crystal

Mother Panic isn't the only one hunting for revenge in the streets of Gotham City. The terrifying Pretty is after the next NAme on Violet Paige's hit list. But is he a friend or foe-and how is he connected to the mysterious Gather House that made Violet who she is?

ONI PRESS INC.

MOTRO #4 (OF 10)

(W) Ulises Fari NAs (A) Ulises Fari NAs (CA) Ulises Fari NAs

The nefarious Reptoids, defeated and relinquished to hidden outskirts away from the Northern Kingdom, abscond with the human race's fi NAl hope for survival-the last of their children. Motro convinces the city's elders to sacrifice themselves to reveal the Reptoids' location so the children may still be rescued, but they're met with a horrifying discovery. Motro, with great warriors and a squadron of tri-tankerbeasts at his side, must decide what it means to save humanity when faced with extinction or a grisly new future.

MARVEL COMICS

MS MARVEL HC #3

(W) G. Willow Wilson (A) Adrian Alpho NA

Earth's Mightiest Metamorph! Look out world, Kamala Khan is an Avenger! But will it be everything she imagined? Or is life as a celebrity more difficult than she thought? Saving the world is important, but Jersey City still needs its protector, too: A development company using Ms. Marvel's face has more in mind for gentrification than just real estate. Can Kamala take down the evil suits destroying her home without ruining her perso NAl life? Then, Kamala's Avengers dream is wrecked when CIVIL WAR II leaves her torn between her idol, Captain Marvel, and her mentor, Iron Man. Which side will the new generation of heroes - Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man and Nova - choose? Trouble starts brewing at a tristate academic competition - and the conflict sure won't end there! Collecting MS. MARVEL (2015) #1-12. Rated T+

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS GN

(W) Emil Ferris (A) Emil Ferris (CA) Emil Ferris

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, and a psychological thriller about monsters, real and imagined. Set against the political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor. Rendered in a kaleidoscopically visual style, Emil Ferris' draftsmanship echoes the drawing of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Robert Crumb. This is a revelatory work of striking origi NAlity and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.

MARVEL COMICS

NEW AVENGERS BY BENDIS COMPLETE COLLECTION TP #3

(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Various (CA) Leinil Francis Yu

Brian Michael Bendis' long-running Avengers saga continues! CIVIL WAR is over, and America is transformed. As Iron Man's Mighty Avengers serve as the vanguard of the Initiative, a group of underground Avengers begin their new lives as outlaws! The hunt is on for Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist - and someone taking on the mantle of Ronin! But when the rebel team finds a huge clue to the threat that has faced them since the day they banded together, will the truth destroy them from within? Or will that honor go to the Hood and his army of super villains? Plus: Discover how the shadowy group known as the Illumi NAti shaped the history of the Marvel Universe! Collecting CIVIL WAR: THE INITIATIVE, NEW AVENGERS (2004) #26-37, NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL (2006) #2 and NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMI NATI (2007) #1-5. Rated T+

MARVEL COMICS

NEW MUTANTS EPIC COLLECTION TP RENEWAL

(W) Chris Claremont (A) Various (CA) Bob McLeod

Meet the future of the X-Men! Karma. Wolfsbane. Sunspot. Cannonball. Moonstar. They're tee NAgers, thrown together by the X-gene that makes them different. Follow the adventures of these young mutants from Karma's first meeting with Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to their early days at the Xavier School! The New Mutants' on-the-job training begins in earnest with battles against Sentinels, the Silver Samurai, Viper and the Hellfire Club; a team-up with Spidey and Cloak and Dagger - and the team gets a taste of life as X-Men in a disturbing encounter with the Brood! Plus: Meet fiery new recruit Magma, and discover how Colossus's sister, Illya NA, became the demon sorceress known as Magik! Collecting MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #4, NEW MUTANTS (1983) #1-12, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #167, MARVEL TEAM-UP ANNUAL #6, MAGIK (1983) #1-4 and material from MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #100. Volume #1 in the New Mutants Epic Collections Rated T

DC COMICS

(W) Gene Luen Yang (A) Billy Tan (CA) Viktor Bogdanovic

"TRAINING DAY" part two! The Academy of the Bat descends into chaos-and the Chinese Joker, Grass Mud Horse, is to blame! As the new Bat-Man of Chi NA defends his cowl against a horde of challengers, Wonder-Woman battles the new villain to a standstill! This sounds like a job for Super-Man...but will Kong Ke NAn master his abilities and training with I-Ching in time to help his friends? RATED T

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(W) Gene Luen Yang (A) Billy Tan (CA) Ber NArd Chang

TRAINING DAY' part two! The Academy of the Bat descends into chaos-and the Chinese Joker, Grass Mud Horse, is to blame! As the new Bat-Man of Chi NA defends his cowl against a horde of challengers, Wonder-Woman battles the new villain to a standstill! This sounds like a job for Super-Man...but will Kong Ke NAn master his abilities and training with I-Ching in time to help his friends? RATED T

MARVEL COMICS

NIGHT RAVEN FROM MARVEL UK VAULTS TP

(W) Various (A) Various (CA) David Lloyd

Who is Night Raven? Find out in this complete collection of classic tales from the Marvel UK archives! Join the mysterious masked vigilante in his pulp-era war on crime as this lone man of justice stealthily stalks his villainous prey on the streets of New York City - and brands crimi NAls with the mark of the deadly Night Raven! Follow this dark avenger into battle with mob bosses, murderers and miscreants like the Taxman, the Assassin, Dragonfire and more - in rarely seen stories by some of Marvel UK's finest talents, including David Lloyd (V for Vendetta)! Where brooding darkness spreads its evil wings, the Night Raven stings! Parental Advisory

NOBROW PRESS

NIGHTLIGHTS HC GN

(W) Lore NA Alvarez (A) Lore NA Alvarez (CA) Lore NA Alvarez

Every night, tiny lights appear out of the darkness in Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning she brings them back to life in her whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are noticed for the first time, but Morfie's fasci NAtion with Sandy's talent soon turns into something far more sinister. is a beautiful story about fear, insecurity, and creativity, from the enchanting imagi NAtion of Lore NA Alvarez.

ONI PRESS INC.

NIGHTS DOMINION #6

(W) Ted NAifeh (A) Ted NAifeh (CA) Ted NAifeh

As the demigod Grael emerges from legend to fight Uhlume's army, Emerane enters their stronghold to find the source of their power. Aided by the Umber Knight and the Magus, she fights through to the tower's icy heart in search of the necromancer whose magic commands the undead soldiers. But even as the city is overwhelmed, as the Asp falls to arrows, and the Acolyte prays to gods that may have never been there to listen, it's Emerane herself who faces the most devastating horror. For the bloodthirsty necromancer behind it all may be the one person in the world she can't bring herself to fight.

DC COMICS

(W) Tim Seeley (A) Marcus To (CA) Marcus To

"BLUDHAVEN" fi NAle! The psychopath who's been carrying out the killings in Blüdhaven has placed the blame on Nightwing! Now Dick Grayson must apprehend this maniac to stop the murders and to convince Blüdhaven he's not a villain. RATED T

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(W) Tim Seeley (A) Marcus To (CA) Ivan Reis

"BLUDHAVEN" fi NAle! The psychopath who's been carrying out the killings in Blüdhaven has placed the blame on Nightwing! Now Dick Grayson must apprehend this maniac to stop the murders and to convince Blüdhaven he's not a villain. RATED T

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

NINJAK #24

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(W) Matt Kindt (A) Marc Laming (CA) Ryan Bodenheim

At the mercy of Sandria Darque! As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple - the deadly assassin Roku - will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven - the underworld's deadliest cabal of murderers and merce NAries - will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, she'll need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak...who isn't interested. But when Darque's long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time... "THE SEVEN BLADES OF MASTER DARQUE" strikes again as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and acclaimed artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) bring the biggest Ninjak story ever to a dark and terrible boiling point... and reveal the ultimate secret behind his greatest foess!

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

NINJAK #24

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(W) Matt Kindt (A) Marc Laming (CA) Ben Oliver

At the mercy of Sandria Darque! As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple - the deadly assassin Roku - will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven - the underworld's deadliest cabal of murderers and merce NAries - will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, she'll need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak...who isn't interested. But when Darque's long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time... "THE SEVEN BLADES OF MASTER DARQUE" strikes again as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and acclaimed artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) bring the biggest Ninjak story ever to a dark and terrible boiling point... and reveal the ultimate secret behind his greatest foess!

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

NINJAK #24

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(W) Matt Kindt (A) Marc Laming (CA) Felipe Massafera

At the mercy of Sandria Darque! As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple - the deadly assassin Roku - will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven - the underworld's deadliest cabal of murderers and merce NAries - will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, she'll need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak...who isn't interested. But when Darque's long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time... "THE SEVEN BLADES OF MASTER DARQUE" strikes again as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and acclaimed artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) bring the biggest Ninjak story ever to a dark and terrible boiling point... and reveal the ultimate secret behind his greatest foess! Out of the pages of DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE, discover the haunting origin of Amerika's last resistance when magic clashes with militarymight in a must-read tale of the Valiant Universe as we now know it from red-hot new talent Scott Bryan Wilson and acclaimed artist Robert Gill (BOOK OF DEATH)!

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

NINJAK TP #5

THE FIST & THE STEEL

(W) Matt Kindt (A) Khari Evans (CA) Diego Lattore

THE FIST & THE STEEL FIGHT ONWARD! Many years from now, Earth's immortal master of war and the world's deadliest intelligence operative fight sideby-side. As was foretold in the BOOK OF DEATH, an aging Ninjak and Eter NAl Warrior are fated to spend their days as humanity's guardians, protecting it from the myriad threats that loom over the horizon of Earth's future. But when the ultimate me NAce rises to obliterate all traces of life, can Colin King and Gilad Anni-Padda - Ninjak and the Eter NAl Warrior - cement their status as the Valiant Universe's greatest heroic duo...or will their legacy go up in flames? Plus: Back in the present, the unthinkable has happened to Ninjak and his fellow MI-6 agents that survived the horrors of the Deadside! Infected with an aggressive and lethal cancer from his exposure to a noxious parallel dimension, Ninjak must race against the clock for a cure before he makes a permanent trip to the realm of the dead! Jump on board the steel-shattering adventures of Valiant's number-one super-spy here as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and explosive artists Khari Evans (IMPERIUM) and Andrés Gui NAldo (Justice League Dark) read from the BOOK OF DEATH...and bring the full weight of the future crashing down on Ninjak and the Eter NAl Warrior! Collecting NINJAK #18-21.

BLACK MASK COMICS

NO ANGEL #4

(W) Adrianne Palicki (A) Ari Syahrazad (CA) Sean Von Gorman

Han NAh and Jessica leave rural Wisconsin and head to Chicago, where a fi NAl battle awaits.

TITAN COMICS

NORMAN FIRST SLASH #3

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(W) Stan Silas (A) Stan Silas (CA) Amoo NA Saohin

Grace was dead! Norman is absolutely certain he killed her... so why is she back in school? He's determined to find out. And if there's one thing serial killers are good at, it's cutting to the heart of the matter...

MARVEL COMICS

OCCUPY AVENGERS #4

(W) David Walker (A) Carlos Pacheco (CA) Agustin Alessio

• Wait a minute... Isn't Nick Fury dead? The origi NAl Nick Fury, leader of the Howling Commandos. He's dead. Right? Because someone that looks a whole lot like him is out to kill Clint and his renegade team of Occupy Avengers. •  Plus: Has Red Wolf found love? Rated T+

IDW PUBLISHING

OCTOBER FACTION DEADLY SEASON #5

(W) Steve Niles (A) Damien Worm (CA) Damien Worm

Fred Allan has survived the deadly manhunt across the deserted city of Carson so far and his family has fi NAlly found him. Unfortu NAtely, he's still surrounded by young werewolves and vampires - the children of his old foes. Can the Allan family and their new allies get to Fred in time to save him?

IDW PUBLISHING

OCTOBER FACTION DEADLY SEASON #5

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(W) Steve Niles (A) Damien Worm (CA) Damien Worm

Fred Allan has survived the deadly manhunt across the deserted city of Carson so far and his family has fi NAlly found him. Unfortu NAtely, he's still surrounded by young werewolves and vampires - the children of his old foes. Can the Allan family and their new allies get to Fred in time to save him?

IMAGE COMICS

OLD GUARD #1

(W) Greg Rucka (A) Leandro Fer NAndez (CA) Leandro Fer NAndez

Eisner-winning writer GREG RUCKA (LAZARUS, BLACK MAGICK, Wonder Woman) and critically acclaimed artist LEANDRO FER NANDEZ (THE DISCIPLINE, Deadpool, Punisher: MAX) team up together to introduce THE OLD GUARD, the story of old soldiers who never die...and yet cannot seem to fade away. Trapped in an immortality without expla NAtion, Andromache of Scythia - "Andy" - and her comrades ply their trade for those who can find-and afford-their services. But in the 21st century, immortality is a hard secret to keep, and when you live long enough, you learn that there are many fates worse than death.

PAPERCUTZ

ONLY LIVING BOY GN #4

MURKY DEEP

(W) David Gallaher (A) Steve Ellis (CA) Steve Ellis

Broken and battered from his defeat at the hands of Baalikar, Erik Farrell travels across a vast frozen wasteland to fulfill the last wishes of a dying man. With his memories recovered, Erik uses what skills he has learned to survive the horrific climate. His quest brings him face-to-face with the Mermidonian Triumvirate Council, who has undergone a radical metamorphosis because of Erik's carelessness. With their unlikely aid, Erik recruits the Groundlings to help on his mission, but again comes face-to-face with the horrible consequences his mere existence has caused. With a legacy of mistakes and failures behind him, Erik summons the strength to lead his patchwork army in a fi NAl assault against Baalikar. Available in Softcover and Hardcover editions.