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BETTY & VERONICA BY ADAM HUGHES #3

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(W) Adam Hughes (A) Adam Hughes (CA) Bengal

All Heck breaks loose in Riverdale as the fi NAl act of BETTY VERSUS VERONICA reaches its combustible conclusion! The streets of Riverdale run red under the rockets' red glare and no one will ever be the same!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

BETTY & VERONICA BY ADAM HUGHES #3

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(W) Adam Hughes (A) Adam Hughes (CA) David Mack

All Heck breaks loose in Riverdale as the fi NAl act of BETTY VERSUS VERONICA reaches its combustible conclusion! The streets of Riverdale run red under the rockets' red glare and no one will ever be the same!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

BETTY & VERONICA BY ADAM HUGHES #3

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(W) Adam Hughes (A) Adam Hughes (CA) Paolo Rivera

All Heck breaks loose in Riverdale as the fi NAl act of BETTY VERSUS VERONICA reaches its combustible conclusion! The streets of Riverdale run red under the rockets' red glare and no one will ever be the same!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

BETTY & VERONICA COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #253

(W) Dan Parent (A) Dan Parent (CA) Dan Parent

In the new lead story "Oh, Ca NAda!," Betty and Veronica are excited to go to a charity event in Ca NAda - but they're even more excited to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!

TOKYOPOP

BIZENGHAST 3IN1 GN #3

SPECIAL COLLECTOR ED

(W) M. Alice Legrow (A) M. Alice Legrow (CA) M. Alice Legrow

Not every lost soul is a lost cause. An epic battle rages for the lives and souls of the inhabitants of Bizenghast, and no one is safe anymore. Shocking revelations of the town's dark history continue to emerge, and Di NAh's struggle will go beyond the borders of the mausoleum, and possibly beyond Bizenghast itself... Collect all three Special Colector's Mangas of Bizenghast!

VIZ MEDIA LLC

BLACK CLOVER GN #6

(W) Yuki Tabata (A) Yuki Tabata (CA) Yuki Tabata

Asta's vacation is anything but rest and relaxation when children start disappearing all around him. But in order to take down the kid NAppers, Asta will have to team up with Gauche, a mage who hates his guts! For teen audiences.

AFTERSHOCK COMICS

BLACK EYED KIDS TP #2

(W) Joe Pruett (A) Szymon Kudranski (CA) Francesco Francavilla

The urban legend come to life. The Black-Eyed Children have announced their presence with horrific authority, leavings lives shattered and multiple bodies in their wake. Jim Loudin and his family, along with a local police officer and a mysterious stranger, seemingly with past ties to these devil children, fight not only for their own lives, but for potentially mankind's very existence. Collecting issues 6-10 of the critically-acclaimed series, and the origi NAl short story from AFTERSHOCK GENESIS one-shot. Written by Eisner winner Joe Pruett and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski.

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BLACK MONDAY MURDERS #5

(W) Jo NAthan Hickman (A) Tomm Coker (CA) Tomm Coker

NEW STORY ARC "COMPANY MAN" Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found.

MARVEL COMICS

BLACK PANTHER CREW #1

(W) Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) Butch Guice (CA) John Cassaday

Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to take on a dangerous wave of street-level threats in this new ongoing series by co-writers Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me and Marvel's Black Panther) and Yo NA Harvey (Black Panther: World of Wakanda) and legendary artist Butch Guice! The death of a Harlem activist kicks off a mystery that will reveal surprising new secrets about the Marvel Universe's past and set the stage for a big story in the Marvel Universe's near future. Fear, hate and violence loom, but don't worry, The Crew's got this: "We are the streets."   Rated T+

MARVEL COMICS

BLACK PANTHER HC #1

A NATION UNDER OUR FEET

(W) Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) Brian Stelfreeze (CA) Brian Stelfreeze

A new era for the Black Panther begins as the kingdom of Wakanda enters what might be its fi NAl days! NAtio NAl Book Award winner and New York Times Best-Selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) confronts T'Challa with dramatic upheaval in his homeland that will make leading the African NAtion tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group that calls itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the country famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil! As Zenzi and Tetu, leaders of The People, poison the populace against its king, the spirit of T'Challa's presumed-dead sister, Shuri, makes a transformative journey through Wakanda's past, and a group of heroes, including Storm and Luke Cage, come together as The Crew to help Black Panther out. If Wakanda is to survive, it must adapt - but can its king, one of a long line of Black Panthers, survive the necessary change? Heavy is the head that wears the cowl!  Collecting BLACK PANTHER (2016) #1-12. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

BLACK PANTHER WORLD OF WAKANDA #6

(W) Roxane Gay (A) Alitha Martinez (CA) Afua Richardson

DEATH OF A WHITE TIGER! •  When a down-on-his-luck New York City NArcotics officer was suspended from the force, he adopted the vestments of the Black Panther to do the right thing by his neighborhood and his burgeoning family. Mentored by both T'Challa and Erik Killmonger, he became something more than the sum of his parts. That was then. •  Now, Kasper Cole's days as the White Tiger are behind him and he can only watch helplessly as Wakanda burns halfway around the world, leaving Kasper completely disillusioned by a leader he once looked up to. •  Writers TA-NEHISI COATES (Black Panther) and REMBERT BROWNE (New York Magazine, Grantland) and fan-favorite artist JOE BENNETT (who drew Kasper back in the origi NAl The Crew series!) team up to bring Kasper Cole back into the spotlight...just in time to close the door on his story forever?! Rated T

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BLACK SCIENCE #30

(W) Rick Remender (A) Matteo Scalera (CA) Matteo Scalera

END OF STORY ARC The Dimensio NAuts are back together and not a moment too soon! Grant McKay's greatest challenge awaits: saving everything that ever could be!

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

BLOODSHOT USA TP

(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Doug Braithwaite (CA) Kano

In Bloodshot we trust! Project Rising Spirit - America's greatest exporter of classified weapons technology - has achieved a breakthrough: a contagious, airborne NAnite dispersion prototype that can turn the population of any city into an army of indestructible soldiers. A doomsday virus capable of destroying an enemy NAtion from the inside out. A machine-made pathogen that can completely rewrite human physiology...and hardcode every man, woman, and child with the same cutting-edge technology that created their greatest weapon: Bloodshot. But now...Project Rising Spirit's top-secret contagion has been released onto the streets of America's greatest metropolis: New York City. As mayhem engulfs Manhattan, Bloodshot must lead the most dangerous invasion ever waged on American soil and keep a ru NAway pandemic from toppling armies and governments... and threatening to destroy humanity itself. In the tradition of THE VALIANT, the Big Apple turns blood red in a pivotal new standalone comics event from New York Times best- selling writer Jeff Lemire (BLOODSHOT REBORN, Extraordi NAry X-Men) and superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (Armor Hunters, Justice)! Collecting BLOODSHOT U.S.A. #1-4 and BLOODSHOT REBORN #0.

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT LLC

BLOOM INTO YOU GN #2

(W) NAkatani Nio (A) NAkatani Nio (CA) NAkatani Nio

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and fantasizes about the day that she too will get a love confession that will send her heart a-flutter. Yet when a male classmate confesses his feelings for her, she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure how to respond. That's when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president NA NAmi turn down a suitor with such maturity and finesse that Yuu is inspired to ask her for advice. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is the alluring NA NAmi herself, has Yuu's shoujo romance fi NAlly begun?

DC COMICS

(W) Keith Giffen (A) Scott Kolins (CA) Scott Kolins

After taking on the mystical Mordecai Cull, Blue Beetle is left broken and powerless. With an even more powerful me NAce about to appear, Jaime Reyes is going to have to defend the people he loves without the powers of the scarab and show what it really means to be a hero! RATED T

DC COMICS

VAR ED

(W) Keith Giffen (A) Scott Kolins (CA) Cully Hamner

After taking on the mystical Mordecai Cull, Blue Beetle is left broken and powerless. With an even more powerful me NAce about to appear, Jaime Reyes is going to have to defend the people he loves without the powers of the scarab and show what it really means to be a hero! RATED T

DC COMICS

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE (REBIRTH)

(W) Keith Giffen (A) Scott Kolins (CA) Scott Kolins

Bonded to the Blue Beetle Scarab, tee NAger Jaime Reyes has no idea what he's doing with one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. But he's in luck, because his predecessor-Ted Kord-is back in the DC Universe, and he's going to serve as the young hero's mentor! Alongside fellow teen hero Doctor Fate, this duo will have to learn how to be heroes on the fly! Blue Beetle is back for a new generation as a part of DC Universe Rebirth! Collects BLUE BEETLE: REBIRTH #1, BLUE BEETLE #1-6.

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BLUE MONDAY TP #4

PAINTED MOON

(W) Chyn NA Clugston Flores (A) Chyn NA Clugston Flores (CA) Chyn NA Clugston Flores

"A generation owes BLUE MONDAY. It's the missing link." -KIERON GILLEN (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE)   Bleu, Clover, Alan, and Victor begin to experience tee NAge lust, but not without the interruption of Erin, Jefferson High's social meddler of Shakespearean proportions! Bleu fi NAlly makes the decision to tell her substitute teacher how she really feels about him, Victor and Clover do the whole "will they, won't they?" thing, and just what the heck is going on with Alan and Erin? From the writer of the Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy crossover, BLUE MONDAY is fi NAlly in full-color thanks to Eisner Award-winning superstar JORDIE BELLAIRE. This volume also features a bonus story written by JAMIE S. RICH (Lady Killer, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF MIRANDA TURNER)!

DC COMICS

(W) John Ney Rieber (A) Gary Amaro (CA) Charles Vess

Tim Hunter, destined to become Earth's greatest sorcerer, defends the realm of Faerie from the deadly manticore while trying to maintain a normal childhood. Is his real father the one-armed drunk in the front room, or is he the man who can turn into a hawk? Is his mother dead and buried, or is she Titania, Queen of Faerie? Plus, Death herself weighs in on the subject of identity. Collects a story from VERTIGO RAVE #1, BOOKS OF MAGIC #1-13 and ARCA NA: THE BOOKS OF MAGIC ANNUAL #1. MATURE READERS

VIZ MEDIA LLC

BORUTO GN #1

NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS

(W) Masashi Kishimoto (A) Mikio Ikemoto (CA) Mikio Ikemoto

Years have passed since NAruto and Sasuke teamed up to defeat Kaguya, the progenitor of chakra and the greatest threat the ninja world has ever faced. Times are now peaceful and the new generation of shinobi have not experienced the same hardships as their parents. Perhaps that is why Boruto would rather play video games than train. However, one passion does burn deep in this ninja boy, and that is to defeat his neglectful father! For teen audiences.

IDW PUBLISHING

BOX OFFICE POISON COLOR COMICS #4

(W) Alex Robinson (A) Alex Robinson (CA) Alex Robinson

Sherman's on a date... with a girl who's NAme he can't remember! And Ed's employment situation changes, but will it be for the better? All this in thrilling color! •   Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the Inter NAtio NAl Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.

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BOXERS & SAINTS BOXED SET

(W) Gene Luen Yang (A) Gene Luen Yang (CA) Gene Luen Yang

In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. Boxers follows Little Bao, whose village is plundered by Western missio NAries. Inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, he joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. In Saints, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missio NAries and finds a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibia NA must choose between her country and her faith. Boxers & Saints offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human NAture.

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BOXERS GN

(W) Gene Luen Yang (A) Gene Luen Yang (CA) Gene Luen Yang

Boxers & Saints is a groundbreaking novel in two volumes, presenting two parallel tales about young people caught up on opposite sides of a violent rift. Boxers tells the story of Little Bao, and the companion volume, Saints, tells the story of Vibia NA, a Chinese girl who converts to Christianity. Chi NA, 1898. Bands of foreign missio NAries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free Chi NA from "foreign devils."  But nothing is simple. Little Bao is fighting for the glory of Chi NA, but at what cost? So many are dying, including thousands of Chinese citizens who have converted to Christianity.

ONI PRESS INC.

BRIK TP

(W) Adam Glass (A) Harwinder Singh (CA) Harwinder Singh

When Drew, a 12-year-old Jewish boy from Yonkers, loses his beloved grandfather to anti-semitic gang violence, he turns to tradition, anger, and Kabbalah to serve vengeance. Conjuring a super NAtural defender to protect his city brings Drew unimagi NAble power-power he may not be able to control. As the gangsters grow closer to discovering the identity of Yonkers' new vigilante and the soul within the golem begins to take permanent hold of the creature, Drew must decide what's more dangerous, the devil you know or the savior you don't. From writers Adam Glass (Suicide Squad, TV's Super NAtural) & Mike Benson (Deadpool, Moon Knight), amazing debut illustrator Harwinder Singh, and colorist Gonzalo Duarte (The Bunker, Big Trouble in Little Chi NA).

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

BRITANNIA WE WHO #1 (OF 4)

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(W) Peter Milligan (A) Juan Jose Ryp (CA) Cary Nord

Valiant's critically acclaimed, 10-time sold-out magnum opus returns with a brand-new journey into myth and mystery, from comics master Peter Milligan and incendiary artist Juan José Ryp! Fifty thousand Romans stand on their feet, watching from the rafters of the coliseum with captured breath as Achillia, a Gladiator unlike any that Rome has seen before, faces incredible odds - one lone warrior against five of Rome's greatest. Such is the tradition, when a female gladiator enters the fray. When the car NAge is complete, the coliseum roars its approval as Achillia stands victorious. Now only one match away from winning her freedom, she has begun to gain renown. The women of Rome, suppressed by their husbands and fathers, have noticed. The men of Rome, husbands and fathers to a growing horde of women entertaining ideas of independence, have noticed as well. On the other side of Rome, a strange mystery swirls through the Palatine Hill. In the dead of night, down winding alleys, Rome's elite swear that they see visions of a blood-soaked Apollo walking the city...visions that are driving them mad. Even more are becoming sick with weird fever god-dreams. Panic ensues in the city. The Chief Vestal, Rubria, is arrested by Emperor Nero and threatened with crucifixion unless the deadly curse that's fallen on Rome is lifted. She asks Antonius Axia, hero of Britannia and Rome's only detective, for help. She offers only one clue...the gladiator Achillia