LIFE IS STRANGE PARTNERS IN TIME #5
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(W) Emma Vieceli (A) Claudia Leonardi (CA) Caspar Wijngaard
LINCOLN BRIGADE TP
(W) Pablo Dura (A) Carlos Esquembre (CA) Carlos Esquembre
The Lincoln Brigade focuses on Oliver Law, an African American who fought and protested for worker rights in the 1930s United States. Law and other black American citizens volunteered on their own to go to Spain, first heading to France and then smuggling themselves across the border, and with little training, fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascist faction leader, General Francisco Franco. Law would eventually go on to lead the entire brigade army, integrated with both black and white soldiers, into combat. In the end, a third of them would ultimately lose their lives against the German and Italian-backed Franco forces.
LIU CIXIN GN #1
SEA OF DREAMS
(W) Liu Cixin (A) Rodolfo Santullo
The first in a new series of graphic novels from Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin. An annual ice sculpture festival draws the attention of an extraterrestrial visitor, who learns how to create such art and decides to use local resources to sculpt a piece in a gesture of goodwill. All the water in the ocean is sent to the stratosphere, where the ice sculptor uses splendid techniques to create crystal dominoes scattered by a giant of the cosmos. In the world of the ice sculptor, art is the sole reason for civilization's existence. After the ice sculptor creates the pinnacle of beauty, but also brings forth devastation and disaster, humanity decides during Earth's last breaths to fight for their survival.
LIU CIXIN GN #2
WANDERING EARTH
(W) Liu Cixin (A) Christophe Bec
The life-bringing sun is on track to have a catastrophic helium flash within the next four hundred years, which would wipe the Earth from the universe entirely. To survive, humanity constructs massive engines on Earth that keep running nonstop, gradually taking Earth out of the Sun's orbit. Braking, escaping, and hostile living conditions wear down humanity's hope. People who believe that civilization has already been destroyed form a rebel faction, carrying out a ruthless execution of those who still believe that the Sun will undergo a helium flash.
LIU CIXIN GN #3
VILLAGE TEACHER
(W) Liu Cixin (A) Zhang Xiaoyu
In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, a man dedicates his life to igniting a passion for science and culture in children's hearts. As his life draws to an end, he uses his dying breaths to impart knowledge on others. Fifty thousand lightyears away, in the depths of outer space, an interstellar war that has lasted for twenty thousand years draws to an end. In order to preserve the Milky Way's many civilizations, the victor begins to exterminate lower-level life forms. When they reach Earth, they pose a test. The eighteen children deep in the mountains use the last lesson their teacher taught them to shine bright the hope of civilization...
LIVE OAK WITH MOSS
(W) Walt Whitman (A) Brian Selznick
As he was turning 40, Walt Whitman wrote 12 poems in a small handmade book he entitled Live Oak, with Moss. The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never published by Whitman and has remained unknown to the general public - until now.
LIVES OF THE GREAT OCCULTISTS
(W) Kevin Jackson (A) Hunt Emerson
Since the dawn of humanity, there have been individuals who want to mess around with Hidden Powers. Some were Mystics, some were Scientists, some were Charlatans. All were pretty bonkers. Including Faust, Giordano Bruno, William Blake, WB Yeats, Dr. Dee, Kenneth Anger, Mother Shipton, Madam Blavatsky, Isaac Newton, David Bowie, and, repeatedly, Aleister Crowley. Centuries of eccentric, bizarre lives.
LIVING ROOM MATSUNAGA SAN GN #7
(W) Keiko Iwashita (A) Keiko Iwashita
A romantic manga starring a high school girl who learns to live on her own, win at high school, and experience first love - all in a boarding house whose living room is home to the odd (but handsome) Matsunaga-san. After her parents leave to care for her ailing grandmother, high schooler Miko "Meeko" Sonoda moves into her uncle's boarding house. There, she meets its rather unusual residents, including the oldest of the bunch: the grumpy mother hen Matsunaga-san. With the help of her housemates, Meeko begins to adjust to her new life away from her parents, but Meeko soon learns that no matter how far away from home she is, she's still a young girl at heart - especially when she finds herself falling for Matsunaga-san.
LOCKE & KEY KEYHOUSE COMPENDIUM HC
(W) Joe Hill (A) Gabriel Rodriguez (CA) Gabriel Rodriguez
The stories that inspired the Netflix series! All six volumes of the critically acclaimed Locke & Key series are now available in one massive compendium featuring an all-new Introduction by series co-creator, Joe Hill. Named a "modern masterpiece" by The A.V. Club, Locke & Key tells a sprawling tale of magic and family, legacy and grief, good and evil. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill (The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, NOS4A2) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder-with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez-that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it.
LOCUS #722
In March, we have the Nebula Awards ballot; interview from award-winning authors, books, and magazine reviews, our quarterly forthcoming list of upcoming books published by US and UK publishers through the end of the year, commentary by Cory Doctorow, people notes, and news covering industry sales and releases, along with awards, financials, books listings, and more.
LOONEY TUNES #259
(W) Sholly Fisch (A) Walter Carzon (CA) Walter Carzon
Slightly used cockatoos? Freeze-dried pants? Whatever you want (or even don’t want), Acme’s relentless door-to-door salesman, Daffy Duck, has it…and he won’t get out of your living room until you buy a dozen. Not even if you’re Marvin the Martian and your living room is orbiting the Earth in a flying saucer. How can Marvin get on with his invasion plans when neither ray guns nor an instant alien army (just add water) can put the brakes on Daffy’s nonstop hard sell? If Marvin can’t find any other way out, he might even have to resort to (gasp!) buying something!
LOUD HOUSE HC #12
CASE STOLEN DRAWERS
It's a Loud family whodunit as Lincoln Loud is looking for his stolen lucky drawers. He suspects one of his ten sisters (either Lori, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Luan, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, or Lily) could be the sticky-fingered culprit! Then, Lola takes on caring for animals as Lana comes down with a case of food poisoning and is too sick to watch her many, many pets. Will she roll up her gloves and take on this dirty job? Meanwhile, Lincoln's friend Zach hunts a monster at the school. All this and the Casagrandes too! Is Sergio able to level up in the Casagrandes household? The shocking answers to these questions, some big belly laughs, and more in all-new stories by the Loud House creative comics team!
LOUD HOUSE SC #12
CASE STOLEN DRAWERS
It's a Loud family whodunit as Lincoln Loud is looking for his stolen lucky drawers. He suspects one of his ten sisters (either Lori, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Luan, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, or Lily) could be the sticky-fingered culprit! Then, Lola takes on caring for animals as Lana comes down with a case of food poisoning and is too sick to watch her many, many pets. Will she roll up her gloves and take on this dirty job? Meanwhile, Lincoln's friend Zach hunts a monster at the school. All this and the Casagrandes too! Is Sergio able to level up in the Casagrandes household? Available in softcover and hardcover editions.
LOVE ME FOR WHO I AM GN #3
(W) Kata Konayama (A) Kata Konayama (CA) Kata Konayama
Mogumo is a cute but lonely high school student who just wants a few loving friends. Fellow student Iwaoka Tetsu invites Mogumo to work at his family's café for "cross-dressing boys," but he makes an incorrect assumption: Mogumo is non-binary and doesn't identify as a boy or a girl. However, Mogumo soon finds out that the café is run by LGBT+ folks of all stripes, all with their own reasons for congregating there. This touching manga explores gender, gender presentation, and sexuality from many different angles, including the ways people are pushed to conform in a world that doesn't understand them... until the world begins to learn, one person at a time.
LOVE ME LOVE ME NOT GN #7
(W) Io Sakisaka (A) Io Sakisaka
Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Akari seeks comfort from Kazuomi after an ex-boyfriend has some harsh words for her. Yuna is about to hear a love confession, but is it from the boy she likes? For teen audiences.
LOVE MOM & 2 HIT MULTI TARGET ATTACKS GN #4
(W) Dachima Inaka (A) Meicha
In the hopes of gaining some power-up items, Masato's party-minus Mamako-accept a quest that enrolls them in Gioco Accademia. There, Masato meets the sweet and beautiful Cleric Medhi (and her mother). Masato is suddenly filled with hope at the prospect of a high-school romance-until Mamako shows up!
LUCKY LUKE TP #78
DALTON UNCLES
(W) Laurent Gerra (A) Achdé (CA) Achdé
Once again, Luke is called to the penitentiary, though for once the Daltons haven't escaped. They have, however, just learned that their cousin Emmett, last survivor of the original Dalton gang, has a son - and that Averell was chosen as his godfather! Now Lucky Luke has to accompany the dumbest bandits in the West to the young boy's house, as Averell has been temporarily entrusted with his education. A job that his brothers see as an excellent opportunity to get rich!
LUMBERJANES TP #18
(W) Shannon Watters (A) Kanesha C. Bryant (CA) Kat Leyh
When April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley get in trouble with Rosie, the mysterious director of Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, they figure the punishment is gonna be a walk in the park... er, woods. But they're not ready for the surprises that await, including Abigail, Rosie's elegant & enigmatic best friend from long ago, who joins forces with the Lumberjanes once more! Collects Lumberjanes #69-72.
LUNA #2 (OF 5)
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(W) Maria Llovet (A) Maria Llovet (CA) Maria Llovet
After a night with the Family of the Sun, Teresa begins to discover the shocking truth behind the seemingly normal hippie cult and their leader Lux. The dark secrets of Teresa's visions collide with divine revelations - and send her on a path she never expected.
LUNA #2 (OF 5)
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(W) Maria Llovet (A) Maria Llovet (CA) Mirka Andolfo
After a night with the Family of the Sun, Teresa begins to discover the shocking truth behind the seemingly normal hippie cult and their leader Lux. The dark secrets of Teresa's visions collide with divine revelations - and send her on a path she never expected.
LUST GEASS GN #3
(W) Osamu Takahashi (A) Osamu Takahashi
After Makoto's confession, Souta is left in a three-way relationship with her and Rikka. But the next to fall victim to Zepar's curse is their homeroom teacher, Tateaki-sensei! Can Souta stand up to the charms of an adult woman!?
MAD MAGAZINE #19
(W) The Usual Gang Of Idiots (A) The Usual Gang Of Idiots (CA) The Usual Gang Of Idiots
Gaze into the wonders of tomorrow, courtesy of yesterday’s MAD! It’s our far-flung future issue, in which we look back at the shape of things to come, including parodies of time-travelling sci-fi flicks like “Back to the Future” and “The Matrix.” Plus, MAD examines prognosticators like astrology, palm reading, and, just for good measure, extra sensory perception! We predict there will be a new Fold-In by Johnny Sampson, too!
MAESTRO WAR AND PAX #3 (OF 5)
(W) Peter David (A) Javier Pina (CA) Dale Keown
The Pantheon has the Maestro on the ropes - or so they think. But the Maestro's true enemy is about to show his face...and no one is going to like the future he has planned. Rated T+
MAESTRO WAR AND PAX #3 (OF 5)
JIMENEZ VAR
(W) Peter David (A) Javier Pina (CA) Phil Jimenez
The Pantheon has the Maestro on the ropes - or so they think. But the Maestro's true enemy is about to show his face...and no one is going to like the future he has planned. Rated T+