SPRING 2019 HIGHLIGHTS
IMAGE COMICS Deadly Class Volume 1: Reagan Youth Media Tie-In Rick Remender, Wes Craig
Summary This new edition of RICK REMENDER and WES CRAIG's DEADLY CLASS, VOL. 1 features a media tie-in photo cover with key imagery from the highly anticipated SYFY series-coming in 2019 from Executive Producers the RUSSO BROTHERS (Directors of Avengers: Infinity War)!!
"The characters are so vivid and the storytelling so perfectly paced, it's impossible to not become absolutely engrossed... If you're sick of corporate, licensed characters that never grow or change, give Deadly Class a read." -Nerdist
Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical. Image Comics 9781534311459 Collects DEADLY CLASS #1-6 Pub Date: 11/27/18 $9.99/$13.50 Can. Paperback
176 Pages Carton Qty: 34 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
The Walking Dead Volume 31 Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, ...
Summary Rick leads the Commonwealth's Governor, Pamela Milton, on a tour of the various communities Alexandria is aligned with. Naturally... terrible things begin to happen very quickly.
Collects THE WALKING DEAD #181-186.
Image Comics 9781534310520 Pub Date: 3/12/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
136 Pages Carton Qty: 48 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror CGN004040
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IMAGE COMICS Oblivion Song by Kirkman & De Felici Volume 2 Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, Annalisa Leoni
Summary Nathan Cole's world comes crashing down around him. For the sake of two worlds, he must pick up the pieces and carry on.
Collects OBLIVION SONG #7-12. Contributor Bio Chief Operating Officer First and foremost a comic creator, Kirkman has seen groundbreaking success in the adaptation of his comic book titles into major franchises in all forms of content. In 2010, his Eisner award winning series, The Walking Dead, was developed into an AMC television series. It has become a worldwide phenomenon as the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time. The property has also been extended into a blockbuster game Image Comics franchise, licensing business and ongoing publishing success. 9781534310575 Additional Kirkman comics include Oblivion Song, Die!Die!Die!, Invincible, Outcast, Super Dinosaur, Battle Pub Date: 3/19/19 Pope, Astounding Wolf-Man, and Thief of Thieves. $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback Kirkman also serves as consulting producer of The Talking Dead, the popular talk show hosted by Chris Hardwick that deep dives into each week's episode of both The Walking Dead and its companion series Fear 136 Pages Carton Qty: 42 the Walking Dead. Kirkman is co-creator, writer and producer of The Walking Dead's companion series, Fear Ages 13 to 16 the Walking Dead. Comics & Graphic Novels / He is also executive producer of the AMC series Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics, and the Korean Science Fiction pre-a... CGN004070
Die!Die!Die! Volume 1 Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple, Chris Burnham, Na...
Summary New series from THE WALKING DEAD creator Robert Kirkman!
We don't like to admit it, but this is an evil world where evil people do evil stuff all the me. Thankfully, there is a secret cabal with the United States government that works outside our normal system to influence world ma ers through targeted assassina on. The world around us is manipulated right under our noses, mostly for the be er... some mes for individual gain. So if you're hur ng people, somehow making the world worse than it already is, or even just standing in the way of something good happening... someone could right now be giving the order for you to... DIE!DIE!DIE!
Collects DIE!DIE!DIE! #1-8.
Image Comics 9781534312142 Pub Date: 7/23/19 $19.99/$26.50 Can. Paperback
176 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
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IMAGE COMICS Paper Girls Deluxe Edition Volume 2 Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
Summary From Brian K. Vaughan, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, this gorgeous, oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER collects two complete time-traveling adventures, one that sends our four newspaper delivery girls from 1988 to the prehistoric past, and another to their own terrifying future.
Collects PAPER GIRLS #11-20, along with EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL and an ALL-NEW WRAPAROUND COVER!
Image Comics 9781534310612 Pub Date: 4/9/19 $34.99/$46.50 Can. Hardcover
288 Pages Carton Qty: 12 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
Monstress Book One Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda
Summary 2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer 2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist 2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series 2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens 2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist 2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year 2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel 2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly's The Best Comic Books of the Year 2018, Newsweek's Best Comic Books of the Year Image Comics 2018, The Washington Post's 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year 9781534312326 Pub Date: 7/9/19 2018, Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year $49.99/$66.50 Can. 2018, YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens Hardcover 2018, Thrillist's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year 504 Pages 2018, Powell's Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / The richly imagined world of MONSTRESS is an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, with an art deco-infused steampunk aesthe c that's Fantasy brimming with arcane dangers. Within it, a teenage girl struggles to overcome the trauma of war, a task that's made all the more difficult by CGN004030 her mysterious psychic link to an eldr...
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IMAGE COMICS The Wicked + The Divine Volume 8: Old is the New New Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Andre Lima Araujo, ...
Summary Modernist poets trapped in an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. The Romantics gathering in Lake Geneva to resurrect the dead. What really happened during the fall of Rome. The Lucifer who was a nun, hearing Ananke's Black Death confession. As we approach the end, we start to see the full picture. Also includes the delights of the WicDiv Christmas Annual and the Comedy special.
Collects all six of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE's essential Specials.
GENRE Superheroes, Urban Fantasy, Crime & Mystery Modernist poets trapped in an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. The Romantics gathering in Lake Geneva to resurrect the dead. What really happened during the fall of Rome. The Lucifer who was a nun, hearing Ananke's Black Death confession. As Image Comics we approach the end, we start to see the full picture. Also includes the delights of the WicDiv Christmas Annual and the 9781534308800 Comedy special. Pub Date: 3/12/19 $17.99/$23.99 Can. Paperback Collects all six of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE's essential Specials. 232 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 26 Ages 16 And Up Kieron Gillen first came to attention in his 2006 collaboration with Jamie McKelvie, Phonogram. Jamie and he Comics & Graphic Novels / have yet to escape each other, and have somehow roped the otherwise innocent Matt Wilson into this Fantasy unfortunate pop-comics Katamari. Their most successful work is their 2014 ongoing series, The Wicked + The CGN004030 Divine. Kieron's other books for Image include Three and the forthcoming Die. His other books include many titles published by Marvel (featuring characters you've probably heard of) and Avatar (featuring characters you probably haven't.) He lives in London. He's listening to Sound and Vision. He's stopping writing now. Jamie McKelvie has worked on a lot of comics with a lot of people. From Phonogram with Kieron Gillen, to the New York Times bestselling X-Men: Season One with Dennis Hopeless, to Defenders with Matt Fraction. Sadly, fate saw fit to throw him together with Gillen again for a Young Avengers run and the Image ongoing, The Wicked + The Divine. He's not sure what he did to deserve this. In what he laughably refers to as his spare time, Jamie has also provided art f...
Rat Queens Volume 6: The Infernal Path Kurtis J. Wiebe, Owen Gieni
Summary The further adventures of the booze guzzling, death dealing battle maidens-for-hire in the business of killing all the gods’ creatures for profit. Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief and Braga the Orc Princess.
RAT QUEENS is a modern spin on an old school genre, a monster killing epic with a twisted sense of humor.
Collects RAT QUEENS Volume 2 #11-15 and NEON STATIC SPECIAL
Image Comics 9781534310698 Pub Date: 5/21/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
144 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
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IMAGE COMICS Motor Crush Volume 3 Brenden Fletcher, Babs Tarr, Cameron Stewart, Rob ...
Summary YALSA’s 2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
The acclaimed sci-fi action-adventure series MOTOR CRUSH returns with another burst of hot pink energy!
Domino Swift is used to gunning for victory on the racetrack. But what happens when a far bigger trophy is on the line? As Domino struggles to understand her mysterious past and tumultuous present, the future of all humanity rests in her hands. Will she make it to the finish line?
Collects MOTOR CRUSH #12-16
Image Comics 9781534310605 Pub Date: 7/23/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
Gideon Falls Volume 2: Original Sins Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart
Summary In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018", rural mystery and urban horror collide in the second volume of the runaway best-selling series by JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO, the acclaimed creative duo behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan.
The lives of a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city’s trash, and a washed up Catholic Priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets become dangerously intertwined around the mysterious legend of The Black Barn — an otherworldly building that is alleged to have appeared in both the city and the small town, throughout history, leaving death and madness in its wake.
Collects GIDEON FALLS #7-11 Image Comics 9781534310674 Pub Date: 4/23/19 Contributor Bio $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback Born, raised and currently based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Rob Guillory is most known for his art on Image Comics' longrunning series CHEW. Written by John Layman, the book has achieved much success, winning two 136 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Harvey Awards (including Best New Talent for Guillory) and two Eisner Awards (Best New Series in 2010 and Ages 16 And Up Best Continuing Series in 2011). Comics & Graphic Novels / Dave Stewart is a multi Eisner Award Winning colorist who has worked for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image Horror comics. Some of his award winning works include Hellboy, Star Wars, Human Target, Daredevil, Ultimate CGN004040 X-Men, Captain America, Superman, BPRD, The Goon, Body Bags and Fatale.
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IMAGE COMICS Man-Eaters Volume 1 Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Lia Miternique
Summary Book Riot’s Best Comics of 2018
“It's a horror comedy about a girl who thinks she's a monster and it's brilliant.” —Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bitch Planet
Adolescent girls can be real monsters. Maude is twelve, about the age some girls turn into flesh-eating wild cats. As her detective dad investigates a series of strange mauling attacks, Maude worries she may be the killer. Collects #1-4
Image Comics Includes the informative survival handbook, "Cat Fight! A Boys' Guide to Dangerous Cats." 9781534311435 Pub Date: 3/5/19 Plus never-before-published extra content. $12.99/$17.50 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 48 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
Man-Eaters Volume 2 Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Lia Miternique
Summary Twelve-year-old, Maude, has a case of puberty-induced pantherism, a missing friend, a detec ve dad who thinks she may be a killer, a mom with a big secret, a unicorn hiding in her bedroom, and a plan to overthrow the patriarchy.
From the crea ve team that brought you the groundbreaking and Eisner-nominated series Mockingbird, this trade paperback collects the second arc of the unconven onal coming-of-age tale—including the mental hygiene guide for girls, “WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME AND HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED?”
Collects MAN-EATERS #5-8
Image Comics 9781534313095 Pub Date: 6/11/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
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IMAGE COMICS Exorsisters Volume 1 Ian Boothby, Gisele Lagace, Pete Pantazis
Summary Included in Book Riot's Best Comics of 2018
Did you sign a deal with the devil? Has a loved one been dragged to Hell? Then Kate and Cate Harrow should be the first ones you call for mely soul removal at a reasonable rate. This collec on is perfect for fans of case-solving procedurals like Veronica Mars, Ne lix's Jessica Jones, and the CW's Supernatural, and introduces readers to the Harrows, who have to deal with the end of the world, fallen angels, demon worshipping ex-boyfriends, and their Mother.
Collects EXORSISTERS #1-5.
Image Comics 9781534312043 Pub Date: 4/30/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
120 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror CGN004040
Little Girls Nicholas Aflleje, Sarah Delaine, Ashley Lanni, Ada...
Summary Sam and Lielet are two new friends living in Ethiopia who are dealing with the kind of problems that all kids have: judgemental social cliques, condescending adults, alienation, and a legendary brain-eating monster of folklore. Sure, it's not going to be easy, but all they have to do is live through it. Contributor Bio Nicholas Aflleje writes fiction late at night from within the confines of his residence in Jacksonville, Florida. His debut graphic novel is Little Girls, a collaboration with artist Sarah DeLaine, set to be released through Image Comics in April 2019.
Sarah DeLaine has performed many roles within the comic book industry for over a decade, but she prefers Image Comics creating comics best of all. Her work has been featured in Aftershock's Shock Anthology, and she has 9781534310599 contributed to such titles as Roche Limit and Enormous. Little Girls, her original graphic novel collaboration Pub Date: 4/30/19 with writer Nicholas Aflleje, is set to debut through Image Comics in April 2019. $17.99/$23.99 Can. Paperback
176 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
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IMAGE COMICS Middlewest Book One Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Mike Huddleston
Summary The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change, and full of hidden magics. The town of Farmington has been destroyed sending an unwitting adventurer and his vulpine companion in search of answers to quell a coming storm that speaks his name. From author SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND, DEADPOOL) and artist JORGE CORONA (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET, FEATHERS, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA: OLD MAN JACK) comes the tale of Abel, a young boy who must navigate an old land in order to reconcile his family's history.
Collects MIDDLEWEST #1-6
Contributor Bio Image Comics Scottie Young got his start at Marvel on titles like Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan, Human Torch, and 9781534312173 Venom. He soon began adapting the L. Frank Baum OZ novels at Marvel with Eric Shanower. He is best known Pub Date: 5/28/19 for writing and drawing the hit series Rocket Raccoon, illustrating the children's book Fortunately, The Milk by $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback Neil Gaiman, and the Young Marvel variant covers. He's also the cartoonist of I Hate Fairyland and is currently writing Middlewest with artist Jorge Corona and Bully Wars with artist Aaron Conley. 160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene
Summary Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate, but those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins split between curing monsters and killing them. Now, with a new breed of monster loose on the streets of Harlem, the Sangerye family must come together, or watch the human race fall to untold evil.
Collects BITTER ROOT #1-5 Contributor Bio David F. Walker is a comic book writer. filmmaker, and educator. He has worked for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Boom, Dynamite, and Image. He teaches at Portland State University. Image Comics Sanford Greene has worked professionally in comic illustration and related industries for over 15 years, 9781534312128 including work for mainline publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics. Recent work Pub Date: 5/21/19 includes the hit Marvel series Power Man and Iron Fist as well as covers for Black Panther and Luke Cage. He $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback currently works on his creator-owned online comic series for Webtoons, 1000, and the anticipated Bitter Root, a dark fantasy/action ongoing series published by Image Comics and set during the Harlem Renaissance. 160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror CGN004040
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IMAGE COMICS Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans
Summary Tor.com’s Best Comics of 2018
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with ar st supernova STEPHANIE HANS (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron's in a rush, he describes it as ""Goth Jumanji"", but that's only the p of this obsidian iceberg.
Collects issues #1-5 of DIE
Image Comics 9781534312708 Pub Date: 6/11/19 $14.99/$19.99 Can. Paperback
160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
Blackbird Volume 1 Sam Humphries, Jen Bartel
Summary Included in Tor.com's Best Comics of 2018 Included in Book Riot's Best Comics of 2018
"Much like BARTEL's art, the world of BLACKBIRD thrums with a fantas cal undercurrent, and the moments when it spills through to the surface are supremely sa sfying." -KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (BITCH PLANET)
Nina Rodriguez knows there's a hidden magical world run by ruthless cabals hiding in Los Angeles. And when a giant magic beast kidnaps her sister, Nina must confront her past (and her demons) to get her sister back and reclaim her life. Perfect for fans of SYFY's The Magicians, CW's Riverdale, and THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, don't miss the first collec on of the smash-hit neo-noir fantasy series from fan-favorite writer SAM HUMPHRIES (Harley Quinn, Nightwing) and red-hot ar st JEN BARTEL (Black Panther, Mighty Thor)! Image Comics 9781534312593 Pub Date: 5/14/19 Collects BLACKBIRD #1-6. $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback Contributor Bio Sam Humphries has worn a lot of hats in the comics industry, but is best known as a writer of his own 168 Pages Carton Qty: 0 groundbreaking self-published works and new titles like CITIZEN JACK. Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
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IMAGE COMICS MCMLXXV Volume 1 Joe Casey, Ian MacEwan
Summary Meet PAMELA EVANS. Much more than a typical Manhattan cab driver, she also happens to be a badass monster fighter who wields an enchanted tire iron. Yeah, that's right. Welcome to the year of her greatest adventure. Modern mythology for a new generation.
Collects issues 1-3.
MCMLXXV TM story © Joe Casey and artwork © Ian MacEwan. All Rights Reserved. Contributor Bio Image Comics Man of Action Entertainment, the bi-coastal creative studio started in 2000, created the megahit Ben 10 and 9781534312159 Generator Rex for Cartoon Network. Man of Action, a writers collective, served as co-executive producer and Pub Date: 5/21/19 writer for Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man and is currently an executive producer/writer for Marvel's Avengers $9.99/$13.50 Can. Paperback Assemble on Disney XD. Man of Action Entertainment consists of creators Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle. Disney/Marvel's Academy Award®-winning feature Big Hero 6 utilized the 80 Pages Carton Qty: 0 characters and team created by Man of Action as credited in the main titles. The film marked the first time Ages 13 to 16 Disney turned Marvel comic book characters into an animated film and is also the first film based on a comic Comics & Graphic Novels / book I.P. to win an Academy Award®. The quartet collectively worked on the largest franchise characters in Science Fiction comics from Superman to X-Men before refocusing on creating their own original worlds/characters for their CGN004070 comic books and graphic novels published through their Man of Action imprint at Image Comics. In comics, Casey is known for his Eisner Award-no...
Oliver Volume 1 Gary Whitta, Darick Robertson
Summary A startlingly original take on the Dickens classic, Oliver re-imagines Oliver Twist as a post-apocalyp c superhero who brings hope to the downtrodden people of a bleak near-future England as he seeks to uncover the truth behind his own mysterious origins.
Collects OLIVER #1-4.
Image Comics 9781534313040 Pub Date: 7/30/19 $16.99/$22.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
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IMAGE COMICS The Magic Order Volume 1 Mark Millar, Olivier Coipel
Summary We live in a world where we’ve never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who’s picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first.
Collects THE MAGIC ORDER #1-6. Contributor Bio Multi award-winning writer Mark Millar is the writer of JUPITER'S LEGACY from Image Comics, which he co-created with artist Frank Quitely. Also at Image, his WANTED comic series was the industry's biggest- Image Comics selling creator-owned book of the last ten years until he smashed his own record with Kick-Ass, each issue 9781534308718 Pub Date: 4/23/19 selling more than Spider-Man and X-Men from issue one with an unprecedented five printings every issue. $19.99/$26.50 Can. Both properties were sold as movies before the first issue hit the stands and everything Millar has ever Paperback created is in various stages of theatrical development. Wanted starred Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. 176 Pages Kick-Ass stars actor Nicolas Cage. In addition to WANTED and Kick-Ass, Millar has revamped the X-Men, Carton Qty: 0 launched a number one Spider-Man title, brought Captain America into the 21st Century and made Superman Ages 16 And Up a communist. Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy CGN004030
Prodigy Volume 1 Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque
Summary Edison Crane's not content being the world's smartest man and most successful businessman -- his brilliant mind needs constantly challenged. He's a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, genius composer, Olympic athlete and an expert in the occult, and now international governments are calling on him to fix problems they just can't handle.
Collects Prodigy 1-6.
Image Comics 9781534312364 Pub Date: 8/6/19 $19.99/$26.50 Can. Paperback
160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery CGN004010
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Z2 COMICS The Ghost of Ohio Andy Biersack, Scott Tuft, Eryk Donovan
Summary There's a myth in Southern Ohio about an apparition that seeks to live again. Taking place over 100 years, The Ghost of Ohio follows the titular spectre as he tries to unravel the mystery of his own death and fights to return to the earthly plane. Written by Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack and tying into his second solo album of the same name, The Ghost of Ohio is a gothic adventure for the ages.
Z2 Comics 9781940878256 Pub Date: 4/16/19 $19.99/$26.50 Can. Paperback
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Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe
Summary In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading sta s cs would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the me, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathar c autobiography charts eir journey of self-iden ty, which includes the mor fica on and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over ero c gay fanfic on, and facing the trauma and fundamental viola on of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender iden ty—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Lion Forge 9781549304002 Pub Date: 5/28/19 $17.99/$23.99 Can. Paperback
240 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Lgbt CGN009000
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DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Altered Carbon: Download Blues Richard K. Morgan, Rik Hoskin, Ferran Sellares
Summary In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.
For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die.
However, some bodies are more temporary than others ...
Takeshi Kovacs was once a member of the Envoy Corps, stormtroopers for the Interstellar Earth Protectorate, ultra-lethal adepts in switching bodies across the stars. While he served, he was known by a variety of names--Mamba Lev, One Hand Rending, the Icepick--all testament to his capacity for rapid response and extreme violence in whatever flesh he wore. Now he's out of the service and trying to live a different life. But the Protectorate hasn't changed its spots, no matter what world Kovacs drifts to, Dynamite Entertainment and with that old combat rage still burning deep inside him, will he ever really be able to walk away? 9781524109677 Pub Date: 5/28/19 $24.99/$33.50 Can. Created by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon was previously adapted as a Netflix television series. This original graphic novel, Hardcover written by Rik Hoskin (Brandon Sanderson's White Sand/Pierce Brown's Red Rising, ex... 128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising: Sons of Ares – An Original Graphic Novel TP Pierce Brown, Rik Hoskin, Eli Powell
Summary The world of Pierce Brown's Red Rising expands further in the next installment of the Sons of Ares storyline.
Fitchner's quest for revenge con nues as he and the other Sons of Ares seek out the Golds who have wronged his family. But ac ons come with repercussions and an elaborate game of cat and mouse is on. A ba le of Gold versus Gold erupts further into more than acts of Dynamite Entertainment vengeance and becomes the seeds of a revolu on. 9781524111465 Pub Date: 7/2/19 $19.99/$26.50 Can. Paperback
152 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction CGN004070
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DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT The Boys Omnibus Vol. 1 TPB Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
Summary This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will!
Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them - sometimes - need to be taken out of the picture. That's when you call in The Boys!
Contains: The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game & The Boys Volume 2: Get Some
Dynamite Entertainment 9781524108595 Pub Date: 4/2/19 $29.99/$39.99 Can. Paperback
344 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes CGN004080
The Boys Omnibus Vol. 2 TPB Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
Summary Contains, The Boys Volume 3: Good for the Soul & The Boys Volume 4: We Wanna Go Now.
In The Boys, Vol. 3: Good for the Soul, everyone has something to get off their chest: Frenchie and the Female are up to something nasty with the Mafia, Mother's Milk goes to see his mom, Annie January wants a word with God himself, and Butcher enjoys yet another ghastly tryst with CIA Director Rayner. The Legend, meanwhile, offers to tell Hughie everything he wants to know about The Boys - all Hughie has to do is take a walk with the dead.
In the fourth Dynamite collection, all is not well with mysterious millionaire John Godolkin's band of misfits. Silver Kincaid, one of the original G-Men, has just committed suicide in the most public and grotesque way Dynamite Entertainment imaginable. That's not good news for Vought-American's number one franchise, with G-Force, G-Coast, 9781524109707 Pub Date: 7/9/19 G-Style, G-Wiz, the G-Brits and the G-Nomads all depending on their slice of the G-pie. There's far too much $29.99/$39.99 Can. at stake for anyone to go poking around the G-Mansion now. Who knows what dirty secrets might be waiting Paperback down there in the dark? 376 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes CGN004080
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DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Charlie’s Angels Vol. 1 John Layman, Matt Idelson, Joe Eisma
Summary The Angels are back, baby! -The original Angels, Jill, Kelly and Sabrina! Travel back to the swingin' 70s, and revisit the butt-kicking, crime-fighting, mold-breaking lady detectives who took 70s TV by storm, ready to do the same to comics 40 years later! Break out your bell-bottoms, feather your hair, and jump back to a era of peanut-farmer presidents, gargantuan gas-guzzlers and foxy female detectives... for a globe-trotting adventure that's simply too big and epic for the 70s-era boob tube. Written by elderly Eisner winner and solicitation-writing former-superstar John Layman, and with art by his scrappy but lovable youngster pal, Joe Eisma. This is one graphic novel you DON'T DARE TO MISS!!!!
Dynamite Entertainment 9781524108489 Pub Date: 4/9/19 $19.99/$26.50 Can. Paperback
124 Pages Carton Qty: 48 Ages 13 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In CGN004060
John Wick Vol. 1 Greg Pak, Giovanni Valletta
Summary When a young John Wick embarks upon an epic vendetta, he comes up against a strange, powerful community of assassins and must learn how to master the rules that guide their lethal business. What are the Three Bills? Who is Calamity? And why is John Wick seeking vengeance?
Dynamite Entertainment 9781524106829 Pub Date: 5/7/19 $24.99/$33.50 Can. Hardcover
160 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In CGN004060
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UDON ENTERTAINMENT The Art of Darksiders THQ, Joe Madureira, Paul Richards
Summary New Hardcover Edition! Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, WAR — the first Horseman of the Apocalypse — battles both Heaven and Hell across the ravaged remains of Earth, searching for vengeance and vindication. Showcasing the unparalleled artwork of Joe Madureira (X-men, Battle Chasers, Ultimates) and the Vigil Games art team, The Art of Darksiders features hundreds of full-color illustrations, character and environment designs, development sketches, early concepts, promotional artwork, and more.
Udon Entertainment 9781772940954 Pub Date: 4/23/19 $49.99/$66.50 Can. Hardcover
288 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
The Art of Darksiders II THQ, Joe Madureira, Paul Richards
Summary New Hardcover Edition! Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, embarks on a quest to undo Armageddon! The Art of Darksiders II collects the dark and dynamic artwork behind the second installment in the fan-favorite Darksiders video game series. Featuring the artwork of legendary comic artist Joe Madureira (X-men, Battle Chasers) and the Vigil Games art team, the book collects full-color illustrations, character and environment designs, unused concepts, and more!
Udon Entertainment 9781772940961 Pub Date: 6/4/19 $49.99/$66.50 Can. Hardcover
224 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
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UDON ENTERTAINMENT Gears of War: Retrospective The Coalition, Microsoft Studios, arthur gies
Summary With its acclaimed gameplay, intense characters, and visceral action, the GEARS OF WAR franchise has helped define the modern shooter genre. Written by Arthur Gies, GEARS OF WAR: RETROSPECTIVE is a detailed look back the entire GEARS franchise, from the first game's initial development as an Xbox 360 title, all the way up to the series' upcoming entry - GEARS 5. Learn the history of GEARS through the words of its developers, designers, and ar sts, accompanied by key visuals, concept art, and more.
Udon Entertainment 9781772940985 Pub Date: 7/16/19 $49.99/$66.50 Can. Hardcover
200 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 And Up Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
The Expanse Roleplaying Game Steve Kenson
Summary The Expanse Roleplaying Game brings James S.A. Corey's award-winning series of science fiction novels to the tabletop. Using the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules that power Green Ronin's Fantasy AGE, Blue Rose, and Modern AGE RPGs, The Expanse takes players to a far-future solar system where humanity is divided: Martians, Belters, and the people of old Earth struggle for political power and resources, but older, alien, forces are stirring in the universe, and human history is about to take an unexpected new turn. The Expanse RPG applies the fast-playing, stunt-powered AGE system to spaceships, solar colonies, adventure, and intrigue in the far-future, where the actions of the characters may change the course of history!
Green Ronin Publishing 9781934547977 Pub Date: 6/4/19 $49.95/$66.50 Can. Hardcover
224 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up Games & Activities / Role Playing & Fantasy GAM010000
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PAIZO INC. Starfinder Roleplaying Game: Beginner Box Amanda Hamon Kunz, Rob McCreary, Joe Pasini, Owen ...
Summary Explore the Galaxy! Launch into an exci ng universe of science fantasy adventure with the Starfinder Beginner Box! Create and customize your own futuris c hero to play through challenging adventures and ac on-packed ba les against dangerous foes! With streamlined rules, this deluxe boxed Paizo Inc. set is the ideal introduc on to the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, an imagina ve tabletop roleplaying game for 2-7 players. Welcome to the 9781640781238 best launchpad for a life me of pulse-pounding adventure among the stars-the only limit is your imagina on! Pub Date: 5/7/19 $39.99/$52.99 Can. Game The Starfinder Beginner Box has everything you need to get started: • A 96-page Heroes' Handbook, detailing character crea on and general rules for playing the game, plus a short solo adventure 192 Pages • A 96-page Game Master's Guide containing an adventure, alien adversaries, and advice on how to create your own science fantasy tales Carton Qty: 0 Ages 16 And Up • A complete set of seven polyhedral dice Games & Activities / Role • More than 80 full-color pawns depic ng diverse heroes and aliens Playing & Fantasy • 24 plas c pawn bases GAM010000 • Six pregenerated character sheets to throw you right into the ac on• Six blank character sheets to ...
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set Mike Selinker, Chad Brown, Keith Richmond, Aviva S...
Summary Your Adventure Begins Here!
Belhaim fs tower has just collapsed, its wizard is missing, and local kobolds are whispering the name of a long Paizo Inc. dead draconic nemesis. And that fs just your first day in town... 9781640781474 Pub Date: 6/11/19 $59.99/$79.50 Can. This complete cooperative strategy game pits 1 to 4 players against monsters, perils, and traps as you Game become the heroes of Belhaim. As the town fs new champions, an unending world of adventure awaits. Choose 440 Pages your character fs class; build a deck of equipment, magic, and allies; and explore lethal locations as you Carton Qty: 0 journey through an exciting fantasy tale. As your adventures continue, your characters add remarkable gear Ages 16 And Up and breathtaking magic to their decks as they gain incredible powers, all of which they fll need to challenge Games & Activities / Role Playing & Fantasy more and more powerful threats. GAM010000 This set includes the storybook and cards for The Dragon fs Demand Adventure Path as well as a modular core for infinite scenarios that allows you to control the difficulty and speed of play. Supplement your experience with the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, Character Decks, the Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild...
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DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Nancy Drew: The Palace Of Wisdom Kelly Thompson, Jenn St. Onge
Summary Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything...ESPECIALLY solving crimes. But her totally-in-control- and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her...and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed. KELLY THOMPSON (Hawkeye, Star Wars, Rogue & Gambit) and JENN ST-ONGE (Giant Days, The Misfits) team up to present an all-new modern spin on a classic mystery icon!
Dynamite Entertainment 9781524108496 Pub Date: 4/2/19 $14.99/$19.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 48 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
Sweet Valley High Academic All-Star? Katy Rex, Andres Genolet
Summary When Jessica falls in love with her Shakespeare teacher, she begins to act like her studious twin sister Elizabeth to impress him. Now it's up to Elizabeth to make sure that all's well that end well - but with Jessica playing her role, will anyone be able to tell which twin is which.
Dynamite Entertainment 9781524105563 Pub Date: 7/9/19 $14.99/$19.99 Can. Paperback
120 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 13 to 16 Comics & Graphic Novels CGN000000
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ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Season Two – No More Evil-Doing Jeremy Zag, Thomas Astruc, Mélanie Duval, Matthieu...
Summary WINNER OF A 2018 TEEN CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED SERIES!
Enjoy two more tales from the second season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir! It’s Marinette’s birthday, and her grandmother pays her a surprise visit. But when she can’t relate to her grown niece after being away for so long, Hawk Moth finds his prey. He turns Marinette’s grandmother into Befana, a motorcycle riding villain with a candy-gun. Then, when Max’s pet robot (and best friend) is confiscated at school, Hawk Moth turns his little friend into Robostus, a powerful machine with the ability to make inanimate objects come to life! How will Ladybug and Cat Noir deal with Hawk Moth’s latest villains?!
Action Lab Entertainment 9781632294401 SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! Pub Date: 2/19/19 $8.99/$11.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 52 Ages 9 to 12 Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels JUV008030
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Season Two – Gotcha! Jeremy Zag, Matthieu Choquet, Thomas Astruc, Fred ...
Summary WINNER OF A 2018 TEEN CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED SERIES!
Ladybug and Cat Noir are back with two more thrilling adventures! First, their principle, Mr. Damocles, tries to become a superhero: Dark Owl! Unfortunately, he's constantly messing things up and accidentally gets humiliated by the two heroes. The evil Hawk Moth akumatizes Damocles, giving him high-grade technology to take down Ladybug and Cat Noir once and for all! In their second adventure, Ladybug and Cat Noir find themselves up against a gigantic baby that Hawk Moth has accidentally akumatized, Gigantitan! Will this giant crush Ladybug and Cat Noir? And will Marinette and Adrien finally go on a date?!
SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! Action Lab Entertainment 9781632294425 Pub Date: 2/19/19 $8.99/$11.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 52 Ages 9 to 12 Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels JUV008030
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ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Season Two – A New Hero Emerges Jeremy Zag, Thomas Astruc, Matthieu Choquet, Fred ...
Summary WINNER OF A 2018 TEEN CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED SERIES!
Ladybug and Cat Noir face-off against even more deadly foes in the latest adaptation for the second season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir! André, a legendary ice cream maker, gets akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes a giant ice cream snowman. He begins to freeze people into ice cream and Ladybug and Cat Noir have to pretend to be a couple in order to stop him! Then, Alya’s twin sisters are akumatized into Sapotis, monsters that multiply when they eat. Ladybug and Cat Noir can’t seem to take them down by themselves... does this mean a new miraculous superhero is about to emerge?
Action Lab Entertainment 9781632294463 SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! Pub Date: 4/23/19 $8.99/$11.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 9 to 12 Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels JUV008030
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Season Two – Love Compass Jeremy Zag, Thomas Astruc, Matthieu Choquet, Mélan...
Summary Two more episodes from the second season of MIRACULOUS: TALES OF LADYBUG & CAT NOIR are collected here! After sneaking out of his house, Adrien runs into Marinette and the two finally go to the movies together! But Adrien is also being chased by his overzealous fans and his bodyguard becomes akumatized by Hawk Moth into the gigantic Gorizilla! Then, Marinette and her friends set up a houseboat for a music festival with Juleka’s mother. Marinette meets Juleka’s brother Luka, an interesting boy who might be making her as tongue-tied as she usually is with Adrien! But then Hawk Moth akumatizes Juleka’s mother into Captain Hardrock, a pirate whose ship poses a major threat to Ladybug and Cat Noir! Will the two greatest heroes of Paris save the day from the nefarious Hawk Moth?
Action Lab Entertainment 9781632294593 SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! Pub Date: 6/11/19 $8.99/$11.99 Can. Paperback
128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Ages 9 to 12 Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels JUV008030
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