Spring 2018 Picks of the List It's All in Your Head Blanchard, Keith Diamond Book Distributors DBD/Wicked Cow Studios

9780692918234 Puerto Rico Strong Ages 13 to 16 Ayala, Vita / Colon, 208 pages Rosa / Franquiz, Namoi paperback DBD/Lion Forge $27.95 9781941302903 Publish Date: 160 pages 11/1/2017 paperback catalog page: 0.3 $12.99

Publish Date: IT'S ALL IN YOUR 3/27/2018 HEAD is the true story of what makes up your catalog page: 0.1 mind. It's the interactive, easy-to-read,

stupendously sourced, user's guide to your brain. Puerto Rico Strong is a This immersive book tackles the questions that comics anthology that keep you up at night: Is your smartphone wrecking explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the your memory? Are believers' and atheists' brains diversity that exists within that concept, from different? Who's smarter: your baby or your dog? today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. Hwo is yuor biarn albe to raed tihs crzay quseotin?

Neil deGrasse Tyson calls the human brain the All proceeds go to UNIDOS Disaster Relief & most complicated object we know, and there's way Recovery Program to Support Puerto Rico. too much information, mystery, and discovery to

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more-all devoted to the awesomeness of your Saga Volume 8 brain. WICKED COW STUDIOS is a new content Vaughan, Brian K and studio that starts first with book publishing while Staples, Fiona securing dynamic, world-class partnerships around DBD/Image Comics its book content simultaneously. Wicked Cow is 9781534303492 also Derek Jeter's co-founder and co-publisher in Ages 16 And Up Jeter Publishing, their content studio that includes 152 pages a joint venture partnership with publishing giant paperback Simon & Schuster. Previously Wicked Cow $14.99 managed beloved pop culture brands including Publish Date: 1/2/2018 Wiffle, The Roberto Clemente Estate, Big League catalog page: 0.2 Chew, and the Notorious B.I.G. Estate.

After the traumatic KEITH BLANCHARD is the author of two novels, The events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, Deed and Johnny Appleseed, and has contributed and their surviving companions embark on a life- in various capacities to a wide range of publishing changing adventure at the westernmost edge of and production enterprises, ranging from The the universe. Week to Cosmopolitan, from Rolling Stone to The

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Criminal Deluxe Edition Mighty Mouse Volume Volume 1 1: Saving The Day Brubaker, Ed and Phillips, Fisch, Sholly and Sean Marques, Anthony DBD/Image Comics DBD/Dynamite 9781534305410 Entertainment 432 pages 9781524105259 hardcover 120 pages $49.99 paperback Publish Date: 9/12/2017 $19.99 catalog page: 2 Publish Date: 1/16/2018 This oversized deluxe catalog page: 8 hardback edition features CRIMINAL books 1 thru 3 -- COWARD, LAWLESS, and THE DEAD AND THE You're the world's greatest hero, exiled to another DYING. A fantastically-designed and printed book dimension with no way back. Trapped in an alien showcasing the Eisner and Harvey Award-Winning world, where not even the laws of physics work the crime comics from the creators of SLEEPER and way they should. The only person who even INCOGNITO. Also features many extras - including a believes you exist is a young kid whom no one will Criminal short story and the never-before-printed listen to. Yet, you're the shining light that this drab, five-page movie trailer in comics form that cynical world needs to restore its color and life. Oh Brubaker and Phillips created to announce the -- and you're a cartoon mouse. Here comes Mighty series online. A true collector's edition spectacular Mouse to save the day, in his most unexpected from two of the hottest creators in comics, and a adventure yet... right here, in the real world! must-have for any fan!

Criminal Deluxe Edition Project Superpowers: Volume 2 Hero Killers Brubaker, Ed and Browne, Ryan and Phillips, Sean Idelson, Matt DBD/Image Comics DBD/Dynamite 9781534305434 Entertainment 432 pages 9781524105297 hardcover 128 pages $49.99 paperback Publish Date: 9/12/2017 $19.99 catalog page: 3 Publish Date: 1/23/2018 The second oversized catalog page: 10 hardback of the award- winning crime series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Welcome to Phillips is finally here! The first edition has gone Libertyville U.S.A.! Home of too damn many through four printings, in sellout after sellout, and superheroes! Watch out, crime, here comes now the rest of Brubaker and Phillips' noir Captain Battle Jr.! And Sparky! And Tim! Yeah, you masterpiece is collected in the same format. know...Tim! What? You've never heard of them? Collecting BAD NIGHT, THE SINNERS and THE LAST Huh. Well, it's hard to be a sidekick when there is a OF THE INNOCENT - along with short stories, city full of capes running around stopping every behind-the-scenes pieces, art and articles, all misdemeanor with a spandex wrapped flourish. previously uncollected. Divided States of The Walking Dead Hysteria Volume 29 Chaykin, Howard Kirkman, Robert and DBD/Image Comics Adlard, Charlie 9781534303836 DBD/Image Comics 152 pages 9781534304970 paperback 136 pages $16.99 paperback Publish Date: $16.99 1/16/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 12 3/13/2018 catalog page: 38 An America sundered. An America enraged. Recent events have An America terrified. An America shattered by thrown Alexandria greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and into turmoil, and now Rick, Dwight, Eugene and tragedy...... and that's when everything really goes Negan all have something to prove. Collects THE to hell. Collects the entire six-issue series by WALKING DEAD #169-174. legendary creator HOWARD CHAYKIN.

The Hard Place Miraculous: Tales of Wagner, Doug and Ladybug and Cat Noir: Rummel, Nic De-Evilize DBD/Image Comics Entertainment, ZAG and 9781534304925 Entertainment, ZAG 128 pages DBD/Action Lab paperback Entertainment $16.99 9781632293121 Publish Date: 192 pages 3/6/2018 paperback catalog page: 35 $9.99 Publish Date: 2/27/2018 After five years in catalog page: 46 prison, AJ GURNEY - one of Detroit's legendary wheelman and the Ladybug and Cat Noir take on more of Hawk ladies' favorite bad boy - is free, and he's decided Moth's akumatized villains. Marinette's great-uncle it's time to go straight. He wants nothing more Wang Cheng, a famous chef, becomes Kung Food. than to be left alone and disappear into anonymity, Taste his soup and you're under his control. Her working at the family garage and drinking beers classmate Max gets turned into Gamer after losing with his Pops on the porch. But during a simple a video game tournament. He creates a giant robot visit to the bank, AJ is recognized by two violent that threatens to destroy all of Paris. Her other bank robbers, and they demand AJ be their driver. quiet classmate, Juleka, transforms into Reflekta. To ensure his compliance, they take a young She is able to turn people into a reflection of female hostage. Unfortunately, she just happens to herself. Will Paris's greatest superheroes be able to be the daughter of a Russian crime lord. AJ now take down Kung Food, Gamer and Refleka in this finds himself pursued by the police and hunted by action-packed volume? SPOTS ON, CLAWS OUT! every asset of the Russian mob. Without a doubt, Collects MIRACULOUS #19-21. he's in a very hard place. Collects issues 1-5. Paper Girls Volume 4 You Have Killed Me - Chiang, Cliff and Softcover Edition Wilson, Matthew Rich, Jamie S. and DBD/Image Comics Jones, Joelle 9781534305106 DBD/Oni Press 128 pages 9781620104361 paperback 192 pages $12.99 paperback Publish Date: $15.99 4/10/2018 Publish Date: catalog page: 50 2/27/2018 catalog page: 75 The mind-bending, time-warping The classic graphic adventure from novel collaboration BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, from the minds behind Lady Killer returns in a new as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched softcover format! Antonio Mercer is a private eye from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this by trade, a man bad luck seems to follow, as harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more evidenced by his newest client-the sister of his of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only former lover, Julie Roman, who's now disappeared. person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl And Julie's sister, Jessica, is a real piece of work. from 1988. Collects issues 16 through 20! Still, Mercer takes the case, getting entangled in the same family drama that drove him away. Well, maybe not exactly the same, because the Romans Back to Brooklyn have made some... unsavory connections. As the Volume 1 bodies start piling up, Mercer has no choice but to Ennis, Garth and see the case through to its end-or become one of Palmiotti, Jimmy its casualties. DBD/Image Comics 9781607061243 128 pages paperback $14.99 Publish Date: 7/21/2009 catalog page: 53

The controversial over the top crime thriller is finally collected! Big Bob Saetta made the biggest mistake of his life by pissing off his brother, one of the biggest and most brutal crime bosses in New York City. This is the story of two brothers at war, wrapped in a special package of extreme language and hardcore violence. Join award winning writer GARTH ENNIS (Preacher, The Punisher), JIMMY PALMIOTTI (Jonah Hex, Painkiller Jane) and artist MIHAILO VUKELIC on an adrenaline ride that rips the roof off Brooklyn's criminal underworld!

Little Pierrot Vol. 2: Amongst the Stars Varanda, Alberto and Varanda, Alberto DBD/Lion Forge

Algeria Is Beautiful Like America 9781941302613 Grand, Mahi and Burton, Olivia 52 pages DBD/Lion Forge hardcover 9781941302569 $14.99 176 pages Publish Date: 3/6/2018 hardcover catalog page: 112 $24.99 Publish Date: 4/24/2018 Little Pierrot and Mr. Snail's imaginative catalog page: 101 adventures take them to the stars and beyond! They might fly to the moon on the wings of a well- Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from worn book, or cloud-watch with the new girl in her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a Pied- school. Little Pierrot is ever the dreamer, but Mr. Noir, the French term for Christian and Jewish Snail is there to bring him back down to earth. settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother's death, Olivia found some of her grandmother's journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself; she arrives alone, with her grandmother's postcards and letters in tow, and with but a single phone number in her pocket, of an Algerian Djaffar, who will act as her guide. Olivia's quest to understand her origins will bring her to face questions about heritage, history, shame, friendship, memory, nostalgia, fantasy, the nature of exile, and our unending quest to understand who we are and where we come from.