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PRHPS Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batwoman Vol. 2: Wonderland Summary: is on the hunt for the deadly 9781401278717 terrorist group called the Many Arms of Death, but little Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 does she know that their , the Mother of War, is $14.99 on the hunt for her. Soon Kate Kane finds herself 128 pages abandoned and alone in the Sahara Desert, at the Trade Paperback mercy of the man the Many Arms of Death calls the Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes …but his victims call the Scarecrow! Territory: World Kate’s only hope for escape is to work together with her fellow prisoner: Colony , her father’s second- in-command and one of Kate’s most bitter enemies.

Now, with both Batwoman and Colony Prime under the influence of the Scarecrow’s deadly fear , they’ll have to fight their way through their own worst nightmares to make it out alive. Unfortunately, when someone has lived a life like Kate Kane’s—one of murder, loss and betrayal—fear itself might be enough to destroy her!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Halo: Rise of Atriox Summary: This anthology comic series is based on 9781506704944 Halo Wars 2, the real-time strategy from Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 343 Industries, which features the new ruthless villain $19.99 in the Halo franchise, Atriox, whose defiance of the 120 pages collective known as the Covenant is unmatched. Hardcover Atriox, the legendary Brute who questioned the Great Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In Journey and the will of the Prophets as he watched his Territory: World comrades die for their cause. Atriox, who created the faction known across the universe as the Banished!

The story of Atriox, his rise to power, his contempt for the Covenant and the formation of the Banished is told across this five-chapter anthology featuring characters and stories from Halo Wars 2.This collects stories by acclaimed comics creators Cullen Bunn, Jody Houser, , , Josan Gonzalez, Jonathan Wayshak, Eric Nguyen and Hayden Sherman.

Series Overview: Collects the comic sereis Halo: Rise of PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 3 - Summary: The epic 1990s TALES OF THE Knightsend collected in a hardcover edition for the first time in 9781401278496 BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL OMNIBUS VOL. 3: KNIGHTSEND! Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 $99.99 turns to his old foe, , for help in 896 pages retraining. Meanwhile, moving in on an arms dealer, Batman Hardcover discovers that the perpetrator might actually be an old and Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes deadly enemy of the Order of St. Dumas. Bruce Wayne and Territory: World recruit , the first Robin, to keep tabs on the new Batman’s activities even as he continues his pursuit of the deadly arms dealer while Wayne sets up a training facility in an abandoned logging mill in the hills outside City.

Collects BATMAN #509-510 & #512-515, BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #29-30 & #32-35, #676-677 & #679-682, ROBIN #8-9 & #11-14, #12-13, BATMAN: OF THE DARK KNIGHT #62-63, ’94 #10, NIGHTWING: ALFRED’S RETURN #1, PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 1

SEVEN STORIES PRESS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Seven Stories Press

The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary: The most complete Gilgamesh in translation 9781609807931 —including the new discoveries from tablet V. Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 $19.95 THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the Ur epic—the hero’s 204 pages journey, quest, and education—inscribed onto damp clay Trade Paperback tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Comics & Graphic Novels / Adaptations Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the Territory: World except UK/Ireland epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional suffering, he must , and answer, the first (and last) great : mortality.

Translated into English and presented here in its entirety as a graphic novel, this version of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his son, the comix artist Kevin Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great work. The reader is slowed by PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Teenage Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Summary: A thorough look back at the TMNT’s comic Collection, Vol. 2 book roots with the original stories plus insightful 9781684051618 annotations from co-creators and Peter Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 Laird. $29.99 272 pages Rediscover the underground roots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Trade Paperback Turtles, with this special collection of Studios’ issues Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In #8-11 along with the Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo Territory: US, , Open Mkt Micro-Series one-shots by creators Kevin Eastman and ! With over 300 pages of mutated- along with annotations following each issue, this volume is perfect for fans to relive the glorious of the Turtles’ origins as well as an excellent place for new readers to see where the TMNT phenomenon began.

Issue #8 is the famous Cerebus with .

Series Overview: Volume 2 of 6.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Library of American Comics

Complete Chester Gould's Volume Summary: The iconic square-jawed detective’s 24 adventures fighting a menagerie of grotesque villains 9781684052356 remain a highlight in the history of comics and of crime Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 fiction in . This series is ripe to introduce to $44.99 crime prose readers who haven’t previously ventured 296 pages into comics. Hardcover Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons Chester Gould’s morality play enters the late ’60s, as the Territory: World cartoonist tackles concepts of retribution, constitutional rights, economic warfare, and Space Age intrigue—all amidst the usual array of murder and violence. The stakes, however, seem higher, and the body count soars: death in space, on the high seas, behind closed doors—by gun, by laser, by asphyxiation, by explosion, and by freezing. The action moves from Earth to the lunar surface as Moon Maid zaps bad guys, Lizz goes undercover, Tracy nearly loses his head—and, when Diet Smith sets up a factory on the moon, will mankind also export greed and murder to its crime-free orbiting satellite? Bad guys include steely mobster Piggy PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 2

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Comics

Princess Jellyfish 9 Summary: This FINAL VOLUME of Princess Jellyfish 9781632365644 contains over 100 pages of exclusive bonus content for fans! Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 $19.99 FIT FOR A PRINCESS 240 pages Trade Paperback As a brand, Jelly Fish comes to the conclusion that their Comics & Graphic Novels / / Media Tie-In dresses are for Amars, by Amars. After embracing the fact Territory: World that they make clothes for weirdos, Tsukimi and the crew must figure out how to sell their styles! In true Amars fashion, these beloved otaku girls and eccentric boys struggle and fumble their way to their happy endings!

Dearest Readers!

Check out the huge illustration gallery at the end—in full color! Go behind the scenes and read in-depth interviews with the author, study up with a jellyfish encyclopedia, and take a peek into the author’s studio!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Comics

Flying Witch, 6 Summary: A surreal comedy in the vein of Yotsuba&! 9781947194045 and Nichijou with a magical theme combines humor, Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 slice of life and traditional Japanese culture in this $10.95 debut work from Chihiro Ishizuka. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Everyone gathers to grill giblets to celebrate Chinatsu’s first Territory: World bit of witchcraft. The familiars are lured to school with the promise of a tasty lunch…which draws the attention of an upperclassman witch. Makoto is tasked with solving a case where people get , but the solution turns out to be very down-to-earth…

Story Locale: Northern

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Battle Alita Mars Chronicle 3 Summary: The -martial arts that has 9781632366177 spanned a solar system and over two decades in print Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 returns, with creator Yukito Kishiro’s new sequel that $10.99 reveals the true story of Alita’s childhood on Mars, and 176 pages the mind-bending adventures that still await her… Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science For centuries, war has raged on the dusty, surface of Fiction Mars. This apocalyptic crucible will produce the solar Territory: World system’s most fearsome , Alita. But for now that warrior is just a little girl named Yoko. The future and past of the fan out across the reaches of space in the final chapter of one of the greatest sci-fi epics of all time!

Story Locale: Mars, the far future

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Summary: A multi-generational human drama set in Shinju 7 the world of rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese 9781632365453 comedic storytelling, Descending Stories follows an Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 ex-convict whose life is changed by his apprenticeship $12.99 to a famed storyteller, and Konatsu, who yearns to 160 pages perform rakugo but cannot because women are not Trade Paperback permitted in the craft. Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Historical Fiction THE TIDES OF CHANGE Territory: World Yotaro’s reputation as generation Sukeroku spreads, and he’s getting steady work on both TV and at the yose. Higuchi, overjoyed to see Yotaro satisfy so many people, longs to create new rakugo stories with him, though it’s heresy in Yakumo’s eyes. Yakumo plans to take his own rakugo to the grave, but when he collapses during a performance, he finds his desires may once again be thwarted.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Joe : Occult Detective Volume 2--The Summary: More chilling tales of supernatural horror! Outer Dark 9781506703954 Occult detective Joe Golem invesitgates two supernatural Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 mysteries, while demons from his past seep into the $24.99 present. When men are being driven mad by otherworldy 136 pages voices in their heads, Joe’s search for an explanation leads Hardcover to another dimension, and a dangerous man who wants to Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery harness its power. Then, Church leads Joe to a crumbling Territory: World home where a young woman is being possessed by the of her family.

Collects Joe Golem: The Outer Dark #1-3 and Joe Golem - Flesh and Blood #1-2.

Series Overview: This is the second volume of and Christopher Golden’s Joe Golem Occult Detective Series, and collects Joe Golem: The Outer Dark #1-3 and Joe Golem - Flesh and Blood #1-2.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman by Summary: Before his groundbreaking work on such 9781401278748 legendary titles as : Red Son, , Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 and : Old Man Logan, and his hit $29.99 original titles Kick-Ass, Wanted and Kingsman: The 280 pages Service, the Times best-selling writer Trade Paperback Mark Millar tackled one of DC’s greatest heroes: Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Superman! Territory: World This collection brings together timeless tales of the Man of , from Superman’s good-bye to Earth to ’s personal account of a life forever changed by the Big Boy Scout.

Explore the heart of Superman, and the root of ’s obsession with him, in stories from Millar’s Eisner-nominated run on Superman Adventures.

Plus, reimagine the Man of Tomorrow, in a world where Detective Harvey Dent undergoes a metamorphosis from PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 4

LIBRARY OF AMERICAN COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Library of American Comics

Superman: Newspaper Summary: A comprehensive series that remedies a gap Dailies: 1944-1947 in comics history, bringing back all the Superman daily 9781684051977 strips—among the character’s rarest collectibles, never Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 before reprinted. $49.99 272 pages The creative torch is passed to writer Alvin Schwartz when Hardcover Superman’s creators and leave the Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons series. Schwartz and artist Wayne Boring present sixteen Territory: World storylines that begin while World War II is still raging and continued into the post-war era. Stories include “The ’s Peculiar Premonitions,” “Lois Lane, Editor,” and “Superman’s Secret Revealed!”

Series Overview: A multi-volume series that collects Superman’s never-before-reprinted newspaper strip adventures.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Injustice: Ground Zero Vol. 2 Summary: From the world of the hit video game Injustice: 9781401277871 Gods Among Us. Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 $16.99 best-selling series, written by 144 pages Christopher Sebela ( MOST WANTED) with Trade Paperback talented artists including Tom Derenick (INFINITE CRISIS: Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In FIGHT FOR THE MULTIVERSE), Pop Mhan (HE-MAN: THE Territory: World ETERNITY WAR) and Daniel Sampere ( ), takes readers deep inside the mind of in this can’t-miss collection of INJUSTICE: GROUND ZERO VOL. 2 stories.

Harley Quinn’s twisted take on the world of the hit video game Injustice: Gods Among Us comes to a thrilling conclusion, setting the stage for the fighting game’s sequel, !

Harley and the are back together at last, but all is not as it appears. Is she Joker’s unwitting pawn, or is she PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The -Files: JFK Disclosure Summary: The truth is out there…but when it comes to 9781684052547 the greatest conspiracy ever, the assassination of John Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 F. Kennedy, the truth can be murky. $14.99 72 pages When Mulder learns the real reason behind President Hardcover Kennedy’s murder, he also discovers an explosive personal Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In secret. It’s a revelation that forces him to decide between Territory: World the two things he holds most sacred: his family and the truth. It’s after bombshell as The X-Files digs into one of the greatest mysteries of all time!

Collects the two-part series.

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SEVEN STORIES PRESS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Seven Stories Press

The Instinct for Cooperation : A Graphic Summary: In the tradition of Joe Sacco’s graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky journalism comes the first interview-based graphic 9781609808167 novel treatment of Noam Chomsky’s political ideas and Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 activism. $13.95 112 pages An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky’s political Trade Paperback analysis to bear on real people’s stories on the frontlines of Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy America’s struggle for economic and human dignity. Territory: World except UK/Ireland The Instinct for Cooperation innovatively balances those real-life stories of struggle with conversations the author has had with Chomsky on how best to understand them. Although the themes are wide-ranging, this book is ultimately about the importance and need for spaces of resistance in countering state and other institutional forms of violence. For example, when discussing the removal of books by police and sanitation workers from Zuccotti Park in November of 2011, Chomsky paused to say “Arizona knows all about that,” referring to the 2010 ban of Mexican American Studies in Tucson schools under Arizona House Bill PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Vinland Saga 10 Summary: One of the greatest European historical epic 9781632366306 comics ever written continues. Pub Date: 6/5/18, On Sale Date: 6/5 $22.99 After months of hard labor as a farm slave, Thorfinn begins 400 pages to realize what his father meant by the words, “A true Hardcover warrior needs no sword.” Perhaps he can find a new Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Historical purchase on life in the mysterious land he heard tell of in Fiction his childhood: the continent to the west known as Vinland. Territory: World Story Locale: Medieval England

Series Overview: Thorfinn is son to one of the Vikings’ greatest warriors, but when his father is killed in battle by the mercenary leader Askeladd, he swears to have his revenge. Thorfinn joins Askeladd’s band in order to challenge him to a duel, and ends up caught in the middle of a war for the crown of England. From the creator of the classic manga comes this epic, highly-anticipated tale. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Legion by & Andy Lanning Summary: Everything—their families, their friends and Vol. 2 teammates, their very galaxy—gone in a blinding 9781401280406 of light. Upon preventing a cataclysmic rift in their Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 universe, several members of the 30th century’s famed $29.99 , the Legion of Super-Heroes, find 296 pages themselves stranded an inconceivable distance from Trade Paperback home, with no devisable method of safe return. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World Before they can even attempt to return to their galaxy, however, the Legionnaires must first endure the unknowns of a hostile galaxy plagued by the alien Progeny, whose godlike creator deems diverse species impure “variants” subject to eugenic “deletion.” It is these encounters, and their own questionable solutions, that will soon have the heroes wondering if the very purpose of the Legion —powerful individuals from across the cosmos, bound together by a common dream of galactic harmony—has also been lost.

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VERTICAL COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

CITY, 2 Summary: From the creator of Nichijou comes a new 9781945054792 slapstick comedy series about a penniless college Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 student who moves to a town filled with bizarre people. $12.95 This reckless girl will be the one who eventually sets 160 pages the city in motion. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy Niikura reflects on how her friendship with Nagumo began. Territory: World Wako Izumi is intrigued by Nagumo, and gets a totally wrong idea about her relationship with Niikura. Tatewaku Makabe scores a dubious point during a soccer game, and his father tries to game a peculiar restaurant. Meanwhile, super-strong Granny continues to be unbeatable…

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Legacy: A House of Night Graphic Novel Summary: Celebrate the 10th anniversary return to the Anniversary Edition House of Night with this new edition of the first graphic 9781506707174 novel from best-selling mother/daughter duo P.C. and Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 Kristin Cast’s vampyric House of Night novel series! $14.99 136 pages Includes an all-new introduction by Kristin Cast! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy Zoey Redbird was an average teenager worrying about Territory: World grades, boys, and breakouts. But priorities change when you’re marked as a vampyre. Zoey leaves her religious family to enroll in the vampyre academy House of Night, which mixes the all too familiar high school problems with elemental magic, as well as the physicals changes that accompany a craving for human blood!

Following the events of the first novel Marked, vampyre Zoey Redbird and her group of devoted friends turn to The Fledgling Handbook, a historical vampyre tome, to better understand their place this big, new supernatural world. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The Infinite Loop, Vol. 2: Nothing But the Summary: -creepiness meets Orwellian Truth madness in this self-contained sci-fi sequel, as Teddy 9781684052417 travels back in time to a town where people are Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 addicted to lies. $17.99 120 pages Although she tried to the future, Teddy’s plan failed. Trade Paperback While human anomalies are no longer executed merely for Comics & Graphic Novels / the crime of existing, they’re forced to live in squalid Territory: World refugee camps. Teddy and Ano want to fight for the rights of human anomalies, but they’re about to find out how hard that can be, especially when powerful people want things to stay the same.

After the smash success of the first volume of The Infinite Loop, series creators Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet, joined by artist Daniele Di Nicuolo, return to an even darker version of their wildly imagined reality, where danger lurks around every corner and people refuse to accept truth. Filled with danger and tension that will keep readers at the PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 7

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku 2 Summary: The awkward, romantic comedy manga 9781632367051 about geeks in love that inspired the new ! Can a Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 professional man who’s secretly a hardcore gamer and $17.99 a woman who’s secretly a fujoshi date without their 256 pages hobbies getting in the way, or revealing each other’s Trade Paperback secrets? Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance Territory: World Extra-long book includes 2 Japanese volumes!

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Frustrated at the slow pace of their relationship, Hirotaka asks Narumi on a real date, with one critical stipulation: They can’t show their otaku sides at all! Can the two find something to bond over in the absence of games, manga, and anime? Meanwhile, Hanako and Taro revisit the origins of their own tempestuous relationship back when they were in high school, and even Naoya seems to be spending more time with a new friend! PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Aho-Girl 7 : A Clueless Girl Summary: Equal parts cute, silly, and subversive, this 9781632366115 four-panel comedy manga is great for fans of anarchic Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 slice-of-life gag manga like Nichijou and Azumanga $12.99 Daioh. Anime adaptation coming 2017! 176 pages Trade Paperback Sleepyhead Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga Territory: World Getting out of bed on time is a challenge for anyone. But getting Yoshiko out of bed on the first day of the new school year isn’t just a challenge for Akkun—it’s his Everest, his northwest passage, his whale. Or at least, that’s what Yoshiko’s decided it’s going to be. She’s determined to kick the school year off in style, and if that means provoking her old friend beyond the point of sanity, well—nobody can accuse her of being insufficiently committed to her ideals. Her stupid, stupid ideals.

Series Overview: Yoshiko is a hopefully clueless high school girl. Her rock-paper-scissors strategy is “rock.” She PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Gotham City Garage Vol. 1 Summary: In the distant future, America has become a 9781401280192 wasteland, all save one unexpected haven: Gotham Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 City, a forcibly domesticated utopia run by Governor $16.99 Lex Luthor with the aid of his brutal , the Bat. 144 pages Young Kara Gordon has no idea what lies outside Trade Paperback Gotham’s borders, but she’s about to find out! Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World When an act of mercy pits Kara against Luthor’s forces and even her own sister, , she flees into the “freescape,” a desert fought over by motorcycle clubs, among them the Garage. These tougher- than-tough women—among them unexpected versions of Harley Quinn, Catwoman and more—quickly learn that Kara is more than she appears, even before she demonstrates superpowers that reveal her to be more than human! They may even embrace Kara as one of their own, but only if she lives long enough!

DC’s greatest heroes and villains are reimagined as bikers in PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 8

DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 2 Summary: The acclaimed creative team of Tom King, 9781401280352 and Mikel Janín takes things to a new level Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 as Batman brings the pain to his international $34.99 opponent, Bane, in Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition 448 pages Book 2. Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes The Dark Knight has invaded his home, scarred his mind Territory: World and broken his back. Now Bane has returned to Gotham City for a single purpose: eliminate once and for all. But first he’ll destroy everyone the Dark Knight has ever loved…or loathed.

In the wake of this battle, the Batman makes Catwoman an offer that leaves her absolutely speechless. As she considers her answer, the Dark Knight tells her of a secret war from early in his career. It was a time when The Joker and the would seemingly be natural allies, but each man determined that he and he alone must be the one to kill the Bat…and either would sooner burn down Gotham than be PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Again!! 3 Summary: From the co-creator of “!!! on ” 9781632366474 comes a dramatic, funny time-traveling high school Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 story about what it means to cheer on a friend! What $12.99 would you do if you had the chance to do 208 pages everything…Again? Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Sports Aiming for the Territory: World Kinichiro Imamura is trying to get high school right the second time around. So far, he’s managed to reunite the old members of his school’s ouendan cheer squad, saving the club from the brink of destruction, but his time-traveling troubles are far from over. With the newly-revived ouendan tasked to cheer at their school’s next baseball game, they’ll have to cheer harder than ever if they want to bring their team to victory. To pull it off, Kinichiro the cheering newbie is going to have to learn from the very best…

Story Locale: A high school in Japan PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Green Lantern/: Hard Travelin' Summary: Over 40 years ago, writer Dennis O’Neil and Heroes Deluxe Edition artist Neal raised the expectations for and 9781401280420 expanded the idea of what could be accomplished with Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 mainstream commercial comics. Now presented in a $49.99 beautiful, oversize edition, with an introduction by 368 pages Dennis O’Neil himself, the relevance of those stories Hardcover can still be felt in /Green Arrow: Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Hard-Traveling Heroes Deluxe Edition. Territory: World What does it take to be a ? Where should a superhero stand in society? What is important to a superhero? These are all questions Green Arrow aims to ask Green Lantern by forcing the space cop out of the stars and onto the ground where real issues are festering. Together, these hard-traveling heroes traverse America, and a few alien landscapes, to understand how the world is not black- and-white. Poverty, corruption, pollution, racism and drug addiction are only some of the issues the emerald warriors face. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 9

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

To Your Eternity 5 Summary: A new manga from the creator of the 9781632365750 acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 drama and an epic story spanning time and space… $12.99 192 pages Monstrous killers from many lands are banished to Jananda Trade Paperback Island. There, Fushi must win the island’s fighting Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy tournament to save Pioran and gain their freedom. While Territory: World immersed in the brutality and the tyranny of Jananda, Fushi further learns what it means .

Series Overview: A lonely boy wandering the Arctic regions of North America meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well… is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Wonder Woman by George Perez Omnibus Summary: More than four decades after making her Vol. 3 debut in All #8, the World’s Greatest 9781401280390 Heroine was comprehensively reimagined in 1986 by Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 creator George Pérez—and this new $99.99 incarnation of DC Comics’ fabled Princess 672 pages quickly to unprecedented levels of popular and Hardcover critical acclaim. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World Working with such talented collaborators as Jill Thompson, Romeo Tanghal, Mindy Newell and Cynthia Martin, Pérez went on to craft ’s adventures for years, spinning masterful stories that ranged from heart-stopping battles with the of myth to heartwarming interludes with Diana’s trusted network of friends.

Now, for the first time, these treasured tales from the 1980s are available in a comprehensive omnibus edition, featuring some of the most exciting moments of DC’s Modern Age!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Dark Nights: Metal: Deluxe Edition Summary: The Dark Multiverse is coming, and nothing 9781401277321 will ever be the same! One of the biggest events in DC Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 history is here in the shocking, action-packed epic Dark $29.99 Nights: Metal from critically acclaimed author Scott 216 pages Snyder and Greg Capullo, reuniting after their Hardcover smash-hit Batman series. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World Beyond our universe there is the Multiverse…and beneath the Multiverse is a nightmare realm where every fear that has ever been felt on our Earth becomes reality. Now an evil as old as time wants to drag us down into the shadows, into the realm of never-ending terror.

But when the door between worlds opens, it’s not just any nightmares that come spilling out. They call themselves the Dark Knights. Each one is a twisted version of Batman from a world where one of his worst fears has come true.

With the invasion underway and Batman trapped in the Dark PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 10

DARK CIRCLE

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018

The , Vol. 2 Summary: After the soul-crushing events of BULLET’S 9781627388900 , disfigured cop Greg Hettinger leaves Philly and checks Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 into a Southern rehab clinic. But a plane ride can’t $14.99 separate Greg from his troubles. A fellow patient believes 144 pages her former drug dealer (and lover) has sent someone to kill Trade Paperback her, and it’s up to Greg to figure out which member of their Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes circle is preparing to pull the trigger… Territory: World A modern crime noir tale featuring the return of the popular Dark Circle antihero, THE BLACK HOOD, VOL. 2 collects THE BLACK HOOD issues #6-10.

Story Locale: Philadelphia, PA

Publication History: Trade Paperback Original

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Hal Jordan and the Vol. Summary: It’s action, adventure and conspiracy on a 5: of the Guardians cosmic scale in and the Green Lantern Corps 9781401280376 Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians, as writer Robert Pub Date: 6/12/18, On Sale Date: 6/12 Venditti () and artists Patrick Zircher $16.99 (Superman: ) and Jack Herbert 144 pages () team up Hal Jordan with his greatest Trade Paperback allies against his deadliest foes! Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World The word is out: has returned. Wherever this tyrannical former Lantern goes, is sure to follow. And when Hal Jordan travels to Earth to bring his former partner to justice, hell is exactly what he finds. Another of his oldest enemies is under attack from a surprising , and he’s unleashed all his powers to save his skin. If that means harnessing the evil entity called to corrupt the world’s greatest hero, Superman, so be it.

But an even greater threat than a mad Man of Steel awaits the Emerald Knight. From the darkest depths of the cosmos, PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Attack on Titan Season 1 Part 2 Manga Box Summary: Continue your journey outside the walls Set with the manga that inspired the second half of season 9781632367006 1 of the hit anime ! Includes Vols. 5-8. Pub Date: 6/13/18, On Sale Date: 6/13 Also includes two EXCLUSIVE sticker sets featuring $43.96 your favorite characters! 768 pages Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Horror After helping the Garrison to victory, retaking Trost District Territory: World from the Titans, Eren awakens in a prison cell. He may be a hero to the common people, but among the leaders of humanity, fear of Eren’s mysterious powers threatens his continued survival. It’s only the insistence of the tenacious and pragmatic Erwin Smith, leader of the Survey Corps, that wins Eren a chance: Prove himself outside the Walls, and bring the evidence from his family home back from Titan territory, and the rest of the military will let him live. But soon after the Corps passes through the gate, a new and terrible threat appears—one that Erwin may know more about than he’s letting on.

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Michael Chabon's The Escapist: Pulse- Summary: Golden-Age superhero, the Escapist Pounding Thrills —master of elusion, champion of liberation—was 9781506704067 conceived in the fictional world of the Pulitzer Prize- Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & $24.99 Clay. This anthology contains a variety of 416 pages the Escapist’s exploits, and details on the history of the Trade Paperback character. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Territory: World Master of elusion and foe of tyranny, from his secret headquarters beneath the majestic Theater, the Escapist and his associates have been defeating the crooked and coming to the aid of those in need for generations. From obstructing the endeavors of post-war Nazis, to protecting the innocent from an attack on the World’s Fair, to infiltrating behind enemy lines to free prisoners of war in Vietnam, and even to stymieing a hypnotizing saxophone player, the Escapist does not suffer oppression of any kind. A multitude of the Escapist’s pulse-pounding adventures are collected here along with details of the publishing history of PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Ruff and Reddy Show Summary: There’s no business like show business. And 9781401274986 these two misfits have no business being anywhere Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 near it. $16.99 168 pages Back in the day, they were the toast of Tinseltown. Ruff, a Trade Paperback -smart cat, and Reddy, his dimwitted but lovable dog Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In , had the biggest animated series on TV. Then the Territory: World show ended, and so did their ride on the gravy train of fame and fortune. Now Reddy washes up in a local grocery store for a living, while Ruff is just…washed up.

But one hard-charging agent with stars (and dollar signs) in her eyes is out to change all that. With her help, Ruff and Reddy are about to mount a full-scale assault on the entertainment industry, determined to get back to the top by any means necessary. Game shows, crime dramas, sitcom pilots, reality TV, even (ugh) the convention circuit: this cat-and-dog act will get their paws on it all.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 6 Summary: As players of Hunter and Dungeons 9781632366405 & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old $12.99 salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of elves and 192 pages magic, he’s a little disappointed to find he’s become a Trade Paperback blind, boneless slime monster. Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy Territory: World MORE POWER, MORE PROBLEMS

A new arc begins! After the defeat of the Orc Lord, Rimuru is now the chancellor of the Jura Forest Alliance. With more companions than ever, his within the world rises, but this also draws the attention of ever more powerful figures. How will Rimuru handle the schemes of the mighty Dwarf King Gazel and the most of Demon Lords, Milim Nava?!

Series Overview: Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 12

TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018

Coin-Op : 1997-2017 Summary: This first-ever collection by the award- 9781603094276 winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 encompasses the very best of their inventive and $29.99 mysterious comics. 200 pages Hardcover Welcome to the first-ever collection by the award-winning Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey, encompassing the Territory: World very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. This compilation ranges from the Hoeys’ early comics in Blab! Magazine to their groundbreaking Coin-Op series.

All in all, it’s more than twenty short stories and vignettes —about music and film, the comic and the absurd, the past and the future—all sparkling with innovative storytelling and design.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Infinite Crisis Omnibus (New Edition) Summary: OMAC robots are rampaging, magic is dying, 9781401283278 villains are uniting, and a war is raging in space. And in Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 the middle of it all, a critical moment has divided $150.00 Earth’s three greatest heroes: Superman, Batman and 1424 pages Wonder Woman. It’s the DCU’s darkest day, and Hardcover long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes things right in the universe…at any cost. Heroes will Territory: World live, heroes will die, and the DCU will never be the same again!

This omnibus collects Action Comics #826, #829, Adventures of Superman #639, #642, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Day of Vengeance #1-6, Day of Vengeance Infinite Crisis Special, JLA #115-119, Infinite Crisis #1-6, Infinite Crisis Secret Files 2006, The OMAC Project #1-6, The OMAC Project Infinite Crisis Special, Rann-Thanagar War #1-6, The Rann-Thanagar Infinite Crisis Special, Superman #216, #219, #1-6, Villains United Infinite Crisis Special and Wonder Woman #219. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

Sweet Tooth Book Two Summary: The human race has reached its darkest 9781401280468 hour. In the seven years since the Affliction first Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 appeared, billions have died. All the children since $24.99 the plague are a strange new race of animal-human 304 pages hybrids. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction One of the few remaining humans, a drifter named Jepperd, Territory: World has formed a bond with one such child, a sweet, deer-like boy called Gus. But even among the children, Gus is an anomaly, seemingly born before the sickness began.

Believing that Gus’ history might be the to the plague’s origins, Jepperd and the boy will journey north together to Alaska in the hope that if they can uncover the story of his birth, it will lead them to a cure for the sickness.

But the troubling question : If Gus isn’t a product of the Affliction, was he its cause?

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VERTICAL COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts, 6 Summary: From the editors behind Attack on Titan and 9781947194052 Flowers of Evil comes a new action fantasy title that Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 combines western mythology and supernatural beings $10.95 with imagery of the American Wild West. Full of action Trade Paperback and mythos that are all familiar to fantasy novel Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy readers and role-playing gamers alike, Sacred Beasts is Territory: World the next in the line of narrative based fantasy hits to come out of Japan.

The Incarcate Centaurus was felled, but with a most unsavory method. The fort at Bold Creek was captured, but the townsfolk nearby suffer an unimaginable fate, and the occupying forces are faced with a terrible choice. Meanwhile, Hank and Schaal, after deserting from the army, come across a small logging village, totally deserted except for a kindly ex-soldier who has forgotten his role in the war. And Cain is conducting some dark experiments of his own…

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 Summary: This volume collects And The 9781506705316 B.P.R.D.: 1955 - Secret Nature, Occult Intelligence 1-3, Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 Burning Season, a 1955 story from the Hellboy Winter $19.99 Special,and bonus material! 144 pages Trade Paperback iZombie co-creator and Mike Mignola Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror join Shawn Martinbrough, Brian Churilla, and Paolo Territory: World Rivera to guide Hellboy to unveil a volatile new weapons project with monstrous side effects.

iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson and Mike Mignola join Shawn Martinbrough, Brian Churilla, and to guide Hellboy to unveil a volatile new weapons project with the monstrous side effects.

Series Overview: Hellboy And The B.P.R.D.: 1955 - Secret Nature, Hellboy And The B.P.R.D.: 1955 - Occult Intelligence Issues # 1-3, Hellboy And The B.P.R.D.: 1955 - Burning Season, a 1955 story from the Hellboy Winter Special and PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Jenny Finn Summary: London’s dockside is threatened by the twin 9781506705446 terrors of a plague leaving bodies covered in tentacles Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 and a slasher killing women in the night. Desperate for $17.99 answers after the wrong man is executed for the 136 pages murders, a group of Londoners holds a séance to Hardcover contract the supposed killer, and his story of a girl born Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror of the sea who has brought a terrible curse only brings Territory: World them more questions.

Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey’s acclaimed standalone series is colored for the first time by Eisner Award winner Dave Stewart.

Collects Jenny Finn #1-#4 and bonus sketchbook material

Series Overview: Collects Jenny Finn #1-#4

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BLACK CROWN

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Black Crown

Kid Lobotomy, Vol. 1: A Lad Insane Summary: Come as you are, leave as someone else. In 9781684052448 the winding hallways of The Suites, anything can Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 happen—whether you like it or not! Join Kid, the $19.99 proprietor of this fine hotel, as he tries to hold on to his 152 pages father’s business—and his own sanity. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery Kid, as he’s affectionately referred to, is the youngest child Territory: World of Big Daddy, an aging hotelier with more than his fair share of dark secrets tucked into the corners of the crown jewel of his empire: The Suites, where the guests are in danger of losing much more than their luggage. See, Kid has shed a few (okay, more than a few) cells in his day, which naturally makes him qualified to perform a lobotomy or two. And why let those brain bits go to waste when he can use them to help—or unwittingly —his patients?

Ultimately, Kid hopes to restore some of his sanity. But can he navigate his sister’s devious plotting, vivid hallucinations, and his own crumbling mental state to uncover the truth PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Moebius Library: Inside Moebius Part 2 Summary: Actively exploring his storytelling methods 9781506704968 within his own mind, Moebius draws himself Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 encountering his favorite characters in an expansive $39.99 desert setting. He interacts with Arzak, Blueberry, Stel, 264 pages Atan, and others—and he also meets a younger version Hardcover of himself! Comics & Graphic Novels Territory: World A self-reflective six-part study, Inside Moebius Part 2 collects the two middle chapters in this hilariously unique exploration of a creator meeting his own creations and over-analyzing his thought processes as he creates new comics. Dark Horse will release all parts to this intensely personal series in 2018!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Love and Lies 6 Summary: “Love is forbidden. When you turn 16, the 9781632366252 government will assign your marriage partner.” This Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 dystopian manga about teen love and defiance is a $12.99 sexy, funny, and dramatic new hit! 192 pages Trade Paperback TOUGH CHOICES Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance Territory: World Taking one path means abandoning another. Realizing the truth of this, Lilina Sanada prepares to make her choice, but her resolve wavers as the path becomes unclear. She tries to be honest with Yukari—the partner the government has assigned her—but on an intimate night at a hot spring, even the best of intentions may not be enough.

Series Overview: Yukari is dull. He doesn’t even stand out enough to be bullied - he’s just a generally lower- middle-class kid. He’s in love with Misaki, the most popular girl in school. There’s just one problem: He’s 15, one year away from receiving his government-assigned marriage PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 15

DARK HORSE BOOKS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Summary: This 320-page book is an exhaustive guide 9781506706382 to The Legend of Zelda from the original The Legend of Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 Zelda to Twilight Princess HD. Make sure to check out $39.99 the other installments in this unparalleled collection of 328 pages historical information on the Legend of Zelda Franchise Hardcover with the New York Times Best Selling books The Games & Activities / Video & Electronic Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia and The Legend of Territory: World Zelda: Art & Artifacts!

A comprehensive collection of enemies and items, potions to poes, an expansion of the lore touched upon in Hyrule Historia, concept art, screencaps, maps, main characters and how they relate, languages, and much, much more, including an exclusive interview with Series Producer, Eiji Aonuma! This, the last of The Goddess Collection trilogy, which includes Hyrule Historia and Art & Artifacts, is a treasure trove of explanations and information about every aspect of The Legend of Zelda universe!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Summary: The Legend of Zelda(TM) is one of the most Edition successful franchises of all time with nearly twenty 9781506707402 video games and thirty years of history, but it all Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 started with a gold cartridge… $79.99 328 pages The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition honors the Hardcover game that started it all by recreating the original gold Games & Activities / Video & Electronic cartridge as faithfully as possible. The book comes with a Territory: World black polypropylene sleeve, lined with velvet flocking, and a scale instruction booklet with fun, theme-appropriate material inside.

The cover is a gold foil paper with gloss lamination and a gritty varnish. The details are embossed and debossed. It has gold gilding on the top and foredge, with black gilding on the bottom. This book looks and feels so much like the original cartridge you might find yourself blowing into the bottom before you open it!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Comics

The Archies Vol. 1 Summary: The rockin’ debut arc featuring the battle of 9781682558935 friendship vs. fame, with a few special guests along the Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 way! Follow Archie’s quest to make his songwriting $17.99 dreams a reality, and see what happens when the rock 144 pages ’n’ roll dream starts affecting his relationships with his Trade Paperback closest friends. Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In Territory: World As face a rocky start to their first-ever tour, they find unexpected drama among the members! Can Betty and Archie reconcile their artistic differences? Can real-life indie pop trio CHVRCHES provide the guidance they need to weather the ? Join co-writers Alex Segura (Archie Meets Ramones) and Matthew Rosenberg (Marvel’s , , ) and artist Joe Eisma (Archie, ) for a power-pop collection that goes loud on the music, fun and friendship.

Publication History: Trade Paperback Original

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Wonder Woman/Conan Summary: She is Diana of Themyscira, warrior 9781401280215 princess of the Amazons. He is Conan the Cimmerian, Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 barbarian scourge of a dozen civilizations. Alone, each $24.99 is unstoppable. But what happens when these two 160 pages heroes meet face to face? Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Dark and malicious magic has driven Wonder Woman and Territory: World Conan together, stripping Diana of her memories and chaining her to this dark-haired and dangerous . Slavers and gladiators, pirates and predators, an army of witches poised to conquer the world on wings of wickedness: these are the foes the Amazon and the Cimmerian must join together to defeat if they are to restore her rightful name, regain their freedom and save their lands from darkness.

But for these mighty warriors, passion runs hot and deep. Will a search for love and a lust for vengeance guide them to their final reckoning with the evil out to destroy them, or PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Maga-tsuki 9-10 Summary: Yasuke, 15 years old, is about to build up the 9781632362476 courage to confess his love to his childhood friend Akari, Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 who’s fallen for him, too. There’s just one problem: Yasuke’s $17.99 family lives in a Japanese shrine, and when he breaks the 368 pages shrine’s sacred mirror, it triggers a curse, releasing the cute Trade Paperback and well-endowed goddess of misfortune, Orihime, into the Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy real world! Now Yasuke can’t ever be out of Orihime’s sight Territory: World - if he gets too far away, he dies, and can only be brought back to life with a quick kiss from Orihime!

Series Overview: Yasuke is a teenager with his soul torn between two girls - literally! After falling under a curse, he can’t get too far from Orihime, a goddess in the body of a cute teenage girl, or he dies…but his heart really belongs to his childhood friend Akari. When the only way to keep the curse from killing him is a kiss from a teenage goddess, how will Yasuke explain this bizarre turn of events to Akari? And what will happen when Akari gets ahold of Yasuke’s lost s...

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 3 Summary: Some of DC’s most popular titles from the 9781401265960 1990s were published under the banner, which Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 recast DC’s heroes in strange settings with reimagined $34.99 histories. Now, for the first time, DC collects the Elseworlds 328 pages tales starring Batman! Stories include: Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes BATMAN: BROTHERHOOD OF THE BAT: 50 years into the Territory: World future, Batman is dead, and the planet is within the grip of a plague set off by Ra’s al Ghul, who uses Bruce Wayne’s rejected costume designs to create a league of costumed assassins. Standing in his way? His daughter Talia!

BATMAN: SCAR OF THE BAT: In 1920s prohibition Chicago, a masked avenger helps Eliot Ness take down one of the most dangerous gangsters ever, Al Capone.

BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT DYNASTY: A centuries-old feud between the Wayne family and the immortal begins with Bruce Wayne’s ancestor Sir Joshua of PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 17

DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

DC/Young Animal: Summary: Characters from the DCU cross paths with 9781401277338 characters from the pop-up imprint DC’s Young Animal Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 in this epic crossover event. $19.99 224 pages So what happens when these astoundingly original realms Trade Paperback and their unbelievable inhabitants collide? Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World The answer—Milk Wars!

The World’s Greatest Heroes meet the motley misfits of the ! The Dark Knight Detective confronts the madness of Mother Panic! The Amazon Princess braves the extradimensional weirdness of , the Changing Girl! And the Avatar of the Green takes on the strange science of Cave Carson and his Cybernetic Eye!

All to save the Multiverse from the homogenizing horror that PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Flash Vol. 6: Cold Day in Hell Summary: Iron Heights is the toughest penitentiary in 9781401280789 Central City—tough enough to hold like Captain Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 Cold and . But lately it’s been a prison of $16.99 sorts for as well, ever since Barry was 152 pages pulled off his job as a CSI and sent to the facility to Trade Paperback work in crime scene preservation. From his new post, Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes the Fastest Man Alive witnesses for the first time what Territory: World life is like for criminals after their arrest. And thanks to Iron Heights’ tough-as-nails Warden Wolfe, it isn’t pretty.

But now life in prison has turned into a death sentence for one inmate, and since Barry’s no longer working at the crime lab, he isn’t able to help the murder investigation. As the Flash, however, he’s determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, even if it runs him headlong into a trap.

A new player has been giving Copperhead, Central City’s leading crime lord, a run for her money, and whoever it is PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

New Super-Man Vol. 3: Equilibrium Summary: Shanghai is under . Emperor 9781401280444 Super-Man rules the streets. And Kong Kenan—the New Pub Date: 6/19/18, On Sale Date: 6/19 Super-Man—is running out of options. $16.99 168 pages Kenan’s mind is reeling from revelations about his parents. Trade Paperback Meanwhile, his teammates in the of China Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes are dropping one by one. And from across the globe, Task Territory: World Force X Director has sent in the one force that can stop the chaos and from spreading: Harley Quinn, and , a.k.a. the Suicide Squad!

But the Emperor isn’t the only Super-Man they’ve been licensed to kill. Unless Kenan acts fast, he’ll become a casualty of war.

Yet even as the struggle rages on, the New Super-Man is transported to Old Gotham City, to the era when the magic that fuels his powers began…and where his true enemy will reveal himself at last… PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 18

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card 4 Summary: Seventeen years after the original 9781632366191 Cardcaptor Sakura manga ended, returns with Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 more magical clow card adventures! $10.99 160 pages Into the Labyrinth Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy Sakura takes to the sky in pursuit of the “fuzzy thing” that Territory: World made her friend Akiho fall asleep, and in the process gains another of the mysterious transparent cards. Then, a visit to the bakery where Yukito works goes awry when a giant labyrinth appears and swallows them both up! Syaoran makes his combat debut alongside Sakura in a fiery battle to capture the most dangerous card yet—and of course, they’re both wearing outfits from Tomoyo!

Series Overview: Clear Card picks up right where Cardcaptor Sakura left off, with Sakura and Syaoran starting junior high school. With the Final Judgment passed, Sakura thinks school life will be quiet, but then all her cards PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

The EC Archives: Volume 3 Summary: One of the greatest sci-fi comics ever 9781506705019 published now collected! Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 $49.99 This wonderful and strange volume collects issues #13-18 of 216 pages the groundbreaking comics anthology—remastered in Hardcover glorious digital color! Featuring amazing tales from iconic Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction writers and artists including Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Wally Territory: World Wood, Jack Kamen, , Al Williamson, and more!

Series Overview: Weird Fantasy issues #13-18

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 Summary: A sharp new comedy about female 9781632366856 friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish! Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 $12.99 COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA 176 pages Trade Paperback Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her Territory: World own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan…So at 33, she can’t help but lament the fact that her career’s plateaued, she’s still painfully single, and she spends most of her nights drinking with her two best friends in their favorite pub. One night, drunk and delusional, Rinko swears to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in 2020. But finding a man—and love—may be a cutthroat, dirty job for a romantic at heart.

A sharp new comedy about female friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish! PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 19

DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Aquaman: Tempest Summary: When Tempest returns to the Hidden Valley 9781401280482 to reclaim the powers of his birthright, an ancient evil Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 emerges, capturing the very gods of the sea. And when $16.99 that same evil turns its eye on ’s ally and new 168 pages mentor Atlan, the young hero gets some unexpected Trade Paperback help from Tula—also known as and the woman Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes he once loved, whom he thought dead! Territory: World With Tula back at his side, Tempest performs the ritual to gain his full inherited powers. But instead of claiming Garth’s family’s abilities, the ritual frees Slizzath—the god-snatching evil determined to set up his throne upon the bones of all undersea dwellers. Pitted against a of dead soldiers, and with Tula somehow oblivious to the danger around them, will Tempest be able to defeat the mounting evil around him on his own?

From hit creators (Infinite Crisis, ), John Stokes (The Invisibles), Carla Feeny PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman: Zero Hour Summary: Time is collapsing in on itself. The villainous 9781401280536 Extant has ushered in a series of black holes that are Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 swallowing the universe—past, present and future! $29.99 Superman, like everyone else in the DC Universe, has 296 pages seen time loops affect his life. The result? Trade Paperback never exploded. The Kents never found a baby Kal-El in Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes a field. Superman isn’t the of . Territory: World Then, after the in time has been averted, new details about the origins of Superman, and Steel are revealed.

Comics writers , , David Michelinie and team up with Superman artists Chris Batista, , Tom Grummett, and more to present the Man of Steel stories tying into the classic Zero Hour event, now collected here for the first time. Collects Adventures of Superman #0, #516, Superman #93, #0, Superman: The Man of Steel #0, #37, Superman in Action Comics #0, #703, Steel #0, #8 and PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition 4 Summary: After more than a decade out of print, the 9781632366016 original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an $29.99 all-new translation, color pages, and new cover 452 pages designs! Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far Fiction beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced Territory: World cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she revels in her bloodlust? PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 20

DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Mystik U Summary: Hitting the books takes on a whole new 9781401280567 meaning when a teenage enrolls at Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 Mystik University—an otherworldly academy that $16.99 promises to teach its young charges how to master 160 pages their unique and often dangerous magical abilities. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Under the leadership of Dr. Rose Psychic (and her Territory: World body-sharing husband, Dr. Occult), Zatanna and her fellow students—including Davit Sargon, June “Enchantress” Moone and brooding bad boy —begin to learn the secrets of harnessing and directing their powers. But these introductory lessons may not be enough to save them from the deadly force known as the Malevolence, whose in the not-too-distant future Dr. Psychic has already foreseen.

For Zatanna, however, this dark prophecy is overshadowed by more immediate concerns—among them, the obsessive attentions of the queen-bee Thriae Society, the cold-blooded PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Trinity Vol. 2: Dead Space (Rebirth) Summary: Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman—the 9781401280505 superheroes known as the —have gone through a lot Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 in the aftermath of the DC Rebirth epic event. But now the $14.99 bonds of their friendship are tested like never before, as 128 pages they must let their closest allies die in order to save the Trade Paperback world! Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World An emergency summons to the Justice League Watchtower puts the icons face-to-face with an unexpected crisis: The other members of the League have been infected with a fatal alien virus that will destroy all humankind…unless the Trinity destroys the Watchtower, and the Justice League along with it!

Plus, the revelations of “Superman Reborn” require Batman and Wonder Woman to give their all to save Superman from his doubts about his very existence; and a trinity of villains—Lex Luthor, Ra’s al Ghul and —concoct a scheme to use the mysterious Pandora Pits to put an end to PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume Summary: The ultimate introduction to this 1 supernatural hero features 16 standalone stories with 9781506706641 Mignola’s greatest collaborators—stories that can be Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 read in any order. $24.99 368 pages This 368-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures Trade Paperback from 1947 to 1961, reprinting stories from The Chained Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror Coffin, The Right Hand of Doom, The Bride of Hell, The Territory: World Crooked Man, The Troll Witch, and Hellboy’s childhood adventure, The Midnight Circus, drawn by Duncan Fegredo, artist of The Wild Hunt, the basis for Neil Marshall’s film Hellboy: The Rise of the Blood Queen.

In 1994 Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as of the . Before that, he’d spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories Volumes 1 & 2 present those early PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 21

TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Top Shelf Productions

Strong Female Protagonist Book Two Summary: Superheroes meet social justice as the 9780692906101 wildly popular webcomic comes to print, blending Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 action with relatable young-adult drama and $24.99 remarkably thoughtful philosophy. This full-color 336 pages collection features over 300 pages of the ongoing Trade Paperback series plus a brand-new short story. Comics & Graphic Novels / Contemporary Women Territory: World Alison Green used to be a superhero. With unlimited strength and invulnerability, she fought crime with a group of other teens under the alter ego Mega Girl. All that changed after an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading arch-enemy, who showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy that made battling giant robots seem suddenly unimportant.

Now Alison is going to college in , trying to find ways to actually help the world while making friends and getting to class on time. It’s impossible to escape the past, however, and trouble comes in the form of mysterious PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Top Shelf Productions

Gumballs Summary: Discover the pioneering new comic from 9781603094313 transgender cartoonist Erin Nations! Called by critics Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 “funny, sincere, and just generally brilliant,” Gumballs $19.99 is a one-man variety show spanning graphic memoir, 160 pages observational comedy, razor-sharp character studies, Trade Paperback and so much more. Comics & Graphic Novels / Lgbt Territory: World Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin’s gender transition, anecdotal true tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept lovestruck teenager named Tobias. The wide-ranging series is filled with single-page gag cartoons, visual diaries of everyday life, funny faux personal ads, and real-life horror stories of customers at his day job. Gumballs offers a variety of flavors that will surely delight anyone with a taste for candid self-reflection and observations of humanity.

Gumballs tips its hat to the classic alt-comic tradition of Eightball, Optic Nerve, and Box Office Poison, but speaks PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Air Gear 37 Summary: FINAL VOLUME! 9781612621074 Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 FOR THE SKY $10.99 240 pages The fate of all humanity rests in balance as Ikki and Ringo Trade Paperback battle to overcome Sora’s cruel plan for the world. In order Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga to win, they’ll need bravery, sacrifice, and an ingenious Territory: World plan—but will it all come together in time? With street gangs racing and fighting to save the entire human race, the epic story of Gear reaches its stunning conclusion!

FINAL VOLUME!

Story Locale: Tokyo, Japan

Series Overview: Everybody knows that Itsuki is the most fearsome skater around. With his high-tech skates, his moves are so smooth they’re almost like flying. But when you’re the best, someone always wants to take you PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 22

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Fire Force 10 Summary: A new action fantasy set in a steampunk 9781632366214 Tokyo from the creator of the smash hit ! Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 $10.99 HIS BROTHER’S KEEPER 208 pages Trade Paperback Shinra has found Shо̄ at last, and he’s eager to rescue him Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy from the clutches of the Evangelist. But Shо̄ has no memory Territory: World of his older brother, and refuses to accept the possibility that the two of them are related. Shinra’s only choice is to beat Shо̄ up and drag him home, but how can he defeat someone who has the power to stop time?

Series Overview: In the year 198 of the Age of the Sun, Tokyo is a crowded cosmopolis. But the world’s most populous city is threatened by devils that cause people to burst into at random! The only ones who can stop it are the Pyrofighters, a team of specialized firefighters. The young Shinra, blessed with the ability to ignite his feet and travel at the speed of a , wants nothing more than to PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

The Flowers of Evil - Complete, 3 Summary: After the climactic incident during the festival, 9781945054730 we are sent to a completely new locale, 3 years later. Takao Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 and Nakamura have been forcibly separated. Takao is now $22.95 living with his parents in the suburbs of the big city, and 576 pages they mostly act like a normal, happy family. Takao is in a Trade Paperback new school, and a typical middling student. And while he’s Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance as awkward as ever, he’s made some friends. Even more Territory: World intriguingly—Takao may have found a girl to open up to. As with Nakamura, this girl can see there’s more to Takao than meets the eye. But this time, she’s the one who reintroduces him to literature…

Story Locale: Rural Japan

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Justice League Vol. 6: The People vs. The Summary: When Batman makes a careless error that Justice League results in loss of life, the heroes of the Justice League 9781401280765 suddenly find themselves facing justice themselves. Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 The team is brought before the law to be held $14.99 accountable for their actions in a trial questioning the 128 pages very existence of a Justice League. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes And now, at the worst possible moment, a new threat Territory: World strikes. Someone is using deadly means to defend the Justice League. Whoever it is seems to know everything there is to know about the team, from their deepest secrets to how to take down a Green Lantern.

Can the Justice Leaguers overcome this opposition when their confidence in their leader is shaken? Or will the League finally lose to the one enemy it can’t defeat—the will of the people it’s sworn to protect?

Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Priest (, PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 23

SEVEN STORIES PRESS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Seven Stories Press

The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea : A Summary: Too poor to pay his pregnant wife’s hospital bill, Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work 9781609806026 in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 vessel promised to return him home after a few months at $24.95 sea, but instead Vannak was hostaged on the vessel for four 256 pages years of hard labor. Amid violence and cruelty, including Hardcover frequent beheadings, Vannak survived in large part by Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates—a skill he Territory: World except UK/Ireland possessed despite never having been trained in art or having had access to art supplies while growing up.

As a means of escape, Vannak and a friend jumped into the water and, hugging empty fish-sauce containers because they could not swim, reached Malaysia in the dark of night. At the harbor, they were taken into a police station…then sold by their rescuers to work on a plantation. Vannak was kept as a laborer for over a year before an NGO could secure his return to Cambodia. After five years away, Vannak was finally reunited with h... PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The Little Book of Knowledge: Sharks Summary: Since the turn of the century scientists have 9781684050666 been going shark crazy! Now dive into a world beneath the Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 waves and learn all about one of nature’s most mysterious $14.99 creatures. 88 pages Hardcover Sharks! They’ve fascinated mankind forever, but we still Nature / Animals / Marine Life have a lot to learn and 16% of shark species have been Territory: World discovered in the last 15 years!

The Little Book of Knowledge series has everything you want to know about your favorite subjects, wrapped in a convenient and attractive hardcover graphic novel. Written by experts in the field and drawn by artists who know the material, each Little Book is perfect for the established enthusiast and burgeoning amateur alike.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Rising Summary: Seven nightmarish versions of Batman from 9781401277376 seven dying alternate realities have been recruited by Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 the dark god Barbatos to terrorize the World’s Greatest $29.99 Heroes in our universe. They threaten life across the 216 pages Multiverse, and the Justice League may be powerless to Hardcover stop them! Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World We introduce you to:

The Batman Who Laughs: a lunatic driven mad by his world’s Joker. The Red Death: a thief who stole his reality’s Speed Force power. The Drowned: a female, amphibious Batman. The Dawnbreaker: a twisted Green Lantern. The Murder Machine: a deranged, deadly cyborg. The Merciless: a warrior who wears the helmet of Ares. The Devastator: a part-human, part-Doomsday monster.

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Missions of Love 15 Summary: The delightfully risqué high-school rom-com 9781632361882 continues! Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 $10.99 “Can a typical school romance about a mismatched boy and 160 pages girl turn out to be insanely good? It can if it’s Missions of Trade Paperback Love.” - Anime News Network Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance Territory: World “Leaves me thinking ’I’d like to read more of that, please’.” - Johanna Draper Carlson, Manga Worth Reading

Series Overview: In school, Yukina is a cold and distant girl, while Shigure appears to be a perfect, good-looking guy. But the two of them have a secret, and their extraordinary “love” is about to start! Yukina, under the pen name ’Yupina,’ is actually a popular cell phone novelist. When she discovers Shigure’s devious womanizing ways, she blackmails him to complete daring ’’ for her to write about. Will these missions give them an opportunity to fall in love with each other? PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman - Detective Comics Vol. 6: Fall of the Summary: has returned, resuming his work Batmen in Gotham City as well as his romance with Stephanie 9781401281458 Brown, the Spoiler. These two, along with Batwoman, Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 , Batwing, Azrael and Orphan, help Batman $19.99 reduce the threat of crime to the citizenry. 184 pages Trade Paperback But their success comes with a horrible price. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World The First Victim and his Victim Syndicate want one thing: to make Batman pay. They have turned the whole city against the Batmen in protest, abducted Clayface and threatened to release all of ’s most dangerous villains if Batman doesn’t unmask on live television.

Everything Red Robin has built to ensure a new future for the team could crumble if the Victim Syndicate triumphs…or if one member of the team makes a detrimental decision that could tear them apart.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 Summary: For Batman and Robin there are always 9781401278700 more evildoers to fight! Duty calls as the Dynamic Duo Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 defend Gotham City from iconic villains like The Joker, $99.99 the and Catwoman, as well as from a motley 800 pages assortment of crooks, thugs and gangsters of all Hardcover stripes! And when everyday crime-fighting just isn’t Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes enough, the Caped Crusaders’ adventures take them Territory: World back in time to Camelot and Sherwood Forest, and even into outer space! All of this, plus the origin of the ’s giant penny.

This expansive collection gathers together for the first time the groundbreaking classic Batman stories from the late 1940s, by legendary talents , , Dick Sprang, and more!

Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Volume Five collects all the Dark Knight Detective’s tales from Detective Comics #113-132, Batman #36-45 and World’s Finest Comics PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 25

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

LDK 11 Summary: Shusei is the most handsome and popular boy 9781632361646 at his high school—and he’s turned down almost every girl Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 there, including Aoi’s best friend. But when his apartment $10.99 catches , he has to move in with his neighbor: Aoi! What 176 pages will these unwilling roommates become to each other when Trade Paperback forced to share an LDK? Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance Territory: World Series Overview: Aoi’s best friend Moe is in love with their high school’s prince, Shusei Kugayama. But when Moe confesses her feelings, Shusei turns her down hard, and a furious Aoi takes him to task. So it’s quite a shock when Aoi finds out that the boy moving into the apartment next to hers is Shusei! Things go from awkward to intolerable when Aoi accidentally starts a kitchen fire in Shusei’s apartment, and is forced to let him move in while the gets cleaned up. Readers will love watching the funny and touching situations this unlikely couple experience as they slowly begin to warm to each other.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Gears of War: The Rise of Raam Summary: The best-selling video game series returns 9781684052387 to comics! Discover the origins of General RAAM and Pub Date: 6/26/18, On Sale Date: 6/26 how he became the most feared Locust on all Sera. $15.99 96 pages Includes free code for exclusive digital game content! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In FOR THE HORDE! Before he was a general leading the Territory: World assault against humanity on the surface, RAAM was an upstart commander tasked with waging an unwinnable war against the Lambent to protect the Locust homeland. With the enemy pushing inexorably forward, he knows the Horde must turn its attention to more vulnerable prey, and he’ll use every atrocity and deception at his disposal to bring Queen Myrrah around to his way of thinking.

A prequel to the original Gears of War, written by Kurtis J. Wiebe () with art by Dunbar (Dungeons & Dragons). See how it all began as the Queen’s deadliest servant steers the course of history to bring about PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Bombshells: United Vol. 1: American Soil Summary: The DC Bombshells unite in this collection 9781401280239 BOMBSHELLS UNITED VOL. 1, continuing the hit Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 franchise! $16.99 144 pages Author (DC BOMBSHELLS, BATWOMAN) Trade Paperback unites the women of DC BOMBSHELLS in an alternate Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes history tale with Wonder Woman on the front lines of battle. Territory: World The Bombshells are back in an all-new series! As our new tale begins, the year is 1943 during WWII, and Wonder Woman is called to Arizona for help by two young girls named Cassie Sandsmark and ! The girls’ friends and families are being displaced from their homes and forced into internment camps! To save them, can Wonder Woman fight against the same people she once fought alongside?

To make matters worse, Clayface has infiltrated the camp and is disguised as loved ones to throw Wonder Woman off. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 26

VERTIGO

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

Absolute Overture Summary: Neil Gaiman returns to his award-winning 9781401280475 creation after seventeen years away with his first new Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 series with renowned artist J.H. $125.00 Williams III, now collected in an Absolute Edition! 416 pages Hardcover Twenty-five years since THE SANDMAN first changed the Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series Territory: World is back in a massive slipcased hardcover! This Absolute edition will include the all six issues of the landmark VERTIGO series, the artist edition, over 40 pages of variant covers by artist Dave McKean, J.H. Williams and more, special behing-the-scenes features, an extensive sketchbook section from J.H. Williams, the complete for issue #1 and interviews with the creative team.

THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary J.H. Williams III (BATWOMAN, PROMETHEA), whose lush, PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Attack on Titan 25 Summary: The megahit that inspired the acclaimed 9781632366139 anime, now in its second season, continues! Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 $10.99 The final battle rages on between the Survey Corps and the 192 pages genocidal and Armored Titans. It’s a personal fight Trade Paperback that has driven old friends to kill each other, with the fate of Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Horror humanity and the truth behind the Titan threat in the Territory: World balance!

Story Locale: The post-apocalyptic future

Series Overview: Humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humanity. For the past century, what’s left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city. Now, a young boy consumed with rage displays a strange ability: The power to transform into a Titan! Is this the lucky break humanity needs to survive? PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

Moteki, 2 : Love Strikes! Summary: Is a moteki really a moteki if every possible 9781945054815 romance goes awry? Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 $20.95 Yukiyo reaches a point where he has to choose between 480 pages Itsuka and Aki. Nao and Yuma come to visit Yukiyo in Tokyo, Trade Paperback and they all run into Omu-, who makes a shocking Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance announcement. A distraction at work causes Yukiyo to Territory: World herniate his back, which uproots him from his life in Tokyo. While recuperating at home in the countryside, he finds that he has almost too much time to think about his current situation…

This volume includes 2 bonus chapters from Itsuka’s perspective and a possible moteki of her own…!

Story Locale: Tokyo and Nagasaki, Japan

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places Summary: Hellboy’s complete story is presented for 9781506706672 the first time in chronological order for the ultimate Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 reading experience. $24.99 416 pages This 416-page volume covers Hellboy’s adventures Trade Paperback from 1998 to 2005, reprinting Conqueror Worm, Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror Strange Places, Into the Silent Sea, and “The Right Territory: World Hand of Doom, ”Box Full of Evil,“ and ”Being Human" from The Right Hand of Doom and B.P.R.D. Being Human.

Hellboy loses faith in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense when they strap a bomb to one of his fellow not-quite-human agents. He gets answers about his destiny, like it or not, in over 300 pages of comics mostly drawn by Mignola, featuring award-winning guests Gary Gianni and .

The four volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Green Lanterns Vol. 6: A World of Our Own Summary: The two Earth bound Emerald Warriors, 9781401280666 Simon Baz and , return to Earth to pursue Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 personal growth when they are called upon to save a $16.99 doomed planet in GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 6: A WORLD 168 pages OF OUR OWN! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Being a member of an intergalactic police force and the Territory: World Justice League isn’t easy, but Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz face their most dire threats when they return to Earth and are forced to…get jobs?! That is, until Simon and Jess are assigned to evacuate a planet that is falling into its sun!

Writer Tim Seeley (NIGHTWING) jumps aboard the series to expand the saga of Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz in GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 6: A WORLD OF OUR OWN! Collects GREEN LANTERNS #33-39.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

The Seven Deadly Sins 27 Summary: The swashbuckling fantasy action manga 9781632366283 that inspired the Original Series anime! Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 $10.99 When they were accused of trying to the 192 pages monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were Trade Paperback sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy Sins were framed by the king’s guard, the Holy Knights - Territory: World too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the . But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn’t even have a real sword! Have the legends of the Sins’ strength been exaggerated…?

Series Overview: Welcome to the land of Britannia, a picturesque country ruled by the benevolent King Lyonnesse - or at least it was, until the king’s guard assassinated him and started a full-blown Holy War! Now the king’s only daughter Elizabeth must seek the aid of the dreaded PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 28

DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Super Sons of Tomorrow Summary: The crossover event between Superman, 9781401282394 the Super Sons and the is here! Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 $14.99 The Batman of Tomorrow travels to the present to prevent a 136 pages cataclysmic disaster before it happens, revealing that Trade Paperback Superboy will soon be responsible for the deaths of millions. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes But Superman will do anything to protect his son…and the Territory: World Batman of Tomorrow is unwavering in his resolve to take down the Boy of Steel. That’s if he can find them.

The Super Sons are on the run after discovering Superboy’s dark destiny, and the Batman of Tomorrow has recruited the Teen Titans to his cause. But the reunion gives way to the big question: Is the life of an innocent child worth more than the lives of millions? It’s the Teen Titans vs. the Super Sons in the battle you’ve been waiting for!

Written by Peter J. Tomasi with art from a crew of today’s best illustrators, including , Doug Mahnke PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Summary: Back in the days before the advent of Omnibus Vol. 2 organized fandom, the Legion of Super-Heroes was 9781401280550 something special, a comic book feature with an avid Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 and loyal following. What was slated to be a one-time $75.00 appearance in Superboy exploded into comics history, 680 pages leading to an ongoing series and a startling fan Hardcover phenomenon. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Territory: World By the mid-1960s, the ongoing adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes had reached near-cult status in the growing realm of comic book fandom, and some of the most memorable stories in the Legion chronicles were being told. Ferro Lad, Kid, Princess Projectra and Nemesis Kid were introduced to the Legionnaires’ roster alongside such classic villains as Emerald , Validus, the Conqueror and .

In this second omnibus volume of The Legion of Super- Heroes: The Silver Age, return to the 30th century, a time PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 19: Summary: Following the trial of , the Turtles Invasion of the Triceratons return to Earth, but, while they may be done with outer 9781684052691 space, outer space isn’t done with them! Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 $17.99 Abducted from their planet millennia ago, the Triceratons 128 pages are at last free to return home. They come in peace, but Trade Paperback how will the world react to a Triceraton “invasion” in the Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In heart of New York City? About how you would expect, Territory: US, Canada, Open Mkt especially when the Earth Protection Force gets involved. As the three-pronged attack begins in earnest, it’s up to the Turtles to stop the conflict before it escalates into all-out war!

Collects issues #76-80 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series from IDW, now the longest-running TMNT series ever.

Publication History: TR original

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Dark Nights: Metal: The Resistance Summary: The Nightmare Batmen have descended to 9781401282981 Earth from the events of DARK NIGHTS: METAL. Against Pub Date: 7/3/18, On Sale Date: 7/3 an army of Dark Knights, can members of the Justice $24.99 League, Teen Titans and Suicide Squad come together 128 pages to form a resistance to stop them? Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes The Justice League has scattered around the world to find Territory: World the only artifacts that can fight back against the invasion of the Dark Multiverse. The League thinks they know how to take back their world, but they are not prepared for who is standing in their way: the Seven Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse. All the brilliance of Batman, but combinedwith the powers of the Flash, , Cyborg and more…and none of the morals.

The shocking events of METAL have transformed Gotham City into a mosaic of fantastical realms full of monsters, magic and doom An SOS from Dick sends Robin back to Gotham to find a number of hometown heroes (and PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Aquaman Vol. 5: The Crown Comes Down Summary: A new era for Aquaman continues here, as 9781401280697 Arthur Curry attempts to reclaim his crown in Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 AQUAMAN VOL. 5! $14.99 128 pages Arthur joins forces with his new ally , his loyal Trade Paperback frenemy Vulko and the love of his life, , to rally the Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes underworld of and end the reign of the nefarious Territory: World King Rath! But even as Rath doubles his efforts to destroy “the Aquaman,” dangerous new enemies begin to emerge from unexpected places…some vying for the throne themselves!

The critically acclaimed creative team of Dan Abnett (Annihilation) and Stjepan Sejic (Sunstone, Death Vigil) continue remaking the mythology of Aquaman’s world in this new saga mixing science fiction, fantasy and superheroics. Collects issues #31-33 and Aquaman Annual: Crownspire #1.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Waiting for Spring 7 Summary: A sweet shojo story of a soft-spoken high 9781632366313 school freshman and her quest to make friends, Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 Waiting for Spring will delight fans of earnest, fun, and $10.99 dramatic shojo like and Say I Love You. 176 pages Trade Paperback Mizuki is a shy girl who’s about to enter high school, and Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance vows to open herself up to new friendships. Of course, the Territory: World four stars of ’ basketball team weren’t exactly the friends she had in mind! Yet, when they drop by the café where she works, the five quickly hit it off. Soon she’s been accidentally thrust into the spotlight, targeted by jealous girls. And will she expand her mission to include…love?

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman: Thrillkiller (New Edition) Summary: A new edition of the classic, fan favorite 90s 9781401280741 Elseworlds tale, BATMAN: THRILLKILLER, is back after Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 years out of print! $16.99 144 pages In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings Trade Paperback and put into strange times and places—some that have Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes existed or might have existed, and others that can’t, Territory: World couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. This is one of those stories. The year is 1961, a time of transition between the fifties—the decade of Ike, McCarthyism and Jack Kerouac—and the dawn of the Sexual Revolution, the Vietnam War and turning on, tuning in and dropping out.

Like the rest of the , Gotham City is filled with giddy optimism. And no one could guess at the dark days that lie ahead—especially her two masked and Robin!! For them, the joyride is about to end…and the last stop is Death!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Wonder Woman by Vol. 2 Summary: Comics legend John Byrne’s classic 9781401280727 WONDER WOMAN tales are collected in WONDER Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 WOMAN BY JOHN BYRNE. This time, it’s volume 2! $39.99 328 pages Mysterious beings have disastrous plans for Earth, drawing Hardcover Wonder Woman and Mike Schorr beneath the arctic ice to Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes combat them. Will Diana be able to escape in time to stop Territory: World these dangerous villains? Or will she perish and allow them to take over the Earth?

One of comics’ greatest writers and illustrators, John Byrne, went on a epic run with the Amazon Warrior in the ’80s and ’90s. These stories are now part of this new graphic novel series, WONDER WOMAN BY JOHN BYRNE VOL. 2. Collects WONDER WOMAN #115-124 and WONDER WOMAN ANNUAL#5-6.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Atomic Robo and the Spectre of Tomorrow Summary: Remember the old days when all you had to 9781684052349 worry about were mad scientist-dinosaurs or giant sea Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 with lasers? But not in 2017! $17.99 delves into the chaos that is modern America, where 144 pages everything is horrible all of the time! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction But that’s why Robo is setting up the new Tesladyne Territory: World Institute in the badlands of New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert, with Sir Richard Branson’s Spaceport on one side and Elon Musk’s Solar Farm on the other. With neighbors like these, who needs to uncover an insidious plot that threatens the lives of everyone in the world?

Series Overview: Book 12 of an ongoing series. The first nine have been collected by IDW in the books Atomic Robo: The Everything Explodes Collection, Atomic Robo: The Crystals Are Integral Collection, and Atomic Robo: The Hell and Lightning Collection.

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Supergirl Book Four Summary: ’s legendary run on the Girl of Steel 9781401273644 continues here in BOOK FOUR! Everything is Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 coming at Linda Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl! , the $29.99 newest hero in Leesburg, is being chased by someone 328 pages named Fracture, and in the meantime, as her civilian Trade Paperback identity, Supergirl speaks out against a bigot on her college Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes campus. All just typical problems in a day in the life of one Territory: World of the most powerful girls on planet Earth!

Written by the legendary Peter David, this new graphic novel series collects his breakthrough run on SUPERGIRL, including issues that have never before been reprinted. Collects issues #34-43.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Top Shelf Productions

Cloud Hotel Summary: A haunting, mind-bending new graphic 9781603094252 novel from LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 Hanshaw. $19.99 176 pages Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a Trade Paperback shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous Territory: World place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome…and it’s time to check out.

LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) returns with a new feast of visual imagination and emotional intensity that will haunt readers’ dreams long after the book is closed.

Publication History: TR original

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Grand Blue Dreaming 1 Summary: The hit comedy manga comes to print by 9781632366665 popular demand! Swimsuits! Ramen! Dumb jokes! Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 Beer! Uncomfortable nudity! $12.99 192 pages A boy heads off to college in a seaside town, and stumbles Trade Paperback into the Grand Blue Dive Shop - a place full of beautiful Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Sports female divers, noodle-obsessed jocks, and various other Territory: World lovable bastards. A tale of coming of age surrounded by beer, bums, and the Grand Blue!

Story Locale: Japanese seaside

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Attack on Titan Character Encyclopedia Summary: From the brave warriors of the Survey 9781632367099 Corps to the nameless villagers who end up as Titan Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 chow, this detailed guide contains more than 200 $10.99 entries on humans and others inside and outside the 176 pages Walls. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Horror Ever wondered about ’s birthday? Or wanted a Territory: World collection of Connie’s dumbest word-salad moments? Are you taller than humanity’s strongest soldier Captain Levi? All those answers are within the pages of this ’s dream guide, as well as a new interview with creator , all about the real-life inspiration for your favorite Attack on Titan characters. The book also includes the latest answers to the mysteries of the nine Titans in a brand-new section on the Titans with schematics and details.

Series Overview: Humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman: (New Edition) Summary: An evil from Superman’s past has returned. 9781401290238 The Man of Steel faces his greatest challenge as his Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 adoptive world crumbles down around him. $14.99 128 pages Finally, back in print after years of demand, Superman: Trade Paperback Brainiac is brought to you by and Gary Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes the award winning creative team of the hit Territory: World Doomsday !

Before arriving on Earth as an infant, the people of Superman’s home planet, Krypton experienced the horrors committed by Brainiac, a cold and callous alien being who is obsessed with acquiring all of the knowledge the universe has to offer be it by force or by surrender. Now Brainiac has set his sights on destroying Earth and finishing off the Last Son of Krypton once and for all. The Man of Steel has fought Brainiac many times before, but he’s utterly unprepared for his old foe this time. And if that weren’t enough, thousands of invader probes have been launched PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman: Secret Origin (New Edition) Summary: The critically acclaimed team of the smash 9781401290221 hit Doomsday Clock, writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 Frank redefine the origin of Superman for a new era! $19.99 224 pages Superman: Secret Origin kicks off as a young Trade Paperback awkwardly discovers his new abilities while growing up in Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes . Will he be able to accept his true origins as the Territory: World last son of a dead planet?

Witness a whole new look at the beginnings of Lex Luthor, The Legion of Super-Heroes, Lois Lane, , , The and more of your favorite characters from . It’s a look at the mythic past of the Man of Steel with an eye toward the future.

Collects Superman: Secret Origin #1-6.

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Kiss Him, Not Me 14 Summary: This comedy is a wacky and dramatic 9781632365576 rallying cry for fans of and addictive shojo! Now a Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 hit anime! $10.99 176 pages Kae is a secret fujoshi (female manga/anime ) who Trade Paperback spends all day fantasizing about her male classmates Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance making out with…each other. But when sudden, accidental Territory: World weight loss makes her popular overnight, the boys start going after her instead!

Series Overview: Kae is a hardcore fujoshi—the type of female manga fan who loves to read stories of handsome boys getting into initimate situations with each other and often “ships” together characters from her favorite titles. However, her fervent passion for manga and anime causes an accident that comes with surprising results. The once homely and overweight fangirl has become an overwhelmingly cute girl who now turns heads everywhere she goes. With her new looks, Kae has caught the attention PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Beanworld Omnibus Volume 1 Summary: The iconic inhabitants of Larry Marder’s 9781506707945 unique Beanworld universe are introduced in this Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 complete collection of Beanworld comic-book issues $24.99 #1-#21! 608 pages Trade Paperback Join Mr. Spook, Professor Garbanzo, Beanish, and many Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy others as they experience adventures in their world that Territory: World prove, whether friends or adversaries, they are all ultimately dependent on each other for survival. Marder’s deceptively simple artwork illustrates a self-contained ecological fantasy realm with its own unique rules, truths, and lingo. Beanworld has delighted readers from grade school to grad school for more than a generation, earning a spot on the New York Times Graphic Books Best Sellers List.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

John , Vol. 19: Red Summary: The long-running, critically acclaimed occult Right Hand series continues with : 9781401280802 HELLBLAZER VOL. 19: RED RIGHT HAND. Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 $24.99 The titular Hellblazer, Constantine is a working-class occult 328 pages detective and con man stationed in London. He is known for Trade Paperback his endless cynicism, deadpan snarking, ruthless cunning Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror and constant chain-smoking. Territory: World Constantine discovers he’s cursed with empathy for his fellow man as the multi-layered tale races forward. Seeking the origin of the Empathy curse, Constantine and Chris roll into in search of Steve Evans, a “massively powerful magician” who is waiting for Constantine. Meanwhile John finds out that there has been a connection between himself and Chris before they even met.

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman by Omnibus Vol. 1 Summary: The New York Times bestselling tales of 9781401282998 Batman by Grant Morrison are now collected in their Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 entirety in this oversize omnibus edition! $75.00 672 pages One of the greatest storytellers of his generation, Grant Hardcover Morrison’s arrival onto the Dark Knight was one of the most Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes hyped debuts in industry history. This collection includes Territory: World time-spanning epic graphic novels featuring the cataclysmic events of and the introduction of Batman’s son, ! These blockbuster stories featured a deconstruction of super hero comics like never before, with challenging, thought-provoking takes on the modern, four-color icons.

Collects BATMAN #655-658 and #663-683, stories from 52 #30 and#47 and DC Universe #0.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Justice League of America Vol. 4: Surgical Summary: The unlikeliest League ever continues their Strike adventures in Justice League of America Vol. 4: 9781401280581 Surgical Strike, as part of DC Rebirth! Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 $14.99 Batman leaves the team and the JLA is at each other’s 136 pages throats! As tries to affirm her role as team leader and Trade Paperback fill the vacuum, the villain Prometheus arrives in Happy Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Harbor to prove to the world that the Justice League must Territory: World be destroyed and lay waste to the heroes once and for all. And he’s brought a friend.

Steve Orlando (, Supergirl) and artist Andy MacDonald (Teen Titans: Earth One Vol. 2) bring together Batman, , the Ray, the , Vixen, and Lobo in what is one of the most offbeat and compelling lineups the Justice League of America has ever seen. Collects Justice League of America #18-21 and Annual #1.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Harley Quinn: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Summary: Volumes 3 and 4 of HARLEY QUINN Book 2 REBIRTH are collected here in hardcover for the first 9781401280659 time! Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 $34.99 Just how did a , “reformed” Joker come to arrive at 384 pages Harley’s doorstep when everyone believed him dead and Hardcover gone? The answer’s here—and it’ll shock you! Meanwhile, Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Harley goes up against New York’s corrupt mayor when she Territory: World learns about his plans for the city’s homeless population.

The genius creative team of and spearhead Harley’s return in the wake of DC Universe Rebirth, featuring art from Chad Hardin and John Timms. This new hardcover edition features a backup origin story set in Harley’s early days with The Joker, co-written by Harley Quinn’s creator, !

Collects HARLEY QUINN #14-27 and HARLEY 25th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 35

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PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Jetsons Summary: The newest addition to the reimagined 9781401280253 Hanna-Barbera line is here in ! Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 $16.99 Meet George Jetson, a family man living an analog life in a 168 pages digital world. His wife, Jane, is a brilliant NASA scientist Trade Paperback working off-world at a conference, his daughter Judy is a Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction social butterfly trying to discover her calling, and his boy Territory: World Elroy is either doing homework or using robotic technology to break the rules. Strangest of all, George’s mother has downloaded herself into Rosie the robot!

Following the critcally acclaimed book The Flintsones, comes the newest edition to the Hanna-Barbera line, reimagined by author Jimmy Palmiotti (Harley Quinn) and artist Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn, ). Join this postmodern family as doom rockets toward them from the outer reaches of the galaxy on a crash course of destruction!

Collects: The Jetsons #1-6 plus a story from Booster PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

ElfQuest: The Final Quest Volume 4 Summary: A tribe of elves navigates friendships and 9781506704920 dangerous enemies in a fantasy world of goblins, Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 dwarves, fairies and humans! $17.99 168 pages This is it—the startling conclusion to the most world- Trade Paperback changing chapter in all of ElfQuest: Final Quest! It is time Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy for the Palace of the High Ones to return the elves of the Territory: World World of Two Moons to their original Star Home, but not all have chosen to go. As human threaten the sacred Father Tree itself, in the heart of the Wolfriders’ home, freedom of choice comes with a terrible price.

Volume 4 collects issues #19-24 of The Final Quest, Wendy and Richard Pini’s newest and most mind-blowing adventures of the Wolfriders!

Series Overview: Collects ElfQuest: The Final Quest Issues #19-#24

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Usagi Yojimbo Volume 32 Summary: Intrigue abounds in this gripping volume as 9781506705842 the rabbit partners with Inspector Ishida to solve Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 a series of murders and mysteries. $17.99 200 pages Between deadly puffer fish, a run-in with a familiar pair of Trade Paperback thieves, and a large-scale corruption scheme, Usagi and Comics & Graphic Novels Ishida have their work cut out for them! Can Usagi and Territory: World Ishida help an innocent young girl out of trouble’s way, clear their friends’ names of guilt, and take down the Black Goblin Gang, once and for all—or will some justice elude the ronin and his shrewd investigative confidant?

Collects issues #159-165.

Series Overview: Collects Usagi Yojimbo issues #159-165.

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VERTICAL COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

Mobile Suit Gundam WING, 7 : Glory of the Summary: One of the biggest anime/manga properties Losers of all time returns with the release of Mobile Suit 9781947194076 Gundam Wing. A longtime hit of the , Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 Gundam Wing remains one of the most recognized $12.95 Japanese titles in recent history spinning off a number Trade Paperback of movie, books, and model kit collections. “The Glory Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Media Tie-In of Losers” retells the original WING story by Territory: World except AU/NZ incorporating elements of the anime and its recent adaptations.

As Quatre attempts to deal a crushing blow to all those who have taken up arms, the Wing Gundam Proto Zero, brimming with formidable power, attacks. Heero attempts to intercept the attack in the Mobile Suit Mercurius, becoming a for the colonies. Just as Quatre is about to squeeze the trigger of his twin rifle, Trowa plunges in between them, trying to prevent this tragic battle from going any further.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Summary: The cross-over you never saw coming: Deluxe Edition BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, now in a 9781401280710 deluxe edition, complete with scripts, variant covers Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 and other behind the scenes materials! Join the Bat and $39.99 some teenage turtles as they try to save their cities 256 pages from the baddest of the bad guys! Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes NEW YORK CITY. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles face the Territory: World battle of a lifetime, fighting both the fearsome and their leader, the Shredder, and the alien forces of General Krang…which is exactly Krang’s plan. Now a single dimensional can rid him of both of his greatest rivals at once.

GOTHAM CITY. From the Penguin to Killer Croc to Ra’s al Ghul and beyond, the caped crime-fighter called Batman already has his hands full protecting his city. Suddenly, a new enemy emerges—the Shredder and his ninja followers, transported to Gotham and unleashed upon an unsuspecting PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Empowered and the Soldier of Love Summary: Crimefighters and Ninjette 9781506707037 struggle with a superhero community fatally inflamed Pub Date: 7/10/18, On Sale Date: 7/10 by rampant romance, courtesy of the passion powers of $17.99 embittered “magical-girl” The Soldier of Love. If she 128 pages prevails, love is toast! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Collects Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1-3 plus Territory: World Warren’s “Pew! Pew! Pew!” Empowered one-shot.

Series Overview: Collects Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1-3 plus Adam Warren’s “Pew! Pew! Pew!” Empowered one-shot.

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Golosseum 2 Summary: The sci-fi wrestling political parody action 9781632366962 manga that rocked Japan finally comes to America! Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 Now with EVEN MORE suplexes per volume! $12.99 224 pages Scientists discover a new material that renders people Trade Paperback immune to all existing weapons. But these “peacemakers” Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science instead transform world war into a martial-arts free-for-all! Fiction President Putinov plots to control the global supply Territory: World and defeat the dissident Rasputin. Opposing them are the unstoppable Axe Bogan, a certain master in a jumpsuit from China, and a slew of other muscular heroes!

Story Locale: Earth, except with more piledrivers

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Jerome K. Jerome Bloche Vol. 2: The Paper Summary: The youthful private-eye-in-training People returns. This time he’s off to the French countryside, 9781684052431 eager to solve his first real case. Unfortunately, he’s Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 more Clouseau than Spade. $14.99 48 pages Jerome gets his first true case when he receives an Hardcover emergency summons from the Baron de Verville, who claims Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery his life is in danger. When Jerome arrives at the Baron’s Territory: World villa, however, his client is nowhere to be found, and the young detective is told to return home. As if that weren’t suspicious enough, his doubts grow when he meets the villa’s other occupants, which include the Baron’s two adult children, who don’t seem the least concerned about their father’s disappearance. The gothic architecture, secret passages, hidden closets, and suspicious characters are the perfect ingredients for murder. It’s like something out of a board game, and Jerome K. Jerome Bloche is right in the middle of it.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Ragman Summary: A hero is born in this visionary reimagining 9781401280871 of the mythos by writer Ray Fawkes and artist Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 Inaki Miranda! $16.99 144 pages After a failed mission to raid a tomb in the Israeli desert, Trade Paperback war veteran Rory Regan is plagued by the deaths of his Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes partners. As Rory battles his guilt back in Gotham City, he Territory: World discovers that what was in that tomb has followed him home, and it’s about to change his life. But as Rory begins his journey, an evil is invading Gotham City, and it wants what he’s discovered.

This new of the classic hero is presented here in RAGMAN, collecting issues #1-6.

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Justice League of America: The Silver Age Summary: A new title collecting the Justice League of Vol. 4 America’s adventures from the early 1960s. 9781401280611 Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 In these 1960s adventures, Aquaman, the Atom, Batman, $24.99 the Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman and 264 pages Wonder Woman meet the Justice Society of America from Trade Paperback the parallel world known as Earth-2 and battle classic DC Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes villains including the Key and Brainstorm. Territory: World Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #31-41.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Land of the Lustrous 6 Summary: An elegant new action manga for fans of 9781632366368 and the litany of comics and animation that Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 it inspired, Land of the Lustrous is set in a far future $12.99 Earth, where humanity’s distant descendants live on in 208 pages a small group of sexless crystalline beings who must Trade Paperback fight off an invasion from the Moon. Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy Territory: World The young gem Phosphorite can’t seem to do anything right. “Phos” has nothing but a big mouth and guts. Cinnabar, a classmate, is a loner, shunned by the other gems because of the toxins emitted from their body. But when they get together, they will learn that they both have an essential role to play in the fight against the Moonfolk, who are intent on coming to Earth to abduct the gem folk and destroy their world. A beautifully-drawn new action manga from Haruko Ichikawa, winner of the Cultural Prize.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Attack on Titan: Junior High 5 Summary: FINAL VOLUME! 9781632364104 Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 The school-aged hijinks of your favorite Attack on Titan $19.99 characters come to a sad but hilarious end in this 512 pages extra-long, 450-page volume! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Media Tie-In Story Locale: The post-apocalyptic future Territory: World Series Overview: A spin-off series to the number one bestseller in Japan. Eren and Mikasa enter a new school —Titan Junior High! However, Eren’s hated Titans for years—can he get along with his new (harmless?) classmates? Featuring all of the characters from the main series as you’ve never seen them before, this series is sure to delight fans of Attack on Titan!

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman Blue Vol. 1 Summary: The classic SUPERMAN RED/SUPERMAN 9781401280918 BLUE is finally collected into a graphic novel for the Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 very first time! $24.99 376 pages When the sun temporarily goes out, the classic Superman as Trade Paperback we know him temporarily loses his powers…but when they Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes return, they are not at all what the Man of Steel expects! Territory: World Clark Kent is suddenly transformed into a being of crackling blue energy, complete with a new set of abilities and a totally different look! But that’s not where the story ends…

The villainous Cyborg Superman and split the Man of Steel into two beings, Superman Red and Superman Blue! So who is the real Clark Kent? And will Metropolis now have two protectors?

Collected for the first time in graphic novel form, SUPERMAN RED/SUPERMAN BLUE brings back the one true Man of Steel! Collects SUPERMAN #122-125, ADVENTURES OF PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Manga

Lone Wolf and Cub Gallery Edition Summary: Kazuo Koike’s epic is a tour de 9781506707396 force of graphic fiction, and Lone Wolf and Cub Gallery Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 Edition features selections of the late Goseki Kojima’s $99.99 spectacular illustration reproduced at original size on 216 pages heavy-stock art paper to preserve the work in detail as Hardcover it exists today, as close as one can come to owning Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Historical these rarest of artworks. Including in its entirety the Fiction final titanic clash between Ogami Ittō and Yagyu Territory: World Retsudo. this deluxe volume is must for collectors and for enthusiasts of the finest comic art ever created.

Reproduced from high-resolution scans at original size from the original art created over forty years ago!

Accompanied by corresponding reproductions in English.

Lone Wolf & Cub is an internationally acclaimed classic of graphic fiction.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Summary: The 1970s adventures of the futuristic Vol. 2 teenage super-team, in which the legendary Legion of 9781401280857 Super-Heroes meets up with Superboy. Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 $49.99 When Clark Kent travels to the 30th century, he meets the 472 pages greatest peacekeeping force in the galaxy: the Legion of Hardcover Super-Heroes! In these classic tales written by , Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes the Legion battles foes including the and the Territory: World Resource Raiders, faces an invasion of Earth by the savage , and witnesses the return of the known as .

Collects issues #241-259 and DC COMICS PRESENTS #13-14.

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight 6 Summary: A sardonic rom-com manga, Kiss Me at the 9781632366245 Stroke of Midnight is perfect for fans of shojo like My Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 Little Monster and Kare . $12.99 176 pages Hinana prizes her reputation as a serious high school Trade Paperback student, too focused on getting into college to pay attention Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance to boys. But she’s a secret fairytale romance freak, sneaking Territory: World away from her studies to see A Roman Holiday and tucking pop idol magazines into her textbooks. When her celebrity crush comes to her school to film a TV episode, she has to pretend to be totally uninterested even as she desperately tries to get close to him. However, she’s not the only one who’s not what she appears…her dreamboat isn’t just a pretty face either!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty 5 Summary: This funny and heartrending romantic 9781632365910 manga set in modern Tokyo is not the fairy tale you Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 remember! This time, Prince Charming is a teenage $12.99 janitor, and this Sleeping Beauty’s curse is a 224 pages supernatural, gender-bending dream that threatens to Trade Paperback pull them both into a deeper and deeper slumber… Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Romance Territory: World Satoshi’s father has worked for the rich family in the house on the hill his entire life, so when the teenager needs a part-time job to put himself through school, looking after the mansion’s gardens is a natural fit. Satoshi’s ready to work hard, and he quickly endears himself to the staff. But there’s one ironclad rule even he must obey: Don’t go near the cottage behind the house. When he sees a beautiful, pale girl in one of the windows, Satoshi assumes she is being kept prisoner, and their secret meetings quickly turn romantic, but Satoshi has no idea just how terrible this Sleeping Beauty’s curse really is…

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman: Death & the Maidens (New Edition) Summary: A classic Batman adventure from 9781401280895 best-selling writer (LAZARUS) and artist Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 Janson (, THE DARK KNIGHT $19.99 RETURNS) is collected here in a new edition of 240 pages BATMAN: DEATH & THE MAIDENS. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes A miniseries that pits Batman against one of his greatest Territory: World foes: Ra’s al Ghul! After centuries, time has caught up with al Ghul, and only his greatest enemy can save him! Can these longtime enemies become allies? It’s the ultimate story of morality and mortality when a dying Ra’s al Ghul has no choice but to beg Batman for help to find a Lazarus Pit. In exchange, he offers the Dark Knight the chance of a lifetime: the ability to speak with his dead parents. But what Batman’s parents have to say to him will profoundly affect both the man and the hero.

From award-winning author Greg Rucka (BATWOMAN, WONDER WOMAN) and Klaus Janson (BATMAN: THE DARK PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 41

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PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Wonder Woman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Summary: The second two paperback volumes of New Book 2 York Times best-selling author Greg Rucka’s return to 9781401280932 WONDER WOMAN as a part of DC Universe Rebirth are Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 collected here in hardcover for the first time ever! $34.99 296 pages They say the truth will set you free. That’s what Princess Hardcover Diana—the hero known to the world as Wonder Woman— Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes believed. But she discovered a far darker truth, learning that Territory: World her entire life and history had been transformed…and it has driven her to madness. Even as her life unravels, sinister forces threaten all she holds dear. No matter how great the trauma, she must continue to fight against the evil and lies that have destroyed her life.

With the help of her closest allies—and her greatest enemy, the —Diana will put the pieces of her broken mind back together and do battle against her fearsome new foes. Will she defy the will of the gods, save her Amazon sisters and solve the mystery of her own existence once and for PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Blue Vol. 3: Road to Nowhere Summary: , a.k.a. the new , is 9781401280833 here in his new series as a part of DC Rebirth, now Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 continuing in BLUE BEETLE VOL. 3: ROAD TO $16.99 NOWHERE! 144 pages Trade Paperback Just a regular high school student from El Paso, Texas, Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Jaime gained the power of the . With the Scarab he Territory: World has great power to become the Blue Beetle, and uses that power to protect the innocent. Between homework and battling bad guys, it’s hard for Jaime to catch a break.

Blue Beetle finds himself away from home and up against the mysterious Short-Timers, time-traveling bandits who may have a more sinister purpose in mind than just robbery, one that could affect all of reality. As if Jaime doesn’t have his hands full enough, he’s got to try and do battle while keeping his superhero identity secret from his new girlfriend, Naomi.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Orion by Book One Summary: Walt Simonson’s stunning, unmistakable art and 9781401274870 storytelling are on full display here in his groundbreaking Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 work . Expanding the beloved universe originally $29.99 created by , Simonson’s sprawling storylines and Trade Paperback dynamic artwork elevate his titular hero, as well as the rest Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes of the Fourth World’s indispensible characters, to incredible Territory: World new heights.

Collected here for the first time are all twenty-five issues of Walter Simonson’s ORION, as well as never-before reprinted short stories, pinups and sketch material.

Collects ORION #1-25, SHOWCASE ’94 #1, DCU HOLIDAY BASH #1, JACK KIRBY’S FOURTH WORLD #9-11, 13, SECRET FILES AND ORIGINS #1, SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-VILLAINS 80-PAGE GIANT #1, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE 80-PAGE GIANT #2, TALES OF THE NEW GODS, COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #24, NEW GODS #12-15, MISTER MIRACLE #6, JACK KIRBY’S FOURTH PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 42

IDW PUBLISHING

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Eight Million Ways to Die (Graphic Novel) Summary: In crime-ravaged 1980s New York, a 9781613778845 troubled ex-cop turned unlicensed detective takes on Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 his most dangerous case, hunting down a serial killer- $24.99 , and ultimately coming face-to-face with his 144 pages deadliest enemy, himself, in this graphic novel Hardcover adaptation of the book by Lawrence Block. Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery Territory: World Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder’s help, but suddenly she wasn’t dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker’s past are dirtier than her living, and searching for a killer in a city where everyone’s a victim is a good way to make the role permanent.

Steeped in traditional pulp, Block’s writing has a true gift for PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical Comics

My Boy, 2 Summary: An award-winner and top-seller in Japan, 9781945054884 this provocative new manga handles its controversial Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 subject with insight and sensitivity. $12.95 160 pages Satoko considers the time she spends with Mashuu to be Trade Paperback special. One day she gets a glimpse into his warped home Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga life, and she wonders what she can possibly do for him. Territory: World Even as her ex boyfriend/current boss calls her behavior strange, she becomes even more determined to help Mashuu…

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Ghostbusters: Answer The Call Summary: The brilliant ladies of the 2016 film—Abby, 9781684052394 Erin, Holtz, and Patty—are back, now in their own Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 series and ready to kick butt! $17.99 120 pages On a routine house call to dispose of a simple Class III Trade Paperback spook, the team encounters a truly terrifying Class VII that Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In appears to be feeding on terror. Able to conjure illusions to Territory: World prey on their greatest fears, it can divide and conquer, and with designs on turning the world into its own nightmare dimension, our ladies may have finally met their !

Publication History: TR original

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VERTIGO

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

Ex Machina: The Complete Series Omnibus Summary: The complete collection of the 9781401280680 groundbreaking series is collected for the Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 first time in this DC special hardcover omnibus edition. $150.00 1440 pages Award-winning author Brian K. Vaughan uniquely combines Hardcover big-city politics and superheroes in this criticially acclaimed Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction series. Set in our modern-day world, EX MACHINA tells the Territory: World story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, who becomes America’s first living, breathing superhero after a strange accident gives him the power to communicate with machines.

Written by Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, Y: THE LAST MAN), illustrated by Tony Harris, Tom Feister, Jim Clark, and John Paul Leon. Starting with issue #1 up to the shocking last storyline in series final issue#50 which reveals a terrifying plan that’s been in the works since the very first issue. EX MACHINA: THE COMPLETE SERIES OMNIBUS collects the complete sereis plus extras including PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Conan Omnibus Volume 5 Summary: Showcasing the spectacular art of Becky 9781506708102 Cloonan, James Harren, and and Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 including the conclusion of the penned $24.99 “Road of Kings,” the value-priced Conan Omnibus 5: 432 pages Piracy and Passion features over 400 story pages of Trade Paperback high adventure, dark sorcery, and fiery romance by Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy comics’ most talented creators. Territory: World Featuring ’s acclaimed adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s classic “Queen of the Black Coast,” Conan Omnibus 5 features more of the award-winning Dark Horse Conan series. Unbowed in battle and unmatched with the sword, is instead felled by the allure of the pirate queen, Bêlit. The two join forces—and souls—and begin a new life of plunder and passion on the high seas…but dark clouds loom on the horizon!

Series Overview: Conan Vol. 12: Throne of Aquilonia (Conan: Road of Kings #7-12 #14, #16-21), Conan Vol. 13: PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

A Strange and Beautiful Sound Summary: Where is life’s value? In the noise and , 9781684051625 or in the silence and contemplation? In the struggles or Pub Date: 7/17/18, On Sale Date: 7/17 in the peace? $19.99 88 pages William chose silence 25 years ago when he joined the Hardcover Carthusian religious order. But when an inheritance requires Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary his presence in Paris he returns to a new world, full of Territory: World questions he stopped asking long ago. There, a chance meeting with a determined woman and her unique beliefs force William to contemplate the inner peace he so resolutely seeks. Presenting the second English language release from international illustration sensation ZEP.

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IDW PUBLISHING

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Diablo House Summary: What do you want? I mean, REALLY want? 9781684051205 Money? Sex? Power? All yours—for a price—in this Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 anthology that recalls the classic of the $17.99 past. 128 pages Trade Paperback In one of the most beautiful, most wealthy zip codes in the Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror country lies the sleepy, sun-drenched coastal town of La Territory: World Jolla, California, and among all of this beauty stands Diablo House. It’ll make your dreams come true, if you dare. Surf-bum and host, Riley, invites us into his home and shares stories of the people who let their desires come at the cost of all else.

Story Locale: La Jolla, CA

Publication History: TR original

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batgirl and the Vol. 3: Full Circle Summary: Sibling co-writers Julie and Shawna Benson 9781401277819 (writers for the CW’s The 100) continue their acclaimed Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 run on the femme fatale crime-fighting trio in this $19.99 extraordinary conclusion to the series in BATGIRL & 216 pages THE BIRDS OF PREY VOL. 3: FULL CIRCLE! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Oracle’s past entanglements with Gotham City’s underworld Territory: World have gotten the Birds in deep trouble as , Catwoman and all pull the team into their own dark agendas! Even if they can get themselves out of this mess, the question remains: Does Oracle really belong with the Birds of Prey, or is he a criminal at heart?

Collects BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #14-22 from the writing duo of sisters Julie and Shawna Benson, and breakout artist Claire Roe!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Wild Storm: Michael Cray Vol. 1 Summary: Spinning off of ’ critically 9781401281052 acclaimed THE WILD STORM comes a reimagining of Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 assassin in THE WILD STORM: $16.99 MICHAEL CRAY VOL. 1! 160 pages Trade Paperback Michael Cray, professional assassin, has been betrayed by Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes International Operations and has an alien life-form in his Territory: World head that’s either killing him, transforming him or both. The only thing that can bring sense to his life is for him to do what he does best: kill the wrong people for the right reasons. But Michael needs support and resources to hit back against I.O., and he gets them in exchange for working with Trelane, taking out her targets, his way. First up? A sociopathic Silicon Valley billionaire by the name of Oliver Queen!

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VERTICAL

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertical

Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 12 Summary: Cardfight!! Vanguard is the latest from the 9781947194083 creator of the best-selling comic and trading card game Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 Yu-Gi-Oh! Vanguard skews toward teens, both male $10.95 and female, and should be a pillar for manga sections Trade Paperback as well as comic book stores and board game stores Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Media Tie-In worldwide. The trading card game already has monthly Territory: World except AU/NZ tournaments across the US, Singapore and Southern Europe with more than a hundred-thousand active players.

The Weak Are Meat and the Strong Do Eat

It will seem like they’ve forgotten something. But even though they’ll remember forgetting, they won’t be able to remember what they’ve forgotten. They’ll feel like they’re close to remembering when they’re fighting, but there was a fight that they’ll never remember.

Witness the final showdown that determines the very laws PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Flash by Geoff Johns Book Five Summary: In this fifth volume of his best-selling take 9781401281076 on THE FLASH, critically acclaimed writer and Chief Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 Creative Officer of DC Entertainment Geoff Johns takes $24.99 the Fastest Man Alive on the most thrilling run of his 336 pages life! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes The adventures of , better known as THE FLASH Territory: World and the Fastest Man Alive, written by #1 New York Times best-selling author Geoff Johns. The brewing contest between the original rogues gallery and the newest rogues has finally ignited into a war that may result in the destruction of Keystone City and the death of the Scarlet . The rogues-turned-heroes get their minds readjusted, thanks to the revived villain Top, and when both Zoom and his inspiration, The Reverse-Flash, turn up, things look bleak for the Flash, Jay Garrick and !

Collects THE FLASH #214-225.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Abe Sapien: The Drowning and Other Stories Summary: Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander’s 9781506704883 premiere Abe series sets the stage for a collection Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 of tales tracing Abe’s times both as an agent of the $34.99 BPRD, and delving into his long-hidden origins. A 448 pages haunted lake, South American vampires, and a mad Hardcover scientist seeking out man’s missing link are chronicled Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror here! Territory: World This deluxe hardcover edition collects Abe Sapien: The Drowning, The Devil Does Not Jest, and Lost Lives and Other Stories

In the early 1980’s, new BPRD agent Abe Sapien was set to retrieve the corpse of a powerful off the coast of France. Abe quickly finds himself in a battle with a century old evil in the form of demonic monks.

Series Overview: Collects Abe Sapien Vol. 1, 2, and 9

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VERTIGO

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

The Invisibles Book Three Summary: The third volume of the controversial and 9781401281021 beloved series THE INVISIBLES by Eisner Award Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 winning writer Grant Morrison (ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, $24.99 BATMAN). 336 pages Trade Paperback One of Grant Morrison’s most controversial, trippiest and Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction abstract comic books ever is back in a recut paperback Territory: World series! In a world where paranoia is a survival skill, the only hope for humankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters called the Invisibles. In this collection, the team launches an assault on an underground New Mexico lab to free the cure for the AIDS virus from the alleged inventors of the disease: the U.S. government.

Collects THE INVISIBLES VOL. 2 #1-13.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Titans: The Lazarus Contract Summary: They are the greatest young heroes this 9781401280970 world—or any world—has ever known. They are the Titans. Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 And now, from the between the worlds, one of their $16.99 most legendary members has emerged. 136 pages Trade Paperback Wally West, a.k.a. Kid Flash, has returned. Powered by the Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Speed Force, he’s brought the secrets of time and space Territory: World following in his wake.

And with those secrets comes a prize that Deathstroke, the most lethal foe the Titans have ever faced, would do anything to claim: the rebirth of his long-dead son.

Now Titans from every team—past, present or future—must unite to stop the killer called Slade from claiming his sinister prize. Can the Titans and the Teen Titans work together to stop this evil? Or will the two teams turn on each other, leaving Deathstroke to seize control?

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman & Robin Adventures Vol. 3 Summary: The multiple-Emmy-award-winning classic 9781401281380 Batman: The Animated Series influenced a generation Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 of Batman stories. Now experience the comics $24.99 featuring your favorite characters from the show! 240 pages Trade Paperback Gotham’s dynamic duo is here to save the city in this Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes spin-off series from the hugely popular Batman: The Territory: World Animated Series. Batman and Robin must face some of Gotham’s most iconic foes in this rollercoaster adventure to save Gotham and Comissoner Gordon.

The Riddler has kidnapped Commissioner Gordon. Can Batman solve the battery of clues in time to save his life? And is Batgirl’s involvement a help or a hindrance? To make matters worse, Poison Ivy once again escapes from Arkham and stumbles upon a young boy with the uncanny ability to poison someone to death instantly. Unfortunately, the boy worships Ivy and will do anything she asks—and what she has in mind is a plan that may ensure the end of Batman. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 47

IDW PUBLISHING

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The Beauty of Horror 3: Haunted Playgrounds Summary: Ghouliana Is Back And Even Creepier Than Coloring Book Before! The best-selling coloring book series continues. 9781684053087 Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 Just when you thought it was safe to pack your colors away, $16.99 Ghouliana returns with her most mysterious journey to date! 88 pages Search high and low for all of Ghouliana’s missing monster Trade Paperback pieces in order to bring her creation back to life! Keep your Games & Activities / Coloring Books eyes peeled for things that go bump in the night, because Territory: World you’ll never know what’s lurking behind the next corner. But, be warned! This hunt isn’t for the faint of heart. Sink your fangs into over 80 pages of intricate, hand-drawn, spooktacular designs presented in a high-quality, deluxe coloring format. Find out why Alternative Press hails The Beauty of Horror as “the twisted coloring book you’ve been waiting for!”

Publication History: TR original

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018

Betty & Veronica: Vixens Vol. 1 Summary: The toughest gang in Riverdale is one you’d 9781682558997 least expect: the Vixens, led by Riverdale High’s own Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 ! $14.99 136 pages Rising stars Jamie L. Rotante and artist Eva Cabrera (Black Trade Paperback Mask’s Kim & Kim) assemble The Vixens: a squad brought Comics & Graphic Novels / Contemporary Women together to take out the dangerous Southside Serpents Territory: World gang! These aren’t “Archie’s Girls”—they’re starting a revolution in Riverdale.

Publication History: Trade Paperback Original

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Usagi Yojimbo Volume 32 Limited Edition Summary: Numbered hardcover signed by 9781506705859 himself, Stan Sakai! Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 $59.99 Intrigue abounds in this gripping volume as the rabbit 200 pages ronin partners with Inspector Ishida to solve a series Hardcover of murders and mysteries. Comics & Graphic Novels Territory: World Between deadly puffer fish, a run-in with a familiar pair of thieves, and a large-scale corruption scheme, Usagi and Ishida have their work cut out for them! Can Usagi and Ishida help an innocent young girl out of trouble’s way, clear their friends’ names of guilt, and take down the Black Goblin Gang, once and for all—or will some justice elude the ronin and his shrewd investigative confidant?

Collects Usagi Yojimbo issues #159-165.

Series Overview: Collects Usagi Yojimbo issues #159-165.

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IDW PUBLISHING

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All Summary: The medium is the message! Comics come 9781684052554 in many forms, from all around the world. What better Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 way to discover them than through a comic book? $15.99 104 pages The bestselling, mind-blowing graphic history of our favorite Trade Paperback medium continues—now focusing on specific regions of the Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction world and their contributions to the comic book art form. Territory: World The Graphic Novel! From its Swiss roots in 1835 to today’s American bestseller lists, with crucial spin-offs in France and Belgium.

The British Invasion! 2000 AD had a big impact in 1986, as creators from across the pond elevated storytelling to new heights, but the British tradition stretches back much further.

Manga! Japanese artists also have a long history of graphic storytelling, but ninjas, , and magical girls have taken PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 Summary: DC collects the earliest stories of the 9781401281045 modern Flash from the 1960s for the first time in Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 hardcover format. $99.99 800 pages Well and truly established in Central City, the Flash patrols Hardcover the streets at speeds faster than the human eye can see. Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes He protects the citizens from the super-villains Abra Territory: World Kadabra, , Mirror Master, the , , , , Captain , the Shade and the Breakaway Bandit. Also included in this collection: the of the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, and the first appearance of Kid Flash’s unique costume.

In this collection, Professor Zoom changes places and identities with the Flash on the of Barry Allen’s wedding to . Just when the Flash thinks eveything is back to normal, he sprains his ankle badly during a rescue attempt and is placed on crutches, after which he encounters PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Suicide Squad Vol. 6: The Secret History of Summary: The next storyline of SUICIDE SQUAD Task Force X begins when Amanda Waller receives a mysterious 9781401280987 communique confirming her worst fears: someone Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 knows all her secrets. $16.99 144 pages Task Force X. . . Everything. And Trade Paperback the message came from…outer space?! Determined to Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes identify and neutralize this unprecedented threat, Harley Territory: World Quinn and the Suicide Squad boldly go where no sociopath has gone before!

From writer and a talented group of comics’ top illustrators, SUICIDE SQUAD VOL. 6 is another wild ride through the DC Universe!

Collects #27-32.

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KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 16 Summary: The sexy, magical school comedy that 9781632365835 became the hit anime continues! Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 $10.99 Class troublemaker Ryu Yamada is already having a bad day 192 pages when he stumbles down a staircase along with star student Trade Paperback Urara Shiraishi. When he wakes up, he realizes they have Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy switched bodies—and that Ryu has the power to trade Territory: World places with anyone with only a kiss! Plus, it turns out he’s not the only kid at school with a few magic tricks up his sleeve…

Series Overview: What if you could switch bodies with a kiss?! From the creator of “Flunk Punk Rumble,” Miki Yoshikawa brings you a fresh new take on school romantic comedy. Suzaku High School student and problem kid, Ryu Yamada, is in a bad mood after being chewed out again by the teacher today. As if his day couldn’t get any worse, he falls down the top of the stairs with honor student, Urara Shiraishi…When he comes to, he’s switched bodies with her! PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The Silence of Malka Summary: A sweeping and poignant story of Ashkenazi 9781684052875 Jews fleeing the Russian pogroms at the end of the Pub Date: 7/24/18, On Sale Date: 7/24 19th Century, as well as a parable of the making of a $24.99 modern society and the extent to which religion and 112 pages mysticism meet. Inspired by a story told to the author Hardcover by his grandmother. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Territory: World For the family of the little red-headed Malka, trading the Russian shtetl for the Argentine pampas isn’t so easy. Even in a country eager to populate its vast territories, the immigrants discover that their new home isn’t the promised land. They encounter hostility from both man and nature, as they struggle through droughts and locusts in an attempt to cultivate the arid soil. When misery pushes them to the extreme, Malka’s uncle is visited by the prophet Elias, who advises that he create a Golem—the mythical creature fashioned from earth and endowed with life by engraving on his body the word Emet (“Truth”)—to pose as a man and aid the immigrants. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

UQ HOLDER! 14 Summary: The hit shonen adventure continues, with a 9781632366290 major anime series coming soon, into the far future, Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 beyond the finale of Negima! $10.99 176 pages Tōta, a boy with a magical and mysterious pedigree, joins a Trade Paperback team of immortals to fulfill his dream and reach the top of Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy the great orbital tower, extending from Neo-Tokyo into the Territory: World unknown reaches of space! But soon he finds himself embroiled in a power struggle that spans generations and will determine the fate of a planet.

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek Summary: The original Eisner winning series published 9781506709031 by Burlyman Entertainment in all its bloody glory. Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 $24.99 It’s fat, it’s fast, it’s furious!!! 200 pages Hardcover The Shaolin Cowboy walks the action-packed path of three Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy enemies: Territory: World Those from the past, who still pursue him, those from the future who are waiting for him, and those from the present who find killing him isn’t going to be as easy as he looks.

Collects Shaolin Cowboy: The Burlyman Series #1-#7

Series Overview: Shaolin Cowboy: The Burlyman Series #1-#7

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Dork Summary: From the multi-Eisner award-winning 9781506707228 creator of Milk and Cheese and Beasts of Burden comes Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 this collection of his cult, humor comic anthology. $19.99 272 pages Comprising years of black humor stories about a living Hardcover doll, a serial killer sitcom, truly real live sex, a disco Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons skinhead, an urbane devil puppet, classic works of literature Territory: World acted out by Fisher-Price toys, and more absurdity—this is a must have for Dorkin fans!

Featuring most of the Dork comic run as well as the 2012 full-color House of Fun special, along with rarities, extras, a cover gallery, and a newly drawn introduction.

Series Overview: Contains the entire Dork run as well as the 2012 full-color House of Fun special, along with rarities, extras, a cover gallery and a newly drawn introduction.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Vertigo

Absolute Authority Vol. 2 (New Edition) Summary: Now back in print after several years is the 9781401281151 Absolute Edition of Warren Ellis’ critically acclaimed, Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 groundbreaking series, THE AUTHORITY! $75.00 504 pages DC Comics proudly presents a massive slipcased hardcover Hardcover featuring writer and co-creator Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Hitch’s now-classic stories of THE AUTHORITY. This volume Territory: World includes classic WildStorm imprint characters , Midnighter, Grifter, Deathblow, , Jack Hawksmoor and more, with the first appearance of the Americans and the G7 Authority!

The Authority travel to space! After they obtain the Carrier (a ship capable of moving through the Bleed, the red space which separates alternate universes in the Wildstorm/DC ), but before they can settle in comfortably, a new threat arises. Having tired of the Authority for interfering with Earth’s affairs, as well as for reasons of self-interest, the G7 nations (the United States of America, Canada, PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 51

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Attack on Titan Season 2 Manga Box Set Summary: Terrifying revelations, desperate struggles, 9781632367013 and broken friendships relentlessly buffet the Survey Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 Corps soldiers as the Attack on Titan manga enters a $43.96 new chapter, corresponding to the second season of 768 pages the anime! Box set includes Vols. 9-12, plus an Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Horror EXCLUSIVE colossal reversible poster! Territory: World Eren is still resting from his brutal fight with the female Titan, when word reaches the interior that the impossible has happened: Wall Rose itself has been breached, and Titans are pouring through the gap! The emergency casts new urgency over Armin and Hange’s questions about how the Walls were built, and what humanity can do to restore them…

Story Locale: The post-apocalyptic future

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Library of American Comics

For Better or For Worse: The Complete Summary: Since their debut in 1979, the world has Library, Vol. 2 watched the Pattersons grow up in real time—and to 9781684052561 many readers, they feel like family. This new series is Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 the definitive edition, collecting each decade of the $39.99 strip in three volumes. 564 pages Hardcover The cast expands and roles that will play a big part down Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons the road are just starting to bud. New adventures await Territory: World Elizabeth as she enters kindergarten and has to spend some time in the hospital. Michael has to deal with a bully at school and takes a flight to Vancouver—all by himself! John has an unfortunate accident and is arrested for breaking and entering! And Elly finds a worthwhile cause in heading up a campaign to save the historic city hall which has been scheduled for demolition. Plus, Uncle Phil begins a new relationship and the Enjo family moves next door. Lynn Johnston’s signature style becomes more defined and her storylines more complex as we carry on through the eighties. Volume Two collects the complete daily and Sunday PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Joe Jusko's Marvel Masterpieces Summary: The complete Marvel Masterpieces painted 9781684053186 trading-card art from the rare 2016 Upper Deck set is Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 collected for the first time, featuring Marvel’s most $59.99 famous heroes and villains, beautifully illustrated by 336 pages the incomparable Joe Jusko! Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes Joe Jusko’s paintings for the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces Territory: World trading card collection are credited with launching the ’90s trading card boom. In 2016, Upper Deck returned the Masterpieces series to its roots with an all-new set of Jusko cards.

The full set of paintings is collected here, all 132 from the set, including the hard-to-find premium cards. Each piece of art is presented at actual size and has been scanned by the artist to ensure the highest quality reproduction. Each card is accompanied by its preliminary sketch, as well as commentary from the artist himself. Art fans not only get the full magnitude of Joe’s talent, in great detail, but insight PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 52

KODANSHA COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Clockwork Planet 8 Summary: The science fiction mystery that’s now a 9781632366207 major anime, from the creator of No Game, No Life! Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 $12.99 Naoto’s a high school dropout and brilliant amateur . 208 pages He lives in a world that has been so over-exploited that the Trade Paperback entire surface has become one vast machine. When a box Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science crashes into his home containing a female automaton, it’s a Fiction of change that will rock the entire globe, and give Territory: World Naoto his chance to be a hero.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Dept. H Volume 4: Lifeboat Summary: Contains the exciting series conclusion! 9781616559922 Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 The remaining survivors of Dept. H abandon the deep-sea $19.99 base and prepare for their long-awaited ascent. But life 168 pages above the waterline remains uncertain for the team, and the Hardcover pressure to solve Hari’s murder continues to strengthen its Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery grip on Mia. Secrets and memories begin to surface, but Territory: World before Mia can unpack the mystery, she must decide the fate of those still stuck six miles below sea level. As the water rises, Mia’s time runs out in this last volume of the aquatic sci-fi mystery from New York Times bestselling creator .

Series Overview: Collects Dept. H issues #19-#24

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Batman Vol. 6: Bride or Summary: The sixth volume of this critically acclaimed, 9781401280277 best-selling series is here in BATMAN VOL. 6: BRIDE OR Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 BURGLAR! Author Tom King and artist Mikel Janín $16.99 continue to take Batman to places he’s never 168 pages seen…and doesn’t want to revisit. Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes A young admirer of Bruce Wayne’s, Mattie, wants nothing Territory: World more than to grow up to be like his millionaire idol. But what would happen if Mattie was forced to relive the worst tragedy of Bruce Wayne’s life and his parents were murdered? Batman’s hunt for the killer brings him face to face with a strange mirror image of his own painful past.

This stunning series continues as Batman and Wonder Woman’s storied friendship—one that has stood at the heart of the DC Universe since the beginning—unravels while the universe itself begins to crumble around them.

The superstar creative team of Tom King (GRAYSON, The PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 53

DARK HORSE BOOKS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Brooklyn Blood Summary: In Brooklyn, a serial killer is on the 9781506706306 loose—and when strange clues lead down a paranormal Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 path, a detective confronts his inner demons to solve $17.99 the case. 136 pages Trade Paperback After returning from a tour in , detective Billy Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery O’Connor returns home to a Brooklyn he doesn’t recognize. Territory: World As he tries to return to his normal routines, his PTSD is easily triggered and he suffers severe hallucinations. Once he begins to work a gruesome homicide case, however, O’Connor has difficulty sorting out what’s real—and after he uncovers some strange clues, he’ll have to face the unthinkable to bring the killer to justice.

From New York Times Bestselling authors Paul Levitz (75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth-Making) and Tim Hamilton (Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation), this volume collects all sixteen chapters originally serialized in Dark Horse Presents Volume PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Superman For All Seasons (New Edition) Summary: From the creative team of and 9781401281090 Tim Sale, the New York Times best-selling team behind Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, comes their take on $19.99 the early days of the Man of Steel. 224 pages Trade Paperback In this coming-of-age tale, witness the experiences and Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes adventures that transform a simple country boy into the Territory: World world’s greatest hero. Told through the course of four seasons in the Man of Steel’s adolescent life, it illustrates that it is the person, not the powers, that makes Superman a hero.

The catalyst for the Smallville television program, SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS is emotional and insightful, humanizing the alien from another planet so that he is not only realistic but also relatable. It also features in-depth characterizations of , Lex Luthor, Lois Lane and the Kents.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt Summary: The basis for the upcoming feature film 9781506706689 Hellboy: The Rise of the Blood Queen! Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 $24.99 Terrible powers determined to kill Hellboy force him strike a 528 pages deal with the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, and to confront Trade Paperback the truth about his destiny. The human race hangs in the Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In balance, as well as King Arthur’s sword , in a story Territory: World that wipes England off the map and sets in motion the end of the world…

Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo’s complete trilogy is collected for the first time in this 512-page volume, reprinting Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and the Fury, and the short story “The Mole.”

The four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two volumes of The Complete Short Stories collect all of Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 - June 2018 Page 54

NO STARCH PRESS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 No Starch Press

The Manga Guide to Cryptography Summary: Cryptography is hard, but it’s less hard when 9781593277420 it’s filled with adorable Japanese manga. The latest addition Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 to the Manga Guide series, The Manga Guide to $24.95 Cryptography, turns the art of encryption and decryption 248 pages into plain, comic illustrated English. Trade Paperback Computers / Security / Cryptography As you follow Inspector Jun Meguro in his quest to bring a Territory: World cipher-wielding thief to justice, you’ll learn how cryptographic ciphers work. (Ciphers are the algorithms at the heart of cryptography.) Like all books in the Manga Guide series, The Manga Guide to Cryptography is illustrated throughout with memorable Japanese manga as it dives deep into advanced cryptography topics, such as classic substitution, polyalphabetic, and transposition ciphers; symmetric-key algorithms like block and DES (Data Encryption Standard) ciphers; and how to use public key encryption technology. It also explores practical applications of encryption such as digital signatures, password security, and identity fraud countermeasures. PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Kodansha Comics

Ninja Slayer Kills 5 Summary: The manga and anime, from Studio Trigger, 9781632365620 creators of , that blew minds and slayed Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 ninjas! $10.99 256 pages In the cyberpunk metropolis of Neo Saitama, Kenji Fujikido Trade Paperback is an average salaryman whose wife and children are Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science suddenly assassinated. Tracking the murder back to a ninja, Fiction Fujikido trains to seek vengeance: initially on those who Territory: World murdered his family, but ultimately on every ninja on the planet.

Series Overview: More than a thousand years ago, ninjas belonging to the Soukai Syndicate committed a forbidden form of hara-kiri, and stored their souls in the ancient Kinkaku Temple. Now, in the dystopia metropolis of Neo-Saitama, these sinister souls have been resurrected, and wreak havoc across Japan. Average salaryman Kenji Fukijido’s wife and children are killed in ninja crossfire. After a near brush with his own death, Kenji becomes the Ninja PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

The Little Book of Knowledge: New Summary: In the late 1960s a new generation of Hollywood filmmakers took Hollywood by storm. Visionaries like 9781684050680 Scorsese, Coppola, Altman, Peckinpah, Romero, and Cimino Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 led cinema in a new direction, capturing the spirit of $14.99 counterculturalism and the frustration created by the 84 pages Vietnam War. Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction Perfect for film enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone who Territory: World has an interest in the “American New Wave” era of independent filmmaking.

The Little Book of Knowledge series has everything you could want to know about your favorite subjects, all wrapped in a convenient and attractive hardcover graphic novel. Written by experts in the field and drawn by fans who know the material, each Little Book is perfect for the established enthusiast and burgeoning amateur alike.

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DARK HORSE MANGA

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Manga

Fate/Zero Volume 6 Summary: The manga adaptation of Type-Moon’s hit 9781506707686 anime and novel series! Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 $11.99 A toast between kings is raised as Rider broaches not only a 168 pages cask, but a conversation between himself, Saber, and Archer Trade Paperback amidst the half-razed grounds of the Einzbern estate. Their Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Media Tie-In war of weapons has been put aside just for the moment in Territory: US,CA,BrtCm no AU/NZ favor of a war of words—a “Holy Grail Dialogue” fought with keen tounges…debating who among these legends of history truly possesses the rank befitting their noble names!

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

DC Universe by Mike Mignola Summary: Adventures of DC’s greatest heroes, 9781401281144 illustrated by multi-award-winning creator Mike Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 Mignola! $19.99 400 pages Mike Mignola, best known as the creator of Hellboy, started Trade Paperback out his comics art career drawing the adventures of the Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes World’s Greatest Super Heroes, applying his moody artwork Territory: World to tales of Superman, Batman, and more. His career goes far and into the movie world, working with Francis Ford Coppola on the film Bram Stoker’s , and he was visual consultant to director Guillermo del on II, Hellboy and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.

Now this new collection assembles his work from DC stories written by John Byrne, Neil Gaiman and others. Find all your favorite DC work by Mike Mignola in DC UNIVERSE BY MIKE MIGNOLA. Collects SUPERMAN: THE WORLD OF KRYPTON #1-4, ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #1, SUPERMAN #18 and PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Vol. 1 Summary: The early adventures of the 1960s’ weirdest 9781401281113 superhero team are collected in one volume. Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 $29.99 This fast-paced volume introduces the Doom Patrol. Led by 376 pages their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of Trade Paperback society—, Elasti-Girl and —take the Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes qualities that make them freaks and become heroes. Territory: World Together, the trio would take on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the .

Collects MY GREATEST ADVENTURE #80-85 and DOOM PATROL #86-95.

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IDW PUBLISHING

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Summary: Presenting the complete TMNT stories in Collection Volume 7 recommended reading order, including one-shots, 9781684052820 crossovers, and event series. Everything a beginner Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 could need, everything a diehard could want. $49.99 328 pages A new age begins for the Turtles as the epic events of the Hardcover past have created new opportunities for the future, but new Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In dangers as well. While they continue to get used to a world Territory: US, Canada, Open Mkt leading the Foot Clan post-Shredder, they return to the Technodrome to the revival of the Utroms on Burnow Island and are surprised to meet a new mutant —Leatherhead! Will the mysterious mutant be friend or foe? Plus, Kitsune still poses a threat and a new group, the Street Phantoms, enters the fray!

Collects issues #51-64 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series from IDW, now the longest running TMNT series ever.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Buffy Season 10 Library Edition Volume 1 Summary: The cult-favorite television series from 9781506706450 creator continues in comics with Season Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 10, where Buffy and the Scoobies are rewriting the $29.99 rules of magic and monsters… 272 pages Hardcover This oversized Library Edition collects the materials Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In from Buffy Season 10 Volume 1 and Volume 2 Territory: World softcovers, along with all the comic book covers, and an expanded sketchbook section.

While slaying the zompires that have overrun a small California town, Buffy and her pals are shocked to discover another new kind of vampire: harder to kill, able to transform, and walk in the light of day—like Dracula…If that weren’t enough, the rules of magic are literally being rewritten in the Vampyr book. The crew attempts to restore the status quo, all while Xander is the victim of a haunting, his relationship with Dawn begins to crumble, and Dracula himself enters the picture. Then when the Vampyr book PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

Trinity Vol. 3: Dark Destiny Summary: Superman, Batman and Wonder 9781401280512 Woman—the three greatest heroes in the DC Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 Universe—must turn to the mystic trinity of , $16.99 Zatanna and John Constantine for help in TRINITY VOL. 160 pages 3! Trade Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes It’s the meeting of the trinities, as the six aforementioned Territory: World heroes must save DC’s Dark Trinity—, Artemis and ! As these three antiheroes are sacrificed into the depths of the Pandora Pits by Circe and Ra’s al Ghul, will Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman be able to save their demonically possessed allies?

Acclaimed writer Rob Williams takes the reins here in TRINITY VOL. 3! Collects issues #12-15.

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DC COMICS

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 DC Comics

New Teen Titans Vol. 3 Omnibus New Edition Summary: The top-selling 1980s adventures of the 9781401281106 New Teen Titans continue in this third massive Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 collection from the acclaimed team of writer Marv $99.99 Wolfman and artist George Pérez. 720 pages Hardcover In this new edition of the third collection of the hit 1980s Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes series from the acclaimed team of writer and Territory: World artist George Pérez, the Teen Titans— of DC’s greatest heroes, including Nightwing, , and more—battle the villainy of H.I.V.E., face the evil Dr. Light, witness the trial of Deathstroke and try to rescue the dark hero known as Raven from her own father, .

Collects TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #42-58, NEW TEEN TITANS #1-9.

PRHPS Graphic Novel Newsletter June 2018 Dark Horse Books

Rome West Summary: An alt-history account of the founding of 9781506704999 America, as a lost fleet of Roman soldiers arrives a Pub Date: 7/31/18, On Sale Date: 7/31 thousand years before Columbus. $15.99 112 pages In AD 323, a fleet of Roman ships is lost in a storm, and Trade Paperback they find themselves on the shores of the New World, one Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical Fiction thousand years before Columbus. Unable to return home, Territory: World they establish a new colony, Roma Occidens, radically altering the timeline of America and subsequent world events as seen through the eyes of one family.

An exploration in alternative history from Brian Wood, Justin Giampaoli, and Andrea Mutti.

Series Overview: Collects the Stela comic Rome West

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