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LAB PRESS
SUPER SCIENCE HC VOL 01 BILL SIENKIEWICZ PREMIERE ED
(W) N Alessandro K (A) M. K. Perker (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz
Super Science is a sci-fi/comedy about a world where the limits of human imagination have become real. For five days the entire sky over twelve spots across the globe turn purple. The result was in each location, professional engineers and scientists, as well as tinkers, amateur inventors, and high school science teachers were able to create scientific and engineering breakthroughs in ways far surpassing the world's top scientific institutions. Our story starts three years later in Los Angeles, where a breed of actual superheroes and super villains are emerging. Dealing with this new phenomenon is the LAPD's new 'Mad Scientist Division,' including no-nonsense Sergeant Esmerelda Villanueva and her idealistic young partner, Officer Jack Mantle. Other characters include manipulative industrialist Burt Montague and his lab assistant Felicia Bari; perpetually unlucky Karen Katz, a former biology teacher who has turned herself into a human-cat hybrid; Esmerelda's son, Gabe, who might be the smartest teenager on the planet; nefarious super villain Dr. Cornelius Otherland and his nemesis, bumbling superhero Gas Giant. This graphic novel follows up on Super Science: Chapter Zero and ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase! (STL364221) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 8x11, 224pgs, FC SRP: $49.99
LAGUNA STUDIOS
SURGEON #6 (OF 6) (MR)
(W) John Pence (A) Omar Zaldivar & Various (CA) Omar Zaldivar, Hedwin Zaldivar
Painty is stolen, Little Bird is on the run, and Hanover is furious and alone, on the wrong side of a whole bunch of burned bridges. (STL364726)
MATURE THEMES
32pgs, FC (6 of 6) SRP: $5.99
LITTLE BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 01
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists. Volume 1includes Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in America. Volume 2 collects Cigars of the Pharaoh, The Blue Lotus, and The Broken Ear. Volume 3 features The Black Island, King Ottokar’s Sceptre, and The Crab with the Golden Claws. Volume 4 includes The Shooting Star, The Secret of the Unicorn, and Red Rackham’s Treasure. Volume 5 collects The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, and Land of Black Gold. including The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, and Land of Black Gold. Volume 6 features Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, and The Calculus Affair. Volume 7 includes The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin in Tibet, and The Castafiore Emerald. Volume 8 collects Flight 714 to Sydney, Tintin and the Picaros, and Tintin and Alph-Art. (STL364283) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 02
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including Cigars of the Pharaoh, The Blue Lotus, and The Broken Ear. (STL364284) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 03
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including The Black Island, King Ottokar’s Sceptre, and The Crab with the Golden Claws. (STL364285) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 04
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including The Shooting Star, The Secret of the Unicorn, and Red Rackham’s Treasure. (STL364286) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 05
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, and Land of Black Gold. (STL364287) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 06
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, and The Calculus Affair. (STL364288) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 07
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin in Tibet, and The Castafiore Emerald. (STL364290) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 192pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN HC VOL 08
(W/A/CA) Herge
Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and the twin detectives Thompson and Thomson, as they embark on extraordinary adventures and solve thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including Flight 714 to Sydney, Tintin and the Picaros, and Tintin and Alph-Art. (STL364293) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 6x9, 224pgs, FC SRP: $28.99
LITTLE BROWN INK
BLADES OF FURRY GN VOL 01
(W) Emily Erdos (A) Deya Muniz
Enter the high-stakes world of battle skating in this rivals-to-lovers romance based on the spectacularly popular webcomic. Emile is an up-and-coming rookie in battle skating, a sport that combines the grace of figure skating with the high impact sparring of martial arts. Just as he is gearing up to fight in his next duel at the championships, there's a change in the lineup! To his horror, he'll have to face off against reigning champion Radu, the best battle skater in the world (and Emile's longtime skating idol). There's no way he can win! During a pivotal moment in their match, however, Emile discovers Radu's most closely guarded secret…and it's a bloody one. This could destroy Radu's career for good, but when feelings start to develop between them both on and off the rink, will this rivalry turn into something more...? Collects episodes 1-36 of the WEBTOON hit. (STL364294) (C: 0-1-1)
SC, 6x9, 512pgs, FC SRP: $21.99
PUZZLING FATE OF MILLICENT GRAVES GN
(W/A) Dora M Mitchell
Twelve-year-old Millicent Grave's life is a mess. After her mom sank all their money into a fancy fish tank business, her family had to move to an apartment with three creepy landladies. Then fate (or, actually, the Fates) leads Millie to discover a room full of jigsaw puzzles that give her the power to fix the imperfections in everyone she knows. Soon, her sister is sensible instead of gross, and her mom is successful instead of unlucky. Dad still needs some work, and her new neighbor and classmate Sam Smolt is still annoying—but he's kind of becoming her best friend anyway. And if there are mysterious new cracks in the universe in the exact shape of those puzzle pieces, that's not a problem, right? It's not like all of reality is about to unravel. Right? Right? (STL364296) (C: 0-1-1)
SC, 6x9, 224pgs, FC SRP: $12.99
LIVING THE LINE
FACE MEAT GN (MR)
(W/A/CA) Bonten Taro
A headless busty blonde, a face-stealing psychopath, a sleazy serial-killer sculptor, a horny handsome hunchback, a vengeful caterpillar cuckold, a torturous hangover in the pits of hell. Welcome to the raunchy and gristly world of Face Meat, from the decadent imagination of outlaw polymath Bonten Taro-ex-kamikaze, ex-yakuza, singer, songwriter, actor, world-famous tattooist, husband of seven, and underappreciated pioneer of 'pinky violence' femme fatales and adult horror manga. While Mizuki Shigeru and Umezz Kazuo were paving the way for horror in shonen and shojo magazines in the 1960s, Bonten was secretly doing the same in erotic men's rags-and the results are as trashy as you'd expect. With an essay by Bonten booster and B-gekiga expert Kunisawa Hiroshi, Face Meat includes fourteen hair- and pants-raising stories that have never before been assembled under a single cover in any language! (STL347709) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 5x8, 323pgs, PC SRP: $19.95
CENTRALIA HC (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Miel Vandepitte
2024 MoCCA Arts Fest Award of Excellence Recipient! The earth in and around Centralia has warmed so much, it's impossible to stand on without melting. Those who survive long enough will be confronted with carnivorous birds, collapsing buildings, and the trigger-happy Simia Nasalis, armed with bazookas and stilts. Against their better judgment, a group of adventurers set out to discover the treasure of gold hidden away at the heart of the abandoned town. (STL241247)
HC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $35.00
HER FRANKENSTEIN GN (MR) (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Norikazu Kawashima
Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Junji Ito called a 'frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.' Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don't love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn't love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes Her Frankenstein! (STL304120) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 208pgs, PC SRP: $19.95
HOUSE ON FIRE TP (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Matt Battaglia
Re-introducing House on Fire, the controversial indie debut from writer/artist Matt Battaglia, covered in such disparate publications as SOLRAD, Comic Book Yeti, The Federalist, Glenn Beck, and Bret Easton Ellis' podcast. The book follows a desperate husband spiral through a new modern nightmare as he seeks treatment for his ailing wife. House on Fire has been called the first piece of fiction to attempt to process the ramifications of the pandemic. (STL251719) (JAN231695)
SC, 100pgs, PC SRP: $16.00
LOCUS MAGAZINE
LOCUS MAGAZINE #772 VOL 94 NO 5
The May Locus includes coverage of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, interviews with new and established authors, this year's Hugo ballot, commentary from Cory Doctorow, people notes, news covering industry sales and release, along with awards, books listings, and more. (STL364685) (C: 0-1-1)
Magazine, 60pgs, FC SRP: $12.50