NOVEMBER 2024 CATALOG

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can't help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way...

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 28, 2025

Colonel Tsujiura and his soldiers narrowly escaped the laboratory thanks to Doctor Shiga's sacrifice, and Eito finally snapped out of his trance after learning a chilling truth: Most test subjects die a few years after being implanted with the seed. As Eito and the other survivors swear vengeance on the project's mastermind, Ewan and Riko become ever more deeply entangled with the cult of Shinra. Can the A-DO ever break free of the men behind the curtain?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 7, 2025

The marchioness Shuri Von Neuschwanstein was just a teenager when her husband died, leaving her to manage his lands and raise his children-even though she was young enough to be their sibling. Despite her dedication to her duties, other nobles conspired against her, and her stepchildren rejected her as their mother, leaving her a hardened pariah in her own home. But when she leaves for a new residence during her eldest stepson's wedding, the marchioness dies and wakes up in the past: on the day of her husband's funeral! If Shuri is to live these seven difficult years all over again, she's going to do things differently. Can she rewrite her own fairy tale ending this time around?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: APRIL 22, 2025

400 pages of real murder cases from the 20thcentury! From the famous Sacco & Vanzetti story through the ever-intriguing renowned Black Dahlia murder of a striking aspiring actress in Los Angeles, the mysterious murder of silent movie director William Desmond Taylor in early Hollywood to that of a preacher and his lover found murdered in a park, here is a collection of scandalous murders which were never solved or marked the century. Meticulously researched, they are presented in Gearys inimitable tongue-in-cheek style.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 14, 2025

The breathless nightmare trip Ajin: Demi-Human, finally available in omnibus format. Glib high schooler Kei has discovered to his horror that death is just a repeatable event for him-and that humanity has no mercy for a demi-human. When more of their kind come out of the woodworks their morals vary, to say the least.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 14, 2025

In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the earth . . . a lone warrior emerges to test the immortality of the cruel gods who would deal destruction with impunity. He is a one-man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood. His name: AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER! Rising stars Murewa Ayodele (Storm) and Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood) usher in a new epoch of African dark fantasy on the ancient continent of Alkebulan with a mythic cycle of cosmic destiny and unrelenting warfare colliding man against god . . . and blade against blade! Witness a rage-fueled tale of bloody vengeance as Akogun seeks to avenge the tragic loss of everything he ever held dear. All that stands in his way is the disgraced, fallen god Ogun, who seeks to be restored to his former glory!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: MARCH 18, 2025

Asteroid Icarus is plummeting toward the Earth! Will Alley find the solution to our situation when he discovers the Man from 2166? Also, Ooola sets out for the land of Ohgolly-but instead finds herself ensnared by the King of Geewhiz! Reprinting all daily strips from 1966.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 21, 2025

Alley and his friends are captured as specimens for an intergalactic zoo! How will they manage to escape from the Zan of Zoron? Also featuring the battle to banish the menacing monster Swamp Slug-and that's not all! Reprinting all daily strips from 1998.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 21, 2025

290 big pages of Alley Oop! Julius Caesar has been beaten by the Britons and only Alley can come to the rescue! Back in the modern day, Doc Wonmug is targeted by international gangsters, while Oop and Boom plan their first trip to the moon! These stories and more are in this oversized book, presenting two full years of daily strips and 78 color Sundays from 1949 and 1950.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 21, 2025

The alien Blue-Two is in Moo and is in mortal danger from the sinister Nightlings! It's up to Alley Oop to rescue the lighting master and save the day! Then it's a gripping saga of infrastructure development as Alley constructs the first prehistoric reservoir! Finally, the Wizer creates an irresistible aphrodisiac but will it save his skin? Reprinting all daily strips from 1995.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 31, 2024

To be reincarnated into another world with the promise of a 'cheat' power is one thing. But to be reborn as a baby, and then left for dead after your royal parents think you're powerless? That's another thing entirely! Now the newly-born Reinhart-Hart to his new friends-must find his way through a dangerous world... but luckily he's got magic that's quite literally off the charts!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 31, 2024

High school memories last a lifetime, but the pandemic threatens to steal these special moments from Mizuho and her friends. The students successfully rally to have their school festival, bringing hope and boosting morale. It's the perfect escape to find romance, but for Kizuki, Mizuho still won't return his affections. Will he wind up settling for unrequited love? How does the heart heal after a battle for love?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 7, 2025

The shattered multiverse collides in the stunning conclusion to this sci-fi trilogy from New York Times bestselling writer Tony Lee (Superboy, Doctor Who) and acclaimed illustrator Yishan Li (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1956, Buffy: The High School Years)! The Great Beast has won, and his enemies are dead . . . or are they? In a world of limbo, Carrie learns the truth of the Great Beasts angerand the origins and true nature of Brother Havoc and Sister Fortuneas she raises an army both living and dead to wage an epic final battle to save the multiverses! But who will liv