SEPTEMBER 2024 CATALOG

A boy sits in a room. Alone. Telling tales of horror. One by one. Night by night. The shadows breed terror. Shall we begin? One day, an elementary school child named Yuuma tries to jump to his death out of his classroom window. His classmate Hina stops him and, in a bid to stall for time, asks him, 'Do you know the round of a hundred ghost stories?' Hina tells Yuuma about a ritual where, if you tell a hundred ghost stories, you'll see ghosts afterward. Learning this gives Yuuma a new lease on life. Chapter by chapter, he shares ghost stories with the reader, slowly but surely inching his way toward one hundred...

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 10, 2024

Doctor Inui's twisted 'obedience training' may have turned Eito into a mindless killing machine, but Colonel Tsujiura insists on keeping Eito alive so Ewan can extract his powers. Yet Tsujiura, Doctor Shiga, and the remaining soldiers have more immediate concerns, as the half-mad Doctor Inui pulls a secret kill switch that threatens to flood the facility. Can the survivors band together to escape, or will they all find a watery grave?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Blending high-octane pulp action, low-flying dirigibles, and more art-deco rayguns than you could shake a walking stick at,_ _ADVENTUREMAN is a high-flying, senses-obliterating, imagination-quaking adventure for the whole family! WHERE HIS STORY ENDED...HER STORY BEGINS! Everyone knows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of all time, ended in a heartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing his very execution... Now, learn the startling truth about how, 80 years after his seeming demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy light the spark of RESURRECTION! Can these inheritors of the Adventureman legacy rise up to face down the evil that bested the original?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 17, 2024

Welcome to The All-Nighter, the only diner in town run by covert superheroes (who are also secretly vampires). In this final arc, the staff at The All-Nighter are trying to piece their lives back together in the wake of Alex's disappearance. They know that Alex would stop at nothing to get any of them back, so they have no choice: it's time to bring this fight to The Takers. With unexpected new allies, the crew will have to live up to Alex's dreams of super heroes. If they want to rescue their friend and uncover the mystery of The Takers, they'll have to do it as a team-or as a family.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: JANUARY 21, 2025

It's quest after quest for Alley Oop as he hunts the yellow-beaked blackwing, seeks the elusive star fendle, and dines on alien fast food-all before being captured by the minions of the strange and powerful Fire Goddess! Reprinting all daily strips from 1996.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Alley Oop helps protect a government witness-by sending her back to the dinosaurs in prehistoric Moo! What will happen when the mob's enforcers invade the time laboratory and force Doc Wonmug to give her up? How in the world do they all get transported-to ancient Sparta!? Reprinting all daily strips from 1991.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise's life will never be the same again. The man is a 'magus,' a sorcerer of great power, who decides to free Chise from the bonds of captivity. The magus then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice-and his bride!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 24, 2024

"Emma is a master of her craft, an absolute beast of an artist with the delicate touch of a poet."Emily Carroll (Through the Woods) A gorgeous and brutal story that revolts against the notion of violence as the only response to a life without hope. The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that's been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid harming any living creature.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers and tasked with saving the human race from extinction, Hajime's job, a Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: DECEMBER 31, 2024

Explore the world of BioWare's latest fantasy epic, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, in-depth with this incredible, oversized art book! Uncover the secrets of Thedas, and experience the world through new eyes with stunning concept art! See characters as you've never seen them before-from concept to final design, explore the world and varied cultures of Thedas with splash art designs and props from the beautiful locales in the game, and inspect the armory-examining in detail hundreds of weapons and armor!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Explore the world of BioWare's latest fantasy epic, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, in-depth with this incredible, oversized art book! Uncover the secrets of Thedas, and experience the world through new eyes with stunning concept art! See characters as you've never seen them before-from concept to final design, explore the world and varied cultures of Thedas with splash art designs and props from the beautiful locales in the game, and inspect the armory-examining in detail hundreds of weapons and armor!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Yanick Paquette, the Eisner-nominated, Shuster Awards Winner, and #1 New-York Times best-selling comics artist known for Batman, Swamp Thing, Wonder Woman: Earth One, INCAL, and more provides this cover for Volume 1 of Assassin's Creed: Visionaries. All-new assassins imagined by top comic creators from around the world. The Assassin's Creed franchise was created over 15 years ago, so what better way to celebrate it than to give renowned comic artists complete creative freedom to share their own, personal visions of Ubisoft's hidden blade-wielding, parkour-running, century-spanning Assassin's Creed!

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: NOVEMBER 19, 2024