RENEGADE ARTS ENTERTAINMENT

Investigating the dark and unexplored corners of our world, one monster at a time. The ?rst story arc introduces us to ancient monsters from the depths of the ocean, Undead armies from the sands of Egypt, and the Department’s deadliest rivals of all. Collecting the first 4 issues, plus a bonus 22 page origin strip! (STK651491) (AUG141645)

SC, 7x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
SHAME GN'S

(W) Lovern Kindzierski (A/CA) John Bolton

A powerful horror trilogy from an all-star creative team! Have you ever wondered what the cost of a selfish wish might be? A good woman, Virtue, is faced with that dilemma when she finds that her child-to-be is the spawn of the demon, Slur, a demon who has heard her wish for a daughter and magicks a quickening of her womb. Virtue gives birth to Shame and imprisons her in a magickal enclosure to protect her from her father — and the world from Shame. But Shame will go to any length to escape the prison into which she was born and bring her will into the world. (STK442968)

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In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus. Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned on just another lonely Spring Break on campus. But when a hurricane batters the small college town, downing power lines and knocking out cell phone reception, Stacey and her friends are stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world at the worst possible moment: in the midst of an alien invasion. (STK680913) (C: 0-1-0)

SC, 7x9, 224pgs, B&W SRP: $17.99
SCOUT COMICS
HENCHGIRL #1

(W/A/CA) Kristen Gudsnuk

Check out the comic that IO9 calls "A terribly fun read"! Mary Posa hates her job. She works long hours for little pay, no insurance, and, worst of all, no respect. Her coworkers are jerks and her boss doesn't appreciate her. He's also happens to be a supervillain. Cursed with a conscience, Mary would give anything to be something other than a Henchgirl! (STK681339)

24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99
SECRET ACRES
PALEFIRE GN

(W) M. K. Reed (A/CA) Farel Dalrymple

Everyone hates Dwayne, the firebug, the bad boy trouble follows everywhere. Holly finds a warmth to Dwayne, a spark everyone's missing. Holly knows what she's doing, but after tonight's fireworks, she'll find out who knows best. Can Holly play with fire without getting burned? Palefire, the first collaboration between writer MK Reed and artist Farel Dalrymple, takes us back to high school for a hot date to the party of the year. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but everyone deserves a second chance — even if it goes up in flames. (STK681100)

SC, 7x10, 68pgs, B&W SRP: $11.95
SELFMADEHERO
AAMA VOLUME 4: YOU WILL BE GLORIOUS, MY DAUGHTER GN

(W/A/CA) Frederik Peeters

On Ona(ji), Verloc Nim is the sole survivor of an expedition to recover Aama, the experiment that has transformed this desert planet into a landscape inhabited by lethal biorobotic creatures and plants. Having pieced together the events of his recent past — his journey to Ona(ji), his part in the deadly expedition to Aama’s source — Verloc finds himself physically transformed by his confrontation with the experiment. But will his extraordinary new powers be enough for him to save his daughter? (STK680194) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States and Canada.

MATURE THEMES

HC, 8x11, 104pgs, FC (4 of 4) SRP: $19.95

Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, the trip is a reconnection to her past and an opportunity to complete her novel; for George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. As the couple depart for Oaxaca, a monarch butterfly begins its annual migration south from Canada to Mexico. The story of its remarkable journey, woven into the fabric of Ruins, draws striking parallels with the challenges faced by Samantha and George as they adapt to their new surroundings. (STK680195) (C: 1-1-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and U.S. Territories.

HC, 7.5x10, 328pgs, FC SRP: $24.95
SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT LLC
A CERTAIN SCIENTIFIC ACCELERATOR VOLUME 1 GN

(W) Kazuma Kamachi (A/CA) Yamaji Arata

A Certain Scientific Accelerator is a must-have sequel to the New York Times-bestselling series A Certain Scientific Railgun! Welcome to a world where mysticism and science collide, and supernatural powers are derived from either science or religion. At the heart of this world is Academy City, an advanced metropolis whose population is comprised mostly of students. The majority of students are enrolled in the city's "Power Curriculum Program," where they must learn to master their latent psychic powers. (STK679754) (C: 0-1-0)

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From the bestselling creator of Loveless comes an all-new manga series! Happy-go-lucky Haru Ichinose is an upbeat, all-smiles kind of girl. At a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Haru is one of the most popular girls on campus. The attention paid to her, however, is about to turn deadly. Enter Tokaku Azuma, a cold-blooded female assassin, who moves from one mission to the next with deadly precision. The heartless Tokaku has set her sights on Haru as her next target. What should have been a routine hit turns into a far more complicated affair as Tokaku is unable to pull the trigger on Haru. As Tokaku copes with her strange, budding feelings, will she decide to save Haru's life or end it? (STK679758)

SC, 5x7, 164pgs, B&W SRP: $12.99
ALICE IN THE COUNTRY OF HEARTS: WHITE RABBIT AND SOME AFTERNOON TEA VOLUME 2 GN

(W) Quinrose (A/CA) Ichimi Minamoto

Seven Seas is pleased to present Alice in the Country of Hearts: White Rabbit and Some Afternoon Tea, a two-volume adventure that focuses on Peter White. Like the other New York Times-bestselling books in the Alice in the Country of Clover series, this new volume is an oversized edition that features impressive artwork and color pinups. (STK680970) (C: 0-1-0)

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MATURE THEMES

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GOLDEN TIME VOLUME 1 GN

(W) Yuyuko Takemiya (A/CA) Umechazuke

From the author of New York Times-bestseller Toradora! comes an all new rom-com manga series! Life, love, and education! College Freshman Tada Banri is looking forward to a new lease on life, starting with his ambitious journey and entry into a private law school in Tokyo. As luck would have it, during the opening ceremony for the freshman class, he happens across an unfortunate person from his past. Her name is Mitsuo Yanagisawa, a buxom-beauty who slaps Banri across the face with a bouquet of roses. Just who is she and what's her beef with Banri? (STK679759) (C: 0-1-0)

SC, 5x7, 180pgs, PC SRP: $12.99
KOKORO CONNECT VOLUME 5 GN

(W) Anda Sadanatsu (A/CA) CUTEG

The members of this school club have a very deep connection! The very best of friends are about to become the worst enemies. When five normal and well-adjusted teens at Yamahoshi Academy form the Cultural Research Club, all is right with the world. The closeknit club of girls and boys are perfectly happy in their daily school life-until a supernatural being known as the Heartseed enters the picture. Now the lives of the five friends are turned upside down, as they start swapping bodies and minds. Inner secrets, hidden pasts and dark urges are revealed to one another. Will the Heartseed and his mindbending powers pull the five friends apart forever? (STK679749) (C: 0-1-0)

MATURE THEMES

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The sinfully funny omnibus edition of the complete Love in Hell manga series! Rintaro Senkawa is a regular guy in his mid-twenties who got a little drunk one night and fell to his death. But that is just the beginning of Rintaro's story, as he finds himself unexpectedly in Hell where he meets his guide, the painfully sexy devil Koyori. Can Rintaro take his situation seriously enough to repent for the sins of his former life or is he fated to be eternally tempted, teased, and tortured by scantily clad devils with iron spiked clubs? (STK679761) (C: 0-1-0)

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SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $20.99

The zombie survival genre has just met its match! High-schooler Kii Kogami is stuck in a rut, loathing the monotonous doldrums of his everyday life. If only something exciting were to happen, something magical. As fate would have it, Kii is about to get his wish, but in a way more terrifying than anything he could have imagined. When a little girl clad in gothic Lolita attire appears at school and starts to gruesomely bludgeon, dismember, and mutilate all who cross her path, while chanting the mantra "Magical Girl" under her breath, the school devolves into a state of bloody chaos. Just how will Kii escape from this murderous magical girl? (STK679750) (C: 0-1-0)

MATURE THEMES

SC, 5x7, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $12.99

When humanity discovered an alternate dimension filled with magical and mythical beings, the world as we knew it would never be the same. Humanity soon learned to harness these extra-dimensional forces and summon mystical beings into their midst through the power of "summoners." Years later, fifteen-year-old Kazuki Hayashizaki is chosen to be the first male summoner. His attendance at an all-female summoner school is met with much opposition, especially from his sister, a magical swordsman whose task is to guard summoners. Now she finds herself in an inferior position to her brother Kazuki, and will stop at nothing to thwart him! (STK679751) (C: 0-1-0)

MATURE THEMES

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Nurse Hitomi is not your typical school nurse. Newly-employed as a high school nurse, who just happens to be a cyclops, Nurse Hitomi must fumble her way through the many inhuman issues that arise in a school rife with monstrous characters. Welcome to the infirmary! We haven't been expecting you. (STK679752) (C: 0-1-0)

MATURE THEMES

SC, 5x7, 180pgs, B&W SRP: $12.99

The planet is in a constant state of tumult. As rival countries vie for power and resources, while racing to create the latest technological breakthroughs, robots and cyborgs have become commonplace. What hope is left for a jaded humanity in an age of advances in cybernetics and artificial intelligence? Enter two cyborgs girls outfitted with insurmountable combat capabilities. This is their story. From the minds of Ghost in the Shell creator Masamune Shirow, and Excel Saga creator Koshi Rikdo, comes an action-packed cyberpunk comedy manga that is unlike anything you've ever seen! (STK679753) (C: 0-1-0)

MATURE THEMES

SC, 5x7, 180pgs, B&W SRP: $12.99

This issue! The conclusion of Yuko Rabbit's compelling 10 Minutes. Will Teodor finally free Judita, or is she doomed to spend her life locked in the gravity tower? Gary Spencer Millidge presents another instalment of Strangehaven and a new episode of David Hine and Mark Stafford's chilling The Bad Bad Place. First time in print: the three never-before-seen shortlisted entries from Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story competition 2014. (STK680972) (C: 0-1-0)

7x10, 52pgs, FC SRP: $7.95
SPACE GOAT PRODUCTIONS
EVIL DEAD 2: BEYOND DEAD BY DAWN #1 SPECIAL EDITION

(W) Frank Hannah (A) Barnaby Bagenda & Various (CA) Photo

Just in time to get a groovy jump on Halloween, we're calling forth a special edition of our official Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead by Dawn #1. This newly expanded edition contains the complete first issue of the classic movie sequel, but has received a Kandarian boost to 48 pages with special one-time only features including a Bruce Campbell photo cover, the entire never-before-collected prequel story that originally appeared in Mage, Inc. #1 and Big Game Hunters #1, sketchbook pages and character studies, early color tests by Chris Summers, and a preview of up-and-coming Evil Dead 2 stories by Justin Peniston & Enza Fontana! (STK681322)

48pgs, FC (1 of 3) SRP: $5.99
MAGE, INC. #3

(W) Shon C. Bury (A/CA) Ian Waryanto, Davi Correia

Keira and Albert uncover the rogue mage Clious' nefarious plot and move to bring him down with a one-two magic punch of covert ops and tricky new spellcasting. But what's the deal with Clious' new apprentice and why are all the Quarra Witches attacking? This is where it all ends, the grand finale of the first arc of everyone's favorite unpaid magic intern! (STK681333)

32pgs, FC (3 of 3) SRP: $3.99
MIXTAPE #1

(W) Brad Abraham (A/CA) Jok, Gervasio

First issue! Five left-of-the-dial, music-obsessed teens struggle through the rise and fall of Generation X and the Alternative Rock era of the 1990s. They learn that the bonds of friendship they thought were unbreakable have already begun to crack, and the music they thought they'd love forever has already started to fade. (STK681332)

32pgs, B&W (1 of 5) SRP: $3.99
SuBLime
Love Stage!! VolUME 3 GN

(W/A) Eiki Eiki

Izumi Sena is an average guy born into a family of famous celebrities. A college student and total otaku, he works hard every day with the goal of someday becoming a manga creator. Popular actor Ryoma Ichijo confessed to him, but Izumi made him promise they’d start off as friends. Strangely, it’s Izumi who can’t seem to stop thinking about Ryoma - and they aren’t all innocent thoughts! What happens when a reporter gets the dirt on Ryoma’s crush?! And will Ryoma’s patience finally be rewarded with a night of making love?

MATURE THEMES

SC, 5x7, 178pgs, B&W $12.99

Farlaine the Goblin journeys into The Twistlands, a land overrun with twisters and tornadoes of every shape and size! Not the kinda place to find a forest, but when a twister grabs his tree, Farlaine has no choice but to chase after it. (STK681336)

60pgs, B&W SRP: $5.00
STAR OF THE MONTH
FARLAINE THE GOBLIN VOLUME 1 TP

(W/A/CA) Anonymous

Farlaine the Goblin has spent years wandering the very many Oddlands of Wug in search of a forest to call his own. He only has 10 lands left. Collects the first 3 books of the series — The Tinklands, The Saltlands, and The Racelands! Also includes early concept work and, for the first time in print, Farlaine's early adventure in The Tinderlands! (STK645956) (JUN141414)

SC, 12x8, 131pgs, B&W SRP: $13.00
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T PUB
TORTURED LIFE GN

(W) Neil Gibson (A/CA) Caspar Wijngaard

Richard is having a bad year. He's lost his job, lost his girlfriend, put on weight… and developed the ability to see the deaths of everyone around him. Plagued by horrific premonitions, he decides to end it all, but there are old and powerful forces at work that have their own plans for his power. Pitched into a world of eldritch horror that lurks just beneath the surface of London's civilized veneer, the only chance Richard has of finding peace is to unravel the mysteries of his own past. He's having a really, really bad year. (STK678575)

SC, 7x10, 164pgs, B&W SRP: $17.99
TWISTED DARK VOLUME 4 GN

(W) Neil Gibson (A) Various (CA) Caspar Wijngaard

Continue your journey to humanity's dark side, as Neil Gibson returns with a fourth volume of best-selling series Twisted Dark to chill and shock! Included in this volume is Gibson's most twisted story to date: "Little Piggies!" (STK678576)

SC, 7x10, 160pgs, B&W SRP: $14.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
TWISTED DARK GN

(W) Neil Gibson (A) Various (CA) Caspar Wijngaard

With Volume 4 of Neil Gibson's acclaimed anthology series, Twisted Dark, offered this month, its the perfect time to catch up on the first three volumes, each filled with unique tales that all share hidden connections, left up to the reader to discover on their own. Gibson describes the genre as "psychological thriller", but the books contains horror, dark (at times demented) stories incorporating every human emotion, illegal activity, and brutal reality. And his use of various illustrators allows each story and character to develop their own form. (STK646200)

A fresh new start to an all-new Year Two, as the Tenth Doctor ongoing series takes to the stars! Looking for rest and relaxation, the Tenth Doctor and companion Gabriella Gonzalez take a trip to Earth Station Presley, a mining platform around an enormous gas giant — and home to one of the most spectacular sensory experiences in the universe! The gas giant is a perfect example of human colonists living in harmony with indigenous life, in this case the Shan'tee: conceptual beings perceived by humans as hauntingly beautiful music! But the Doctor and Gabby are walking straight into a war. Something has corrupted the song of the Shan'tee — a mysterious signal of unknown origin — and now the human colonists are trapped in a fight for their lives! (STK681341)

New series! New writing team! New laser-filled, time-mangling, galaxy-sploding dynamic! Accused of a genocidal crime he (probably) didn't (possibly) commit (oh hell, he totally did it), the Doctor and Alice — along with a unique new companion! — go on the run. But extreme hyperviolence-for-hire is hot on their tail, tracking them wherever and whenever they go. With chainswords! It's a race to clear our tricksy Time Lord's name and spare the lives of his friends, with the only answers burnt in the fiery footsteps of the incarnation he can never acknowledge: the War Doctor. Breathless twists abound as the Eleventh Doctor series jumps into a new gear, for a new year! (STK681331)

The four-part epic first-year finale continues! Earth is under attack from an ancient species who yoked suns and spanned galaxies before we'd even evolved opposable thumbs. Cities are tumbling under their assault, people are dying in droves, and only two people in the universe can save us. But first the Doctor and Clara must save themselves! Burning with fury forged in the heart of stars, armed with technology beyond human comprehension, composed of a fleet of unstoppable warships, the Hyperions have returned at last. Welcome to the Hyperion War. Welcome to the last days of Earth! (STK681306)

The first year of the tenth Doctor's ongoing adventures hits its jaw-dropping finale as Gabby, Cindy, and the Doctor face a cosmic threat from the heart of the galaxy! From an aging actress unravelling the code of existence from her Manhattan apartment block, through retro-regeneration, a black ops military organisation, a secret cult, and an extraterrestrial artifact of such scale that it warps human comprehension, Doctor Who stories don't get much bigger or more exciting than this! What dark truths will the Doctor confront? How will Gabby be changed by her experience? And will Cindy ever join the TARDIS crew? Collects Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #11-15 and the tenth Doctor story from the FCBD 2015 special. (STK681300)

HC, 7x10, 136pgs, FC SRP: $19.99