(Graphic) Novel Ideas

Abraham Stone

Dark Horse Comics

Joe Kubert

Western noir from legendary comic-book creator Joe Kubert!

After the murder of his family and being left for dead by robber barons, Abraham Stone travels to New York, California, and Mexico in search of a fresh start in life. In his travels, he gets involved in the criminal underworld, the movie business, and even becomes an ally of Pancho Villa.

Collects the complete Abraham Stone graphic novels by one of the all-time great comics masters, Joe Kubert!

Anti/Hero

DC Comics

Kate Karyus Quinn, Demitra Lunetta, Maca Gil

Piper Pájaro and Sloane MacBrute are two 13-year-old girls with very different lives but very similar secrets. Popular, outgoing Piper is strong – like, ripping-the-doors-off-cars strong. She longs to be a superhero, even if she tends to leave massive messes in her wake. Sloane, on the other hand, is snarky and super-smart. Like, evil-genius smart. To help her family, she has to put those smarts to use for her villainous grandfather.

When a mission to steal an experimental technological device brings the two girls face to face with each other, the device sparks-and the two girls switch bodies! Now they must live in each other’s shoes as they figure out a way to switch back.

Anti/Hero is a story that explores what makes a hero, how one can find friendship where it’s unexpected, and what it means to walk in another person’s shoes… literally!

Authors Kate Karyus Quinn (Another Little Piece, The Show Must Go On) and Demitria Lunetta (The Fade, Bad Blood) make their graphic novel debut alongside artist Maca Gil and introduce two new and exciting DC characters!

Black Widow by Waid and Samnee: Complete Collection

Marvel Comics

Mark Waid, Chris Samnee

A knockdown, drag-out tale of action and espionage!

The award-winning creative team supreme of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee takes Natasha Romanoff to new heights – by forcing her out on the lam!

The world’s greatest superspy has a lifetime of secrets – and when some of the darkest ones are made public, nobody is safe. As S.H.I.E.L.D. turns on its once-greatest asset, the Widow seeks out her own answers. But will Natasha’s hunt for the Weeping Lion send her back to the one place she never wanted to go? There’s an all-too-familiar room with a dark new name in the Widow’s future. And there awaits the deadly Recluse – who’s fixated on proving her worth by killing Natasha!

Collecting Black Widow (2016) #1-12.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legacy Edition Vol.1

Boom! Studios

Andi Watson, Christopher Golden, Daniel Brereton, Jen Van Meter, Joe Bennett, Nimit Malavia

From Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) comes the official tie-in to the critically acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series!

Set during the third season of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series, discover untold stories of the Scooby Gang and their fight against evil in Sunnydale – all while trying not to fail their exams!

Collects Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1-10 (Dark Horse Comics, published 1998-2003), as well as short stories from the era in a newly designed, value priced format that no Buffy fan can miss!

Camp Spirit

IDW Publishing

Axelle Lenoir

Summer, 1994. With just two months left before college, Elodie is forced by her mother to take a job as a camp counselor. She doesn’t know the first thing about nature, or sports, or kids for that matter, and isn’t especially interested in learning… but now she’s responsible for a foul-mouthed horde of girls who just might win her over. But just as Elodie starts getting used to her new environment – and close to one of the other counselors – a dark mystery lurking around the camp begins to haunt her dreams.

Dead Eyes Vol.1

Image Comics

Gerry Duggan, Mike Spicer, John McCrea

Meet Martin Dobbs. He’s a hot-tempered, foul-mouthed former mercenary and gun-for-hire who’s just been forced out of retirement – with both funny and violent results.

Dead Eyes is equal parts Unforgiven, The Equalizer and Robin Hood, from two of comics’ most irreverent creators: writer Gerry Duggan (Deadpool) and artist John McCrea (Hitman)!

Collects Dead Eyes #1-4.

Eat and Love Yourself

Boom! Studios

Sweeney Boo

For fans of Seconds and Wet Moon!

Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers a magic chocolate bar that will give her a chance to revisit her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present, and just as important, a way to treat herself with love and kindness, at any size?

Join the incredible creative duo of writer/artist Sweeney Boo (Marvel Action: Captain Marvel) and writer Lylian (Ellana) on a journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and just a bit of magic.

Immortal Hulk Vol.6

Marvel Comics

Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Alex Ross

Bruce Banner is just getting started! He has an underground fortress. He has powerful allies. He’s even got henchmen. He’s got everything he needs to declare total war on human society. Bruce Banner is the most dangerous man in the world! Now, the Immortal Hulk is taking the fight to Earth’s lords and masters: the Roxxon Corporation. But when you mess with the Minotaur, you get the horns!

Meanwhile, who are the members of the new Teen Brigade, and what role will they play in the Immortal Hulk’s newest scheme? Plus: Years ago, the first Gamma Bomb unleashed a terrifying creature with impossible strength who raged against the world. The authorities gave the beast a name – a name the whole world knows. But it was someone else’s name first, and now the Hulk That Was has returned to take the name back!

Collecting Immortal Hulk #26-30.

James Bond: Complete Warren Ellis Omnibus

Dynamite

Warren Ellis, Jason Masters, Dom Reardon

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces gathered in secret against him, the full scope of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside.

Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents “Vargr,” the debut storyline in the all new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist…

Contains James Bond (2015) #1-12, Warren Ellis’ “Vargr” and “Eidolon” story lines.

King Thor

Marvel Comics

Jason Aaron, Esad Ribic

One last ride with the almighty lord of Asgard!

Jason Aaron reunites with Esad Ribic to conclude the epic saga they began in Thor: God of Thunder!

Seven years ago, Aaron and Ribic introduced the Thor of the far future – All-Father of a broken realm and a dying universe – as he stood in battle against Gorr, the Butcher of Gods, wielder of All-Black the Necrosword. But now that nefarious blade has returned, in the hands of Thor’s all-time-greatest enemy: his adopted brother, Loki! It’s time for one final, cataclysmic showdown – but even worse is still to come as the ultimate end of all things grows near!

A who’s who of Aaron’s past Thor collaborators, along with a few surprise guests, stop by to bring down the curtain on a glorious era in thunderous style!

Collecting King Thor #1-4.

Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel

DC Comics

Michael Moreci, Sas Milledge

Before he met Batman, Dick Grayson discovered the power of young love – and its staggering cost – at the magical Lost Carnival.

Haly’s traveling circus no longer has the allure of its glamorous past, but it still has one main attraction: the Flying Graysons, a family of trapeze artists featuring a teenage Dick Grayson. The only problem is that Dick loathes spending his summers performing tired routines for dwindling crowds.

When the Lost Carnival opens nearby and threatens to pull Haly’s remaining customers, Dick is among those drawn to its nighttime glow. But there are ancient forces at work at the Lost Carnival, and when Dick meets the mysterious Luciana and her nomadic family, he may be too mesmerized to recognize the danger ahead.

Beneath the carnival’s dazzling fireworks, Dick must decide between who he is and who he wants to be – choosing either loyalty to his family history or a glittering future with new friends and romance.

Author Michael Moreci and illustrator Sas Milledge will suspend readers from a tightrope in this graphic novel, redefining Dick Grayson for a new generation.

Once and Future Vol.1

Boom! Studios

Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora

The King is Undead. Long live the King.

When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring a villain from Arthurian myth back from the dead to gain power, ex-monster hunter Bridgette McGuire escapes her retirement home and pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat.

Best-selling writer Kieron Gillen (Die, Star Wars) and Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Klaus) explore the mysteries of the past, the complicated truths of our history and the power of family to save the day… especially if that family has secret bunkers of ancient weapons and decades of experience hunting the greatest monsters in Britain’s history!

Collects issues #1-6.

Somthing is Killing Children Vol.1

Boom! Studios

James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Jenny Frison

When the children of Archer’s Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. The few children that return alive have terrible stories – impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see.

Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.

GLAAD Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (The Woods, Batman: Detective Comics) teams with artist Werther Dell’Edera (Briggs Land) for a haunting series about staring into the abyss… and what happens when the abyss stares back.

Collects Something is Killing the Children #1-5.

Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle and Whisper Vol.1

IDW Publishing

Ian Flynn, Various, Evan Stanley, Jack Lawrence, Diana Skelly, Jonathan Gray, Jennifer Hernandez

Join two of the most popular new characters from Sonic’s world in this classic odd-couple team-up adventure!

Tangle the Lemur’s got a problem: there’s not enough action in her life! Whisper the Wolf’s also got a problem: she’s hunting down an incredibly dangerous enemy named Sonic the Hedgehog! Can Tangle and Whisper help solve each other’s problems, or will they just make things worse?

Join Sonic and some of his coolest friends in adventures that show just how wonderful Sonic’s world really is.

Also collected is Sonic The Hedgehog: Annual 2019.

Star Wars Vol.13

Marvel Comics

Greg Pak, Phil Noto, Various

It’s the end of the era of hope! Rebels and rogues take center stage as this volume of Marvel’s Star Wars comes to a close!

Who exactly is Dar Champion, and how far can Leia trust him when Han’s life is on the line? What shocking lesson will Luke learn when Warba finally reveals her true self? When faced with his lost past, can C-3PO seize control of his destiny – and be the hero of his own story? And Chewbacca takes on Darth Vader in vicious hand-to-hand combat!

Meanwhile, the Rebellion’s search for a new home – a base safe from the reach of the Empire – leads them to the planet Hoth! Doctor Aphra and Beilert Valance lend a hand as the Rebellion’s fate is set… and the Empire ascends!

Collecting Star Wars (2015) #73-75 and Star Wars: Empire Ascendant.