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Featured Graphic Novels February 2024
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Alien : Icarus
by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
A small colony of synths has settled in secret on a backwater moon. When a company of United System soldiers comes to them for help retrieving biotechnology on a hostile planet that could be the key to saving humanity, the synths must decide whether the prospect of peace between man and machine is worth the risk of betrayal. Because "Steel Team" - the legendary, unkillable Synthetic Special Operations team - is the United Systems' only hope as they navigate the hellscape that the once-idyllic Tobler-9 has become. Since its mysterious downfall years earlier, Tobler-9 is considered one of the most hostile environments in the known universe - a place where nothing organic could possibly have survived...or could it?
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A Book to Make Friends With
by Lukas Verstraete
A Book to Make Friends With marks the explosive English language debut of Flemish cartoonist Lukas Verstraete. What begins as a Pulp Fiction-inspired heist, in which two masked gangsters rob a passerby of his mysterious briefcase, soon snowballs into a psychedelic journey full of chase scenes, shapeshifting, soul possession, spiritual hallucinations, and unrequited romance. It all culminates in an epic, breathtakingly rendered battle between good and evil.
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JAJ : A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast.
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DCeased : War of the Undead Gods
by Tom Taylor
What began as a battle for Earth has become a war for the galaxy in the epic final installment in the massive DCeased storyline! The emergence of a reborn, undead Darkseid in DCeased: Dead Planet sets the stage for the most devastating conflict yet for Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman! As the Anti-Life Equation spreads into the cosmos, the survivors of Earth prepare for the coming apocalypse and realize their only hope could lie in the most powerful surviving hero from the first DCeased series.
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Fence. : Redemption Volume Six, Redemption
by C. S. Pacat
Return to the thrilling world of high-stakes, competitive fencing, with a brand new story featuring the beloved cast of characters from the original hit series. Are Seiji and Jesse really through? The rumors around Halverton, the prestigious fencing training camp, have spread like wildfire, but it's not long before a mystery fencer arrives-one who may finally pose a threat to the #1 spot. Will Seiji's unquenchable quest for rivalry take Nicholas' place? Where will his loyalty lie? And, when Seiji gets an up close and personal look into Nicholas' past and determination against adversity while preparing for the difficult road ahead and the State Championships, he'll have to confront a tempting thought... are they on... a date?
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Immortal Sergeant
by Joe Kelly
On the eve of his unwelcome retirement, Jim Sargent (aka Sarge) a grizzled, old-school detective, catches a break on a murder case that's haunted him for decades. Unfortunately, Sarge must drag his anxiety-riddled adult son, Michael, along for the ride or risk losing the lead forever. Can this dysfunctional duo overcome their own hang-ups, blindspots, and secrets to catch a killer?
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Parker Girls Omnibus
by Terry Moore
When one of Zackary May's employees embezzles millions from his offshore account, the tech billionaire turns to the Parker Girls for help. Agent Kelly gets the job done but also uncovers huge sums of money flowing through May's account from a hostile nation. Parker Girls boss Tambi Baker wants to know why. Then May's wife Piper is found dead and things get personal Piper was a Parker Girl. Tambi calls in the team, including her sister Katchoo, to launch a dangerous plan to expose May's operation. But he is not intimidated by the legendary Parker Girls reputation for playing rough. May's counter-offensive begins with a shot heard around the world and the Parker Girls find themselves face to face with an enemy far more powerful than they can imagine.
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Rockstar and Softboy Go to Space!
by Sina Grace
The dirtiest, flirtiest bff of comics are back, and holy moly are they in dire straits! After getting brutally rebuffed by the most influential dudes in Lost Angeles, Rockstar and Softboy pack their bags and GO TO SPACE. Rockstar is hoping to find a geographic solution to their earthbound problems, but Softboy may be seeking a new home away from home!
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Sins of the Black Flamingo
by Andrew Wheeler
Sebastian Harlow is the Black Flamingo, a flamboyant and narcissistic thief who gets his kicks stealing mystic artifacts from the wealthy and corrupt of Miami's occult underground. When his latest job leads him to his biggest score so far, the hedonistic outlaw discovers something he wasn't looking for, something to believe in.
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Voyaging 1 : The Plague Star
by George R. R. Martin
Journey across the cosmos in George R. R. Martin's beloved sci-fi universe, the Thousand Worlds, as a ragtag group of conspirators embark on a mysterious mission to gain unfathomable fame and fortune-if only they can survive. On the distant planet Hro B'rana, the last words of a dying man echo through the halls of a run-down trading station. Nearly three hundred years later, a group of fortune seekers embark on a mission to unravel the mystery of the fabled Plague Star aboard a rickety trade ship called The Cornucopia of Excellent Goods at Low Prices. But their journey will be far more perilous than any of them could have imagined-who will survive this deadly quest and battle it out for the final prize? A darkly comic meditation on our future as a species, Voyaging, Volume 1: The Plague Star is a sci-fi adventure story of intrigue, greed, deception, and of course cats.
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Cat-Eyed Boy. : The Perfect Edition 2
by Kazuo Umezu
From the mind of Kazuo Umezz, undisputed master of Japanese horror manga and creator of The Drifting Classroom and Orochi, comes Cat-Eyed Boy! This deluxe second volume picks up where volume 1 left off, with Cat-Eyed Boy trying to stop the Band of 100 Monsters from taking gruesome revenge on the corrupt humans who have made them outcasts. Then, Cat-Eyed Boy continues to travel between the lands of humans and demons in six more disturbing tales, including "The Stairs," in which Cat-Eyed Boy helps a child say a last goodbye to his deceased mother, and "The Thousand-Handed Demon," in which a woman trying to bring a deity to life gets a lot more than she bargained for.
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Haruki Murakami Manga Stories
by Jean-Christophe Deveney
Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami's best-loved short stories are available in graphic novel form in English. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 is the first of three volumes, which will present a total of 9 short stories from Murakami's bestselling collections.
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The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 2
by Miyuki Tonogaya
Sparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! Snow spirit descendant Himuro finds himself infatuated with his somewhat offbeat and aloof colleague, Fuyutsuki. As the pair spend more time together, Fuyutsuki begins to notice a change within herself when she catches a glimpse of a side of Himuro that she could have never imagined existed. Meanwhile, Himuro continues to fall harder for Fuyutsuki with each favor she does for him... Despite how cool, capable, and collected the two coworkers seem on the surface, their romantic inexperience may prove to be one of the greatest obstacles they'll face in coming to grips with their feelings for one another!
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Star Wars. The Mandalorian : the Manga
by Yusuke Osawa
Years after the fall of the Galactic Empire, a solitary bounty hunter is given a simple mission. Find and return the Child to the Imperial Remnant, all that remains of the once all-powerful Empire. This mysterious orphan has a power that can possibly turn events in their favor, and acquisition of that power is paramount. Instead, the bounty hunter goes on the run with the Child to protect him from the forces that would do him harm. Here is the story of The Mandalorian, and his desperate quest to save the Child and himself.
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How To Make a Monster
by Casanova Nobody Frankenstein
How to Make a Monster is Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ 13-year-old in 1980. Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Frankenstein reveals how real life experience shaped his hard-bitten survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the stifling atmosphere of the at the Lutheran school on the South-side of Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother and an violent, alcoholic cop father who was not above giving his son a good thrashing now and again while preaching Christian family values. It is a searing portrait of an unbearably painful upbringing.
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