NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR 28th October

New Books and Novels for New Comics Day October 28th


Graphic Novels / Trades

Dark Horse Comics
BURROUGHS TARZAN SUNDAY COMICS 1935-1937 HC VOL 03 Dark Horse Comics (A) Hal Foster Celebrate Hal Foster with this deluxe collection of his Tarzan Sunday strips! This final volume compiles dozens of strips on archive-quality paper-expertly restored in gorgeous color at giant size, replicating their original appearance! This astonishing volume is presented in a format that collectors will adore! Collecting every Hal Foster Tarzan Sunday strip from September 1935 through May 1937.
COMPLETE LOVE HURTS TP Dark Horse Comics (W/A/CA) Kim W. Andersson Lovelorn supervillains, psychopathic online daters, murderous reality TV show stars, and heartbroken cowboys, samurais, and astronauts star in this massive tome from Swedish comics creator Kim W. Andersson-making his US debut! Andersson delivers a shocking series of short stories about love gone horribly wrong-romance comics with brutal, terrible twists which show that, no matter who you are or what you do, love can be one deadly bitch!	EC ARCHIVES HAUNT OF FEAR HC VOL 02 - Dark Horse Comics (W/A) Various Fright fans, beware! This hotly anticipated second volume-collecting EC Comics classic The Haunt of Fear #7-#12-is sure to chill you to the core! Featuring art from the celebrated talents of Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, George Roussos, Ed Smalle, and Joe Orlando!
DC Comics
CONVERGENCE INFINITE CRISIS TP BOOK 01 - DC Comics (W) Dan Abnett & Various (A) Tom Derenick & Various (CA) Dan Panosian This CONVERGENCE collection stars the Justice Society of America, Infinity Inc., Batman and many more, as they fight in a gladiator-style competition to see which worlds will live...and which will perish! Collects CONVERGENCE: JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #1-2, CONVERGENCE: INFINITY INC. #1-2, CONVERGENCE: DETECTIVE COMICS #1-2, CONVERGENCE: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #1-2 and CONVERGENCE: ACTION COMICS #1-2.	CONVERGENCE INFINITE CRISIS TP BOOK 02 - DC Comics (W) Jeff Parker & Various (A) Phil Winslade & Various (CA) Evan Shaner This CONVERGENCE collection includes the miniseries SHAZAM! #1-2, BLUE BEETLE #1-2, CRIME SYNDICATE #1-2, CONVERGENCE: BOOSTER GOLD #1-2 and PLASTIC MAN AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #1-2
FABLES DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 11 - DC Comics (W) Bill Willingham (A) Mark Buckingham & Various (CA) Mark Dos These tales from FABLES #86-100 include the epic "Witches," in which Bufkin, the meek and mild flying monkey, is trapped with the evil witch Baba Yaga, while Frau Totenkinder and the witches at the Farm prepare to deal with Mister Dark down in what's left of Fabletown. Then, heads will roll, blood will spill and Snow White and Rose Red, the loveliest sisters in all the lands, will be forever changed after "Rose Red"! Also includes the gala 100th issue of the series, with an all-star art lineup!	FABLES THE WOLF AMONG US TP VOL 01 - DC Comics (W) Matthew Sturges, Dave Justus (A) Stephen Sadowski & Various (CA) Chrissie Zullo Before the first issue of FABLES, there were stories to be told and lives hanging in the balance! When Bigby Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown, learns that his old nemesis the Woodsman was part of a domestic disturbance, things go downhill fast. How will Bigby and Snow White crack the case when they get caught up in a grisly murder mystery? Collecting issues #1-7 of the new series!
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR TWO TP VOL 02 - DC Comics (W) Tom Taylor, Marguerite Bennett (A) Bruno Redondo & Various (CA) Jheremy Raapack, David Lopez In these stories from issues #7-12 and YEAR TWO ANNUAL #1, the war between Superman's forces and the Green Lantern Corps reaches its climax. Hard choices are made, and more casualties are taken!	INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR THREE HC VOL 01 DC Comics (W) Tom Taylor (A) Bruno Redondo & Various (CA) Neil Googe The war is over, but it claimed a civilian victim whose death John Constantine will not let go unavenged. Joining forces with Batman, Constantine unites a team of magical beings, super heroes, and ordinary humans to finish off Superman. Collects issues #1-7 of the hit series!
IDW Comics
EMPIRE TP 2 UPRISING IDW Comics (W) Mark Waid (A/CA) Barry Kitson A decade after the groundbreaking first volume of Empire, Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's beloved Eisner-nominated series returns with the all-new Empire: Uprising! It's been a year since the events of the original series, and much has changed for Golgoth, the first supervillain to finally have conquered the world. But can he hold onto his rein-and does he even want to? Collects issues #1-4.
Image Comics
CASANOVA ACEDIA TP VOL 01 Image Comics (W) Matt Fraction, Michael Chabon (A/CA) Fábio Moon, Gabriel Ba Casanova Quinn, interdimensional superspy and assassin, has  crashlanded here on  Earth-on OUR Earth-with absolutely no memory of who he is or the things he's done. He works for a man with just as mysterious a past as his own and has found the New Normal of his life under the name "Quentin Cassaday." That's when the end of the world begins. With nine days to a supposed apocalypse, Los Angeles simmers in fear as a weird cult readies itself  for what comes next...and what comes next runs straight through Casanova Quinn.  By Eisner Award-winning writer MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS, ODY-C, SATELLITE SAM) and with art by international superstar FÁBIO MOON (Two Brothers, Daytripper), this volume also features exclusive back-up stories written by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist MICHAEL CHABON (Telegraph Avenue , The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay) and drawn by CASANOVA co-creator GABRIEL BÁ ( The Umbrella Academy, Two Brothers) that tells the story of the women tasked with hunting Casanova Quinn down across space and time.	MANTLE TP VOL 01 Image Comics (W) Ed Brisson (A/CA) Brian Level Inheriting unimaginable power rules! Learning you're the 38th person to host that power in the last decade and that there's an equally powerful  intergalactic baddie whose sole purpose in life is to kill you? Not so cool.
Marvel Comics
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY BY JIM VALENTINO TP VOL 03 Marvel Comics (W) Jim Valentino, Arnold Drake (A) Various (CA) Jim Valentino Jim Valentino completes his explosive exploration of the Marvel Universe of the 31st century! The original-and-future Guardians welcome the return of their ally Starhawk - but why is that bad news for Major Victory? The ruthless Rancor is also back, and that's trouble for everybody. Will she find her ancestor, Wolverine? Silver Surfer's reappearance may be worst of all - because where he soars, Galactus is sure to follow! Then, it's back to the beginning with the secret origin of the Guardians of the Galaxy! But who or what are the Galactic Guardians? And it all ends in the modern day, where our time-traveling heroes face the Masters of Evil in the middle of a cosmic epic. To INFINITY WAR and beyond! Collecting GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (1990) #21-29 and ANNUAL #2, and MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1967) #18.	GUARDIANS TEAM-UP TP VOL 01 GUARDIANS ASSEMBLE Marvel Comics (W/A) Various (CA) Arthur Adams The Guardians of the Galaxy meet the Marvel Universe's heaviest hitters in this titanic tome of team-ups! First, it's a cosmic threat so massive it'll take both the Guardians and the Avengers to stop it! But when the likes of Gamora, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Rocket Raccoon are forced to problem-solve together, only one thing is guaranteed: destruction! And when the Black Vortex strikes the Kree Empire, Ronan the Accuser must battle alongside the Guardians! Then, intergalactic bounty hunters are hired to target a tough, green, mean powerhouse - but there are two Marvel heroines who fit that description. And now Gamora and She-Hulk are both fighting mad! And finally, Rocket Raccoon must team up with the Pet Avengers, much to his dismay, to face some truly fowl villains! Collecting GUARDIANS TEAM-UP #1-5 and TAILS OF THE PET AVENGERS #1.
NOVA TP VOL 06 HOMECOMING Marvel Comics (W) Gerry Duggan (A) David Baldeon (CA) Orphans Cheeps When the newest Nova needs help with his busted helmet, he turns to Doc Green, the Incredible Hulk! But their quest soon takes them halfway across the universe and puts them in danger that even the Hulk can't punch his way out of! Then, Nova joins the X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy for an epic adventure. With the Black Vortex in his possession, Sam must run for his life! But even when he returns to Earth, cosmic problems follow him - and his next challenge will test him more than any adventure has before. The entire world is under the gun, and it's up to Nova and his friends - Beta Ray Bill, Doc Green, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Cosmo - to save the planet! You won't believe how it all ends! Collecting NOVA ANNUAL (2015) #1 and NOVA (2013) #28-31.	SILK TP VOL 00 LIFE AND TIMES OF CINDY MOON Marvel Comics (W) Robbie Thompson (A) Stacey Lee (CA) Dave Johnson Cindy Moon exploded into the Marvel Universe when we learned she was bitten by the same radioactive spider that empowered Spider-Man! She then went on to save Peter Parker's life (more than once!) and traverse the Spider-Verse. Now, as Silk, Cindy is on her own in New York City, searching for her past, defining her own future, and webbing up wrongdoers along the way! But she's about to cross the Black Cat's path, and that's not good news for her! Silk has been picking at the edges of Black Cat's operation, and Felicia Hardy has had about enough. Felicia gets the drop on Cindy, and Silk hits rock bottom. Can even a team-up with Spider-Man save the day? Plus: a date with Johnny Storm! Secrets of Silk's past revealed! Will Cindy Moon ever find her family? Collecting SILK #1-7.
Other publishers
APOCALYPSE MEOW MEOW GN Bloomsbury (W/A/CA) James Proimos Fans of Big Nate will love this hilarious graphic novel about the end of the world - and the dogs and cats left behind! Brownie, Apollo, and their ragtag group of strays have raided the grocery store and defeated some very mean mutts - but now they've run out of food. So when the crew discovers a nearby Twonkies factory, and all the Twonkies they could ever eat, they think they've got it made. The only catch is the cat guarding the factory - and this "cat" is much bigger, and far more sophisticated, than any feline they've ever met. Can the dogs and their friends defeat their foe and claim the Twonkies for themselves?	GHOSTS AND GIRLS OF FICTION HOUSE HC The publisher Fiction House was infamous for what anti-comics crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham called "headlight comics," i.e. comics featuring the ample female bosom. The Pre-Code publisher used their buxom heroines to star in jungle comics, science fiction tales, and scary GHOST STORIES! The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics series curates the sexiest and scariest of these poltergeist-infused Good Girl Art comics in a pulse-pounding tome! Your hair will stand on end and at the same time your toes will curl!
ISCARIOT HC (W/A) S.M. Vidaurri When Carson, a young girl living with cancer, is bestowed with age-old magic by a rebellious sorcerer named Iscariot, she must navigate her new powers, face the life she had thought she left behind forever, and take on the order of magicians who want to control her destiny. Carson discovers that Iscariot's intentions might not have been as altruistic as it first appeared, and learns the hard way that magic comes at a cost.	THE LESS THAN EPIC ADVENTURES OF TJ AND AMAL GN VOL 01 (W/A/CA) E.K. Weaver Amal just called off his arranged marriage, came out of the closet, got disowned, and went on a bender. Now TJ, a complete stranger, tells him they've made a drunken pact to drive all the way from Berkeley to Providence. Amal needs to get there for his sister's graduation. TJ has his own reasons. The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal omnibus collects the full 2009-2014 run of E.K. Weaver's critically acclaimed road trip romance, with brand new full-color inserts!
LOVE HC VOL 02 THE FOX (W) Frederic Bremaud (A) Federico Bertolucci It's not easy being one of the smaller predators in the woods, competing with an entire woodland population for scraps along the food chain. But when nature throws cataclysmic weather into the mix, it becomes a race for survival - and love. Follow an agile, intrepid fox through a day's journey through the woods in this beautiful all-ages title that explores genuine natural behavior through the dramatic lens of Disney-esque storytelling, like a nature documentary in lavish, wordless illustration.	RAP YEAR BOOK (W) Shea Serrano(A) Arturo Torres The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap as a genre became recognised as part of music's landscape and comes right up to the present. Shea Serrano deftly pays homage to the most important song of each year. Covering East Coast and West Coast, famous rapper feuds, chart toppers and show stoppers, The Rap Year Book takes an in-depth look at the last thirty-five years of the most influential genre of music to come out of the last generation. Complete with quizzes, infographics, lyric maps, hilarious and informative footnotes, portraits of the artists, and the occasional rebuttal essay by other prominent music writers, The Rap Year Book is both a narrative and illustrated guide to some of the most iconic and influential songs ever created under the umbrella of rap music.
SHAFT COMPLICATED MAN TP (W) David Walker (A) Bilquis Evely (CA) Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! (You're damn right!) Created by author Ernest Tidyman and made famous in a series of novels and films, iconic hero Shaft makes his graphic novel debut in an all-new adventure. He's gone toe-to-toe with organized crime bosses, stood up to the cops, squared off against kidnappers, and foiled assassination attempts. But who was John Shaft before he became the hardboiled investigator with a reputation as big as New York City itself? Recently arriving home from his tour of duty in Vietnam, his first case - tracking down a missing person for his girlfriend - quickly turns into a matter of life and death, making him a target of gangsters and the police!