Dark Horse is celebrating a decade of empowerment with the release of Empowered Deluxe Edition Volume III! With over 250,000 Empowered volumes sold, Adam Warren’s (The Dirty Pair, Livewires) favorite superhero is getting the true Superhomey experience! This hardcover gift to humankind contains over seven hundred pages of Empowered and is limited to a single majestic printing.
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AfterShock Announces Unholy Grail
Press Release
Arthur Pendragon was the king of all Britain. His story is legendary. Merlin. The Lady of the Lake. Excalibur. Camelot. The Knights of the Round Table. But these stories are bright lies painted over the truth. Here is presented the gospel of Arthur's bloody rise to power and his unholy reign. The legend of King Arthur is not the stuff of legends, but the fuel of nightmares.
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DC Entertainment’s Best-Selling ‘DC Universe Rebirth’ Comic Collections Expand on hoopla digital
A library card is now the superhero cape equivalent for comic book fans who want to revel in the sagas of their favorite characters. hoopla digital (hoopladigital.com), the category-creating mobile and online service for public libraries, today announced the expansion of the DC Universe Rebirth comic offerings with the arrival of DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH Vol. 2s. Starting today, library patrons can access and enjoy full digital volumes of DC Rebirth Vol. 2 collected editions, which will debut in pairs on hoopla digital the same day as print versions release everywhere.
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Preview: Misfit City #1 from BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios is excited to unveil a new cover strategy for MISFIT CITY #1, the upcoming original BOOM! Box series by Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You creator Kiwi Smith, Kurt Lustgarten, and Naomi Franquiz. The realignment comes before the Final Order Cutoff (FOC) date ofApril 17 for retailers to adjust their final orders for the issue. The issue goes on saleMay 10.
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Fancy Pants Book For EVE Online Announced By Dark Horse
The universe of EVE® Online is peopled with characters both cunning and cutthroat, but their talents would mean little without the impressive power of their starships to bring them to bear! Dark Horse is thrilled to announce the Frigates of EVE® Online: The Cross Sections hardcover, available June 6, 2017.
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Diamond Becomes Exclusive Worldwide Distributor of Heavy Metal
Effective April 2017, Diamond Comic Distributors has assumed exclusive worldwide sales and distribution for Heavy Metal Media, LLC in comic shop and book markets for graphic novels, trade paperback, and hardcover book publications. Diamond will continue to distribute Heavy Metal Magazine’s bimonthly issues to comic shop and specialty stores as well.
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Papercutz Launches Charmz
Papercutz—one of the publishers leading the current boom in kids’ graphic novel publishing—will launch Charmz, a new imprint for tween girls on May 2, 2017 with three new graphic novel series. Each of three launch titles have their own distinct look and feel, with subjects and settings ranging from graveyards to new schools, and storylines that share a common theme: a focus on friendships and relationships.
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VIZ Media Expands TOKYO GHOUL Catalog With A New Original Novel Release
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, notably expands its catalog of original novels inspired by the smash hit TOKYO GHOUL with the print and digital release of TOKYO GHOUL: PAST on April 18th.
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Kodansha Comics keeps digital-first manga rolling in April: GTO Paradise Lost and Domestic Girlfriend debut April 11
Press Release
Kodansha Comics announced today it is continuing to expand its growing list of well-received digital-first manga titles with the series debuts of GTO Paradise Lost, Toru Fujisawa’s sequel to his beloved manga classic Great Teacher Onizuka, and Domestic Girlfriend (Japanese title Domestic na kanojo), Kei Sasuga’s love-triangle romancer that’s a top requested title by Western fans—and a bestseller in Japan. Volume 1s of both titles go on sale today April 11 on all of Kodansha’s digital retail channels.
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It's Alive! To Publish FAMILY MAN by Jerome Charyn and Joe Staton
Many years ago, somewhere around the early 1990s, DC Comics launched a non-superhero, non-science fiction, and non-fantasy imprint called Paradox Press, which produced such popular titles as Road to Perdition and A History of Violence, both of which were eventually adapted into Hollywood movies. And while not all titles from Paradox Press experienced the mainstream success as the aforementioned books, the imprint -brilliantly run by editor Andy Helfer and others- produced an incredible amount of smart, entertaining stories, before DC decided to shut down the imprint because of...oh, who knows why big powerful publishers do what they do.
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Pulp-Inspired Creator Returns to His Acclaimed Original Series “The Black Beetle”
The Black Beetle is flying back for more adventures in The Black Beetle: Kara Böcek! The first issue of The Black Beetle was published in late 2012, and the title quickly became a critically acclaimed original series at Dark Horse. This new story from Francesco Francavilla’s superhero noir thriller was recently featured in Dark Horse Presents.
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Seven Seas Presents the Two Original PERFECT BLUE Novels by Yoshikazu Takeuchi
Seven Seas Entertainment is proud to announce the license acquisition of the two Perfect Blue novels by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, the first of which was the inspiration for Satoshi Kon’s animated film masterpiece.
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Presenting “Moebius Library: The Art of Edena,” the Second Chapter in the Dark Horse Moebius Library
Dark Horse is proud to announce the much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times best-selling graphic novel Moebius Library: The World of Edena, with Moebius Library: The Art of Edena, available in bookstores October 3, 2017.
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Crash-Land Into a New World with the Seven Seas Release of NIRVANA Manga Series
Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition of the Nirvana manga series by Jin and Sayuki (ZOWLS), a magical adventure series by the artist of the Mikagura School Suite manga!
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Dark Horse Announces "Mr. Higgins Comes Home"
Mike Mignola, the legendary creator of Hellboy, and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, the acclaimed artist of Helena Crash, are creating an original graphic novel about vampire hunters, the undead, and the importance of avoiding the crime scene of your wife’s death. Mr. Higgins Comes Home is an unexpected and unusual stand-alone story, featuring all new characters in a send-up of classic vampire stories. Dark Horse Comics will release Mr. Higgins Comes Home as a hardcover graphic novel in October, in time for Halloween, featuring a cover by Mignola colored by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart.
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Supernatural Forces Collide in New Series SACRED CREATURES
Fan-favorite Pablo Raimondi (Book of Doom) teams up with Klaus Janson (Daredevil, The Dark Knight Returns) for the all-new ongoing series, SACRED CREATURES, which was first announced at Emerald City Comic Con and will launch this July.
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BOOM! Studios Parties on with "Bill & Ted Save the Universe"
BOOM! Studios is most excited to announce that everyone’s favorite time-traveling duo from San Dimas are back in BILL & TED SAVE THE UNIVERSE, a new, far-out series launching in June. The excellent team behind Bill & Ted Go To Hell is back, too, and this time it’s intergalactic!
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Seven Seas Signs a Supernatural Contract with YOKAI RENTAL SHOP Manga Series
Seven Seas Entertainment is thrilled to announce the license acquisition of the Yokai Rental Shop manga series by Shin Mashiba, a supernatural drama by the creator of the hit manga, Nightmare Inspector!
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VIZ Media Details Brand New April Digital Manga Update
VIZ Media continues to celebrate the spring reading season with a brand new digital manga update for April that features the launch of several notable new series as well as updates to scores of popular continuing titles.
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Seven Seas Licenses IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD Manga Omnibus
Seven Seas Entertainment is delighted to announce the license acquisition of In This Corner of the World by Fumiyo Kouno, a manga series that inspired the critically acclaimed anime film! Ms. Kouno is also known for the beloved manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms.
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