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Dark Horse Books Announces the HELLBOY Omnibus Collection

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In 1994, Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction and introduced the world to the Right Hand of Doom, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and one of the most iconic comic book characters—and universes—of all time. For more than 20 years, Mignola and a host of celebrated writers and artists have chronicled the adventures of Hellboy facing his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse, and explored the mysterious backstories of B.P.R.D. agents including Professor Trevor Bruttenholm and Abe Sapien. Now, for the first time ever, Dark Horse Books will publish Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order with the Hellboy Omnibus Collection, creating the definitive reading experience for Hellboy fans and an ideal entry point for new readers.

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Seven Seas Fights Evil With Style With Release of CUTIE HONEY: THE CLASSIC COLLECTION Hardcover Manga Omnibus

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Seven Seas Entertainment is honored to announce the license acquisition of Cutie Honey: The Classic Collection, a hardcover omnibus of Go Nagai’s original manga!

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Seven Seas Licenses ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE DUKE'S DAUGHTER Manga Series

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Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce the license acquisition--both print and digital--of the manga Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter by Reia and Suki Umemiya, the story of a young woman’s struggles after being reborn into one of her beloved romance otome games--as the antagonist!

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Explore a Beloved World Like Never Before with Seven Seas Release of THE ANCIENT MAGUS' BRIDE SUPPLEMENT I and THE ANCIENT MAGUS' BRIDE OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK MERKMAL

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Seven Seas Entertainment is delighted to announce the license acquisition--both print and digital--of two must-have companion books to the bestselling The Ancient Magus’ Bride series: The Ancient Magus' Bride Supplement I and The Ancient Magus' Bride Official Guide Book Merkmal!

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Athena Voltaire gets back to her roots with ATHENA VOLTAIRE PULP TALES

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1930s adventuress Athena Voltaire is admittedly inspired by Doc Savage, the Shadow, and other giants of the pulp era, and now she's starring in her own collection of pulp-style stories. This November, Action Lab Entertainment unleashes Athena Voltaire Pulp Tales—a collection of two-fisted stories that send the aviatrix across the globe and back again!

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The Story of 'Judas' Is Unveiled at BOOM! Studios

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BOOM! Studios is excited to announce JUDAS, a new comic book series launching in December from Emmy and WGA Award-nominated writer Jeff Loveness (Marvel’s Nova) and artist Jakub Rebelka (Namesake) that follows the path of the most famous traitor in history. In a story perfect for fans of Preacher and The Goddamned, JUDAS picks up after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, as Judas Iscariot wakes up in Hell and grapples with his role in “The Greatest Story Ever Told”—and how much of his part was preordained.

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VIZ Media Launches Coming-Of-Age Manga Series - SWEET BLUE FLOWERS

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VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, delivers a poignant story about young girls’ romance and friendship with the release of SWEET BLUE FLOWERS on September 19th.

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Get Ready for One Hell of a Secretary With Seven Seas Release of SATAN'S SECRETARY Manga Series

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Seven Seas Entertainment is excited to announce the license acquisition--both print and digital--of the manga Satan's Secretary by Kamotsu Kamonabe, the story of one woman keeping the Demon King on schedule!

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Adam Warren joins forces with Carla Speed McNeil in “Empowered & Sistah Spooky’s High School Hell”

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Empowered's "frenemy" Sistah Spooky was once a schoolgirl who sold her soul for hotness, but was granted even more magic than beauty. Now, both superheroines find themselves trapped in a high-school hellscape by Spooky's Infernal Service Provider—with her blonde ex-classmates plotting ritual murder to claim her magic for themselves!

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Review: Mech Cadet Yu #2

By Daniel Vlasaty

I really enjoyed the first issue of Mech Cadet Yu when it came out last month. I thought it was a solid opening issue. And I was excited to jump back into this “boy and his giant robot” story. I wanted to see how Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa continued to grow this story that is not entirely unique or original but is still being presented interestingly and engagingly.

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Review: Wolfenstein #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Remember the first Wolfenstein game for the original X-Box? That shit was great, in fact, that was the last time that Wolfenstein as a franchise was great. Everything since has been utter crap, and this comic is no different. Sigh, I shouldn’t say that. This comic isn’t terrible, but it’s not good either.

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Review: Justice League of America #14

By Jonathan Edwards

Of course, Lobo isn't dead. I mean, there was absolutely no chance that DC would okay him being killed off in a random issue of JLA. Furthermore, it's clear from all of the cookie cutter conversations that he and Batman have had that Orlando is fully intent on having Lobo stick around for whatever "big" thing the Caped Crusader keeps insisting is on the horizon. So then why even have him be struck be "atomic lightning" in the first place? All it does is create inconsistencies within the story.

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Review: Ninjak #0

By Dustin Cabeal

If I’m not mistaken, this is the end of the Matt Kindt era of Ninjak. Which is a damn shame. Not that I’m not looking forward to Christos Gage’s take on the character, but I have enjoyed Kindt at the helm of the character. On a side note, I could be wrong, but it seems as if he’s scaling back his work at Valiant, which is a shame. I have enjoyed him as an architect of sorts at the publisher.

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Review: Retcon #1

By Jonathan Edwards

From the official synopsis of it as "the reboot of a comic book miniseries that has never existed," Retcon #1 sounded like the kind of high concept and metatextual affair you'd expect from someone like Grant Morrison. In practice, it actually reminds me quite substantially of Si Spurrier's Cry Havoc from last year. Except, where that book had a thorough understanding and deep respect for the legends and folklore that it referenced, this one merely grabs a couple low-hanging fruits, develops them very slightly, and then tries to cobble together something meaningful out of it. But, the biggest problem here is that it just isn't what it says on the tin.

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Review: Jane

By Dustin Cabeal

On paper, I’m the wrong demographic for Jane. It’s a modern day adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which I have never read. I could go either way on modern day adaptations as well; sometimes it’s interesting to see how they pan out other times they’re this weird hybrid of old and new that doesn’t quite make it. If we explore further, I’m not a fan of screen writers or TV writers writing comics. Archaia’s owner BOOM! has produced more than a few stories by Hollywood writers that I have outright loathed.

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Review: The Chimera Factor

By Oliver Gerlach

The Chimera Factor is one of many comics based around Barry Nugent’s Unseen Shadows books, a spectacular self-published multimedia empire covering novels, audio, and comics by a wide range of creative teams. The Unseen Shadows website lists 17 separate print comics plus a webcomic, although it’s a little hard to find information on The Chimera Factor itself due to the link on the website directing to the wrong comic. Before reading The Chimera Factor I had never heard of either Unseen Shadows or Nugent himself, and the scale of this project was quite a surprise to me. So, as a disclaimer, I’ve never read any other part of this fictional universe, and therefore all opinions here are coming from the perspective of someone completely new to Unseen Shadows.

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Review: Transdimensional #1

By Justin McCarty

I picked up Transdimensional having no prior knowledge of the subject. Not even the Kickstarter description. If I had, I probably would have skipped it. I am probably one of five comics fans that don't get into sci-fi horror. The Kickstarter describes the comic as being a sci-fi horror in the same family as Alien and The Abyss. I’ve seen Alien maybe (just the one - sad face from you probably), not The Abyss. I wasn’t the proper audience for this comic. However, if I was into this type of story, I could see its appeal.

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Review: Everything Is Really Hard Today

By Oliver Gerlach

Everything Is Really Hard Today is a collection of Kevin Budnik’s It’s Okay To Be Sad autobiographical mini-comics. It’s an odd little collection of tiny, sad diary pieces, with very little coherent narrative; just brief vignettes from Budnik’s daily life. As such, it’s a very personal piece that no two readers are likely to draw the exact same conclusions from. This makes it a little challenging to review particularly usefully, but here are some general thoughts on it.

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Review: Griff Gristle: The Siren’s Song

By Justin McCarty

The Siren’s Song is the follow up to the critically acclaimed Here Be Monsters. Griff and Justine find themselves chasing a mysterious cult committed to ridding the world of blasphemers, especially Griff Gristle. They will challenge Griff in new ways as well as make him deal with the loss of his wife.

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Review: What Does Consent Really Mean?

By Ben Boruff

In May of 2016, I participated in Chicagoland's This Is My Brave event. Actors, essayists, and storytellers of all types shared memories about mental illness with a live audience. This Is My Brave, Inc. is a national organization that strives to "end the stigma surrounding mental health issues by sharing personal stories."Several months later, I gathered a binder's worth of materials to defend the teaching of an award-winning graphic novel in a high school classroom. I argued that many comics and graphic novels offer a unique reading experience in which symbolically rich visuals fuel the potency of multifaceted narratives. One page in my binder included a quote often attributed to French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard: "Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form."