Comic Book New Releases May 22

1st printing. Collects A Haunted Girl (2023 Image) #1-4. Written by Ethan Sacks, Naomi Sacks. Art by Marco Lorenzano. Cover by Joe Quesada. The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn't know if she wants to live! Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drive her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn't know is that her real struggles are just beginning, as she finds herself encountering an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts. Is she losing her grip on reality... or is the explanation much, much worse? A Haunted Girl is a horror story that explores the real-life terror that comes with the struggles of anxiety and depression. Softcover, 136 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Yehudi Mercado. Who's a good boy? Jester is. Well, he wants to be. Maybe he is? He's The Joker's dog, so of course he's funny, but his sense of humor is about to be put to the test. Because when the super-villains of Gotham get thrown into Arkham, their henchpets go to the maximum-security pound known as Barkham Asylum. Being the Clown Prince of Crime's dog doesn't win Jester any friends behind bars, especially after he gets a tough-talking stray cat named Penny tossed into lockup with him. But they'll have to work together to figure out what the evil Warden Shar Pei's helper, Dr. Hugo Mange, is up to. And the only way to stop this terrifying team-up is to win the talent show and get visitation with their masters at Arkham on the hill. Because The Joker is sure to help! What could go wrong with that plan? And where does Gotham's premier playboy Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred, fit in? Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $12.99.

Book Market Edition

1st printing. Collects Detective Comics (1937-2011) #871-881. Written by Scott Snyder. Art by Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Cover by Jock. For years Batman and Commissioner Gordon have stared into the unyielding, black abyss that is Gotham City. But even after a lifetime of quelling the worst of humanity, an even darker and more dangerous evil pushes the two crime-fighters to their absolute limits. As the city's top cop, James Gordon has seen it all. But can he unravel a deep and personal mystery that is inextricably tied to Gotham City's underworld? Or will the darkness that turns Gotham's citizens into monsters blind him forever? From Eisner Award-winning writer SCOTT SNYDER (Batman: The Court of Owls) comes this deluxe edition of his #1 New York Times bestselling debut work on the Dark Knight with stunning art provided by JOCK (The Losers) and FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (Swamp Thing). Includes additional bonus material featuring sketches, designs, a wrapround cover by Jock, and more! Hardcover, 320 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Direct Market Exclusive Edition

1st printing. Collects Detective Comics (1937-2011) #871-881. Written by Scott Snyder. Art by Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Cover by Jock. For years Batman and Commissioner Gordon have stared into the unyielding, black abyss that is Gotham City. But even after a lifetime of quelling the worst of humanity, an even darker and more dangerous evil pushes the two crime-fighters to their absolute limits. As the city's top cop, James Gordon has seen it all. But can he unravel a deep and personal mystery that is inextricably tied to Gotham City's underworld? Or will the darkness that turns Gotham's citizens into monsters blind him forever? From Eisner Award-winning writer SCOTT SNYDER (Batman: The Court of Owls) comes this deluxe edition of his #1 New York Times bestselling debut work on the Dark Knight with stunning art provided by JOCK (The Losers) and FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (Swamp Thing). Includes additional bonus material featuring sketches, designs, a wrapround cover by Jock, and more! Hardcover, 320 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Written by CRC Payne. Art by Starbite. Cover by Vasco Georgiev. Season two of the smash-hit WEBTOON series continues here! When your superhero life is just as busy as your personal life, there's never a dull moment in the Bat-Family. Bruce Wayne's young heroes are still learning to fight and live side by side, but they always have each other's backs. Collecting episodes 71-116 of the massively popular WEBTOON series, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print! Softcover, 208 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Collects Blood Commandment (2023 Image) #1-4. Story and art by Szymon Kudranski. Living an isolated life in a shadowed valley surrounded by mountains and a thick forest, a father and son are terrorized by a dangerous supernatural presence. Only the father's dark secrets can save them... or damn their souls for all eternity! Being a single father can be tough, but for Ezra Connolly, it's a duty he doesn't take lightly. Living off-grid, away from prying eyes, in the heart of forest country, he spends his days teaching his teenage son Wil survival skills. But Wil has questions, questions Ezra fears to answer-about his past, and about why they never leave the valley before sundown. Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Collects DC Pride (2021 DC) and stories from New Year's Evil (2019 DC) , Mysteries of Love in Space (2018 DC), and Young Monsters In Love (2018 DC). Written by James Tynion IV, Steve Orlando, Vita Ayala, Mariko Tamaki, Sam Johns, Danny Lore, Sina Grace, Nicole Maines and Andrew Wheeler. Art by Trung Le Nguyen, Stephen Byrne, Skylar Patridge, Amy Reeder, Klaus Janson, Lisa Sterle, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Rachael Stott and Luciano Vecchio. Cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. Foreword by Marc Andreyko. DCs very first Pride anthology is finally back in print! In 2021, DC celebrated Pride Month with stories and pinups starring fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Midnighter, Batwoman, Aqualad, Alan Scott, Future State Flash, Renee Montoya, Pied Piper, and many more. This beautiful hardcover collects those thrilling tales, including the very first appearance of Dreamer (as seen on The CW's Supergirl) in the pages of a DC comic, plus a stunning pinup gallery, additional short stories, and six exciting profiles of DCTVs LGBTQIA+ characters and the actors who play them! Hardcover, 144 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Collects Deep Cuts (2023 Image) #1-6. Written by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark. Art by Danilo Beyruth. Cover by Chris Brunner. New Orleans, 1917: a clarinet player meets his hero. Kansas City, 1940: a young girl investigates the mystery of her father's lost love of music. Los Angeles, 1977: a band embarks on a world tour that may be their last. Writers Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark (Radiant Black) are joined by an all-star cast of artists for an anthology of stories that weave tales of struggle, joy, and hope through the history of jazz! Softcover, 320 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Collects Edenwood (2023 Image) #1-5. Story and art by Tony S. Daniel. Teenager Rion Astor gets lost looking for his girlfriend in a magical land called Edenwood, a multidimensional realm where an eons-long war between witches and demons has staged its final battle. Rion becomes a legendary demon killer and finds himself thrust into the role of the hero who will ultimately lead a team of demon killers to save humanity from the demon kings. Swords and sorcery meet horror and sci-fi warfare in an epic tale of human spirit and survival that's not to be missed! From New York Times-bestselling creator Tony S. Daniel, writer of Batman, Detective Comics, and Deathstroke. Softcover, 128 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $9.99.

Volume 16 - 1st printing. Collects Fables (2002-) #151-162. Written by Bill Willingham. Art by Mark Buckingham. Cover by Corinne Reid. The acclaimed blockbuster that defined an era of Vertigo continues! Picking up right where Fables #150 left off, the dust has barely settled from the climactic battle between Totenkinder and Cinderella--and everything is far from happily ever after. A legendary new adversary has arrived, and he plans to get even with Geppetto for the mess that has been made of Manhattan... Hardcover, 7in. x 11 in., 304 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $39.99.

Full Color Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Case of the Missing Men!" Written by Kris Bertin. Art and cover by Alexander Forbes. Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Hardy Boys mysteries, The Hobtown Mystery Stories take the teen investigator genre to new levels as they explore small town identity and the surreal. Welcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) and an easy place to get bored if you don't make your own fun. Hobtown Regional High's top girl, Dana Nance, runs the Teen Detective Club-a registered after-school program that makes it their business to investigate each and every one of their town's bizarre occurrences including pagan secret societies, psychic assaults, and possible "wee man" sightings. Their small world of missing pets and shed fires is turned upside down when real-life kid adventurer and globetrotter Sam Finch comes to town and enlists them in their first real case: the search for his missing father. Something strange is going on, and no one in Hobtown will talk about it. It turns out Sam's dad is the sixth man to go missing this year. The rot runs deep in Hobtown, and it's up to the teen detectives and associates to stay alive long enough to crack the Case of the Missing Men! Childhood friends Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes have built a truly unique and discrete universe in Hobtown-an exploration of small town identity drawing from the world of pulp, filtered through a lens of esoteric spirituality, skewed genre tropes, deft character work, and an incredible eye for detail. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 312 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Based on the Story by Mark Twain. Adapted by Seymour Chwast. Mark Twain's lambasting of phony, war-mongering patriotism reinterpreted by one of our finest contemporary illustrators. Written in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged by his own country on others, declined to publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular illustrator Daniel Beard even urged Twain to issue the piece, to which the author replied, "No, I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead." It took 13 years after his passing for that prophecy to be fulfilled - and now, another 102 years later, the legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast (himself 92 years young) has fulfilled Beard's dream of enriching the fable with illustration. Chwast brings every aspect of his skills to this interpretation: drawing, design, typography, type design, pastel painting, and computer color all sit alongside each other with Twain's text in pages that expand and pace the original. With another century and a quarter of warfare passed since its writing, Chwast's artwork echoes advances in technology but Twain's message about the pointlessness of patriotism as a marketing hook for death is only more pointed today. SEYMOUR CHWAST (b. 1931) is one of the most highly regarded graphic designers in American history. He has executed hundreds of advertising campaigns, designed multiple popular typefaces, illustrated or been the subject of dozens of books, and created several childrens' books of his own. Referred to as "the left-handed designer," he has worked social commentary into his design for decades, including through his biannual journal The Nose. Chwast founded the design group Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins in 1954 and continues to head and work via the company at age 92. Hardcover, 104 pages, PC. Cover price $22.99.

1st printing. Art by Robert Mailer Anderson and Jon Sack. Set in Liberal, Kansas, a teenager moves in with her gay, film geek Godfather and his partner who run the Starlite movie theater, a safe haven for their eccentricities and artistic yearnings. My Fairy Godfather tells a story about how music and film connect us to who we've loved, who we've been, and who we are becoming-and that lying beneath the façade of teenage cynicism is the profound desire to be understood and loved. Softcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects The Sixth Gun (2010 Oni Press) #18-35 and The Sixth Gun: Days of the Dead (2014) #1-5. Written by Cullen Bunn. Art by Brian Hurtt, Tyler Crook, and Mike Norton. Cover by Brian Hurtt. The ultimate collection for fans and new readers alike-Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's iconic weird western, The Sixth Gun, is available for the first time in beautiful softcover omnibus editions! On a night of blood and gunfire, Drake Sinclair vanished without a trace. Now, using the prophetic powers of the Sixth Gun, Becky Moncrief sets out to find him. Becky's enemies have often seen her as the helpless damsel, but no more! Once she's finished with them, they'll know she is the deserving wielder of the deadliest weapon ever created. But the Sixth Gun is a temperamental ally, and it reveals only enough to serve its own desires. Softcover, 584 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $39.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Battle for Gamorra!" Collects Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021 DC) #11-15. Written by Tom Taylor and Nicole Maines. Art by Cian Tormey and Clayton Henry. Cover by Travis Moore. Jonathan Kent has faced many challenges on the way to becoming Superman, but what will he do when faced with metahuman bombs? Jon and his journalist boyfriend Jay must unravel the secrets of dictator Henry Bendix's Rising before all the heroes of the DCU fall before the explosive threat. The mysterious heroine called Dreamer foresees a horrible outcome to the battle that's coming...but does that prediction also hold the key to Superman avoiding that terrible fate? Jon, Jay, and the super-activists called the Revolutionaries attack Bendix head-on, with Bendix's technology turning friends and loved ones into deadly foes! Softcover, 136 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Written by Jasmine Walls. Art by ailey Stewart, Manou Azumi, Toby Fan, and BBM. Cover by Vasco Georgiev. Mari and Karen are just getting the hang of this whole superhero thing (thanks to help from Beast Boy, Grace Choi, Raven, and Thunder, among others)...but when faced with a new villain, they'll find it's going to take more than just the Teen Titans and a college girl with animal powers to take them down...especially when a certain spidery trickster starts crashing in Vixen's dorm room! The saga of Vixen: NYC goes to surprising places in this collection of episodes 39-46 of the continuing WEBTOON series, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print and including never-before-seen bonus material from the series' creators! Softcover, 208 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Collects World's Finest: Teen Titans (2023 DC) #1-6. Written by Mark Waid. Art by Emanuela Lupacchino. Cover by Chris Samnee. What is finer than the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight? The Teen Titans! From the world's finest imagination of Mark Waid (Batman/Superman: World's Finest) and Emanuela Lupacchino (Justice League) comes a new series starring everyone's favorite super-teens! The original fab five of Robin, Wonder Girl, Aqualad, Speedy, and Kid Flash are joined by Bumblebee, making them a spectacular six. Set during the early years of the DC Universe, World's Finest: Teen Titans is filled with action, romance, and rabid fans. Building a unified team from a group of teen heroes is hard work--and even harder when the Teen Titans are being targeted by the very dangerous Terror Titans. But will the tensions within the team prove to be the strongest challenges the Titans face? Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $24.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Written by Sarah Dealy. Art by Rachel Koo and Syro. Cover by Vasco Georgiev. he dazzling story of magic and murder continues in a new print edition of supernatural stories from WEBTOON! Trapped in 1880s Whitechapel, Zatanna Zatara finds herself drawn to the brutal crime spree of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. She finds an ally in the similarly timetossed John Constantine, but what can a magician without his tools do to help the mistress of backward magic...especially when he becomes a prime suspect in the Ripper's crimes? Can the out-of-time duo return to the present in time to prevent Zatanna's magician father's death at the hands of a merciless sorceress? And is Constantine pursuing an agenda of his own? (You can usually count on it.) Collecting episodes 24-36 of WEBTOON's smash-hit series, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.