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B&Z’s Life Coach “client of the week” is a girlfriendless office worker. Reinvigorated by his conversation with Father Angelo, Bifrons tries a more hands-off, tool-based approach to saving humans’ souls. Will Bifrons’s new strategy help his client find love, or will he be doomed to rot in Hell?• Four-issue series.

Fans of The Legend of Vox Machina, the record-breaking animated series from Critical Role and Amazon Studios, won’t want to miss the second of three interconnected prequel stories! Written by Marieke Nijkamp (This Is Where It Ends, The Oracle Code, Hawkeye: Kate Bishop), with art by Travis Hymel, colors by Diana Sousa, and letters by Comicraft, all in collaboration with the cast of Critical Role, this original graphic novel shines light on the off-screen storylines of the show!Critically injured and seemingly abandoned by her brother after the murder of her family, Cassandra de Rolo finds herself at the mercy of Whitestone’s usurpers. Much to her shock, Delilah and Sylas Briarwood treat her with the utmost care—almost like a daughter—as she recovers within the relative safety of her own childhood bedroom. On edge and suspicious of their motives, Cassandra adapts to survive while processing the trauma of her family’s demise and Percy’s abandonment.The Briarwoods delight in parading Cassandra around the city in an attempt to convince the despairing populace of their benevolence. Instead of becoming their paragon of obedience, Cassandra unwittingly becomes the guiding light of the rebellion attempting to rescue Whitestone: particularly in the eyes of her childhood friend and rebel leader, Archie. Cassandra vows to do whatever she can to help her beloved home, but are the ghosts of her past powerful enough to overcome the ghosts in her present, or will the Briarwoods’ brainwashing drown out all reason?

In 1984 Osaka, the bloodline of Miyamoto Usagi lives on through Kaitō Usagi, a cunning rabbit thief with a rebellious spirit. He embodies his ancestor's legacy in a way the stoic samurai we know and love never could. A daring new heist for a legendary spear sets Kaitō down a perilous path, forever altering his destiny and placing the fate of Osaka, and perhaps the world, on his shoulders.• A brand-new era of Usagi Yojimbo!• Features Miyamoto Usagi’s descendent in 1984.• A heist for a legendary spear possessed by evil.• Five-issue series.

A stormy night in the mountains forces a lone traveler to take shelter in a witch’s house, where the witch spins a yarn of the mysterious and merciless Skinless Man who is in pursuit of new skin at any cost, and the gang of warlocks who were foolish enough to try to deceive him.“The Skinless Man” marks Stenbeck’s first story in the horror-fantasy Lands Unknown universe, co-created with Hellboy’s Mike Mignola. • Two-issue series.

In order to keep a dangerous and familiar relic out of the wrong hands, Lara Croft must travel to Italy and meet the mysterious, masked adversary who stole it from her. But when Lara enlists the aid of her old friend Carter Bell, his own request for help will lead her on a detour—one that will plunge her into the depths of the city of Paris! • Tomb Raider returns to Dark Horse with an all-new series!• A thrilling new adventure for Tomb Raider fans, and a perfect jumping-on point for the uninitiated. • Four-issue series.

China, 2010. Flights are immediately diverted into and out of Xiaoshan Airport as staff and passengers aboard multiple planes report seeing flashes and beams of otherworldly light. Four unidentified objects are captured in various photos and videos. How does it all fit within the history of cover-ups by the Chinese government over UFO sightings?The final issue of the all-new volume of “true” tales capturing the strange world of alien encounters by the New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers in the continuation of their acclaimed work on the Blue Book series.Each issue will feature “True Weird” backup stories by guest creators. • Series finale!

The definitive Barb Wire comics collection in one oversized compendium! Tough as nails and stubborn as a mule—badass bounty hunter Barb Wire puts the “drop dead” in drop dead gorgeous.Steel Harbor is the American dream turned nightmare. This once great city was a monument to American industry and ingenuity, but now it’s a scrap heap of shuttered factories, decaying neighborhoods, and wasted potential being carved up and fought over by superpowered street gangs. But where others see a warzone, Barb sees opportunity. When a bounty can punch through a wall, summon a tornado, or fly, they tend to have a big fat price on their head which is exactly what Barb needs if she’s going to keep her money-pit hard rock bar from being shuttered. The trick is staying alive long enough collect. Barb Wire is a full-throttle romp of flying fists, leather jackets, heavy metal, bounty hunting, motor bikes, and super-powered bad attitudes as told by a gang of comic book’s greatest storytellers including series-creator Chris Warner and rockstars John Arcudi, Adam Hughes, Patrick Oliffe, Paul Gulacy, Tim Bradstreet, Dan Lawliss, Mike Manley, Adam Warren, Dave Dorman, Mike Mignola, Andrew Robinson, and more!This definitive collection features Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 1: Barb Wire, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 2: The Machine, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 3: Wolf Gang, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 4: Motorhead, Barb Wire #1–#9, San Diego Comic-Con Comics #3: Barb Wire: No Fear, Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #1–#4, Barb Wire (Volume 2) #1–#8, and, as a bonus, the movie adaptation comic Barb Wire Movie Special.For mature audiences.

Super-science and super-genius Archie Gates has turned the tables on the POWERS division--threatening to take them over and shut them down. Detective Kutter knows it’s all a smoke screen cover up, but can she prove it?Meanwhile, rookie Detective Moon has teamed up with veteran all-star Deena Pilgrim to confront the newest powers super group, THE GRAND. It’s a race to see who can uncover the conspiracy behind the latest murder.Featuring another in a series of POWERS anniversary Dark Horse legends variant covers.• 12-issue series.

From James Tynion IV, the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning creator of Something is Killing the Children, and Batgirl’s Tate Brombal comes this terrifying new arc of the hit GLAAD Media award-nominated comics series! The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos is an LGBTQ+, horror-hero, coming-of-age comics series that’s Invincible meets Doom Patrol, that's a great jumping on point for new readers!A new school year begins for Christopher Chaos and his friends as he finds himself divided from his mentor, Adam Frankenstein, and searching for answers outside of any textbook. But when Dr. Henry Jekyll arrives in New Briar City with a mysterious hunter on his trail called "Helbound," a strange case develops that only Christopher can solve! Will the Monster Club survive their latest foe or will they be torn apart—piece by bloody piece?Tiny Onion Studios and Dark Horse Comics present a line of upcoming creator-owned work from the mind of James Tynion IV across a broad spectrum of his interests, from non-fiction supernatural encounters to high concept coming-of-age monster comics.Collects the Dark Horse Comics series The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #1–#4.

The original creators of POWERS have returned with a brand-new case featuring brand-new secrets from the POWERS universe. With Detective Kutter tackling the interrogation of super-science super-genius Archie Gates, rookie Detective Moon teams up with veteran Powers all-star Deena Pilgrim to solve the case before it gets taken away from Powers by higher ups of the government. There is a cover-up. They can feel it. Now they have to prove it.• 12-issue series.

A pair of decadent young men pursue the abhorrent thrill of grave robbing . . . A German submarine's crew is driven mad by the call of an underwater temple . . . An explorer in the Arabian Desert discovers a hideous city older than mankind. This moody and evocative manga gets back to the dark foundations of the Cthulhu mythos, adapting three of H. P. Lovecraft's original stories that first shaped the outlines of cosmic horror! o Artist Gou Tanabe's first publication in English! o Gou Tanabe is a favorite creator of Taiyo Matsumoto (Sunny, Tekkonkinkreet). o From Japan's magazine Comic Beam, acclaimed home of the manga Thermae Romae, Emma, and Wandering Son.

A new omnibus collecting volumes twenty-eight, twenty-nine, and thirty of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series!The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind’s nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can’t bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will—assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer’s price!Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Ten collects three different complete novels. The Tiger in Winter is Duke Van Doren, vampire lord of the Northern Frontier, whom D’s just been paid ten times his usual price to vanquish…except he has competition from three rival groups aiming for the Duke themselves! Then, in Noble Front, D confronts what may be his most lethal threat ever—the grotesque killers known as the “Nameless,” who have no wanted posters, as everyone they target winds up dead. Finally, the epic-length Gold Fiend Parts One and Two raises the question of how do you collect from a deadbeat who’s really dead? Marquis Verenis is a powerful vampire Noble three hundred million dalas in debt to Old El, the lender of last resort out on the Frontier. No collection agent has ever returned from the castle of the Marquis, but this time the undead debtor is dealing with D…The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Eight collects volumes 28, 29, and 30 in author Hideyuki Kikuchi’s adventure horror series: The Tiger in Winter, Noble Front, and Gold Fiend Parts One and Two. Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, the legend of D endures!

Happy Anniversary to the SCU! Celebrating twenty-one years of the Eisner and Inkpot Award–winning highly-praised Shaolin Cowboy comics series comes this brand-new collection, featuring essential stories for all fans of the legendary and renowned artist Geof Darrow's brilliantly detailed artwork and Dave Stewart's beautiful colors.Collected in this special anniversary deluxe hardcover edition are The Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek and the long out-of-print fan favorite Bourbon Thret comics from Comics and Stories, originally published in France by Moebius’ publishing house dena. What lies ahead are over two hundred pages where every single panel is a work of art. You can look at these pages for years and always see something new in the details. Showcasing the essence of the Shaolin Cowboy over the last two decades, this commemorative and epic publication is a truly stunning must-have collection of art for Geof Darrow fans everywhere.

Vox Machina enjoy a week in Westruun's lap of luxury leading up to the Winter's Crest Festival. But that costs coin, which has a bad habit of running out, so they join an underground fighting ring and bash their way to cash. Unfortunately, their ring-fighting turns out to be just a warm-up for a cold reality when a mysterious attack on Winter's Crest festivities leaves the whole town magically frozen-including one of their own. Vox Machina will have to save the day again, against a much bigger foe than they first realized! Collects issues #1-#6 of Vox Machina Origins III.

The unlikely heroes of Vox Machina are back in action! Join familiar faces from Critical Role's smash-hit first campaign as their escapades in Stilben lead them toward new adventure-and a dire threat to Grog when he goes missing in the night. Tracking him down will see the party lose one member, gain another, and reveal parts of Grog's secret past. But first, his friends have to actually find him. From award-nominated writer Jody Houser (Orphan Black, Stranger Things) and first series author Olivia Samson, with colorist MSASSYK (Isola, Gotham Academy) and letterer Ariana Maher (James Bond, Xena)!