Illustrated by Sana Takeda
Milly and Billy try to wrestle with their new found powers as demons, and their parents continue to be closed off and provide no answers to their heritage nor in how to do anything. One day, The twins are re-visited by the posessed doll of their neighbor they thought they killed, but the spirit that accompanies her is a murdered girl from across the country. Rather than ask their unhelpful parents, the twins become detectives for spirits and embark on the trip themselves to enact some sort of revenge plot that embroils the entire family further into dark plans with a whole host of evil beings.
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Vol 1: The Silver Eyes, adapted by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, illustrated by Claudia Schröder
Ten years after a kid named Michael went missing at a local pizza parlor owned by her father, Charlie and her childhood friends are back in her hometown to honor the memory of their friend and help celebrate the scholarship Michael’s parents set up in his honor. Several of the (now) young adults decide to try and find what’s left of the restaurant, which was boarded up, and a shopping mall built up around it. On the first night, everything's fine. The second night, however, as a larger group decides to walk down memory lane, things start to get weird and some of the horrors of their childhood start to come back and revisit them. 
On the way to work one morning, Suzume finds Kaidou stopped to pay his respects at a shrine for all the deceased dinosaurs, and he tells her the details of the incident fifteen years ago that led to a dinosaur attack and, ultimately, her father’s death. Later, Suzume is entrusted to look after one of the Troodon babies, a runt who was rejected by the flock. Then, she gets to plan a birthday celebration for the park’s aging Tyrannosaurus rex and must consider the dino's special dietary needs when constructing her a birthday cake made of meat. Suzume hopes posting about the celebration on social media, as well as a few other dino-happenings, will get more visitors to visit the park.
Shizuki and Kusunoki spent junior high as social outcasts, but both have made themselves over coming into high school, so much so that neither recognizes the other. Shizuki is determined to reinvent himself and lead an entirely uneventful, normal high school life, but the beautiful Kusunoki in his class complicates things. After a scarring experience in junior high leaves him unable to talk to beautiful girls, Shizuki doesn’t want anything to do with Kusunoki or any other girls, but Kusunoki wants Shizuki’s help making friends and learning how to socialize.
During a school trip to the beach, a friend group is shaken up when two of them give into their feelings and become a couple. Amber and Nico lose themselves in each other and completely and forget their friends. Slumber parties stop. Hanging out stops. When the friend group speaks up, Amber and Nico escape further into each other and into a dream world where everything is peaceful -- until Nico wants to return, and Amber doesn’t. In her anger, Amber turns their dream world into a nightmare, putting her remaining friendship at risk.
All of the pieces of Laios' plan are coming to a head as the Winged Lion is about to break through the dungeon and unleash the magic of the dungeon on the surface. If Laios understands the ultimate monster correctly, he and his friends may actually come out of this, but that also means that the Canary Elves and Kabru must trust in Laios' knowledge and a plan they weren't privy to.
Vol 1: Escape from Complex 12, illustrated by Emma Galloway, colored by Iacopo Calisti, lettered by LetterSquid
Kimi Kosmic is a fearless space cowgirl living on Pax. She thrives in her exciting environment at the edge of the galaxy, riding around in her space ship the Black Dragon Supernova with her cowboy partner, Pocketts. Kimi spends her days herding space cattle on the ranch, and her nights quad racing. The challenging but fulfilling life Kimi leads is destabilized when a strange cowboy, Leather Tongue the Awesome, bursts into town with secrets that threaten to unravel everything she believes in. This sets Kimi and her crew off to find her long lost father before the corporation can strike again. 
Illustrated by Yumika Kanade
When his parents get divorced, Yuuta decides he won’t get close to another woman so he can’t be disappointed by them again. Then, his father remarries, and he becomes brother to a stepsister his same age. Yuuta's new stepsister is also closed off and mysterious, and the two strike up an uneasy truce in order to cohabitate. They end up deciding that living together is not all that bad, but both have some definite trust issues to overcome. 
In the small town of Belle River, Canada, bugs known as Fishflies descend upon the residents for once a week every year. But once a generation, a different plague besets them. What started as a simple dare lands one young boy in the hospital and begins a manhunt that entangles the boy’s classmate, Franny. The young girl takes pity on the fugitive and makes a friend in the process. The townsfolk, Franny, and her new friend embark on something much more supernatural and rooted deep in the town's history, and many of the discover something much more than they bargained for.
Pyontaro is trying to live his teenage life away from his annoying little sister, Futaba, but she’s constantly intruding in the most inopportune times. He and his two friends attend classes where they learn about the multiverse theory and daydream about girls. One day, they take home a strange disk from one of their teachers that opens a portal to another world, a bizarre multiverse where Futaba is captured by aliens! Pyontaro and his two friends go in after her, and they seem to have special abilities and super strength.
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