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We live vol 1 by Roy and Inaki miranda

11/30/2022

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Cover of We Live volume 1. Tala and Hototo stand on a cliff overlooking what used to be a human machine that has now been overtaken by the jungle. Tala is in white pants and a purple jacket. Hototo is in his superhero outfit - red suit with a special helmet.
Written by Roy Miranda and Inaki Miranda, illustrated by Inaki Miranda, colored by Eva De La Cruz, lettered by Dave Sharpe.
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Earth has suffered through extinction events, wars, and horrendous weather cataclysms. Humanity has almost been wiped out, save for nine mega cities around the globe and smaller villages scattered through the wilds. One day, Earth receives a message from benevolent aliens that the planet will soon be ravaged by yet another weather event, but there is hope in saving the children. Five thousand bracers are sent down with the instructions to put them on children, who will then be transported to another world to restart the human race. Tala finds one of these bracers and puts it on her younger brother Hototo. They then must start the dangerous journey through the wilds to the extraction point in one of the megapolis cities, battling beasts, zealots, and other humans along the way.


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Nubia and the Amazons

11/23/2022

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Cover of Nubia and the Amazons. Nubia is in her full golden armor with fur cape flowing behind her. She's jumping as if to strike with her sword from above. She is grimacing at her target. Her long, black hair is flowing around her. Behind her is the city of Themyscira.
Written by Vita Ayala, Michael Conrad, Becky Cloonan, Stephanie Williams, illustrated by Alitha Martinez, Dominike Stanton, and Darryl Banks, inked by Mark Morales, colored by Emilio López, Allen Passalaqua, and Romulo Fajardo Jr., lettered by Becca Carey

At the end of the events of Infinite Frontier, Wonder Woman is gone, Queen Hippolyta has been killed, and Themyscera needs a new leader. Nubia leaves her post guarding the Doom's Doorway to become the leader, but her first task must be to replace the guardian of the Door. Strangely, four women come through the Well of Souls, which hasn’t happened in several decades since Nubia came through. An evil force uses these new people and some of the other inhabitants to threaten Nubia and the sanctity of life on the island. All of the Themyscerians must work together, and their new leader must prove her worth in handling this threat and keeping the island safe.


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Season of the bruja vol 1 by aaron duran

11/15/2022

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Cover of Season of the Bruja volume 1. Althalia is staring straight ahead and she's opening a box that's leaking blue, swirly magic. She has orange poppies in her brown hair, which is flowing around her face. On top of the cover are more, larger orange poppies all pointing towards Lia.
Illustrated by Sara Soler
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Althalia and her grandmother, are both special witches - they are "bruja", tasked with keeping a natural order between the living and the spirit realm. But, their kind have been hunted for centuries by an order of catholic priests that can trace their lineage back to Cortez himself. Lia and her two best friends use their supernatural abilities to tackle all manner of evil spirits, including renegade demons who escape cursed dolls. One day, while in a museum full of Aztec treasures, tragedy strikes, leaving Lia to take on the world - both living and spiritual - in a grief-fueled rampage. While Lia’s training may not be complete, she is a strong witch, and she’ll suffer no fools, even demonic ones.


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monstress vol 7 by majorie liu

11/5/2022

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Cover of Monstress volume 7, Maika is holding a vicious red sword and she's in full battle armor. Behind her is Zinn in his full body. Around the two are the fragments of the mask and tendrils of black power. Encircling them is a red light with lots of shadows.
Vol 7: Devourer, illustrated by Sana Takeda
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Maika has been captured by the Dusk Court, and the Baroness is bringing her back in a magic-and medically-induced coma. Through wrestling with her guilt, we learn more about the background of the Baroness and why she has had to do the things she's done to her friend. Inside Maika's mind, she and Zinn relive some of Maika's memories that have been trapped away, including what happened to her mother. Kippa continues to fight as staunchly as ever, even trying to gain some allies among the witches and Dawn Court nobility, in order to save Miss Maika from what the Dusk Court plans to do. The intrigues of the past, including the efforts of Maika's father to harness the power of the Old Gods, continue to come to light and make everything in the present much more complicated.


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Twig vol 1 by skottie young

10/26/2022

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Cover of Twig volume 1. Twig is a blue fuzzy creature, and he's standing in the middle of a path. Behind him is a mountain with a face, and a monster with goo dripping from his large fangs. Splat, a yellow creature with tentacle-type feet, is on a rock behind Twig.
Illustrated by Kyle Strahm

Twig is late for his very first day of his new job as a Placeling, and he just might destroy the planet because of his error! Twig is tasked with placing a jewel but nothing goes right, and the light in the jewel is gone. Now, he has to journey across the world to find the way to light it up again, and he has a very short amount of time to do it in. With his trusty friend, Splat, Twig gathers components and meets new creatures, some more helpful than others, in a journey that is part self-discovery and 


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Grim vol 1 by Stephanie Phillips

10/12/2022

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Cover of Grim volume 1. Jessica is holding her red-tipped scythe, which curves around her face and illuminates her features. Half her face is normal, but the other half of her face is a skull. She has short, bushy black hair that frames her face, and a red iris that looks at us. She's wearing a black turtleneck shirt.
Illustrated by Flaviano, colored by Rico Renzi

Jessica Harrow is a Reaper, responsible for helping the recently dead realize their death and then take them to the afterlife. On one of her many routine missions, Jessica suddenly crosses into the world of the living and interacts with people who are alive! This leads Jessica and her two friends, Marcel and Eddie, to start investigating what could be different and why she has this power that only one other reaper has ever had: the big guy himself, Death.


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He who fights with monsters by Francesco Artibani

9/28/2022

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Cover of He who fights with monsters. The doctor, Radek, stands with his doctor's briefcase, on top of stacks of newspapers with
Illustrated by Werther Dell'edera 

The War is over, and Russian soldiers evict German citizens from Prague to return to their country. In the midst of this, a puppeteer asks to tell a Russian soldier a horrifying tale, and the two sit in front of his puppet stand. The puppeteer begins with Radek, a Jewish doctor who has papers hiding his true heritage. He treats patients in the hidden basement of a shop, where one tells him of a golem whose mud lies in the rafters of the synagogue. The golem is the sworn protector of the Jewish people, and he begs Radek to help bring him to life. Being a man of science, Radek believes none of this, but finds mud in the rafters and appeases the professor with an attempt. He is stunned beyond measure to find he has risen a true golem named Yossel! 


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No Holds bard vol 1 by Eric Gladstone

9/10/2022

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Cover of No Holds Bard volume 1. Page is looking at us in his baby blue tunic with white frills. Behind him, The Bard is sniffing a rose with his pink tunic and oversized white collar. Around them are the various other characters of the book arranged in a horseshoe shape.
Illustrated by Gabrielle Kari 
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William Shakespeare and his faithful page are leading double lives - while not writing plays or trying get his actors to put on the best plays, William is a crime-fighting masked vigilante known as The Bard, assisted by his helpful Page. The two confront evil-doers such as the crime-boss Falstaff, and the menacing Puck who is working for the vengeful Oberon. During their adventures, The Bard and Page get marooned on an island with a hungry wild beast who teaches Page magic and tricks The Bard into embracing it. They also find themselves in Verona in the middle of a civil war between two powerful houses.


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Little monsters vol 1 by Jeff LemIre

9/7/2022

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Cover of Little Monsters volume 1. The eight children are stacked behind one another all looking off in various directions. One of them, front and center, has half his face covered in bright red blood. The rest of his face is black, and his eyes are solid white.
Illustrated by Dustin Nguyen

Eight young children play amidst destroyed buildings and derelict cars that spell out with certainty an apocalypse they all lived through. Some doodle on the buildings, others strum guitars. All of them are vampires. A few find rodents to eat, but then, they smell something they've never encountered before - a human - and it starts to make them salivate. A few of them attack the human and taste blood that is more delicious than anything they've had before, so they continue to hunt for more humans. Half of the group is reluctant to leave the city and disobey their creators, but the others can never go back to draining rats again.


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The Closet vol 1 by James Tynion IV

9/4/2022

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Cover of The Closet. Jamie picks up a toy from the floor in front of a closet door. The wall and door are red. The closet door has star stickers on it.
Illustrated by Gavin Fullerton, colored by  Chris O'Halloran, lettered by Tom Napolitano

Poor little Jamie is terrified of the monsters in the closet that come out at night and try to eat him. His father, Thom, is trying to convince him that when the move from New York to Portland, the monster will stay here, and he doesn't have to be worried anymore. Behind all this fear is a tumultuous family situation. Thom and his wife fight constantly, but he's trying to make things better. Trust has been broken between them, but they're both hoping the move will offer them a chance to hit reset, and they can remember why they fell in love in the first place. Much to Thom's dismay, Jaime's nightmares keep visiting him every night, and the monster didn't stay in New York. 


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