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Your throne vol 1 by sam

8/28/2024

Cover of Your Throne volume 1. Lady Medea is standing in a bed of flowers. She's wearing a black dress and her black hair is swirling around her.

Lady Medea has spent much of her life preparing for and betrothed to the Imperial Crown Prince Eros, but the prince chooses Lady Psyche instead. On Prayer Day, Medea prays to the god of the kingdom to let her lead instead of the vapid girl the prince has chosen, and the next thing she knows, she wakes up in Psyche's body! Now that her wish has come true, she must manuever herself to not be found out by Eros, but keep Psyche alive in her old body, as she doesn't know if the swap is permanent. She enlists the help of her trusted ally to watch over Psyche and train her to become the perfect Lady Medea while she learns some shocking secrets of Psyche's upbringing and the relationship she has with Eros.

Gannibal vol 1 by Masaaki Ninomiya

8/9/2024

Cover of Gannibal Volume 1. an old may looks up as he's pushing a wheel barrow. The wheel barrow is full of decapitated pieces of a person with a foot sticking out and a police cap on top.

A big city cop moves to a mysterious mountain town where the former resident police officer went missing, and the Goto family acts peculiar to everyone, especially outsiders. Rumors abound that residence are cannibals, and there are many peculiar traditions and rites of passage where Agawa struggles to prove he can be part of the culture. One day, Granny Goto is discovered dead in the woods, presumably eaten by a bear, and the villagers, particularly the Goto clan, spring into action to avenge her death. Officer Agawa has little time to reign in the situation and handle it as the town’s authority. Instead, he joins the family in the hunt and gets mixed deeper in the mystery that embroiled the former town policeman.

Itaewon class vol 1 by Kwang Jin

7/13/2024

Cover of Itaewon Class volume 1. A girl with short blonde hair and a boy with a buzzed cut stand back to back. They are in dark brown coats and both are smiling slightly. Behind them is a lit street lamp.

Saeroyi Park's father just landed a new job in a new city, which means Saeroyi has to start fresh at a new school. On day one, he lands himself on the wrong side of the kid who "runs" the school, who happens to be the son of his dad's boss! But, rather than apologize for doing what he thought was right, he gets expelled, and his dad loses his job. The two decide to open a chicken restaurant and seemingly land on their feet, but it's not long before tragedy find them again, and Saeroyi finds himself in prison for attempted murder. After serving his time, he has to decide the best way to get revenge on those who have wronged him, and making a successful restaurant in in the thriving Seoul neighborhood of Itaewon is how he's going to do it. But first, he needs to make a lot of money, as Itaewon is extremely expensive to operate out of.

Dark spaces: good deeds by che grayson

4/24/2024

Cover of Dark Spaces: Good deeds. In the outline of a supernatural deer are Cheyenne and Rebecca with a purple and pink sunset over the beach of St. Augustine, Florida.

Illustrated by Kelsey Ramsay, colored by Ronda Pattison, lettered by Rus Wooton and Shawn Lee

Teenager Cheyenne and her mom Rebecca move to St. Augustine, Florida with a dream of fixing up an old diner and having it be the gem of the town. Little do they know the history of the diner, that a man was murdered there, and the town’s seething hatred for the building. Later, an investigative reporter named Jean McKnight comes to the town to cover the Founder’s Day celebration, a fluff piece to salvage her career after a terrible outing that tarnished her reputation. The three lives cross when they all find that there is much more to this town, including something supernatural that may trace its roots back to the landfall by Spanish explorers at the heart of the town’s celebration.

The darwin incident vol 1 by Shun Umezawa

10/25/2023

Cover of The Darwin Incident volume 1. Charlie is hanging off the torch of the Statue of Liberty. He's in khakis and a t-shirt. In one hand he has a cell phone and it looks like he's casually scrolling on his phone. Behind him is the skyscraper skyline of New York City and the Hudson River.

Charlie just wants to attend a normal high school and get a normal education, but Charlie's main problem is - he's not normal! Charlie is the world's first ever Humanzee! Born in a California lab 15 years ago then freed by the ALA -- The Animal Liberation Allliance -- Charlie has been trying to live a quiet life with his mom and dad in a small town in the Midwest, but all that changes when the ALA sets its sights on Charlie once again. When the ALA begins executing violent attacks in cities across the nation, folks start to wonder if it's safe for Charlie -- and for their own children -- for him to try to be a normal teenager.

beauty and the beast of paradise lost vol 4 by kaori yuki

9/18/2023

Cover of Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost volume 4. Belle is clinging to Beast with her arms around his neck. She is in a bright red dres. He is in his blue suit. They are both looking at us. She is sad while the Beast looks like he is about to fight someone.

The Beast and his Belle have been reunited, which is destroying our Belle's heart as she realizes more that she is in love with the Beast. What's worse is that the Princess Belle seems incredibly kind, and she also has lost the use of her legs. She requests our Belle's help in being her attending lady, helping her with her dresses and hair. Giselle finally can't take all of this any longer and leaves her room for the first time since the palace became cursed. She confides in Belle that the Princess Belle has actually entrapped the Beast in a relationship by guilt - Princess Belle betrayed her family in order to be with Prince Cyril before the curse happened, and now the Beast feels obligated to marry her. The Beast finds out that La Médium is in the court of The King and hatches a plan to confront her. He takes along a few people to help, including Belle, who hopes to finally rescue her maman.

The woods vol 1 by james tynion iv

8/19/2023

Cover of The woods volume 1. The teens are mostly standing around in a group and looking back at us, arranged with their backpacks and ready to go off into the woods, which are purple and behind them. Behind the trees is a pink planet with a lighter pink ring.

Yearbook Edition vol 1, illustrated by Michael Dialynas

On a fateful day in 2013, students and staff at Bay Point Preparatory High are going about their normal days, when they are suddenly transported to an alien and hostile environment with violent monsters trying to eat them all, and strange glowing rocks. Several exceptional teens try to take some modicum of control and seek solutions. Several decide the answers they need lie in the woods, and they soon discover they are not the only humans who have been plucked from Earth! Some of them are abducted by warriors who look seem like Vikings, while others discover a Ziggurat full of writing from ancient civilizations, as well as more questions about why they were brought to . The Viking warriors, take the teens back to a civilization named New London, and they know English, but they are also keenly interested in what the rest of Bay Point might have to offer for their own continued survival.

Lost Lad London vol 3 by shima shinya

8/1/2023

Cover of Lost Lad London volume 3. Al and Ellis are walking by each other in one corner of the cover. Al is wearing a yellow puffy jacket and blue pants. Ellis is wearing a grey jacket and black pants with a black shirt underneath. Behind them, the grey city scape is juxtaposed against a pink sky.

Detective Ellis is under pressure to as the lead investigator hints that he is going to bring Al in as the primary suspect in the murder of London's mayor. Ellis has no hard evidence that Al isn't the murderer, but he makes a couple of final moves to help those involved make some moves, some wiser than others. Al's bosses open up to him about being racially profiled by the policy when they were younger, and they offer Al guidance and free food, as well as a shoulder if he needs it. Finally, Al is contacted by his half brother and given and ultimatum.

Know your station by Sarah Gailey

5/29/2023

Cover of Know your Station. A skeleton stands atop a pile of gold coins. It's holding a martini glass in one hand, the other hand is perched on its hip bone. There is a space helmet around its skull.

Elise is, for all intents and purposes, the "law" on the most elite space station full of Earth's 1% who have escaped a dying planet below. There's hardly any crime aboard, so she feels ill-equipped when there are multiple murders to investigate! Someone is going after the station's Board of Directors, and they're not just dying quietly. Each body is made into a spectacle that would disgust even the most heartless of the working-class citizens. While she's trying to solve the murders, Elise is also trying to kick her habit of taking the highly addicting, hallucinogenic substance known as "Blue". Her paranoia is heightened when it seems like she might have had a hand in one of the murders in an intoxicated stupor, but she's determined to figure out what is really happening on her station.

Moon knight vols 1-2 by Max bemis

5/23/2023

Vol 1: Crazy Runs in the Family and Vol 2: Phases, illustrated by Jacen Burrows, Paul Davidson, Ty Templeton, Jeff Lemire, Bill Sienkiewicz, inked by Guillermo Ortego colored by Matt Milla, Mat Lopes, Keiren Smith, lettered by Cory Petit

We open yet again in a mental institution, this time in the company of a different patient than our familiar hero with dissociative identity disorder. Dr. Emmet tries to work out the key to her next patient, hoping that her previous patient might be used as a road map, but instead unleashes the villain, Sun King, champion of Ra and enemy of Khonshu. Sun King discovers something Marc has even hidden from himself - that he has a daughter and the potential for a normal life - but never count out Marc, Jake, and Steven when they’re backed into a corner! Marc also relives some of his childhood trauma and the reason he created Jake in the first place. A figure close with his family turns out to be a sadistic serial killer, and he's back in Marc's adult life hoping to recruit Moon Knight into his ranks of sadomasochistic supervillains. The cult goes after Moon Knight and his friends hoping to break his spirit, but Marc is already fractured enough!

Cover of Moon Knight Vol 1 by Max Bemis. Moon Knight is scaling a water tank while looking at the side of a building. It's burning in the shape of Ra's eye.

Cover of Moon Knight vol 2 by Ma Bemis. Moon knight's glowing white eyes are slits underneath his white cowl. He's holding one of his moon boomerangs. Behind him is what looks to be a maze.