Somewhere, in an isolated corner of Western Europe, Carl and Rita rent a house on stilts. Due to the pressures of spending so much time only in each other's company, cracks in their relationship start to appear. To relieve the pressure and secretly hoping to meet someone he can look up to who will take him on as an apprentice, Carl embarks on a search for the last remaining practitioner of an ancient local tradition. His quest brings him to a craftsman who is very different to the type of man he was hoping to find.

Ruri faces the usual high school issues: pushy classmates, annoying teachers, and…waking up with dragon horns?!

Just after starting high school, Ruri gets hit with the biggest reveal of her life—she’s a dragon!

Well, a half dragon. Her mom admits Ruri inherited her draconic traits from her father, who, yes, is actually a dragon. As if dealing with curious classmates wasn’t already challenging enough, Ruri and her dragon genes literally turn up the heat in the middle of a lecture. Her ordinary life is about to be anything but!

Are high-school girls Nanoha and Chidori ready to face the storms in their new romantic relationship together?

Nanoha and Chidori are best friends who attend the same all-girls high school—and also share a heart-pounding secret: they’re lovers. Through sunny days and tumultuous storms, they’re always ready for new adventures together.

As the snow falls, Chidori and Nanoha look forward to the next major events in their relationship: Christmas, winter break, the upcoming semester, and most importantly, Valentine’s Day. Whether or not the future holds happiness for them, they want to cherish the time they have together in a winter wonderland.

Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels. Taking the concept of a ""comics world""-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that ""produce"" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Moving beyond the page, The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others.

Ruri faces the usual high school issues: pushy classmates, annoying teachers, and…waking up with dragon horns?!

Just after starting high school, Ruri gets hit with the biggest reveal of her life—she’s a dragon!

After releasing a burst of electricity during class, Ruri officially has her next dragon trait: electrostatic discharge! But not everyone wants to be friends with a dragon girl. Can Ruri soften up a steely classmate? Or will her attempts go up in flames?

For over fifteen years, the saga of Nikolai Dante - the swashbuckling 'Hero of the Revolution' - have been entertaining the readers of 2000 AD. Now, this action-packed story of grand adventure has finally reached its conclusion. One of 2000 AD's most popular characters, Dante has become an iconic part of the British comics scene and remains as the only 2000 AD character to ever beat Judge Dredd in the Eagle Award's 'Favourite British Character' category. This final instalment of Nikolai Dante's epic story was written by Robbie Morrison (Shakara) and features the fantastic artwork of Simon Fraser (Judge Dredd) and John Burns (Modesty Blaise).

Computer science major Sangwoo Choo values reason, routine, and rules above all, so when the rest of his teammates fail to contribute to the group presentation, he doesn’t hesitate to cut everyone’s names from the project entirely―including design major Jaeyoung Jang, which ruins his plans to graduate and study abroad.

Jaeyoung is more than happy to return the favor and strives to be the biggest thorn in Sangwoo’s side―but as they spend more time together, a strange attraction begins to develop between them...

Will Sangwoo be able to debug this semantic error from his life?