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When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and
soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all
its money and provisions. They're eager to get right back to it,
but there's just one problem: if they set out with no food or coin
to speak of, they're sure to eat it on the way! But Laios comes up
with a brilliant idea: 'Let's eat the monsters!' Slimes, basilisks,
mimics, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of
these dungeon-crawling gourmands!
When a routine Justice League mission goes awry, Superman must make a 20 year journey home. But he feels like a stranger when he returns to a world where no time has passed at all.
After Superman is called away on a routine Justice League mission, Lois Lane awakens to find a complete stranger standing in her living room. The Man of Steel, home much sooner than expected, reveals he has, in fact, been lost in space for 20 years.
Nothing and no one seem familiar to him anymore. The timeless bond between them has been severed...or has it? Can love conquer all?
As Superman struggles to re-enter his life on Earth, follow the story of his epic 20-year Odyssey home.
In volume eight of the multiple Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, and British
Fantasy Award-winning series, the truth about the death of
Maika’s mother has been revealed, and Maika has come undone. As
her allies scramble to save her soul, they find themselves in the
unlikeliest of places—the beautiful and brutal prison planet
where the Monstra have long been locked away. This visit to the
site of Zinn’s worst nightmares might just hold the key to
Maika’s survival—and to the long-buried origins of the Known
World.  In the series that NPR called, “remarkable,â€
join Maika as she realizes the only way forward is to return to the
past. Â Collects MONSTRESS #42-47
It's a day in the life of your average househusband-if your average
househusband is the legendary yakuza "the Immortal Dragon"! A
former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday
househusband. But it's not easy to walk away from the gangster
life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but!
All of Tatsu's hustling and networking since leaving the yakuza has
earned him an offer he can't refuse-an invitation to run with the
women's association, the movers and shakers of his neighborhood.
But before he can be initiated, the Immortal Dragon must prove to
the board's heavyweights that he truly can hack it as a homemaker.
It will be the greatest test of this househusband's skills yet!
Romance! A crazy, overprotective brother! And...spies?! Taiyo Asano
has been on his own ever since his parents died and the only one
who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate,
Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret-she is the head of a
family of spies! And on top of that, her brother Kyoichiro is
dangerously protective of her! To stop Kyoichiro from killing him,
Taiyo and Mutsumi must take the ultimate leap-marriage! Because in
the Yozakura family, family cannot kill family. Mutsumi and Taiyo
are invited to a Hinagiku hot pot event to celebrate the success of
their latest mission. Surrounded by a lineup of scoundrels, will
the two actually be able to finish the meal safe and sound? Plus,
there's still the mystery of the box that Kuroyuri gave to Taiyo
looming overhead-and what's with this new girl latching on to
Taiyo? Could it really be that he's cheating on his beloved
Mutsumi?!
A girl who has sworn off beautiful boys meets a gorgeous pop star
determined to win her heart! After a mortifying rejection, Sahoko
Wakaume has sworn off beautiful boys. But a chance meeting puts her
in the sights of gorgeous J-pop star Kouta Kirigaya of the group
Like Legend. Sahoko will need all her cynicism to defend herself
against Kouta's tenderhearted and affectionate attacks to win her
heart! Introverted high schooler Sahoko gathers her courage and
confesses her love to the nation's top idol, Kouta Kirigaya! But he
tells her he won't ever have a special someone... Not long after,
Kirigaya is hit with a scandal and ends up staying with Sahoko's
family!
The world's most popular ninja comic just got bigger with this
collection of Naruto volumes
Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T
Containing volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Naruto Twelve years ago the
Village Hidden in the Leaves was attacked by a fearsome threat. A
nine-tailed fox spirit claimed the life of the village leader, the
Hokage, and many others. Today, the village is at peace and a
troublemaking kid named Naruto is struggling to graduate from Ninja
Academy. His goal may be to become the next Hokage, but his true
destiny will be much more complicated. The adventure begins now
Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai
of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher, Musashi
authored A Book of Five Rings, a classic treatise in the canon of
world philosophy and military strategy. But the path to
enlightenment is an endless journey, and to get there through
violent means - by way of the sword - makes mere survival an even
greater challenge. Miyamoto Musashi versus Sasaki Kojiro was
perhaps the greatest matchup in the history of the samurai warrior.
They follow different paths, but their lives intertwine heading
toward their epic duel. For now, Kojiro finds himself in a new
position as sword instructor to the powerful Hosokawa Clan in
Kokura. Meanwhile, Musashi continues his journey while he is still
coming to terms with accomplishing the impossible - singlehandedly
destroying the mighty Yoshioka School.
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! Despite the injuries and losses they suffered in an
attack on the Goodwill Event, the students of Jujutsu High have
little time rest as people start dying under mysterious
circumstances. Could these strange deaths have anything to do with
Sukuna's lost fingers?
This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected
comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for
various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny
Wonder, and Puck, between 1893 and 1917. It situates the work in
relation to late-Victorian and Edwardian media, entertainment and
popular culture, as well as to the evolution of the British comic
during this crucial period in its development. Yeats' recurring
characters, including circus horse Signor McCoy, detective pastiche
Chubblock Homes, and proto-superhero Dicky the Birdman, were once
very well-known, part of a boom in cheap and widely distributed
comics that Alfred Harmsworth and others published in London from
1890 onwards. The repositioning of Yeats in the context of the
comics, and the acknowledgement of the very substantial corpus of
graphic humour that he produced, has profound implications for our
understanding of his artistic career and of his significant
contribution to UK comics history. This book, which also contains
many examples of the work, should therefore be of value to those
interested in Comics Studies, Irish Studies, and Art History.
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