JANUARY 2026

TOWER DUNGEON VOL.1

TSUTOMU NIHEI

An evil necromancer slays the king and carries off his daughter, secreting her in the legendary Dragon Tower.

To save the princess, her steadfast Royal Guard assays the stronghold, but the way is blocked by powerful eldritch creatures… So, to supplement their forces in the face of mounting casualties, they press ordinary folks from the surrounding villages into service—including Yuva, a sturdy young farmboy with a strong back but no experience in battle, and only a battered old helm and wooden shield to protect him.

Master of science fiction Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!, Knights of Sidonia) turns his unique storytelling voice and architectural eye to fantasy for the first time, offering a dark, gritty tale of swords and sorcery, bravery and adventure, great heroes and ultimate evil.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF DRAWN AND QUARTERLY

DECEMBER 2025

SELF-ESTEEM AT THE END OF THE WORLD

LUKE HEALY

Life is not a race. There are no winners and losers. Immeasurable people are doing better than you…immeasurably worse. You are statistically average.

For over ten years, fictional Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. But two years post publication of his latest book, and suffering the blow of his twin-brother not finding him fit to act as best man, both Luke’s career and self-esteem seem to have disintegrated.

Set against the backdrop of a dangerously changing global climate, with melting ice-caps and flooding cities, Self-Esteem and the End of the World spans two decades of tragicomic self-discovery. From discussing self-help books like Marie Kondo's with the guy you invited over for sex, to summiting a Greek mountaintop while pretending to be working remotely, and a workplace destination murder mystery to a Hollywood revival of Luke’s early work, we see our protagonist grappling with his identity as the world crumbles.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF DRAWN AND QUARTERLY

NOVEMBER 2025

THE SACRIFICERS

RICK REMEMDER // MAX FIUMARA

The critically acclaimed series from New York Times bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (LOW, DEADLY CLASS, Uncanny X-Force) and superstar artist MAX FIUMARA (Amazing Spider-Man, FOUR EYES, Lucifer) who take you through a dark science fiction world unlike anything you've seen before!

Tomorrow is a harmonious paradise thanks to five families who make everything perfect... for the price of one child per household.

Now, as that bill comes due, a son expected to give everything for a family that never loved him, and an affluent daughter determined to destroy utopia, must unite to end one generation's unnaturally protracted reign.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF IMAGE COMICS

OCTOBER 2025

BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES

PATRICK HORVATH

Don’t. Murder. The locals.

This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. After all, there’s a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm decor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace.

So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook’s own meets a grisly, mysterious demise—and you wouldn’t blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF IDW

SEPTEMBER 2025

DAWN RUNNER

RAM V // EVAN CAGLE

A story of heroes, impossible armors, ghosts, and people, centuries apart, trying to keep their worlds from crumbling.

A century ago, a portal opened over Central America and giant monsters known as the Tetza came through, changing everything we knew. Now the world bends all its effort to build the Iron Kings—great mechs driven by pilots—that battle the Tetza in gladiatorial combat for humanity's continued survival. War has turned to sport.

Star jockey Anita Marr has been chosen to pilot a secret new prototype that could change the tide in humanity's favor.

After a difficult first battle together, Anita begins to uncover and understand the unusual connection forming between herself and the experimental new Iron King, Dawnrunner. As the Tetza threat grows, Anita, Dawnrunner, and their secrets will become mankind’s last hope. Are we doomed or will dramatic revelations push Anita and Dawnrunner to transcend into something new?

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF DARK HORSE COMICS

AUGUST 2025

TOKYO THESE DAYS

TAIYO MATSUMOTO

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him.

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he’s ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now efuses to work with anyone else.

For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF VIZ MEDIA

JULY 2025

ALL-STAR SUPERMAN

GRANT MORRISON // FRANK QUITELY

Combining their singular talents to create a fresh and brilliant vision of the Man of Steel, comics storytellers Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely tell one of the greatest Superman stories ever imagined.

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN! Topsy-turvy madness on the backwards Bizarro planet. A bottled city that proves you can never go home again. A living sun hell-bent on destroying humanity. A world without the Man of Steel. Twelve impossible labors and mere moments to save the Earth.

The multiple-award winning ALL-STAR SUPERMAN is an eternal story true to the greatest character from the golden age of comics. 

Featuring iconic characters Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Bizarro, this full color edition collects the entire story, All-Star Superman #1-12.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF DC COMICS

JUNE 2025

A BOY NAMED ROSE

Gaelle Greniller

Paris. The 1920s.

Rose is a boy and, like all the girls he’s spent time with since he was born, he wants to dance at “Le Jardin”, the cabaret managed by his mother.

As Rose blossoms into a 19 year old young man, he discovers love and tries to find his place in a society that’s not ready to welcome gender fluidity or true love between two men with open arms.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF FAIR SQUARE GRAPHICS

MAY 2025

PUTTY PYGMALION

LONNIE GARCIA

You can't sculpt someone to love.

Derryl, a lonely radish, attempts to create a boyfriend out of a defunct and now illegal children's product. His creation, Peter, springs to life ready to make a child happy, and instead finds a suffocating and cloistered existence catering to Derryl’s needs.

When Peter sneaks out to a party one night and meets Derryl’s friends, he discovers there’s even more to his creator’s intentions than he thought.

A queer complication on the Pygmalion myth, brought to life through Lonnie Garcia’s emotional, multimedia comic art.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

APRIL 2025

KARATE PROM

KYLE STARKS

Don “TheDragonWilson” Jones is the finest fighter Benjamin Harrison High School has ever produced. But when he enters the ring against Lincoln High’s Sam Steadman, it’s love at first knockout.

Unfortunately, Sam has a jerky ex-boyfriend…and Don has a seriously terrifying ex-girlfriend. Like, “global crime cartel” terrifying. From prom to the after-party to graduation, Don and Sam—and an increasingly eclectic cast of supporting oddballs—will have to fight their way through a gauntlet of opponents, all in the name of love (and punching).

Did we mention the punching?

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

MARCH 2025

STAGES OF ROT

Linnea Sterte

The award-winning, Eisner nominated, highly praised debut book from Linnea Sterte (author of A Frog in the Fall).

An alien desert comes to life around the body of a dying whale. Animals,

insects, and ancient peoples scramble for her remains, making their homes among her bones, struggling through a millennia-long process of decay. It’s a bit like a documentary. For fans of A Frog in the Fall, Avatar, and Moebius.

This edition contains both the full

original story, and Blood Caudex, a 17-page companion piece that was added in the second edition. The 152 page book is full color and has french flaps and gold foil stamping on the cover.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

FEBRUARY 2025

GLEEM

FREDDY CARRASCO

Imbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a future world. Carrasco’s distinct cinematic style layers detailed panels and spreads, creating a multiplicity of perspectives, at once dizzying and hypnotic. Vignettes unspool in proximity to our own social realities and expand into the outer layers of possibility. Whether in the club or a robot repair workshop, the characters in these three interconnected stories burst across frames until they practically step off the page.

A boy becomes bored at church with his grandmother until he tries a psychedelic drug. A group of friends are told that they need a rare battery if they want any chance of reviving their friend. Street style and cybernetics meet and burst into riotous dancing. Kindness and violence might not be as distant from each other as we think. GLEEM unsettles with a confidence that could make you believe in anything.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

JANUARY 2025

THE GULF

ADAM DE SOUZA

Ever since Oli found a pamphlet for a remote island commune as a kid, it's all she can think about. Now that she's nearing the end of high school, feeling frustrated with the mounting pressure to choose a career and follow a path she has no interest in, the desire to escape it all has been steadily increasing.

Everything comes to a head when Oli's relationship with her best friend goes south and she claps back at a school bully with more than just words. Oli flees to find the commune on a Gulf Island off the coast of Vancouver, taking with her Milo, who can't help but hide his feelings behind the safety of a video camera, and Alvin, a shy teen who sees more than he lets on. Behind them trails Liam, Oli's ex-best-friend and sometimes love interest, who wants to apologize for the way things went down. All four are grappling with a world that cannot be changed . . . and simply trying to find their place in it.

This YA anti-coming-of-age road trip adventure, by talented up-and-coming comic artist Adam de Souza, captures at once the angst and humor of being a teen during a time of great transition.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

DECEMBER 2024

YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU

HITOSHI ASHINANO

Don't miss this moving, critically acclaimed classic manga (which inspired the anime) about an android running a coffee shop in a slowly dying Japan.

In a future Japan, long after an environmental catastrophe, Alpha the android runs a small café in a seaside town. As she wonders if her absent owner will ever return, she stands witness to the twilight of humanity with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar. Alpha and her fellow residents enjoy the melancholy beauty of life, even as the end approaches.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SEVEN SEAS

NOVEMBER 2024

PROKARYOTE SEASON

LEO FOX

A QUEER FABLE ABOUT THE DANGERS OF OBSESSION

"A single-celled organism doesn't toil. It doesn't stare at the ceiling and cry. It doesn't have ill-fitting clothes. It doesn't do anything, that's the whole point. It just is."

Sydney and Laurelie are best friends searching for the contentment of oblivion. Failing that, they'd like to be adored. Laurelie, by their caustic boyfriend Trip, and Sydney by Laurelie. On a typical night partying in the woods, Sydney grows frustrated with their unrequited obsession for Laurelie, and asks for a wish to be granted by the curious cosmic creature Starman. Not only will Laurelie love Sydney, but Laurelie will be dependent on them — will need to be saved by them. When the wish becomes deadly serious, Sydney and Trip will be forced to figure out how to save Laurelie for real, or risk losing the person most important to them both.

A beautifully illustrated graphic novel about sickness, ennui, romance, and finding meaning in one's own self.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

OCTOBER 2024

HARROWER

JUSTIN JORDAN // Brahm Revel

There’s nothing to fear in the quaint town of Barlowe, New York–except, that is, for the Harrower. The children wish this boogeyman was just an urban legend, but this purveyor of puritanical vengeance is very real, and there's no escape. The Harrower seems unkillable, and spans generations, always returning…

Jessa Brink is a teenage girl obsessed with this menacing figure. Will she be able to escape the pull of her morbid fixation? What gruesome secrets will she uncover in the process? Especially as The Harrower begins to stalk her and her friends… This deconstruction of the slasher genre from writer Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and artist Brahm Revel (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) is the fresh and terrifyingly grounded take on the slasher genre horror fans have been dying for!

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF BOOM STUDIOS

SEPTEMBER 2024

AKIRA VOL. 1

katsuhiro otomo

The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira.

Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF RANDOM HOUSE

AUGUST 2024

THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED VOL. 1

MOKUMOKUREN

It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn’t Yoshiki’s best friend. Whatever it is, it’s dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing has changed―as if Hikaru isn’t gone―would be crazy...but when it looks so very like Hikaru...and acts so very like Hikaru...

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF YEN PRESS

JULY 2024

GROG THE FROG: THE BOOK OF TAURUS

ALBA BG //. DAVILORIUM

Every summer, Grog the Frog orgets to celebrate the most important magic ritual of the year: the Perseids harvest. But this year will be different. The eternally grumpy wizard will travel to forsaken mystical mountains and complete the magical rites. Unless, of course, a case of.mistaken identities means that he becomes embroiled in a duel with his cosmic rival.

Will Grog be able to put order in chaos and fulfill his purpose? Or wait, perhaps Grog would prefer chaos? He's supposed to be the lord of chaos, isn't he? Either way, it will be epic!

Drama, love, magic, a delivery guy who can fly, a weird snake, a bald centaur who rents cars... it all awaits Grog in this hilarious graphic novel! All hail Grog!

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET

JUNE 2024

GIRL IN THE WORLD

CAROLINE CASH

Caroline Cash’s celebrated debut is back in print!

What's everyone doing later? Some creatively named Facebook events? Haircuts and happy meals? This clever and gorgeous graphic novel proves that there is nothing cooler than cool girls, showcasing a particularly chaotic ride-along with one group of friends for 24 hours.

-SYNOPSIS COURTESY OF SILVER SPROCKET