The Pearls gang returns with characteristically misanthropic humor (but with more leather): no self-aggrandizing is too flagrant for Rat, no subject is too erudite for Goat, and no sensory input is too basic for Pig.   All topics are fair game for Stephan Pastis and his brass-knuckle punch lines. Comic strip censors, apathetic baristas, and IRS employees are all strongly advised to laugh or get out of the way. Pearls Hogs the Road also features three comic strips illustrated by the legendary Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes , who ended a 19-year hiatus from the comics page to collaborate with Pastis.    
FRIENDS FOR LIFE When there’s magical trouble in Fiore, everyone knows they count on the powerful women of Fairy Tail. The girls are faced with a new batch of problems to solve, from the dangerous to the romantic! Lucy, Erza, Juvia, and Wendy are called to investigate one of the kingdom’s most powerful corporations after an intrepid journalist uncovers some dark secrets. Wendy needs little help from her friends to become a love guru, and the group must also stop a string of public bombings. But the biggest challenge is waiting for Lucy when she’s forced to play nurse when the girls get sick. Can she handle things on her own without her beloved team? Final volume!
A part of DC Universe: Rebirth! The #1 NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author of BATMAN returns to the Dark Knight in ALL-STAR BATMAN VOL. 1! But he's not alone. Critically acclaimed, legendary illustrator John Romita Jr. joins him on this epic new series! In this new graphic novel, Batman finds himself trying to help old friend Harvey Dent...now known as the villainous Two-Face! The Dark Knight accompanies his foe on a cross-country trip to fix his scarred face and hopefully end the Two-Face identity forever. But when the former Gotham City D.A. sets his plan into motion to free himself, what deadly secrets from the past will bubble to the surface? One of the biggest creative pairings in DC Comics history share their take on one of the greatest heroes ever in ALL STAR BATMAN VOL. 1! Collects issues #1-5. Rebirth honors the richest history in comics, while continuing to look towards the future. These are the most innovative and modern stories featuring the world's greatest superheroes, told by some of the finest storytellers in the business. Honoring the past, protecting our present, and looking towards the future. This is the next chapter in the ongoing saga of the DC Universe. The legacy continues.
Hiramasa Tsuzaki and Mikuri Moriyama are a perfectly normal couple. Well, aside from the fact that Mikuri married Hiramasa as a job and gets paid by the hour, that is! This arrangement was working out just fine for them until one of Hiramasa’s coworkers, Ryota Kazami, got suspicious that they were faking it… Now what are they going to do? Tsunami Umino reflects on the problems of our day with emotional depth and a strong sense of humor in the second volume of The Full-Time Wife Escapist.
For years, fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have burned with one question—what happened to Fire Lord Zuko's mother? Finding a clue at last, Zuko enlists the aid of Team Avatar—and the most unlikely ally of all—to help uncover the biggest secret of his life. * This is the perfect companion to The Legend of Korra ! * The official continuation of Airbender from its creators!
Attack on Titan Volume 1 Hajime Isayama Genre:Boys Price: $7.99 Publish Date: August 11, 2015 Publisher: Kodansha Advanced Media LLC Seller: Kodansha Advanced Media LLC
In this post-apocalytpic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for years, killing everyone they see. For the past century, what's left of man has hidden in a giant, three-walled city. People believe their 100-meter-high walls will protect them from the Titans, but the sudden appearance of an immense Titan is about to change everything. Winner of the 2011 Kodansha Manga Award (Shonen) and nominated for the prestigious Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for 2012.
A sinister group of villains has attacked the first-year U.A. students, but their real target is All Might. It’s all that Midoriya and his classmates can do to hold them off until reinforcements arrive. All Might joins the battle to protect the kids, but as his power runs out, he may be forced into an extremely dangerous bluff!
FORTRESS OF BLOOD With no combat gear and Wall Rose breached, the 104th scrambles to evacuate the villages in the Titans' path. On their way to the safety of Wall Sheena, they decide to spend the night in Utgard Castle. But their sanctuary becomes a slaughterhouse when they discover that, for some reason, these Titans attack at night! ? PRAISE FOR THE HIT ANIME "A visceral and fantastically intense action/horror story." - Anime News Network ? "Japan's equivalent of The Walking Dead." - io9 From the Trade Paperback edition.
“Superman black” part one! A “Superman Reborn Aftermath” tie-in! As the smoke clears the Kents are faced with leaving Hamilton to go back to Metropolis, but someone or something doesn’t want them to leave! Batman and Robin discover something is mysteriously wrong with the son of Superman—he’s losing his powers!
#1 New York Times Best Seller! Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics—The New 52! After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. Could the Court of Owls, once thought to be nothing more than an urban legend, be behind the crime and corruption? Or is Bruce Wayne losing his grip on sanity and falling prey to the pressures of his war on crime?
We haven't talked enough about Lena Luthor, and it's time to fix that. We've seen enough of her and Kara spending time together to know they're friends, but tonight’s episode "Ace Reporter" did more to cement their relationship.
By: Jaclyn Cascio (@jaclynator)
In 2007, we saw Stephen King’s novella “The Mist” come to life in a film written and directed by Frank Darabont. Ten years later, Spike TV will be putting The Mist back on our screens, this time in a television series. To find out everything we know so far about the project, kick back, relax, and read on!
Produced for Spike TV by TWC-Dimension Television, development for The Mist began in 2015 with Stephen King’s approval and a script by Christian Torpe. Following initial approval of a pilot in February 2016 for the show, The Mist was green lit in April 2016 after hearing the pitch for the full series. The show has been developed to be an ongoing series, not just a single season mini-series. (Basically, if you like it, you’ll hopefully get more!) With executive producers Torpe and Amanda Segel, the show began filming in Nova Scotia in July 2016 with Adam Bernstein directing the premiere episode.
While the new television series may be based on King’s novella, Torpe has clarified that it’s not a remake of the book or the movie. “Let’s call it a re-imagination…It’s like a weird, twisted cousin to the original source material,” he said. Think of Noah Hawley’s Fargo on FX, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what Torpe wants to accomplish. Torpe has also reported, “It’s not the same story as in the book and the movie, nor is it the same characters – but fans of the story will still see clear parallels.”
So if it’s not the same story or the same people, but it uses King’s novella as source material, what should we be expecting in the ten hour-long episodes of the first season? Torpe made a point to explain why changes were necessary for The Mist. “The novella is 200 pages and one location, and we needed to change that to make an ongoing series. But we wanted to remain faithful to the heart of the story.” This means that the show won’t be spending the whole season in a grocery store. Characters will be isolated in various locations within Bridgeville, Maine, by the mist, such as a church or a mall. Torpe told EW, “We establish different little pressure cookers under the influence of whoever the leader would be in those locations. Each of them come up with different theories or beliefs about what’s going on. Eventually, the story lines will dovetail and turn into conflicts.”
If it sounds like the horror drama will have more focus on characters than previous iterations, you might be right. Before the mysterious mist even rolls into town, the community is falling apart after a brutal crime. The real question is: What will people do to survive when driven by fear? While everyone fights to keep their sanity and their morality, don’t think that the mist is just a psychologically challenging thing testing their humanity. When talking about CGI and the mist, Torpe reported an insane amount of visual effects within the mist, also saying, “As for what is in the mist and how much we see – you’ll have to wait and see!” That sounds like there might be some monsters in the mist to mess with the community, too. (Here’s hoping!)
Check out the trailer for yourself right here!
Since the characters are all new for the television series, let’s take a quick look at what to expect!
The Copeland family will feature, with Morgan Spector as Kevin Copeland, a father, husband, and all-around good guy. He has been a straight-shooter all his life, but he’s never faced testing like what the mist brings. And when the mist comes, he finds himself separated from his family. His wife, Eve (played by Alyssa Sutherland) is a school teacher who has some controversy surrounding her as she instructs a sexual education class. The mist will leave her stranded at the mall with her daughter Alex (played by Gus Birney), who is a good teen who gets a rebellious streak at exactly the wrong time.
Meanwhile, Russell Posner will play Adrian Garff, a teenager who defends his friend, Alex, after a brutal crime. Adrian and Alex aren’t the only ones involved with the controversy surrounding the crime we know nothing about just yet. Luke Cosgrove plays Jay Heisel, the local high school football star who is accused of the crime that threatens to tear the community apart. His father is Connor Heiser (played by Darren Pettie), the town’s sheriff.
Other fun characters include Jonah Dixon (Okezie Morro), a military member with amnesia. Unable to remember who he is, secrets will reportedly be revealed as he uncovers the truth of his identity. In an unlikely pairing, the show will find him with Mia Lambert (played by Danica Curcic), a drug-addict on the run and looking for a mysterious stash of cash. Frances Conroy is set to play a character named Nathalie Raven, an “ecological martyr” who is a bit of a prophet with some knowledge and a lot of faith. Dan Butler plays priest Father Romanov, who has no personal faith but clings to the rituals of religion. Isiah Whitlock Jr. is Gus Redman, a mall manager who failed to gain ground as a politician, but with the mist trapping people in his mall, he might just find himself leading a mini-society in the crisis.
See? No grocery stores! Now, if you’ve read the novella and seen the movie, you know that The Mist had very different endings in each. (Those endings have divided fans for years!) If you’re wondering which way Spike’s television series might lean when it eventually ends, Torpe said, “I think we came up with our own spin on a very original and surprising ending.” So at least fans of The Mist don’t have to worry about spoilers!
To find out for yourself what happens in The Mist, tune in to Spike TV for the premiere on June 22, 2017 at 10pm ET/PT!
Avatar Aang travels to the spirit world to parley with an ancient power; bringing Fire Lord Zuko ever closer to discovering the truth about his mother's fate—and his own past. Yet Zuko's sister Azula is becoming increasingly dangerous; threatening to ruin everything that Zuko; Aang; Katara; and Sokka have struggled to achieve on their search! * The official continuation of Airbender from its creators; Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko!
