Comic Book New Releases April 16

Volume 7 - 1st printing. Story and art by Tamiki Wakaki. Translated by Kristjan Rohde. Oohara Takuya and Honjouji Rika are ready to take their relationship to the next step. But it's turning out to be one giant leap! Even though the two have already confessed their feelings for each other, going from fake engagement partners to real lovers is proving to be more nerve-racking than they expected! Who knew romance could make you feel even more anxious than the threat of getting sent to work in Siberia? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. Teen (13+) Cover price $13.99.

1st printing. Collects Babs (2024 Ahoy) #1-6. Written by Garth Ennis. Art and Cover by Jacen Burrows. A savage sword-and-sorcery parody from the co-creators of Preacher, The Boys, and Marvels Get Fury! Meet Babs, a barbarian thief, and Barry, the world's worst enchanted sword. Together they travel a fantastic landscape of wizards, dragons, demons, and castles, looking to steal treasure. Their plans are interrupted by the arrival of a band of VERY white knights who exploit and divide the townsfolk. Babs wasnt looking for a fight…but shes never found a bad situation she couldnt make 100 times worse! Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. Collects Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (2016 IDW) #1-6. Written by Matthew K. Manning. Art and cover by Jon Sommariva. The animated worlds of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon cartoon and Batman: The Animated Series collide in this outstanding miniseries featuring villains and allies from both universes! In this new pocket sized edition (6" x 9") of the 2017 series, villains start to mysteriously escape Arkham and Batman seeks to track them down, but he discovers that they have left Gotham completely... and gone to the New York City of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Cover price $21.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Matt Lesniewski. Oni Press is proud to present visionary cartoonist creator Matt Lesniewskis carefully crafted, Eisner Award–nominated tale of rejection, loss and loathing—now in hardcover for the first time. Who hasnt, at some point in their life, felt misunderstood, outcast . . . alone? This is the constant conflict and plight of our eponymously named protagonist. Everywhere he travels, he is met with violence and disgust. But will his trip to the big city, where he hopes to go unnoticed amongst the masses, be any different from the places and experiences hes had previously? Enter the unique and visually expressive mind of writer-artist Matt Lesniewski in his debut graphic novel, which received a 2020 Eisner Award nomination. Hardcover, 64 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $17.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Jordan Crane. For almost three decades, master cartoonist Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have never been collected until now. Featuring over a dozen short stories (spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, Goes Like This is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks and exposed spine) of Crane's work. The Hand of Gold is a short but grim Weird Western, a morality play in which an accidental crime leads a criminal to a supernatural maximum security cell. Below the Shade of Night" presents an anxiety that is rooted in the follies and ignorance of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Vicissitude maps uncharted territory of graphic melancholia via a tale of infidelity. Trash Night" depicts the troubled relationship of Dee and Leo, with mounting tension and mistrust that reaches a boiling point. In The Dark Nothing, a rare foray into science fiction, the three-person crew of prospecting ship Sagasu 17 attempt to harvest an asteroid, and things go horribly awry. The Middle Nowhere begins with a man waiting in a small shack. All around him is a black sand desert. The wind rises, the rain comes, and it just might be the end of everything hes known. Also featuring additional prints and drawings from the author's archives, Goes Like This is a tantalizing sampler of one of the most brilliant cartoonists working today. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 192 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Written by Andrew Wheeler. Art and cover by Rye Hickman. From writer Andrew Wheeler (Another Castle, Cat Fight) and artist Rye Hickman (The Harrowing) comes a touching story of religion, desire, and what it means to be yourself no matter how lonely or scared you feel. Mark is a good Catholic boy. He goes to church, says his prayers, and spends too much time worrying about hell. When Mark realizes he has a crush on another boy in his school, he struggles to reconcile his feelings with his faith as the weight of centuries of shame and judgment—and his fear of his parents response—presses on his shoulders. Mark seeks advice from his priest, as well as a local drag performer, but also receives unexpected input from key figures in Catholic history and lore, including Joan of Arc, Michelangelo, St. Sebastian, and Savonarola. Ultimately, only Mark can answer the question: Is it possible for him to be both Catholic and gay? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 128 page, full color. Teen Cover price $17.99.

1st printing. Collects Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs (2024 Image), Finders Keepers (2025 Image) Horizon Experiment, Manchurian (2024 Image) Horizon Experiment, and Sacred Damned: The Horizon Experiment (2024 Image). Written by Tananarive Due, Vita Ayala, Pornsak Pichetshote, and Sabir Pirzada. Art and cover by José Villarrubia, Kelsey Ramsay, Skylar Patridge, Terry Dodson, and Michael Walsh. A comics anthology that puts a new spin on popular genres and pop culture icons. THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in Miami, and an Evil Dead for black nerds. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Lomig. What pushed John Muir to become the pioneering environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club? 1867: A sawmill is running at full speed with a terrible noise when suddenly, workers run to rescue a man on the ground. He has seriously injured his eyes. John Muir is twenty-nine years old and has to be confined in a dark room: it is likely that he may remain blind. But miraculously, after months of an almost mystical convalescence, he regains his sight. This episode convinces him he's going to leave everything behind and embrace his lifelong dream: head south to meet the wilderness. Armed with only his courage, his youth, a magnifying glass and a botanical book, he treks hundreds of miles on foot from Indiana to Florida. Imagine an almost pristine wilderness, where only a few dangerous ex-soldiers from the South and former slaves thrown out of the old plantations roam… This biography also covers his other life-changing pioneering trek along the Sierra Nevada Trail which now bears his name. Here, in breathtaking vistas, is the inspiration he got to found the Sierra Club, create the first national parks, and become one of Americas first and foremost environmentalist champions. Exquisitely rendered in a sepia tone. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

2nd Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Legion of Super-Heroes (1989-2000 4th Series) #1-39, Timber Wolf (1992) #1-5, Legion of Super-Heroes (1989-2000) Annual #1-3, and The Adventures of Superman (1987-2006) #478. Written by Keith Giffen, Tom Bierbaum, Mary Bierbaum, Al Gordon, and Dan Jurgens. Art by Keith Giffen, Al Gordon, Chris Sprouse, Paris Cullins, Bob Lewis, Craig Brasfield, Brandon Peterson, Carlos Garzon, Jason Pearson, Michael Christian, Dusty Abell, Brad Vancata, Tony Harris, Karl Story, Colleen Doran, Curt Swan, Karl Kesel, David Williams, Chris Sprouse, June Brigman, John Dell, Stuart Immonen, Joe Phillips, Dougie Braithwaite, Larry Mahlstedt, Doug Hazlewood, Scott Hanna, Ian Montgomery, Rob Haynes, Brett Breeding, and Dan Jurgens. Cover by Dusty Abell and Bob Smith. Back Cover by Keith Giffen and Al Gordon. A NEW ERA OF THE LEGION, COLLECTED HERE! The foundation of the Legion's world has always been that the universe of the 30th century is a utopia; that crime, disease, war, and even death have largely been conquered; and that humankind has reached a new golden age. But a lot can change in five years. After a war between science and magic caused a galactic upheaval that left the Legion without funding, purpose, or support, the Legion disbanded. But one thing hasn't vanished completely...the original dream. Only one of the few remaining heroes remembers what it was all about, what the Legion once represented. And he's out to put the band together. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 1,424 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $150.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Greg Broadmore. Hunted by giant primordial beasts, red in tooth and claw, a tribe of cavegirls scratch out a bleak existence in a brutal uncaring world. They cling onto a life where not many make it beyond the first few months, let alone to adulthood. Governed by ancient laws and arcane rituals - the only constants they have - they follow the old ways on pain of death. But One Path, a hunter and warrior, has a plan to change their lives. To free them from the toll the great predators that stalk them charge, and it will overturn everything they know. Softcover, 200 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Greg Broadmore. Hunted by giant primordial beasts, red in tooth and claw, a tribe of cavegirls scratch out a bleak existence in a brutal uncaring world. They cling onto a life where not many make it beyond the first few months, let alone to adulthood. Governed by ancient laws and arcane rituals - the only constants they have - they follow the old ways on pain of death. But One Path, a hunter and warrior, has a plan to change their lives. To free them from the toll the great predators that stalk them charge, and it will overturn everything they know. Hardcover, 200 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. Written by Thierry Lamy and Nicolas Finet. Cover by JT Yost. Here is the can't-miss overview of the punk rock scene from its early inception in the seventies in New York and the UK. Includes chapters on The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and more. Punk was also the flex point for women in rock like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Blondie, The Runaways, Patti Smith and The Slits that paved the way for the Riot Grrrl movement. Flashing the finger against the slick corporate rock of the '70s, punk was faster, messier, and louder than anything before it. Covered here with the same raw energy, look, and attitude as the music itself! Hardcover, 176 pages, full color. Teen+ Cover price $27.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Saga (2012 Image) #7-12. Written by Brian K. Vaughan. Art and Cover by Fiona Staples. he critically acclaimed masterpiece and one of the most iconic, bestselling comic book series of its time continues in the second volume, now presented in a smaller, digest size featuring all new cover art by FIONA STAPLES. Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters something truly frightening: her grandparents! A genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic romantasy featuring a diverse and eclectic cast of memorable characters, SAGA follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. Softcover, 152 pages, full color. Mature Readers NOTE: "The kind of comic you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic." —Entertainment Weekly Cover price $14.99.