To help you stay on top of each week’s new graphic novels and anime, we present the following list compiled from Diamond Comic Distributors’ complete weekly shipping list and Anime News Network’s Releases encyclopedia.
Some of this week’s highlights:
Metro: a Story of Cairo: Â A debt-ridden software designer becomes entangled in a complex web of corruption in this conspiracy thriller that was banned from publication in Egypt in 2008.
Batman Detective Comics HC Volume 1: Faces of Death: Batman must match wits with a serial killer in this re-launch of Detective Comics.
Angelman – Fallen Angel: Nicolas Mahler presents a goofy parody of superhero and comics industry tropes with the adventures of Angelman, whose powers include sensitivity and good listening skills.
Koma: A young girl finds a strange new friend hiding in a chimney and confronts the mysterious forces that control her industrial city in this blend of fantasy and realism.
Graphic Novels
Ardden Entertainment
- MINX TP
Bongo
- BART SIMPSON OUT TO LUNCH TP
Dark Horse
- BPRD TP VOL 03 PLAGUE OF FROGS (NEW PTG)
- CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 13
- STAR WARS OMNIBUS DROIDS AND EWOKS TP
DC
- BATMAN DETECTIVE COMICS HC VOL 01 FACES OF DEATH
- DMZ TP VOL 12 THE FIVE NATIONS OF NEW YORK
- GREEN LANTERN CORPS REVOLT OF ALPHA LANTERNS TP
- RED LANTERNS TP VOL 01 BLOOD AND RAGE
Drawn & Quarterly
- BACK ALLEYS AND URBAN LANDSCAPES GN
- ED THE HAPPY CLOWN HC
- IDYLL GN
Fantagraphics
- ANGELMAN HC FALLEN ANGEL
Humanoids
- KOMA GN
IDW
- COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE HC VOL 08
- DANGER GIRL REVOLVER TP
- DOCTOR WHO ONGOING 2 TP VOL 04 AS TIME GOES BY
- DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TP VOL 01 SHADOWPLAGUE
- GI JOE V2 COBRA COMMAND TP VOL 01
- INFESTATION 2 TP VOL 01
Image
- ACTIVITY TP VOL 01
- WALKING DEAD TP VOL 16 A LARGER WORLD
- WITCHBLADE REBIRTH TP VOL 01
Kodansha
- GTO 14 DAYS IN SHONAN GN VOL 03
Knockabout Comics
- PARIS GN
Marvel
- AVENGERS WEST COAST TP ALONG CAME A SPIDER-WOMAN
- DEADPOOL TP VOL 09 INSTITUTIONALIZED
- MOON KNIGHT BY BENDIS AND MALEEV TP VOL 01
- SPIDER-MAN BIG TIME ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP
- UNCANNY X-MEN BY KIERON GILLEN PREM HC VOL 02
Metropolitan Books
- METRO GRAPHIC NOVEL
Rebellion/2000AD
- JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES TP VOL 19
- MEGA CITY UNDERCOVER VOL 02
Seven Seas Entertainment
- ALICE I/T COUNTRY CLOVER TWINS GN
- VAMPIRE CHEERLEADERS MYSTERY SQUAD COLL TP
- WITCH HUNTER COLL TP VOL 01 BOOK 1-2
Transfuzion
- TROMA CHILLERS GN
Viz
- BLEACH TP VOL 40
- BLEACH TP VOL 41
- OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB TP VOL 18 (OF 18)
- POKEMON ADVENTURES PLATINUM GN VOL 05
Yen Press
- BAMBOO BLADE TP VOL 13
- SUMOMOMO MOMOMO TP VOL 12
Anime
Bandai Entertainment
- Mobile Suit Gundam UC
Funimation
- Dragon Ball Z Kai Season 1 Part 8
- Hero Tales – Complete Series
The Right Stuf International
- Boogiepop Phantom – the complete TV series
Sentai
- Kurenai Complete Collection
Keep in mind that titles are not always available from book vendors on the same dates as they are released in comic book stores, so not all of these will be available everywhere at the same time. Check with your vendors, just to be sure!
