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:
Adventures in Cartooning Christmas Special: The knight and the elf create comics for Santa to give out as Christmas presents, while teaching readers how to create their own comics
Secret of the Stone Frog: TOON Books’ first foray into full graphic novels features two children who learn how to survive in an enchanted forest
Angelic Layer Book 1: Junior High student Misaki competes in a tournament where players control robots in an arena with their minds
Memorial Volume 1: A woman with no memory is drawn into a supernatural conflict that threatens the universe
Graphic Novels
BOOM! Studios
- RICH JOHNSTON’S THE AVENGEFULS TP
Dark Horse
- ANGELIC LAYER TP BOOK 01
- BERSERK TP VOL 36
- CARDCAPTOR SAKURA DARK HORSE OMNIBUS TP VOL 04
- EERIE ARCHIVES HC VOL 11
- EMPOWERED TP VOL 01 (NEW PTG)
- EMPOWERED TP VOL 03
DC
- 100 BULLETS HC BOOK 03
- GREEN LANTERN CORPS HC VOL 01 FEARSOME
- LEGION LOST TP VOL 01 RUN FROM TOMORROW
- PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE TP
- SUPERMAN THE BLACK RING TP VOL 02
- WORLD OF WARCRAFT PEARL OF PANDARIA HC
Dynamic Forces
- VAMPIRELLA VS DRACULA TP
First Second
- ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
IDW
- DOCTOR WHO DAVE GIBBONS COLL TP
- MEMORIAL HC VOL 01
- SKIPPY HC VOL 01 COMPLETE DAILIES 1925-1927
- STAR TREK ROMULANS TREASURY ED
- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ONGOING TP VOL 03 SHADOWS
Hachette
- SODDIT OR LETS CASH IN AGAIN HC
Image
- REBEL BLOOD TP
- WALKING DEAD HC VOL 08
Kenzer & Company
- KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE BUNDLE OF TROUBLE TP VOL 38
Kodansha
- ATTACK ON TITAN GN VOL 02
- SAILOR MOON TP VOL 07
Marvel
- DAREDEVIL BY MARK WAID PREM HC VOL 03
- DEADPOOL TP VOL 10 EVIL DEADPOOL
- INVINCIBLE IRON MAN PREM HC VOL 10 LONG WAY DOWN
- JOHN CARTER GN TP GODS OF MARS
- JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY TP VOL 02 FEAR ITSELF FALLOUT
- MARVELS AVENGERS AVENGERS INITIATIVE DIGEST TP
- MARVEL MASTERWORKS ATLAS ERA TALES OF SUSPENSE HC VOL 04
- UNCANNY X-MEN BY KIERON GILLEN PREM HC VOL 03 AVX
- VENOM CIRCLE OF FOUR TP
- WOLVERINE TP GOODBYE CHINATOWN
- X-FACTOR TP VOL 15 THEY KEEP KILLING MADROX
- X-MEN WEDDING OF CYCLOPS AND PHOENIX TP
Marz Publishing
- JINN WARRIORS GN VOL 01 DEVILS WAR
NBM
- CLASSICS ILLUS DLX SC VOL 09 CHRISTMAS CAROL & MUGBY
- JEWISH IN AMERICA GN SET VOL 1-2
Raw Studios LLC
- DARK COUNTRY HC
Slave Labor Graphics
- NEXT EXIT VOL 1 TP
- NIGHTMARES & FAIRY TALES TP VOL 01
- NIGHTMARES & FAIRY TALES TP VOL 03 1140 RUE ROYALE
- NIGHTMARES & FAIRY TALES TP VOL 04
- REX LIBRIS TP VOL 01
- REX LIBRIS TP VOL 02 BOOK OF MONSTERS
Studio 407
- HAVOC BRIGADE TP
TOON Books
- SECRET OF THE STONE FROG HC
Top Shelf
- BLUE GN
Viz
- HOUSE OF FIVE LEAVES TP VOL 08
- NAOKI URASAWA 20TH CENTURY BOYS GN VOL 22
WW Norton
- MR BIG TALE OF POND LIFE GN
Anime
Eastern Star
- Venus Wars
Funimation
- Fafner – Complete Series
- King of Thorn
- The Tower of Druaga – The Complete Series
Sentai
- Allison & Lillia – Complete Collection
- Persona 4 – Collection 1
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!