With the help of Akemi, Kabuki has escaped from Control Corps amid the fallout and mayhem caused by the Noh operatives. Walking through the rain, wounded and bleeding, she follows a map to someone who will forge her a passportand a way out of the countrywith a new identity. That person provides more questions than answers concerning the nature of the mysterious Akemi. It seems Akemi is attempting a kind of revolutionone that Akemi expects Kabuki to play a major part in, part 1 of 9.

When did Rasputin find his calling to bring about Ragna Rok? How did the Visitor stay hidden on Earth for so long? And where did the legendary Sledgehammer armor really come from? These questions and more are answered in this new collection from the world of Hellboy! Three stories of instrumental side characters are explored in full, collected for the first time in a handsome volume perfect for any Hellboy fan's library. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is joined by John Arcudi, Chris Roberson, Laurence Campbell, Christopher Mitten, Dave Stewart, and others to bring these hidden corners of the Mignolaverse to light. Collects Rasputin: The Voice of the Dragon, Sledgehammer 44, and The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed.

This debut graphic novel by Brazilian cartoonist Daniel Semanas is a candy-colored, visual tour de force that draws from influences as diverse as American Pop Art, Korean “K-pop,” internet culture, and Manga. Set in South Korea in the near future, it tells the story of Phanta, a young Korean fighter who has a fiercely competitive relationship with her brother. In a effort to top his popularity on the internet, she embarks on a psychedelic journey into an underground drug cult in hopes of becoming the new member of a popular K-pop group. She gets more than she bargained for, however. Roly Poly is a story about faith and perception, and how believing in something can unconsciously influence the people around you and yield unexpected results—such as wishes coming true.

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Collects X-Men: Hope, X-Men: Blind Science, X-Men: Hellbound #1-3 And X-Factor #204-206.The X-Men are in chaos. As the mutant population dwindles, the messianic Hope returns from the future, carrying with her the hope of repopulating the race. But Bastion, a highly evolved mutant-hunting Sentinel robot, lies in wait. He's acquired an alien virus that has allowed him to reanimate and control some of the X-Men's deadliest enemies - including Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels! And Bastion has ordered Trask to kill the mutant detective team X-Factor! Meanwhile, the X-Man known as Magik has been cast into Limbo. Cannonball assembles an emergency rescue squad to get her back home and out of the clutches of the archdemon N'astirh. But when N'astirh bargains with the X-Man called Pixie for the return of her soul, will Pixie be Magik's rescuer? Or her murderer? The threads of the X-Men's future weave together here!