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First Look: BOOM! Studios’ Hex Vet: Witches in Training!

BOOM! Studios has released a first look at Hex Vet: Witches in Training, a new original graphic novel from cartoonist Sam Davies (Stutterhug).

In a world where magic is a part of daily life, Nan and Clarion are determined to be the best veterinarian witches of all time. Between life, animals, and magic, these two witches will soon realize that they have a lot to learn.

Hex Vet: Witches in Training will be in stores in December.

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Vault Comics Announces Brandon Sanderson’s Dark One Graphic Novel Series!

Yesterday, we posted news of a multimedia project (TV, Graphic novel, podcast) from award-winning author Brandon Sanderson called Dark One. Today we have the first art from the graphic novels (there will be two) – from Vault Comics.

Dark One is a fantasy epic about the people caught in a conflict between two worlds: Earth and a dark-and-deadly fantasy realm. The graphic novel will be made concurrently with a TV series that is being produced by FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) and Random House Studio.

The first Dark One graphic novel will be in stores in Spring 2019. Details follow.

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The Paybacks – Superheroes Get Served!

When superheroes borrow money to finance their genetic enhancements or crime-fighting supercomputers, their debts make student loans look like I.O.U.’s! Enter the Paybacks, a repo squad composed of bankrupt former heroes here to foreclose on everybody’s secret lairs!

The Paybacks Collection collects The Paybacks Vols. 1 & 2 in a single trade paperback volume and will be in stores on August 1st.

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Harrow County Gets Deluxe Library Edition This Fall!

Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures—and to the land itself—in a way she never imagined.

Harrow County: Library Edition Volume 1 collects the first two volumes of Harrow County in a deluxe, hardcover, and oversized format with a new cover, sketchbook material, essays, “Tales from Harrow County” bonus stories by guest creators, and more!

Harrow County: Library Edition Volume 1 goes on sale October 24 – and is available for pre-order.

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ZOOTOPIA GRAPHIC NOVEL HOPS ONTO SHELVES IN SEPTEMBER 2018!

Dark Horse has announced a new graphic novel featuring characters from Disney’s Zootopia.

Disney Zootopia: Friends to the Rescue includes two separate tales of friendship, one featuring Zootopia’s Judy Hopps as a youngster in Bunnyburrow, and the other featuring Zootopia’s Nick Wilde and his urban childhood experiences.

Disney Zootopia: Friends to the Rescue goes on sale September 12.

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Haunting Trailer: Run Wild!

When all of civilization begins turning into animals, only two people remain–young siblings Ava and Flynn. On a desperate search for safety in an unpredictable and violent world, they’ll traverse a wild and unruly landscape, make friends and foes of all species, and discover what really makes them human.

Run Wild is a new graphic novel from K.I. Zachopoulos and Vincenzo Balzano – creators of The Cloud. It will be released by BOOM! Studios imprint Archaia in July. A trailer for Run Wild follows below.

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Hex Vet Is Just What The (Supernatural) Doctor Ordered!

In a world where magic is a part of daily life, even veterinarians have to have some kind of specialized training to deal with magical beasts – like pet dragons…

Nan and Clarion are determined to be the best veterinarian witches of all time but will soon realize that they have a lot to learn.

Hex Vex is a hardcover graphic novel by Sam Davies (Stutterhug) that will be published under BOOM! Studios’ KaBOOM imprint in December.

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The Secret to Persephone’s Identity Lies in the Underworld!

Persephone OGN cover by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky – Courtesy of Archaia.

Inspired by the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter, Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky’s graphic novel Persephone follows a young girl whose search for the truth about her identity leads her on a journey deep into the Underworld.

Persephone will published under BOOM! Studios’ Archaia imprint and will be in stores in May 2018.

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Introducing the 49th President of the U.S. – Kim Jong Un!

The press release for UnPresidential says it all: If you think comic book readers and retailers were outraged about Captain America being a Nazi in the pages of Marvel Entertainment’s SECRET EMPIRE event, wait ’til they get their hands on UnPresidential, the new graphic novel from Man Vs Rock. In the sure-to-be controversial book, Kim Jong Un runs for President of the United States…. And wins.

UnPresidential is a savage  satire in which no monolithic idiocy is spared – from political parties to celebrities to NFL President Roger Goodell.

UnPresidential will be released on November 21, 2017, unless the Earth has been destroyed already by nuclear weapons.

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comiXology Originals Completes Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost!

Harvey Kurtzman was an original – best known for creating MAD Magazine, he left several uncompleted projects behind when he died in 1993. One of those was Marley’s Ghost – his adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Now comiXology Originals has – with the approval of and under the supervision of the Kurtzman estate – completed the project through the efforts of writers Josh O’Neill and Shannon Wheeler and artist Gideon Kendall.

Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost is now available exclusively from comiXology Originals.

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Chuck Palahniuk Creates Graphic Novel You Get to Color for Dark Horse!

When is a coloring book not a coloring book?

When it’s a semi-DIY graphic novel by the author of Fight Club and a trio of highly regarded artists.

Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color, by Chuck Palahniuk – with art by Mike Norton and Steve Morris (and a gorgeous cover by Duncan Fegredo), is ‘a dark but colorful fable with aspiring immortals, an amoral banker and his despicable family, a stalker and the kind of extreme storytelling and biting social satire’ that Palahniuk’s readers have come to expect.

Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color will be in stores and comics shops on November 7th.

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