PING PONG

Taiyo Matsumoto

Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of selfdiscovery Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to do Will the fierce competition to be number one bring out his best or drive him away from the game?

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BATMAN: EGO AND OTHER TAILS

Darwyn Cooke with various artists

Eisner-award winning artist and accomplished writer Darwyn Cooke's iconic imagery culminates in this collection of pulse-pounding stories featuring unique visions of Batman and Catwoman

Hungry Ghost

Victoria Ying

Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin No one, not even her best friend, Jordan, knows that she has been bingeing and purging for years But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself reassessing her priorities, her choices, and her body The path to happiness may lead her away from her hometown and her mother’s toxic projections but first she will have to find the strength to seek help

Land Of The Dead

written by Brian McDonald; art by Toby Cypress

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Our Colors

Gengoroh Tagame

Sora Itoda wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society Sora's world changes forever when he meets Mr Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop, and who is unapologetically out as a gay man A mentorship and platonic friendship ensues, as Sora comes out to him and agrees to paint a mural in the shop, and Mr Amamiya counsels him about how to deal with who he is But it won't be easy.

After The Rain

written by John Jennings; art by David Brame

A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive Based on a short story by Nnedi Okorafor

Wielding his massive experience from film, tv, comics, and more, Brian McDonald lays out a history of storytelling and shows the reader how the best tales tug at our truest biological instinct: the need to survive Readers will see how different forms of survival--physical, emotional, spiritual--inform the arc of character development in a way that makes them more complex and compelling And how plot and circumstance must then force your protagonist to meet their worst nightmare

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The Nice House On The Lake

written by James Tynion IV; art by Álvaro Martínez Bueno with Jordie Bellaire

Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago And Walter's always been a little off But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private--so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacation of a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn't a chance to reconnect be nice?

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Thieves

Lucie Bryon

Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania But does Maddy have secrets of her own?

IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Zoe Thorogood

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate metanarrative that looks into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival

Lore Olympus

Rachel Smythe

Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus When her roommate, Artemis, takes her to a party, her entire life changes: she ends up meeting Hades and feels an immediate spark with the charming yet misunderstood ruler of the Underworld Now Persephone must navigate the confusing politics and relationships that rule Olympus, while also figuring out her own place-and her own power

The Night Eaters

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--the twins are in for a nasty surprise A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye ebook