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Ruri Dragon Chapters 1-8

Ruri Aoki was your average junior high school student, until the day she woke up with horns growing out of her head.  It turns out that her mother has been keeping a big secret from her:  That her dad is actually a dragon.  Now Ruri has to go through life knowing that and looking like […]

Ultimate Black Panther vol. 2: Gods & Kings

The African continent is wracked by war!  On one side are Khonshu and Ra, who make up the force known as Moon Knight which sits at the Maker’s table.  On the other is the continent’s secret power, Wakanda, and its young king T’Challa who is determined to put his opponents in the ground.  Standing in […]

Redcoat vol. 1

His name is Simon Pure, and he’s anything but as you’ll know after reading through this volume.  As a soldier in the British Army during the American Revolution he ran for his life after witnessing what George Washington was really capable of, and found himself right in the middle of a mysterious ceremony involving Benjamin […]

Feral vol. 2: Cat Lady

Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches were housecats who found themselves struggling to survive an outbreak of super-rabies.  By the end of the first volume, Patch was infected, Lord was lost, and Elsie had met up with Gigi, who managed to survive giving birth to three kittens.  Months have passed and this latter clutter of […]

Kagurabachi vol. 1

To say that Chihiro Rokuhira’s dad, Kunishige, was something of a living legend is to still sell the man short.  He was, after all, the legendary swordsmith who forged six magical swords of such power that they were used to bring an end to the Seitei War.  Kunishige took ownership of the swords after the […]

The Holy Roller

Levi Coen may have been the reigning “Paperboy” champion at his local bowling alley, but he left that behind years ago because bowling and his champion dad were terminally uncool.  Now he lives the high life on the seas, smoking up and saving whales for Greenpeace.  Until he gets word that his dad is and […]

Plastic: Death & Dolls

Before he met Virginia, the inflatable love of his life, Edwyn was just your average diner worker taking life a day at a time.  Which also included taking the lives of people who he felt deserved it – like the guy who tried to play cat soccer – by sawing off their heads with his […]

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol. 13

When we last left the title character she had accidentally traveled back in time to hang out with her old friends Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen and was looking for a way to return.  Then she and Himmel got caught up in the effects of the Black Mercy Grausam the Miraculous’ hypnosis abilities and found themselves […]