Pascal's in a bad place. He's out of work, he and his longtime girlfriend have just broken up, and when he goes out for a run to ease his frazzled nerves, he falls and injures his back so badly, he's strictly forbidden from running. What's an endorphin-loving cartoonist to do? In a bid to distract himself, Pascal throws himself into his other pleasure: reading. And while at the bookstore one day, he spies a young woman picking up his own book. But then she darts out of the shop without paying. Bemused, he decides to figure out why she did it. Pascal Girard intermingles an all-too-true-to-life snapshot of contemporary relationships with slapstick trials and dryly funny tribulations in this delightfully readable book.

"The WORN Archive is a manifesto on why fashion and clothing matter. With its prescient, intelligent articles WORN asserts that fashion is art, history, ideas, and most of all fun - that style is a personal experience that need not align with the fashion industry. Articles penned by a host of unique contributors (academics, writers, curators, and artists), touch on topics as wide-ranging as the relationship between feminism and fashion

WHY WE LOVE IT: If you could take a pill and travel back to any time in your life, where would you go? Newcomer Shaun Manning hooked us with his fresh scifi thriller, illuminating the dangers of living in the past. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If Richard Linklater directed a season of BREAKING BAD written by J. J. Abrams, it'd probably be pretty close to what Manning and Wieszczyk have built-a trippedout psychological thriller full of scrappy antiheroes and some of the most villainous scum of all space and time. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: When a man from the future recruits average Best Buy worker Andrew Smith to help him create a drug that will allow him to travel through time, Andrew thinks he's found the way to erase all his problems. However, the power of nostalgia proves to be the strongest of drugs, creating an epidemic of addiction with Andrew as its unwitting kingpin. Special Notes:

"A fresh wound of the heart is torn open by the unmasking of Kuro's deadly deception with Ni. His lessons in human emotion push Tanpopo to the limits of her resolve. Is this part of his plan as her otherworldly guide or has he underestimated Tanpopo's dogged independence? Camilla d'Errico's mythic and mystical take on literature is told through the unfolding narrative of Tanpopoa - mysterious girl guided by Kuro

World War I set the tone for the 20th-century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war.

Lose yourself in the exciting world and stunning work of renowned French visual artist Loïc Zimmermann. e338: The Art of Loïc Zimmermann is the ultimate collection of his artwork, boasting a combination of never-before-seen pieces and examples of the work that he has become famous for across the internet. Alongside this, Zimmermann offers his advice to any digital artists looking to follow in his footsteps on key subjects including how to promote yourself and your work effectively on the internet and problem-solving, while also providing an insight into what life is like working in the visual art field.

Cliff Chiang's star has never shone brighter. His bold, graphic style has a classic feel with a modern sensibility, and it's no wonder he's become one of the industry's top illustrators. Now learn how Chiang went from promising assistant editor to in-demand freelance artist. This volume features a career-spanning interview, and loads of both iconic and rarely seen artwork from Cliff's personal files.

Life in the year 2054 has been reduced to a data feed. The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics allow citizens to employ android substitutes that let them interact with the world without ever leaving their homes. It's a perfect world, and it's up to Detectives Harvey Greer and Pete Ford of the Metro Police Department to keep it that way. But to do so they'll need to stop a techno-terrorist bent on returning society to a time when people lived their lives instead of merely experiencing them. Go deeper into the world of The Surrogates with these trade paperbacks collecting the original mini-series and its sequel, Flesh and Bone!

'Star Trek: The Next Generation' breathed new life into the 'Star Trek' franchise, and kicked off a whole new era of Starfleet exploration and adventure! Now, the crew of the Enterprise-D continue their mission in these long out of print comics stories! In this second volume in the series, Captain Picard and his crew face a deadly race against time to save Dr Crusher's life, fall foul of the rapacious Ferengi, and must solve a deadly mystery - a second Enterprise which is destroying Starfleet ships! Featuring bonus interviews with Johnathan Frakes (Commander Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), these adventures are essential reading for any 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' fan!

"Hidden kings and reincarnated queens, feuding, immortal cyborg gods

This is the first book to celebrate the art of Julius Csotonyi. Csotonyi won the Lazendorf PaleoArt prize for his dinosaur artwork in 2010. An artist and scientist, he has produced work for numerous publications, including National Geographic, and museum exhibits, working largely in the digital medium. With progressives and pieces exclusive to the book, this is a must for dinosaur and art fans alike!

Patty-Cake is in full color! After ten years and mulitple Eisner and Ignatz nominations, Scott Roberts' beloved Patty-Cake returns in full-color! This special trade paperback reprints the first three issues of Patty's long Slave Labor Graphics run (from way back in 1997) as they've never been seen before!

In Los Angeles, Ray is sitting in gridlock when he receives a call from an LAPD officer with news about his wife. Fearing the worst, he listens intently, but suddenly the caller and everyone else around him disappears. In London, two commuters catch sight of each other on a packed tube train, and everyone around them vanishes. In Japan, comic artist Yoshi has come to the Aokigahara Forest to hang himself. But when the attempt fails, the forest comes alive with mythological creatures. Celeste is an ambitious and profound graphic novel that explores what it means to be alive.

Toto isn't very good at school, he's clumsy in sports, and he's kind of a social misfit, but he is great at one thing: messing up! In the first chapter of this hilarious new series we spend a school year with Toto as our hero tries to sail through each day without causing too much wreckage along the way. Giving a dog a bath in a washing machine, failing every school subject (including gym), and knocking out his front teeth on a bicycle are all just part of regular life for Toto!

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white images, she tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war and political repression.