Built on a site of great and forgotten power, the mammoth Bentham International Hospital was to be the very definition of modern medical science at its best. But over the years, the spectres and dark secrets of the Hospital began to bore away at its heart, leaving its foundations cracked and vulnerable to the oldest of horrors and nightmares. When a prominent Commissioner of the City's Housing and Urban Development Department is brought to the Panopticon for evaluation after murdering her family, the haunted secrets of the hospital begin to unravel, leaving no one untouched. Julius, the prosthetic boy in room 13 is waking up. The black eggs are found. The lines between the patients and the doctors are blurring. This is where the end begins. Every cure is paid with a curse and every sin is birthed anew as the once brilliant light of modern medicine forsakes the world for the shadows it can no longer hide.

Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! When Belldandy learns that traditional Japanese custom dictates a woman make homemade chocolate for her love on Valentine's Day, she vows to make this a V-Day to remember. When troublemakers extraordinaire, Urd and Mara toss themselves into the mix, it's instant hot chocolate; but not as hot as the situation Keiichi is in when the Third Goddess splashes into his life-Urd and Belldandy's ''genius'' of a younger sister, Skuld! Plus notes and commentary, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your letters!

Verily, the heroes of "Penny Arcade" return in the second volume of valiant chivalric deeds of brave heroism, heroic gallantry, and bravery. Collecting all the "Penny Arcade" strips posted online from 2001 and 2002, "Volume 2" includes creator commentary and a sketchbook section.

The battle between Reiko and her twin sister, Riruka, who is bent on controlling the world with a slave-army of zombies, reaches a blood-dimmed crescendo. Twins they may be, and while related by blood, there aren't two people out for each other's throats more than Reiko and Riruka. Only one of the two will be left standing in this ultimate gore-soaked splatter showdown!