A book that has become a legend, despite never before being published! The DCC RPG Annual was originally conceived as an annual publication that would exist in some form to showcase the brilliance of the DCC RPG community. This would be the DCC RPG Annual, published each year to distribute these gaming creations. The best of things happened: the DCC RPG Annual was never needed. The DCC community burst forth a verdant jungle of inspiration, with ripe fruit on every limb. Blogs and personal posts; zines; community publications; the Gongfarmer’s Almanac; officially licensed third-party works: there is a vast supply of inspiration from whence the DCC judge can draw and iterate. Still, we had a wealth of material that needed a home, so The DCC RPG Annual became a reality. Here’s what you’ll find in this volume: • New Magic • New Quests and Journeys. Explore the lost continent of Mu! • New Judge’s Rules • New Magic Items • New Monsters • And Moustaches. Yes, you read that right—there are rules for moustaches in this book. You know you need it. You absolutely do not need the DCC Annual to play Dungeon Crawl Classics, nor does any material in this Annual supersede or otherwise change the baseline game experience as expressed in the core rulebook. There is no rules bloat: only new vistas of imagination.

Take the plunge with Science Comics: Deep-Sea Creatures, a new volume in First Second's nonfiction STEM series! This popular graphic novel series has over twenty-five volumes in print and has sold over a million copies! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic - dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you! In this volume, you'll see real-life sea creatures like giant isopods, colossal squids, blood-sucking lampreys, horrific anglerfish, and many more! Unravel the mysteries of how they evolved to survive where there is no light, hardly any food, and water pressure so intense it would squash you like a sea slug! Turn the page and prepare to go deep!

Ponce Melee is a lonely clock-puncher working for Twin Labs in the cloning dept. When he uses a strand of hair to clone a companion; it's successful, but she immediately leaves him for greener pastures. So, he clones another potential companion. And that one leaves. And again. Soon, multiple clones begin causing confusion and havoc around town. Meanwhile, one of the errant clones makes a pact with the devil that goes awry and strands Satan in town, forcing him to get a job. Justin Gradin's sophomore graphic novel (after 2023's Mystic Debris) combines keen verbal and visual wit with a host of memorable characters -- Mandrake the Soda Jerk, private investigator Butterfly Latté, pop superstar Attilla the Hunny, and many more--to create an anarchic, absurdist comedy about lonely souls and the lonely soulless. Gradin's work has echoes of Gary Panter, Gary Leib, Marc Bell, and Mark Beyer (and even some other cartoonists who may or may not be named Gary or Mark) while remaining a singular, sui generis voice in contemporary comics.

ACROSS SPACE AND TIME Collected here for the first time are six fantastical tales of the Swords of Eternity Super-Arc, the epic cycle that launched the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series. At the mercy of spacetime's capricious vagaries, young scientist Victory Harben finds herself hurled across worlds by a mysterious force, while pursued by a ruthless winged entity armed with a flaming sword that consumes souls. Following Victory is inventor Jason Gridley, intent on finding his goddaughter and bringing her home. In the course of their world-hopping odyssey, Victory and Jason will meet friends and allies, and face off against cruel enemies who will test the steel of their courage. Original to this anthology are a Quantum Prelude, a Quantum Postlude, and five new connecting Quantum Interludes in which Victory Harben gives context to the unfolding story of the Super-Arc that occurs between each story, plus the previously unpublished epic novelette "Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye" by Christopher Paul Carey, in which the ERB Universe collides head-on with cosmic horror at the edge of the solar system! TABLE OF CONTENTS Quantum Prelude: Weird Worlds* Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun by Christopher Paul Carey Quantum Interlude: The Wormhole Express* Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak by Mike Wolfer Quantum Interlude: Friends and Enemies* Victory Harben: Stormwinds of Va-nah by Ann Tonsor Zeddies Quantum Interlude: Cosmic Roulette Wheel* Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye* by Christopher Paul Carey Quantum Interlude: Kith and Kin* Jason Gridley of Earth: Across the Moons of Mars by Geary Gravel Quantum Interlude: The Tapestry of Fate* Beyond the Farthest Star: Rescue on Zandar by Mike Wolfer Quantum Coda: Into the Unknown Quantum Postlude: The Omos Enigma* * Indicates new material original to this anthology. THE FIRST UNIVERSE OF ITS KIND A century before the term "crossover" became a buzzword in popular culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines--Tarzan of the Apes, Jane Clayton, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Carson Napier, and David Innes being only the best known among them. In Burroughs' 80-plus novels, their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds of Barsoom, Amtor, Pellucidar, Caspak, and Va-nah, as well as the lost civilizations of Earth and even realms beyond the farthest star. Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands in an all-new series of canonical tales written by today's talented authors! © Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks Victory Harben¿, Jason Gridley¿, Beyond the Farthest Star¿, Tarzan®, Tarzan of the Apes®, John Carter®, Dejah Thoris®, Pellucidar®, David Innes¿, Carson Napier¿, Amtor¿, Caspak¿, Va-nah¿, Edgar Rice Burroughs®, Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe®, ERB Universe¿, Swords of Eternity¿, and others owned by ERB, Inc.

Learn all about space travel, alien planets and life beyond Earth in this fun and factual space book for kids. "How do you travel in style across the galaxy?" "What do aliens really look like?" "What is the Fermi paradox, and why should we care about it?" Discover the answers to these questions and many more at the Supervillain Academy: the magnificently morbid school for young villains in training. Read more about how the search for extraterrestrial life and the search for planets are linked, the exoplanets and extremophiles that can be found all over the galaxy, and the weird and wonderful ways scientists think we (might) be able to travel around space. A factual and full-of-fun astronomy book for young big thinkers and budding scientists!- An accessible and enjoyable introduction to astrophysics, explaining big topics in a simple way- Packed with facts about the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, and, most importantly, the answer to the question: "Are we really alone?"- Each chapter is linked to science topics that children study at school- Scientific concepts are brought to life with humorous illustrations Based on real (and morbid) questions from children, expert astronomer and author Dr. Matt Bothwell has created this kids' science book to teach astrophysics to middle graders. Perfect for fans of Kay's Marvellous Medicine and the Horrible Histories series, Astrophysics for Supervillains 2: The Great Alien Hunt is the second book of the Supervillain Academy series: a space-themed, fact-based exploration of space that will have curious kids keen to get to school on time!

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the team behind Batman: The Court of Owls get the band back together for a face-melting encore! Read Dark Nights Metal in one giant-size compendium. Evil Dark Knights have emerged from the most dangerous corners of the Multiverse. With their actions orchestrated by the most sinister Dark Knight of them all, The Batman Who Laughs, worlds stand on the precipice of annihilation. Batman must band together with the Justice League in DC’s greatest war yet against the Dark Multiverse. Will this twisted reality reign supreme against the heroes of the DC Universe? Experience one of DC’s most heart-pounding stories in this epic compendium collection. Collects: Nightwing #29; The Flash #33; Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #32; Green Arrow #32; Suicide Squad #26; Teen Titans #12; Justice League #32-33; Dark Nights: Metal #1-6; Dark Days: The Forge #1; Dark Days: The Casting #1; Batman: The Red Death #1; Batman: The Devastator #1; Batman: The Merciless #1; Batman: The Murder Machine #1; Batman: The Drowned #1; Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1; Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs #1; Batman: Lost #1; Hawkman: Found #1; Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1

The complete Silver Age adventures of the Doom Patrol, comics' strangest super-team, is collected in a single hardcover! Led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society—Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman—take the qualities that made them freaks to become heroes. Together, the trio takes on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and The Brotherhood of Evil!