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Harben gives context to the unfolding story of the Super-Arc that occurs between each story, plus the previously unpublished epic novelette "Victory Harben and the Lord of the Veiled Eye" by Christopher Paul Carey, in which the ERB Universe collides head-on with cosmic horror at the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.

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!

It’s Superman and his greatest allies, facing impossible odds! Kicking off with an iconic race between the Man of Steel and the Fastest Man Alive, The Flash, this new volume in the DC Finest line catalogs some of the best and most memorable team-ups across the DC Universe! DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras! Experience the best and most exciting team-up stories of the 1970s with this new volume of DC Finest! Join Superman as he joins forces with his friends like the Flash, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman in unforgettable stories that have informed the DC Universe for generations! This volume collects stories from DC Comics Presents #1-14; The Brave and the Bold #141-155.

Acclaimed writer Jason Aaron (Batman: Off-World) alongside artist R.M. Guéra (Batman Eternal) return for the back half of their iconic Vertigo crime story of violence and betrayal. Undercover FBI Agent Dash Bad Horse has returned to the Prarie Rose Indian Reservation with a special mission of investigating the tribal leader Lincoln Red Crow, an activist turned crime boss. After managing to gain his trust of Lincoln Red Crow, Dash is set on a dirty and dangerous road with death just a slip of the tongue away. Will Dash buckle under the pressure and cross a line he never intended to? Collect the second half of the acclaimed series in this massive omnibus. Collects: Scalped #30-60!

When a young girl is accused of murder for shooting her parents’ killers, her gunslinger grandfather must come out of retirement to rescue her from a hanging. It's Josephine’s 12th birthday, and she and her farmer parents go into a small Western town for a treat. But her parents are murdered by a group of carousing cowboys, including the son of a rich local resident. When the son shows up at the sheriff’s office the next day to explain away the circumstances, Josephine takes the sheriff’s gun and shoots the son dead. As a result, his rich father insists she hang—especially when he finds out she’s kin to a famous retired gunfighter, Ethan Fuller. Ethan Fuller shows up in town to break Josephine out of town and take her someplace safe, but they’re pursued relentlessly by possies and hired gunmen, and Ethan has to make a last stand and answer for his past crimes in order to save his only remaining family.

Zeph finally has a potential lead to Amy''s kidnapping: Jemmah - the last person Amy called on homecoming night. Meanwhile, Qiana and Amy venture into the Lords of Lore to find Sophi. When she offers to help them escape the FCP, Amy finds herself torn between seeing her family again and helping Qiana with her quest. A fragment of the ancient Babyloyptian scroll may provide answers, but it may also lead to more questions... Regrets are voiced and deep wounds are healed in this latest volume of Stephen McCranie''s Space Boy.

Two years ago, magic suddenly, violently became a thing again. Now, Tre Grant is just doing her best to survive sixth grade, which is a little more real than it used to be thanks to the monsters that regularly emerge from the nearby forest to attack her city. But when she discovers a magical artifact that could be the key to lifting the curse on the forest, Tre accidentally becomes the hero the city needs, even if she''s not the one it expects.

The Princess Bride meets Raina Telgemeier’s Sisters in this middle grade graphic novel about two sisters who must put aside their differences to soothe their new baby sister with the best bedtime story ever, proving to their parents—and each other—that they can get along. Big sister Kennedy and little sister Devon couldn’t be more different. Their shared room has a clear divide down the middle. On one, musical theater–loving Kennedy keeps things tidy. On the other, heavy metal fan Devon looks like she lives in an exploded toy store. When baby sister Eve moves in, her contribution is crying. Constant. Ear-piercing. Crying. The added stress pushes the older girls to their breaking point, and they get into their biggest fight yet. In response, Mom and Dad crack down, seizing all beloved electronics until Kennedy and Devon can find a way to get along. Now stuck together with no distractions except Eve’s screaming, the two land on a desperate solution: tell Eve a bedtime story so epic that it puts her to sleep and gets her big sisters out of trouble. Pizza aside, the only thing the girls have in common is their love of stories. But Kennedy’s fairy tales make Devon want to barf, and Devon’s nonsensical adventure stories make Kennedy want to tear her hair out. So they try to mash-up a story of true love, adventure, princesses, pirates, pirate-princesses, dragons, spiders, and…garbage trucks? That’s a lot of story to spin. Will their hilarious fairy tale remix solidify their sisterly bond or break it forever after?