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It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

The Beat – Manga industry faces hard questions as Eiichiro Oda takes break – Burnout is real and comic creation is having a massive impact on creator’s health. What can be done?

ICv2 – Bids on Kansas City Pedigree ‘Action Comics #1’ Fly Past $5 Million – Guesses on the final number?

ICv2 – Denis Kitchen Art Collection Goes on the Block – There should be some amazing art in this.

Reviews

The Beat – Swamp Thing #129

Adults’ Picture Book New Edition Vol. 1 is an intriguing rom-com type story

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Thought if I asked, you’d take her. And so! She’s all yours. With those words, Souichiro Kudou’s life was changed forever. Suddenly, he has a four-year-old daughter named Kiki, thanks to his late friend Haruki. And it only gets more complicated when he proposes to a total stranger… Husband, lover, father, and friend–only time will tell whether Kudou can reconcile his past with Haruki and learn to fill these roles for the new people in his life. Luckily for him, Kiki and his new spouse, Fusako, are ready and willing to figure it out alongside him!

Story: Kei Itoi
Art: Kei Itoi
Translator: Stephen Paul
Letterer: Alexis Eckerman

Get your copy in comic shops! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon
Kindle

Yen Press provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Titan Manga Announces The Sword of the Titans, out September 2024!

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Coming in September is The Sword of the Titans from Kashidashiki and Titan Manga.

For fans of epic fantasy and supernatural battles between gods and demons, this manga will take you on an epic quest, as the young boy Tsuchimaru acquires a powerful sword from a mysterious artisan and joins the gods to fight fiends himself!

In a time when gods and humans live and fight together the young boy Tsuchimaru was helpless, a mere child in the face of those mighty struggles… until a mysterious wandering artisan came with a sword they had forged and gifted it to the child, enabling him to take up arms in the titanic conflict!

The Sword of the Titans Vol. 1 is on sale September 3, 2024 at bookstores, comic shops and digital. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million and Forbidden Planet for UK. 

Origin Vol. 3 has some solid action but it’s the human aspects that stand out

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What is it I’m fighting for?
Director Yamada’s nefarious plan to steal a cutting-edge AEE military robot and kill his co-conspirators goes south when they hit on the same idea. Dragged into the middle of the conflict, a disguised ORIGIN must follow his programming and minimize casualties, despite being faced with the uglier side of the humanity he is compelled to save.
If ORIGIN can survive this battle with the strongest military bot in the world, he just might find a new cause to fight for…

Story: Boichi
Art: Boichi
Translator: Mark Streer

Get your copy in comic shops! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon
Kindle

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Titan Manga Announces Welcome To Ghost Mansion, out December 2024!

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From Nebukuro, Welcome to Ghost Mansion Vol. 1 is out from Titan Manga on December 10, 2024.

For fans of horror comedy, this story of a freelancer slacker who buys a mansion full of ghosts is sure to terrify and amuse in equal measure! Join Kaoru as she becomes landlord for a house full of specters!

Kaoru Shinonome, who had been living as a freelancer, invests her inheritance in property and buys a vast old condominium. Her dream life as a wealthy landlord is about to begin – but there are no living tenants, only spirits, and her new property is a rollercoaster ride of psychic phenomena. Kaoru embraces her new specter-filled life as the owner of Ghost Mansion and starts recruiting for new non-living residents!

Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million and Forbidden Planet for UK. 

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Vol. 2 might seem silly but it’s really good

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A human has reincarnated into an alternate fantasy world as Boxxo the vending machine! His ability to offer any item he purchased in his previous life has made him wildly popular in a place where such convenience was once unheard of. But just when Boxxo and his partner–the deceptively strong Lammis–get invited to join a famous party, a new threat emerges! COLOSSAL TROUBLE HAS COME ROLLING IN!!

Story: Hirukuma
Art: Kunieda
Character design: Hagure Yuuki
Translation: Alice Prowse
Letterer: Chiho Christie

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon
Kindle

Yen Press provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from this site. Making purchases through these links helps support the site

Preview: Great Yokai War Vol. 1 Guardians

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Great Yokai War Vol. 1 Guardians

(W) Yusuke Watanabe (A/CA) Sanami Suzukui
In Shops: Dec 20, 2023
SRP: $12.99

AN EXCITING KAIJU STORY BLENDED WITH THE YOKAI OF JAPANESE FOLKLORE, PERFECT FOR FANS OF BOTH!

After giant kaiju threaten to destroy Japan, the guardian spirits of the nation, known as ‘Yokai’ appear before the young boy Kei… They tell him he is the descendant of the legendary monster slayer Watanabe no Tsuna, and may be the only person who can stop the catastrophe.

Great Yokai War Vol. 1 Guardians

Preview: Taka

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Taka

(W) Ryan Jampole (A) Ryan Jampole
In Shops: Mar 20, 2024
SRP: $16.99

A new YA graphic novel for fans of the Kamen Rider series. Taka is no hero. The Notorious Delinquent has a bit of a reputation in her city, but after she accidentally unleashes a horde of evil robots, she begrudgingly takes up the mantle of MECH FIGHTER! Armed with special abilities, Taka sets out to recapture all the robots and seal them back up, playing protector to a city of people who previously couldn’t care less about her. While the popularity of the Mech Fighter grows with every adventure, Taka does her best to keep her identity a secret. Because, after all, she has a reputation to keep!

Taka

Titan Manga Announces Corpse Blade, out October 2024!

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Coming from Hajime Segawa and Titan Manga on October 15, 2024, Corpse Blade Vol. 1 is about two deadly teens who must cut down the undead for a hope at a normal life! Armed with a gun and the mysterious Corpse Blade can Tsutsuki save his sister?

The first volume in the legendary Corpse Blade series, an action packed romp through a zombie infested Tokyo! School, chores, killing the undead — all in an average day for Tsuranuki Tsutsuki! After his sister is kidnapped by the zombies, this middle schooler sets out to save her, becoming handy with a gun — but he won’t be alone, as he encounters another kid on a quest, a mysterious high-school girl who can command the awesome power of the Corpse Blade!

Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million and Forbidden Planet for UK. 

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