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Shirow Masamune’s stories receive a Three-Book Deluxe Edition Treatment from Dark Horse Manga

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Dark Horse Manga presents Shirow Masamune’s classics in a three-book Deluxe Edition manga series, starting with Appleseed Deluxe Edition. The series will also include the Appleseed Companion Deluxe Edition, and additional works by Shirow within the Shirow Masamune Anthology Deluxe Edition. 

Translated by Dana Lewis, Toren Smith, and Duane Johnson, lettered by Tom Orzechowski, L. Lois Buhalis, John Clark, and Sasquatch, the Appleseed Deluxe Edition collects Books One through Four of Appleseed, and will feature a wraparound, seven-color artwork cover, metallic, edge-gilded pages, and four-color end sheets along with a sewn-in bookmark. This new Deluxe Edition collection will be available starting in August 2026, and it’s recommended that fans and retailers pre-order now to secure copies. Dates and additional details for the Companion and Anthology will be provided soon.

The year is 2127. In the aftermath of a devastating global war, Deunan and Briareos are just the kind of couple you’d find managing to survive—she’s a former SWAT team member, he’s a cyborg former mercenary. Both of them are found in the ruins by Hitomi, a young woman who recruits them to work for Olympus, an ultra-advanced, experimental city-state that survived the apocalypse. 

It’s an oasis of peace that now seeks to step outside its protected zone to try to reconstruct the world…but to do so, its philosophers, planners, and scientists will need the support of people who know how to fight. Olympus can offer them a new, safe home—and the chance to use the most advanced weapons tech on earth, including the powered combat armor known as the Landmate.

And so Deunan and Briareos are drawn into the paradoxes and power struggles of Olympus: their new job, to serve and protect the people of a city whose secrets they know little about. Protect them both from outsiders, and from themselves—for while Deunan and Briareos may believe enough in Olympus to put their lives on the line for it, they’re far too smart to be satisfied being anyone’s mere pawns, even in the most noble cause…

Don’t face the apocalypse alone. Appleseed, the 848-page (7×10”) hardcover arrives in bookstores and comic shops on August 11 and August 12, 2026 for $69.99. Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop. 

Chicago in the 1990s provides good business for two bounty hunting women in Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Vol. 3

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Dark Horse Manga celebrates the irreverent manga Gunsmith Cats with new Omnibus editions, bringing the beloved series to new readers. Gunsmith Cats is a story about a gun shop owner and her demolitions expert (and former call girl) partner-in-eradicating-crime and their quest to turn their “hobby” of rounding up the most wanted men and women in Chicago into a lucrative career–all while looking sharp and driving her Shelby Cobra GT 500! Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3 comes from retro anime legend Kenichi Sonoda, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith, and retouched by Studio Cutie. 

Custody battles can get nasty—but rarely as vicious as the situation Rally and Minnie-May are caught up in. Michael Stone, the famed hypnotist and stage magician known professionally as “Mister Smart,” jumped bail on a hit-and-run, which made him Rally’s business. Kidnapping gets added to the rap sheet, as Smart is set up by his estranged wife on a false charge of abducting his daughter, Jeena. But this is much more than a family dispute, as behind the personal drama is a scheme to use Smart’s skills to rip off $20 million in mob money, with Jeena’s life as the penalty if he doesn’t pull off the trick!

Then, Rally’s trouble-prone pal, master thief Misty Brown, gets into more trouble than ever when she decides to steal Bean “Roadbuster” Bandit’s beloved car, Buff, on a whim. Not only is Bean a tad upset, but Misty is now in terrible danger, and not necessarily from the Roadbuster—because certain ruthless people want to lay hands on the cargo he was transporting. Sure, it was only blank sheets of paper, but there are thousands of them, and it seems they’re the same special kind used by the U.S. Mint!

Hop in with Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3 when the 648-page (5.75” x 8.25”) paperback arrives in bookstores on August 5, 2025, and comic shops on August 6, 2025, for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local comic shop or bookstore.

Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volume 3