Next week’s releases from Mad Cave, Nakama Press, and Papercutz!
From Mad Cave comes The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1, Wild Animals TPB, Our Soot Stained Heart #3, and Gunpowder Prophets #5
From Maverick, dive into The College Try.
From Papercutz, discover Ninja Kaiju and Disney Mulan: Mulan’s Adventure Journal.
Scroll through for the full rundown!
THE FLORIDA HIPPOPOTAMUS COCAINE MASSACRE #1
(W) Fred Kennedy (A) James Edward Clark
A no-nonsense federal agent and a lone-wolf cop chase down a brutal drug lord in a flooded amusement park swarming with blood-crazed hippos and cut-throat mercenaries.
Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!
(W) Ed Brisson (A) Andy Kuhn
Perfect for fans of gritty crime thrillers like Criminal and Parker, Brisson and Kuhn deliver a hard-hitting, high-stakes story that pulls no punches.
Neil’s life has been falling apart ever since his father was killed by crooked cops. Fifteen years later, Neil’s mother lays on her deathbed and he’s stuck in a dead-end job, has nowhere to live, and no hope to speak of. Life keeps kicking Neil and he keeps taking it, too frightened to fight back.
Until now.
With his world crumbling around him, Neil finds himself backed into a corner, with no choice but to make a stand and right the wrongs that have haunted him for years. Revenge is a dangerous path to walk and the deeper Neil goes, the more he realizes that violence is all consuming.
(W) Olivia Cuartero-Briggs
(A) Roberta Ingranata
What if you could do it all over again?
A desperately single 40-something attends her college reunion to win back the love of her life, with disastrous results. But, through a magical twist of fate, she finds herself in her early college years once more–with a chance to fix it all
(W) Franco Aureliani (A) Scoot McMahon
Ninjas and Kaijus! What can be more fun than that? How about a Ninja Kaiju?
What happens when you hire a Ninja to steal a secret formula? What happens when that formula is held in a top secret state of the art high security science lab? What happens when that ninja accidentally gets splashed with the secret formula? Well… all of those questions are probably related and answer the question: Where did that giant Kaiju monster suddenly come from?
The life of a Ninja isn’t easy, with all the stealth sneaking, high kicks, and the other Ninjaery things that need to be done. Now throw in a secret formula that turns you into a big city destroying monster and suddenly you’re not so stealthy any more. The job gets even more difficult when you have not one, but two super smart mad scientist after you because they think you stole their formula and send hordes of robots, the air force, and other never before seen science experiments after you. It may no longer be just a job for a Ninja, but it definitely is for a NINJA KAIJU!
DISNEY MULAN: MULAN’S ADVENTURE JOURNAL
(W) Rhona Cleary (A) Agnese Innocente, Ilaria Urbinati
An unseen enemy lurks in the Imperial Palace—and only Mulan can stop it. But with court politics and rising doubts, even she isn’t sure she belongs. Can Mulan rise to the challenge and save China once more? A bold graphic novel adventure starring Disney’s legendary warrior!
An invisible enemy is threatening the Emperor’s life inside the Imperial Palace walls and Mulan is the only one he trusts to help him. But among all the unspoken rules of the court, Mulan feels discouraged and hopeless. Can she rise to the Emperor’s expectations, defeat the dark threat, and save China once again?
An original graphic novel that stars Mulan from Disney’s Mulan! Perfect for middle-grade readers who love graphic novels and the Disney Princesses!
