Titles New at MCPL

Shaman King Volume 18

Yoh Asakura is a shaman—one of the gifted few who, thanks to training or natural talent, can channel spirits that most people can’t even see. With the help of his fiancée, Anna, Yoh is in training for the ultimate shaman sports event: the “Shaman Fight in Tokyo,” the once-every-500-years tournament to see who can shape humanity’s future and become the Shaman King. But unfortunately for Yoh, every shaman in the world is competing for the same prize…

Yoh rushes to aid his friends in battle, but is too late to save one of his most gifted allies. Can Jeanne, the leader of the X-Laws, restore him with her healing abilities? She may be our heroes’ only hope…but her price is Yoh’s withdrawal from the Shaman Fight! – YA GN

Nora Volume 3

Nora, an unruly demon, has defied the Demon Sovereign one too many times. For the sake of his “education,” Nora is sent to live among mortals and enters a bond of servitude with cool-as-ice star student Kazuma Makkari. Kazuma is about to learn the ways of the underworld…and Nora will learn more from the “real world” than he ever thought possible!

The Soul StonesNora and Kazuma learn that the Resistance is out to defeat Dark Liege by destroying her five Soul Stones: jewels from the Demon World that have made their way to the Human World. Nora soon discovers he has a special ability to detect these gems…but he’s not the only one! – Adult GN

Little Things

A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life — friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood — we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown’s first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true. – Adult GN

Spawn: Shadows of Spawn

You’ve never see Spawn like this before! Two hundred pages of glorious manga by famous Japanese manga master Juzo Tokoro! New Spawns! New and classic villains! What more could any fan want? – YA GN

Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed?

Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? started out as an exercise in keeping a personal comic journal of the finer points of a relationship, but quickly evolved to become Liz Prince’s first solo full length comic. Described as a mix between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, Liz’s comic is made up of short vignettes that capture all the cute, gross, and endearing aspects of relationships. – Adult GN

What’s new in June?

We added a new manga series to our collection- W Juliet

W Juliet

Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura has been chosen to play Romeo in ROMEO & JULIET! The problem? She doesn’t want the male role! So, who will be Juliet? The favourite for the part, beautiful and vain Tsugumi, must compete with the cute new transfer student, Makoto Amano. But Makoto has a secret, and if rival Tsugumi, or anyone in the school, finds out, it could ruin Makoto’s life, dragging Ito down as well! – YA

The Eternal Smile

From two masters of the graphic novel–Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim come fantastical adventures through the worlds we live in and the worlds we create: the story of a prince who defeats his greatest enemy only to discover that maybe his world is not what it had seemed; the story of a frog who finds that just being a frog might be the way to go; and the story of a woman who receives an email from Prince Henry of Nigeria asking for a loan to help save his family. With vivid artwork and moving writing, Derek Kirk Kim and Gene Luen Yang test the boundaries between fantasy and reality, exploring the ways that the world of the imagination can affect real life. – YA

Dragon Voice 7-10

Dragon Voice is centered around Rin Amami, who has an unpleasant voice but managed to get into the singing group Beatmen because their mentor is convinced that Rin has the legendary Dragon Voice. – YA

Tuxedo Gin 13-15

Rival city! Ginji vies with Minako’s friend Helen for the role of Minako’s guardian, and steals the show as a stand-in stunt bird for Mike the genius penguin; Ginji’s boxing coach’s granddaughter and Nana the one-ton-of-fun walrus compete with Minako for (respectively) Ginji and Gin-chan’s affections; and a Ginji look-alike threatens to steal Minako from human Ginji, and penguin Gin-chan from Minako! Will the rivalry ever end? – Adult

Batman R.I.P.

Dr. Simon Hurt, leader of the international criminal associates known as the Black Glove, has devised an elaborate psychological trap for Batman. The scheme succeeds in breaking Batman’s sanity, long established as being dangerously fragile, and leading him to adopt a psychotically violent persona, the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, who squares off in Arkham Asylum against Dr. Hurt’s new ally, the Joker. Batman’s delusions are likely to be as confusing to readers as they are to him. Morrison uses elements from seven decades’ worth of disparate and contradictory versions of the character, and only the most dedicated fans will recognize most of them. Tony Daniel’s art grounds the complex proceedings with clarity and verve. Batman’s apparent demise at the saga’s end leads into an arc in which various would-be successors vie for the right to wear his cowl. – Adult

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Genshiken volume 4

A short time ago, college freshman Kanji Sasahara was struggling with an otaku identity crisis, but joining the Genshiken gave Kanji the confidence to fully embrace the otaku lifestyle. So when club president Madarame resigns from office, he pegs Kanji as the best candidate to fill his shoes. And what is President Sasahara’s first order of business? To create a Genshiken fanzine to sell at the next Comic-Fest, which seems to many like a bold step for the notoriously inactive Genshiken. Meanwhile, cosplay aficionados Ohno and Tanaka appear to be spending a lot of time together. Does that mean love is in the air? – YA GN

My Heavenly Hockey Club 2

Hana Suzuki has it good: she’s the only girl in the Grand Hockey Club, and all the other members are super-hot guys. But the dream may be over. If the Hockey Club doesn’t win its next match, the school will disband it! Hana and the boys are pretty much the worst hockey players ever. Can they get their act together in time to save the club?

Includes in-depth translation notes and a preview of the next volume! – YA GN

Elk’s Run

The town of Elk’s Ridge, West Virginia, was built on a dream: The dream of war-scarred Vietnam veterans to live in peace and harmony, in a place untouched by violence, crime, corruption, or greed. A living Norman Rockwell painting, governed by the most basic values and free of all things considered undesirable by its founders. It was supposed to be paradise. And for a while, it was.

Over the years, some in Elk’s Ridge have grown restless. They fear their refuge has become a prison . . . or a tomb. And they yearn to do the forbidden: escape. But when one desperate bid for freedom ends in a tragic accident, a heinous act of mob justice suddenly tears the idyllic mask from this promised land and the evil its residents sought to keep out blooms from within. Now, as a deadly chain reaction of events threatens the future of Elk’s Ridge, its elders gird for battle against the real world. And a group of terrified teens prepare to make their own stand–against the people they once trusted and the only life they’ve ever known. Because there’s nothing left to do but fight or die.

A chillingly lyrical tale, rendered in starkly beautiful, visceral artwork, Elk’s Run is an unforgettable and unrelentingly powerful graphic novel event not to be missed.- Adult GN

Flame of Recca and Skip Beat

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Armed with the power to control flame, Recca Hanabishi finds himself in an awkward situation when a mysterious older woman pops into his life one day. Is she good? Is she evil? What exactly does she want with the young ninja firecracker?

At long last, Hokage has reached the center of Kôran Mori’s deadly fortress city…and the chrysalis within which the evil master himself sleeps. But the greatest struggle of all still lies ahead. Separated again, each member of Recca’s team faces one of Kôran Mori’s top warriors in a duel to the death. The final battle has begun: the battle for Heaven or Hell!

Becoming a ninja is just a childhood dream for sixteen-year-old Recca, until a fateful encounter reveals he has inherited ninja powers, including the ability to wield fire! As Recca learns to master the ancient ways of his ancestors, he is drawn to protect a mysterious girl named Yanagi… – Adult GN

Skip Beat 18

Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he’s casting her out now that he’s famous! Kyoko won’t suffer in silence–she’s going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!

Kyoko hasn’t had a Love Me Section job in a while, and this newest assignment is pushing her limits. She’s now the personal assistant to Koo Hizuri, a Japanese actor turned Hollywood star, and everyone knows how assistants are treated in Hollywood! Can Kyoko see past Koo’s meanness, or will his nastiness just make her demons worse?! – YA GN

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Kin (The Good Neighbors Series #1), Vol. 1

Rue Silver’s mother has disappeared . . . and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it’s not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn’t kill her mother — instead, he broke a promise to Rue’s faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue’s mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her — and must also defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world. – YA

Holly Black, illustrated by Ted Naifeh

Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir

Funny Misshapen Body is the story of Jeffrey Brown’s evolution as a cartoonist, from his youthful obsession with superhero comics to his disillusionment with fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Drawn with Brown’s scratchy, spare, trademark style, Funny Misshapen Body resonates with true-to-life observations on love, fear, and ambition. Through his bare bones graphic style, he reveals his most embarrassing personal moments in raw, intimate detail — including how he survived high school, binge drinking, mild drug experimentation, doomed friendships, and being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

Ultimately coming to terms with his art and identity, Brown describes the ups and downs of his adolescence with understated simplicity, dark humor, and charm. – Adults GN

written and illustrated by Jeffrey Brown

Kingdom Come

In the 21st century, the Metropolis that once hailed Superman as its guardian has fallen into decay. The old superheroes-Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and others of their generation- have given way to a horde of self-appointed metahumans with a wide variety of deadly powers and, for the most part, the ethics of gangbusters. Now an elderly minister, Norman McCay, who narrates the novel, embarks on a quest to bring help to a Kansas destroyed by an inhuman power, while Batman plays a deadly game with Lex Luthor for control of Billy Batson-the original but now amnesiac Captain Marvel. The novel is an expansion of a highly successful graphic series in DC’s innovative Elseworlds universe, but it can be enjoyed without reference to the original. -Adult GN

Mark Waid and Alex Ross