New Releases by Christopher Hastings

"When I''m faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren''t enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York Times More than four million copies in print! InvestiGators fans, get ready to dive into the fourth volume of Agents of S.U.I.T. with the weirdest mystery yet! Someone has stolen the Notorious P.I.G. food truck, and with it, Piggy Smalls’s special BBQ sauce! But before Bongo and Marsha can solve the case, they need to solve the problems they’re having with each other. To help them realize what a great team they truly are, General Inspector decides to split them up. He assigns Marsha to work with Cilantro on a super-secret pilot program, and Bongo to work with Sven on a not so-secret reality competition: "Sew You Think You Can Sew!” But here’s the rub: This season includes a chef challenge, and underground sources say Piggy Smalls''s notorious sauce was stolen to help one of the contestants win!

C’mon, grab your friends and head to distant lands in this new Adventure Time compendium, collecting stories from some truly mathematical authors—including Mariko Tamaki, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Cannon, and more—as well as the radical Adventure Time shorts from the series’ original run! Crowning the Best Princess Ever, conquering a mysterious Hot Air Balloon Race & Vocabulary Refresher, navigating life with their very own doubles, finding a way to bring inspiration back to the pages of a comic book, cute puppies (cute puppies!!!) . . . it’s just another day in the life of Finn, Jake, and all their friends in the land of Ooo! These tales and more are waiting in the pages of this Adventure Time compendium, collecting issues #62–75 from authors Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me), Delilah S. Dawson (Sparrowhawk), Kevin Cannon (The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy), and more, and artists Ian McGinty (Bee and PuppyCat), Joey McCormick (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Jorge Monlongo (Napoleon Dynamite), and more!

It''s a Marvelous case of mistaken identity when Wade Wilson, the Regeneratin'' Degenerate you know as Deadpool, kills the wrong secret agent - and has no choice but to take his place and complete his mission! But can Deadpool keep an object of paradoxical power out of the wrong hands? Pitted against the deadly terrorist organisation called Gorgon, it''s up to Wade Wilson to finish what his superspy victim started as only Deadpool can - with excessive violence, a healing factor and more than a few laughs along the way! Collecting Deadpool: Secret Agent Deadpool (2018) #1-6

The first graphic novel in an explosive new series based on the smash-hit RPG YouTube series by Dingo Doodles and Felix Irnich. Have you ever sung karaoke so badly that you unleashed the apocalypse? Well, that’s an average day for the Fool’s Gold crew: a group of traveling magical rejects. Join the chaos of experiencing tabletop role-playing games with this group of chaotic friends and their even more chaotic characters as they dare to take on the world’s deadliest jungle known as the Bellowing Wilds. See them fall headfirst into triggering an apocalypse, tangle with a swamp witch, indulge in spa days, and deal with a rogue mechanical dragon. It will take intelligence, wisdom, and true bravery to survive this adventure…too bad they have none of these things. May the dice be on their side, ’cause they’re gonna need them!

"When I''m faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren''t enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York Times More than four million copies in print! InvestiGators fans, get ready to dive into the third volume of Agents of S.U.I.T. with the weirdest mystery yet! New S.U.I.T. recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, uhh...just what is the greatest mystery of all? That''s the question that''s kept the dearly departed General Inspectre haunting Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Having a ghost in the halls of S.U.I.T. wouldn''t be so bad...except he''s possessing agents! Zeb -- along with Cilantro, Bongo, Marsha, and everyone''s favorite Gators -- must decipher the series'' biggest mystery EVER. They''ve got to free their pal and finish the Inspectre''s unfinished business! Collect all the books in the bestselling Agents of S.U.I.T. series: Agents of S.U.I.T. From Badger to Worse Wild Ghost Chase Sew Much Trouble

Partners! Saddle up and get ready for some Wild West shenanigans in this issue of Adventure Time! How did Finn and Jake become sheriffs pursuing injustice across the endless sands of the desert? Well shoot, pardner, that’s a good question! Better read on to find out . . .

Extra! Extra! Boy and dog blow up tower made of cake! Peppermint Butler presumed to have perished in the explosion! Boy and dog now in jail as enemies of the state! Olyfaunt–based mission in trouble unless they can figure out how to escape!!! Also featuring the story “Open Mic”!

Finn and Jake have infiltrated the Bear Kingdom in their hunt for the Olyfaunt Drive! But they find the kingdom preparing for war at the behest of the King of Ooo. This can’t be good! Can the two best buds spy their way out of this one? Also featuring the story “Sir BMO”!

Jake learns the backstory of the Governor of the 27th Dead World and totally does not start self-reflecting on his relationship with his kids because of it, nope! Well, OK—maybe he does. A little bit. But he’s gotta take the elixir of youth and get back to the land of the living before he can do anything about it!

Finn and Jake must remove the strange, primordial being from BMO’s batteries before BMO hurts someone—but what happens when that strange, primordial being latches onto Jake instead?!

So yeah, that old magic*? (*See issue #58.) Uh, it might be a force that’s older than life and death itself. And as the eldritch beings Finn and Jake fought over the last 23 issues (you have been paying attention, right?) rise again—more powerful than before—it’s up to Finn to figure out a way to stop them before they destroy all of Ooo!

In order to save Finn from being stuck as an old man—for the rest of his life, which, you know, might not be very long if he’s so old—Jake has to venture to Ghost-A-Rica to take on a totally not-radical governor who’s making an elixir by stealing everyone’s youth! But with only Finn’s sword by his side and no magical stretching powers, can Jake make it through the land of the dead?

Joshua the Dog, Jake’s father, has a mission from beyond the grave, should our adventurers choose to accept it: find a statue in an underwater dungeon and keep it safe! Which is totally, 100 percent, definitely a thing that Finn and Jake are going to do . . . Also featuring the story “Water Strike”!

Finn and Jake head into a portal that sends them to the moon on the hunt for a creature that possessed and totally ruined a most mathematical sandwich! Meanwhile, back on Ooo, a mysterious witch known as Janice Bizzlethatcher is up to something weird . . . Also featuring the story “Grand Prize”!

When Finn accidentally gets sucked into a book of baby pictures at the bottom of an evil tree dungeon, he finds himself trapped in the pages and living out his past lives! But he’s gonna have to take a long look at his past to save the timeline unfolding in the future . . .

Alright, so, to protect the super-cool sword Finn found all the way back in issue #36 (and lost, it’s a whole thing—go back and read it if you don’t remember!), Finn has been making a dungeon on the moon for a really, really long time. Now he’s just waiting for the right person to come find the sword and beat up those ancient beings that are terrorizing Ooo! Should be . . . hopefully . . . any second now . . .

With the truth behind Gata’s disappearance—reappearance—out in the open, Finn and Jake decide to hop into the mysterious portal that totally-does-not-open-and-close-via-Gata’s-mouth-OK and destroy the monster that lives within the dimension there! Surely fighting one of the great Magician Queens of Ooo past’ll be a piece of cake? Also featuring the story “Flowers for Paulticore” (Part Two)!

Penelope, a future incarnation of Finn, has found that super-cool sword in Finn’s super-cool moon dungeon! And in the hands of a hero who can’t be injured, it’s going to save all of Ooo! And it’s—wait. Uh. Penelope has totally been injured before? Well, you know what, let’s give it a try anyway!

It’s D.I.Y. Dungeon Time! In order to learn more about his family, Finn decides to build a dungeon just like his father used to—but building a dungeon is hard work, especially when all the guards you hire steal your treasure and all the monsters you capture die . . . maybe some old magic will do the trick?!

Alright, ENOUGH Adventure Time!!! Well, er, not really, just—Jake wants a break, yanno? But his relaxing day of no adventures, crafting Mama Jake’s Old Fashioned Forever Sauce, is interrupted by a Hot Dog Princess who has suddenly turned old! Well, there goes Jake’s relaxing day!

Jeepers, this issue is quite a flashback! Let’s figure out where Gata came from—and all these thought monsters, too! No way it’s from the same place, right? Also featuring the story “Flowers for Paulticore” (Part One)!

Finn, Jake, and Marceline have escaped the endless sands of the west and have found their way to . . . a giant BMO? And when this giant BMO thinks Finn didn’t have fun being a rootin’, tootin’ cowboy, he resets everything! How, you ask? Well, because everyone’s in BMOWORLD, now! Nothing whatsoever is going to go wrong with this!

It''s time for the B-Team to show why they''re so un-B-lievably B-loved. That''s right, Bongo and Marsha, the superspy Badgers, are on the case, and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they''re sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case, the old-fashioned way. In graphic novel format.

In the second installment of AGENTS OF S.U.I.T., the New York Times bestselling series set in the smash-hit INVESTIGATORS world, the B-TEAM of BONGO and MARSHA leap into action and show us why they''re so un-B-lievably B-loved by three million fans and growing! That’s right, Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case...and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they’re sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case...the old-fashioned way. The bees―that’s “bee-ee-ee,” like the insect―that run the resort are hiding something under the tropical sands, and Marsha and Bongo are just the bumbling agents to crack this pineapple-flavored caper wide open.

Get ready to dive into the first volume of AGENTS OF S.U.I.T.! Three million readers can’t be wrong – the InvestiGators universe is where the action’s at! At S.U.I.T. headquarters, Cilantro the Chameleon finally gets what she’s been waiting for: a field assignment. Only...it’s literally out in the middle of a field, and her orders are so vague, she can hardly tell what she’s supposed to be investigating. But as she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker’s rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy―not to mention a spooky haunting at the abandoned S.U.I.T. field outpost―Cilantro steps into her own V.E.S.T. as a valued member of the S.U.I.T. team. From InvestiGators mastermind John Patrick Green, the world of S.U.I.T. has never been more fun!

Cilantro the Chameleon finally gets what she''s been waiting for: a field assignment. As she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker''s rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy--not to mention a spooky haunting at the abandoned S.U.I.T. field outpost--Cilantro steps into her own V.E.S.T. as a valued member of the team. In graphic novel format.

ALL-NEW STORY! ALL-NEW SONJA''S! PERFECT JUMPING-ON POINT FOR NEW READERS! A low-level criminal is suddenly making a big mysterious underworld splash...which is remarkable, considering that the guy''s very recently DIED. Sounds like a case for NOIR SONJA. But not only does N.S. have to solve The Mystery Of The Successful Cadaver, she''s got to manage the arrival of a whole new cadre of Sonja''s that''ll throw her investigation for a loop...

Superfan becomes super hero! Gwen Poole was an avid comic book reader...until she found herself transported into the Marvel Universe! Now, surrounded by characters that she knows everything about -- including their secret identities! -- and fully aware of the tropes of superhero storytelling, Gwen is determined not to be an "extra" in this brave new world. But her attention-seeking journey from mercenary to Avenger (okay, West Coast, but still...!) is complicated when she learns how to manipulate the comic books she herself appears in! As her continuity dramas get ever more convoluted, will Gwen go big...or go home? COLLECTING: Gwenpool, The Unbelievable (2016) 1-25, Rocket Raccoon and Groot (2016) 8-10, Champions (2016) 5, Edge of Venomverse (2017) 2, West Coast Avengers (2018) 1-10, Superior Spider-Man (2018) 7-8, Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019) 1-5; material from Howard the Duck (2015B) 1-3, Gwenpool Special (2015) 1, Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up (2016) 1, Secret Empire: Brave New World (2017) 1

Collects How to Read Comics the Marvel Way #1-4, Ms. Marvel (2014) #1, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 And Spidey #1. Presenting a universal gateway into the House of Ideas! Comic books can sometimes be like a foreign language to the uninitiated - with their own unique storytelling tools, visual shorthand and narrative conventions. Many clever cartoonists and scribes have shared their theories on the grammar of comics, but it''s never been done in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Get ready, because Mysterio has trapped Spider-Man inside a comic book - and Spidey''s going to help you navigate through the gutters, balloons, panels, pencils and more! Plus: See how top talents speak the "language of comics" in action-packed adventures featuring Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!

Final issue! The worlds of Purple Sonja, Yellow Sonja, Sonja Noir begin collapsing on themselves. In order to save them, they must learn the humongous secret…what is HELL SONJA’s grand design!? By CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS (Deadpool) and PASQUALE QUALANO (Dejah Thoris)!