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Most girls, when they get to a new school, just want to fit in. But Dashiell Brody isn''t like most girls. A natural at softball, Dashiell discovers her new school has a championship level baseball team, and Dashiell want to play ball. One girl''s quest to play the national pastime with the boys will turn her family, her school, and her state upside down.

Written by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Gerry Conway and J.M. DeMatteis Art by Jose Lu�s Garc�a-L�pez, Kevin Nowlan and others Cover by Jose Lu�s Garc�a-L�pez and Kevin Nowlan TV villain King Tut makes his comics debut in this title collecting BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #26-28, plus stories from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #164 and 171 and BATMAN #353. Advance-solicited; on sale February 24 o 128 pg, FC, $14.99 US

Genetically engineered super spy Luna Collins is missing. Lured away from the Agency that trained her and into the welcoming arms of the rogue agency known as Knightfall, Luna has left behind everything and everyone she holds dear. Can Luna''s friends and family bring her back from the dark side before it''s too late?

While Luna struggles to protect the scientist''s daughter who holds the secret to cold fusion, she is torn between Jonah, her ex-boyfriend-turned-leader-of-a-rogue-nation, and an unknown agent dressed as a knight in shining armor. Who is this dangerous yet alluring knight, and what does he want with Luna? The answers to these questions will shock Luna to the core, and may lead her down a dark path from which she can never return!

Times are tough for Amy Devlin, and without a case her financial situation is dire. Busting a cold case of kidnapping and murder from years ago may be the answer to her problems. Amy is sure that she can solve the case, but when the powerful, and untouchable, Life Science Institute of Hollywood gets involved, she may wind up with much more than just her reputation on the line.

Olivia Pryde hasn''t worked an honest day in years. Once an actress, she now lives by the con, and has come to Tevinter with a new target: Calix Qintara, the heir to a wealthy house. Once she approaches the young man, she quickly realises that he is not exactly who he says he is - and she may be in too deep.

In Bioware''s dark fantasy world of Thedas there are those who are willing to sacrifice their humanity for wealth and power, and those who will die to protect innocent people from them. The heroes of Thedas are often from unlikely places, some are pulled in to save the day by an odd string of fate, others seek adventure out on their own. These are their stories. The lonely king Alistair seeks out his father who was "lost at sea" fifteen years prior, but now he has a reason to think the old king is still alive. With the help of his friends, Varric the silver tongued Dwarven rogue and Isabella the legendary pirate, Alistair just may find out what happened to his father. The small party will face down assassins, dragons, Qunari elites, corrupted mages and more in their epic quest. As a great cataclysm causes a rift in the sky to tear open, two mercenaries find themselves pulled into fighting alongside the Inquisition against eldritch horrors from the Fade and monstrous soldiers corrupted by red lyrium. Meanwhile, across the sea, in Kirkwall, a drunken knight and his deft squire stumble upon a nefarious plot to steal a priceless relic. Their best solution: steal it first. This will be a must have collection for Dragon Age fans everywhere. Collects Dragon Age: The Silent Grove #1-6, Dragon Age: Those Who Speak #1-3, Dragon Age: Until We Sleep #1-3, Dragon Age: Magekiller #1-5, and Dragon Age: Knight Errant #1-5.

Journey to the world of Thedas in these canonical comics from BioWare and Dark Horse! Tessa and Marius are mercenary partners who eliminate those using magic to hurt others. When they betray a powerful patron intending to kill them, they''re forced to flee and join the Inquisition. Later, they''re taken captive during a mission and it''s up to an unwitting agent to rescue them: elven squire Vaea, who''s just arrived in Kirkwall for a lavish party thrown by Varric Tethras. A talented thief, Vaea takes on an easy side job . . . but when she chooses to change the terms of the deal mid-heist, she is entangled in this dangerous recovery mission that is surely above her pay grade. Featuring work by Greg Rucka, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Carmen Carnero, and Fernando Heinz Furukawa, this oversized hardcover edition collects Dragon Age: Magekiller #1-#5 and Dragon Age: Knight Errant #1-#5 and features creator commentary and behind-the-scenes material!

It''s all been leading to this! The evil Count Von Brucken finally knows Luna''s secret and has hatched a diabolical plan to use Martin and Timothy''s equipment to unleash a clone to destroy Luna Collins at the most important event of her high school life--Nobel High''s school dance! Get ready for plenty of angst, drama, and butt-kicking action in this exciting conclusion to Seven Seas'' premier original shoujo series--Amazing Agent Luna!

Luna Collins, the Agency''s finest secret agent, is about to be decommissioned...permenatnyl. The Agency has created Terra, a girl with no conscience who is even deadlier than Luna. Terra''s mission is simple: eliminate Luna and replace her.

New Dawn'' part 1! A trail of murders involving museum executives and the mysterious riddles left behind lead Batman to suspect an old foe is back at work. But the Riddler is safely locked up—and not too happy that someone has stolen his M.O.!

From the co-writers of AVALON CHRONICLES and PLAY BALL and the artist of WASTELAND! Amy Devlin might not be a licensed Private Investigator but that hasn''t stopped her from playing one on the internet! But the case she''s about to find herself on is no game. Trevor Schalk was an eccentric millionaire obsessed with reincarnation right up to his murder in 1980. Now Tim Gilbraight is having weird dreams in which he''s a bitter, rich man--despised by everyone around him. It''s up to Devlin to determine if Schalk is a past life or a past lie.

Pulled out of exile from a dark corner of the world, renowned-surgeon-turned-fringe-medicine-eccentric Doctor Randal Horne must return to New York City to investigate a tragic research lab accident that’s left one man dead, and inexplicably headless. Now with the help of a distrusting NYPD detective and a team of doctors from the CDC, Horne must diagnose this and other seemingly unexplainable medical phenomenon in a world where the line between medical science and science fiction is blurry at best.

Grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, fifteen-year-old Luna Collins has been trained all her life by a covert government agency as the ultimate espionage agent. But everything she believes has turned out to be a lie. Now, working for a rogue agency, she has turned her back on the past, with a new mission that pits her against former allies. It can only end one way: a fight to the finish against those she loves.

Luna''s control agent, Jennifer Kajiwara, is given an ultimatum by her superiors in the Agency. If Luna fails in her newest mission, Project Luna will be terminated-permanently. As Luna delves deeper into the shadowy organization known as Knightfall, what she learns may not only derail her mission, but it could tear apart her makeshift family forever. Super-spy action and high school romance continue in this newest installment of Amazing Agent Luna. This volume directly ties in with events that occurred in the two-volume Amazing Agent Jennifer prequel, but can be read independently.

Luna''s original mission is over, but her adventures are just beginning! Luna''s former nemesis and ex-boyfriend, Jonah Von Brucken, son of the evil Count Von Brucken, is returning to Nobel High and the Agency has sent Luna back with him. When the daughter of a scientific genius working on cold fusion arrives at Nobel, Jonah instantly takes a liking to her and Luna springs into espionage action. But is she worried about the secrets of fusion falling into the wrong hands, or is she just jealous that Jonah has found someone new?

When Jennifer Kajiwara was a rookie agent, well before she became Amazing Agent Luna''s no-nonsense handler known as "Control," she excelled in her freshmen year at the Agency. Unfortunately, her first field mission did not go as planned. When an important political figure is assassinated, Jennifer and her team become fugitives in the rogue state of Bruckenstein. Determined to learn the truth about the murder, Jennifer discovers that she may have been betrayed by someone close to her-and even worse, there is a conspiracy that goes deeper than she ever imagined. In a game of love and espionage, Jennifer will be forced to question everything she believes to be true. The answers she finds lead to an ultimate showdown that will either break her or turn her into a master agent.

Agent Luna has been undercover at Nobel High School for most of the school year, and as the year nears an end, her assignment takes on added complications. Her Control agent is now her science teacher, the gym teacher knows her secret, her friend Oliver''''s father works for the evil Count Von Brucken, and Von Brucken''s son Jonah may be Luna''s greatest hope. With her secret on the verge of being exposed, Luna begins a dangerous alliance with Jonah--who may also turn out to be her first boyfriend! And when Luna''s friend Francesca decides to make some new friends of her own, she discovers that Von Brucken isn''t the only villain at Nobel High!

From the video game developer of genre-defining roleplaying games such as Baldur''s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect comes the next chapter in the story begun in the multiple game of the year award-winning Dragon Age: Inquisition. Fenris and the Inquisition race to keep the Venatori from unleashing a power that will reshape Thedas in this canonical continuation of BioWare''s dark fantasy RPG! Deep within the Tevinter Imperium, with the invading Qunari armies hot on their heals, a fearless team prepares to assault a fortress said to be unbreakable in a bid to prevent the unthinkable from being unleashed. Among them is the deadly Fenris, the brave Ser Aaron Hawthorne and his squire/thief Vaea, the troubled mage Francesca Invidus, and the mage-killing team of Tessa Forsythia and Marius. Will they be fast enough to outrun their own pasts and stop what''s coming? Collects Dragon Age: Dark Fortress #1-3.

A group of Inquisition agents pursue the deadly elven warrior Fenris in this new chapter from the world of BioWare''s dark fantasy RPG! From the video game developer of genre-defining roleplaying games such as Baldur''s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect comes a canonical continuation of stories begun in the multiple game of the year award-winning Dragon Age: Inquisition. The power of the substance known as red lyrium is as dark as it is devastating, and a mysterious weapon containing a frightening amount of it is about to fall into the wrong hands. Enter knight Ser Aaron Hawthorne, elven thief Vaea, the magekillers Tessa Forsythia and Marius, and fledgling con artist Calix Pryde--a motley team of Inquisition agents whose task it is to recover the lyrium artifact before it''s too late. In order to do so, fellow agent Varric Tethras directs them to recruit one more to their party, a former associate from Kirkwall--Fenris. However, as the team quickly discovers, this legendary fighter has an agenda of his own, and convincing him to join their cause will be no small feat. Collects Dragon Age: Blue Wraith #1-#3.

Three years after the events of Past Lies, Amy Devlin, in her final days in Beverly Hills'' Cold Case Division, uncovers a series of murders that seem connected through time. Every 10 years, a sinner with a saint''s name has been brutally murdered on All Saints Day. With a string of cases spanning 30 years, and another killing likely to occur within the month, can Amy convince anyone these unsolved crimes are connected? And when she starts digging, will she make herself the next victim?

BioWare''s bestselling fantasy franchise lives on in these canonical comics from Dark Horse! With limited influence inside the magocracy known as the Tevinter Imperium, the Inquisition turns to strange bedfellows to accomplish a critical mission -- a pair of con artists with a rivalry as grand as their performances!

Sixteen-year-old pirate Olivia Soldana has made a promise to her dying Captain--lead the crew of Destiny''s Hand to find the legendary Devil''s Eye. Olivia''s quest takes on a frenzied pace as cities close their ports to pirates, and the crew races the fearsome pirate ship, the Kraken, to find the pieces of a map that will lead the way to the Devil''s Eye. Meanwhile, the Captain''s son learns the truth about his mother and his destiny, and Olivia faces a mutiny among the crew, who will not follow a teenage girl no matter how fierce she might be!

Before Luna''''s hard-as-nails boss known simply as "Control" ever became a control agent, Jennifer Kajiwara was once a rookie herself. From Jennifer''''s freshman year in the Agency as a late teen, through her struggles with her parents and her grueling training, to her first dangerous mission as a field agent (and first big romance!), being a young secret agent is never easy. Jennifer must learn the hard way how to play the deadly spy games that make her such a competent control agent years hence, as she becomes embroiled in a secret war full of intrigue, betrayal and deadly consequences. This is the first volume of a two-volume spin-off that will tie directly into events in future volumes of Amazing Agent Luna.

Collecting New X-Men (2004) #16-32. A bold new direction for the Xavier Institute! In the mutant-controlled u0093House of Mu0094 reality, the New Mutants clash with S.H.I.E.L.D.u0092s Hellions over the fate of the human resistance. But when the real world is restored, almost all of Earthu0092s mutants find themselves depowered! With their species all but gone and emboldened enemies looming on all sides, the remaining New X-Men close ranks and form a new squad u0097 but what about their suddenly human friends and classmates? And what happens when X-23 arrives at the mansion? The rules have changed, the safeties are off u0097 and Reverend Stryker has found a terrifying new weapon in his holy crusade against mutants! The New X-Men will be battered, beaten and worse, and suffer assaults on all fronts. Can this untested new team summon the strength to survive and triumph?

Presents the adventures of Luna, a fifteen-year-old who has been genetically grown in a lab to become an espionage weapon for the United States government.

Luna''s undercover life as a high school student and her real life as a secret agent are about to collide. The principal is missing, the gym teacher is on the verge of discovering her secret, Oliver finds himself caught up in sinister doings, and the only one who knows what''s really going on is the mysterious bad boy Jonah Von Brucken. Will Luna sort out her two lives before they both come crumbling down?

Collects New X-Men (2004) #16-19, Secrets of House of M. When orders come down that a leader of the human resistance in Japan must be assassinated, S.H.I.E.L.D.''s highly trained Hellions squad is called in to do it. But when a team of future mutant leaders called the New Mutants find out about this, they must intervene to put an end to a guaranteed disaster of global portions!

Destiny''s Hand: a pirate ship that cannot be sunk led by a dying Captain who will not give up. His final wish before he dies is to find the legendary Devil''s Eye. And who does he appoint to lead his fearless crew in search of the lost treasure, but Olivia Soldana, a brash 16-year-old girl who can outdo any man.

BioWare''s bestselling fantasy franchise, Dragon Age, lives on in these canonical comics from Dark Horse! Vaea, an elven squire, and her knight, the drunken Ser Aaron Hawthorne, arrive in Kirkwall just in time for Varric Tethras'' appointment as Viscount. A talented thief, Vaea skips the party to take on an easy job recovering a hidden lock box . . . but when she chooses to change the terms of the deal mid-heist, she is entangled in a dangerous mission that is surely above her pay grade. Collects the comic series Dragon Age: Knight Errant, Issues #1-5

An epic battle—with epic consequences—unfolds as Fenris and a team of Inquisition agents confront the dark forces determined to impose their terrible will upon the world. Valor and sacrifice are the order of the day, and when it''s all over, none will remain unchanged.

The dying captain of the pirate ship Destiny''s Hand and his crew search for the Devil''s Eye, an artifact that has only been heard of in legend.

Collects New Mutants (2003) #1-13 and material from X-Men Unlimited (1993) #42-43. Dani Moonstar, Karma and Wolfsbane u0097 the former X-Men-in-training who helped define a generation u0097 are back to pass their wisdom on to the next one! But how will the New Mutants react to Professor Xu0092s up-and-coming students, who think of them as u0093Old Mutantsu0094? Find out as a new class debuts at the Xavier School u0097 including Prodigy, Wallflower, Wither, Surge, Elixir, Wind Dancer and more! They may be the future of their species u0097 if they can survive threats like the Reavers and the hate group Purity! As the latest squad comes into its own, the originals settle into new roles as mentors u0097 but will Wolfsbaneu0092s desire to regain her powers cause her to cross a line? Plus: Legendary NEW MUTANTS creative team Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz return for an original class reunion!

Nicholas Harker is no more. His identity is fully subsumed by Dracula. The one thorn in his side, Jill Hawthorne, has been effectively removed. Finally, the lord of all vampires and his Renfield are ascendant! The vengeful wiccan Cate, however, has plans of her own--to assemble a team of vampire slayers. Together with the broken-hearted Jill and Detective Murphy, and a new player on the stage who has every reason to seek vengeance, a final battle looms. Yet Dracula grows stronger by day and night, as he amasses a small army of brides from the dead. Is it too late to destroy him? Find out in this thrilling conclusion to the Dracula Everlasting trilogy!

Nicholas Harker is an average teen who has just lost his parents in a tragic accident. But when he learns that he is the sole heir to a vast estate from a mysterious ancestor he never knew he had, his life will never be average again. Together with his new friend, Jill Hawthorne, who has relocated from London, Nicholas discovers that he is a direct descendant of Lord Dracula, and what is worse; Dracula''s spirit is beginning to exert control over him. Under the spell of Dracula, Nicholas'' first order of business is to rebuild Castle Dracula stone by stone in the outskirts of Boston. There are those from Dracula''s past who will stop at nothing to destroy Nicholas, and those who come to his aid and urge him to embrace his destiny. Only one loves him; the rest want to use him - in a dark war where Nicholas'' very soul is the battleground.

The next chapter in the world of BioWare''s award-winning dark fantasy RPG begins here! Deep within enemy territory, the warrior-legend Fenris and a fearless team of Inquisition agents prepare to assault a fortress said to be unbreakable in a bid to prevent the unthinkable from being unleashed. The continuation of Dragon Age: Blue Wraith!

Fenris—the beloved character from Dragon Age II—makes his comics debut in this canonical continuation of BioWare''s dark fantasy epic! With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, one powerful young mage''s desperate search for her father brings her face-to-face with a notorious mage hunter—Fenris, the Blue Wraith. Find out what Fenris has been up to since the incident in Kirkwall. Brought to you by the team behind both Dragon Age: Knight Errant and Dragon Age: Deception.

BioWare''s best-selling fantasy franchise lives on in these canonical comics from Dark Horse! Olivia Pryde hasn''t worked an honest day in years. Once an actress, she now lives by the con, and has come to Tevinter with a new target: Calix Qintara, the heir to a wealthy house. Once she approaches the young man, she quickly realizes that he is not exactly who he says he is--and she may be in too deep. *The creative team from Dragon Age: Knight Errant returns! *Covers by Sachin Teng! ''''A great example of how Dark Horse has successfully continued the tales within the lavishly crafted world of BioWare''s incredible fantasy epic series of games.'''' --Bleeding Cool

A graphic novel adaptation of a strange tale of a man who is "born" 70 years old and mysteriously ages in reverse.