Rejected way too many times by good-looking (and unattainable) guys shy Riiko Izawa goes online & signs up for a free trial of a mysterious Nightly Lover figure." The very next day a cute naked guy is delivered to her door & he wants to be her boyfriend! Has Riiko died & gone to heaven? The cute guy turns out to be sweet smart a great cook & lots more. & he looks like a million bucks which is what hes going to cost Riiko if she doesnt return him in time..." ...

Written by Neil Gaiman Art by Mark Buckingham Chris Bachalo Jeffrey Jones Dave Mc Kean & Mark Pennington Cover by Dave Mc Kean The landmark comic-book series that actually made Death seem.. .cool."
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY on THE SANDMAN From the pages of Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaimans THE SANDMAN comes the young pale perky fan-favorite character Death in a new Absolute Edition collecting her solo adventures! Featuring the miniseries DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 1-3 in which Death befriends a teenager & helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. Also included is the DEATH: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE 3-issue miniseries featuring the story of a rising star in the music world wrestling with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into Deaths imminent realm. & enjoy a plethora of extras including the DEATH TALKS ABOUT LIFE AIDS pamphlet stories from VERTIGO: WINTERS EDGE 2 & THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS the short story " The Wheel" from the 9-11 tribute book SANDMAN 8 & 20 & extras from the DEATH GALLERY one-shot along with an intro from Amanda Palmer the lead singer of the hit musical group The Dresden Dolls! Its all combined right here for the first time in one volume. This Absolute Edition slipcased hardcover is also the perfect companion for THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN & ideal for fans of Gaimans sprawling intimate comics work! Advance-solicited; on sale October 28
- 8.25" x 12.5" 360 pg FC $99.00 US"

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Known as The Ice Queen Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the worlds most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents shes a truly global brand in every sense. Yet despite her success shes a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. Shes successful & shes talented & thats all anyone needs to know. Anneliese never talks about her past
- not even to her only daughter Callan. Shes worked hard to leave it all behind her & its a time & place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks. Until at an exclusive New Years Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. On the cusp of her retirement at the height of Annelieses fame the stranger brings a story that demands to be told. To Annelieses horror the past cannot be left behind; it is here part & parcel of the present despite everything shes done to forget it
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Best-selling writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN ALL-STAR SUPERMAN JLA) & critically acclaimed artist J.G. Jones (52 Wanted) redefine what it means to be a modern day Super Hero in this cosmic epic. What happens when evil wins? Thats the question Superman Batman the Justice League & every being in the DCU have to face when Darkseid & his otherworldly legion of narcissistic followers actually win the war between light & dark. Featuring the deaths & resurrections of major DC characters FINAL CRISIS is more than your average multi-part event
- its a deconstruction of Super Hero comics & a challenging thought-provoking take on the modern four-color icons. This volume collects Final Crisis 1-7 Final Crisis: Submit 1 Final Crisis Superman Beyond 1-2 as well as additional JG Jones design pages with commentary by grant Morrison.
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ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing & a savage fable of our times almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan & Sasha refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor & his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage & most terribly in today's unipolar world of terror counter-terror & the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY & its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER le Carr?'s new novel presents us with magical writing characters to delight & a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges. ...

A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages the third part of a quintet richly illustrated by the author. The Abarat:a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands
- one for each hour of the day plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush escaping her dull dull life from the most boring place in our world Chickentown USA finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely one which links her to marvels & mysteries; & even to murder... In this the third volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults & children Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion the Lord of Midnight has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? & why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning? There is a mystery here. & Carrion along with his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley suspects that whatever Candy is she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat. Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion & she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night & Day clash & Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. A final war is about to begin. & Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever...
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A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages the third part of a quintet appearing at two yearly intervals richly illustrated by the author. The Abarat:a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands -- one for each hour of the day plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush escaping her dull dull life from the most boring place in our world Chickentown USA finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely one which links her to marvels & mysteries; & even to murder! In this the third volume in Clive Barkers extraordinary fantasy for both adults & children Candys adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion the Lord of Midnight has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? & why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesnt even remember learning? There is a mystery here. & Carrion along with his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley suspects that whatever Candy is she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat. Now Candys companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion & she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night & Day clash & Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands. A final war is about to begin. & Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever! ...

Accomplished & amazing
- one of the hottest reads around DAILY MAIL Set in Washington D.C. this fascinating thriller of unparalleled
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Written by NEIL GAIMAN P. CRAIG RUSSELL & MATT WAGNER Art by P. CRAIG RUSSELL YOSHITAKA AMANO TEDDY KRISTIANSEN FRANK QUITELY MILO MANARA & others
- Cover by DAVE MCKEAN The latest oversized deluxe slipcased SANDMAN hardcover collects the Eisner Award-winning THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS plus DREAM HUNTERS (both the prose novella & the comics adaptation) & the hard-to-find SANDMAN MIDNIGHT THEATRE featuring Wesley Dodds! Advance-solicited
- On sale NOVEMBER 2
- 512 pg FC $99.99 US
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Written by Neil Gaiman Art by Various Cover by Dave Mc Kean The third volume collecting Neil Gaimans seminal award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format. ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition including Brief Lives " in which the Sandmans sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling Destruction. But their journey through the Waking World has dramatic repercussions for their family & also for the relationship between the Sandman & his wayward son Orpheus. Also included is the spectacular short story " Ramadan " a tale of a young king of ancient Baghdad & the deal he strikes with The Sandman to grant his city immortality with spectacular illustrations by P. Craig Russell (Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde The Jungle Book). Never-before-collected bonus features include pin-up pages from galleries in THE SANDMAN 50 & SANDMAN SPECIAL 1 the Desire story from VERTIGO: WINTERS EDGE 3 THE ENDLESS GALLERY 1 script & thumbnails from THE SANDMAN 50 & a section on the Endless retail products (poster statues t-shirts Little Endless & more)! Plus an introduction by artist Jill Thompson. Advance-solicited; on sale May 28
- 8.25" x 12.5"
- 616 pages FC"

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