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A detail from the front cover of Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives, with a humanoid rat sitting on a cart in front of a stewpot while a red-eyed, child-like goblin in an oversized coat and wearing a chicken-like creature on her head smiles and brandishes a knife
Check out an exclusive excerpt from the third book in the Legends & Lattes cozy fantasy series

Travis Baldree’s latest cozy novel comes to bookstores in November

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Peek inside The Avengers’ most mind-bending, metafictional adventure yet

Artist Michael Cho reflects on a few eye-popping pages from his new book with Chip Kidd

A sandworm emerges from the ground of Arrakis in a screenshot from Dune: Awakening
The concept art for Dune: Awakening is as ravishing as the game itself

The book includes concept sketches and interviews with the development team

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Characters from Star Wars: The Bad Batch wear their military uniforms and have serious faces
Star Wars: The Bad Batch returns with a novel – and you can read an excerpt

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Get a Taste of Vice City with the Unofficial Grand Theft Auto Cookbook

Cook up some Cluckin’ Bell chicken in October

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How the X-Men ’97 team preserved — and tweaked — the classic Marvel designs for max nostalgia
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‘I felt the comics never underestimated the reader, and that was faithfully translated into the animated series.’

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The yellow power ranger on the cover of Force of Chaos
The Yellow Ranger gets her due in a new Power Rangers book steeped in Chinese mythology

Read an excerpt of Force of Chaos, a new story starring the classic Rangers

Stage actors dressed as various Vox Machina characters, belting out an introductory song about themselves, including a lackluster joke about Scanlan having a big dick, in Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins – Acquired Taste.
Critical Role’s new free comic traps its heroes in the mortification of interactive dinner theater

Read a preview of the story here, before Free Comic Book Day

An owl flies through a purple and peach colored depiction of various battles and meetings of heroes
Check out the beautiful illustrations in Liam O’Brien’s Critical Role fairy tale book

Three original fairy tales penned by Liam O’Brien

A collage combing the purple cover of Sunrise on the Reaping and a picture of Woody Harrelson as Haymitch in the Hunger Games movies
New Hunger Games book excerpt introduces Haymitch’s doomed girlfriend

This book is gonna hurt so good

Shaun Gilmore, a dark-skinned, dark-haired humanoid in blue eyeshadow with a long braid down his back and pink sparkles in the air around him, in his first appearance in The Legend of Vox Machina season 1
The new Vox Machina book finally gives Shaun Gilmore his due — read an excerpt here

Writer Aabria Iyengar digs into the secret history of Critical Role’s flamboyant merchant

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The cover of Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie shows illustrations of games in an old, hand-drawn style.
Almost 50 years ago, here’s how Intellivision took on Atari

A new book excerpt details how Intellivision broke into the game hardware world

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An image of a green leaf representing Animal Crossing sits on a background filled with illustrations of game controllers.
To release Animal Crossing in the West, Nintendo ‘had to change everything’

Read a full chapter from Boss Fight Books’ recent Animal Crossing book

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Side by side image of author John Scalzi and his latest book, “When The Moon Hits Your Eye,” set to be released on March 25.
What if the moon suddenly transformed into cheese? John Scalzi’s new book has an answer

The absurdist sci-fi comedy comes to bookstores this March

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Read an excerpt from The Art and Making of Arcane

The making-of book behind the beloved animated series is a treasure trove of secrets

Two young women stand back-to-back, one holding a smart phone, and the other a tome
Read five pages of the new fantasy comic from Dimension 20 star Aabria Iyengar

The Fade is an isekai where TikTok can teach you how to get to Narnia

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How Blizzard’s canceled MMO Titan fell apart

A new excerpt from Play Nice details what happened behind the scenes with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft follow-up

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A split of Batman 1989 and Clayface from the comics
A new sequel to Batman 1989 brings Clayface into the Burtonverse — here’s a taste

Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman gets a new sequel this October in Batman: Resurrection, a book that fills in the gap before Batman Returns.

A spooky-looking, pale girl with long hair, holding a glowing ball of light, in a detail from the cover of Garth Nix’s We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord
Garth Nix’s Dungeons & Dragons fandom is all over his upcoming alien-invasion book

The author of Sabriel on his tabletop RPG fandom, plus an excerpt of We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

The cover of Heir by Sabaa Tahir, which features an illustration of a long figure standing on a mountain top. To the right of the cover is a black and white photo of Sabaa Tahir standing on a brick pathway. Behind the two images is a purple and pink gradient background.
Sabaa Tahir returns to the Ember universe in Heir — read the first chapter

The new duology picks up 20 years after the Ember in the Ashes quartet