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Chapter 8 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

Filled with gorgeous illustrations and concept art from the hit Netflix series, The Art and Making of Arcane is an immersive journey behind the scenes of the Emmy Award-winning Animated Series! --- The Art and Making of Arcane takes readers through the visual journey of Riot Games’ and Fortiche's revolutionary animated series. Featuring early art styles, evolving character designs, and jaw-dropping worldbuilding artwork, this volume is the definitive compendium of Arcane’s creative process and vision. Arcane and League of Legends fans alike will be amazed by the visual development of fan-favorite champions, the breathtaking cityscapes of Piltover and Zaun, and the riveting inventions of hextech and Shimmer. This book includes early designs showing how characters evolved visually, gorgeous vistas of sprawling background and setting art, and interviews with over 20 key animators, writers, directors, artists, game designers, musicians, and other creators. EXCLUSIVE ACETATE COVER: The Art and Making of Arcane comes with an acetate jacket exclusive to this edition. IN-WORLD EXTRAS: This stunning tome will also come with a trove of in-world extras. All editions of the book will include a Jinx poster, a removable map of Piltover, an in-world blueprint, a Vander Letter, fold-out spreads showcasing content from seasons one and two, and more. ORIGINAL ART: Features beautiful, never-before-seen concept art that helped adapt the global blockbuster video game into a critically acclaimed animated series. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Hear from the development teams at Riot Games and Fortiche on the groundbreaking process that brought the world of Runeterra into the cinematic limelight. GO BEHIND THE SCENES: Filled with both behind-the-scenes looks at the inspiration and iteration of the people and places in Arcane, breakdowns of key scenes, and a deep dive into Fortiche’s artisanal animation style, The Art and Making of Arcane chronicles the incredible work and talent that went into crafting such a dynamic and instantly iconic series.

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"In a world home to inanimate objects, a strange phenomenon occurs when they get overly stressed which causes their bodies to become monster-like. Objects in monster form are known as "Monstrals" Luckily this transformation is only temporary and they will eventually revert back to normal. However, Monstral objects are extremely aggressive and hostile... Icey, a senior in high school, has to go on with her daily life while trying not to go into her Monstral form as she fears she might accidentally hurt her girlfriend, Ornament, if she does. And other objects living in their home city, Diamond Brook, try to live their lives while avoiding their monstral transformations"

"Wanting to forget something that had happened, Hikaru jumps off a building. Right before he hits the ground, a monster in a human shape breaks his fall. The creature's frightful appearance makes Hikaru cower, but as it continues to stay by his side without saying a word, Hikaru starts to question what its motives are... A deeply moving BL that resonates with the heartbreaking feeling of being left behind."

I met my annoying ex-girlfriend again during the zombie apocalypse?!

Unexpectedly, he has reached an agreement to murder someone in exchange with a "psycho". He is afraid, scared, threatened but unable to escape. It's as if he's addicted or in love with that "psycho". Collapsed, crazy, mysterious. Characters: Scheming tsundere psycho X cold hearted college student. This is a dark, pure, sweet(?) and sadistic story.

About a boy who’s 14 who want to destroy the world so he summons a demon but it isn’t what he expected

About a villain who makes a person destroy the world

The classic LGBT+ story by the creative master of Rose of Versailles! *** Born as “Claudine” in a female-assigned body that doesn’t reflect the man inside, this heart-wrenching story follows Claudine through life, pain, and the love of several women. Master shoujo mangaka Riyoko Ikeda, considered part of the influential Year 24 Group, explores gender and sexuality in early twentieth century France in this powerful tale about identity. Riyoko Ikeda’s career of over forty years is most defined by her epic The Rose of Versailles, and she was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2009.

Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN! Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again! HER FRANKENSTEIN is the inaugural volume of SMUDGE, a line of pulp, horror, and dark mystery manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.

Cry out for love, scream in sorrow. "I want to be lonely," "I have nothing," "I'm a failure" - To vent, a girl named Ruru uses a private SNS account. What she stumbles upon is a rumor about a condition called "Love Sick Girl Syndrome", said to only affect teenage girls. The symptoms seem completely unreal, like something straight out of a manga... She thought it was just a made-up story, but when a certain worry triggers strange changes in her body, they begin to resemble the symptoms described in that very rumor. A long-awaited comic adaptation of the story inspired by Kairikibear's songs: Venom, Darling Dance, and Failure Girl!

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This manga is about the black cat "Kuro" and the lone girl "Coco" living together in a large mansion. Cute, fun and somehow eerie… Check out this full-color manga full of mysteries!

Living a self-destructive lifestyle, young Aoi finds her room visited by various symbols of spring - cherry blossoms and butterflies - all silently watching over her days. A new tale of love and life from the unique mind.

Ed Brubaker’s Criminal is a critically acclaimed neo-noir crime comic series illustrated by Sean Phillips. First published in 2006 by Icon Comics (later moving to Image Comics), Criminal is an anthology of interconnected crime stories, each focusing on different characters within a shared, grim underworld of thieves, killers, and broken people.

A History Of Violence follows the story of a small town soda shop owner by the name of Tom Mckenna. In an unfortunate turn of events, two wanted killers stumble into Tom’s shop demanding money and have every intention of killing Tom. A couple of seconds later one of the killers is dead and the other is intensive care. Tom becomes an instant hero and is thrown into the public eye. Too bad for Tom the past never dies, and his deep dark past is revealed, and the law-abiding, mild mannered Tom Mckenney turns out to be some much more…

After Batman meets a young boy whose parents were murdered, he reflects on his own life and examines the nature of crime in Gotham City.

The Maxx - a homeless superhero who lives in a box. Both Maxx and his social worker friend, Julie, share adventures in both the real world and in "the Outback," a fantasy realm inhabited by their jungle-inspired totems. In this new edition, each page has been scanned from the original art, remastered, and completely recolored under the watchful eye of Sam Kieth.

One of the greatest Batman stories ever told, Batman: Arkham Asylum is back in a new edition of the classic hardcover! The inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over and are demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to endure the personal hells of The Joker, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the asylum.

The hard-boiled adventures of the grittiest web-slinger in the Spider-Verse! In the dark days of the Great Depression, young reporter Peter Parker finds himself forever changed by a spider’s bite — and resolves to take on crime and corruption as the urban vigilante called Spider-Man! And there are no shortage of foes — from gangland bosses the Goblin and Crime Master, to pulp-era twists on familiar faces like Kraven, Chameleon, Doctor Octopus and more! But will the seductive Felicia Hardy prove friend or foe? Plus: Spider-Man Noir enters the Spider-Verse via an encounter with Mysterio — and shares a spectacular team-up with a six-armed Spidey! And a brand-new video-comic adventure, adapted for reading!

On Friday night, a comedian died in New York.....

Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns... and you're free. To be anywhere.

Private John Francis Clayton is on his first tour of duty in Vietnam, facing death at every turn in the middle of a war he doesn’t understand. Clayton is just trying to stay alive when he encounters an elite platoon of…. simian soldiers ? This squad of chain-smoking chimps is the most dangerous fighting force in the jungle… but whose side are they on?

A reporter in 2012 stumbles on a secret that leads him down the darkest path imaginable... to a seductive woman who's been on the run since 1935, a mobster who may be an immortal demon monster, and the stories of all the doomed men who've been caught in their decades-long struggle. Including his father...

Tommy Monaghan, a hitman in Gotham City who acquires superpowers after an alien encounter

The Umbrella Academy is the bizarre story of a dysfunctional family each with unique superpowers, raised and trained to be superheroes by Sir Reginald Hargreeves in an effort to save the world from an unspecified threat.

the entire dramatic story of Batman's first year fighting crime

3 years after the war. The war volunteers still haven't gotten their normal lives back. Known as the "Assassin of Adenzi", Ef, the girl who was feared on the battlefield, had been spending her days with nowhere to go. A certain missionary reaches out to her. The look in her eyes is suspicious, and warm. "I will make you happy. I promise..."

Welcome to the world of Stardew valley, where Derek start to take his grandfather's place,we will see his fears,anger, happiness and marriage!

In ten or so years, in a future where resurrecting the dead is an everyday occurrence, the moon will collide with the Earth, bringing with it the end. Before the apocalypse happens, Nekuro confesses to her best friend Kiri, who, seeing no hope for the future, takes her admirer's confession half-joklingly, until one day, Nekuro dies.

Buddy Baker is more than just a second-rate super hero–He’s also a devoted family man and animal rights activist. Now, as he tries to jump-start his crimefighting career, he experiences visions of aliens, people transforming into strange pencil-like drawings, and hints of a terrible crisis lurking around the edges of reality. And as his odyssey of self-discovery gives way to spiritual enlightenment as well as the depths of despair, Buddy meets his maker.

*Punisher MAX* is a raw, uncompromising take on Frank Castle that strips away the superhero gloss and plunges into the grimy underbelly of real-world crime. Written by Garth Ennis, it reimagines the Punisher as a war-hardened vigilante in a world without capes—just mobsters, traffickers, war criminals, and the corrupt systems that protect them. The series is brutal, grounded, and emotionally heavy, with violence that feels punishing rather than flashy. What makes it stand out isn’t just the carnage, but the psychological weight Castle carries, the bleak morality of his mission, and the haunting question it leaves hanging: what’s left of a man when revenge is all that drives him? If you’re into dark, hard-hitting crime stories with no punches pulled, Punisher MAX hits like a sledgehammer.

Jonah Hex (2006–2011) is a gritty, violent, and beautifully told Western that doesn’t try to romanticize the Old West—it drags it through the mud and blood where it belongs. Each issue is a mostly self-contained tale following Jonah Hex, a scarred, sharp-shooting bounty hunter with a code of honor buried under layers of cynicism and gun smoke. Writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, along with standout artists like Darwyn Cooke and Jordi Bernet, deliver everything from brutal showdowns to tragic morality plays, painting the frontier as a lawless place where justice is often just another name for revenge. If you like your stories hard-boiled, your protagonists morally complex, and your violence unflinching, this run of Jonah Hex is a criminally underrated gem.

Get inside the mind of a professional assassin, a man of few scruples, nerves of steel, and a steady trigger finger. A man whose crimes might be catching up with him. A man on the verge of cracking… After misadventures in Central and South America and having earned enough money to retire comfortably, the Killer retires to Mexico, but his colleagues are still in need of his irreplaceable skills… and before long he’s drawn back into the great geopolitical game between Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States.

[Fan translated by Lilith Scanlations] In a world where humans and androids live side by side… A doctor who treats human patients comes across an android one day.

For most, kumdo is just a hobby. Practitioners are there to entertain and Si-ho Ye is the best entertainer of them all. Quicker, more agile, and more experienced than most, he was a force to be reckoned with in the kumdo world. Si-ho was content living his life as the best at something that barely mattered until the day his sister died. Convinced she was murdered and determined to take revenge, Si-ho sets out to show the dark underbelly of Korea why swordsmen were once revered…and feared.

A little demon-child was called forth one night from a portal opened by Grigori Rasputin, under the auspices of the Nazi’s Project Ragnarok. Named Hellboy and raised by Professor Bruttenholm of the U.S. Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, he has a great destiny to fulfill. It is foretold that, seated atop his dragon, he shall be the right hand of the Ogdru Jahad during the final war in which Hellboy and the army of Hell will destroy the world. For now, he works (on and off) for the B.P.R.D. using his unique skills to intervene when other supernatural beings get out of hand.

A little extra from "Yatamomo" about Momo's and Suda's past.

Delivery rider Kwon Do-eun prioritizes his family's happiness over his own. Delivery work, home, delivery work, home... His days repeat the same routine—until his first love, Lee Se-bin, suddenly reappears. But with him comes the nightmare of that day. "Lee Se-bin... It's been a while." Fueled by explosive anger, Do-eun swings his fist before he can stop himself— and it lands squarely on the face he once loved. "...I'm screwed." Having tangled his own fate, Do-eun finds his peaceful life crumbling day by day, caught in Se-bin's threats and endless schemes.

A tragic fanfiction AU as narrated by Luna Loud about how her world fell apart.

Garth Ennis (PUNISHER MAX, Preacher) and Goran Parlov (PUNISHER MAX) reunite to bring you the life of Marvel’s hardest soldier like no one else could. In the wake of WWII, Nick Fury is fast running out of battles to fight. But the world’s superpowers are gearing up for a new kind of war, and they’ll need a man like Fury to win it. Knee deep in the messy quagmire of 1950s French Indochina, Fury faces a war unlike any he has ever seen. Witness the most brutal battle ever put on a comic-book page! Then, it’s 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion has begun, and Fury gets a new assignment: assassinate Fidel Castro! But when Fury and his team are captured in Cuba, find out just how far Nick Fury will go for his country.

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This world has been invaded by bugs. With the appearance of the "Armored Bugs," mutating insect monsters that can overcome all modern weapons, humanity has been robbed of much of its living space. The only ones who can stand against such adversaries are the "Noble Butterflies," girls who harbor "Insects" that have gone through evolutions differing from the armored bugs. One of the candidates to become a Noble Butterfly, Odamaki Ayumi, still suffers from the fact that she is unable to become one. Her best friend, who was supposed to be with her and was her object of admiration, has left her and no longer seeks her company. Those days of despair came to an end when she was on the verge of death in a battle with armored bugs. "Don't think that I... will die without doing anything!" With the end near, the girl's body transformed into a butterfly one. And the flapping of her wings will bring about a revolution in the world...!

Two high school boys struggle to survive in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

In a town filled with the most beautiful of beings, Tinker is the ugly freak who lives on the fringes of society. One day, one of these beings visits his workshop in order to have a trinket fixed, and it is this seemingly innocuous occurrence that sets into motion a series of unfortunate events...