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The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp

The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp and illustrated by Manuel Preitano

After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham’s teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Within these walls, strange sounds escape at night; patients go missing; and Barbara begins to put together pieces of what she believes to be a larger puzzle. But is this suspicion simply a result of her trauma? Fellow…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Paralysis
Hospitalisation mentioned
Gun violence
House fire recounted

Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson

Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson

This is the story of two totally different girls—quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie—and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language

Katie the Catsitter by Colleen Venable

Katie the Catsitter by Colleen A.F. Venable & illustrated by Stephanie Yue

Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp–something that’s way out of Katie and her mom’s budget. Unless Katie can figure out a way to earn the money for camp herself. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbour, life gets interesting. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they’re not exactly . . . normal cats. Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city’s most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie’s upstairs neighbour is really a supervillain?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Animal mistreatment & abuse
Animal hunting mentioned
Dogfighting mentioned

Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez

Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez

Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something…anything…related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won’t be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience. It turns out he doesn’t even have enough experience to be a garbage collector! But when Ben stumbles upon a “Now Hiring—No Experience Necessary” sign outside a restaurant, he jumps at the chance to land his first job. Plus, he can keep looking for a writing job in the mean… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Emesis

Outcast, Volume One by Robert Kirkman

Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Paul Azaceta

Kyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life and now he needs answers. Unfortunately, what he uncovers along the way could bring about the end of life on Earth as we know it. Collects Outcast #1-6.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & sexual assault, implied
Child abuse
Domestic violence
Graphic blood & gore depiction

Something is Killing the Children, Volume One by James Tynion IV

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV and illustrated by Werther Dell’Edera

When the children of Archer’s Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Murder
Death of a child

Weapon UwU Volume One by SJ Whitby

Weapon UwU Vol 1: Godkillers by S.J. Whitby

Weapon UwU – who’d expect us to be a team of deadly mutant assassins with a name like that? The Team: a trans boy ready for his glow-up into a leading man, an undead sweetheart with a bellyful of acid, a furious firebreathing girl, a hive mind of very polite spiders, an over-it aroace woman who knows how scared you are of her, and a group of increasingly unhinged clones. The Misson: To cross into a parallel universe and kill a mutant as powerful as a god, then clean up any mess. The Complications: Okay so yikes this has spiralled out of control and now there may be some… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood depiction
Cannibalism
Emesis
Murder
Drowning
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

Camp Spirit by Axelle Lenoir and Michel Falardeau

Camp Spirit by Axelle Lenoir & Michel Falardeau

Summer 1994: with just two months left before college, Elodie is forced by her mother to take a job as a camp counsellor. She doesn’t know the first thing about nature, or sports, of kids for that matter, and isn’t especially interested in learning… but now she’s responsible for a foul-mouthed horde of red-headed girls who just might win her over, whether she likes it or not. Just as Elodie starts getting used to her new environment, though — and close to one of the other counsellors — a dark mystery lurking around the camp begins to haunt her dreams.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Bullying
Animal death

Wave, Listen to Me, Volume One by Hiroaki Samura

Wave, Listen to Me!, Vol. 1 by Hiroaki Samura

The stage is Sapporo, Hokkaido. One night, our heroine, Minare Koda, spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking one night. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue. With just one recording, the many eccentric facets of Minare’s life begin to pull every which direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio. Wave, listen to me!

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Outing

Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som

Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som

The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Transmisia mentioned
Self-harm (bloodletting)
Body horror