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YALSA Chooses Five Dark Horse Titles For Their 2016 Great Graphic Novels For Teens List

Published Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:00:05 -0600

Good new came for Dark Horse last week when the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) committee published their much-anticipated 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. The published landed five titles on the list, and here they are…

ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times. By Andrew MacLean. Illustrated by the author. Dark Horse Originals, paper, $9.99 (9781616555665). Alone at the end of the world, Aria and a cat named Jelly Beans search for an ancient relic with immeasurable power.

EI8HT Volume 1: Outcast. By Rafael Albuquerque and Mike Johnson. Illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque. Dark Horse Books, paper, $17.99 (9781616556372). Joshua agrees to go on a mission through time to save his wife, but finds himself in a world outside of time.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952. By Mike Mignola and John Arcudi. Illustrated by Alex Maleev. Dark Horse Books, paper, $19.99 (9781616556600). Hellboy goes on his first mission.

Nanjing: The Burning City. By Ethan Young. Illustrated by the author. Dark Horse Originals, hardcover, $24.99 (9781616557522). This harrowing tale follows a Chinese captain and one of his soldiers as they try to escape the city of Nanjing in 1937, which has been overrun by the invading Japanese army.

Satoshi Kon's Opus. By Satoshi Kon. Illustrated by the author. Dark Horse Manga, paper, $19.99 (9781616556068). When one of his characters doesn't like the ending of a mangaka's series, he steals the last page and the mangaka falls into the world of his story to resolve the mess.