DC COMICS
The Nobody (July, $24.99) by Jeff Lemire takes inspiration from H.G. Wells's Invisible Man to explore identity, fear and paranoia in a small community.
DEL REY
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front (May, $22.95), adapted by Mark Powers, illus. by Adrian Syaf. Investigator and wizard Harry Dresden helps the Chicago police.
Mercy Thompson: Homecoming (July, $22.95) by Patricia Briggs, illus. by Francis Tsai. Thompson wars with werewolves and vampires in this prequel to the novel series.
HILL AND WANG
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (Aug; $30, paper $16.95) by Tim Hamilton adapts the classic novel about book burning in a dystopian future. 75,000 first printing.
Che (Aug., $22) by Sid Jacobson chronicles the Argentine revolutionary's life.
MANIC D PRESS
(dist. by Consortium/Perseus)
Walking Shadows: A Novel Without Words (Apr., $23) by Neil Bousfield portrays a working-class family through 200 engravings.
NBM
Treasury of XXth Century Murder: Famous Players (Aug., $15.95) by Rick Geary ponders the mysterious death of early Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.
PANTHEON
Asterios Polyp (Apr., $27.95) by David Mazzucchelli imagines a middle-aged womanizer whose life is upended when his apartment burns down.
