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Today's Fresh Friday Features leads us into mystical realms where elves reign supreme, weaving tales of magic, adventure, and timeless wisdom. From noble warriors to mischievous tricksters, these stories seek the depth of elven culture, their struggles, and their triumphs. Turn the page into this enchanting list of comics and let the world of elves cast its spell on you!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - The Meadows: In this vibrant city, where mysteries abound and magic weaves its way through the streets of The Meadows, Detective Blake Simmons stands as a unique figure — a hybrid born of human and elf lineage.
• Graphic Novel - ElfQuest: Chief Cutter and the...

Today's Fresh Friday Features will reveal secrets hidden in the tales of these stories. From spies and agents learning the truth about their governments, secret supernatural creatures that must be neutralized, or family secrets long-buried brought to light, there's more than enough thrilling drama to sate your hunger for the best-kept secrets.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Spy School: Link is a teenage computer hacker/millionaire. Wayne tends to kill people in his sleep. Meet the two newest recruits for the US government's clandestine Spy School.
• Comic - The Theory (Twisted Sci-Fi): An archaeologist struggling to save our future, a time traveler working to...

A long journey is ahead for the characters in this week's Fresh Friday Features; so grab your best walking shoes as you set out on these adventures! From being cursed to roam the Earth forever, seeking out a magical artifact, or a place to call home, these stories are sprawling adventures that will keep you engaged with the turning of a page.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - The Goddamned: It's 1,655 years after Eden, and life on earth has already gone to hell. The world of man is a place of wanton cruelty and wickedness. Prehistoric monsters and stone-age marauders roam the land.
• Manga - Lone Wolf and Cub: An epic samurai adventure of staggering...

Sometimes, the path to self-discovery means getting completely lost. Today's Fresh Friday Features dives into journeys where characters desire to be far from the familiar, and will face unexpected twists and challenges that ultimately lead them to new understandings of themselves. Ready to join them in finding purpose in the unknown?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Bare Bones: Calavera, better known as the Grim Reaper, is no longer the fascinating and terrifying figure he once was.  Burn-out is looming and a vacation is in order. But without death to regulate life, the throes of conflict are gaining territory...
• Graphic Novel - The Village of Lost Memories:...

Your most intrusive thoughts and the darkest of wishes are answered in today's Fresh Friday Features. From a collection of twisted anthologies to haunting pasts and stunning secrets coming to light, indulge in the dark fantasies within these pages.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Tales from the Cave: Just in time for Halloween, Mad Cave Studios is proud to present readers three treats: a spooky Nottingham story from Hazan, Volk, Romano, and Birch; a Battlecats “tail” featuring teenage felines tempting fate; and a Hunt. Kill. Repeat. battle over technology.
• Comic - Universal Monsters: The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!: Years after the events of...

Need a hero? Look to those around you and deep within yourself. Today's Fresh Friday Features will remind you that good people exist all around us, and sometimes, you must step up and save yourself. Perhaps you'll even be motivated to be someone else's hero after reading these inspiring titles.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Immortals: Gods and Heroes: A stunning, two-sided hardcover featuring ALL-NEW tales of Greek myths as you've never seen them before!
• Graphic Novel - Sennen: A beautiful coming-of-age tale, packed with adventure and magic with a backdrop that outlines the importance of family. Sennen is the debut graphic novel from exciting new...

With Autumn and Spring quickly coming upon our world, it's time to turn over a new leaf and embrace change. This week's Fresh Friday Features is here to show us change can be constructive or destructive. These characters are taking control over their lives, but not all will end up changing for the better.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Rose: A classic fantasy tale about a girl trying to restore balance to a broken world. Rose must connect with her Khat Thorne to become the Guardian her world needs.
• Graphic Novel - FOOBUN: A Rabbit stranded in the afterlife, begs to be returned to the real world to rejoin their friend Foo Bun. Our tale follows the duo as they...

There are many weapons available to warriors, but sometimes these weapons have a life of their own! Today's Fresh Friday Features contains tales of legendary or peculiar weapons, from glass swords to bizarre blades and axes with a drinking problem. Like any tool, it's up to the wielder to maximize its potential. Do these characters have what it takes?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - The Swords of Glass: In a world whose time is running out, four mysterious swords must be reunited to save the planet.
• Comic - Swords: What type of swords are out there? A funny gag-a-day comic about various types of swords, realistic and unrealistic.
• Comic - Malice + Magic: Demons...

Today's Fresh Friday Features reminds us that big power can come in small packages! From warriors only inches tall, to fighting against the ever-turning wheel of life, we are merely specs in the infinitely huge thing that is life and these are some of their journeys.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel: An ancient demon wants to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is an inches-tall would-be samurai.
• Graphic Novel - Orc of Mine: Gyda Lionrock thinks her visit to Asclan Peaks is for one reason and one reason alone—to finally welcome a child of her own.
• Manga - Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide:  Super serious...

Life can seem bleak, but today's Fresh Friday Features offers lights among a sea of darkness. These comics will uplift you spirit, fighting against evil and negativity with weapons of humor, love, and child-like wonder.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - 1 AND A HALF: After accepting his master's "Eternal Gift", Sebastian became the living nightmare every child and pregnant woman is afraid of.
• Comic - Buni: The twisted and side-splitting hilarity of Buni! Always positive, Buni doesn’t understand that the cute world he lives in is usually out to get him.
• Comic - Lore:  A girl named Charlene gets invited to the adventurer clan's exam. Her...

Today's Fresh Friday Features have buried secrets in the depths of their pages and it's up to you to solve them! From bizarre dolls made from living children to missing young girls and whodunit murder mysteries, there's hidden truth just waiting to be exposed. Can you solve these mysterious tales?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Porcelain: Beryl’s life in the desert, living with her aunt and her cat, is relatively simple…until the day she finds and enters the Dollhouse. Stuck inside an ever changing mystery house that hunts children and turns them into dolls, Beryl goes on a psychedelic journey.
• Graphic Novel - Julycanthropy: When Alex, a young...

Sometimes you have to break things down before you can rebuild. Our Fresh Friday Features this week captured the element of destruction with stories of those who suffer breakdowns, experience disorder or upheavals in their lives. Now they have to recover and begin life anew to find a new normal to live with. How would you react in these situations?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Wifwulf:  WIFWULF is an original folklore myth telling the story of Charity Bjornsdotter, a young woman in 1860s Montana who spends her days in the woods with her closest friend, a local wolf she calls Silver Slash.
• Comic - I'm a Mess: It humorously examines the characteristics and...

Journey into the deepest corners of your soul with our Fresh Friday Features as your guide. These introspective comics feature tales of authors and characters looking deep within, overcoming (literal) demons, fierce storms, and the ghosts lurking in their pasts to become better, stronger people. Learning more about yourself, and thus coming out stronger, there's nothing you can't do!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Gender Queer:  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing...

Longing for an escape into fun and fancy-free life? So are the characters in our Fresh Friday Features this week. Running from bounty hunters, the past, reality, or destiny, there's lots of things to be afraid of, but lots to be gained by facing them! Root for these characters, or against them, as you read their stories and join them on their escape-plans!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Graphic Novel - The Scourge of Ninepoint:  The kittezens rest in peace knowing that this “calico scourge” is disposed of. At least, that’s what they thought. Marble, a rare male calico, manages to escape his fate when he is adopted by a family of raccoons.
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Something wicked this way comes, stalking right into our Fresh Friday Features! Ancient evils long sealed away, mythical clay figures brought to life, a Filipina occult investigator, and a coven in the heart of New York under attack. There's evil afoot and we might need more salt. On second thought, grab the mermaid salt. Stay safe out there, friend.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Cult of the Lamb:  In a land pervaded by cruelty and evil, the most innocent among us—young Lamb, the last of their kind—was selected to become a final dark sacrifice. Their death would forever seal the darkest of the Old Gods from our realm and usher in a new age.
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What's up with comedians these days? This edition of Fresh Friday Features wants to help lighten your heart this weekend with funny titles with wholesome, positive stories. Indomitable, spirited characters with a desire for fun, justice, or simply aiming for a better life with lots of laughs along the way.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Bumkats!: The absurd misadventures of Tripp and Felton, two mischievous stray cats.
• Graphic Novel - Roopster Roux: Steve Harvey and crimestopper Roopster Roux once again bring justice to their town by fighting a new threat-Victor Vain.
• Manga - Freaky 1/2: Victoria Vespera is the best hunter in the land! Or so she thinks. One day...

Dig down deep for these Fresh Friday Features titles. In honor of Pride Month, on this first Friday in June, we're going on journeys to explore the self. From accepting your faults and leaning into them, to adjusting to a changing identity, and loving yourself as you are, these stories can serve as the inspiration and catalyst to go on your own introspective adventure.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich: Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) mess of a woman.
• Graphic Novel - Pearl of the Sea: Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills.
• Manga - At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender:...

Don't let these pretty faces fool you, our Fresh Friday Features contain women who know how to break bones and hearts! These warrior women know what they want and will mow down anyone in their way. 

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Briar: What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after… and instead had to save herself?
• Graphic Novel - Dark Mists: Kyoto, Japan. 1936. While a shroud of impending unrest hangs over Europe, in Japan the number of Yakuza members is close to outnumbering the Japanese army.
• Manga - Circuit Champ: Grace is ready to join the world of mech combat with her homemade bot, Sydney.
• Webcomic - Kinsetsu - Kintsukuroi no...

Are you willing to go the extra mile to make sure things get done right? This edition of Fresh Friday Features tests the grit of these characters to follow through, keep their promises, and go above and beyond the call of duty. Can you keep up with these forces to be reckoned with?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Long Walk to Valhalla: But when a young girl named Sylvia shows up, claiming to be a Valkyrie sent by the Norse god Odin to deliver Rory to Valhalla, Rory will have to face the past he's tried to lock away.
• Graphic Novel - Kaya: After the destruction of their village, a young girl with a magic arm and a fighting spirit is tasked with delivering her...

Our  Fresh Friday Features takes us into the lives of warriors! Defending the world from enemies or fighting for your own survival, each of these battle-hardened characters has a code of their own and their own reason for fighting. Explore their stories and find your warrior's spirit in these inspirational titles of things worth fighting for.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Age of Yōkai: With her father dead and her home destroyed, Sonomi joins a trio of wandering samurai in their quest to exact vengeance from the master of the yokai: the sorceress known as Odokuro.
• Manga - The Fall of Godz: Only the strong survive while the weak suffer and parish across the...

Our  Fresh Friday Features today will uplift and inspire! Goals can be daunting and exciting, but we all should be seeking to become our best selves. The phrase "Be a better you today than you were yesterday" comes to mind. All of these titles embody that in some way, but not all of them are wholesome! Enjoy these characters who will do anything to be better than yesterday!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - I Heart Skull-Crusher!: 18-year-old Trini will do anything to compete in her favorite sport, Screaming Pain Ball, alongside her longtime hero Skull-Crusher!
• Graphic Novel - The Bardic Verses: The Bardic Verses are the stories of Martiln...

When you need something done right, sometimes it's better to just do it yourself. In this Fresh Friday Features the doers of life get stuff done, from saving the world to not letting others define your path. Get 'er done, everyone!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Bitch Planet: A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place?
• Graphic Novel - Stories from the Red Code: Stories from the Red Code is a collection of short stories, following the self-destructive...

Let's take a break and get some fresh air. Don't forget to bring along our Fresh Friday Features with you to read while you're out there! Stories of connecting to your homeland, maintaining balance between worlds, or connecting to a long-lost land of the past, you'll feel grounded and refreshed!

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Mamo: The youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, and even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist!
• Graphic Novel - The Mushroom Knight: A chivalrous faerie...

When was the last time you sat down to hear someone's life story? Our Fresh Friday Features will take you on different journeys of characters working with each other and learning to expand their perspectives. It's amazing what and who you can become when you open up to others.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Ghostlore: An estranged daughter and her father wander a haunted land; they only have the restless spirits, each with its own story to tell, as company along the way.
• Graphic Novel - Crossroads: Excite your senses with our spooky cryptid road trip and how family never gives up on you with, Crossroads.
• Manga - Best of you: The rebellious young girl of the...

You can't control the sands of time, but you can control what you do with the time you have. Spend it wisely with our picks for this week's Fresh Friday Features! Some characters have harsh lessons to learn, and some go out of their way to teach others. They are inspiring tales about taking control of your life and fighting for peace, worthy causes, or just to find your role in this world.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Season of the Bruja (Volume): Althalia, along with her two companions, Dana, a were-coyote, and Chuey, a chupacabra, uses her abuela’s training to help and assist others from all manner of spirits.
• Graphic Novel - The Impending Blindness...