The decades-awaited Elbaf arrival might not be long off. But how long will it be until we know?

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In March, Marvel Comics revealed that she’s set to take over as the new Uncanny X-Men scribe in August, making her the first female solo writer of the X-Men’s flagship title “in its 61-year history.” Shortly after that news, Simone announced that she’s helming Rebellion Publishing’s resurrection of horror host Misty in an all-new one-off 48-page anthology, Misty 2024, arriving on July 17.

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Surely, you think, these characters’ usefulness will last just for the arc. But then Eiichiro Oda will bring them back down the line and endear you to them even further. Somehow, these weirdos stay relevant to the story, even into the final saga. Mr. 3 is a prime example of one such character.

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And by a “wee fight,” I mean a fight that could very much alter the world of One Piece as we know it. The final panels of chapter 1118 “broke” One Piece in the best possible way. Now, we wait to see whether the outcome of that fight will either change the fabric of the World Government as we know it … or cause casualties among our heroes.

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Turns out, there’s the satisfaction of making a correct prediction, and then the shock of Eiichiro Oda going even further than you imagined. Because in chapter 1118, Jewelry Bonney essentially broke One Piece. And it was spectacular.

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To 18-year-old Ren, college was a salvation. It was a way for me to move out of my family’s home and guarantee a job. To 21-year-old Ren, college was a weight around my neck.

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Eiichiro Oda pulled some shenanigans on us this week, friends. And I want to know if this is a matter where someone could bang the proverbial TV until the signal is fixed, or if the signal is truly gone out.

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A fair share of epic shounen series kill off characters in their final acts. It’s a typical climactic move. The question is whether One Piece will do the same. On one hand, at an equivalent moment for the series pre-timeskip—spoilers!—Oda proved he isn’t beyond killing beloved characters with Ace’s and Whitebeard’s deaths at Marineford. On the other hand, One Piece has recently been retconning some key deaths, like Saul’s. (Which can be a good move if done for a reason which advances the story, as this does.)

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“Asa” is the Japanese word for morning, while “yoru” is the word for night. That poetic contrast describes these characters quite well: an initially timid human and a bloodthirsty devil inhabiting the same body. Night and day.

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Major spoilers for One Piece up through chapter 1116!

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Denji finally got what he has been looking for all this time, intimacy with a woman, but in a way that left fans feeling just a little uncomfortable and saw the chapter go viral. It was an anticlimactic climax (of sorts) but the fallout in the next chapter could be traumatic.

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But even when you know, logically, that anything’s possible in Chainsaw Man, Fujimoto has the uncanny ability to twist his narrative so sharply that he ends up giving his readers one hell of a gut punch. These moments are so sharp that they stick in your mind forever and ever—whether they’re played for comedy, or heartbreak, or both. The vomit kiss. The snowball fight. The birthday cake. Bucky. Just to name a few.

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Anyone who hasn’t read the manga and sees a random panel of Michael Kaiser wrapped in rose thorns might get the wrong idea. It just goes to show that this story is about its characters’ obsession with soccer, and we’ve finally gotten a glimpse into Kaiser’s past in the last two chapters of the manga.

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One Piece is currently very much in that moment.

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Kaiju No. 8 is set in a world where kaiju (monsters) appear across Japan on a near-regular basis. The Japan Anti-Kaiju Defense Force has been created to take them down, whenever and wherever they appear. The current poster soldier for the Force is Mina Ashiro, a young woman whose skills and strength are admired by all, particularly Kafka Hibino, her childhood friend who once promised to stand by her side, but has only managed to make it to the clean-up crew. That is until after encountering a kaiju, Kafka is transformed into one himself, an extremely powerful kaiju given the name No. 8.

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With the story locked in the middle of a huge battle, fans eagerly await the next chapter of Kaiju No. 8. The story’s protagonist, Kafka Hibino, a.k.a. Kaiju No. 8, is facing off against the humanoid Kaiju No. 9. After utilizing moves he learned through his training, like Troop Style, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Kafka realizes his strategies aren’t going to work given that No. 9 is well aware of these moves, too. Previously, No. 9 possessed Isoa Shinomiya’s memories, and can, as a result, anticipate and combat those moves with extraordinary speed. Despite the battle destroying their surroundings, No. 9 remains unfazed.

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The shonen manga, which began serialization in 1998, has been on a number of hiatuses since, with artist and creator Yoshihiro Togashi having to take extended breaks due to his health. A recent tweet, however, has given us hope, and so the rollercoaster begins again!

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That lore drop also provided one hell of a cliffhanger. Vegapunk’s broadcast has started, and for all his dawdling around wanting coffee and inventing the Keurig in minutes flat so that he could have coffee, he certainly cut to the case once the countdown was over. You assume that chapter 1114 will give him the time to explain himself. There’s a lot to chew on, but we all definitely want more information.

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Gimme a number …

There are currently 14 deluxe volumes of Berserk. Kento Muira, the late, great creator of the acclaimed dark fantasy series created 41 volumes of the story before his death. 13 out of the 14 feature three standard volumes each, and the last deluxe volume features the final two standard volumes plus the Berserk Official Guidebook.

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The 104-page Prestige format comic, which drops May 28, includes a main cover by Kevin Wada (see below), an open-to-order wraparound variant cover by David Talaski (seen above), foil and card stock variants by Babs Tarr (see below), and Wada’s main cover offered as a 1:25 card stock variant.

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