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Title: Belonging To A Screwed Situation

Series: Holler Me Home, part 2

Author: BJ

Fandom: Supernatural

Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Dean Winchester/OFC

Synopsis: Part of the Holler Me Home series. A scene from Alpha!Dean's early life.

Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, ABO, Omegaverse, AU, Alpha Dean Winchester, Omega OFC, Alpha OMC, Pre-Series, Weechesters, Alpha John Winchester, John Winchester's A+ parenting, Sam is a good bro,

AN: Contains sexual situations involving minors, so the appropriate flag is in place. Also flagged for non-con, as one of the parties involved is incapable of consent because of age and physical state. All recognizable intellectual properties are owned by their respective creators and holders of any trademarks or copyrights. This is a not-for-profit work of fan art and is protected by Fair Use.

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Charlotte woke the way she did most weekday mornings, with the scent of fresh coffee and absent husband. She sat up and found her Thermos, Billy’s sticky note stuck to the side:

Baby,

Picking up Jamal’s shift today. Probably won’t be home until Saturday. :-( Would love pork chops for Sunday, nudgenudge.

140 -- Heater needs parts

210 -- fixed sink

Love you a hundred million bunches,

-Billy

“Plus one for luck,” Charlotte said, kissing the note. The coffee was perfect-- hot, sweet, strong enough to strip truck parts. Breakfast, a cream cheese and raspberry Danish, waited on the kitchen table. Billy wasn’t any girl’s idea of a Prince Charming but he was still her husband, her mate, the father of her pups, and amazing in bed. Her heats had passed with menopause; no one had thought to tell her sex would get better after that.

At six on the dot she relieved the night shift desk clerk. “Go on get outta here Malik,” she told him. “Billy’s filling in for his drivers again.”

“You sure Miss Charlotte?” he asked. “I got no problem working overtime.”

“Don’t worry about it, go on home after you salt the sidewalk. S’posed to snow later.”

“Yes ma’am.” Bless his mama for raising a boy with good manners. Like a breath of fresh air.

Charlotte checked outside, pleased to note that Drew had already made a pass with the snowplow. Sent the message the place was still a working business, no matter how out-at-the-elbows it looked from the street. The West Main Motel sat on a state route that mostly served local commuter traffic, it did business but business never really boomed.

Charlotte sat at the desk and did the balance book for the day, a tape of last week’s choir practice playing on the cassette player. Mostly it boiled down to an inventory of the regulars. Sudahara in 220, paid his rent when his pension check came in every month. 230 was open again. Charlotte had had to evict Alice day before yesterday; certain things Charlotte refused to abide, and bringing johns home was one of them. Annette, the fat divorcee in 130 trying to get back on her feet after a nervous breakdown, she was good company -- for a goddamned Methodist -- and baked the best cakes. Drew in 240 lived on a handshake basis, filling the role of building super in lieu of rent.

The rest of the motel’s open units -- Charlotte made a mental note to scratch 140 until Drew and Billy could get the heater fixed -- were empty most of the time. Advertising was a sign out front and yielded a seedy clientele, people who preferred to deal in cash and without computers. With those types, Charlotte asked no questions and her guests told no lies.

The current tenets in 120, for example. Family, a widower with two boys, Alphas all three. The father’s scent stung Charlotte’s nose. A broken bond had turned him bitter, acetone and cheap liquor. The boys, a towheaded stringbean with big green eyes and a moptop maybe three or four years younger, with child-simple scents of apples and growing things-- Charlotte couldn’t help but smile at them. They reminded her of Dwayne, firstborn of their second litter and the only one of their six living pups to Present. A fine young Alpha, mated to a sweet Omega girl he met at school.

We don’t got much but what we got’s blessed, praise Jesus, Billy liked to say as he held Charlotte in the night, and Charlotte wouldn’t argue with that.

No one came in wanting a room all day. Charlotte kept her hands busy mending, keeping half an eye on the weather. Billy on the road with the snow coming down always made her nervous. She fixed herself a sandwich for lunch but she couldn’t do much more than pick at it. The cheerful noise of the boys in 120 getting back from school made her jump a foot. Why you so squirrely Mama? sweet Matthew might’ve asked her, then squirmed close for a hug.

Charlotte turned on the Vacancy sign as twilight drew down and the snow started to fall. Absently she wiped her nose. Damned thing just started tickling for some reason. Charlotte made a mental note to ask Veronica if she was trying a new fabric softener on the sheets. Something cinnamony, but with sweet chocolate. Something to make a girl’s tummy growl.

This is what happens when you don’t clean your plate, little Omega, Charlotte remembered her Daddy lecturing. You stick to your diet, hear me? Alphas want a curvy Omega not a lumpy one.

Billy likes my lumps, Charlotte retorted primly and dished herself some ice cream. Tasted heavenly, felt good sliding down her throat, and didn’t help her sudden, intense craving for sweets at all. Her mind filled with chocolate chip cookies, baked apples, coconut cream pudding, apple pie, cinnamon candies, apple turnovers, real egg nog with rum, apple butter on toast--

A hand frantically fanning the desk bell finally snapped Charlotte out of her daydream. It was the younger of the two boys in 120, snow caught in his brown hair and melting down his shoulders. “Young man where is your coat?” Charlotte snapped on reflex.

“Please, Mrs. Fiedewa,” the little boy panted. “Pastor Jim isn’t home, Bobby’s not answering--"

“Calm down honey,” Charlotte said, assuming the mantle of Mom. Voice of sanity, calm point in the storm, keeper of the world’s peace. “What’s your name? Shamed to say I don’t remember.”

"Sam Winc-- uh . . . Sam,” the boy caught himself. Charlotte frowned as other things caught in her memory. The father’s giant black land yacht of a car hadn’t been in the parking lot in a while. A week at least . . . more like two . . . maybe three. The envelopes with the rent showed up in the lockbox every Monday, Moneygram money orders purchased from the Gas’n’Sip up the road. Filled out, Charlotte realized, in remarkably uneven -- one might say childish -- handwriting. The last name Sammy cut short, Win-something, wasn’t even close to the one the father had scrawled in the check-in book.

All of that fell by the boards when Sam managed to blurt, “My brother. He’s sick. He’s got a fever and really bad cramps. I tried to give him some water but it didn’t help.” Huge tears pooled in Sam’s hazel eyes and ran down his cheeks, though he tried with every bit of his strength to hold them back. Charlotte’s heart melted and without another word she grabbed her coat and hurried out the office door, flipping the BACK IN A FEW sign on the way.

The situation clarified itself the instant Charlotte stepped into the humid confines of 120. The air reeked of scent. Alpha scent. Warm, sweet, with apple providing the ground note. “Ugh!” Charlotte exclaimed, clapping a hand over her nose.

“What’s wrong?” Sam asked.

“Sweet Jesus boy, can’t you smell that?”

“That? That’s Dean’s scent. He always smells like that.”

“You don’t-- of course not, you’re too young,” Charlotte realized. Sam’s nose must not be mature enough to detect the change. “Your brother’s in rut. Where does your daddy keep the suppressants?”

Sam’s tear-burned face went blank. “Huh?”

Charlotte’s eyebrows shot up. “You’re kidding. You don’t have suppressants in the house?”

“N-no, ma’am,” Sam confirmed.

Charlotte saw him inching away, his nostrils pulsing with deep breaths. A pup scenting an Omega in temper. She pulled the office keys out of her pocket. “Run back to the office. Get my purse from the bottom file cabinet drawer and get the red box that’s mounted on the wall. On the double!”

“Yes ma’am!” Sam squeaked and bolted.

The only place Dean could be was the bathroom. Charlotte braced herself. Heavens, the kid’s scent was strong. Dwayne’s wasn’t nearly so overpowering-- then again, Charlotte thought, so angry with the boys’ so-called father she could’ve torn him to shreds, Dwayne had spent his first rut in his locked bedroom, full of muscle relaxers and suppressants, a silicone support band holding his freshly popped knot. Charlotte remembered her heart hurting every time Dwayne whimpered, and how pale Billy got helping Dwayne clean himself up. First seasons weren’t easy, for Alphas or Omegas. No wonder Sam was hysterical.

“Love you a hundred million bunches, plus one for luck,” Charlotte told her absent mate, pressing her fingers to Billy’s mark on her neck. She rapped on the bathroom door. “Dean? It’s Mrs. Fiedewa. Can you talk? Talk to me.”

“Yes I can talk!” Dean snarled from the other side of the door. The deep growl would’ve been very intimidating, except Dean’s voicebox betrayed him and cracked soprano on the final syllable.

“Don’t you take that tone of voice with me young man, I know you have better manners,” Charlotte told him. She tsked at Dean’s unmannerly reply. “I’ll expect an apology for that later. Where’s your father?”

“He’s out on a job,” Dean said. Charlotte frowned. The boy’s voice had gone smooth, reasoned, and dull. Like a child reciting Psalms by rote, poetic flow lost. “He’ll be back in a few days.”

Charlotte suddenly remembered how Billy and his kid sisters talked when their Daddy was out on a bender. Their Mama taught them to say Daddy was off to the lake. No matter the season or the weather, no matter if the damn fish were biting or not, the answer was always, “Daddy’s off to the lake.” How many weeks are in a few days? Charlotte wondered.

With her Alpha gone and a full house of Betas, Charlotte was on her own. She stepped down hard on her temper. “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.” Dear God, make me a conduit for Thy peace. In Jesus’s name, amen. “Your brother’s getting some things that’ll make you feel better. I’m coming in.” Ignoring Dean’s shrieked NO!, Charlotte opened the door.

Oh Lord, the scent felt thick enough to bite. Nausea twisted her middle. Dean’s naked back, pale, coltish, too thin, curled protectively forward. Heat radiated off him, like a potato baked in campfire ashes. Charlotte touched his shoulder and Dean flinched.

“Dean it’s okay,” she said. My mate and I raised two litters of boys. There ain’t nothing you got I haven’t seen.” Dean’s head came up and those big leaf-colored eyes gazed through her, unfocused and dull. Charlotte put the inside of her wrist to his forehead, hissing at the heat. “Outta throw you in a snowbank. Get in the tub.”

Dean shook his head. Big side-side shake, as a little boy might.

“Honey we have to get your temperature down. You’ll burn from the inside out.” A flare of pure fear crossed his face and he moaned. Charlotte’s eyes dropped, she couldn’t help it. She saw enough to confirm what her nose was already telling her. Dealing with that came after she got Dean in the bath.

“Mrs. Fiedewa? I got the stuff you wanted,” Sam said. He saw his brother, naked and shaking next to a middle-aged stranger, and turned red.

“That’s good Sam, real good.” Charlotte kept her tone calm and encouraging, tried best she could to keep herself calm and encouraging. “Help me get your brother in the bath.” She worked the taps until she got a perfect tepid and put the stopper in.

Dean roused at the sensation of wet and cool. “Mighty motherfucker, Sammy!”

“Dean!!!”

Charlotte slapped the sole of his bare foot. “Watch your mouths, both of you.” Both boys had the grace to hang their heads, mumbling apologies. Sam left with a bucket to fetch ice. Charlotte got Tylenol and some of Billy’s suppressants out of her purse and made Dean take them with a big glass of water. “Suppressants aren’t going to help much with how you’re feeling, but they’ll help hold down your scent. ‘Nother Alpha happens by they could get violent with you.”

“I can take care of myself,” Dean retorted, with every ounce the fool’s pride a young Alpha should have.

“Course,” Charlotte agreed, taking the ice from Sam and setting it aside, “but like the Lord says a fight’s best when avoided.” Sam grunted an agreement, gently washing his brother’s face with a washcloth and trying his best not to look at the angry exclamation point standing from Dean’s groin.

Charlotte could spare the child this much. “Sam go back to the office. I can handle things from here. If anyone comes in wanting a room tell them to wait. The night shift clerk will be in later.”

“I’m not leaving Dean,” the little boy told her, with a man’s steel in his little boy voice.

Charlotte gave him a reassuring smile. “I’m not going to hurt him. This is just something your brother would probably rather you didn’t see.”

“It’s okay Sammy,” Dean spoke up. His voice had dropped into his chest, into what would probably turn into a husky baritone over the next few years. It reminded Charlotte, with a hard clench of heartbreak, of her youngest, dead of snakebite at just fifteen. Christopher, who got his Gran’s freckles and thick black hair. “I’ll be all right.”

Charlotte’s opinion of the boys rose another few notches when Sam hugged his brother round the shoulders and left without another word.

“How are you feeling? Any better?”

The young Alpha swallowed. “A little.”

“Okay.” Charlotte pulled a deep breath. In purest compassion or not, Billy was going to blister her butt for laying hands on another Alpha. No help for it. She got into the first aid kit for what she needed, and pulled on latex gloves. “I’m going to help you get through this, but I need you to trust that I’m not taking advantage.”

Plucking up some bravado Dean smiled, the kind of smile that was going to get some Omega in trouble one day. “I wouldn’t mind getting taken advantage of.”

Charlotte slapped him. Not hard, but enough to wipe that smirk off his face and wake his eyes up a bit. “Don’t you get cute with me boy, I’m mated, married, and old enough to be your grandmother.”

“Yes ma’am,” Dean said, shocked back into the out-of-his-depth child he really was.

Charlotte slid over to get a closer look at Dean’s knot, the bulbus process bulging unevenly around the base of his straining erection. She saw angry red cracks-- stretch marks where the knot had swollen beyond the limits of the skin. As her breath touched him, Dean went pale. Not everything grew at the same pace in teenagers; he was one of the unlucky ones, a grown Alpha’s knot popping inside a pup’s sac. Charlotte touched the backs of her fingers to the boy’s forehead. He shivered, eyes slipping closed. It was odd, he had the look of an exhausted child and a deeply aroused man. Both at once, and both totally at Charlotte’s mercy.

God forgive me. Charlotte gently pressed her fingers into the soft flesh of Dean’s groin. No masses, thank God.

Dean was overwhelmed and in pain, but he wasn’t so far gone he didn’t know what was coming. “Don’t,” he moaned.

“I have to, honey,” Charlotte said. She coated her fingers and palms with silicone gel. “It’ll feel better when I’m done.”

Dean cried out as Charlotte gently wrapped one hand around his cock and the other around his knot. Both pulsed, hot even through the gloves. “Please,” he begged, his face screwed up around tears he refused to shed, “stop. It hurts.”

“It’s okay Dean,” Charlotte murmured. Her fingers tightened around his cock and she pulled upward. The same fluttering, twisting squeeze she’d learned a long time ago to placate boyfriends when the rut took them by surprise. Dean’s knot twitched in her other hand, as ducts opened and blood seeped into the chambers under the skin.

Dean tossed in the water, splashing all over the floor and soaking Charlotte’s dress. He groaned, deep, adult, and very masculine. Charlotte’s heartbeat picked up and her mouth dried out. Her skin crawled and her back cramped-- the early stages of bond rejection, as Charlotte breathed the smell of a rutting Alpha she didn’t belong to.

Hard as he was, it didn’t take long. Dean’s cries spiked up in pitch and seed spurted thick and gooey over Charlotte’s gloved hand. Charlotte laid both hands over his knot and squeezed, firm and rhythmic. Charlotte took in Dean’s agonal face and his clenched jaw and throat, torn between pain and bliss. “Sit up a bit. Scent me.”

The feel of his cool nose and soft lips on the sensitive skin over the mating gland made Charlotte shut her eyes. She thought of her pups. Holding them in her arms as Billy told them bedtime stories, tucking them into their huge crib and later into bunk beds, wrangling the whole pack into the van for Christmas at Gran and Grampy’s, holding her grandchildren for the first time. Soft, maternal, nurturing, safe. She wanted to soothe the trembling young Alpha, not entice him or make him sick.

Dean heaved for breath, the rush of air cold on Charlotte’s wet skin. “It’s not going down,” he panted, his voice thin with panic.

It’s not going to honey, not right away, you’re in rut. Your body wants to find a mate and breed. The knot’s going to stay full for a while yet.” She held her squeeze a moment. “An Omega’s body will lock your knot inside them. It’s how you leave enough seed to sire pups.”

Charlotte stopped, her face flushing with mortification. Why had the boys’ father not prepared Dean for this? She kept working Dean’s knot, squeeze and release. No help for the cramps in her fingers, if she let go before the knot deflated the swelling would tear more stretch marks, maybe get bad enough to rupture something. It used to happen more often, until plastic support bands were invented.

Dean stayed with his face buried in the curve between Charlotte’s neck and shoulder. His wet arms came up to loosely circle her shoulders, like a monkey baby. His body jerked and another drop of seed spilled every fifteen seconds or so. A little at a time, he relaxed. Pups were always as much victims of their own mating instincts as masters for the first year or so. Charlotte hummed, shushed, sang a little Beatles. Dean’s arms tightened a little, and Charlotte pretended she didn’t notice his tears.

Charlotte’s hands closed as Dean’s erection shrank away and his knot deflated. He slumped back into the tub, semiconscious. “Good,” Charlotte praised, inspecting Dean’s soft sex organs for bleeding or signs of rupture. “You did good, Alpha. You were so good for me. Catch your breath and let’s get you cleaned up.

Wiping away Dean’s spilled seed made Charlotte feel sick. Well, she thought as a cramp gripped her dormant womb so hard her spine bent, sicker. A touch to his forehead found a fever still burning. Apologizing, Charlotte emptied the bucket of ice into the tub.

That brought Dean around. “Oh my fuck--!”

“Language,” Charlotte scolded.

“Sorry,” he whispered. Back in the land of the living enough he was realizing fully what happened. What Charlotte had done to him.

Charlotte smeared numbing gel on Dean’s deflated knot, slipped on the silicone support band and set it just snug. “Leave this on until your rut passes. It’ll keep your knot from getting sore. Stay in the tub for as long as you can stand it. You’ll run a low fever for the duration, but it’s nothing to worry about unless it gets much above a hundred degrees. Take the suppressants according to the package directions, take the Tylenol as you need it, and use the scent blocker. Don’t go to school tomorrow. When your father gets back, have him come to the office. My husband will want to talk to him.”

Back in the office, Charlotte dismissed Sam as quickly as she politely could, with instructions to make sure Dean rested and drank fluids and for both of them to read the booklet included in Charlotte’s little red box. As the door shut behind him, Charlotte darted to the bathroom. Dean’s Alpha scent clung to her skin, crowded up her nose, worked on her brain.

Where it met Billy. Billy her husband. Billy her mate. The parts of her that belonged to Billy howled in rage. Charlotte dropped to her knees in front of the toilet and threw up everything in her body. Her abdomen and back cramped. She moaned in pain. You belong to your mates! thundered Pastor Edwards from her memory, preaching to a living room full of young Omegas. You will be Bonded and will never be torn asunder! The blood will rise in riot and the body purge the sin!

Charlotte breathed as fast as she could, driving the strange Alpha scent out of her lungs. She grabbed Bill’s shaving towel from the towel bar and breathed him in. Loamy soil and peppermint, brewing coffee, sawdust. The scent of Mate and belonging, clearing the Other away like mist in a wind. The cramping eased.

Charlotte stripped, scrubbed herself raw in the shower, and dressed. The clothes she’d been wearing went into a trash bag for separate washing. Malik arrived right on schedule, and Charlotte spent the rest of the night on her knees, praying over her marriage bed.

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“Char-char? Babylove?” Billy came inside, stamping snow off his boots and unzipping his snowsuit. Charlotte helped him out of his snow things and into his house slippers. Her heart lifted to see him safe. But when he took her in his arms she stiffened and turned away, hanging her head.

Billy frowned. “Charlotte what’s the matter?”

She didn’t answer, She didn’t even look him in the eye. Instead she slunk to the bedroom. Bitter medicine is best taken in one swallow, her mother’s advice. When you’re in debt you pay it off fast, afore the interest mounts up, from her dad.

She could hear the scowl in her mate’s voice. “Explain yourself, Omega.”

“One of the kids in 120 popped his knot for the first time yesterday,” Charlotte gave the lines she’d spent all morning practicing. “His father was gone and his brother didn’t know what to do.”

Her sweet, gentle husband turned aside for her Alpha. Charlotte could smell his rage catching fire. “Did you let him knot you?” Billy grabbed the nape of her neck, pulling her face to his. “DID THE LITTLE WHELP KNOT YOU?!?”

“No!” Charlotte cried. “I had to lay hands on him to get him fixed up properly! Then I came home and got sick! It wasn’t his fault. He was in pain,” Charlotte started to cry. “Billy please, you’re my Alpha, I love you.”

Billy took hold. Raw anger receded. He nodded. “And did you pray on your sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness, Omega?”

“Yes Alpha,” Charlotte said, hiccupping back tears.

“Do you accept my right as your mated Alpha to chastise you?”

“Yes Alpha.” Charlotte already had the strap laid out on the bed, a two-inch wide strip of thick leather with a loop at one end for Alpha’s fist. She unbuttoned her dress and let it drop to the floor.

Without another word Billy threw her on the bed and whipped her with the strap. Charlotte, no stoic when it’s just her and Billy, broke into sobs. As though she needed a reminder of her place. As though every cell in her body didn’t belong to Billy. As though she would ever entertain the thought of another Alpha.

Charlotte shut down those blasphemous thoughts, horrified. God watches and knows your Omega heart, girl.

Billy hung the strap back in the closet. He lay on the bed and Charlotte burrowed into his arms. “Shhhh, ‘Mega, it’s okay now. It’s over,” he whispered, gently stroking her back. He tipped his head and Charlotte put her nose near his Alpha gland. She breathed in Billy’s scent and let herself fall apart.

Billy held her until her tears ran dry, the tender man he actually was back in control. He cleaned her face with the handkerchief he always carried in his seat pocket. “Charlotte? Baby? You okay now?”

She nodded. “Alpha, I’m so sorry.”

“Shusha now, Omega. It’s over. The Lord sees your repentance and forgives your sin.” Billy crooked a finger under Charlotte’s chin and lifted her eyes to meet his. “And so do I. I love you.”

Sniffling, Charlotte asked, “A hundred million bunches?”

Billy kissed her. “Plus one for luck.”

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Three days later, Charlotte hung up her coat on the hook. Singing a little under her breath, she took the CHECK-IN STARTS AT TWO, PLEASE WAIT sign off the desk, turned, and jumped halfway to Heaven. The sign clattered to the floor at her feet.

“Hey hey hey, it’s okay! It’s me, Mrs. Fiedewa! It’s me.” Hands held out empty, placating. Next to him, glowering, dark brown eyes glittering in the low light, stood his father.

Charlotte sighed. “Boy, you scared the almighty Jesus out of me.”

Dean lowered his hands. Charlotte scented and there he was, a pleasant but unenticing mix speaking softly of leather and baking spices. The sharper smell, by far, came from his father. Whiskey, drunk hours ago and seeping from the skin. “I’m sorry. Ma’am.”

Billy came in from parking the truck. “Honey did you take the shower presents out of Suzyanne’s car--” he put his head back and sniffed. Catching sight of the other Alphas, he scowled and moved himself in front of Charlotte. “Get inside Omega.”

“Alpha--"

“Hall closet, now.”

“Mr. Fiedewa.” John, that was his name, Charlotte recalled. Maybe fifteen years younger and broader through the shoulders. “I understand your wife helped my boys when Dean was in trouble.”

Billy turned red. “If by ‘trouble’ you mean having to lay hands on an Alpha she don’t belong to cuz his father never bothered to take him to a doctor and get him fixed up properly, then yeah, she helped. And she’s already been properly humbled of it.”

“What?” Dean blurted

“My wife’s a good Omega and she knows her place,” Billy said. “She’s not yours to discipline because you didn’t do your duty by your boy.”

“Wait a sec-- you beat her?” Dean demanded. “That’s not fair! She was just trying to help!”

“Be quiet Dean,” John ordered. His shoulders slumped a little and he looked down at the floor. “I just wanted to thank her. Sammy told me Dean was damn near delirious. If there’d been a breeding Omega nearby, Sammy wouldn’t’ve been able to stop Dean from doing something stupid.”

“Yeah, everybody’s a knothead at that age,” Billy agreed. “That don’t excuse anything. If my Charlotte wasn’t a good Omega something might’ve happened there’s no forgiving for.”

“I know, and that’s my fault,” John said. “I was away on business, and I missed the signs.” A shadow of pain crossed his eyes. “I’m not ready for my boys to be so grown up.”

“Really,” Billy said. “How old’s your boy? Thirteen, fourteen? How in the Lord’s name did he get to be that old without knowing how to take care of himself?”

“You’ve made your point,” Charlotte said, putting her hand on Billy’s thick arm. From the red creeping up the other Alpha’s neck, John wasn’t going to stand still for much more chastisement.

“Look, I don’t get it,” Dean said. “I was the one popping a boner in front of your wife--”

“Watch your language boy,” Billy growled.

“Enough,” Charlotte said, wishing -- and not for the first time -- that folk listened good to Omega voice the way they did to Alpha. “It doesn’t matter, young man. Anything outside a Bond’s a sin and my Alpha was right to correct me for it.”

“’Correct’ you? That’s crazy!”

“Dean Michael Winchester that is enough,” John ordered, in an Alpha rumble so powerful even Charlotte trembled. “Get back to the room and pack up Sammy. I get the feeling we’re not welcome here any more.”

“Leaving your pups alone for damn near a month? Now I was brought up to believe a man’s family’s his own business but that’s neglect by any reasonable standard.” Billy squared his shoulders and laid it down. “You got until tomorrow night. Then I’m calling the law.”

“Understood. Sir.” John took Dean by the elbow and marched him out the door. Something heavy went out of the air as they did, and Charlotte joined Billy in a sigh of relief.

“Crime-a-nilly, Char-char,” Billy said. “Why didn’t you go get the shotgun like I told you?”

“Because I didn’t want to make a bad situation worse, Alpha. The father there had a gun.”

Billy did a double-take. “What? Where?”

“Back waistband. I saw it when he first stood up.” She hugged Billy, kissed him softly. “I don’t wanna be visiting you in the County Jail. Or the morgue. Not over some stupid knothead doesn’t know how to take care of his pups.”

Billy nodded. “Damned shame. They seem like fine boys, just a little wild.” He brushed Charlotte’s forelock back. “Forget about it honey. Let’s make some chili dogs and watch the game. How’s that sound?”

Charlotte smiled. “Heavenly.”

---

Some Years Later

“Billy?” Charlotte called. “Where are you? I need help!” That was all. The world had collapsed to their bedroom, a door that wouldn’t open, and no Billy. Charlotte called again, and again, unaware she was screaming so hard her throat bled. “BILLY!!!”

Suddenly the bedroom was gone. Charlotte heard . . . voices, a crazy off-tune symphony of whispers and cries. She was in pain, so much pain. Surely not even the pits of Damnation could inflict such agony.

“Son of a bitch,” a strange voice said. Charlotte heard it, despite having no ears to hear with.

“Grammy-ma?” This voice, Charlotte knew. “Can you hear me?”

The agony was gone, as though someone had flipped a switch. Charlotte found herself on the snowy ground, dressed only in her nightie. She looked up and saw a strange men standing beside her granddaughter, Katherine. But that wasn’t right. Katherine’s hair was too long and she’d grown an inch and filled out. “Katie-bye?”

“Oh thank the good Lord.” Katherine swallowed. Petie, her daddy, did the same thing whenever he had to do something he didn’t want to do.

“What are you doing out in the middle of the night with a strange men?” Charlotte scented. “And an Alpha too. Your father’s going to blister your butt when you get home young lady.”

“Mrs. Fiedewa?” the strange man said. Odd, for just a second he wasn’t a man. For just a second he was a skinny strip of a thing, all bones and wiry muscle and carrying a scent of apples and leather. Charlotte looked down at herself in her silk nightgown and blushed. Billy was going to have her hide--

Billy. “Where’s your grandpa?” Charlotte asked Katherine. “I gotta find him. Where is he?” Katherine hesitated. “Katherine Elizabeth Fiedewa where is he?!?”

“Grammy where do you think you are?”

“What?” Charlotte looked around and the world did that queer double thing again, like looking through a pane of painted glass. One moment she was standing in the bedroom, the next she stood . . . nowhere, just a hump of snow next to an empty road flanked by winter-bare trees. “What’s happening? Where’s Billy?”

Sniffling, hiccuping back tears, Katherine said, “There was a fire, Grammy-ma. The fire department thinks someone didn’t put out their cigarette before they threw it in the laundry room trashcan.”

Charlotte felt everything inside her disappear, leaving cold fog. She peered around, as the Apostle Paul must have after the scales fell from his eyes. But instead of the light of the Good News, all Charlotte could see was darkness. Her family business, and her home ever since her pups grew up and moved away . . . nothing left except one charred wall and a snow-covered sign. Plowed snow blocked off the driveway. The only sign of human presence were two sets of fresh tracks leading to where Katherine and the strange man stood.

It all came together and Charlotte lifted her hands to cover her mouth. She wanted to scream but the breath wouldn’t come. “Where’s Billy?” she whispered.

“When he got home from work that night he saw the smoke and he went inside to try and get you out,” the strange Alpha told her. “By the time the fire department arrived on the scene, it was too late. The roof was caving in. There was nothing they could do.” A look of pity crossed the stranger’s handsome face. “I’m so sorry Mrs. Fiedewa.”

Charlotte said her mate’s name, her world almost disappearing in a wave of pure agony. Billy, the center of her world, her gift from the Almighty--

A memory stabbed through her, of Alphas screaming her name as they ran through traffic, into walls, slamming themselves into any obstacle in their way, anything to reach and rescue the trapped Omega. “Merciful Jesus,” Charlotte said. “All those people--”

“Hey!” the strange man said sharply. “None of that was your fault, Mrs. Fiedewa. When spirits get stuck and can’t move on, they get irrational. They lash out.”

Charlotte did a double-take. Something in the strange Alpha’s body language, his tone, his scent, it tickled a memory, something that danced on the tip of her tongue. A scent of sweet apples and earthy spices. “Dean?”

“Yeah,” the Alpha confirmed, smiling. “It’s me.”

“What in the name of the Good Lord Jesus are you doing here with my granddaughter?”

“Looking for you, Grammy,” Katherine said. “We’re blood-kin. Dean showed me how to do a summoning ritual.” Katherine cleared her throat. “We need to know if there’s something that survived the fire.”

“Normally, ghosts are tied to this world by their remains,” Dean explained. “But that can’t be you because your body burned in the fire. Something’s keeping you here.”

“Like what? Everything we had in the world was here.”

“Not everything.” Dean pursed his lips. “You’re a good person, Mrs. Fiedewa. You need to move on. You don’t belong here.”

“I don’t belong anywhere Billy isn’t,” Charlotte said, her heart breaking and crumbling to nothing. She could feel it now, the aching psychic wound of a broken bond. Broken? Torn out, uprooted.

“All right that’s enough,” Dean said, exasperated. “You’re an Omega, not a damn slave.”

“Language,” Charlotte chided. “In front of my granddaughter you will behave like a gentleman.”

Dean hung his head. “Yes ma’am.”

Charlotte looked more closely, at the promise of adult handsomeness fulfilled. Tall, broad shouldered, square jawed, those devastating green eyes. She wasn’t surprised to see Katherine sneaking looks from the corner of her eye. “Are you mated Dean?”

“No Mrs. Fiedewa.”

“When you find your Omega, you’ll understand.”

“Please Grammy,” Katherine said. “Can you think of anything? Like baby teeth or something with your DNA on it?”

Charlotte shook her head helplessly. Something in her was coming unstuck, like a house being swept away by a cold tide. “I . . . um . . .”

Moonlight winked over Katherine’s heart and Charlotte’s mind made the connection. “The locket,” she said, pointing at Katherine. “It belonged to my mother. She gave it to me when I had my first pups. It’s got a piece of my hair in the case.”

“That would do it.” Dean held out his hand.

Katherine covered the silver pendant with her hand. “This? You gave it to me when--”

“Katie-bye,” Charlotte said, “give Dean the locket. You don’t need it to know how much I love you. Billy’s waiting for me, and we’ll both be there when you come to us in Heaven.”

Tears spilling down her cheeks, Katherine took it off. She kissed it, and handed it to Dean. “I love you Grammy-ma.”

“I love you too baby,” Charlotte said. The world wavered and she could feel the desperation rising, the need for Alpha’s rescue and his caring and Billy--

Dean turned to a huge black car parked by the side of the road. He opened the trunk and, with an efficiency that spoke of long habit, built a small fire using a ceramic pot as a crucible.

“It’s okay. Go. Tell your dad and your uncles I love them,” Charlotte told Katherine. Weeping, Katherine left.

Fire on fire, the fire of her death and the fire as her spirit burned away. Charlotte held in her scream as she clung to Billy. She vanished with his name on her lips.

---

Dean held Kate as she sobbed. Hundreds of angry spirits under his belt, most of them so far beyond humanity it wasn’t right to think of them as people. This was different. This was known.

And Dean felt like a pissant piece of chickenshit.

She’s killed four people already, Dad had said as he loaded up the truck. Off on another case, one he insisted had to be done solo. Doesn’t matter how nice she was when she was alive.

He was right, of course. But still. This was different. Mrs. Fiedewa had been kind, even if Dean had . . . mixed feelings as to her kindness. The thought of her mate chastising her still made him angry. Wasn’t her fault he’d skipped out on the Alphas Only part of sex ed in fifth grade.

And yet, she’d burned away screaming his name.

“Thank you,” Kate sniffled, as she pulled herself together.

“Come on, I’ll take you home,” Dean said. He tried not to notice her shy glances, her mouthwatering scent. On top of being jailbait, hitting that would be just wrong.

Below his zipper certain parts made it known he’d have to hit something in the near future. Even the best suppressants couldn’t completely take away rut.

“Do you think she’s okay now?” Kate asked as Dean stopped a street over from her folks’ house.

“Yeah sure,” Dean said. “Mrs. Fiedewa was a good person. She’s in Heaven with your grandpa.”

Kate nodded. She leaned over and kissed Dean on the cheek. Then she opened the door and disappeared between two night-dark houses.

Picking up his phone, Dean hit one on the speed dial. “Dad. The granddaughter had a locket with a piece of hair in it. We torched it. The spirit’s gone. On my way to Leticia’s, she thinks she’s got a Rawhead in Vincennes.”

His eyes fell on the second option on the speed dial. “Don’t do it, Dean,” he muttered.

He did it anyway. “Hi, you’ve reached Sam Winchester’s cell phone. Leave your name and number and I’ll get back to you when I can.”

Dean smashed the Disconnect button, snapped the phone shut, and whipped it into the footwell. Oh that was awesome, maybe someday you’ll grow a pair and actually leave a message. Happy fucking birthday to me.

He sat there a long moment, Baby’s engine growling gently. “I need some booze, some sex, and about six hours of sleep,” he told the car. “In that order.”

---

AN2: Okay, one of the things I figured out when I was writing 'Detour' was I had things I wanted to say about ABO as a concept, and that kept being true after I finished it. So I got to working through what the first time “popping a knot” might actually be like, and how ABO dynamics might work as a system of privilege/marginalization. How it would work at keeping Omegas oppressed, how it poisons even loving relationships, how the system harms Alphas even while exalting them. I thought about how Dean’s early experiences with sex would shape his personality-- mistrust of The Way Things Are and rejection of what’s expected of him as an Alpha.

#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #john winchester #alpha dean winchester #alpha john winchester #original female character #original female omega character #original male character #original male alpha character #pre-series #weechesters #teenchesters #john winchester's a+ parenting #sam is a good bro #bj's fic library #AU #holler me home series

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“Desperate Measures” Part 4! A stand-off between humans and mutants turns deadly for one side and the consequences will have an impact for years to come!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #70——Subscription Variant

Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Mateus Santolouco (a) • Kevin Eastman (c)

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The senses-shattering conclusion of an action-packed story arc!

Variant cover by Chris Johnson!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #10

Sophie Campbell, Bobby Curnow (w) • Pablo Tunica, Sophie Campbell (a) • Freddie Williams II (c)

“Toad Baron’s Ball” Part 2! There’s seemingly no escape from Toad Baron’s reveries but Alopex and Nobody must find a way before the next guests arrive… Toad Baron’s immortal and deadly family!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #10—Subscription Variant

Sophie Campbell, Bobby Curnow (w) • Pablo Tunica, Sophie Campbell (a) • Pablo Tunica (c)

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Featuring a back-up story by Sophie Campbell!

Variant cover by Sophie Campbell!

24: Legacy—Rules of Engagement #2 (of 5)

Christopher Farnsworth (w) • Antonio Fuso (a) • Georges Jeanty (c)

The clock has been reset with 24: Legacy, and this limited series will explore the past of its new leading character, Eric Carter, who led the elite squad responsible for killing an infamous terrorist leader and, consequently, forced into hiding. But before he was a national hero and a wanted man, Carter learned the Rules of Engagement in the streets of Iraq and Washington, D.C., hoods.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

24: Legacy—Rules of Engagement #2 (of 5)—Subscription cover

Christopher Farnsworth (w) • Antonio Fuso (a) • Photo (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Based on the new hit iteration of the 24 franchise!

Executive produced by Manny Coto and Evan Katz, writers of the show!

Covers by Georges Jeanty (Serenity)!

Each issue will have a photo cover featuring the cast of the show!

Written by Christopher Farnsworth, journalist, screenwriter and the author of The President’s Vampire series.

The X-Files #14

Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • menton3 (c)

“Resistance,” Part 1 (of 4): Scully receives an invitation from Firas Ben-Brahim after months of silence, and she soon discovers the dark secrets he’s been keeping from her… and the rest of the world.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

The X-Files #14—Subscription Variant

Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • Photo (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Executive produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter!

Orphan Black: Deviations #3 (of 6)

Heli Kennedy (w) • Wayne Nichols (a) • Cat Staggs (c)

In a world where Sarah managed to save Beth from taking her own life! With this single twist of fate, the Clone Club comes together in a completely different manner and the mystery of Project LEDA unfolds in new, exiting ways! See all your favorite characters return in an all-new light!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Orphan Black: Deviations #3 (of 6)—Funko Toy Variant

Heli Kennedy (w) • Wayne Nichols (a) • Fico Ossio (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Find out what happens in a world… where Sarah saved Beth!

Ask your retailer about the papercraft covers!

Highlander: The American Dream #4 (of 5)

Brian Ruckley (w) • Andrea Mutti (a) • Francesco Gaston (c)

The cult-classic film’s triumphant return continues! The American Dream follows Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod as he clashes with powerful immortals from the American Civil War to 1950s Manhattan on an unstoppable march toward The Gathering, where the last of the immortals will duel to the death. And to the victor goes The Prize… and control over humanity’s destiny.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Highlander: The American Dream #4 (of 5)—Subscription Variant

Brian Ruckley (w) • Andrea Mutti (a) • Claudia Gironi (c)

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The cult phenomenon returns!

Written by Scottish fantasy novelist Brian Ruckley (The Godless World trilogy)!

Interior art by Andrea Mutti (Rebels)!

Subscription covers by Italian artist Claudia Gironi!

Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four World’s Greatest Artist’s Edition HC—SPOTLIGHT

Stan Lee (w) • Jack Kirby (a & c)

Jack Kirby was the undisputed King of Comics and IDW is proud to present the second Artist’s Edition focusing on his Fantastic Four work. And, even better, this collects his earlier, “twice up” art–Kirby-sized!!

This massive collection includes issues 33, 45, 47, and 60 of the Fantastic Four, plus a stellar gallery with many classic covers and incredible pages–if you are a Kirby fan, this is the Artist’s Edition you’ve been waiting for!!

HC • BW • $150.00 • 160 pages • 15” x 22” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-081-9

Advance solicited for July release!

Continuing our year-long celebration of Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday!

Featuring inks by Joe Sinnott, and others!

Box Office Poison Color Comics #5

Alex Robinson (w & a & c)

Ed finds that working for Irving Flavor turns out to be an acquired taste. And the secret origin of the Nightstalker… revealed!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.

Each issue will be presented in color for the very first time!

Real Science Adventures: The Flying She-Devils #2 (of 6)

Brian Clevinger (w) • Lo Baker (a) • Scott Wegener (c)

The Flying She-Devils get into a real adventure with science plus action! Hoo-boy! Golly-gee! Plus, the Sparrow infiltrates a top-secret Nazi weapon station. It all continues in this book!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Real Science Adventures #2 (of 6)—Subscription Variant

Brian Clevinger (w) • Lo Baker (a) • Tessa Stone (c)

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From the pages of Atomic Robo, the Flying She-Devils embark on a new daring adventure!

The spinoff story to the online sensation—in print for the first time!

Atomic Robo Presents Real Science Adventures, Vol. 1: The Billion Dollar Plot—CERTIFIED COOL

Brian Clevinger (w) • Erica Henderson (a & c)

In the aftermath of the financial panic of 1893, Nikola Tesla and the Centurions of Science are all that stand between the rule of law and a shadowy cabal of corrupt industrialists plotting to usurp the federal government of the United States. Featuring: Black Coats, Swamp Men, the vast pneumatic tube network of New York City, and tons of action tying it all together!

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages

“Atomic Robo is a property that is so special, so unique in its storytelling and approach to science, technology, and adventure, that I’m sure it will be around 50 years from now. Atomic Robo Presents Real Science Adventures is icing on the cake as it means even more Robo is in our lives.” –Major Spoilers

Advance solicited for June release!

Cosmic Scoundrels #4 (of 5)

Andy Suriano & Matt Chapman (w) • Andy Suriano (a & c)

It’s WEDDING BELLS for one of the Cosmic Scoundrels! Could this be the END for our space faring BACHELORS on the run–or the BEGINNING??

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Cosmic Scoundrels #4 (of 5)—Subscription Variant

Andy Suriano & Matt Chapman (w) • Andy Suriano (a) • Aaron Conley (c)

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Andy Suriano is an Emmy and Annie Award-winning artist who has worked on such iconic series as Samurai Jack and Star Wars: The Clone Wars!

Matt Chapman is a writer of Disney’s Gravity Falls and the co-creator of Disney XD’s Two More Eggs and Homestar Runner!

Amelia Cole Omnibus—CERTIFIED COOL

Adam P. Knave & D.J. Kirkbride (w) • Nick Brokenshire (a & c)

Magic do-gooder Amelia Cole travels between a world of science and a world of magic–until she’s trapped in a blended world where the mages reign over non-mages. Now she’s The Protector, and the responsibility to set things right is hers! She’ll take on social injustice as well as the occasional giant corgi and demon mugger, while an ancient darkness encroaches–one that threatens all three worlds! It’ll be up to Amelia, her magic pipe wrench, eight foot techno-golem Lemmy, and their strange and wonderful friends to protect everyone, save everything, and give hope to mage and non-mage alike! Collects all 30 issues!

TPB • FC • $39.99 • 500 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-899-1

Written by Eisner and Harvey award winners Adam P. Knave and D.J. Kirkbride.

Advance solicited for June release!

For the first time, every single issue of the critically acclaimed Amelia Cole series in one volume!

Saucer State #1 (of 6)—SPOTLIGHT

Paul Cornell (w) • Ryan Kelly (a & c)

She was abducted by aliens. Now she’s the President. She’s going to use the power of that office to find out what really happened. But will they let her? Saucer State is the sequel to and the conclusion of the Hugo Award nominated Saucer Country. It’s House of Cards does The X-Files. It’s a bulletin from the brightest timeline. She will break the world to find who hurt her. And new readers can start here.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Saucer State #1 (of 6)—Subscription Variant

Paul Cornell (w) • Ryan Kelly (a) • Jeffrey Veregge (c)

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Picks up where Saucer Country left off!

One of the very few mainstream comics to be nominated for SF’s prestigious Hugo Award!

Darkness Visible #4

Mike Carey & Arvind Ethan David (w) • Brendan Cahill (a & c)

When the demons came, humanity reluctantly learned to share the world with another sentient race. Eighty years later, this uneasy co-existence has spawned an endless terrorist conflict. This issue returns us to the present day where Aston and Rhak battle for control of Aston’s body!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Darkness Visible #4—Subscription Variant

Mike Carey & Arvind Ethan David (w) • Brendan Cahill (a) • Dave Kendall (c)

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From bestselling author and screenwriter Mike Carey (Unwritten, Lucifer, Girl with All the Gifts) and Arvind Ethan David (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) comes an all-new, original world of darkness and demons.

Variant cover by Dani Strips!

Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #8

Arvind Ethan David (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a & c)

Sally runs afoul of Hugo Friendkin and must rely on Dirk to come to her rescue! Featuring favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #8—Funko Toy Variant

Arvind Ethan David (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a) • Chris Fenoglio (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #8—Subscription Variant

Arvind Ethan David (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a) • Photo (c)

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The star of two (almost three) beloved Douglas Adams novels!

Written by executive producer of the TV series Arvind Ethan David!

Executive produced by Max Landis (Chronicle and Superman: American Alien), the writer of the BBC America TV series!

Variant cover by Robert Hack!

Helena Crash #3 (of 4)

Fabian Rangel, Jr. (w) • Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (a & c)

Having refused the White Demon’s request to take out her chief rival, Rojo, HELENA CRASH finds herself surrounded on all sides by sword wielding enemies. She’s in for one hell of a fight! When Hemingway is visited by Rojo’s goons, the stakes are raised and Helena can no longer remain neutral.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Helena Crash #3 (of 4)—Subscription Variant

Fabian Rangel, Jr. (w) • Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (a) • Chris Visions (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Don’t miss the subscription cover by Chris Visions (Scarlet Witch, Civil War II: Choosing Sides)!

Night Owl Society #2

James Venhaus (w) • Pius Bak (a & c)

The Night Owl Society, Chapter 2: An Owl Among the Ruins. Just as the team is hitting its stride, one member’s deadly secret threatens to tear the team apart.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Night Owl Society #2—Subscription Variant

James Venhaus (w) • Pius Bak (a & c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

John Byrne’s Stowaway to the Stars: The Ultimate Comic Art Poster Book—CERTIFIED COOL

John Byrne (a & c)

A beautiful oversized book of John Byrne’s new Stowaway coloring-book splash images, each beautifully detailed one presented here in oversize fashion and with all-new coloring by Leonard O’Grady! 16 lushly colored sci-fi images, all with perforated edges enabling fans to easily remove any images for framing!

SC • FC • $19.99 • 32 pages • 11” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-084-0

Starstruck: Old Proldiers Never Die #4 (of 6)

Elaine Lee (w) • Michael Kaluta (a & c)

Be careful what you ask for! Harry gets his answers, but those answers—and a nasty case of Guidenapping—send him on a new mission. Aided by Randall, and accompanied by his faithful droid, he walks right into Jimmy the Snout’s next breaking noos story: “Deranged Brigader, High on Life!”

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Completely new coloring, and 50% new art from Michael Kaluta over the course of the series!

Rip Kirby, Vol. 10

Fred Dickenson (w) • John Prentice (a & c)

The longest-running modern adventure strip continues in thirteen new stories starring the debonair private detective. Reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs, insuring that every daily will look even better than when it was first published in newspapers more than forty years ago. More than 800 sequential comics from April 27, 1970 to January 20, 1973.

HC • B&W • $49.99 • 296 pages • 11” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-922-6

Advance solicited for July release!

“John Prentice’s work is superb. He’s one of the few cartoonists who took an important strip by a great cartoonist and did it not only justice, but in some ways, was as good as–and in some cases better than–the originator.” –Tom De Haven, author of the Derby Dugan trilogy

Brutal Nature: Concrete Fury #3 (of 5)

Luciano Saracino (w) • Ariel Olivetti (a & c)

As the secrets of the shapeshifting mask continue to be uncovered, our heroes own history comes to the fore!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Brutal Nature: Concrete Fury #3 (of 5)—Subscription Variant

Luciano Saracino (w) • Ariel Olivetti (a & c)

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The beautifully painted story continues, featuring art by comics superstar Ariel Olivetti!

Kill Shakespeare – Past is Prologue: Juliet #3 (of 4)

Conor McCreery (w) • Corin Howell (a & c)

Juliet’s quest to avenge her mother’s death continues in a classic Shakespearean cocktail of mistaken identity, swordplay and betrayal. Spirited away to the Prodigal’s hidden camp, Juliet must fight to prove her worth to the rebels, only to be blindsided by the truth behind Othello’s violent past. Now Juliet must choose between the woman who can keep her safe and the killer-for-hire who promises her vengeance.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Kill Shakespeare – Past is Prologue: Juliet #3 (of 4)—Subscription Variant

Conor McCreery (w) • Corin Howell (a) • Simon Davis (c)

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Animal Noir #4 (of 4)

Izar Lunacek & Nejc Juren (w) • Izar Lunacek (a & c)

When one of Shasha’s wives goes missing during the annual Clan boss gathering, the Althing, Manny Diamond joins the search party to investigate. Did she run away or was she the victim of retaliation from a rival clan daring to break the Althing Peace?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Animal Noir #4 (of 4)—Subscription cover

Izar Lunacek & Nejc Juren (w) • Izar Lunacek (a) • Nick Pitarra (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Michael Recycle #3 (of 4)

Ellie Wharton (w) • Alexandra Colombo (a & c)

Michael is on a mission to save the plight of the Monarch Butterflies when their migration south from Canada to Mexico is threatened! Will Michael be able to change the fate of his fluttery friends? Find out in “Michael Recycle and the Monarch Butterflies!”

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Young readers who have enjoyed the Michael Recycle books and their eco-friendly messages can now thrill to more adventures in comic-book form!

Children are becoming more and more aware of the environment around them, and Michael’s green tips help them become responsible at an early age.

Alexandra Colombo’s charming art will captivate readers of all ages.

Powerpuff Girls: The Time Tie #1 (of 3)—SPOTLIGHT

Haley Mancini & Jake Goldman (w) • Philip Murphy (a & c)

Mojo Jojo has decided that because he can never destroy the Powerpuff Girls, he’ll do the next best thing: zap them into another time!!! He uses his patented “Time Tie” to blast the three little heroes back into three separate eras in the past. Can the girls find their way back to the present before Mojo can fulfill his mission: The complete destruction of Townsville!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Powerpuff Girls: The Time Tie #1 (of 3)—Subscription Variant

Haley Mancini & Jake Goldman (w) • Philip Murphy (a) • Jay Hasrajani (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Powerpuff Girls: The Time Tie #1 (of 3)—Funko Art Variant

Haley Mancini & Jake Goldman (w) • Philip Murphy (a) • Phil Murphy (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

The Powerpuff Girls are back in a brand-new three-issue series!

Each Powerpuff Girl travels to a different era and place in time in her own special issue!

Variant cover by Chad Thomas!

Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales, Vol. 2

Frank Reilly (w) • Jesse Marsh, Manuel Gonzales, Dick Moores (a & c)

Presenting classic Disney newspaper strip adaptations of the studio’s most famous films! From the Disney vaults–thirteen never-before reprinted Sunday comics adaptations of popular 1950s Disney animated and live-action features. Includes Davy Crockett, Sleeping Beauty, The Seven Dwarfs and the Witch-Queen, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Perri, Old Yeller, and The Shaggy Dog!

HC • FC • $49.99 • 220 pages • 12” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-908-0

Advance solicited for July release!

Donald Duck #20

Carlo Panaro, Unn and Stefan Printz-Påhlson, Jonathan Gray (w) • Andrea Freccero, Victor “Vicar” Arriagada Rios (a) • Michel Nadorp (c)

“Helmet of the Gods,” Part 1 of 2! Who says Scrooge McDuck gets all the treasure-hunting fun? Donald’s out to find a Viking helmet once owned by Odin himself!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Donald Duck #20—Subscription Variant

Carlo Panaro, Unn and Stefan Printz-Påhlson, Jonathan Gray (w) • Andrea Freccero, Victor “Vicar” Arriagada Rios (a) • Andrea Freccero (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Donald Duck #20—Funko Art Variant

Carlo Panaro, Unn and Stefan Printz-Påhlson, Jonathan Gray (w) • Andrea Freccero, Victor “Vicar” Arriagada Rios (a) • Marco Mazzarello (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Starting a new Donald Duck epic with top talents at the helm—artist Andrea Freccero (Donald Quest) and dialogue writer Jonathan Gray (Sonic the Hedgehog)!

Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #387!

Variant cover by Marco Gervasio!

Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3

Guido Martina, Romano Scarpa, Lars Jensen, Mark Shaw, Laura Shaw, Flemming Anderson (w & a) • Walt Kelly (c)

“Wak! Screech!” IDW’s Donald Duck #13–18 come together in a collectors’ hardback so amazing Donald can’t believe it himself–but he’s always a skeptic! The epic adventure “The Big Sneeze,” two outrageous cryptic hunts with the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats–even Donald’s second-ever star turn as Duck Avenger are all here. And wait till you see who lies dreaming in the city of Sp’too, deep under the sea. With stories co-starring Uncle Scrooge, Gladstone, and Fethry, and extras for true Disney Comics aficionados, this Donald omnibus provides hours of history and thrills.

HC • FC • $29.99 • 256 pages • 7.25” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-911-0

The best Disney stories from their international vault, imported and translated especially for North American audiences!

Advance solicited for July release!

Mickey Mouse #20

Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Thad Komorowski, Noel Van Horn (w) • Massimo De Vita, Noel Van Horn (a) • Jonathan Gray (c)

“The Magnificent Doublejoke,” Part 2 of 2! When trollish crimefighter Doublejoke turns crook himself, it’s up to Mickey to take him down! Then Mickey battles a very evil fanboy in “The Mouse Collector!”

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Mickey Mouse #20—Subscription Variant

Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Thad Komorowski, Noel Van Horn (w) • Massimo De Vita, Noel Van Horn (a) • Marco Ghiglione (c)

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Mickey Mouse #20—Funko Art Variant

Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Thad Komorowski, Noel Van Horn (w) • Massimo De Vita, Noel Van Horn (a) • Marco Gervasio (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Fan favorite Noel Van Horn returns with an amazing new-to-USA Mickey mystery!

Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #329!

Variant cover by Massimo Asaro!

Uncle Scrooge #26

Michelle Gazzarri, Jonathan Gray (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano (a/c)

“The Villainous Vase Case!” Who do the Beagle Boys rob when they’re not robbing Scrooge McDuck? Playboy tycoon John D. Rockerduck, of course—so why is Scrooge taking the blame?

FC • 40 pages • $3.99

Uncle Scrooge #26—Subscription Variant

Michelle Gazzarri, Jonathan Gray (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano (a) • Daniel Branca (c)

FC • 40 pages • $3.99

Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #430!

It’s the U.S. debut of a classic Silver Age tale from the great Giorgio Cavazzano!

Variant cover by Marco Mazzarello!

Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #738

Las Jensen, Byron Erickson (w) • Paco Rodriguez, Cèsar Ferioli, Daan Jippes (a) • Andrea Freccero (c)

“One Lucky Break”: Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one but Donald Duck— so why is he suddenly even luckier than über-annoying Gladstone Gander? Then Mickey fights his own inner demons in “The Importance of Being Goofy!”

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #738—Subscription Variant

Las Jensen, Byron Erickson (w) • Paco Rodriguez, Cèsar Ferioli, Daan Jippes (a) • Daan Jippes (c)

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Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #738—Funko Art Variant

Las Jensen, Byron Erickson (w) • Paco Rodriguez, Cèsar Ferioli, Daan Jippes (a) • Fabrizio Petrossi (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Variant cover by Fabrizio Petrossi!

My Little Pony: Legends of Magic #2

Jeremy Whitley (w) • Brenda Hickey (a & c)

The legendary Rockhoof is the strongest pony in the realm! But is he strong enough to stop the mighty magma creatures that live inside a volcano?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

My Little Pony: Legends of Magic #2 Subscription Variant

Jeremy Whitley (w) • Brenda Hickey (a) • Zachery Sterling (c)

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The secret history of some of Equestria’s most legendary ponies!

Variant cover by Caytlin Vilbrandt!

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #54

Rob Anderson (w) • Jay Fosgitt (a & c)

When Fluttershy is summoned away, it’s up to Angel bunny to keep the animal sanctuary running. Will his bossy management style backfire when the other animals refuse to cooperate?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #54—Subscription Variant

Rob Anderson (w) • Jay Fosgitt (a) • Sara Richard (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Animal antics and critter chaos!

Variant cover by Jennifer L. Meyer!

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Vol. 12

Ted Anderson (w) • Andy Price (a & c)

The craziest, most epic MLP story yet! Multiple versions of ponies are springing up around town and strange new beasts stalk the land as an orb of energy grows larger in the sky. Twilight and the Princesses have no answers… but Discord might in “Chaos Theory!” Collects issues #48–53.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 136 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-903-5

Advance solicited for June release!

My Little Pony: Twilight’s Kingdom

Meghan McCarthy (w) • Various (a & c)

The celebrated animated series comes to bookshelves! Revisit the habitants of Equestria and learn about the magic that friendship brings in this adaptation of the television series. This volume adapts the two-part “Twilight’s Kingdom!”

TPB • FC • $12.99 • 144 pages • 5” x 7” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-064-2

Advance solicited for June release!

Beloved My Little Pony animated episodes adapted for comic shelves!

Yo-Kai Watch #2

Eric M. Esquivel (w) • Tina Franscisco (a) • Dono Sanchez Almara (c)

You’ve played the videogames, watched the cartoons, chewed the bubblegum— now travel deeper into the Yo-Kai realm than ever before with this miniseries that explores the past, present, and future of the world of YO-KAI WATCH! Fur flies when fan-favorite feline JIBANYAN pits his claws against the sinister Snartle’s steel!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Yo-Kai Watch #2—Subscription Variant

Eric M. Esquivel (w) • Tina Franscisco (a) • Philip Murphy (c)

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All-new, full color comic books based on this coming year’s hottest Anime and video game!

Angry Birds: Game Play #3 (of 6)

Paul Tobin (w) • Cèsar Ferioli & Various (a) • Ciro Cangiolosi (c)

Angry Birds return to the classics! Eisner-award winning writer, Paul Tobin, pens a feathered spin on time-honored tales including “Minion Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Angry Birds: Game Play #3 (of 6)—Subscription cover

Paul Tobin (w) • Cèsar Ferioli & Various (a) • Paco Rodriquez (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Fresh off the successful launch of the new app, these stories focus on the fun and magic surrounding one of the world’s most popular and well recognized game properties!

Popeye Classics #58

Bud Sagendorf (w & a & c)

Collector’s Alert: GORILLA COVER! And wait until you see the hilarious and adventurous story inside, “Popeye in Queen of the Gorillas.” Plus, classic comics guest-starring Wimpy, Swee’pea, Olive Oyl, Sea Hag, O.G. Wotasnozzle…and the Queen of Gorillas!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Variant cover by Raul Gonzalez III!

Mummies!: Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics—CERTIFIED COOL

Steve Banes, Craig Yoe (w) • Bob Powell, Harry Lazarus, & more (a) • Tony Mortellaro (c)

Movie mummies will soon be terrorizing theater goers! Now, from the boils and ghoul who bring you Haunted Horror, scream with delight over these stories unleashed from Pre-Code horror comics. SEE! The brutal attack of “The Living Mummies!” SENSE! The strangest “Case of the Beckoning Mummy!” FEEL! As “The Unburied Mummy” intensifies its powerful grip upon your puny throat! And there’s a tomb-full more! PLUS! A crumbling gallery of classic mummy comic book covers, and spine-tingling guest appearances by Frankenstein’s Monster and Charlie Chan! You’ll be screaming for your mommy as MUMMIES! shamble into your trembling hands!

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages • 7” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-995-0

The Mummy starring Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe will release June 9, 2017.

Advance solicited for June release!

Weird Love #18

Various (w & a) • Iger and Roche Shop (c)

Weird Love’s weirdest—and kinkiest—issue yet! The cover story is Pre-Code bizarreness with “So This Is Love!” Plus, “Swinger,” “My Secret Betrayed,” and more lurid and looney tales of depraved and demented LOL romance!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Drawing and Life Lessons from Master Cartoonists—SPOTLIGHT

Charles Schulz, Joe Shuster, Milton Caniff, E.C. Segar (w & a) • Various (c)

An unparalleled book, the very first of its kind! Taken from uber-rare, never-before reprinted cartooning courses with expert teachings from cartooning’s rock stars: Peanuts’ Charles Schulz, Little Nemo’s Winsor McCay, Superman’s Joe Shuster, Flash Gordon’s Alex Raymond, Terry and the Pirates’ Milton Caniff, The New Yorker’s Whitney Darrow, Jr., Betty and Veronica’s Dan DeCarlo, Prince Valiant’s Hal Foster, Barney Google’s Billy Debeck, Plastic Man’s Jack Cole, Gasoline Alley’s Frank King, Popeye’s E.C. Segar, and many more icons of comic art.

These esteemed geniuses act as life coaches with inspiring stories of how they succeeded and give stirring and wise encouragement to propel you to your own success. For beginners, seasoned professionals, teachers, students in school classes hungry to learn, and even those that are passionate about comics history, this will be an invaluable classic in the field.

HC • FC • $49.99 • 288 pages • 8.5” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-904-2

The Who’s Who of Cartooning Greats teach page after page of eye-opening beginner and advanced lessons on how to draw and write comics.

Advance solicited for July release!

Samaris—CERTIFIED COOL

Benoît Peeters (w) • François Schuiten (a & c)

Samaris is the first volume of the chronicles of The Obscure Cities, published as a graphic novel in 1983 in French and published for the first time in English in 1987 as The Great Walls of Samaris.

This edition, marking the 30th anniversary of the original English language publication, features an expanded main story, an all-new creator-approved translation, and new coloring. The book also contains the never before published-in-English “THE MYSTERIES OF PAHRY,” a THE OBSCURE CITIES story, originally published in four parts, three in the French comics magazine, A Suivre, from 1987 through 1989, and in the December 1994 issue of Macadam-plus.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 96 pages • 8.5” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-942-4

Advance solicited for June release!

“The Walls of Samaris begins the series with a volume that revolves around a metaphor for the medium itself, one with art historical roots–roots the series will continue to explore. It’s a metaphor for comics that’s intimately tied to Schuiten’s style, which has come to define the series. And it’s perhaps the most ambitious idea in a book–and a series–defined by ambition.” –Sequart.org

Purrrlock Holmes: Furriarty’s Trail Game

Stephen Sauer (design ) Jacqui Davis (a)

Furriarty is terrorizing London and he must be stopped before he completes his plans and escapes! As a newly inducted Inspector at Scotland Pound, it’s up to you to bust members of Furriarty’s gang in order to get closer to the bewhiskered baddie that’s been bullying all of Baker Street. Get ready detective, this case is officially afoot (or a paw, if you will).

Price $24.99

20-30 minutes

2-5 players

Players for ages 10+

Random Encounter: Seas of the Sea Chicken

Jamie Keddie (design & a & c)

Yaarrrr! Bwaaaakkk!? Your favorite eight-bit brawler is back with a stand-alone sequel, Random Encounter: Seas Of The Sea Chicken! Enjoy all-new mechanics that are fully backward compatible with the first game. In this 1-5 player game you’ll either raid your friends or adventure alone in a rocking, rollicking rumble for loot. Part poker, part tactical combat, Random Encounter: Seas of the Sea Chicken pits players against each other in a battle of bravery and bluffing. Deploy your adventurers into teams, and send them to battle against unknown enemies, all while protecting your preciously won pile of loot. And beware, even one misplayed card could turn the tides in this questing card game.

Price $19.99

20 minutes of loot-hunting fun!

1-5 players

Players for ages 10+

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