Spanish writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH is best knownfor his ongoing, extensive work with DC Comics on Batman, Catwoman, and HarleyQuinn and has worked as an artist on several graphic novels including theEnglish editions of Monika with Titan Comics and The Dream with Europe Comics.Here, he takes up his pen for an edgy new volume about a highly unconventionalangel named Karmen and the young woman she takes under her wing when a case ofheartbreak strikes hard. Packed with surprises and metaphysics, this gorgeouslydrawn series deploys tenderness and humor as it dives deep into topics thatmatter. Collects KARMEN#1-5.

With only a couple of weeks until school starts, Karmen decides she wants to see her grandparents, but they arent coming until Christmas. Its too far to travel to their house in Missouri right now, so she decides to make a time-travel machine and have Christmas early at her house. After finding the materials she needs in her house, she begins her work. She cant believe it when the time machine actually works. Karmens Khristmas is in for many surprises. That is why she calls it Karmens Krazy Khristmas. All the relatives come as well as cold weather, ice, and snow. This weather is very unusual for Houston, Texas. The cousins decide on a snowball fight. Karmen and Allison find a way to make colored snowballs. They are very surprised to find out what happens to Emily and Christopher when the snowballs hit them. Karmens parents leave it up to her to figure out how to solve the problem. Being the clever person she is, she finds a way.

Spanish writer and artist GUILLEM MARCH, best known for his work on Batman, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn, takes up his pen for a cutting-edge story about a highly unconventional angel named Karmen and the young woman she takes under her wing when heartbreak strikes too hard. Packed with intriguing twists and metaphysical musings, this gorgeously drawn series brings tenderness, heart, and humor to the delicate and difficult matters of life and death that we all face. Collects KARMEN #1-5

Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a local and a national context for New York's plunging crime rate, Karmen tests and debunks the many self-serving explanations for the decline. While crediting a more effective police force for its efforts, Karmen also emphasizes the decline of the crack epidemic, skyrocketing incarceration rates, favorable demographic trends, a healthy economy, an influx of hard working and law abiding immigrants, a rise in college enrollment, and an unexpected outbreak of improved behavior by young men growing up in poverty stricken neighborhoods. New York Murder Mystery is the most authoritative study to date of why crime rates rise and fall.

In this second issue, Cata explores her newfound ability to fly, landing at a plaza in Palma where real-life Xisco and Cata are having a conversation that plunges her further into the depths of despair. When an ever-cheeky Karmen pops in to intervene, she and Cata sit down for a philosophical heart-to-heart.

Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, "updating" both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation.

After the prior unsettling discovery, Cata continues her journey over the city. She will have an unexpected encounter that will bring more clues about her current condition. GUILLEM MARCH continues to amaze with spectacular storytelling in the third chapter of his moving creation.