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We have a new poll on the website today: "Following Palestine and Ghost World, what should get the Special Edition treatment next?" Will your vote help a book idea become reality? Who knows! Look in the right column on Flog or our home page for the poll module and cast your vote. And click here for the results of our previous poll, "Which is your favorite of Jason's recent books?" It was a pretty close race!

Scheduled to arrive in comic shops across the U.S. today, a few of our most eagerly-anticipated titles of the year: • The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 (Vol. 10) by Charles M. Schulz• Ghost World: Special Edition by Daniel Clowes• Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham As usual, you can read up on the books and check out our multimedia previews before you make the trip to your shop of choice by clicking the links above.

Two can play at this game. (Created without Tim's permission, but somehow I don't think he'll mind.)

Our own Eric Reynolds recently posted some nice photos of our glamorous office on his Flickr page. Behold! (Above: our library.)

Castle Waiting Vol. II #12 By Linda Medley This is the long-awaited special all-bowling issue, as Henry, Dayne, Chess, Tolly, Peace and Simon wage an all-out ninepin war… and it turns out one of them has heretofore unsuspected bowling skills! Like all good sports competitions it's a high-stakes battle to the very last frame. Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, Dinah and Jain pull out more and more dresses from the bottomless trunk and use a not-terribly-resistant Rackham to model them. All this, plus conjectures about what the heck's going on with the mysterious, elusive, and somewhat sinister Dr. Fell. 24-page…

This week's book buzz from blogs and beyond: • The Forager Blog takes a concise look at You Can't Get There from Here by Jason (via Sean T. Collins) • Jan Stephens looks at Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman • ComicList reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell; also, Four Realities reprints Dave Sim's review of the book from Ditkomania • Bust is "so beyond excited" for the release of Ghost World: Special Edition by Dan Clowes; Brazilian blog Suburbana plugs the book in Portugese • Sean T. Collins on Jason's Pocket Full…

As promised, here's an advance look at the new upcoming 12th issue of Linda Medley's Castle Waiting Vol. II, the long-awaited bowling issue! It's in stores now and if all goes well we should have it in stock here on the website next week. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

Time for a new installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. In this week's episode: a change of scene. Also, Steven says "I've already redrawn the first panel, but I'll leave it like this for whomever wants to see it this week." Oo, exclusive outtake deleted bonus scene! (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

The following books are now available for pre-order! Click the cover images for more info about each book. And of course we'll be bringing you previews as the release dates get closer. All are expected to arrive between now and the end of October. For more, see our Upcoming Arrivals page. (Coincidentally, today is Joe Kubert's 82nd birthday!) And new editions of these out-of-print books by Jason:

Just one new title from us scheduled to arrive at comic shops today: • Castle Waiting Vol. II #12 by Linda Medley This is a rare instance of a title arriving in stores before we receive it ourselves, so head on down to your local store and snap it up! (Also, we haven't had a chance to upload the preview for this issue yet, but it's coming soon.)