Can’t-Wait Wednesday – 1/17/18

Release Date: January 23, 2018
Reading Level: Young Adult
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN-13: 978-1632365491

A century after a scholar made a deal with a devil in exchange for eternal life, the story of Faust has passed into legend. But the real Faust is not a stuffy professorial man, but a woman, still on the run with her homunculus servant. When the magnetic, bespectacled woman passes through a provincial town, she adds a young orphan named Marion, looking for an escape, to her group. The next stop: A church basement, where a disembodied demon’s arm lies sealed away, and an officer of the Inquisition name Lorenzo waits to spring a trap for the blasphemer…