Canto Volume 5: A Place Like Home

Canto Volume 5: A Place Like Home

About the Book

The Shrouded Man Saga concludes in a climactic battle for the fate of the Unnamed World! The brave clockwork soldier, CANTO, must face the powerful tyrant and return his real heart.

Join Eisner- and GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer David M. Booher (Ghostbusters, Dungeons & Dragons) and fan-favorite artist Drew Zucker (The House, Godzilla Monster-verse) as they bring this beloved comics fantasy epic to its thrilling conclusion.


Before Canto’s journey began, his people had been enslaved, forbidden to have names or to love one another, their hearts taken and replaced with clocks. When Canto secretly fell in love with a clockwork girl, the slavers damaged her clock as punishment. Canto embarked on a fantastical quest to save her. He faced the evil sorcerer known as the Shrouded Man, only to learn there were no hearts left to repair his love. The vile wizard had destroyed them. Not all was lost, though. Returning home, Canto learned his people had taken courage from his quest and had overthrown their captors. Canto may not have saved his beloved, but his people were now free. 

Such precarious freedom did not last. The Shrouded Man struck again, pushing Canto on a new quest to protect his people. Canto traded his own clock to carry the ultimate weapon against the Shrouded Man—the wizard’s own heart! Now, the final battle against tyranny looms. With new allies and a weapon to save all of the Unnamed World, Canto will stand tall with all the allies he’s gathered and face his evil foe one last time.

Collects Canto: A Place Like Home #1–#6.
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Praise for Canto Volume 5: A Place Like Home

“Canto is not to be missed.”−The Nerdist

“The creative team of Canto has found a way to portray a universe of actual darkness where the ultimate act of heroism is to find a way for a heart to be found.”−Gabriel Rodríguez, co-creator of Locke and Key

“I had admittedly set some rather high expectations but I still wasn’t prepared for how hard this hit me in the feels. To have evoked so much emotion in such a short space of time is no easy feat. I’m not saying this will have you welling up, but if it doesn’t at least stir you, maybe you’ve had your heart replaced too.”−Big Comic Page

“Dark and magical with a glowing heart of gold. If The Wizard of Oz and Labyrinth gave birth to a hero, it would be Canto.”−Delilah S. Dawson (Star Wars: Phasma, Marvel Action: Spider-Man)

“A gorgeously illustrated epic.”−Comic Week

“A comic…steadily creating a modern heroic myth.”−ComicCrusaders

“The next great fantasy epic.”−Comicon.com
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Canto Series

Canto Volume 5: A Place Like Home
Canto Volume 4: Lionhearted
Canto Volume 3: Tales of the Unnamed World (Canto and the City of Giants)
Canto Volume 2: The Hollow Men
Canto Volume 1: If I Only Had a Heart

About the Author

David M. Booher
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Drew Zucker
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Vittorio Astone
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DC Hopkins
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