seconds a graphic novel

A broke Filipino grocery worker survives a hit-and-run and wakes up with three seconds of foresight. To pay the hospital bill and keep his family fed, he sets out to bankrupt the casinos of Asia — slowly, quietly, one nosebleed at a time. But every second he spends is a second of his life, and somewhere out there, someone is keeping a list of people like him.Premise (back-of-book pitch): Aaron Reyes is twenty-three, a business graduate with no business prospects, working the graveyard shift at a 24-hour grocery in Quezon City. His father builds for other people. His mother washes other people's dishes. His baby brother is teething through nights nobody can afford. Then a car runs a red light, and Aaron wakes up in a hospital bed seeing the nurse walk through the door three seconds before she actually does. The gift is small. Three seconds. A nosebleed for every glimpse, a few seconds banked each day for later use. Useless for almost everything in life — except one thing: a casino card laid face down.

Betrayed by his partner and killed in the line of duty, Sub-Inspector Benedict Holstan wakes up in the body of a 5-year-old "useless" noble. Cast aside by his father and left to rot in an abandoned manor, Caelum Valtheron spends years studying ancient grimoires, waiting for his moment. When he enters the Royal Academy, the world expects a failure. Instead, they get a powerhouse. As the only student accepted into both the Knight and Magic programs, Caelum catches the eye of the second Prince, Elias. But Elias carries a dark secret, a poison that kills in 300 seconds without a willing sacrifice. Caelum has the magic to stall the clock. But in a world of political betrayal that mirrors the one that killed him, can he solve the mystery of the poison before time runs out for them both?

Time waits for no one. This a phrase that most of us have been hearing since our childhood but who would have guessed that an exception to this rule would also exist? In a world, where humans are fighting a battle of attrition against extraterrestrials, Andrey, a 17-year-old boy with not much to show for himself except his above-average grades gains a supernatural ability related to time. How would he use it? What will he encounter in his long and arduous journey? Stay tuned for the answers.

In a world ruled by strength, dungeons, and awakened abilities, 16-year-old Kairo is mocked as an E-Rank—the lowest of the low. His only power? Vaultspace: a mysterious dimension where ten days pass for every second in the real world. Useless, they called it. But they were wrong. Inside Vaultspace, time is Kairo’s weapon. With no trainers, no shortcuts, and no applause, he begins the impossible training alone in a timeless void, punching through his limits one second at a time. As the outside world blazes with rising threats, legendary hunters, and ancient awakenings, Kairo quietly prepares to shatter fate itself. This is not the story of a chosen one. It’s the story of a boy who *chose* to become legendary.

Rafael Iskandar thought Pulau Berangan was just a quiet island where gossip travelled faster than the ferry. Then the world stopped breathing. Everyone froze. The sea stopped. The wind vanished. Only Rafael could move. At first, he thought he was alone inside the silence between seconds. Then the things from old ghost stories started moving too. Toyol. Penanggal. Pontianak. Shadows that did not belong to their bodies. With his chaotic friends Amir and Farisha, and a tired engineer named Farhan who definitely knows more than he admits, Rafael begins uncovering the truth behind the frozen world, the entity disturbances, and the secret organisation

Lucas Vale can freeze time—but he can’t escape it. What began as a teenage-panic miracle has become an adrenaline addiction: five-minute “chrono-pauses,” razor-fine telekinesis, and surface-thought telepathy that let Lucas walk between the seconds and nudge fate for fun … or profit. But when a casino heist in Macau lights up surveillance feeds around the world, the hunter becomes the hunted. Enter the Curators, a shadow syndicate armed with anti-chrono tech and a chilling ultimatum: join, vanish, or be dissected. Hot on their heels is Mason Graves, a loss-prevention legend who collects frame-skip anomalies the way other people collect grudges. Fleeing Perth rooftops, neon Macau lounges and Vatican vaults, Lucas allies with sharp-eyed journalist Serena Kaur and a growing cadre of newly awakened “Potentials” who can bend reality in their own startling ways. Every pause now exacts a heavier toll—migraines, moral debts, and a ticking directive that demands he wield his power for more than boredom or greed. With global manhunts closing in and entire timelines at stake, Lucas must decide: will he become the Curators’ next trophy, or the architect of a new code that protects every heartbeat he stills? High-velocity, globe-trotting, and pulsing with ethical intrigue, Between the Seconds is a cinematic thriller about the cost of stolen moments and the courage it takes to let time flow again.

There exists a reality where Ling Yun is dead. However, the world of swift swords and strange beasts he was reborn in will never see such a reality because Ling Yun would always revive 30 seconds into the past to ensure he didn't make the same deadly mistake that cost him his life. As such… people were misled into thinking he was invincible! This caused more challengers to arrive and kill him. Eventually, Ling Yun had died so much he had mastered every single way he could possibly kill someone by stealing the ideas from the very people who killed him. "If you kill me, I will kill you 30 seconds before you kill me!"

After accidentally falling off a cliff, Faye Yardley finds herself transmigrated into a male-oriented sea survival novel she had read. Not wanting to become the cannon fodder character who shares her name, and determined to ensure her brother survives, she resolves to clear this sea survival game and leave the game world alive.

In her past life, Tang Mo accidentally lost her own Space Jade Pendant when the apocalypse began, losing her biggest golden finger. Afterwards, her superpower training went awry, she lost her loved ones, suffered from ostracization, and utterly ruined the good hand she was dealt, ultimately dying at the mouths of mutant beasts. Opening her eyes again, Tang Mo was reborn one week before the start of the apocalypse. None of the tragedies has happened yet! How will she seize the opportunity and walk her own path to becoming a powerful figure in the apocalypse?

The renowned powerhouse of the Space-Time Administration Bureau, Sister Yun, frantically accumulated points for an early retirement. After accepting a mission for a supporting female character's counterattack, she made the male and female leads cry with anger! Sister Yun's famous quote: A supporting female character who doesn't make the male and female leads cry with anger is not worthy of retiring~ The First World: The Humble and Long-Suffering Wife of a Bygone Era After transmigrating into the role of the original, long-suffering wife, she not only broke up the officially designated couple but also stole the male and female leads' Golden Finger, making a fortune by hoarding goods. The Second World: The Fair, Rich, and Beautiful Fake Heiress of a Bygone Era Tragically Becomes Cannon Fodder As the beautiful-as-a-flower cannon fodder fake heiress, after latching onto the supporting male lead, she lived a delightful life~ The Third World: The Devoted Supporting Female Character in a Historical Era Novel After transmigrating into the role of a hopelessly devoted supporting female character, she had a change of personality, dumped the heartless male lead, returned to the city to flirt with the supporting male lead, and found it so satisfying~