Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Action Comics #879
Agents Of Atlas #8
Air #11
All Select Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special
Amazing Spider-Man #599 DKR
Annihilation Classic TP
Astro City The Dark Age TP Book 1
Batman Streets Of Gotham #2
Blackest Night #1 (Of 8)
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #1 (Of 3)
Brave And The Bold #25
Buck Rogers #2
Captain America #601
Citizen Rex #1 (Of 6)
Creepy Comics #1
Dark Avengers #7 DAX
Dark Reign Mister Negative #2 (Of 3) DKR
Dead At 17 Afterbirth #2 (Of 4)
Dead Space Extraction One-Shot
Deadpool #12 DKR
Deadpool Suicide Kings #1 - 3 (Of 5) 2nd Ptg
DMZ #43
Doctor Doom TP Masters Of Evil GN
Essential Marvel Two-In-One TP Vol 3
Fables #1 Peter & Max Preview
Fables #86
Farscape D'argo's Lament #4 (Of 4)
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape #3 (Of 6)
Franklin Richards School's Out
Gemini #4 (Of 5)
Incognito #5
Iron Man Armored Adventures
JSA Vs Kobra #2 (Of 6)
Light Brigade TP New Ptg
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers #3 (Of 4)
Madame Xanadu TP Vol 1 Disenchanted
Marvel Adventures Avengers #38
Mighty Avengers #27
New Mutants #3
Olympus #3 (Of 6)
Punisher #7
RASL #5
Scalped #30
Sherlock Holmes #3 (Of 5)
Simpsons Comics #156
Soulfire New World Order #3 (Of 5)
Star Wars Clone Wars #7
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #43 Reaping Pt 1 (Of 2)
Super Friends #17
Super Friends Calling All Super Friends TP
Superman Batman #62
Thor & Hercules Encyclopedia Mythologica
Timestorm 2009 2099 #3 (Of 4)
Titans #15 BN
Unknown #3 (Of 4)
Unthinkable #3 (Of 4)
Vigilante #8
Walking Dead #63
Wednesday Comics #2 (Of 12)
World Of Warcraft #21
X-Factor #46
Young Liars #17
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Due to Arrive 16/07/09
The Gosh! Authority 08/07/09
Big news this week is DC’s Wednesday Comics which you’ve probably already heard of because seemingly everybody’s on about it including us in this post from the past. DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello’s previous good ideas include the likes of Batman: Black & White, eternal Gosh! Favourite DC: The New Frontier and Solo so this one’s destined to be a good’un. In a throwback to the old Sunday strips of the 1930’s this weekly comic – out on Wednesdays in the States (hence the name) and Thursdays in the UK (they never asked us) – is 16-pages long, a sprawling 28”x20”(twice folded), all in full-colour newsprint with not one bit of filler – just the best names in comics writing and drawing the characters they picked themselves. Each issue has one page of each story. Nat says he’s going to read it on the tube dressed up like an absurd city gent. And so should you.
Even bigger news is David Mazzuchelli’s return to comics after a fifteen year absence! Asterios Polyp is the best looking book in a very long time and only got shunted off to the second paragraph because I mentioned it late last week in this post (with pictures etc stolen from the lovely Paul Gravett) on account of it having an exclusive Gosh! Signed Bookplate pressed between its pages. In fact, we’ve got bookplates coming out the wazoo so check here to make sure you haven’t missed any.
The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora is the third in Fantagraphics’ collection of incredibly strange and highly lauded Floriana (the previous being and The Mischievous Art of Jim FloraThe Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, both of which are currently sat side by side in the Gosh! basement).
This volume’s packed full of (mostly) never before published or exhibited paintings, drawings and sketches from the 40s through to the 90s, plus more of the 40s/50s record covers for which he is best known. There’s even a kids’ book he abandoned called The X-Ray Eye of Wallingford Hume.
Then there’s Jeff Smith’s RASL: The Drift in a deluxe hardcover collectors edition featuring the first three issues of the sell-out series plus 16 new pages of Stuff: concept sketches, script pages and bonus artwork, all of it topped off with a swanky ribbon bookmark and Jeff Smith’s autograph. Only a couple of thousand of these will ever be printed so I suggest you nab one now if it takes your fancy.
Another big though probably not so limited hardcover is Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume 1 by the very funny Michael Kupperman who twitters as much if not more than Graham Linehan, who says on the back: “Seriously, go to your local comics shop and buy this. In fact, buy everything Michael Kupperman's ever done. Not only is he hysterical, he's a major influence on my comedy.” This volume collects the first four thrizzling issues now in full colour so if you ever end up in a lift with Linehan or Kupperman you’ve got something to talk about.
Alan Moore’s Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? has been out of print for a bit but it’s back this week in deluxe hardcover along with some other stuff. 
The original two-parter illustrated by Curt Swan is here, plus Moore and Dave Gibbons’ For the Man Who Has Everything from 1985’s Action Comics Annual #11 and Moore/Rick Veitch’s Superman-meets-Swamp-Thing story from DC Comics Presents #85. They’ve never been in this format before nor have they been stuck together like this in one shiny volume.
Brian Fies won an Eisner for his autobiographical webcomic Mom’s Cancer back in 2005. It was a story about his mother’s battle with lung cancer (obviously) but he rather miraculously managed to do it in a way that wasn’t maudlin or sappy. His latest book Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is about a father, a son, American Progress and our current lack of silver spacesuits.
“As a child of the Space Age, I’ve always had a deep passion for the space program and science in general, and often reflect on what happened to the sense of can-do optimism I remember people having when I was a kid. I wanted to write about that: how the mood of society changed from optimistic and a bit naïve to pessimistic and cynical. I grew up in a time when people thought science and technology could make tomorrow better than today…” (more)
Peter Bagge’s colourful comments on the state of the world today could be found for several years in Reason, ‘the magazine of free minds and free markets’. This week it’s collected in one insane-looking volume brilliantly titled Everybody is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations. You’ll be getting your money’s worth here – he’s crammed in opinions on everything from nanny-state meddling to household bazookas.
You should also grab the thirteenth and final 100 Bullets trade-paperback by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso so you’ve got something to read between your weekly Wednesday Comics fix. Much like the last episode of Sopranos, everyone had something to say about the last issue. Check reviews here and here but I’ll warn you now there’ll be spoilers. “The only thing wrong with this final issue of ‘100 Bullets’ is that it means there will never be another one like it.”
Garth Ennis and Jimmy Palmiotti’s controversial crime thriller Back to Brooklyn is out in trade this week collecting all five issues of the miniseries. When they came up with the idea in a bar one night they wanted it to be like a fourth Die Hard movie. Is it? If you’ve been waiting for the trade now’s your chance to find out.
From the artists that brought you Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampire, Umbrella Academy and Casanova comes Pixu Volume 1: Mark of Evil – that’s Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon. It’s a horror story set in an apartment block all done in dark inky artwork you can see here and an interview with everyone involved here. When it first appeared there were only 1000 copies of each issue in the world. Let the collectors fight over those and grab yourself one of these.
Speaking of Ba and Moon, BPRD 1947 #1 (of 5) is illustrated by them, written by Joshua Dysart and Mike Mignola and out this week! There’s a preview here. Other new comics include The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft #3 with art by the rarely-seen Tony Salmons (mentioned previously on the Gosh! Blog), North 40 #1 – a new six-parter from Wildstorm by Aaron Williams (PS238) and Fiona Staples, and Dark X-men: The Beginning #1 (of 3) by James Asmus, Paul Cornell and Humberto Ramos, which ties into the whole Utopia thing they’ve got going.
In other news, Matt-who-used-to-work-here finds the naked lady in Where’s Wally? in amongst a list of challenged children’s books. Did you know that Where the Wild Things Are was originally Where the Wild Horses Are but was changed because Sendak was rubbish at drawing horses?
And Andrew, who still works here, says you should all grab a copy of Here’s Johnny, a documentary about 2000AD artist Johnny Hicklenton.
"Here’s Johnny enters the surreal world of renowned graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling against Multiple Sclerosis. Living in an increasing state of immobility and frustration, Johnny escapes the confines of his frontroom through his artwork."
We won’t be selling it because we don’t do DVDs, but they’ve got plenty of copies at their online shop.
And finally, Cover of the Week:
Zoinks!
-- Hayley
In Store 03/07/09 - 09/07/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #172
2000 AD Prog #1643
Absolute DC The New Frontier HC New Ptg (D. Cooke)
Angel Not Fade Away #3
Anita Blake Laughing Corpse Necromancer #3 (Of 5)
Army Of Darkness #22
Around The World In 80 Days HC
Arthur The Legend GN
Asterios Polyp HC Gosh! Bookplate Edition (David Mazzucchelli)
Atomika #9 (Of 12)
Back To Brooklyn TP (Garth Ennis)
Batman #688
Batman Black & White Statue Penguin (Brian Bolland)
Booster Gold #22
BPRD 1947 #1 (Of 5)
Cartoon Network Action Pack #39
Chuck TP
Darkness #78
Drafted One Hundred Days One-Shot
Elephantmen War Toys Yvette One-Shot
Everybody Is Stupid Except Me & Other Astute Observations SC (Peter Bagge)
From The Ashes #2 (Bob Fingerman)
GeNext United #3 (Of 5)
GI Joe Movie Adaptation #2 (Of 4)
GI Joe Origins #5
The Good The Bad & The Ugly #1
Green Arrow Black Canary #22
Green Lantern #43 Blackest Night
Hero Squared TP Vol 3 Love & Death
House Of Mystery #15
Hulk Broken Worlds TP
Hulk Red And Green TP Vol 2
Jungle Girl Season 2 #5 (Of 5)
Justice League International TP Vol 2
Knights Of The Dinner Table #152
Lone Ranger HC & TP Vol 3
Man With No Name TP Vol 1 Sinners & Saints
Mangalicious Tick #1 (Of 3)
Marvel 70th Anniversary TP
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #13
Marvel Art Of Marko Djurdjevic HC
Marvel Illustrated
- Odyssey Prem HC
- Three Musketeers TP
Moon Knight Prem HC Vol 5 Down South
Ms Marvel #41 DKR
New Warriors Classic TP Vol 1
No Hero #6 (Of 7)
North 40 #1 (Of 6)
100 Bullets TP Vol 13 Wilt(B. Azzarello/E. Risso)
Pixu TP Vol 1 Mark Of Evil (G. Ba)
President Evil One-Shot
Pride & Prejudice #4 (Of 5)
Prince Valiant HC Vol 1 1937-1938
Prototype #4 (Of 6)
Punisher Frank Castle Max #72
RASL Collectors Edition HC (Jeff Smith)
Rebels #6
Red Robin #2
Runaways Prem HC Teenage Wasteland
Secret Identities: Asian American Superhero Anthology SC
Showcase Presents Batlash TP
Skrull Kill Krew #3 (Of 5) Dark Reign
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #36
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Collection Book 1
Stand American Nightmares #4 (Of 5)
Star Trek Crew #5
Stormwatch PHD #22
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #3 (Tony Salmons)
Street Fighter II Turbo #7
Superman: Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow? HC (Alan Moore/Curt Swan)
Superman: World Of New Krypton #5(Of 12)
Sweetly Diabolic Art Of Jim Flora SC
Tales Designed To Thrizzle HC Vol 1 (Michael Kupperman)
Thor: Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #3
Tick And Arthur Complete Works TP
Uncanny X-Men First Class #1 (Of 8)
Unwritten #3
War Of Kings Warriors #1 (Of 2)
Marvel Masterworks Warlock HC Vol 2 & Var Ed 119
Warlord #4
Wasteland #25 Special Double Issue
Wednesday Comics #1 (Of 12)
Whatever Happened To World Of Tomorrow? HC (Brian Fies)
Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (Of 3) DAX
X-Men Forever #3
X-Men Legacy #226 DAX
X-Men Shattering TP
Zombies That Ate The World #4
MANGA
Fruits Basket GN Vol 23 (Of 23)
Negima GN Vol 23
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project TP Vol 1
Tsubasa GN Vol 22
Thursday, July 2, 2009
'Asterios Polyp' Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
We haven’t seen anything from him in about fifteen years but this week marks the long-awaited return of the incredible David Mazzucchelli!
If you’ve read anything about his brilliantly titled Asterios Polyp you’ll be shivering in sweaty-palmed anticipation. Just have a look at these pages I’ve pinched from the Man at the Crossroads, Mr Paul Gravett:
“Weighing in at a wopping 344 pages, this is his big, bold statement, his first true one-man magnum opus, in which he has challenged himself and now challenges his peers.”
And from his modest bookflap biography:
"David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. This is his first graphic novel."
Like our previous sell-out exclusives, Mazzucchelli has designed, signed and numbered a very limited 200 bookplates. We’ve started a reserve list and it’s filling up quick. Are you on it?
344 pages, £21.99, Asterios Polyp is due for release this week.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Due To Arrive 09/07/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Angel Not Fade Away #3
Anita Blake LC Necromancer #3 (Of 5)
Army Of Darkness #22
Around The World In 80 Days HC
Back To Brooklyn TP
Batman #688
Booster Gold #22
BPRD 1947 #1 (Of 5)
Cartoon Network Action Pack #39
Darkness #78
Elephantmen War Toys Yvette One-Shot
Enders Game Prem HC Battle School
Enders Shadow Prem HC Battle School
From The Ashes #2
Genext United #3 (Of 5)
GI Joe Best Of Storm Shadow GN
GI Joe Movie Adaptation #2 (Of 4)
GI Joe Origins #5
Green Arrow Black Canary #22
Green Lantern #43 BN
House Of Mystery #15
Hulk Broken Worlds TP
Hulk Red And Green TP Vol 2
Jungle Girl Season 2 #5 (Of 5)
Justice League International TP Vol 2
Man With No Name TP Vol 1 Sinners & Saints
Marvel 70th Anniversary TP
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #13
Marvel Illustrated Odyssey Prem HC
Moon Knight Prem HC Vol 5 Down South
Ms Marvel #41 DKR
New Warriors Classic TP Vol 1
North 40 #1 (Of 6)
100 Bullets TP Vol 13 Wilt
Pride & Prejudice #4 (Of 5)
Prototype #4 (Of 6)
Punisher Frank Castle Max #72
Rebels #6
Red Robin #2
Runaways Prem HC Teenage Wasteland
Showcase Presents Batlash TP
Skrull Kill Krew #3 (Of 5) DKR
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #36
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Coll TP Book 1
Spider-Man Crime And Punisher TP
Spider-Man Family Ties TP
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 Power & Responsibility TP New Ptg
Stand American Nightmares #4 (Of 5)
Star Trek Crew #5
Stormwatch PHD #22
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #3 (Of 4)
Superman World Of New Krypton #5 (Of 12)
The Good The Bad & The Ugly #1
Thor Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #3 (Of 6)
Thunderbolts Prem HC Burning Down The House
Transformers Maximum Dinobots TP Vol 1
Uncanny X-Men First Class #1 (Of 8)
Unwritten #3
War Machine Prem HC Vol 1 Iron Heart
War Of Kings Warriors #1 (Of 2)
Warlord #4
Wednesday Comics #1 (Of 12)
Werewolves On The Moon Versus Vampires #2 (Of 3)
World War Robot TP Vol 2
Dark X-Men Beginning #1 (Of 3) DAX
X-Men Forever #3
X-Men Legacy #226 DAX
X-Men Shattering TP
The Gosh! Authority 01/07/09
Here’s the latest from Gosh! – The comic shop with air-conditioning.
Having arrived at the tail end of Thursday and missing blog-deadline, Gilbert Hernandez’s Luba hardcover is at the front of the pack today. ‘The Picasso’ of the Hernandez Brothers (so says Mario) has at long last delivered the collected sequel to the incredibly popular Palomar. The book is made up of over 100 stories – from one-pagers to several-pagers – that were originally printed in different comics then reprinted in a trilogy of enormous paperbacks (Luba in America, Luba: The Book of Ofelia, and Luba: Three Daughters) which are now finally roped together in one big brick of a book. This one. And it’s on the shelf already. I can see it from here.
Also denied a mention last week was The Spirit #30 written and drawn by Michael Avon Oeming of Powers fame. There’s a preview here, and Oeming talks about it with CbR. The upshot of a late mention is that I now theoretically get to include reviews but I can’t find any. Life’s rubbish sometimes.
Now to this week’s stuff. The Tempest is a lovely looking graphic novel marred only by its use of Comic Sans. It features the full text of the Shakespeare play adapted into comics by the fantastic Oscar Grillo, who has worked in advertising and animation for almost fifty years and was the visual supervisor on the movie Monsters Inc. He is however much better known in this country as the man responsible for the “Too Orangey For Crows” Kia-Ora advert.
The next instalment of the occasional anthology Strange Eggs has a laundry list of creators you like. Here’s the original premise of the series straight from the mouth of the guy who made it up, Chris Reilly:
Strange Eggs #1 included a fictitious back-story claiming that the comic book was based on a now-cancelled television show produced by “The Christian Learning Network.” The premise of this supposed show—and therefore the premise of all the comics stories in Strange Eggs #1—was the following: The young twins Kip and Kelly Hatcher live with their father, a scientist, on a farm in rural Maine. In each story, deliveryman Roger Rogers delivers the twins an egg and they are forced to deal with whatever hatches forth. Creators can have virtually anything hatch out of the egg, and have the twins deal with it in pretty much any fashion.
He talks about the new Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark and that episode of Happy Days here. If you like Roger Langridge (and who doesn’t), Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac), Eisner-nominated Ben Towle (Midnight Sun), James Turner (Rex Libris, Warlord of Io) to name a mere handful, you’ll probably like this anthology too.
Lots of issue #1s out this week so here we go:
It was hinted in the recent Captain America #600 that there might be a way to bring Steve Rogers back from the dead (still some of those around if you missed it, though ah...spoilers in that bit I just said) and thanks to Ed Brubaker (Criminal) – the man who offed him in the first place – it looks like he’ll make it in time for Independence Day. That’s all in Captain America Reborn #1 (of 5) illustrated by Bryan Hitch (The Authority, The Ultimates). Newsarama do a quick re-Cap (see that?) if you’ve not been paying attention. Preview!
Greek Street #1 is the latest from Vertigo and much like the recent Unwritten #1 it will only cost you 75 of your shiny pennies. Peter Milligan (Human Target, X-Statix, Shade: The Changing Man) and Davide Gianfelice (Northlanders) are bringing Greek mythology to modern-day Soho played out by strippers, gangsters and the like. Milligan (who recently worked on a Hellblazer piece with that other Greek mythology bloke) says of the series:
“Greek Street is a very strange beast. I think of it as The Long Good Friday meets Agamemnon.”
More of that and preview pages here and here now with added boobs.
You’ll see more of London’s underbelly in Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #1 (of 5) which sees Mike Mignola team up with Ben Stenbeck (B.P.R.D.) in a story about nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey’s very first case as an agent of the queen. Mignola says:
“I've always been a big fan of English Victorian supernatural literature, and especially Victorian-era occult detective stuff. This is my ham-handed, very American attempt at pulling that off. It's fun, it's got seances, it's got Jack-the-Ripper-like murders, it's got cops in those helmets with the little bull's-eye lanterns running around through gas-lit alleys. It's probably informed more by old movies about that kind of stuff. Even the color treatment has almost a black-and-white feel to it. I wanted something that was so atmospheric and touched on all the peculiarities of Victorian-era stuff because there isn't a plan to do another one of these Ed Grey stories in London, so I wanted to make sure we got all that stuff, all that feel, clearly established as an Englishman in London. I wanted to make sure we got all of that stuff in this one series.” (more) Preview.
Another mini-series begins in Justice League: Cry For Justice #1 (of 6). Written by James Robinson (Starman, Superman) and illustrated by Mauro Cascioli (Trials of Shazam) the series sees Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Atom, Shazam, Congorilla, and Starman crying for justice after the death of Batman. A preview! And while we’re mentioning six-parters, Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #1 (of 6) is illustrated by the best name in comics, Bong Dazo.
If you’re gearing up for Blackest Night you’ll want to get your mitts on Green Lantern Corps #38 by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason/Rebecca Buchman. It’s the conclusion to Emerald Eclipse and leads directly into Blackest Night (checklist here). Preview!
Marvel’s big Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men crossover continues in this week’s Uncanny X-Men #513 by Matt Fraction. It’s part two of Utopia (which began in last week’s DAX Utopia not-so-one-shot) so you can cross it off your checklist. Preview here.
The Comics Journal #298 is worth a look if you’re a fan of the Umbrella Academy or the Perry Bible Fellowship. They’ve got interviews with stars Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá on self-publishing and who does what, as well as Nicholas Gurewitch talking about the joys of being an envelope artist, and even Trevor Von Eeden. There are wee excerpts of both big interviews
and because it’s the Comics Journal there’s way too much other stuff to cram into a weekly mail-out. If you missed the last issue we’ve still got some of those too, featuring Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey/Hi & Lois) and Emmanuel Guilbert (of Alan’s War and more recently The Photographer).
And last new thing for the week: You’ve no doubt seen M. Sasek’s This is London poster in the Gosh! window. Or maybe you missed it because of the throng of tourists posing next to it. Whatever the case, another facsimile edition of a 60s classic by the same bloke has taken its place on our new shelf. This is the Way to the Moon will take you to Cape Canaveral and give you a nostalgic look at the electronic brains that put a man in space. Somewhere near it you might also see My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill which is a book that came out a while ago but we haven’t had it in for some time. This is just a heads up to say We have some now, honest! and they are rather oddly and unpredictably signed by the author, Emile Bravo.
In other news worthy of a How Late?! mention we've got a couple of cracking new Gosh! Signed Bookplate Editions coming up. David Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp is the triumphant return (ten years in the making!) of one of comics' greatest talents, and Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter is a hardboiled graphic novel you'd be a fool to miss. Get your name on our reserve list now!
Gosh! Favourite Lord Hurk has gone and “re-imagined” (that’s what they call it in Hollywood these days, no?) a Jack Kirby classic. And how! If you like the look of that we’ve still got some of his cracking mini-comics Urgent Telex (a Gosh! Exclusive) and Meat Hill on our small press shelves.
Kevin O’Neill’s original LoEG art was on our walls for a bit but it has been packed up and shipped off home to the man himself. If you’re missing it, there’s another O’Neill exhibition at The Illustration Cupboard on Bury Street until the end of August featuring thirty drawings and paintings not exhibited in England before. And as a rare treat, according to the flyer you can even buy his artwork from the 8th of this month.
And finally, in the Non-Shop and Stuff Purloined from Boing Boing news category:
Comics writer Mark Sable was detained and intensively questioned by the TSA for carrying a script for an upcoming comic book about a writer who is detained and intensively questioned by the TSA for writing a comic about terrorism. (more)
Oh dear.
-- Hayley
In Store 26/06/09 - 02/07/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1642
Agents Of Atlas #7 DKR
American McGee's Grimm #3
Angel #23
Astonishing Tales #6
Astounding Wolf-Man #17
Astro City: Dark Age Book Three #3
Authority #12
Bang Tango #6 (Of 6) (Joe Kelly)
Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home HC
Barack The Barbarian #1
Batman And Robin #2(G. Morrison/F. Quitely)
Batman Confidential #31
Battlestar Galactica Final Five #4 (Of 4)
The Boys #32 (Garth Ennis)
The Boys TP Vol 4 We Gotta Go Now
Brat Pack TP New Ed. (Rick Veitch)
Brave And The Bold Without Sin TP
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Dailies HC Vol 2
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #26
Captain America Fighting Chance TP Vol 2
Captain America Reborn #1 (Of 5)(Ed Brubaker/Bryan Hitch)
Cerebus Archive #2 (Dave Sim)
Comics Journal #298
Crossed #6 (Of 9) (Garth Ennis)
Daredevil Father TP
Daredevil Noir #4 (Of 4)
Dead Romeo #4 (Of 6)
Dead Run #2
Destroyer #4 (Of 5) (R. Kirkman)
Echo #13 (Terry Moore)
El Diablo The Haunted Horseman TP
Fantastic Four #568
Far Arden HC (K. Cannon)
Farscape Strange Detractors #4 (Of 4)
Fathom Dawn Of War TP Vol 1 New Ptg
Final Crisis Aftermath Run #3 (Of 6)
Firebreather TP Vol 1 New Ptg
Gears Of War #8
GI Joe Movie Adaptation #1 (Of 4)
Golden Age Starman Archives HC Vol 2
Goon TP Vol 8 Those That Is Damned (Eric Powell)
Gravel #12 (Warren Ellis)
Greek Street #1 (P. Milligan)
Green Lantern Corps #38 BN
Green Lantern: Rage Of The Red Lanterns HC (G. Johns)
Hercules TP Vol 1 Thracian Wars
Hi-Fructose Magazine Quarterly #12
Invincible Iron Man #15 DKR
Irredeemable #4 (Mark Waid)
Jonah Hex #45
Justice League Cry For Justice #1 (Of 6)
Locke & Key Head Games #6
Luba HC (G. Hernandez)
Marvel Divas #1 (Of 4)
Mighty #6
New Avengers #54
Official Index To Marvel Universe #7
Praetorian GN
Runaways Rock Zombies Prem HC
Savage Dragon #150
Scourge Of The Gods: Fall #1 (Of 3)
Secret Six #11
Sherlock Holmes Cases Of The Twisted Mind SC
Simpsons Super Spectacular #9
Solomon Grundy #5 (Of 7)
Solomon Kane TP Vol 1 Castle Of Devil
Soulfire #10
Spawn #193
Spawn Endgame TP Vol 1
Amazing Spider-Man Family #8
Spider-Man Election Day Prem HC
Star Trek Omnibus TP Vol 2 Early Voyages
Star Trek Wrath Of Khan #3
Star Wars Invasion #1 (Of 5)
Star Wars The Clone Wars #6 (Of 6)
Strange Adventures #5 (Of 8)
Strange Eggs Jumps The Shark SC Anthology
Sword #18
Syncopated GN An Anthology of Non-Fiction Picto-Essays
The Tempest GN (Oscar Grillo)
This Is The Way To The Moon HC (M. Sasek)
Transformers Spotlight Metroplex
Trojan War #3 (Of 5)
Turok Son Of Stone Archives HC Vol 2
USA Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special
Voice Of The Fire SC Novel(Alan Moore)
Voyage To Bottom Of The Sea Complete Series Vol 1 HC
War Comics A Graphic History SC
War Of Kings #5 (Of 6)
Witchblade #128
Witchblade TP Vol 6
Witchfinder: In The Service Of Angels #1 (Mike Mignola)
Wizard Magazine #214
Cable #16
Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #1 (Of 6) (V. Gischler/Bong Dazo)
Uncanny X-Men #513 DAX(Matt Fraction)
Exiles #4
MANGA
Color Earth GN Vol 2 Color Of Water
Oh My Goddess RTL TP Vol 12
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Due To Arrive 02/07/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Agents Of Atlas #7 DKR
Astonishing Tales #6
Astounding Wolf-Man #17
Astro City The Dark Age Book Three #3 (Of 4)
Authority #12
Bang Tango #6 (Of 6)
Batman And Robin #2
Batman Confidential #31
Battlestar Galactica Final Five #4 (Of 4)
Boys #32
Boys TP Vol 4 We Gotta Go Now
Brave And The Bold Without Sin TP
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #26
Captain America Fighting Chance TP Vol 2
Captain America Reborn #1 (Of 5)
Daredevil Father TP
Daredevil Noir #4 (Of 4)
Dead Romeo #4 (Of 6)
Dead Run #2
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #1
Destroyer #4 (Of 5)
El Diablo The Haunted Horseman TP
Exiles #4
Fantastic Four #568
Farscape Strange Detractors #4 (Of 4)
Final Crisis Aftermath Run #3 (Of 6)
Gears Of War #8
Greek Street #1
Green Lantern Corps #38 Blackest Night
Invincible Iron Man #15 DKR
Irredeemable #4
Jonah Hex #45
Justice League Cry For Justice #1 (Of 7)
Marvel Divas #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Illustrated TP Three Musketeers
Mighty #6
New Avengers #54
Official Index To Marvel Universe #7
Runaways Rock Zombies Prem HC
Savage Dragon #150
Scourge Of Gods Fall #1 (Of 3)
Secret Six #11
Simpsons Super Spectacular #9
Solomon Grundy #5 (Of 7)
Spawn #193
Spawn Endgame TP Vol 1
Amazing Spider-Man Family #8
Star Wars Invasion #1 (Of 5)
Strange Adventures #5 (Of 8)
Sword #18
Trojan War #3 (Of 5)
USA Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special
War Of Kings #5 (Of 6)
Witchblade #128
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #1 (Of 5)
Cable #16
Uncanny X-Men #513 DAX
The Gosh! Authority 24/06/09
I have returned. Fun Fact! There are no comic shops in the wilderness but there are lots of sheep.
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz gets top spot this week because it’s enormous. Just like previous Sunday Press collections (Walt & Skeezix, Little Nemo – all in the shop at the mo) you could set sail on its hardcover table-sized newspaper format. The strip (illustrated by Walt McDougall) began in newspapers over a hundred years ago as L. Frank Baum’s way of promoting his second (Wizard of) Oz book. All of the Queer Visitors – Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse - are here, plus Oz-illustrator W.W. Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man strip which ran simultaneously to the aforementioned after he and Baum had a falling out (cartoonists!). Sunday Press have written reams on it and have even posted a few preview pages on their site.
The Actress and the Bishop #1 reprints more classic (though considerably more recent) stuff by Brian Bolland. All of the previous appearances of the unlikely two are here waiting to offend and amuse so you’d best get amongst it. Said the actress.
The Ancient Book of Sex & Science is the second instalment of low-brow art after The Ancient Book of Myth & War of two years(ish) ago. All the illustrators are top-notch animators from Pixar - Lou Romano, Don Shank, Nate Wragg – and it looks like it’ll be quite a treat. Have a PDF preview, why don’t you!
On the subject of art and boobs you’ll find more of the same in our latest shipment of Dean Yeagle books which includes a couple of volumes of Scribblings, Mandy’s Shorts, and One Mandy Morning. Peruse his site but beware of naked ladies if you’re at work.
Harvey Kurtzman needs no introduction, but this is a bit of what Last Gasp have at the beginning of theirs:
Harvey Kurtzman discovered Robert Crumb…. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, met an unknown John Cleese in the process, and the genesis of Monty Python was formed. Art Spiegelman has stated on record that he owes his career to him…(and more)
…Which makes it a bit odd that The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics HC is the first and only (authorised) celebration of the guy’s art. It’s full of stuff you won’t have seen before and all mostly in colour to boot – illustrations, paintings, pencil sketches, EC Comics layouts etc plus a bunch of photos dragged howling from the vaults. All this topped off with an introduction by Harry “Derek Smalls” Shearer.
There’s a couple of anthologies hitting the shelves that you should have a look at. If you like stuff like Deadwood and No Country For Old Men pick up Outlaw Territory Volume 1 for 240 pages of gritty old west America from the likes of Joe Kelly, Dean Motter, Greg Pak, Max Fiumara et al. Ol’ reliable CBR have a preview for you.
Then Top Shelf give you another dose of indie greatness with Awesome 2: Awesomer which features stuff from Chris Duffy, Sarah Glidden, Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey, Jeff Lemire, Alex Robinson, and more – plus a cover by Bone/Rasl’s Jeff Smith! If you buy it you can wear the smug smile of a London cyclist because you’re doing a vaguely good deed by partly funding a student scholarship to the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
The fifth volume of the incredibly popular Tezuka’s Black Jack is out this week in paperback. For some reason the lovely PX hardcover editions of the series only went up to Volume 3 and there are no plans to resume them so I’d grab this now instead of holding out. And if you look here you’ll see that someone’s put up an early review of this instalment of medical manga.
Also in trade-paperback is Kathryn/Stuart Immonen and David Lafuente’s Patsy Walker: Hellcat. Lafuente’s a very talented up-and-comer who’s about to be given his big break taking over from Immonen on Ultimate Spider-Man - get in on the ground floor here! This Patsy Walker has as much in common with Tank Girl as it does any previous incarnations of the character and is sure to appeal to Marvel fans who enjoyed stuff like Nextwave or X-Statix. This collection also features the Patsy Walker strips from Marvel Comics Presents, written by Kathryn Immonen and drawn by her extra talented husband Stuart.
In comics we’ve got Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia one-shot which is the beginning of a 6-part crossover event (the first Avengers/X-Men in fifteen years!) bookended by a couple of specials (checklist here). Given how much Andrew liked Matt Fraction’s work on Uncanny X-Men he’ll probably be recommending this one come Thursday so I thought I’d get in first and save him the trouble. It’s illustrated by Marc Silvestri (X-Men: Messiah Complex, Civil War: The Initiative) which you can see here in a preview, and also a review.
If you’ve been following Dark Reign it’s going to be a big week for you with no less than five issues plus a trade-paperback to haul home! Nat’s pick of the bunch is Dark Reign: Zodiac #1 (of 3) by Joe Casey (Uncanny X-Men) and Nathan Fox. Fox’s illustrations in Pigeons From Hell and DMZ have been lauded by reviewers all over the place, and Timothy Callahan over at CbR couldn’t believe Marvel actually got him to do a superhero comic. Check out this preview if you don’t believe ‘em.
Now for the And Finally part of the news where we put death and war aside and talk about rescuing ducks from ledges and such. Over at Panel Borders Alex Fitch talks to Gosh-favourite Shaun Tan about his books The Arrival, Tales From Outer Suburbia, his life, the universe and everything. If you haven’t yet picked up one of our signed Shaun Tan books we’ve still got a few left. And while we’re boasting about signed books, have you heard about Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter Gosh! Bookplate Edition? Well now you have.
And that’s it from me. I’ll be here as usual next week unless I’m beamed up or something.
-- Hayley
In Store 19/06/09 - 25/06/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Digest #195
Jughead’s Double Digest #151
2000 AD Prog #1641
Judge Dredd Megazine #286
Actress & The Bishop #1 (Brian Bolland)
Alter Ego #87
Ancient Book Of Sex & Science HC
Atomika #8 (Of 12)
Avengers Initiative #25 DKR
Avengers Invaders #12 (Of 12)
Dark Avengers #6 DKR (B. Bendis)
Dark Avengers Uncanny X-Men Utopia One-Shot (M. Fraction)
New Avengers #54 DKR
Awesome 2 TP Awesomer
All Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder HC Vol 1 (Miller/Lee)
Batman The Brave And The Bold #6
Detective Comics #854
Gotham City Sirens #1 (P. Dini)
Bart Simpson Comics #48
Cerebus Archive #2 (Dave Sim)
Cinefex #118 Jul 2009
Crazy Hair HC (Gaiman/McKean)
Daredevil #119
Dark Reign
- Accept Change TP
- Elektra #4 (Of 5) DKR
- Hood #2 (Of 5) DKR
- Lethal Legion #1 (Of 3)
- Sinister Spider-Man #1 (Of 4)
- Zodiac #1 (Of 3) (Casey/Fox)
Dr Who Magazine #410
Dynamo 5 #22
Empowered TP Vol 5
End League #8
Essential Doctor Strange TP Vol 4
Eureka Dormant Gene #3 (Of 4)
Fallen Son Death Of Captain America HC
Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four TP Vol 2
Farscape D’Argo’s Lament #3 (Of 4)
Fart Party GN Vol 2 (J. Wertz)
Female Force #4 Caroline Kennedy
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #2 (Of 6)
Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash Nightmare Warriors #1 (Of 6)
Fringe #6 (Of 6)
Fusion #2 (Of 3)
GI Joe Movie Adaptation TP
GI Joe Movie Prequel TP
Green Lantern #42
Green Lantern: Tales Of The Sinestro Corps TP
Guardians Of Galaxy #15
Heavy Metal Summer 2009
Immortal Iron Fist #27
Immortal Iron Fist TP Vol 4 Mortal Iron Fist
Incredible Hercules #130
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Storm Front #4
JLA Deluxe Edition HC Vol 2
Justice League Of America #34
Justice Society Of America #28
Juxtapoz Vol 16 #7 Jul 2009
Killapalooza #2 (Of 6)
Last Days Of Animal Man #2 (Of 6)
Lillim #4 (Of 5)
Literals #3 (Of 3) (B. Willingham)
Low Moon GN (Jason)
Madame Xanadu #12
Marvel Previews July 2009
Marvel Spotlight Captain America
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #1
Ms Marvel #40 DKR
Northlanders #18
Nova #26
Outlaw Territory GN Vol 1 (J. Kelly/D. Motter Et Al)
Patsy Walker Hellcat TP
Perhapanauts #6
Predator #1 (Of 4)
Previews #250 July 2009
PVP #42
Queer Visitors From The Marvelous Land Of Oz HC
Rapture #2 (Of 6)
Red Sonja #45
Red Sonja TP Vol 6 Death
Remake GN Vol 1
Riftwar #1 (Of 5)
Runaways 3 #11
Secret Warriors #5 DKR
Sgt Rock The Lost Battalion #6 (Of 6)
Skaar Son Of Hulk #12
Amazing Spider-Man #598 DKR
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #52
Spirit #30
Squadron Supreme 2 #12
Star Trek Missions End #4
Star Wars Legacy #37
Starcraft #2
Superman #689
Superman: Tales From The Phantom Zone TP
Teen Titans #72
Terror Inc Apocalypse Soon #3 (Of 4)
Art Of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius Of Comics HC
Thor #602
Thor Visionaries Walt Simonson TP Vol 3 New Ptg
Thunderbolts #133 DKR
Tiny Tyrant Vol 1: Ethelbertosaurus(Lewis Trondheim)
Torchwood Magazine #16
Transformers All Hail Megatron #12
Treasury Of 20th Century Murder HC Vol 2
Twisted Toyfare Theatre TP Vol 10
Umbrella Academy Composition Book
Unknown Soldier #9
Usagi Yojimbo #121
Venom TP Dark Origin
Viking #2
Wildcats #12
Wonder Woman #33
Astonishing X-Men #30 (W. Ellis)
NYX Wannabe Prem HC
Timestorm 2009/2099 X-Men One-Shot
Uncanny X-Men #512
Dark Wolverine #75 DKR
Wolverine First Class #16
Wolverine Noir #3 (Of 4)
Wolverine Weapon X #3(Jason Aaron)
X-Factor #45
X-Force #16 XMW
X-Men Forever #2
X-Men Spider-Man HC
Zorro #14
Ythaq No Escape #3
MANGA
Gantz TP Vol 5
Negima Neo GN Vol 2
Saga Of Darren Shan Vol 1
Samurai 7 GN Vol 2
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei GN Vol 2
Tezuka’s Black Jack TP Vol 5
Toto GN Vol 5
Wallflower GN Vol 20
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls GN Vol 6
Friday, June 19, 2009
‘The Hunter’ Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
In celebration of the release of Darwyn Cooke’s new hardboiled hardcover graphic novel ‘The Hunter’, Gosh! are proud to present an exclusive bookplate edition!
As stated in our previous post, ‘The Hunter’ is the first of a projected four graphic novels adapting the work of the late, great Richard Stark (aka Donald E.Westlake), featuring his cool, calculating and utterly ruthless anti-hero Parker.
A much in-demand author, Mr Cooke has generously made time in his busy schedule to produce this compellingly composed & dynamic bookplate.
Signed and limited to 200 copies this bookplate edition is sure to be snapped up swiftly, so email the store soon to reserve your copy.
To whet your appetite, read this revealing round-table discussion between Cooke, ‘Criminal’ author Ed Brubaker, & journalist Tom Spurgeon; plus this 21 page preview of what will prove to be 2009’s most talked about graphic novel.
If you can’t wait until then, why don’t you enter this “Draw your own Parker” competition and win yourself a fancypants preview copy of ‘The Hunter’?
144 pages, £18.50, ‘The Hunter’ is due for release in late July.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Due To Arrive 25/06/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder TP Vol 01
Amazing Spider-Man #598 DKR
Astonishing X-Men #30
Avengers Initiative #25 DKR
Avengers Invaders #12 (Of 12)
Bart Simpson Comics #48
Batman The Brave And The Bold #6
Daredevil #119
Dark Avengers #6 DKR
Dark Avengers Uncanny X-Men Utopia #1
Dark Reign Accept Change TP
Dark Reign Elektra #4 (Of 5) DKR
Dark Reign Hood #2 (Of 5) DKR
Dark Reign Lethal Legion #1 (Of 3) DKR
Dark Reign Sinister Spider-Man #1 (Of 4) DKR
Dark Reign Zodiac #1 (Of 3) DKR
Dark Wolverine #75 DKR
Detective Comics #854
End League #8
Essential Doctor Strange TP Vol 04
Fantastic Four Giant-Size Adventures #1
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #2 (Of 6)
Freddy Jason Ash Nightmare Warriors #1
Fringe #6 (Of 6)
Fusion #2 (Of 3)
Gotham City Sirens #1
Green Lantern #42
Green Lantern Tales Of The Sinestro Corps TP
Guardians Of Galaxy #15
Immortal Iron Fist #27
Incredible Hercules #130
Justice League Of America #34
Justice Society Of America #28
Killapalooza #2 (Of 6)
Last Days Of Animal Man #2 (Of 6)
Lillim #4 (Of 5)
Literals #3 (Of 3)
Madame Xanadu #12
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #52
Marvel Spotlight Captain America
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #1
Ms Marvel #40 DKR
New Avengers #54 DKR
Northlanders #18
Nova #26
Patsy Walker Hellcat TP
Predator #1 (Of 4)
Previews #250 July 2009
Rapture #2 (Of 6)
Red Sonja #45
Riftwar #1 (Of 5)
Runaways 3 #11
Secret Warriors #5 DKR
Sgt Rock The Lost Battalion #6 (Of 6)
Skaar Son Of Hulk #12
Spirit #30
Squadron Supreme 2 #12
Star Wars Legacy #37 Tatooine Pt 1 (Of 4)
Starcraft #2
Superman #689
Superman Tales From The Phantom Zone TP
Teen Titans #72
Terror Inc Apocalypse Soon #3 (Of 4)
Thor #602
Thor Visionaries Walt Simonson TP Vol 03 New Ptg
Thunderbolts #133 DKR
Timestorm 2009/2099 X-Men
Uncanny X-Men #512
Unknown Soldier #9
Usagi Yojimbo #121
Venom TP Dark Origin
Wildcats #12
Wizard Magazine #214
Wolverine First Class #16
Wolverine Noir #3 (Of 4)
Wolverine Weapon X #3
Wonder Woman #33
X-Factor #45
X-Force #16 XMW
X-Men Forever #2
Ythaq No Escape #3 (Of 3)
Zorro #14
