Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Agents Of Atlas #9
Agents Of Atlas Prem HC Dark Reign
All Winners Comics #1 70th Anniv Special
Amazing Spider-Man #601
Angel #24
Angel After The Fall TP Vol 01
Astro City The Dark Age Book Three #4 (Of 4)
Authority #13
Batman Confidential #32
Big Questions #12
Black Panther 2 #7
Booster Gold Reality Lost TP
Boys #33
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #27
Captain America Reborn #2 (Of 5)
Chew #3
Dark Reign Zodiac #2 (Of 3) DKR
Darkness #79
Dead Romeo #5 (Of 6)
Destroyer #5 (Of 5)
Doom Patrol #1
Dynamo 5 #23
Eternals TP Manifest Destiny
Exiles #5
Exiles Ultimate Collection TP Book 02
Fallen Angel Reborn #2
Final Crisis Aftermath Run #4 (Of 6)
Ghost Riders Heavens On Fire #1 (Of 6)
Greek Street #2
Heroes Reborn The Return TP
House Of M Masters Of Evil #1 (Of 5)
House Of Mystery #16
Hulk #13 DKR
Impaler #4
Invincible Iron Man #16 DKR
Iron Man Armor Wars #1 (Of 4)
Jersey Gods #6
Jonah Hex #46
Justice League Cry For Justice #2 (Of 7)
Locke & Key TP Vol 01 Welcome To Lovecraft
Luke Cage Noir #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Comics #1 70th Anniversary
Marvels Project #1 (Of 8)
Mighty #7
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #2
Nightwing The Great Leap TP
North 40 #2 (Of 6)
Official Index To Marvel Universe #8
Pax Romana TP Vol 01
Red Circle The Hangman #1
Savage Dragon #151
Secret Six #12
Solomon Grundy #6 (Of 7)
Spider-Man And The Human Torch HC
Spirit #32
Star Wars Dark Times Blue Harvest #0
Star Wars Invasion #2 (Of 5)
Strange Adventures #6 (Of 8)
Superman World Of New Krypton #6 (Of 12)
The Good The Bad & The Ugly #2
Transmetropolitan TP Vol 03 Year Of The Bastard New Ed
Trojan War #4 (Of 5)
Ultimatum Fantastic Four Requiem #1
Ultimatum X-Men Requiem #1
Veil #2
War Machine #8
War Of Kings #6 (Of 6)
War Of Kings Warriors #2 (Of 2)
Warlord #5
Wednesday Comics #5 (Of 12)
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #2 (Of 5)
Dark Wolverine #75 2nd Ptg Var
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #2
X-Men First Class TP Finals GN
X-Men Legacy Salvage Prem HC
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Due To Arrive 06/08/09
The Gosh! Authority 30/07/09
If you picked up I Shall Destroy All Civilised Planets! and delighted in the surreal mayhem therein (and who didn’t) you’re going to have to grab a copy of You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! to make your life complete. These two volumes collect Fletcher Hanks’ entire career in comics – that’s all three busy years of it before he went wrong and disappeared. In fact, there’s twice as many stories and POETIC JUSTICE! in this book than the last. Editor Paul Karasik spoke to Dan Nadel about it all here, and potty-mouth Rod Lott at Bookgasm says ‘Holy. Effing. Sh*t.’ It’s completely insane and very funny and will probably encourage you to indulge in a spot of unnecessary exclamation pointing. Preview!
Speaking of exclamation points, Larry Marder’s Beanworld HC Vol 2 A Gift Comes! is another one you’ll want. Marder’s Beanworld was one of the best things around in the mid-eighties/early-nineties before he gave it all up for a proper job at Image. He’s since come to his senses, got a blog, and there’s even new Beanworld in the post. This is the second of Dark Horse’s classic Tales of Beanworld collections (and handsome ones they are, all rescanned from original artwork) featuring 12 long-out-of-print issues that will bring you bang up to date with the goings on of Beanworld. The subsequent volumes will all be new stuff.
If you’re a regular here at the Gosh! Blog you’ll already know that British cartoonist Dan McDaid is not only a favourite of ours, he’s also a thoroughly nice chap. In fact, Nat wrote a thing about him long ago. His collaboration with Glen Brunswick (of Image’s Killing Girl and The Gray Area) is going great guns with five brilliant issues already been and gone. Missed ‘em? Grab the very first Jersey Gods trade I’d Live and I’d Die for You – all five issues are in it, plus all the alternate covers by Darwyn Cooke, Paul Pope, Mike Allred and Erik Larson. There’s even an ‘art of Jersey Gods’ wossname featuring loads of unseen stuff. He’s always putting new art up on his blog so it’s worth checking in regularly and at Jersey Gods’ very own blog too.
The Summer 2009 edition of MOME has arrived and, as usual, it’s packed. There’s the first 20-page chapter of a new graphic novel called Wild Man by T. Edward Bak whose stuff you will have seen in Best American Comics 2008 and also in a comic that’s been hanging around the Gosh! indie shelves: Service Industry, an oversized and (accidentally) autobiographical book about his post-high school jobs in restaurants. Tom Spurgeon liked it so much he read it three times in a row. There’s also the third and final chapter of Gilbert Shelton’s Last Gig in Shnagrlig, plus stuff by Tim Henlsey (Kramers Ergot), Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button), Andrice Arp, Sara Edward-Corbett, Conor O'Keefe, Noah Van Sciver, Robert Goodin, Paul Hornschemeier (The Three Paradoxes), Bookslut review, and a 16-page comic by Max of Bardín the Superrealist fame.
Another offering from Fantagraphics is Sergio Ponchione’s Grotesque #3 which is one of those lovely-looking Ignatz books that now have their own shelf in the Gosh! basement. If you’re a fan of weird Lynchian fantasy you should definitely check it out.
A trade worth a look this week is Northlanders: Volume 2: The Cross and the Hammer which collects Ryan Kelly’s entire six-issue arc before Vasilis Lolos (PIXU) took over. Kelly talks about it here and there’s a review of #11 (the first in the book) here.
When Jason Aaron (Scalped, Wolverine, you know the drill) was asked if he had any favourite issues among the stuff he’d done he said (among other things)“issue #26 of Ghost Rider, the one where I brought back the Orb and Doghead and all the villains”. I mention it only because it’s that very issue which kicks off the latest Ghost Rider trade-paperback, Last Stand. Incidentally, Aaron’s first issue of new five-part series Immortal Weapons is still available in the shop if you missed it last week.
Lots of issue #1s out this week so here’s a quick round-up!:
- Mice Templar Destiny #1 is the first of an eight issue series and looks to be a very good jumping-on point for newbies. Check here for a preview/recap.
- Roman Dirge’s Lenore Volume II #1 is the first new Lenore in over two years. Dirge wanted it to be plain ol’ #14 but the powers that be thought it would be better off as Volume II #1 because they like to simplify/complicate things.
- Citizen Rex #1 (Of 6) by Mario and Gilbert Hernandez gives you a ‘sexy view of the future’ (straight from the Dark Horse’s mouth). There’s robots, beautiful women, and scandal. Also, a preview.
The San Diego Comic-Con’s done and dusted (and yet I haven’t heard of even one drunken cartoonist punch-up) (yet) but we can’t let it pass without pointing you to the annual Fables one-pager illustrated by the very lovely Mark Buckingham who probably hasn’t punched anyone, ever. And have you heard Jeff Smith’s doing more Bone?
If you want more comics news pick up a copy of the Tripwire Annual ’09 for exclusives on Stan Lee, Joe Kubert, Bill Morrison of Bongo Comics, painter Phil Hale, storyboard artist Trevor Goring and more. There’s also stuff on Tintin, the anniversaries of Marvel, Batman and Alien, plus Wednesday Comics, Solomon Kane, and new strips from Roger Langridge, Kev Mullins, and lots more.
And finally, if you’re still not sold on Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter, I challenge you to look at these pages on the World of Kane; if you still don’t want one you’re beyond help. As I said last week, it’s out now but still bookplate-less for another week or two.
And that, I think, is it.
-- Hayley
In Store 24/07/09 - 30/07/09
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2000 AD Prog #1646
Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic SC & HC
Alter Ego #88
Army Of Darkness #23
Aspen Splash 2009 Swimsuit Spectacular
New Avengers #55 DKR
Barack Obama #2 The First 100 Days
Batman The Brave And The Bold #7
Detective Comics #855 (Rucka & Williams III)
Garth Ennis Battlefields Tankies #3 (Of 3)
Beanworld HC Vol 02 (L. Marder)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #6
Biographical Novel Mother Teresa GN
Birds Of Prey Platinum Flats TP
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #3
Citizen Rex #1 (Of 6) (Gilbert & Mario Hernandez)
Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy HC Vol 8
Complete Dracula #2 (Of 5)
Dark Reign
Goblin Legacy DKR
Hawkeye #4 (Of 5) DKR
Lethal Legion #2 (Of 3) DKR
Sinister Spider-Man #2 (Of 5)
(C. Bachalo)
Young Avengers #3 (Of 5)
(P. Cornell)
Dark Tower The Fall Of Gilead #3 (Of 6)
Delphine #4
Demon Cleaner #3 (Of 3)
Fantastic Four #569
Fathom #8
Fear Agent #27 1 Against 1 (Pt 6 Of 6)
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #3 (Of 6)
Flash Gordon #6
Free Realms #1
Ghost Rider TP Last Stand (J. Aaron/Huat)
Glamourpuss #8 (Dave Sim)
Grotesque #3 (S. Ponchione)
Son Of Hulk #13
Ignition City #4 (Of 5) (W. Ellis)
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 02 (M. Fraction)
James Bond TP Girl Machine
Jersey Gods TP Vol 01 (D. McDaid)
Justice League Of America #35
Justice Society Of America #29
Kaboom TP (J. Loeb)
Kid Colt #1
Last Days Of Animal Man #3 (Of 6)
Lenore Volume II #1 (R. Dirge)
Lone Ranger #17
Madame Xanadu #13
Mark Schultz Various Drawings SC Vol 4
Marvel Previews August 2009
Marvel Zombies 4 #4 (Of 4)
Mice Templar Destiny #1
Mome GN Summer 2009 Vol 15
Northlanders #19
Northlanders TP Vol 2 (B. Wood/R. Kelly)
Previews #251 August 2009
PVP TP Vol 06 Silent But Deadly
Rapture #3 (Of 6)
Rawbone #3 (Of 4)
Scourge Of Gods Prem HC Vol 01
Secret Warriors #6 DKR
Spawn #194
Essential Parker Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 4
Spider-Girl TP Vol 11
Ultimatum Spider-Man Requiem #2 (Of 2)
Star Trek Missions End #5
Star Wars Legacy #38
Superman #690
Superman & Batman Vs Vampires & Werewolves TP
Surrogates Special HC Ed
Surrogates TP Vols 1 & 2
Tasty Bullet GN
Teen Titans #73
Terror Inc Apocalypse Soon #4 (Of 4) (D. Lapham)
Terror Titans TP
Thunderbolts #134 DKR (A. Diggle)
Tim Burton Stuff
Stain Boy 11 Oz Mug
Toxic Boy 11 Oz Mug
Transformers Energon TP Vol 01
Tripwire Annual 2009
Ultimatum #5 (Of 5)
Unknown Soldier #10
War Of Kings Ascension #4 (Of 4)
Wednesday Comics #4 (Of 12)
Werewolf By Night TP In The Blood
Wildcats #13
Will Eisner’s Minor Miracles TP
Wizard Magazine #215
Wonder Woman #34
Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2
Marvel Masterworks X-Men TP Vol 2 Reg & Var
Wolverine Noir #4 (Of 4)
X-Men Forever #4
You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! TP (F. Hanks)
MANGA
Air Gear GN Vol 13
Blade Of The Immortal TP Vol 21
Children Of The Sea TP Vol 01
Kamichama Karin-Chu GN Vol 5
Parasyte GN Vol 08 (Of 8)
Pluto Urasawa X Tezuka GN Vol 4
Vagabond Vizbig Ed GN Vol 4
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Due to Arrive 30/07/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Barack Obama #2 The First 100 Days
Batman The Brave And The Bold #7
Detective Comics #855
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #6
Birds Of Prey Platinum Flats TP
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #3 (Of 3)
Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy HC Vol 8
Complete Dracula #2 (Of 5)
Dark Reign
- Goblin Legacy DKR
- Hawkeye #4 (Of 5) DKR
- The Hood #3 (Of 5) DKR
- Lethal Legion #2 (Of 3) DKR
- Sinister Spider-Man #2 (Of 4) DKR
- Young Avengers #3 (Of 5) DKR
Dark Tower The Fall Of Gilead #3 (Of 6)
Essential Spectacular Spider-Man TP Vol 4
Fantastic Four #569
Fear Agent #27 1 Against 1 (Pt 6 Of 6)
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #3 (Of 6)
Free Realms #1
Garth Ennis Battlefields Tankies #3 (Of 3)
Ghost Rider TP Last Stand
Glamourpuss #8
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 2
Justice League Of America #35
Justice Society Of America #29
Kid Colt #1
Last Days Of Animal Man #3 (Of 6)
Lone Ranger #17
Madame Xanadu #13
Marvel Zombies 4 #4 (Of 4)
Mice Templar Destiny #1
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #2
New Avengers #55 DKR
Northlanders #19
Northlanders TP Vol 2
Previews #251 August 2009
Proof #22
PvP TP Vol 6 Silent But Deadly
Rapture #3 (Of 6)
Scourge Of Gods Prem HC Vol 1
Secret Warriors #6 DKR
Son Of Hulk #13
Spawn #194
Spider-Girl TP Vol 11 Marked For Death Digest
Star Trek Archives TP Vol 5 Best Of Kirk
Star Trek Mission’s End #5
Star Wars Dark Times #14
Star Wars Legacy #38
Superman #690
Superman Batman Vs Vampires Werewolves TP
Teen Titans #73
Terror Inc Apocalypse Soon #4 (Of 4)
Terror Titans TP
Thunderbolts #134 DKR
Ultimatum #5 (Of 5)
Ultimatum Spider-Man Requiem #2 (Of 2)
Unknown Soldier #10
War Of Kings Ascension #4 (Of 4)
Wednesday Comics #4 (Of 12)
Werewolf By Night TP In The Blood
Wildcats #13
Wizard Magazine #215
Wonder Woman #34
Dark X-Men Beginning #2 (Of 3) DAX
Marvel Masterworks X-Men TP Vol 2
Wolverine Noir #4 (Of 4)
X-Men Forever #4
X-Men Original Sin TP
The Gosh! Authority 22/07/09
If everything had gone according to plan the first sentence of this week’s post would read: Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter Bookplate Edition is now in store! Instead, thanks to delays at the printer and further delays thanks to Cooke being incredibly popular and busy at San Diego Comicon, we now have the books (which are very tasty indeed) but not the signed, numbered, Gosh! Exclusive bookplates which are currently on their way to Mr Cooke to be signed and numbered. So here’s what we’re gonna do: Given that you probably can’t wait to read the thing (and do head over to the wonderful World of Kane if you don’t know what I’m on about) you can go ahead and buy it, and we’ll stick your name on our bookplate reserve list while you go home and await further instruction. We’ll get one to you as soon as Cooke posts ‘em back. It’s like a military operation, this. Anyway, that aside, there are already enthusiastic reviews rolling in and if you’ve not yet laid eyes on the thing head directly to this preview without passing Go.
The other big graphic novel out this week is The Nobody by Jeff Lemire (The Essex County Trilogy) which sees an isolated village take in a stranger covered head to toe in mummy bandages. It’s based on H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man but a review over at CbR suggests it has more in common with the recent Swedish horror flick Let the Right One In. I’ve not read it yet so I can’t say, but I can tell you that there are preview pages at Lemire’s blog and they look smashing.
Another mention-worthy hardcover is Jeff Smith’s latest offering Little Mouse Gets Ready, a kids book with no nookies in it unlike last week’s Rasl #5. This one’s all about a little mouse getting dressed, wrestling with buttons, velcro, and underpant tail-holes. Judging from the previews it’s a lovely little book which you can tell yourself you’re getting for your kid or something.
The third issue of Gosh! favourite (premature? We think not) Wednesday Comics is hitting the shelves the day after Wednesday, as is the fashion outside the US. The series was previously mentioned on this blog here and here. We’re getting another bundle of #1s and #2s so if you thought you missed ‘em think again! You can buy all three in one go and roll around on their enormous pages in your underpants. Though my guess is you’ll probably want to keep them. They’re rather nice.
Forget your Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men – this crossover promises to ‘rock your face off’: It’s Dethklok Vs The Goon in a one-shot story by Eric Powell. Dethklok are a fictional/virtual death metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse whose album has been a favourite of Powell’s for a long time. Powell says “…the only way this comic could be more metal was if the art were laser-imprinted onto slabs of iron.” It’s also a Dethklok story that’ll never be animated so if you’re a fan of the show you’d best grab a copy. I mention this only for non-Goon fans because Goon fans don’t need telling. Incidentally, you can read the rest of that Powell interview here, and if you didn’t check out the preview pictures from the animated feature (produced by David Fincher of Se7en, Fight Club and the rest) last time this popped up on the blog you can still seem them at Ain’t it Cool News.
Jason Aaron (writer of Scalped, Wolverine and object of Andrew’s fanboy affections) teams up with Mico Suayan (Moon Knight) and Travel Foreman (Cla$$war) in a series that gives the Immortal Weapons their very own miniseries. The focus of the five-issue run is the origin of Fat Cobra, of whom Aaron says…
[Of all the characters there’s] something about Fat Cobra seems the most colourful and outrageous. He's just a big sumo guy whose most famous line is, "Bring me my wenches of waiting!" I like the chance to do the fun stuff, but also subvert it a little and show, like I said, sort of the dark side to his origin story. More of that here.
Incredible Hulk #600 is so exciting Marvel wrote the solicitation entirely in capitals. Jeph Loeb, Ed McGuinness and Fred Van Lente are all here, plus Tim Sale pops up in a Hulk: Gray #1 reprint. Preview!
And finally, I keep rabbiting on about it but they’ve got naff all in the way of a promotional budget: Go see Moon. It’s like one of those sci-fi films that don’t get made anymore. You’ll like it.
-- Hayley
In Store 17/07/09 - 23/07/09
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2000 AD Prog #1645
Judge Dredd Megazine #287
Aliens #2 (Of 4)
All New Savage She-Hulk #4 (Of 4) Dark Reign
Atomic Robo Shadow From Beyond Time #3
Avengers Initiative #26
New Avengers Prem HC Vol 10
Back Issue #35
Showcase Presents Batman TP Vol 4
Black Panther 2 #6 Dark Reign
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #2 (Of 3)
Boys Herogasm #3 (Of 6) (G. Ennis)
Captain Britain And MI 13 #15(Last issue!)
Conan The Cimmerian #12
Creepy Archives HC Vol 4
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #1 (Of 5)
Dellec #1
Dethklok Vs The Goon One-Shot
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #1
Dr Who Magazine #411
Elephantmen TP Vol 2 Damaged Goods
Emily The Strange III #1 (Of 4)
Fall Of Cthulhu Nemesis #4 (Of 4)
Dark Reign Fantastic Four #5 (Of 5) DKR
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four TP 4
Farscape Gone & Back #1
Festering Romance GN (Renee Lott)
Final Crisis
- Aftermath: Dance #3 (Of 6)
- Legion Of Three Worlds #5
- Rogues’ Revenge HC
Flight TP Vol 6
Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Nightmare Warriors #2
Fusion #3 (Of 3)
Futurama Comics #44
Gears Of War #9
Gemini #4 (Of 5)
George McManus’ Bringing Up Father HC
GI Joe #7
- Best Of Snake Eyes GN
- Movie Adaptation #4 (Of 4)
- TP Vol 1
Gotham City Sirens #2
Green Lantern #44 Blackest Night
Greetings From The Ocean’s Sweaty Face: 100 McSweeney's Postcards (C. Ware/C. Burns et al)
Groom Lake #4
Guardians Of Galaxy #16
Halo Helljumper #1 (Of 5)
Hellblazer #257 (P. Milligan)
Immortal Weapons #1 (Of 5)
Incredible Hercules #131
Incredible Hulk #600
Invincible #64
Jack Of Fables #36
Jeff Smith’s Little Mouse Gets Ready HC
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Storm Front II #1
Killapalooza #3 (Of 6)
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage TP Vol 6
Life And Times Of Savior 28 #4
Marvel 1985 TP (Millar/Edwards)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #53
Modern Masters SC Vol 21 Chris Sprouse
Ms Marvel #42 Dark Reign
Myspace Dark Horse Presents TP Vol 3
Nexus Archives HC Vol 9
The Nobody HC (Jeff Lemire)
Nova #27
Official Handbook To The Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 9
Outlaw: Legend Of Robin Hood GN
Outsiders #20
Phonogram 2 #4 (Of 7) Singles Club
Power Girl #3
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #1
Red Sonja #46
Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter HC (Darwyn Cooke)
Runaways 3 #12
Simpsons Classics #21
Sparrow HC Vol 13 Camilla Derrico
Spawn Origins TP Vol 2
Amazing Spider-Man #600
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 1 Power & Responsibility
The Spirit #31
Stan Drake's The Heart Of Juliet Jones TP Vol 2
Star Trek Spock Reflections #1
Star Wars Vector TP Vol 2
Supergirl #43
Superman Chronicles TP Vol 7
Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica One-Shot
Tiny Titans #18
Transformers All Hail Megatron #13
Transformers Animated TP Vol 10
Union Station GN New Ed
Usagi Yojimbo TP Vol 23
Vampirella: Countdown To Second Coming One-Shot
Wednesday Comics #3 (Of 12)
Wildcats World’s End TP Book 1
Wonderful Wizard Of Oz #8 (Of 8)
Dark Wolverine #76 DKR
Deadpool Suicide Kings #4 (Of 5)
Wolverine First Class #17
Wolverine Origins #38
X-Force #17
Youngblood #9
MANGA
Berserk TP Vol 30
Naruto TP Vol 45
Suppli GN Vol 3 (Of 6)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Due to Arrive 23/07/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Aliens #2 (Of 4)
All New Savage She-Hulk #4 (Of 4) DKR
Alter Ego #88
Atomic Robo Shadow From Beyond Time #3 (Of 5)
Back Issue #35
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #2 (Of 3)
Boys Herogasm #3 (Of 6)
Cable Classic TP Vol 2
Captain America Reborn #1 (Of 5)
Captain Britain And MI 13 #15
Cartoon Network Block Party #59
Conan The Cimmerian #12
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #1 (Of 5)
Deadpool Suicide Kings #4 (Of 5)
Dethklok Vs The Goon (One Shot)
Emily The Strange III #1 (Of 4)
Fall Of Cthulhu Nemesis #4 (Of 4)
Farscape Gone & Back #1
Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #3 (Of 6)
Final Crisis Legion Of Three Worlds #5 (Of 5)
Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Nightmare Warriors #2 (Of 6)
Fusion #3 (Of 3)
Futurama Comics #44
Gears Of War #9
Gemini #4 (Of 5)
GI Joe #7
GI Joe Best Of Snake Eyes GN
GI Joe Movie Adaptation #4 (Of 4)
Gotham City Sirens #2
Green Lantern #44 Blackest Night
Groom Lake #4
Guardians Of Galaxy #16
Hellblazer #257
Invincible #64
Jack Kirby Collector #53
Jack Of Fables #36
Killapalooza #3 (Of 6)
Life And Times Of Savior 28 #4
Marvel 1985 TP
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four TP 4 3 2 1 Digest
New Avengers Prem HC Power Vol 10
Nova #27
Off Handbook To The Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 9
Outsiders #20
Phonogram 2 #4 (Of 7) Singles Club
Power Girl #3
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #1
Red Sonja #46
Simpsons Classics #21
Spawn Origins TP Vol 2
Spirit #31
Star Trek Spock Reflections #1
Supergirl #43
Superman Chronicles TP Vol 7
Tiny Titans #18
Transformers All Hail Megatron #13
Transformers Animated TP Vol 10
We Kill Monsters #1 (Of 6)
Wednesday Comics #3 (Of 12)
Wildcats Worlds End TP Book 1
Youngblood #9
The Gosh! Authority 15/07/09
Right then. Comics. Here’s what’s on the menu today:
Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s controversial Lost Girls is now in one single hardcover volume, going for roughly half the price of the now out-of-print purple behemoth you probably struggled with on the tube. They haven’t shrunk the pages they’ve just stuck ‘em all in one nice cloth-bound, dust-jacketed block that will only break your toe if you drop it and not your whole foot. If you’ve somehow unbelievably and rather shamefully missed the furore and never set eyes on the thing, Top Shelf have put up 12-page preview for you. But mind how you go: there are (gasp!) willies in it.
More Moore? The Captain Britain by Alan Moore & Alan Davis Omnibus HC should do it, particularly if you’re upset over the ongoing series being canned. Captain Britain and the MI 13 #15 is going to be the last one you’ll see, and it’s supposed to show up next week. This omnibus is the first time the Moore/Davis run has been reprinted in total for the first time and there’s piles of it – 680 pages of the stuff! Over at the Mindless Ones they theorise that perhaps it was the lack of bad 80s hair that led to the demise of the current series.
Last week we had also Moore’s Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? in hardcover so it’s only fitting that Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? HC should follow suit. His two-part ‘love letter to Batman’ is here, obviously, along with some other Gaiman/Batman stuff DC have rounded up: Gaiman’s Poison Ivy story in Secret Origins #36 (with Mark Buckingham), his whimsical secret origin of The Riddler in Secret Origins Special #1, and his Joker story in Batman: Black & White #2, illustrated by Simon Bisley. If you didn’t pick up the Caped Crusader story as it came out there’s a review here with lots of pages of Andy Kubert’s lovely artwork.
All Select Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special is worth a look this week not just for the Mark Guggenheim (Amazing Spider-Man) and the brilliant Javier Pulido (Robin: Year One, and Human Target) 1940s heroine Blonde Phantom noir piece (talked about here), but also for the bonus story by Michael Kupperman of Gosh! Favourite Tales Designed to Thrizzle. Kupperman takes on Marvex, the existentialist Super-Robot from the early days of Marvel who would undress in each story to show women he couldn’t date them on account of his being a robot. Kupperman promises to take it up a notch and Marvex will get his kit of twice. His first Thrizzle collection came out last week and because we like it so much we got in loads. And we still have some.
Another Gosh! Favourite is Black Jack creator Osamu Tezuka. This week sees the release of his adult-y series Swallowing the Earth, the story of an icy seductress called Zephyrus and a perpetually drunken sailor. Tezuka re-used some of the same characters in different stories so you’ll probably recognise some from the Buddha books. More of that kind of talk and a summary of the manga master’s career here and a preview here.
Blackest Night starts this week with Geoff Johns’ Blackest Night #1 (of 8), Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1 (of 3), plus a tie-in Titans issue you might want to pick up. Geoff Johns talks about the series here. Speaking of Johns, his Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes story that ran in Action Comics #858-863 is collected in trade-paperback and reviewed here. Andrew highly recommends it too.
This week’s issue of Walking Dead has its usual bevy of zombies but as an added bonus it also has the entirety of Chew #1, which is a series causing quite a buzz. We didn’t order enough Chew #1 and then got lots of people asking for it. This must have happened everywhere, because its writer John Layman says…
“As a creator, there's nothing more satisfying than hearing that a lot of people are interested in reading your book. The flip side of this is there's nothing more frustrating than hearing how people can't get a hold of your book to read. So, Image and Robert Kirkman concocted this great plan to put Chew in a lot of people hands – and for the unbeatable low, low price of 'free'."
That said, the free preview’s in black and white so if you like it you may very well want to kick yourself (or us) for missing Rob Guillory’s colour artwork. Fear not! There’s second printings of issues #1-3 in the post. They should be with us in early August.
In non-shop news, the Kevin O’Neill exhibition at the Illustration Cupboard that I mentioned a while ago is on now! Apparently Moore and Pat Mills turned up at the opening last night and we’ve heard very good things about it.
Also, over at Panel Borders Alex Fitch talks to small press creator Paul Rainey about his comic There’s No Time Like the Present:
TNTLTP tells the story of a group of friends from Milton Keynes who suffer from the usual concerns of our generation – niche interests, unfulfilling jobs, difficulties with dating etc. – but in a world where time travel exists and the UK in the present day is a holiday vacation for patronising visitors from the future.
And if you like the sound of it we’ve all of his backissues.
I think that’s it for the week. I’ll see you Thursday.
-- Hayley
In Store 10/07/09 - 16/07/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Double Digest #200
2000 AD Prog #1644
Agents Of Atlas #8
Air #11
All Select Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special(J. Palido/M. Kupperman)
All Star Companion TP Vol 4
Angel After The Fall HC Vol 4
Annihilation Classic TP
Artesia Besieged #3 (Of 6)
Astro City The Dark Age TP Book 1
Marvel Adventures Avengers #38
Mighty Avengers #27
Batman Streets Of Gotham #2
Batman: Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader? HC (Gaiman)
Beta Ray Bill Godhunter #2 (Of 3)
Blackest Night #1 (Of 8)(Geoff Johns/Ivan Reis)
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #1 (Of 3)
Brave And The Bold #25
Buck Rogers #2
Captain America #601
Captain Britain Moore Davis Omnibus HC
Creepy Comics #1 (B. Wrightson)
Dark Avengers #7 DAX (M. Fraction)
Dark Reign Mister Negative #2 (Of 3) DKR (Fred Van Lente)
Dead At 17 Afterbirth #2 (Of 4)
DMZ #43 (Brian Wood)
Doctor Doom TP Masters Of Evil GN
Enders Game HC Battle School
Enders Shadow HC Battle School
Essential Marvel Two In One TP Vol 3
Fables #1 Peter & Max Preview
Fables #86
Fall Of Cthulhu TP Vol 5 Apocalypse
Fallen Angel Reborn #1
Farscape D'argo's Lament #4 (Of 4)
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape #3 (Of 6)
Franklin Richards School's Out One-Shot
GI Joe Movie Adaptation #3 (Of 4)
Guardians Of Galaxy Prem HC Power Starhawk
Incognito #5 (Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips)
Incredible Hercules HC Smash Titans
Iron Man Armored Adventures One-Shot
JSA Vs Kobra #2 (Of 6)
Killer #9 (Of 10)
Last Resort #1 (J. Palmiotti/J. Gray)
Light Brigade TP New Ptg
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers #3 (Of 4)
Lost Girls HC Single Volume Edition(A. Moore/M. Gebbie)
Madame Xanadu TP Vol 1 Disenchanted
Nexus Space Opera Acts 3 & 4
Olympus #3 (Christian Ward)
Phantom Generations #3
Preacher HC Book 1 (G. Ennis)
Punisher #7
Rasl #5 (Jeff Smith)
Resurrection Vol 2 #2
Scalped #30 (Jason Aaron)
Sherlock Holmes #3 (Of 5)(L. Moore/R. Reppion)
Simpsons Comics #156
Soulfire New World Order #3 (Of 5)
Amazing Spider-Man #599 DKR
Spider-Man Prem HC Torment
Star Wars Adventures TP Vol 2 Princess Leia & Royal Ransom
Star Wars Clone Wars #7
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #43
Steve Ditko Reader TP Vol 1 2nd Ptg
Super Friends #17
Super Friends Calling All Super Friends TP
Action Comics #879
Superman And The Legion Of Super-Heroes TP (G. Johns)
Superman Batman #62
Thunderbolts Prem HC Burning Down The House
Timestorm 2009 2099 #3 (Of 4)
Titans #15 Blackest Night
Unknown #3 (Of 4)
Vigilante #8
Walking Dead #63 (R. Kirkman)
War Machine Prem HC Vol 1 Iron Heart
Wednesday Comics #2 (Of 12)
Welcome To Forest Island HC
Werewolves On The Moon Versus Vampires #2 (Of 3)
When We Fall GN
World Of Warcraft #21
Deadpool #12 DKR
New Mutants #3
X-Factor #46
Young Liars #17 (D. Lapham)
Zeke Deadwood Zombie Lawman #1 Legally Dead
MANGA
Swallowing The Earth GN(O. Tezuka)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Due to Arrive 16/07/09
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
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.
SOLD OUT.
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