Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Angel #26
Angel Not Fade Away TP
Authority #15
Batman And Robin #5
Batman Annual #27
Batman Confidential #34
Batman The Unseen #1 (Of 5)
Beta Ray Bill Godhunter TP
Black Panther 2 #9
Boys #35
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #29
Captain America Theater Of War Ghosts Of My Country One-Shot
Chronicles Of Wormwood Last Battle #1 (Of 6)
Crossed #7 (Of 9)
Daredevil #501
Dark Reign Fantastic Four TP
Dark Reign List Secret Warriors One-Shot
Dark Reign Zodiac #3 (Of 3) DKR
Doctor Voodoo Avenger Of Supernatural #1
Doom Patrol #3
Essential Ghost Rider TP Vol 3
Final Crisis Aftermath Run #6 (Of 6)
Ghost Riders Heaven’s On Fire #3 (Of 6)
Godland #29
Good The Bad & The Ugly #4
Greek Street #4
Haunt #1
House Of M Masters Of Evil #3 (Of 4)
House Of Mystery #18
Iron Man Armor Wars #3 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #7
Jack Of Fables TP Vol 6 The Big Book Of War
Jersey Gods #8
Jonah Hex #48
Justice League Cry For Justice #4 (Of 7)
Kill Audio #1 (Of 6)
Luke Cage Noir #3 (Of 4)
Magog #2
Mice Templar Destiny #4
Mighty #9
Models Inc #2 (Of 4)
North 40 #4 (Of 6)
Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular Planetary #27
Project Superpowers Meet The Bad Guys #2 (Of 4)
Rebels Annual Starro The Conqueror #1
Red Tornado #2 (Of 6)
Savage Dragon #153
Shaman Warrior TP Vol 8
Sherlock Holmes #5 (Of 5)
Amazing Spider-Man #608
Spider-Man 1602 #1 (Of 5)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #3
Star Trek Romulans Schism #2
Star Wars Invasion #4
Starr The Slayer #2 (Of 4)
Starstruck #2
Strange Adventures #8 (Of 8)
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4)
Strange Tales #2 (Of 3)
Superman World Of New Krypton #8 (Of 12)
Supreme Power Prem HC Nighthawk
Sweet Tooth #2
Torch #2 (Of 8)
Transformers Best Of The UK Prey #3 (Of 5)
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #2
War Heroes #3 (Of 6)
Warlord #7
Witchblade #131
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #4 (Of 5)
Astonishing X-Men #31
Cable #19
Deadpool #16
Marvel Spotlight Deadpool
X-Babies #1 (Of 4)
X-Men Forever TP Vol 1
X-Men Noir TP
X-Men Vs Agents Of Atlas #1 (Of 2)
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Due To Arrive 08/10/09
The Gosh! Authority 30/09/09
One of our top picks this week is Gilbert Shelton’s Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus which collects all the strips about that other famous, non-lasagne eating ginger tom. Like many things he began as a footnote to something else and soon became deservedly famous in his own right. In this latest omnibus (which fits perfectly with the Freak Brothers Omnibus design-wise) the orange Cat can be found sleeping on Fat Freddy’s head, battling endless armies of roaches, travelling to Mexico, saving the world from an alien invasion and (of course) the Hee Hee Hee drug. If you were one of the many people who asked for more Freak Brothers you’ll need to swing by the shop tout de suite.
In other news, Alan Moore has some thoughts on pornography that will probably sit very well on the bookshelf next to that well-thumbed copy of Lost Girls. If you managed to grab a copy of the long sold out issue of Arthur magazine you’ll have read them before in that brilliantly titled essay of his, Bog Venus Versus Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography. This book I’m foisting on you is called 25, 000 Years of Erotic Freedom HC and it’s an extended version of that very essay now beefed up with relevant illustrations, photographs, and frontbottoms. In a 1000 word excerpt on CbR Moore argues that “Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilisation and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.” And he’s probably right. The big hairy one tends to be terribly convincing, anyway. At his Gosh! signing he almost had me agreeing that custard creams are the lesser, anaemic cousin to bourbons.
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy Library Ed HC Volume 3 collects three classic stories in a big black book including the award-winning Conqueror Worm in which Hellboy has his first run-in with fan-favourite Lobster Johnson. And just to make sure you get your £37.50’s worth, there’s an extra thirty pages of never-before-seen sketchbook stuff. Preview!
Lords of Misrule HC reprints classic (word of the day, obviously) stuff by Dan Abnett, John Tomlinson, Steve White, Gary Erskine, and Peter Snejbjerg for the first time in full colour with a bunch of other previously uncollected pages – so it’s not just for those of you who missed it the first time round. If you did, here’s what happens: After two friends are horribly murdered near a rural English town the survivors discover a longstanding history of grim doings in the village. Sure to appeal to the 10 or so fans who loved Abnett and Tomlinson’s original Knights of Pendragon. It feels like it exists in the same universe as that fondly remembered series, although of course it doesn’t as that was set in Marvel Universe (sort of), but eagle eyed fans might notice that Lords of Misrule is actually set in the same universe as the popular Aussie soap Neighbours. Answers on a postcard….
Another big hardcover that arrived midweek is Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikyorak (The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad), a Drawn & Quarterly collection of parodies of classic literature full of the superfluous exclamation marks, cartoon colours and the general nuttiness of old comics. See good ol’ Charlie Brown become Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Metemorphosis whose social unease is probably just right for the miserable cockroach hiding in his bedroom. In the meantime, see a preview.
Ed Brubaker (Criminal) and Sean Phillips’ (Incognito) final collection of Sleeper is out this week collecting the full second year of the acclaimed series plus a never-before-collected prequel. There’s also the second block of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy to look forward to in a trade collection of Dallas. Alternatively, there’s always the lovely big hardcover edition that came out last week if you prefer that.
Superman: Kryptonite TP collects the amazing Superman-meets-Kryptonite–for-the-first-time story by Gosh! Favourites Darwyn Cooke (Parker: The Hunter, DC: The New Frontier) and Tim Sale (Batman: The Long Halloween) in their first project together. Everything these guys do is brill and we always say so, ipso facto there’s really no need for me to harp on about it. I’ll let this man do it. He says it’s glorious. In fact, he says the word glorious several times.
If you’re a fan of Hergé’s Tin Tin there’s a new book on the shelf by Garen Ewing that’s likely to catch your eye. The Adventures of Julius Chancer: The Rainbow Orchid Volume 1 is drawn in much the style with a pink-cheeked hero on an international adventure. There’s no shortage of mystery and intrigue here so check out the artwork in this ‘ere preview if it sounds like your cup of tea.
That’s it for another week. Don’t forget we’ve got the Joe Sacco signing today from 5pm until 7pm!
-- Hayley
In Store 25/09/09 - 01/10/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1655
25,000 Years of Erotic Freedon HC (Alan Moore)
Al Williamson Forbidden Worlds SC
Alex Horley Sketchbook SC
Aliens #3 (Of 4)
Alter Ego #89
Army Of Darkness #25
Astro City Astra Special #1 (Of 2)
Avengers Initiative #28
Avengers Invaders HC
Marvel Masterworks Avengers TP Vol 2
New Avengers #57 (Brian M Bendis)
Aya: The Secrets Come Out HC
Bad Dog #3 (Joe Kelly)
Batman: The Black Glove TP
Batman The Brave And The Bold #9
Batman Widening Gyre #2 (Of 6)
Black Panther Prem HC Deadliest Of The Species
Blackest Night Titans #2 (Of 3)
Bomb Queen VI #1 (Of 4)
Book About Moomin, Mymble & Little My HC (Tove Jansson)
Boys Herogasm #5 (Of 6) (G. Ennis)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 TP Vol 5 Predator & Prey
Child Thief HC
Dark Reign
- Hood #5 (Of 5)
- Lethal Legion #3 (Of 3)
- Sinister Spider-Man #4 (Of 4)
Dark Tower Fall Of Gilead #5 (Of 6)
Darkness #80
Die Hard Year One #1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #4
Doctor Who Special #23
Echo #15 (Terry Moore)
Fables Deluxe Edition HC Vol 1
Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus SC
Fantastic Four #571
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #5 (Of 6)
Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Nightmare Warriors #4
Futurama Comics #45
GI Joe Cobra Special #1
Glamourpuss #9 (Dave Sim)
Gotham City Sirens #4
Green Lantern #46 BN (G. Johns)
Halo Helljumper #3 (Of 5)
Hellboy Library Ed HC Vol 3 Conqueror Worm & Strange Places (M. Mignola)
Hellboy Novel Ice Wolves SC
Hercules Knives Of Kush #3 (Of 5)
High Moon TP Vol 1
Hulk #15
Icon A Hero's Welcome TP New Ptg
Illustration Magazine #27
Jack Of Fables #38
Joe Kubert’s How To Draw From Life SC
Justice League Of America 80 Page Giant #1
Justice Society Of America #31
Knights Of The Dinner Table #154
Know Thyself HC
Last Days Of Animal Man #5 (Of 6)
Lords Of Misrule HC
Masterpiece Comics HC(R. Sikoryak)
Marvel Divas #3 (Of 4)
Marvel Previews October 2009
Marvel Zombies Return #5
Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe A-Z Prem HC Vol 10
Phantom Generations #5
Phantom Ghost Who Walks #5
Richard Moore's The Pound #1
Power & Glory TP (H. Chaykin)
Previews #252 October 2009
Prison Pit SC Book 1
Punisher Annual #1
Rainbow Orchid SC
Rapture #4 (Of 6)
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #2
Runaways 3 #14
Secret Warriors #8
Shang-Chi Master Of Kung-Fu One-Shot
Sleeper Season 2 TP(Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips)
Son Of Hulk #15
Amazing Spider-Man #607 (Joe Kelly)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #55
Spider-Man Clone Saga #1 (Of 6)
Spin Angels #2 (Of 4)
Star Wars Legacy #40
Superman #692
Superman Batman TP Vol 1 Public Enemies
Superman Kryptonite TP(Darwyn Cooke/Tim Sale)
Teen Titans #75
Tex Art Of Mark Texeira SC
Thor #603
Thunderbolts #136
Trick ‘r Treat TP
Ultimatum Prem HC
Ultimatum Requiem Prem HC
Umbrella Academy TP Vol 2 Dallas
Uncanny X-Men #515
Unknown: Devil Made Flesh #1
Unknown Soldier #12
Usagi Yojimbo #123
Wizard Magazine #217
Deadpool Suicide Kings HC
New Mutants #5
Wolverine Origins #40
Wolverine Weapon X #5
Wolverine Weapon X Files TP
Wonder Woman #36
X-Factor #49
X-Force #19
X-Men Forever #8
X-Men Magneto Testament TP
Zombies That Ate The World #5 (Of 8)
MANGA
Berserk Vol 31
Gunsmith Cats Burst TP Vol 4
Tezuka's Black Jack TP Vols 6 & 7
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Due To Arrive 01/10/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Aliens #3 (Of 4)
Alter Ego #89
Army Of Darkness #25
Astro City Astra Special #1 (Of 2)
Avengers Invaders HC
Bad Dog #3
Batman The Brave And The Bold #9
Batman Widening Gyre #2 (Of 6)
Black Panther Prem HC Deadliest Of The Species
Blackest Night Titans #2 (Of 3)
Boys Herogasm #5 (Of 6)
Dark Reign Hood #5 (Of 5)
Dark Reign Lethal Legion #3 (Of 3) DKR
Dark Reign Sinister Spider-Man #4 (Of 4)
Dark Tower The Fall Of Gilead #5 (Of 6)
Darkness #80
Deadpool Suicide Kings HC
Die Hard Year One #1
Final Crisis Aftermath Ink #5 (Of 6)
Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Nightmare Warriors #4 (Of 6)
Futurama Comics #45
Garth Ennis Battlefields TP Vol 3 Tankies
GI Joe Cobra Special #1
Glamourpuss #9
Godland #29
Green Lantern #46 Blackest Night
Hercules Knives Of Kush #3 (Of 5)
Howard Chaykin Power & Glory TP
Hulk #15
Jack Of Fables #38
Justice League Of America 80 Page Giant #1
Justice Society Of America #31
Last Days Of Animal Man #5 (Of 6)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #55
Marvel Divas #3 (Of 4)
Marvel Masterworks Avengers TP Vol 2
Marvel Mystery Handbook 70th Anniversary Special One-Shot
Marvel Previews October 2009 Extras
Marvel Zombies Return #5
New Mutants #5
Official Handbook To The Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 10
Previews #253 October 2009
Punisher Annual #1
Rapture #4 (Of 6)
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #2
Runaways 3 #14
Secret Warriors #8
Sleeper Season 2 TP
Son Of Hulk #15
Amazing Spider-Man #607
Spider-Man Clone Saga #1 (Of 6)
Spin Angels #2 (Of 4)
Star Wars Legacy #40
Superman #692
Teen Titans #75
Thor #603
Thunderbolts #136
Ultimatum Prem HC
Ultimatum Requiem Prem HC
Unknown Soldier #12
War Heroes #3 (Of 6)
Wizard Magazine #217
Wolverine Weapon X #5
Wolverine Weapon X Files TP
Wonder Woman #36
X-Factor #49
X-Men Forever #8
X-Men Magneto Testament TP
The Gosh! Authority 23/09/09
Now that we’ve given you sufficient time to locate your diaries and scribble Joe Sacco Signing in the September 30 square we’re gonna hit you with another! Bryan Talbot will be signing stuff here at Gosh! in the usual place on the 10th of October, and the usual suspects will be manning the till and kettle. We’ll have early copies of his new steampunk graphic novel Grandville thanks to Jonathan Cape, so you’ll be able to get your mitts on a copy of the new’un and get it signed by the man himself all in one fell swoop. All necessary details are over in this post here.
And now onto the more immediate new’uns.
First up is an odd indie book called 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man HC by Matt Kindt, a Harvey and Eisner award nominated illustrator whose Pistolwhip was in Time’s Top 10 Graphic Novels in 2001. 3 Story is a book about Craig Pressgang, a man with a strange medical condition which causes continuous growth. By the time he was 15 he was three storeys tall and one of the most famous people on the planet. The book follows him from his birth to the present when he is unable to interact with a world that’s too small for him, all told in three eras by three women. The art’s lovely as you can see in this preview and over at Kindt’s blog there’s a link to a free online short story that ties into the very book I’m talking about. A freebie taster like at Baskin Robbins.
The long-delayed Will Eisner’s The Spirit: The New Adventures Archives Volume 1 HC has finally arrived on our doormat. In 1997, Eisner gave permission for some of the best names in the industry to resurrect the resurrected Denny Colt in a new series of stories. Everyone’s in it including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in a rare post-Watchmen collaboration, Paul Chadwick (Concrete), and Neil Gaiman teams up with Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Alec) in a 10-page story that he’s talked about on his blog here and there. Campbell’s got another story in there too and will no doubt be flipping frantically through the book to see if Dark Horse have fixed the computer-related ‘colour boob’ in which he made the Spirit green. “It looked blue on my monitor,” says he.
The Spirit TP Volume 2 is also full of big names doing Spirit stuff, collecting issues #7-13 of the current ongoing series. There’s Darwyn Cooke (Parker, The New Frontier) Walter Simonson (Wednesday Comics), Kyle Baker (Nat Turner, Why I Hate Saturn), Gail Simone (Wonder Woman), Dennis O’Neil, Glen David Gold, Chris Sprouse, Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets), Phil Hester, Ty Templeton and more. Great stuff and definitely worth your time.
Sulk Volume 3: King of Strength Comes From Madness is one for all you Jeffrey Brown fans. In it you’ll find stuff about fantasy and science fiction, robot best friends, pirates, time travelling babies, martial arts masterminds, and something called Being Awesome is its Own Reward. If you missed the first two volumes of Sulk you can find them in the shop nestled next to Brown’s Clumsy and Unlikely.
The last of this week’s big books is Umbrella Academy Volume 2: Dallas, the very limited oversized deluxe hardcover variety. Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s (Pixu, De:TALES, Casanova) New York Times Bestselling series had a few sceptical staff-members finding themselves becoming unlikely fans of the series and recommending it to just about everyone who walked in the door (probably even you, which makes this sentence somewhat superfluous). This edition features an expanded sketchbook section with concept art by both Way and Ba. Dark Horse have a preview here if you missed the series.
Here’s a couple of #1s that I predict will be mighty popular. The Eisner award winning duo Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev team up again for Spider-Woman #1, the first of a brand-spanking-new ongoing series which spins out of New Avengers and the whole Secret Invasion thing.
“[S.W.O.R.D. is] more intergalactic while this is more Earth-bound. What's interesting about Spider-Woman and S.W.O.R.D. is how different in tone they'll be. This is much more gritty and nourish [noir-ish? – Hayley], almost like Alias and my other work with crime comics,” says Bendis.
Superman: Secret Origin #1 (of 6) sees superstar team Geoff Johns and Gary Frank reunite to set the record straight on the origin of Superman, promising to be a look at the mythic past with an eye toward the future. If you’re wondering why we need yet another origin story, here’s what Johns has to say:
“To me, origin stories - particularly "Secret Origin" stories in the DC Comics universe - are vital to the introduction of characters and mythology to the larger audience, and I think they can be to the long time audience as well. We haven't seen a modern day retelling of Clark's first adventure as Superboy with the Legion of Super-Heroes, or the day Superman met Jimmy Olsen or the origins of Superman's long time enemies like the Parasite and Metallo. More importantly, Clark Kent himself will be explored in his earlier years in a way I don't think he's ever been explored before. And freaking Gary Frank, one of the greatest Superman artists in history already, is illustrating it. Every cover, every panel, every line….. I can only say, unlike previous Superman origin stories, this will be told almost entirely from Clark's eyes. We won't be spending an issue on Krypton. We'll be opening on one of Clark's earliest memories as a kid and moving forward from there. This is his story of self-discovery and the world's story of meeting Superman.”
Here’s a preview of this week’s 48-page issue.
If you’re one of the many who’ve been waiting for Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan you’d best get to the shop quick smart because it’s here! It’s the gory, ultraviolent last chapter to the Mad Max-y Wolverine story Millar wants to be remembered for, complete with a gallery of covers, behind-the-scenes extras, and all-new pin-ups. Preview.
Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #15 is guest-edited by Sammy Harkham of Kramers Ergot fame and he’s roped in almost everyone he knows thus making it the weirdest take on the Simpsons universe to date. In it you’ll find Halloweeny strips by Jordan Crane (Uptight), C.F. (Powr Mastrs), Will Sweeney (Tales from Greenfuzz), Tim Hensley (MOME), John Kerschbaum (Petey & Pussy), Kevin Huizenga (Ganges, Or Else) Matthew Thurber (1-800 Mice, Kramers Ergot), Jeffrey Brown (him again), and loads of others. It’s probably going to be talked about everywhere (Heidi McDonald at The Beat’s very excited about it) so it’s definitely one to add to your swag.
Last bit: The very last Wednesday Comics is out this Thursday! Given that it’s our job to think about such things, we’ve organised it so we’ve got ALL TWELVE ISSUES on the shelf so you can grab ‘em all at once. If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s what you’ll be looking for.
And that’s yer lot.
-- Hayley
In Store 18/09/09 - 24/09/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 Ad Prog #1654
3 Story: The Secret History Of The Giant Man HC
Anita Blake LC Necromancer #5 (Of 5)
Back Issue #36
DC Library Batman: A Death In The Family HC
Detective Comics #857 (G. Rucka)
Bart Simpson's Treehouse Of Horror #15
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #8
Blackest Night Superman #2 (Of 3)
Buck Rogers #4
Cavewoman Cover Gallery #2
Cavewoman Red Menace One-Shot
Chronicles Of Arthur GN Vol 1 Sword Of Fire & Ice
Chronicles Of Conan TP Vol 18
Conan The Cimmerian #14
Dark Reign Made Men One-Shot(F. Tieri)
Darkness Accursed TP Vol 2
Darkness/Pitt #2 (Of 3)
Dungeon The Early Years GN Vol 2(Lewis Trondheim)
Enders Shadow Command School #1 (Of 5)
Epic Chronicles Of Hagar The Horrible 1973-74 HC
Fantastic Force #4 (Of 4)
Fantastic Four Prem HC Masters Of Doom
Farscape Gone & Back #3
Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #5 (Of 6)
Flash Chronicles TP Vol 1
GI Joe #9
GI Joe Origins #7
Golden Age Marvel Comics Omnibus HC Vol 1
Goon TP Vol 9 Calamity Of Conscience (E. Powell)
Hatter M The Looking Glass Wars HC & TP Vol 2
Hellblazer #259 (P. Milligan)
Immortal Weapons #3 (Of 5)
Incredible Hercules #135
Incredible Hercules Prem HC Dark Reign
Incredible Hulk #602
Indiana Jones & The Tomb Of The Gods TP Vol 1
Indiana Jones: The Further Adventures Omnibus TP Vol 2
Invincible #66
Marvel Masterworks Invincible Iron Man HC Vol 6
Justice League Of America #37
Juxtapoz Vol 16 #10 Oct 2009
Killapalooza #5 (Of 6)
Labor Days GN Vol 2 Just Another Damn Day
Madame Xanadu #15
Madman Atomic Comics #17(Mike Allred) (Last issue!)
Marvel Adventures Thor And Avengers TP
Marvel Apes TP Evolution Starts Here
Marvel Comics In The 1960s SC
Marvel Zombies Return #4
Modesty Blaise TP Vol 16 The Scarlet Maiden
Mouse Guard HC Vol 2 Winter 1152
Ms Marvel #45
No Hero #7 (Of 7)
Nova #29
Power Girl #5
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #3
Rupert: A Collection Of Favourite Short Stories HC
Salt Water Taffy GN Vol 3 Truth About Dr. True
Savage She-Hulk TP
Amazing Spider-Man #606
Spider-Man Noir TP
Spider-Woman #1(B. Bendis/A. Maleev)
Spirit TP Vol 2 (D. Cooke/K. Baker/E. Risso et al)
Will Eisner's The Spirit: New Adventures Archive HC Vol 1
Star Trek Spock Reflections #3
Street Fighter TP Vol 1 New Ed
Stuffed GN
Sulk GN Vol 3 Kind Of Strength Comes From Madness(Jeffrey Brown)
Super Friends #19
Supergirl #45
Superman Batman #64
Superman Secret Origin #1 (Of 6)(Geoff Johns)
Tank Girl Odyssey Remastered Ed TP
Things Undone GN
Thor By Jurgens And Romita Jr TP Vol 1
Time Tunnel Complete Series SC
Umbrella Academy HC Vol 2 Dallas Deluxe Limited Edition
Underground #1 (Of 4)(J. Parker/S. Lieber)
Unthinkable #5 (Of 5)
Vigilante #10
Wasteland #26
Wasteland Apocalyptic Ed HC Vol 1
Web #1
Wednesday Comics #12 (Of 12)(Last one!)
Wildcats #15
Wolverine First Class #19
Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan One-Shot (M. Millar)
Wonder Woman Amazons Attack SC
Wonder Woman The Circle TP
Astonishing X-Men By Whedon & Cassaday Omnibus HC
Dark Reign List X-Men One-Shot
Dark X-Men Confession One-Shot DAX
Deadpool Prem HC Vol 2 Dark Reign
X-Men Origins HC
Zero Killer #5 (Of 6)
Zorro #16
MANGA
Big Adventures Of Majoko GN Vol 2 (Of 5)
Domo GN
Eden TP Vol 12
NGE Shinji Ikari Raising Project TP Vol 2
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Bryan Talbot signing at Gosh! Saturday 10th October
The second Autumnal signing here at Gosh! Comics is none other than Bryan Talbot!
Last seen at Gosh! in 2007 signing a mountain of Alice in Sunderland, Talbot is an award winning creator who began in the underground comix scene in the late 60s. A decade later came influential steampunk tale The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, followed by high profile work for 2000AD and many of DC/Vertigo’s top selling titles. The Tale of One Bad Rat won him an Eisner-award in 1996, and his 2007 graphic novel Alice in Sunderland still flies off the shelf here at Gosh!
We (and you, no doubt) are hotly anticipating Grandville, his return to world of steampunk. We’re excited to announce that the publisher, Jonathan Cape, are kindly supplying us with a pre-release of the book for this signing on Saturday the 10th of October, from 2-4pm. Can’t wait? Here's the trailer:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Due To Arrive 24/09/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
American McGee's Grimm #5
Anita Blake LC Necromancer #5 (Of 5)
Avengers Initiative #28
Bart Simpson's Treehouse Of Horror #15
Detective Comics #857
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #8
Blackest Night Superman #2 (Of 3)
Buck Rogers #4
Conan The Cimmerian #14
Dark Reign The List X-Men One-Shot
Dark Reign Made Men One-Shot
Enders Shadow Command School #1 (Of 5)
Fantastic Force #4 (Of 4)
Fantastic Four #571
Fantastic Four Prem Hc Masters Of Doom
Farscape Gone & Back #3
Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #5 (Of 6)
Flash Chronicles TP Vol 1
GI Joe #9
Godland #29
Guardians Of Galaxy #18
Halo Helljumper #3 (Of 5)
Hellblazer #259
Immortal Weapons #3 (Of 5)
Incredible Hercules #135
Incredible Hercules Prem HC Dark Reign
Incredible Hulk #602
Invincible #66
Justice League Of America #37
Killapalooza #5 (Of 6)
Madame Xanadu #15
Madman Atomic Comics #17
Marvel Adventures Thor And Avengers TP Digest
Marvel Apes TP Evolution Starts Here
Marvel Zombies Return #4
Ms Marvel #45
New Avengers #57
No Hero #7 (Of 7)
Nova #29
Pet Avengers Classic TP
Power Girl #5
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #3
Riftwar #4 (Of 5)
Runaways 3 #14
Savage She-Hulk TP
Amazing Spider-Man #606
Spider-Woman #1
Star Trek Spock Reflections #3
Super Friends #19
Supergirl #45
Superman Batman #64
Superman Secret Origin #1 (Of 6)
Thor By Jurgens And Romita Jr TP Vol 1
Underground #1 (Of 4)
Vigilante #10
Web #1
Wednesday Comics #12 (Of 12)
Wildcats #15
Dark X-Men Confession One-Shot DAX
Uncanny X-Men #515
Wolverine First Class #19
Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan #1
Wolverine Origins #40
X-Force #19
X-Men Origins HC
Zorro #16
The Gosh! Authority 16/09/09
If DC’s Absolute Editions are your thing you’re going to have one hell of a trip home after you get your mince pies on these:
Neil Gaiman’s popular Death spin-off stuff was originally going to be collected in a deluxe hardcover called Compleat Death because that’s what they’d been calling it for the last ten years. But after a rethink and some helpful prodding from Gaiman and his fans DC decided to release it as an Absolute Edition to fit nicely with the other four Sandman volumes on your creaking bookshelves. Beneath its slipcased, fancy hardcover you’ll find Death: The High Cost of Living (now completely relettered by Todd Klein) and Death: The Time of Your Life, both illustrated by Chris Bachalo and the lovely Mark Buckingham. There’s also the Death Talks About Life AIDS pamphlet, and a whole bunch of other bits and bobs you can read about at the DC website. Providing the intro is Gaiman’s ukulele-wielding girlfriend Amanda Palmer who recently starred alongside the brilliant Bill Nighy in his short film which you can see on the telly some time around Christmas.
Alan Moore’s Promethea is also getting the Absolute treatment, finally. This is the first of three oversized volumes and collects the first twelve issues all illustrated by the spectacular J.H. Williams III. He’s also got a Flickr photostream by the way, full of Promethea art and other stuff you’ll want to see, right click, save. Tom Strong – another Big Hairy Moore classic – is apparently unworthy of an Absolute but it gets a nice deluxe hardcover edition instead. This week we see the first of three volumes (again, the first dozen issues) illustrated by Chris Sprouse and a wealth of other people you like – Jerry Ordway, Dave Gibbons, et al.
That’s it for big Absolutes so be still your (accountant’s) heart! We’ve got lots of strange things in from Fantagraphics this week including West Coast Blues, a graphic novel adaptation by Jaques Tardi of the book by French master crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette. It’s one of those about a normal guy (in this case and aimless, young executive) who gets dragged into a world of violent crime after witnessing a murder. Jog the Blog (a blog you should watch) reviews it along with other bits about Cooke’s Hunter to boot. From the 10-page PDF preview it definitely looks like one that’s going to be around for a long time to come. And given that it’s the first in Fantagraphics’ new series of Tardi imports there’s thankfully more where that comes from.
Another offering from Fantagraphics is Love & Rockets New Stories Volume 2 in their new L&R trade-paperback format. There’s a 100-page chunk of new stuff by The Hernandez Brothers including Hypnotwist, Gilbert’s 39-page Lynchian story about a beautiful redhead’s surreal night with shady characters, violence and high heel shoes. There’s another PDF preview for you here and even an early (and very thorough) review with pictures and everything! The brothers Hernandez pop up on our shelves again this Thursday with the third issue of Citizen Rex. They talk about the series here and if it’s only just caught your eye you’ll be happy to know we’ve still got copies of the first two issues.
The big issue #1 of the week is Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s Beasts of Burden – the first of a four-issue miniseries about the heroic gang of cats and dogs introduced in the Dorkin/Thompson Eisner award-winning short story Stray from 2004’s Dark Horse Book of Hauntings. After grim supernatural doings threaten the community of Burden Hill it’s up to the four-legged crowd to sort it out.
“The area is attracting the dead, the damned and the diabolical, and the human inhabitants of the Hill are blind to this as they go about their everyday business commuting to work, watching TV, worrying about money and their kids. The people there are barely aware of their natural environment, let alone the unnatural environment. So it’s fallen to these animals, whose eyes and ears and snouts are more attuned to what’s happening, to counter these malevolent forces and try to get to the heart of the mystery of Burden Hill,” says Dorkin.
It’s all fully painted by Gosh! Favourite Jill Thompson (Magic Trixie) but just because there’s animals in it doesn’t mean it’s cutesy and sweet. It’s horrific but it’s not horror. Uh, here’s what Jill means:
“I'm not an overtly gory person. I subscribe to the old-movie style of violence depiction, which is that nothing that I can create is as disgusting as what you can create in your imagination. Of course, in the first issue, there's a bunch of gore. But if there's something really bad that happens, I'd prefer to show what's leading up to it or the aftermath, not the actual impact.”
You can preview it here.
The huge manga release this week is Pluto Volume 5 by Urasawa and Tezuka and if this review is anything to go by it’s another cracking instalment that you’ll want to get your mitts on ASAFP.
Phillip Marsden is a Liverpool-based small-press comic artist that you’ll probably hear of very soon if you haven’t already. From now until late November there’s a retrospective exhibition of Marsden’s comic work since 2004 which is also partly a launch for his new comic True Stories which collects what you’ll see on the walls at the Riverside Gallery plus a bunch of new stuff too. All details are over at his website and there are even some attractive postcards on the counter here at Gosh!
And last of all, don’t forget about our Joe Sacco signing on Wednesday 30th of September! We’ve got three more signing announcements to make (properly) so keep an eye on the Gosh! Blog.
-- Hayley
In Store 11/09/09 - 17/09/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1653
Judge Dredd Megazine #289
28 Days Later #2
Absolute Death HC(N. Gaiman/M. Buckingham/C. Bachalo/D. McKean et al)
Absolute Promethea HC Vol 1 (A. Moore/J.H. Williams III)
Action Comics #881
Agents Of Atlas #11
Air #13
Alcoholic SC (J. Ames/D. Haspiel)
All & Sundry: Uncollected Work HC 2004 - 09 (P. Hornschemeier)
Angel #25
Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama #2 (Of 4)
Apple Anthology GN Vol 3
Athena #1 (Obama Flip Cover)
Atomic Robo Shadow From Beyond Time #5
Dark Avengers #9 (B. Bendis)
Mighty Avengers #29
Bad Girls TP (J. Bone)
Batgirl #2
Batman And Robin #4 (G. Morrison)
Batman Cacophony HC (K. Smith)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #4
Beasts Of Burden #1 (Of 4)(Evan Dorkin/Jill Thompson)
Blackest Night #3 (Of 8) (G. Johns)
Brave And The Bold #27 (J. M. Straczynski)
Captain America Reborn #3 (Of 5)(Ed Brubaker)
Captain America TP Man With No Face (Ed Brubaker)
Citizen Rex #3 (Of 6)(M & G Hernandez)
Dark Reign The List Daredevil One-Shot (A. Diggle)
Dominic Fortune #2 (Of 4)(H. Chaykin)
Dr Who Magazine #413
Ex Machina #45 (B.K. Vaughan)
Fables #88
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape #5 (Of 6)
Galactica 1980 #1
GI Joe Origins #7
Giraffes In My Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life HC (Carol Swain)
Green Arrow Black Canary #24
Green Arrow Black Canary The Wedding Album HC
Haunt Of Horror TP (R. Corben)
Heavy Metal Nov 2009
Hercules Prince Of Power Prem HC
Hulk Planet Skaar HC
Hulk Skaar Son Of Hulk TP
Invincible Iron Man #18
Irredeemable TP Vol 1 (M. Waid)
Johnny Boo HC Vol 3 Happy Apples(J. Kochalka)
JSA Vs Kobra #4 (Of 6)
Life & Times Of Martha Washington In The 21st Century HC (F. Miller/D. Gibbons)
Locke & Key Head Games HC Vol 1
Lone Ranger #18
Love & Rockets New Stories TP Vol 2 (G & J Hernandez)
Marvel Spotlight Marvel Zombies Return
Marvel Zombies Return #3
MODOK Reign Delay One-Shot
Outsiders #22
Prototype #6 (Of 6)
Punisher #9
Punisher Noir #2 (Of 4)
Rebels #8
Red Monkey Double Happiness Book HC (J. Daly)
Rock Candy HC (F. Hiemstra)
Secret War TP New Ptg
Secret Warriors Prem HC Vol 1 Nick Fury Agent of Nothing
Showcase Presents Warlord TP Vol 1
Simpsons Comics #158
Spawn Book Of The Dead TP
Amazing Spider-Man #605
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti-Venom #1 (Of 3)
Squirrel Machine HC (H. Rickheit)
Star Trek Romulans Schism #1
Star Wars Clone Wars #9
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #45
Sword #19
Thor Annual #1 (P. Milligan)
Thor Balder Brave Prem HC
Tiny Titans #20
Tom Strong Deluxe Ed HC Book 1(A. Moore)
Transformers All Hail Megatron #15
Transformers All Hail Megatron TP Vol 2
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #1 (Of 4) (W. Ellis)
Veil #3
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #1
Walking Dead #65 (R. Kirkman)
War Machine #9
Wednesday Comics #11 (Of 12)
West Coast Blues HC (J. Tardi)
Witchblade Origins TP Vol 3
World Of Warcraft #23
Uncanny X-Men First Class #3 (Of 8)
Dark Wolverine #78
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #3
X-Factor #48
X-Men Legacy Annual #1
MANGA
Hack Gut Vol 5
Oishinbo Vegetables GN
Pluto Vol 5
Saint Dragon Girl Vol 4
Silent Mobius Complete Ed GN
Yotsuba & ! GN Vols 1 & 2
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Due To Arrive 17/09/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later #2
Action Comics #881
Agents Of Atlas #11
Air #13
Amazing Spider-Man #605
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti Venom #1 (Of 3)
Angel #25
AOD Ash Saves Obama #2 (Of 4)
Atomic Robo Shadow From Beyond Time #5
Dark Avengers #9
Bad Dog #3
Bad Girls TP
Batgirl #2
Batman And Robin #4
Batman Streets Of Gotham #4
Beasts Of Burden #1 (Of 4)
Blackest Night #3 (Of 8)
Brave And The Bold #27
Captain America Reborn #3 (Of 5)
Dark Reign The List Daredevil One-Shot
Ex Machina #45
Fables #88
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape #5 (Of 6)
Galactica 1980 #1
Godland #29
Green Arrow Black Canary #24
Haunt Of Horror TP
Hulk Planet Skaar HC
Hulk Skaar Son Of Hulk TP
Invincible Iron Man #18
JSA Vs Kobra #4 (Of 6)
Lone Ranger #18
Marvel Comics In The 1960s SC
Marvel Spotlight Marvel Zombies Return
Marvel Zombies Return #3
Mighty Avengers #29
Marvel Masterworks Invincible Iron Man HC Vol 06
MODOK Reign Delay #1
Outsiders #22
Prototype #6 (Of 6)
Punisher #9
Punisher Noir #2 (Of 4)
Rebels #8
Secret Warriors Prem HC Vol 01
Showcase Presents Warlord TP Vol 01
Simpsons Comics #158
Spawn Book O/T Dead TP
Star Trek Romulans Schism #1
Star Wars Clone Wars #9
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #45
Starcraft #4
Sword #19
Thor Annual #1
Tiny Titans #20
Transformers All Hail Megatron #15
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #1 (Of 4)
Veil #3
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #1
Walking Dead #65
War Machine #9
Wednesday Comics #11 (Of 12)
World Of Warcraft #23
Dark Wolverine #78
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #3
Deadpool Prem HC Vol 02 Dark Reign
Uncanny X-Men First Class #3 (Of 8)
X-Factor #48
X-Men Legacy Annual #1
The Gosh! Authority 09/09/09
We’ve just received this week’s delivery of goodies and I can tell you it’s definitely an art-book week. The Art of Tony Millionaire is 200 long overdue and beautiful pages of unseen illustrations, comics, stories, photographs and anecdotes from the multiple Eisner/Harvey/Ignatz Award-winning creator of Maakies all topped off with an introduction by Elvis Costello. It promises to be a drunken fever dream of dollies, apes, and exotic mysteries (no doubt hilarious) but there’s also some of his realistic artwork too: Portraits, ginger cats, etc. Expert in many fields John Hodgman reckons he’s the closest thing we’ve got to George Herriman. You will want this.
James Jean’s (Fables covers) stuff always flies off the shelf here at Gosh! so his two latest things won’t need much (if any) pushing from us lot. The Kindling Portfolio is a collection oversized prints of new paintings housed in a lovely-looking portfolio. You can leave them all in there or take them out and frame them.
The other is Process Recess Volume 3 which collects sketchbook drawings by Jean in a classy hardcover. There’s a lot of figure drawings like these ones here, and you can see dozens more in the PDF preview.
The other blogworthy art book is Junko Mizuno’s Flare, a hardcover collection of her weird and wonderful paintings. Mizuno signed here at Gosh! some time ago so you’re probably already well aware of how highly regarded she ‘round these parts.
In other, more comic-y news, The Collected Hook Jaw is something ultra-violent that you might like. The 1970s UK-based Action comic (a forerunner to 2000AD) was eventually banned for its graphic violence – a lot of which was down to an attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws with their own man-eating great white shark. This is the very first collection of Pat Mills (Charley’s War, 2000AD) and Ramon Sola’s (2000AD) blood ‘n guts strip, which includes two of the infamous pre-ban tales which led the Evening Standard, the Sun and the BBC to launch prohibition campaigns. We’ve had it before but it hasn’t been around for a while, so get in and grab a copy today!
The last trade-paperback of the ill-fated Captain Britain and the MI:13: Vampire Nation hits the shelves this Thursday and it has Dracula in it. This trade collects the last 5 issues of the (now canned) series by Paul Cornell (of Doctor Who). Here’s a review of #10, the first in the book.
Another trade worth a look is James Robinson’s Complete WildC.A.T.S. Robinson (Starman), considered by many to be one of the best modern comics writers, took over WildStorm’s flagship superhero team after Alan Moore left and all his 1990s issues are collected here.
This week sees the beginning of the highly anticipated Dark Reign: The List series in which the post-Utopia Norman Osborn makes a list of everything that’s wrong with the world – namely, every major name in the Marvel Universe. There’s a List checklist here for everything you can expect in the not too distant future and first up is Dark Reign: The List: Avengers by Bendis (Dark Avengers) which you can stick in your bag this Thursday. Preview!
Locke & Key #1 has been reprinted as a beefed-up special edition. It now includes the original script and an 8-page back-up story by Seth Fisher in a very rare appearance having died three years ago.
Grimwood’s Daughter is a hardcover collecting some great old Kevin Nowlan (Batman Confidential) stuff. “Grimwood's Daughter wasn't my first work in comics but I think it was the first thing I did that was really worth buying. It ran as a back up feature in Dalgoda during the early 80's. The script was terrific. It was dark and sad and fit my twenty-something attitude better than any of the super-hero stuff I was being offered.” There’s more of that here, where he also tells you all about the new bonus bits.
A lastly, there’s a couple of things from last week that deserve a shout: Solomon Grundy #7 (of #7) is a Blackest Night crossover you might have missed, and Andrew is astounded by how many copies of Starr the Slayer #1 (of 4) we’ve still got because he thought it was brilliant.
-- Hayley
In Store 05/09/09 - 10/09/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1652
Collected Hook Jaw TP (Killer Shark)
Flesh GN (Man vs Dinosaur!)
Achewood HC Vol 02 Worst Song Played
Adventure Comics #2 (G. Johns)
Amulet SC Vol 02 Stonekeepers Curse
Angel Only Human #2 (Of 4)
Art Of Tony Millionaire HC
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Exodus DAX
Dark Reign The List Avengers One-Shot (Bendis)
Ultimate Comics Avengers #2 (Millar & Pacheco)
Barack The Barbarian #2 (Of 4)
Blackest Night Batman #2 (Of 3)
Booster Gold #24
BPRD 1947 #3 (Of 5) (Ba & Moon)
Captain Britain And MI 13 TP Vol 3 Vampire Nation (Cornell & Dracula)
Savage Sword Of Conan TP Vol 06
Crikey #11
Dark Reign Young Avengers #4 (Of 5) DKR
DC Comics GT Digitally Drawing Comics
Dead Space Extraction One-Shot
DMZ #45
Doom Patrol #2
Complete Dracula #3 (Of 5)
Elephantmen #21
Emily The Strange TP Vol 02
Enders Game Command School #1 (Of 5)
Fallen Angel Reborn #3
Fantastic Four Lost Adventures By Stan Lee TP
Farscape Dargos Trial #2
Female Force #6 Condoleezza Rice
Flare: Art of Junko Mizuno
G-Man Cape Crisis #2 (Of 5)
Gotham Central HC Vol 02 (Brubaker & Rucka)
Green Lantern Corps #40 (Blackest Night)
Grimwoods Daughter HC (K. Nowlan)
Guardians Of Galaxy TP Vol 02 War Of Kings
Hellboy Wild Hunt #6 (Of 8)
House Of Mystery #17
Hulk Team-Up One Shot
I Am Legion #5 (Of 6)
Incredible Hercules #134
Irredeemable #6
Joe Kubert Draw From Life HC
Kick Ass #7
Kindling Portfolio (J. Jean)
Life And Times Of Savior 28 #5
Little Lulu TP Vol 20
Locke & Key #1 Special Edition
Marvel 1602 Prem HC (Again!)
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #15
Marvel Super Hero Squad #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Superhero Team Up TP
Marvel Zombies Return #2
Marvels Project #2 (Of 8) (E. Brubaker)
Models Inc #1 (Of 4)
Nomad Girl Without A World #1 (Of 4)
Olympus #4 (Of 4) (C. MF Ward!)
Process Recess HC Vol 03 (J. Jean)
Punisher Frank Castle Max #74 (G. Parlov)
Red Herring #2 (Of 6) (P. Bond)
Red Robin #4
Red Sonja #48
Runaways Good Die Young Prem HC
Secret Six #13
Shield #1
Soulfire Volume Two #0
Amazing Spider-Man #604 (F. Van Lente)
Ultimatum Spider-Man Prem HC
Star Trek Nero #2
Stormwatch PHD #23
Tangent Supermans Reign TP Vol 2
Thor Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #5
Thunderbolts #135 DKR
Titans #17
Titans Lockdown TP
Toyfare #147
Transformers Animated TP Vol 11
Transformers Tales O/T Fallen #2 (Of 5)
Unwritten #5
War Of Kings Who Will Rule One-Shot
War That Time Forgot TP Vol 02
Warlord #6
Wednesday Comics #10 (Of 12)
When The Comics Went To War HC
James Robinsons Complete Wildcats TP (T. Charest)
Witchblade #130
X-Men Forever #7
MANGA
Gundam 00 GN Vol 01
X-Men Misfits GN Vol 01
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Due To Arrive 10/09/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #2
Amazing Spider-Man #604
Angel Only Human #2 (Of 4)
Bad Dog #3
Blackest Night Batman #2 (Of 3)
Booster Gold #24
Bprd 1947 #3 (Of 5)
Captain Britain And MI 13 TP Vol 03 Vampire State
Complete Dracula #3 (Of 5)
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Exodus DAX
Dark Reign List Avengers One Shot
Dark Reign Young Avengers #4 (Of 5) DKR
Dead At 17 Afterbirth #4 (Of 4)
Dead Space Extraction (One Shot)
Dmz #45
Doom Patrol #2
Elephantmen #21
Enders Game Command School #1 (Of 5)
Fallen Angel Reborn #3
Fantastic Four Lost Adventures By Stan Lee TP
Freddy Jason Ash Nightmare Warriors #3 (Of 6)
Gigantic #5 (Of 5)
G-Man Cape Crisis #2 (Of 5)
Godland #29
Green Lantern Corps #40 (Blackest Night)
Hellboy Wild Hunt #6 (Of 8)
House Of Mystery #17
Hulk Team-Up One Shot
Incredible Hercules #134
James Robinsons Complete Wildcats TP
Kick Ass #7
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #15
Marvel Super Hero Squad #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Superhero Team Up TP
Marvel Zombies Return #2
Marvels Project #2 (Of 8)
Models Inc #1 (Of 4) (Res)
Nomad Girl Without A World #1 (Of 4)
Olympus #4 (Of 4)
Punisher Frank Castle Max #74
Red Herring #2 (Of 6)
Red Robin #4
Red Sonja #48
Secret Six #13
Shield #1
Spider-Man Noir TP
Star Trek Nero #2
Stormwatch PHD #23
Superman World Of New Krypton #7 (Of 12)
Tangent Supermans Reign TP Vol 02
Thor Tales Of Asgard By Lee & Kirby #5 (Of 6)
Thunderbolts #135 DKR
Titans #17
Titans Lockdown TP
Transformers Tales O/T Fallen #2 (Of 5)
Ultimate Comics Avengers #2
Unwritten #5
War Of Kings Who Will Rule One-Shot
War That Time Forgot TP Vol 02
Warlord #6
Wednesday Comics #10 (Of 12)
Witchblade #130
X-Men Forever #7
The Gosh! Authority 03/09/09
Forget comics – the biggest news this week is our Joe Sacco signing! No, it’s not happening this week; it’s at the end of the month. But look! – I made a blog post about it yesterday. So now you can write it in your diaries, perhaps re-read his brilliant books, and try to think of something to say when you get to the front of the line that won’t make you look like a wally. We musn’t forget to doff our hats to Jonathan Cape and ComICA for their help in bringing him over. There’s more to come signing-wise so watch this space.
My pick of this week’s swag is Strange Tales #1 (of 3) because of the gobsmacking list of creators. It’s a three-issue anthology showcasing classic Marvel characters re-imagined by indie hotshots such as Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid), Pete Bagge (whose Incorrigible Hulk is finally seeing print in this very comic!), Nicholas Bertozzi, Molly Crabapple, Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship), James Kochalka (American Elf), Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle), John Leavitt, Junko Mizuno (Cinderalla), Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comix), Jason (Hey, Wait...), and Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button). The ever brilliant Kupperman says:
“People are going to be very interested in the changes I've made to the Marvel canon. They're probably going to have to scrap everything they've ever published and start over. The new version of SECRET WARS is going to be called OVERT WARS.” More of that nonsense and fruit pies here, and an early review over here. Incidentally, follow this man on Twitter. He’s hilarious.
More re-doings of classic Marvel stuff can be found in Mystic Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special, this time by David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Young Liars). He’s taking on Golden Age Vision in a 22-page original story which you can see bits of here.
Another exciting #1 is Jeff Lemire’s bizarre Sweet Tooth. He’s the bloke responsible for the very excellent Essex County Trilogy (the collected edition you might have noticed appear on our shelves a fortnight ago) and his other fairly recent release, The Nobody. This new Vertigo series is about a boy born with deer-like antlers, one of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrids somehow naturally immune to the infection that devastated the world a decade earlier. Lemire says it’s “something like The Island of Dr. Moreau meets Mad Max with a sprinkle of Tim Truman's Scout thrown in for good measure.” More of that interview here and another one here. If that’s not enough to tickle your fancy then how about the price? At 75p it’s practically free.
The first issue of Daniel Way (Wolverine Origins) and Richard Corben’s (Heavy Metal) four-part series Starr the Slayer hits our new release shelf this Friday (that’s right, blame the Bank Holiday). You last saw Starr in Warren Ellis’ newuniversal but he originally began like this:
“Legend has it that Starr the Slayer came about because Barry Windsor-Smith desperately wanted to do Conan, and at that point Marvel was already publishing a Conan book. So as kind of a tryout, he did this story story called Starr the Slayer which featured a Conan-type character, but the twist was that Starr was the creation of a pulp writer named Len Carson and at the end of the story he actually came to life and killed Carson. So it tied itself off quite neatly and it was a good story. It looked incredible.” Loads more of that in an interview with Way and Corben at CbR.
That’s it for noteworthy issue #1s but if you liked Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray’s Last Resort #1 as much as we did you’ll be happy to see #2 out this week. It’s got another cracking Darwyn Cooke cover (speaking of which, have a look at these Cooke covers for Jonah Hex) and promises excessive violence, fiery death, rampaging zombies and a boat of topless women. Here’s an interview with Palmiotti and a review of the first issue if you missed it.
The final issue of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Incognito is out this week, bringing to a close one of the most twisted super-villain tales in recent memory. I tried to find you a preview but there ain’t one. You’ll just have to wait and see.
Richard Sala (Delphine) has a new stand-alone graphic novel out through First Second: Cat Burglar Black, about a girl who isn’t as retired from cat burglary as she thinks. Sala tells the story behind the book (which Dan Clowes calls a deranged masterpiece) and his midnight wanderings over at the :01 blog. In the words Newsarama’s J. Caleb Mozzocco, “it’s Richard Sala, so if it’s not totally awesome, I will be completely shocked.” Also at Newsarama is an interview with Sala himself.
Only one trade paperback was deemed blog-worthy this week: Brian Wood’s DMZ Volume 7 War Powers which sees Matty Roth (fresh off the boat from Staten Island) track down the source of the DMZ’s greatest urban legends. Here’s a review of the first issue in the book.
Another collection well worth your time is Nocturnals Volume 2: Dark Forever by Dan Brereton. Among other bits and bobs it collects The Dark Forever and Gunwitch: Outskirts of Doom (art by Ted Naifeh of Courtney Crumrin) which are two complete stories so this collection’s good for newbies and old fans alike. Preview here.
In manga we’ve got Summit of the Gods Volume 1 (of 5) which The Beat calls a must-read and A Distant Neighbourhood Volume 1, both by the award-winning Jiro Taniguchi. The latter is reviewed here and there.
Just before I sign off I’ll steer you in the direction of Alex Fitch’s Panel Borders. When Jill Thompson signed here last Autumn Alex interviewed her in the Gosh! office. It was originally broadcast in November of last year but the belated podcast has finally made its way onto the web and you can now hear her talking about Wonder Woman, Sandman, Scary Godmother, Magic Trixie and much, much more.
And that’s your lot.
-- Hayley
In Store 28/08/09 - 04/09/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1651
Absurd Adventures Of Archibald Aardvark GN
Agents Of Atlas #10
Angel Blood And Trenches TP Vol 1
Army Of Darkness #24
Art Of Top Cow HC
Authority #14
Avengers Invaders TP
New Avengers Reunion Prem HC
Batman #690
Batman Confidential #33 (P. Milligan)
Batman Gotham After Midnight TP
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Black Knight HC Vol 1 Reg/Var
Black Panther 2 #8
Boys #34
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #28
Cat Burgler Black GN (R. Sala)
Chew #4 (J. Layman)
Daring Mystery Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special
Dead Run #4
DMZ TP Vol 7 War Powers (B. Wood)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #3
Fall Out Toy Works #1 (Of 5)
Final Crisis Aftermath Run #5 (Of 6)
Footballs Comic Book Heroes HC
From The Ashes #4
Ghost Riders: Heaven’s On Fire #2 (J. Aaron)
Good The Bad & The Ugly #3
Greek Street #3 (P. Milligan)
Grimjack Manx Cat #2
Hercules Knives Of Kush #2 (Of 5)
Hotwire #4 (Of 4) (W. Ellis)
House Of M Masters Of Evil #2 (Of 4)
Hulk Gray Prem HC
Immortal Weapons #2 (Of 5)
Incognito #6 (Brubaker & Phillips)
Invincible Presents Atom Eve TP
Invincible Iron Man #17
Iron Man Armor Wars #2 (Of 4)
Jersey Gods #7 (D. McDaid)
Jonah Hex #47
JSA HC Vol 05 Black Adam And Isis
DC Library: JLA By George Perez HC Vol 1
Justice League Cry For Justice #3 (Of 7)
Last Resort #2
Logicomix GN
Luke Cage Noir #2 (Of 4)
Magog #1
Marvel Zombies Army Of Darkness TP (J. Layman)
Marvel Zombies Return #1 (F. Van Lente)
Mice Templar Destiny #3
Mighty #8
Mystic Comics #1 70th Anniversary Special (D. Lapham)
Nocturnals HC Vol 02 Dark Forever
North 40 #3 (Of 6)
Northlanders #20 (B. Wood)
Official Index To Marvel Universe #9
Rawbone #4 (Of 4)
Rebel GN
Red Tornado #1 (Of 6)
Resurrection Vol 2 #3
Rose GN Graphix Ed (J. Smith & C. Vess)
Savage Dragon #152
Scourge Of Gods Fall #3 (Of 3)
Secret Saturdays GN Vol 1
Solomon Grundy #7 (Of 7) (BN)
Spider-Man 24-7 Prem HC
Spider-Man Sinister Six Prem HC
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2
Spy Vs Spy TPs
- Danger Intrigue Stupidity
- Masters Of Mayhem
- Missions Of Madness
Star Wars Dark Times #14 Blue Harvest
Star Wars Invasion #3 (Of 5)
Starr The Slayer #1 (Of 4) (Corben)
Strange Adventures #7 (Of 8)
Strange Tales #1 (Of 3) (Pope, Mizuno, Jason, Kupperman, Kochalka, Shaw, Ryan, Bertozzi... Man alive, what a line-up!)
Essential Sub-Mariner TP Vol 1
Supergirl Annual #1
Superman New Krypton HC Vol 2
Sweet Tooth #1 (J. Lemire, 75p!)
Tamara Drewe GN (P. Simmonds)
Thor By J Michael Straczynski TP Vol 2
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #1
Toon Treasury Of Classic Children’s Comics HC
Torch #1 (Of 8) (M. Carey)
Trouble With Katie Rogers Vol 1
Wednesday Comics #9 (Of 12)
Western GN
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #3
Cable #18
Deadpool #15
Exiles #6
Wolverine And Power Pack TP
Wonderful Wizard Oz HC
Young Liars #18 (Final issue!)
MANGA
A Distant Neighborhood GN Vol 1 (Taniguichi)
Color Earth GN Vol 3 Color Of Heaven
Dragonball Vizbig Ed GN Vol 5
Summit Of Gods GN Vol 1 (Of 5) (Taniguichi)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Joe Sacco Signing at Gosh! Wednesday 30th September
The internationally famous Eisner-award winning writer/artist and all-round Gosh! Favourite Joe Sacco is the first off the block in our string of Autumn signings!
Disillusioned with his journalistic career, unable to find a job writing the hard-hitting, informative stories he wanted to write, Sacco gave it all up for the editorial freedom of comics. Over the past 20 years he has created some of the best reportage graphic novels of our time. The award-winning Palestine is probably his best known, followed by Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, and War’s End.
This is a rare opportunity to get your Joe Sacco graphic novels signed by the man himself so don’t miss it! You'll find him in our cosy Gosh! basement on Wednesday the 30th of September from 5 to 7pm.
We’ll see the release of Footnotes in Gaza, his most ambitious work to date, in early December. Rumour has it that we’ll even have an exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition. Watch this space!