Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later #4
Absolution #4 (Of 6)
Aliens #4 (Of 4)
American McGee's Grimm TP Vol 1
Anita Blake LC Executioner #2 (Of 5)
Athena #3
Authority #17
Batman Confidential #38
Batman The Cat And The Bat TP
Batman The Unseen #5 (Of 5)
Black Panther TP Deadliest Of Species
Black Widow And Marvel Girls #1 (Of 4)
Blackest Night The Flash #1 (Of 3)
Blackest Night Wonder Woman #1 (Of 3)
Boys #37
Captain America Theater Of War Prisoners Of Duty #1
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #2
Dark Avengers Annual #1
Dark Tower Battle Of Jericho Hill #1 (Of 5)
Darkness Pitt #3 (Of 3)
Dead She Said TP
Deadpool Team-Up #898
Elephantmen #23
Empowered One-Shot
Essential X-Factor TP Vol 3
Exiles Ultimate Collection TP Book 3
Fall Of Hulks Alpha One-Shot
GI Joe #12
Glamourpuss #10
Good The Bad & The Ugly #6
Great Ten #2 (Of 10)
Greek Street #6
Grimjack Manx Cat #5
Haunt #3
House Of Mystery #20
Hulk Winter Guard One-Shot
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #2
Iron Man Requiem
Iron Man Vs Whiplash #1 (Of 4)
Jack Of Fables #40
Jonah Hex #50
JSA All Stars #1
Kill Audio #3 (Of 6)
Legion Prophets #2 (Of 4)
Lobo Highway To Hell #2 (Of 2)
Marvels Project #4 (Of 8)
Mice Templar Destiny #5
Mighty #11
New Avengers Annual #3
New Mutants Prem HC Return Of Legion
Next Men Premiere Ed HC Vol 2
North 40 #6 (Of 6)
Nova #32
Pilot Season Murderer #1
Psylocke #2 (Of 4)
Rann Thanagar Holy War TP Vol 2
Red Tornado #4 (Of 6)
Savage Dragon #155
Scalped #33
Siege The Cabal One-Shot
Simpsons Winter Wingding #4
Spawn Origins TP Vol 3
Spider-Man Noir Eyes Without A Face #1
Spin Angels #4 (Of 4)
Starr The Slayer #4 (Of 4)
Starstruck #4
Strange #2 (Of 4)
Supergod #2 (Of 5)
Superman World Of New Krypton #10 (Of 12)
Sweet Tooth #4
Sword #20
Teen Titans Deathtrap TP
Thor #604
Torch #4 (Of 8)
Transmetropolitan TP Vol 5 Lonely City New Ed
Trojan War Prem HC
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #5
Uncanny X-Men #518
Uncanny X-Men First Class TP Hated And Feared
Warlord #9
What If? Secret Invasion One-Shot
Wolverine Under Boardwalk One-Shot
X Necrosha Gathering One-Shot XN
X-Babies #3 (Of 4)
X-Force Annual #1
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Due To Arrive 03/12/09
The Gosh! Authority 25/11/09
It’s an Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips overload this week and that’s just how we like it. Not only do we have the brand-spanking Incognito Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition waiting for you on the shelf (or in your standing order box if you requested it to be so) we’ve also got part two of their new pulpy five-part miniseries Criminal: The Sinners, which will at some point undoubtedly feature the essential gun-and-girl combo that Phillips does so well. You can see a preview of this week’s instalment through this door. And if you missed out on a copy of the Criminal Deluxe Hardcover of a fortnight ago you’re in luck – it’s back in.
In other news, last week I stupidly forgot to herald the arrival of Alan Moore’s bi-monthly underground zine for the 21st century, Dodgem Logic #1. If you’re unclear as to what it’s all about Moore’s absolutely no help to you. “On the first issue we’ve used the tagline ‘colliding ideas to see what happens’, which is as much of an agenda as you’re going to get from us,” says he in an interview with comedy mag Mustard (who are also in on it). The usual suspects Kevin O’Neill and Melinda Gebbie throw stuff into the mix, and you’ll find Josie Long, Graham Linehan, and Steve Aylett in there as well, all sandwiched between other stuff musical, rude and otherwise. Go read the interview! It’s a good’un.
You can carry home a bit of classic Moore in the same bag on Thursday because Saga of the Swamp Thing HC Vol 2 has arrived. This one collects issues #28-34 plus an annual which is pretty much what was in the second trade collection, Love & Death. Crave Online have a nice big write-up with original cover images and whatnot, and over at Bleeding Cool there’s a long video interview with Moore from 1985 in which he talks everything from about the Comics Code Authority to his young daughters being totally at ease with the method-writer taking on the attributes of a boggy green swamp thing.
Here’s a couple that arrived earlier:
Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are is a lovely looking thing indeed. Us Gosh! folk have been keeping a close eye on Wild Things happenings over at The Playlist (bookmark that blog, I tell you) but as great as they are they are not this book:
It’s got the all the expected making-of miscellany like sketches, storyboards, character designs, cast and crew interviews, and a foreword from a couple of big cheeses. It’s broken into three parts and the design is basically three hardcover books linked together – if they were textbooks it’d look like you were halfway through your homework and the books were acting as bookmarks for each other. The text’s quirky and of varying sizes, the ‘tools of the trade’ section includes severed hands. It’s odd and lovely but of course it is - it comes from the editors of McSweeney’s. Ain’t It Cool News think it’s cool and tell you so and you can see a bit of it yourself in this fancy Search Inside wossname I found.
Next to that you’ll find Looking For Calvin & Hobbes, Nevin Martell’s book (a biography of sorts) about the reclusive Bill Watterson. It’s made up of interviews with people like Harvey Pekar, Jonathen Lethem and Brad Bird, plus friends and colleagues and it goes without saying that Watterson had nothing to do with it. Here’s an in-depth review which is mostly – but not entirely – favourable. Most beefs can be put down to the unauthorised nature of the publication but as it says in the blurb, there are no plush toys, no coffee mugs, just the strips themselves. It’s one man’s story about looking for a man who very famously can’t be found. Pretty much what it says on the tin.
Aside from Incognito there’s a handful of other trade-paperbacks you’ll want to get your mitts on this week. Shade The Changing Man TP Volume 2: The Edge of Vision is the second collection of the Vertigo title. It was the last of the ‘British Invasion’ of the 80s which included Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and Grant Morrison’s Animal Man. Written by Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, Greek Street) and illustrated by Chris Bachalo, Rac Shade is a very different beast to Steve Ditko’s original creation and definitely worth a look if you’re a fan of Vertigo stuff. It also sports a cover by Brendan McCarthy who worked on the character design.
Winter Men is a six-part series that began as an eight-part series, was thought to be dead for a while and was generally unreliable in its printing schedule but always reliably brilliant.
Written by Brett Lewis and illustrated by Gosh! Favourite John Paul Leon, it’s an eccentric spy thriller set in Moscow. This reviewer will tell you all about it.
Sleeper hit Chew is also being collected this week. The first issue came out and no one (including us) predicted just how popular it would be – even the writer John Layman (interviewed at CbR with artist Rob Guillory) thought it would make a mere ripple in the vast comicbook ocean. Having printed too few copies first off it was incredibly hard to come by so Robert Kirkman piggy-backed #1 in an issue of Walking Dead and it was off and running. Now up to its 6th issue (out this week too, preview here!) the Chew trade collects the first five so grab ‘em both and that’s you up to date.
If you like your comics to open with a 15th century masked orgy then this one’s for you. Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara’s latest gets a huge write up over at Comics For Serious so I’ll just point you that way. They’ve avoided the ruder pictures so it’s fairly safe for work.
In other comics news, J. Michael Straczynski’s Thor Giant-Size Finale is out on Thursday and you can see preview pages of the landmark issue here. Agents of Atlas is now an ex-stand-alone series but will continue as back-up stories in Incredible Hercules. We’ll carry over your orders so don’t fret.
There’s a distinct lack of anything manga-related in this week’s blog so it’s just as well Matt-who-used-to-work-here pointed out a big article on Urasawa’s fantastic Pluto over at CbR. He says the series is amazing and definitely one of the best mangas out there. You should read it.
And that’s all there is.
-- Hayley
In Store 20/11/09 - 26/11/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1663
Arkham Reborn #2 (Of 3)
Avengers Initiative #30
Avengers Initiative TP Vol 4 Disassemble
Dark Avengers Ares #2 (Of 3) (Gillen)
New Avengers #59
Ultimate Comics Avengers #4
Batman The Brave And The Bold #11
Detective Comics #859
Beasts Of Burden #3 (Of 4) (Dorkin)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #10
Blackest Night #5 (Of 8)
Borgia HC Vol 3 Flames From Hell
Boys Vol 2 Ltd Ed HC Get Some
Boys TP Vol 5 Herogasm
Buck Rogers #6
Captain America Death Of Omnibus HC (Ed Brubaker)
Chew #6
Chew TP Vol 1
Creepy Comics #2
Criminal: Sinners #2 (Ed Brubaker)
Daredevil Noir Prem HC
Dark Reign Elektra TP
Dark Tower Fall Of Gilead #6 (Of 6)
Darkness #81
Days Missing #4 (Of 5)
Destroyer Prem HC
Die Hard Year One #3
Dodgem Logic #1 (Alan Moore et al)
Dr Seuss & Co. Go To War HC
Enders Shadow Command School #3 (Of 5)
Fantastic Four #573 (J. Hickman)
Far West Badder Mojo One-Shot
Flash Vs The Rogues TP
Futurama Comics #46
Galactica 1980 #3
GI Joe Origins #9
Goon #33 (E. Powell)
Gotham City Sirens #6
Green Lantern #48 Blackest Night
Guardians Of Galaxy #20
Halo Helljumper #5 (Of 5)
Lucky Luke Vol 20 TP
Making of Where the Wild Things Are HC
Hercules Knives Of Kush #4 (Of 5)
Hulk #17
I Am Legion #6 (Of 6)
Image United #1 (Of 6) (Kirkman)
Immortal Iron Fist TP Vol 5
Immortal Weapons #5 (Of 5)
Incognito TP Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition(E. Brubaker/S. Phillips)
Incredible Hercules #138
Invincible Iron Man #20
Jericho Season 3 #1 (Of 6)
Justice League Cry For Justice #5 Justice League International TP Vol 3
Justice League Of America #39 BN
Justice Society Of America #33
Juxtapoz Vol 16 #12 Dec 2009
Last Resort #4
Looking For Calvin and Hobbes HC
Lone Ranger #19
Madame Xanadu #17
Marvel Previews December 2009
Marvel Masterworks Deathlok HC Models Inc #4 (Of 4)
Ms Marvel #47
Northlanders #22
Off HB Marvel Univ A-Z Prem HC 11
Phonogram 2 #5 (Of 7)
Powers #1 (B. Bendis/M. Oeming)
Powers HC Vol 3 Definitive Collection
Previews #255 December 2009
Project Superpowers Meet The Bad Guys #4
Queen Sonja #2
Saga Of The Swamp Thing HC Vol 2
Secret Warriors #10
Sgt Rock The Lost Battalion HC
Shade The Changing Man TP Vol 2
Son Of Hulk #17
Spartacus Blood And Sand #2 (Of 4)
Spectrum TP Vol 16
Amazing Spider-Man #613
Spider-Man Clone Saga #3 (Of 6)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #57
Web Of Spider-Man #2 Gauntlet
Star Comics TP All-Star Collection 1
Star Trek Nero #4
Star Wars Legacy #42
Superman #694
Superman Secret Origin #3 (Of 6)
Teen Titans #77 Blackest Night
Thor Giant-Size Finale By JMS
Tick New Series #1
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #4
Unknown Soldier #14
Usagi Yojimbo #124
Web #3
Wildcats #17
Winter Men TP (Jean-Paul Leon)
Wizard Magazine #219
Wonder Woman #38
World’s Finest #2 (Of 4)
Astonishing X-Men TP Vol 5
Dark Wolverine #80
Deadpool Classic TP Vol 3
New Mutants #7 XN
MMW Uncanny X-Men TP Vol 1
Uncanny X-Men #517
Wolverine First Class #21
X-Men Forever #12
X-Men Worlds Apart TP
MANGA
Berserk TP Vol 32
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Final COMICA Events for 2009!
If you've not been to Comica yet this is your last chance of the year!
The final three talks from creators are happening tomorrow (that's Sunday, folks!), Monday and Tuesday. They've got Reinhard Kleist tomorrow (of Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, whose talk is followed by a drinks reception included in the ticket price), Willy Linthout on Monday (of the autobiographical and brilliantly surreal Years of Elephant), and Ben Templesmith on Tuesday (of 30 Days of Night, Welcome to Hoxford and many more).
Go wave hello at them and tell them we sent you.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Due To Arrive 26/11/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Arkham Reborn #2 (Of 3)
Avengers Initiative #30
Dark Avengers Ares #2 (Of 3)
New Avengers #59
Batman The Brave And The Bold #11
Detective Comics #859
Beasts Of Burden #3 (Of 4)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #10
Blackest Night #5 (Of 8)
Chew #6
Chew TP Vol 1
Creepy Comics #2
Criminal Sinners #2
Dark Reign Elektra TP
Dark Tower Fall Of Gilead #6 (Of 6)
Darkness #81
Die Hard Year One #3
Elephantmen #23
Enders Shadow Command School #3 (Of 5)
Fantastic Four #573
Flash Vs The Rogues TP
Futurama Comics #46
Goon #33
Gotham City Sirens #6
Green Lantern #48 Blackest Night
Guardians Of Galaxy #20
Halo Helljumper #5 (Of 5)
Hercules Knives Of Kush #4 (Of 5)
Hulk #17
I Am Legion #6 (Of 6)
Immortal Weapons #5 (Of 5)
Incognito TP Bookplate Edition
Incredible Hercules #138
Invincible Iron Man #20
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #2 Jericho Season 3 #1 (Of 6)
Justice League Cry For Justice #5 (Of 7)
Justice League Of America #39 Blackest Night
Justice Society Of America #33
Last Resort #4
Lone Ranger #19
Madame Xanadu #17
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #57
Marvel Previews December 2009
Mice Templar Destiny #5
Models Inc #4 (Of 4)
Ms Marvel #47
Northlanders #22
Official Handbook To The Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 11
Powers #1
Powers HC Vol 3 Definitive Collection
Previews #255 December 2009
Project Superpowers Meet The Bad Guys #4
Queen Sonja #2
Secret Warriors #10
Shade The Changing Man TP
- Vol 1 American Scream New Ptg
- Vol 2 Edge Of Vision
Sky Doll TP Vol 1
Sky Pirates Of Neo Terra #3
Son Of Hulk #17
Soulfire New World Order #5 (Of 5)
Soulfire Volume Two #2
Amazing Spider-Man #613
Spider-Man Clone Saga #3 (Of 6)
Web Of Spider-Man #2
Star Comics TP All-Star Collection Vol 1
Star Trek Nero #4
Star Wars Legacy #42 Divided Loyalties
Superman #694
Superman Secret Origin #3 (Of 6)
28 Days Later #4
Talisman Road Of Trials #2
Teen Titans #77 Blackest Night
Thor Giant Size Finale By JMS #1
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #4 (Of 5)
Ultimate Comics Avengers #4
Uncanny X-Men #517
Unknown Soldier #14
Web #3
Wildcats #17
Winter Men TP
Wizard Magazine #219
Wonder Woman #38
World's Finest #2 (Of 4)
Astonishing X-Men TP Vol 5
Dark Wolverine #80
Marvel Masterworks Uncanny X-Men TP Vol 1
New Mutants #7
Wolverine First Class #21
X-Men Forever #12
X-Men Worlds Apart TP
The Gosh! Authority 18/11/09
Hello! I hope you all enjoyed our last signing for a wee bit and now have in your possession a signed Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus. Your Saturday afternoons are now your own again so perhaps you’d like to spend this one having a horizontal read of Joe Sacco’s latest opus. And why wouldn’t you? We’ve got an Exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition Footnotes in Gaza in the shop which I mentioned on the blog yesterday while you weren’t looking. I’d recommend nabbing one quick-smart, I very much doubt they’ll be around for long.
Another one that snuck in through the back door is Seductive Espionage by the ridiculously talented young illustrator Kevin Dart who you might remember from this post here. Our own Will Kane can be seen raving about it over at his World of Kane and the astute reader will even spot him doing the same on the back of the book. So what is it? In the words of Dart, "See, it's an art book about these spy movies, but the movies don't actually exist, and there's a trailer, but that's fake too... ah forget it." In short, it’s 72 pages of movie posters, behind-the-scenes stories, promotional artwork and production stills for a series of painfully stylish spy movies that never even happened. The trailer he’s on about is up at Kane’s blog and you’ll probably end up pissed off the film doesn’t exist. Thankfully, the book does.
Right next to Seductive Espionage on the arty shelf is the latest volume of Robert Valley’s Massivve Swerve (sic, tsk). Valley’s an animator/storyboard artist who’s worked on stuff like Gorillaz music videos, The Beatles’ “Rock Band” trailer and seems to spend a lot of time drawing ladies, many of whom can be found in this very volume. Over at Storyboard Art there’s a selection of pages from the book along with a round-up of animated bits and bobs. We’ve got both previous volumes in the shop so you can do a Valley round-up of your very own.
Stitches is a childhood memoir by the award-winning children’s author/illustrator David Small which I’ve not read yet but it sounds horrific. “One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.” It looks and reads like a silent movie, absurd and terrifying like Kafka and it’s all appallingly true. There’s an excerpt here and a huge in-depth review of it over here. Small (who can talk now) is interviewed here and there talking about the Alice’s white rabbit, Roman Polanski and fine-nib pens.
Alex Raymond’s (Flash Gordon) Rip Kirby was possibly the most successful and undoubtedly the longest-running private eye comic strip in history. He was “a cross between Philo Vance and Philip Marlowe” according to the Encylopedia of American Comics – in other words, an unflappable gent with a penchant for classical music and fine brandy, a brilliant wit and the ability kick arse if needed. He was a decorated war hero surrounded by a bevy of gun molls and beautiful women with names like Honey Dorian and Pagan Lee, all dressed in the ultra-chic fashions of the day...
This week you can get your mitts on the first volume of reprinted Kirby strips, all reproduced from pristine syndicate proofs so there’ll be no yellowed newspaper nonsense here. It’s done by the same Eisner award-winning folk who brought you the recent Terry & The Pirates book and you can expect four more to come.
In the same year that Marvel gave you Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again they also published Doug Murray and Michael Golden’s The ‘Nam, a series that has since been neglected collection-wise unlike Miller’s Daredevil. CbR wrote a piece on the history of The ‘Nam late last year which I’m directing you to on account of the fact that we’ll have the first ‘Nam trade paperback collecting issues #1-10 on our shelves this Thursday. It’s been out of print for at least a decade so be nice and welcome it back.
In comics this week you can discover the origin of the titular doctor from Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in the Dr Horrible One-Shot. Zach Whedon (brother of Joss and co-creator of Dr Horrible, writer of TV’s Fringe, Deadwood) pens the latest Dark Horse One Shot Wonder and talks about it at Newsarama. But don’t expect any singing. Preview!
Fred Van Lente (that man again) gives you anther history lesson in this week’s Comic Book Comics #4. He’s been retelling the history of comics in the style of his hit Action Philosophers! and it’s a series well worth your time. For bits of previous issues go to their Evil Twin Comics site but for the latest one you can head here. This instalment features Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Hergé and R. Crumb.
Speaking of Crumb, a rare exhibition of his original artwork is now on at London’s Scream Gallery on Bruton Street. Over 300 pieces have been selected from the Symbolic Collection (bits of which can be seen online) spanning from the 1960s to 2001. It’s on from now until the 12th of December.
Ian Edginton (Stormwatch PHD, Stickleback, Scarlet Traces) and Davide Fabbri (Star Wars) unite in a six-issue miniseries which sees Sherlock Holmes take on shambling zombies in foggy Victorian London. Edginton talks about Victorian Undead with CbR. It’s not a traditional Holmes story like his Hound of the Baskervilles with Ian Culbard (get your bookplated edition here at Gosh!) but he argues that it’s “traditionally Holmesian in the way he deals with the situation he's confronted with. It's just that the situation is like nothing he's ever encountered before. I've woven into the plot a number of real-world events that happened at the time and do have a direct bearing on the story. Some are to do with the wretched, squalid conditions that existed in London back then, and one in particular is to do with a strange celestial event that became a matter of public record.” If this series goes well there’ll be more in the post. Preview!
The final item on Norman Osborn’s evil To Do list is your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. It’s also the last bit on your Dark Reign CheckList. So there you have it. Done and dusted.
You’ll probably remember Harker from our (fairly) recent swag of goodies from the Birmingham con. We’ve got all the issues mentioned previously back in stock plus the brand new #9. The Harker creators talk about it and the sales value of corpses at their blog.
There’s only ONE MORE WEEK left of the Comica Festival so if you’ve been planning on going – go now! Still to come are talks from Reinhard Kleist (whose Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness Bookplate Edition is flying off the shelf), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Gentleman Corpse) and more, plus film screenings of new stuff by Philip Ridley (The Passion of Darkly Moon) and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell). There’s loads more stuff at the site so go there.
And that’s yer lot.
-- Hayley
In Store 13/11/09 - 19/11/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1662
Adventure Comics #4 Blackest Night
Air #15
Angel Only Human #4 (Of 4)
Authority The Lost Year #3 (Of 12)
Dark Avengers #11 (B. Bendis)
Dark Avengers TP Vol 1 Assemble
Mighty Avengers #31
Mighty Avengers TP Earth's Mightiest
New Avengers TP Vol 11 (B Bendis)
Azrael #2
Back Issue #37
Batman Battle For The Cowl HC
Batman Confidential #37
Batman Streets Of Gotham #6 (Dini)
Batman The Unseen #4 (Of 5)
Black Knight #1
Black Lightning Year One TP
Brave And The Bold #29
Casper The Friendly Ghost 60th Anniversary HC
Comic Book Comics #4
Conan The Cimmerian #16
Cowboy Ninja Viking #2
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #3 (Of 5)
Dark Reign List Spider-Man Deadlocke One-Shot (A. Nelson)
Dominic Fortune #4 (Of 4)
Dr Horrible One-Shot (Z. Whedon)
Driven By Lemons HC (J. Cotter)
Echo #16 (T. Moore)
Fall Out Toy Works #2 (Of 5)
Farscape Ongoing #1
Flash Rebirth #5 (Of 6)
Footnotes in Gaza HC (Joe Sacco)Gosh! Bookplate Edition
G-Man Cape Crisis #4 (Of 5)
Green Lantern Corps Emerald Eclipse HC
Harker: The Book of Solomon TP
Harker #7, 8 & 9
Hellblazer #261
Hercules Full Circle Prem HC
Incredible Hulk #604
Invincible #68
Irredeemable #8 (Mark Waid)
JSA TP Vol 3 Thy Kingdom Come II
JSA 80-Page Giant
Knights Of The Dinner Table Bundle Of Trouble TP Vol 28
Kookaburra K #1 (H. Ramos)
Legion Prophets #1 (Of 4)
Like A Dog HC
Luke McBain #1 (Of 4)
Mad Magazine #502
Massivve Swerve Vol 3 SC (Valley)
Ministry Of Space TP New Ptg
Mother, Come Home HC
Nam TP Vol 1
Nomad Girl Without A World #3
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir Of Coming of Age in Iran GN
Outsiders #24 Blackest Night
Phonogram 2 #5 Singles Club
Pictures That Tick TP (D. McKean)
Powers Encyclopedia Vol 1
Punisher #11 (Franken Castle)
Punisher Dark Reign TP
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #1 (Of 5)
Rip Kirby HC Vol 1 (A. Raymond)
Runaways Homeschooling Prem HC
Secret History Book 6 (Of 7)
Seductive Espionage SC (K. Dart)
Showcase Presents DC Comics Presents Superman Team-Ups Vol 1 TP
Simpsons Comics #160
Amazing Spider-Man #612
Spider-Man 1602 #2 (Of 5)
Spider-Woman #3
Spirit TP Vol 4
Stand Soul Survivors #2 (Of 5)
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #1
Stitches HC (David Small)
Super Friends #21
Supergirl #47
Superman Batman #66 BN
Talisman Road Of Trials #1
Tank Girl: Skidmarks #1 (Of 4)
Tarzan Jesse Marsh Years HC Vol 4
Thunderbolts #138
Tiny Titans #22
Transformers Ongoing #1
Underground #3 (Of 5)
Unknown HC Vol 01
Victorian Undead #1 (Of 6)
Vigilante #12
Viking #4
War Machine #11
War Of Kings HC
Wasteland TP Vol 5
World Of Warcraft #25
Wolverine Origins #42
Wolverine Origins Romulus Prem HC
Wolverine Origins TP Dark Reign
Wolverine Weapon X #7
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #5
X-Men Legacy #229
Zorro #17
MANGA
Black Jack TP Vol 8 (Tezuka)
Soul Eater TP Vol 1
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Footnotes in Gaza HC Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
Fresh off the truck this morning is the highly anticipated new book from cartoonist-reporter and all-round Gosh! Favourite Joe Sacco! You can consider it a sequel of sorts to the much-lauded Palestine and from what we’ve heard it sounds like his most ambitious work to date.
Sacco makes a forgotten and bloody crime in a refugee camp from 1956 that left 111 Palestinians dead the basis for Footnotes in Gaza – a 400-page behemoth telling the history of Gaza from that moment to the present day. He immersed himself in the daily life of squalid Rafah, scene of the massacre and notorious place for bitter conflict, and tells the story through everyday Palestinians; fugitives, schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs.
'I heard torture stories that were unusually harsh, but I decided not to use those kinds of stories, and instead something less shocking, something more of an "everyman" experience. I think it's the "everyman experience" that people can relate to. It's harder to imagine; harder to put yourself in the picture of someone who is being humiliated.'
It’s an original investigation of things forgotten and unimaginable and it needs to be read. We have 200 copies of a Limited Gosh! Bookplate Edition featuring artwork by Sacco created solely for this purpose signed and numbered by the man himself. I can’t see them hanging around for long so you’d better grab one while you can! If you’ve already put your name down for a reserved copy you’ll be hearing from us shortly.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Due To Arrive 19/11/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #4 Blackest Night
Adventure Comics #507 Blackest Night
Air #15
Amazing Spider-Man #612
Angel Only Human #4 (Of 4)
Astounding Wolf-Man #20
Azrael #2
Batman Confidential #37
Batman Streets Of Gotham #6
Batman The Unseen #4 (Of 5)
Black Knight #1
Black Lightning Year One TP
Brave And The Bold #29
Chew #6
Conan The Cimmerian #16
Daredevil Noir Prem HC
Dark Avengers #11
Dark Avengers TP Vol 1 Assemble
Dark Reign List Amazing Spider-Man One-Shot
Dark Tower Fall Of Gilead #6 (Of 6)
Deadlocke One-Shot
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #5
Destroyer Prem HC
Dominic Fortune #4 (Of 4)
Dr Horrible One-Shot
Elephantmen #23
Farscape Ongoing #1
Flash Rebirth #5 (Of 6)
Four Eyes #4
Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom #3 (Of 4)
Free Realms #3 (Of 12)
G-Man Cape Crisis #4 (Of 5)
Green Lantern Corps TP Vol 1 To Be A Lantern
Hellblazer #261
Incredible Hulk #604
Invincible #68
Invincible Iron Man #20
Irredeemable #8
Justice Society Of America 80 Page Giant #1
Legion Prophets #1 (Of 4)
Mice Templar Destiny #5
Mighty Avengers #31
Nomad Girl Without A World #3 (Of 4)
Outsiders #24 Blackest Night
Powers Encyclopedia Vol 1
Punisher #11
Punisher Dark Reign TP
Realm Of Kings
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #1 (Of 5)
RIP Kirby HC Vol 1
Runaways Homeschooling Prem HC
Simpsons Comics #160
Spider-Man 1602 #2 (Of 5)
Spider-Woman #3
Spirit TP Vol 4
Stand Soul Survivors #2 (Of 5)
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #1
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #47
Super Friends #21
Supergirl #47
Superman Batman #66 Blackest Night
Thunderbolts #138
Tiny Titans #22
Transformers Ongoing #1
Underground #3 (Of 5)
Victorian Undead #1 (Of 6)
Vigilante #12
War Machine #11
War Of Kings HC
Wasteland #28
Wolverine Origins #42
Wolverine Origins Romulus Prem HC
Wolverine Weapon X #7
World Of Warcraft #25
X-Men Legacy #229
Zorro #17
The Gosh! Authority 11/11/09
Thanks to everyone who came along to the Eddie Campbell signing on Saturday. It was nice, wasn’t it? If you missed out on his talk at the ICA you can read all about his sweaty, panicked entrance after running through the building to find the “lost” bag he’d forgotten he’d left in the capable hands of his lovely wifey ten minutes earlier. If you’re still not sick of him you can read this wee interview, in which he talks about the big brick of a book currently on our shelves, and the smaller one we can expect in 2010. “It’s about the sex life of a celibate middle-aged man. Actually, he’s not so much celibate as English.”
Al Columbia (who pops up in Alec, incidentally) releases a decade’s worth of weird Pim & Francie stuff in a lovely hardcover from Fantagraphics. If Pim & Francie and new to you, here’s how one reviewer described them:
“...They look like the product of some doomed and demented animation studio. It's as though a team of expert craftsmen became trapped in their office sometime during the Depression and were forgotten about for decades, reduced to inbreeding, feeding on their own dead, and making human sacrifices to the mimeograph machine, and when the authorities finally stumbled across their charnel-house lair, this stuff is what they were working on in the darkness.”
Check out this huge PDF preview and see if he’s wrong. Also, if you’re in Seattle there’s a Pim & Francie Exhibition at the Fantagraphics Bookstore from now until early December.
You’ve probably seen Marc Bell’s Fine Ahtwerks pop up in Kramers Ergot, Beasts and other such anthologies. This week sees the release of almost a decade’s worth of mixed-media miscellany in one huge coffee table book called Hot Potatoe (sic) and it looks like it’ll be a good one.
Also on the big arty shelf is another one from James Jean (of Fables covers fame, Process Recess) called SKRWL (pronounced ‘scrawl’): Triptych Journal Collection which much like it says on the tin, comprises of three 96-page, full-colour mini-journals in a slipcase. Jean’s stuck a few pages up on his site.
Strange Suspense is the first volume in Fantagraphics’ Steve Ditko Archives. In his first two years in the comics racket the pre-Amazing Spider-Man Ditko drew macabre tales of suspense full of dismemberment, acid baths, bloodshed and probably every horrifying manner of death you can think up (this was all before the Comics Code Authority, y’see). This volume reprints every twisted story from those two pre-Code years in full-colour. If you head this way there’s a five-page story from the book called Stretching Things. It’s grim.
Elephantmen artist Marian Churchland sees her Beast released this Thursday.
Despite many pages being completed before any of the Elephantmen stuff it’s her first graphic novel. “The initial idea for Beast was that I would do a very, very loose retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale, based more or less in the present day, with some mild magical elements...” Churchland talks about it and Elephantment over at CbR in amongst a bevy of preview pages.
Luna Park is an original hardcover graphic novel by American author Kevin Baker (of the bestselling historical novel trilogy City of Fire: Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row) which you’ll want to have a look at because it’s illustrated by Danijel Zezelj of Brian Azzarello’s Loveless and coloured by Dave Stewart (DC: The New Frontier)...
Having done a bunk from the brutal Russian Army an immigrant now lives in the shadow of the decrepit Coney Island, the setting for Baker’s previous novel Dreamland. It’s a historical crime thriller and it should be great. Over at the Vertigo Blog Baker lists his favourite Coney Island trivia. Apparently that bit in Annie Hall wasn’t made up.
Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai is a stand-alone hardcover graphic novel to celebrate the 25th birthday of the rabbit ronin. Hand-painted, written and lettered by Stan Sakai, it sees Usagi face a slew of Yokai – the monsters, demons and whatnot of Japanese folklore. Not to be missed!
In comics this week we’ve got the highly anticipated Batman/Doc Savage Special by Brian Azzarello and Phil Noto: 
Azzarello’s doing what he does best and delivering the first in a new line of comics called First Wave, a pulp corner of the DC Universe. It’s Batman with guns, and they’re moving Gotham City.
“We’re moving Gotham. Where do you think Gotham City is? New York? Nah, how would you feel about L.A.? The sun sets in L.A. just like anyplace else. And I’m really kind of focusing on L.A. in the ’40s, when it was a new town in the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s. It’s pretty much a new place. There was certainly a bit of lawlessness going on. And there was a huge, huge divide between rich and poor. And I think that really works well for this.” More of that and a preview.
Right, here’s the #1s of the week:
- Punisher Max #1 is a new ultraviolent series by Gosh! Favourite Jason Aaron (Scalped, Wolverine) and Steve Dillon (Hellblazer, Preacher). Preview.
- Ghoul #1 is the third collaboration between Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and Bernie Wrightson (both of City of Others and Dead, She Said). An LA Detective calls on The Ghoul for help – a monstrous investigator with a reputation for solving weird crimes. Preview.
- Sky Doll: Doll Factory #1 (of 2) is 64 pages of drafts, sketches, and research material – exclusive and previously unreleased stuff for fans of the Space Fantasy saga. And there’s more to come.
- Strange #1 (of 4) is Mark Waid’s new Dr Strange series. He talks about it with CbR where there are preview pages to boot.
- SuperGod #1 (of 5) is a new limited series from Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny which Bleeding Cool tells us is a thematic threequel (what?) to Black Summer and No Hero. Preview there as well.
That’s it for comics but there’s a pile of other news for your perusal. The latest podcast from Panel Borders is the first of a month-long series about British Mavericks – those chaps whose work is surprisingly avant-garde for mainstream comics. The first is Brendan McCarthy and you can hear it here.
Joe Sacco was interviewed recently by Ctrl.Alt.Shift. and you’ll probably recognise those bookshelves behind him. They’ve also started an online comic which aims to “unmask corruption” (here’s part one, and two) and have a comic exhibition on at the Lazarides Gallery in Soho as part of Comica.
Here’s one for our friends in the North: The Thought Bubble Festival is a four-day event in Leeds with a cracking list of guests: Frank Quitely (Batman & Robin), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Mike Carey (Unwritten, Hellblazer), Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and the MI:13), Andy Diggle (Thunderbolts), Duncan Fegredo (BPRD), Kieron Gillen (Phonogram), Ed “Ilya” Hillyer (Manga Shakespeare: King Lear), Alex Maleev (Spider-Woman) and a whole lot more too great in number to list here. Go see their site.
Don’t forget we’ve got Gilbert Shelton (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy’s Cat) signing this Saturday! If you’re further north and can’t make it to London perhaps Birmingham on Friday would suit you better. You can find him at Forbidden Planet.
Speaking of FPI, they’ve got a load of stuff coming up that you might fancy. If you’re in Dublin you can catch the Irish comics collective Eclectic Micks signing in store, as well as Karl Kerschl (Superman), Cameron Stewart (BPRD, Catwoman, upcoming Batman & Robin issues) and Ramon Perez (Kukuburi). If you’re in Edinburgh you can get your copy of Dark Entries signed by Ian Rankin and if you missed him in conversation with Neil Gaiman earlier this year you can hear it on the internet because that’s what the internet’s for.
Blimey. A rather long one this week and if you made it this far you deserve a lollipop.
-- Hayley
In Store 06/11/09 - 12/11/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Pals N Gals Double Digest #136
2000 AD Prog #1661
Judge Dredd Megazine #291
Tales Of The Deadman TP (J. Wagner)
Anchor #2
Angel After The Fall TP Vol 2 First Night
Authority The Lost Year Reader
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Utopia HC
Batgirl #4
Batman #693
Batman And Robin #6 (G. Morrison)
Batman Private Casebook TP
Batman/Doc Savage Special(Brian Azzarello/Phil Noto)
Beast GN (Marion Churchland)
Black Panther 2 #10
Black Terror #5
Blackbeard Legend Of The Pyrate King #2 (Mario Guevara)
Blood Song Silent Ballad GN DHC Ed
Booster Gold #26 Blackest Night
BPRD 1947 #5 (Of 5)
Burke & Hare GN
Cartoon Network Action Pack #43
Chronicles Of Wormwood Last Battle #2 (Garth Ennis)
Citizen Rex #5 (Of 6) (G. Hernandez)
Daredevil #502
DMZ #47 (Brian Wood)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? HC
Dr Who Magazine #415
Draw #18
Electropolis TP (Dean Motter)
Enders Game Command School #3 (Of 5)
Escapists TP New Ed (Brian K. Vaughan Et Al)
Fables #90
Farscape D'argo's Trial #4
Frazetta's Dark Kingdom #2 (Of 4)
Ghoul #1 (S. Niles/B. Wrightson)
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes #2
Good The Bad & The Ugly #5
Gravel #15 (Warren Ellis)
Green Arrow Black Canary #26
Green Lantern Agent Orange HC
Green Lantern Corps #42 BN
Hellboy Wild Hunt #8 (Of 8)
Hercules Full Circle Prem HC
Hot Potatoe HC (Marc Bell)
Hulk Green Hulk Red Hulk HC
Insomnia Cafe HC
James Jean’s SKRWL Triptych Journal Collection
Jersey Gods #9 (G. Brunswick/D. McDaid)
Jon Sable Freelance Ashes Of Eden #2
Absolute Justice HC (Alex Ross)
JSA Vs Kobra #6 (Of 6)
Juxtapoz Vol 16 #13 Nov 2009
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #1
Luke Cage Noir #4 (Of 4)
Luna Park HC (Danijel Zezelj)
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #17
Essential Moon Knight TP Vol 3
Outsiders TP The Deep
Phonogram 2 #5 (Of 7) Singles Club
Pim & Francie In Golden Days HC(Al Columbia)
Project Superpowers Black Terror TP Vol 1
PunisherMAX #1 (J.Aaron/S.Dillon)
Rapture #5 (Of 6) (M. A. Oeming)
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #1 (Of 5)
Rebels #10 Blackest Night
Red Herring #4 (Of 6)
Red Robin #6
Resident Evil #3 (Of 6)
Resurrection Vol 2 #5
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #3
Shield #3
Sky Doll: Doll Factory #1 (Of 2)
Amazing Spider-Man #611
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Collection Vol 2
Spider-Man: Died In Your Arms Tonight Prem HC
Stand American Nightmares HC
Star Wars Clone Wars #10
Star Wars Purge Seconds To Die One-Shot
Strange #1 (Of 4) (Mark Waid)
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4) (Salmons)
Strange Suspense: Steve Ditko Archives Vol 1 HC
Street Fighter IV #4 (Of 4)
Supergirl: Who Is Superwoman? TP
Supergod #1 (Of 5) (Warren Ellis)
Action Comics #883
Superman Red Son Deluxe Ed HC
S.W.O.R.D. #1 (Marvel) (K. Gillen)
Titans #19
Toyfare #149
Transformers Best Of The UK City Of Fear TP
Transformers Continuum One-Shot
Uncanny X-Men First Class #5 (Of 8)
Unwritten #7
Usagi Yojimbo HC Yokai
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #3
Walking Dead #67 (R. Kirkman)
Walking Dead Compendium TP Vol 1 New Ptg
We Kill Monsters #5 (Of 6)
Witchblade #132
X-Files TP
Cable #20
Dark X-Men #1 (Of 5) (P. Cornell)
Deadpool #17
Wolverine Weapon X Adamantium Men Prem HC
X-Babies #2 (Of 4)
X-Factor TP Vol 7 Time And A Half
X-Force #21 (X-Necrosha)
X-Men Forever #11
X-Men Legacy TP Salvage
X-Men Manifest Destiny TP
X-Men Wolverine Gambit Prem HC
MANGA
Oh My Goddess! Vol 13
Tsubasa GN Vol 24
Friday, November 6, 2009
Comica Festival 2009
This weekend sees the launch of one of the world's most exciting comics festivals in the form of Comica, the London International Comics Festival. It's a London arts calendar highlight with a plethora of guests, many of whom rarely grace these shores.
Paul Gravett's Comica festival, presented in association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, is in its sixth triumphant year. Its trans-continental line-up of talent - along with workshops, exhibitions, screenings and performances - have fast made it one of the most prestigious of shows to celebrate comics. It's fun, it's informative, it's inspirational, and it's an absolute must-do. Full details on the festival, with timetables and ticketing information can be found here. Don't miss the opportunity to meet the likes of Eddie Campbell, James Jean, David Lloyd, Tara McPherson, Will Linthout, Bryan Talbot, Cameron Stewart, Reinhard Kleist, Kevin O'Neill and many more!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Due To Arrive 12/11/09
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Anchor #2
Angel After The Fall TP Vol 2 First Night
Authority The Lost Year Reader
Avengers Initiative TP Vol 4 Disassembled
Avengers X-Men Utopia HC
Mighty Avengers TP Earth's Mightiest
New Avengers TP Vol 11
Batgirl #4
Batman #693
Batman And Robin #6
Batman Doc Savage Special #1
Black Panther 2 #10
Black Terror #5
Blackbeard Legend Of The Pyrate King #2
Booster Gold #26 Blackest Night
BPRD 1947 #5 (Of 5)
Chronicles Of Wormwood Last Battle #2 (Of 6)
Citizen Rex #5 (Of 6)
Daredevil #502
Dellec #2
DMZ #47
Draw #18
Enders Game Command School #3 (Of 5)
Fables #90
Farscape D'argo's Trial #4
Ghoul #1
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes #2
Good The Bad & The Ugly #5
Gravel #15
Green Arrow Black Canary #26
Green Lantern Corps #42 Blackest Night
Hellboy Wild Hunt #8 (Of 8)
Immortal Iron Fist TP Vol 5
Irredeemable #8
Jersey Gods #9
Jon Sable Freelance Ashes Of Eden #2
JSA Vs Kobra #6 (Of 6)
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #1
Luke Cage Noir #4 (Of 4)
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #17
Marvel Super Hero Squad #3 (Of 4)
Outsiders The Deep TP
Phonogram 2 #5 (Of 7) Singles Club
Project Superpowers Black Terror TP Vol 1
Punisher Max #1
Rapture #5 (Of 6)
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #1 (Of 5)
Rebels #10 Blackest Night
Red Herring #4 (Of 6)
Red Robin #6
Resident Evil #3 (Of 6)
Resurrection Vol 2 #5
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #3
Shield #3
Sky Doll Doll Factory #1 (Of 2)
Amazing Spider-Man #611
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS
Ultimate Collection TP Book 2
Spider-Man Died In Your Arms Tonight HC
Stand American Nightmares Prem HC
Star Wars Purge Seconds To Die One Shot
Strange #1 (Of 4)
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #4 (Of 4)
Street Fighter IV #4 (Of 4)
Supergirl Who Is Superwoman? TP
Supergod #1 (Of 5)
Action Comics #883
S.W.O.R.D. #1 (Marvel)
Talisman Road Of Trials #1
Titans #19
Toyfare #149
Tracker #1 (Of 5)
Transformers Continuum One-Shot
Unwritten #7
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #3
Walking Dead #67
Witchblade #132
Cable #20
Dark X-Men #1 (Of 5)
Deadpool #17
Uncanny X-Men First Class #5 (Of 8)
Wolverine Origins TP Dark Reign
Wolverine Tales Of Weapon X TP
Wolverine Weapon X Prem HC Vol 1
X-Babies #2 (Of 4)
X-Factor TP Vol 7 Time And A Half
X-Force #21
X-Men Forever #11
X-Men Legacy TP Salvage
X-Men Manifest Destiny TP
The Gosh! Authority 04/11/09
Predictably, I’m going to shout about our signings for a bit before I start on this week’s swag. THIS SATURDAY Eddie Campbell will be in the Gosh! basement from 2-4pm signing copies of the brand-spanking new Alec: The Years Have Pants Omnibus and whatever other Campbelliana you happen to bring along. Be there! He’s lovely and so is the book. The Saturday after that Gilbert Shelton will be here to sign his new book, The Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus. After that I think we might have a wee rest and let you do something else with your Saturday afternoons.
The last chap to sign here has two comics out this week that you might like. With Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente writes the Assault on New Olympus One-Shot which sees multiple Avengers teams fight the gods themselves. The story carries on in Incredible Hercules so don’t miss it if you’re following that one. Plus Jeff Parker’s Agents of Atlas continues as a back up in the one-shot and will continue running in that format beginning in next month’s Incredible Hercules. Pak and Van Lente talk about ridiculousness and improbable word play (the “tools of their trade”) over at Newsarama. (Preview) Van Lente also turns up in Deadpool Team-Up #899 because the editor liked what he did in Deadpool #900 so much. He talks about the Merc with a Mouth over at CbR.
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal Deluxe Hardcover will be the first creator-owned omnibus to come from Marvel and should probably be the first thing on your list this Thursday too. It collects all the Criminal trade-paperbacks to date (that’s Cowards, Lawless, and The Dead and the Dying) along with a slew of bonus stuff – a Criminal short story, a never-before-printed five pager that only appeared online, illustrations, articles, etc etc etc. Dave Gibbons provides the introduction so he obviously likes it as much as we do.
If indie comics are your thing make sure you pick up the BP Comics Revival 3-Pak #1 – a shrink-wrapped pack from Buenaventura Press featuring three strange titles adding up to over 100 pages of funny arty comics by Eric Haven, Ted May and Lisa Hanawalt. May’s contribution is the third issue of his own ongoing series Injury Comics. There’s monsters, mysterious pilots, love letters and bug sex. What more could you want? A review by Jog the Blog, possibly.
Lots of new things starting this week so here we go:
Paul Grist gives you a Jack Staff spin-off one-shot called Eternal Conflicts of the Cosmic Warrior. Grist is planning a five-issue miniseries featuring the character so this will give you some idea of what’s to come. A preview!
Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #1 is the first of a six-issue miniseries by Chris Roberson (House of Mystery, Jack of Fables) and Shawn McManus (Sandman, Thessaly: Witch For Hire) about fan-favourite Cinderella who’s secretly a kick-ass super-spy. Spinning out Bill Willingham’s Fables (obviously) the miniseries takes place before the events of the Big Fables Crossover. Roberson talks about it here.
Stumptown #1 is the beginning of the first creator-owned series by Greg Rucka (Whiteout, Detective Comics) since his Eisner Award-winning Queen & Country. “Stumptown is – I suppose the bluntest way to put it is, if Queen and Country was me using a childhood love of espionage and things like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and James Bond and Ian Mackintosh's Sandbaggers, then Stumptown comes out of the childhood love of The Hardy Boys and The Rockford Files, Simon and Simon and Magnum, P.I. That's what this is,” he says in this interview before going on to talk about Raymond Chandler (top marks!) and all sorts. You can read an early review of it here and see a preview too.
If you were a fan of Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze) and Skottie Young’s (X-Men) Wonderful World of Oz you’ll be happy to know they’re taking on L. Frank Baum’s second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz. “What sets The Marvelous Land of Oz apart specifically is the fact that it’s not anywhere near as well-known as the story from the first book, particularly the Judy Garland movie version of that story. Marvelous Land is a good story, but it’s not as straightforward as Wonderful Wizard...” More of that Shanower interview here. Preview.
Scott Ian (yes, he of Anthrax) makes his comics debut with a twisted Lobo story Highway to Hell #1 (of 2) in which Lobo repeatedly punches Satan in the face. Over here you can see a preview of Sam Keith’s (Sandman) artwork which is worth the cover price alone. There’s a huge interview with Ian at CbR where he says this isn’t another celebrity stunt comic, he reckons he’s in it for good.
Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and the MI: 13, deceased) begins a new four-issue miniseries this week with Black Widow Deadly Origin #1 with art by Tom Raney and the reliably brilliant John Paul Leon (Howling Commandos) whose dark inky art we like so much here at Gosh! Cornell says you can expect something fairly James Bond-y (him again)... “Lots of fist fights, high tech battles, the sort of extreme superhero hedonism you expect from the Iron Man movies, pre-titles sequences and movie poster splash pages.” More of that and a review/preview too.
The Great Ten #1 (of 10) is a series by Tony Bedard (R.E.B.E.L.S.), Scott McDaniel (Nightwing, Green Arrow) that revisits Grant Morrison characters from 52 and Checkmate. In the series the gods of Ancient China have returned to destroy communist rule:
“When I went off to college, I really got into Eastern philosophy — Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, etc. Around the same time, I picked up Animal Man and I’ve been a hardcore Grant Morrison fan ever since. So I leapt at the chance to do a Great Ten series, to flesh out these characters Grant dreamed up and tap the amazing storytelling potential in both them and their country. It’s a chance to do a different take on super-heroes, and just like my R.E.B.E.L.S. series, I think The Great Ten is going to take a lot of people by surprise,” says Bedard.
In comics news this weeks there’s a handful of talks and workshops this month courtesy of Islington Library that you should try and get along to. Kevin O’Neill, Ed “Ilya” Hillyer, Steve Marchant and more are all involved, so check out their online leaflet and don’t miss ‘em.
Over at DC there’s a Wednesday Comics podcast featuring Mark Chiarello, Amanda Connor, Jimmy Palmiotti, Paul Pope, Mike Allred, Dave Gibbons, Lee Bermejo and more. The sound quality’s somewhat dodgy but you get the idea. Plus few still have every issue of the series for sale in the basement. (Thanks Nick!)
And that’s about it.
-- Hayley
In Store 30/10/09 - 05/11/09
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1660
Alec: “The Years Have Pants” SC
Age Of Bronze #29
Age Of Reptiles Journey #1
Angel #27
AOD Ash Saves Obama #3 (Of 4)
Assault On New Olympus
Astonishing X-Men #32
Athena #2
Authority #16
Batman: Battle For The Cowl Companion TP
Batman Confidential #36
Batman The Unseen #3 (Of 5)
Batman Widening Gyre #3 (Of 6)
Black Widow Deadly Origin #1 (Of 4)
Boys #36 (Garth Ennis)
Boys HC Vol 1 Ltd Ed
Boys Herogasm #6 (Of 6)
BP Comics Revival PX 3 Pak #1
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #30
Captain America Reborn #4 (Of 6)
Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #1 (Of 6)
Comic Book Design SC
Conan The Cimmerian #15
Crikey #12
Criminal Deluxe Ed HC (E. Brubaker)
Deathlok #1 (Of 7)
Doctor Voodoo Avenger Of Supernatural #2
Doom Patrol #4 Blackest Night
End League #9 (Of 9)
Eternal Conflicts Of The Cosmic Warrior One-Shot (Paul Grist)
Fantastic Four Visionaries Walter Simonson TP Vol 3
Fathom #9
Ghost Rider Danny Ketch TP Vol 1
Ghost Riders: Heaven’s On Fire #4
GI Joe #11
Great Ten #1 (Of 10)
Greek Street #5 (P. Milligan)
Grimjack Manx Cat #4
Haunt #2
Hellblazer: Scab TP
House Of M Masters Of Evil #4 House Of Mystery #19
Immortal Weapons #4 (Of 5)
Iron Man Armor Wars #4 (Of 4)
Jonah Hex #49
Kill Audio #2 (Of 6)
Knights Of The Dinner Table #155
Lobo: Highway To Hell #1 (Of 2)
Magog #3
Marvel Super Hero Squad #2 (Of 4)
Marvel Zombies 3 TP
Marvel Zombies Evil Evolution
Marvelous Land Of Oz #1 (Of 8)
Mighty #10
Ms Marvel #46
North 40 #5 (Of 6)
Nova #31
Nova TP Vol 5 War Of Kings
Official Index Marvel Universe #11
Phantom Ghost Who Walks #6
Prince Of Stories: The Many Worlds Of Neil Gaiman SC
Project Superpowers
- Chapter Two #4
- Meet The Bad Guys #4
Red Tornado #3 (Of 6)
Savage Dragon #154
Secret Six #15
Sherlock Holmes HC Vol 1
Simon Bisley Illustration From The Bible TP New Ptg
Amazing Spider-Man #610
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #4
Star Trek Romulans Schism #3
Star Wars Invasion #5 (Of 5)
Starr The Slayer #3 (Of 4)
Starstruck #3
Strange Tales #3 (Of 3)
Street Fighter II Turbo #9
Stumptown #1 (Greg Rucka)
Superman Batman Search For Kryptonite TP
Superman World Of New Krypton #9
Sweet Tooth #3 (J. Lemire)
Terror Inc TP Apocalypse Soon
Torch #3 (Of 8)
Turok Son Of Stone Archives HC 4
Unknown Devil Made Flesh #2
Vampirella Second Coming #3
Vlad The Impaler Man Who Was Dracula GN
Warlord #8
Witchfinder In The Service Of Angels #5
Wonder Woman Rise Of The Olympian HC & TP
Deadpool Team-Up #899 (Van Lente)
Exiles: Point Of No Return TP
Psylocke #1 (Of 4)
X-Men Origins Iceman One-Shot
X-Men Vs Agents Of Atlas #2 (Of 2)
Years of the Elephant SC
Zombies That Ate The World #6 (Of 8)
MANGA
Air Gear GN Vol 14
Kamichama Karin-Chu GN Vol 6
Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya GN Vol 4
Negima GN Vol 24
Pumpkin Scissors GN Vol 5
Swans In Space GN Vol 1 (Of 3)
Tsubasa GN Vol 23
XXXholic GN Vol 14
Yotsuba & ! GN Vol 6