Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later #6
Angel Hole In The World #3
Angelus #2 (Of 6)
Authority #19
Batman Confidential #41
Blackest Night Wonder Woman #3 (Of 3)
Boys #39
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #32
Cable #23
Cartoon Network Action Pack #46
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #4 (Of 6)
Conan The Cimmerian #18
Criminal Sinners #4
Daffodil #2 (Of 3)
Dark Tower Fall Of Gilead Prem HC
Deadpool Prem HC Vol 3 X Marks The Spot
Deadpool Team-Up #896
Demo Vol 2 #1 (Of 6)
Dingo #3 (Of 4)
Dominic Fortune It Can Happen Here And Now TP
Doom Patrol #7
Fables TP Vol 13 The Great Fables Crossover
Ghost Riders Heavens On Fire #6 (Of 6)
GI Joe Origins #12
God Complex #3
Great Ten #4 (Of 10)
Greek Street #8
House Of M TP Masters Of Evil
House Of Mystery #22
Indomitable Iron Man Black & White One-Shot
Invincible #70
Invincible Iron Man #23
Iron Man & Armor Wars TP
Iron Man Tales Of Golden Avenger TP
Jonah Hex #52
Justice Society Of America Annual #2
Lone Ranger #20
Looney Tunes #183
Marvel Heartbreakers #1
Mass Effect Redemption #2 (Of 4)
Milestone Forever #1 (Of 2)
Nova #34
Question #37 Blackest Night
Realm Of Kings Son Of Hulk #1 (Of 4)
Red Robin #9
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods #1 (Of 5)
Red Tornado #6 (Of 6)
Resistance TP
Savage Dragon #157
Scalped #34
Siege #2 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #2 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Noir Eyes Without A Face #3 (Of 4)
Star Comics TP All-Star Collection Vol 2
Superman World Of New Krypton #12 (Of 12)
Sweet Tooth #6
Tiny Titans Sidekickin' It TP
Torch #5 (Of 8)
Ultimate Comics X #1
Warlord #11
Wolverine Savage
Wolverine Weapon X #10
X-Men Noir Mark Of Cain #3 (Of 4)
Zorro #19
Zorro Matanzas #1 (Of 4)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Due To Arrive 04/02/10
The Gosh! Authority 27/01/10
Like buses they’ve all arrived at once. This week you’ll find these chaps jostling for top spot on the new shelf:
Gosh! Favourite Ragnar’s new hardcover Big City is ‘160 f***ing pages of pure creative bliss!’ says Alberto Ruiz, who has also put up loads of preview pages and said something about his mother-in-law’s beard. Ragnar himself tracked the progress of the book over at his blog. A highly recommended lovely looking thing that you can’t miss because it’ll be in front of your face.
Shane Glines of Cartoon Retro fame (warning – high likelihood of retro boobs) gives you Lily & Flinch, another drool-worthy addition to our collection of painfully stylish sketchbooks.
It’s a deluxe hardcover edition of something that was originally only available as a print-on-demand softcover from Lulu but is somehow inexplicably cheaper than that original edition. As an extra bonus this one features a new cover and a few more images than the last. Glines was previously mentioned on the Gosh! Blog back when we got his Cartoon Retro Volumes 1 and 2, still available here in the shop and we still reckon you’d like ‘em.
In Shag’s latest offering it looks like he’s channelling Hieronymus Bosch and his sombre tones. “Something happened to me in the last year - call it an unexpected change of hear, if you like, but a lot of the unfettered hedonism my artwork espoused has begun to catch up with me,” says he. See what he means in these photos from the show’s opening in Los Angeles. Dark and weird.
Sam Hiti’s strange and brilliant inky manifestations are back in Ghoulash 2 which is - you’ll be happy to know - a really, truly bizarre little book. Have a look at the cover and nowt else needs saying. Beside it you’ll find his Death Day Prologue which is the prologue to his upcoming graphic novel Death Day. Like it says on the tin.
Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca (the blokes responsible for Street Angel) want you to funk it up hard style in their new book Afrodisiac, in which the hero has (yep, you guessed it) an afro as well as aphrodisiac superpowers over all women. He originally appeared in the now out-of-print anthology Project: Superior in a story that’s reprinted here along with a load of brand new stuff in one blaxploitation hardcover package. You can have a PDF preview and a thoroughly informative review, but if you want funky music and taglines I wholeheartedly recommend you watch this thing.
45 is an ambitious new superhero thing written by one guy called Andi Ewington and drawn by forty-five others all doing a page each – John Higgins, Sean Phillips, Gary Erksine, and 42 (count ‘em) others. It’s a bunch of interviews with superheroes conducted by father-to-be James Stanley who wants to know what’s in store for his unborn child if it ends up having superpowers. Ewington talks about the book, the people and the process in this interview. You’ll find lots more stuff over at the 45 blog.
The third volume of Fantagraphics’ Harvey and Eisner nominated Hotwire has arrived and it looks great. In it you’ll find stuff by Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comix), Sam Henderson, Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle) and loads more. Because we’re living in the future you now have a choice: PDF preview (old hat) or our new favourite thing – a video of a man flipping (rather roughly if you ask me) through the book in question. Nat watched it a few times and reckons they should stick this stuff on telly.
Nat also thinks you should read Dennis the Menace and said so ages ago. Given that the latest volume will be on the shelf this afternoon it’s as good a time as any to refer you back to his enthusiastic review which I happily swiped when the previous volume came out and fully intend to do again:
“In some ways it baffles me that these Dennis the Menace collections don’t sell nearly as well as the Peanuts equivalents. Like Peanuts the strips themselves are gently comic, rather than laugh out loud funny, although this often doesn’t prepare for the occasional really funny, dark or even borderline sinister gag that can take you quite by surprise. Like Peanuts it’s also steeped in that lovely 50s Americana that gives you that wonderful feeling you can only usually achieve by watching a live action Disney movie on a wet Bank Holiday Monday while enjoying some hot tea and toast.”
The Complete Dennis the Menace 1961 – 1962 by Hank Ketcham. Read it.
But enough of books. They’re too heavy to carry home anyway. How about some comics? The latest in Robert Kirkman’s Pilot Season is Demonic #1 about a possessed man who will do anything the demon asks as long as it promises not to make him kill his wife and daughter. As usual, whichever of the Top Cow Pilot Season one-shots gets the most votes is destined to become an ongoing series. Choose wisely.
Brian Michael Bendis co-founder of the Ultimate Universe adds another branch to the tree and introduces a powerful new villain in Ultimate Comics Enemy #1 (Of 4). There’s a preview here and a full rundown on what to expect here.
And finally, if you’ve been following DC’s one-issue resurrections you’ll want to pick up Atom & Hawkman #46 by Geoff Johns and Ryan Sook. Preview here. After this one there’s only one more to come – Greg Rucka’s The Question #37 illustrated by the original Question artists Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. You can expect that next week.
And I’m done. See you Thursday.
-- Hayley
In Store 22/01/10 - 29/01/10
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2000 AD Prog #1669
Nikolai Dante Amerika GN
Afrodisiac HC (Jim Rugg)
Alias Ultimate Collection TP Volume 2
Astro City The Dark Age Book Four #1 (Of 4)
Atom And Hawkman #46 BN
Autumn's Come Undone HC (Shag)
Avengers Initiative #32 Siege
Avengers World Trust Prem HC
New Avengers #61 Siege
Barack The Barbarian Fall Of Red Sarah One-Shot
Batman And Robin #7 (G. Morrison)
Batman Under The Cowl TP(B. Willingham/G. Morrison/G. Johns/C. Dixon Et Al)
Detective Comics #861 (G. Rucka)
Big City HC (Ragnar)
Billy Batson &Magic Of Shazam #12
Black Terror #7
Blackest Night JSA #2 (Of 3)
Brave And The Bold #31
Buck Rogers #8
Captain America Reborn #6 (Of 6)(Ed Brubaker)
Cavewoman Cover Gallery #3 Sp Ed
Chew #8
Church Of Hell #3
Complete Alice In Wonderland #2 (Of 4) (L. Moore/J. Reppion)
Complete Dennis The Menace 1961 -1962 HC (Hank Ketcham)
Daredevil #504
Dark Reign:
- Deadpool/Thunderbolts TP
- Hawkeye #5 (Of 5) DKR
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #8
45 GN
Fall Of Hulks Red Hulk #1 (Of 4) FOH
Fantastic Four #575
Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four TP Vol 3
Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom #4 (Of 4)
Futurama Comics #47
GI Joe Cobra II #1
Gotham City Sirens #8
Green Lantern #50 Blackest Night
Guardians Of Galaxy #22
Halo Blood Line #2 (Of 5)
Hotwire GN Vol 3
House Of Mystery TP Vol 3 The Space Between
Hulk: Son Of Hulk HC Dark Son Rising
Hulk Visionaries Peter David TP Vol 7
Iron Man I Am Iron Man #1 (Of 2)
Iron Man Vs Whiplash #3 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #10
Jack Of Fables #42
Justice League Cry For Justice #6 (Of 7)
Justice League Of America #41
Justice Society Of America #35
Justice Society Of America Strange Adventures TP
Kick Ass #8 (M. Millar)
Knights Of The Dinner Table #158
Lily & Flinch HC (Shane Glines)
Losers Volume 1 And 2 TP
Madame Xanadu #19
Marvel Adventures
- Spider-Man #59
- Spider-Man & Avengers TP
Marvel Previews February 2010
Marvelous Land Of Oz #3 (Of 8)
Ms Marvel #49
Northlanders #24
Official Handbook Of Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 12
Official Index To Marvel Universe #13
Olympians GN Vol 1 Zeus King Of The Gods
Pilot Season Demonic #1 (Kirkman)
Political Power #6 George W Bush
Predator #4 (Of 4)
Previews #257 February 2010
Punisher #13 (R. Remender)
Resurrection Vol 2 #7
Sam Hiti
- Death Day Prologue SC
- Ghoulash 2 SC
Secret Warriors #12
Secret Warriors Vol 2 God Of Fear, God Of War Prem HC
Siege Storming Asgard Heroes And Villains One-Shot
Amazing Spider-Man #619 Gauntlet
Spider-Man Clone Saga #5 (Of 6)
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #3
Star Wars Legacy #44
Supergirl #49
Superman #696
Superman Secret Origin #4 (Of 6)
Sword #21
Tales Of Green Lantern Corps Vol 2
Teen Titans #79
Thor #606
Transformers: Last Stand Of The Wreckers #1
Ultimate Comics Enemy #1 (Of 4)
Unknown Devil Made Flesh #4
Unknown Soldier #16
Victorian Undead #3 (Of 6)
Walking Dead #69
Web #5
Wildcats #19
Wildcats Family Secrets TP
Witchblade #134
Wizard Magazine #222
Wizard's Tale HC Vol 1 (K. Busiek)
Wonder Woman #40
Worlds Finest #4 (Of 4)
Wolverine Origins #44
Wolverine: Wendigo! One-Shot
X-Babies #4 (Of 4)
X-Factor #201
X-Force #23 XN
X-Men Forever #16
X-Men Legacy #232 XN
MANGA
Barefoot Gen TP Vol 9 &10
King of RPGs GN
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Due To Arrive 28/01/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later #6
Amazing Spider-Man #619 Gauntlet
Astro City The Dark Age Book Four #1 (Of 4)
Atom And Hawkman #46 Blackest Night
Avengers Initiative #32 Siege
Avengers World Trust Prem HC
Batman And Robin #7
Batman Under The Cowl TP
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #12
Black Terror #7
Blackest Night JSA #2 (Of 3)
Buck Rogers #8
Captain America Reborn #6 (Of 6)
Chew #8
Complete Alice In Wonderland #2 (Of 4)
Daredevil #504
Dark Reign Hawkeye #5 (Of 5)
Detective Comics #861
Fall Of Hulks Red Hulk #1 (Of 4) FOH
Fantastic Four #575
Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom #4 (Of 4)
Futurama Comics #47
GI Joe Cobra II #1
Gotham City Sirens #8
Green Lantern #50 Blackest Night
Guardians Of Galaxy #22
Halo Blood Line #2 (Of 5)
House Of M HC Wolverine Iron Man & Hulk
House Of Mystery TP Vol 3 The Space Between
Hulk Son Of Hulk HC Dark Son Rising
Hulk Visionaries Peter David TP Vol 7
Invincible #70
Iron Man I Am Iron Man #1 (Of 2)
Iron Man Vs Whiplash #3 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #10
Jack Of Fables #42
JSA Strange Adventures TP
Justice League Cry For Justice #6 (Of 7)
Justice League Of America #41
Justice Society Of America #35
Kick Ass #8
Losers Volume 1 And 2 TP
Madame Xanadu #19
Man With No Name TP Vol 2
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man/Avengers TP
Marvel Previews February 2010
Marvelous Land Of Oz #3 (Of 8)
Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four TP Vol 3
Ms Marvel #49
New Avengers #61 Siege
Northlanders #24
Official Handbook Of Marvel A To Z HC Vol 12
Official Index To Marvel Universe #13
Pilot Season Demonic #1
Predator #4 (Of 4)
Previews #257 February 2010
Punisher #13
Secret Warriors #12
Secret Warriors Vol 2 Prem HC
Siege Storming Asgard Heroes & Villains
Spider-Man Clone Saga #5 (Of 6)
Star Comics TP All-Star Collection Vol 2
Star Trek The Next Generation Ghosts #3
Star Wars Legacy #44
Supergirl #49
Superman #696
Superman Secret Origin #4 (Of 6)
Sword #21
Tales Of The Green Lantern Corps Vol 2
Teen Titans #79
Thor #606
Transformers Last Stand Of The Wreckers #1
Ultimate Comics Enemy #1 (Of 4)
Unknown Devil Made Flesh #4
Unknown Soldier #16
Victorian Undead #3 (Of 6)
Walking Dead #69
Wildcats #19
Wildcats Family Secrets TP
Witchblade #134
Wizard Magazine #222
Wolverine Origins #44
Wolverine Wendigo #1
Wonder Woman #40
Worlds Finest #4 (Of 4)
X-Babies #4 (Of 4)
X-Factor #201
X-Force #23 XN
X-Men Forever #16
X-Men Legacy #232 XN
The Gosh! Authority 20/01/10
Twenty-ten, two thousand and ten or whatever you want to call it (2K-10?) is definitely taking its time getting off the ground, comics-wise. Yep, it’s another small one this week but as you’ll see in a minute it’s still worth hauling yourself into the shop for a few noteworthy arrivals.
One such newbie is the latest creator-owned miniseries from everyone’s favourite bald magician, Grant Morrison. It’s called Joe the Barbarian, it’s eight issues long (the first only 75p!) and it’s about a kid with a overactive imagination, Type 1 diabetes and a whole house between him and his life-saving meds. Insulin deprivation transports him Narnia-style to a world inhabited by his toys, making for a story described as a cross between Home Alone and Lord of the Rings. Here’s a preview and here’s what Morrison has to say:
“Joe the Barbarian is about a Boy and his House. It's about a modern kid's journey to Death's Door and what he finds there. Joe's the son of a soldier, like all of us in the military-industrial society of spectacle and denial, and a kid literally facing Death.”
More of that here. It’s illustrated by Sean Murphy (Year One: Batman/Scarecrow, Hellblazer) who also has a few things to say over there. Apparently Joe the Barbarian comes after a long period of Murphy feeling as if he was blacklisted at DC, his picture hung at the front desk to notify the staff if he ever came pleading.
The latest in Drawn & Quarterly’s John Stanley Library is Thirteen Going On Eighteen and it can be all yours this week. The series turned up in the mid-sixties along with Melvin Monster, when Stanley had stopped writing and drawing for already established titles such as Little Lulu and started doing his own stuff. It’s about two female teenage friends and the rivalry and nonsense that comes with being just that. As usual it’s designed by Seth so it’s bound to look bloomin’ lovely on the shelf.
There’s more nice reprinted stuff in the Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 1 HC. Dark Horse have split his seminal 1970s run on the title into two remastered/recoloured hardcover books. Looky here for a preview.
Other than that we’ve got a new four-parter series from Jeff Parker called Avengers Vs Agents of Atlas (preview here) and the next in DC’s line of Blackest Night resurrected titles: Starman #81. Written by James Robinson with art by Fernando Dagnino and Bill Sienkiewicz, it’s one more issue of a series long dead. Robinson tweets "Just so everyone knows now, Blackest Night Starman will feature a Black Lantern Starman. It will feature Opal and characters therein. But It will not have Jack Knight. He is happily in SF like me. And if he ever came back, it should be something bigger then a single issue. But I am very happy with the issue I've written. I think you'll dig it." You probably will.
And that’s about it! Short, sweet and ended while we still think fondly of each other.
G’bye!
-- Hayley
In Store 15/01/10 - 21/01/10
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Betty & Veronica Double Digest #177
2000 AD Prog #1668
Air #17
Anna Mercury 2 #3 (Of 5)
Authority The Lost Year #5 (Of 12)
Dark Avengers #13 Siege
Avengers Vs Agents Of Atlas #1
Mighty Avengers #33
Azrael #4
Barack The Barbarian #4 (Of 4)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #8
Batman The Brave And The Bold #13
Battlefields Happy Valley #2 (Of 3)
Black Widow & Marvel Girls #3 (Of 4)
Blackest Night The Flash #2 (Of 3)
Boris Karloff Tales Of Mystery
Archives Vol 2 HC
Brave And The Bold #31
Captain America #602 (Ed Brubaker)
Captain America Road To Reborn TP
Cavewoman Cover Gallery #3
Cavewoman Pangaean Sea #11
Cleaners TP Vol 1 Absent Bodies
Barry Windsor Smith Conan
Archives Vol 1 HC
Cowboy Ninja Viking #3 (Of 4)
Creepy Archives HC Vol 5
Darkness Shadows & Flame One-Shot
Deathlok #3 (Of 7)
Marvel Masterworks Dr Strange HC 4
Doctor Voodoo #4
Excalibur Visionaries A. Davis TP 2
Farscape Ongoing #3
GI Joe #14
GI Joe Best Of Baroness TP
GI Joe Origins #11
Glamourpuss #11 (Dave Sim)
G-Man Cape Crisis #5 (Of 5)
Gold Digger #113
Goon TP Vol 0 Rough Stuff Revised Ed (E. Powell)
Gravel #16 (Warren Ellis)
Green Lantern Corps #44 BN
Hellblazer #263 (Peter Milligan)
Hulk #19 Fall Of The Hulks
Hulk Fall Of The Hulks Prelude TP
Incorruptible #2 (Mark Waid)
Incredible Hercules #140
Incredible Hulk #606 Fall O/T Hulks
Jack Staff TP Vol 2 Soldiers New Ptg
Jericho Season 3 #2 (Of 6)
Jersey Gods #10 (Dan McDaid)
Joe The Barbarian #1 (Of 8) (75p!!)
Justice League Of America Sanctuary TP
Juxtapoz Vol 17
- #1 Jan 2010
- #2 Feb 2010
Kids Of Widney High (Jim Mahfood)
Marvel Fairy Tales TP
Mice Templar Destiny #6
MMW Atlas Era Jungle Adventure 1
No Hero HC (Warren Ellis)
Nova #33
Outsiders #26
Phantom Stranger #42 BN
Power Girl #8
Project Superpowers Chapter 2 #6
Rapture #6 (Of 6)
Rasl #6 (Jeff Smith)
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #3 (Of 5)
R.E.B.E.L.S. TP Vol 1 The Coming Of Starro (Andrew Clarke)
Rex Mundi TP Vol 6 Gate Of God
Simpsons Comics #162
Solomon Kane Death’s Black Riders #1 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man #618 Gauntlet
Spider-Man 1602 #4 (Of 5)
Spider-Woman #5 (B. M. Bendis)
Web Of Spider-Man #4 Gauntlet
Star Trek DS9 Fools Gold #2
Star Wars Dark Times #15
Starman #81 Blackest Night
Street Fighter IV TP Vol 1
Sublife GN Vol 2
Superboy: The Greatest Team-Ups Ever Told TP
Superman Batman #68 (Joe Casey)
Supernatural Beginning's End #1
Tale Of One Bad Rat HC (B. Talbot)
Thing Project Pegasus Prem HC
Thor By JM Straczynski HC Vol 3
13 Going On 18 HC (John Stanley)
Thunderbolts #140
Tiny Titans #24
Transformers Bumblebee #2
Ultimatum Requiem TP
Veil TP Vol 1
Dark Wolverine #82 Siege
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #7
Uncanny X-Men #520
Wolverine Black Cat Claws TP
Wolverine First Class TP Class Actions
Wolverine Weapon X #9
X-Men Asgardian Wars HC
Young Liars TP Vol 3 Rock Life
MANGA
Black Jack TP Vol 9 (Tezuka)
Electric Hands GN (Yaoi)
Not Simple GN
Oh My Goddess! TP Vol 34
Our Kingdom Arabian Nights GN
Pluto Urasawa X GN Vol 7
Swans In Space GN Vol 2 (Of 3)
Wind Named Amnesia/Invader Summer Novel
Yotsuba & ! GN Vol 7
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Due To Arrive 21/01/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Air #17
Amazing Spider-Man #618 Gauntlet
Anna Mercury 2 #3 (Of 5)
Authority The Lost Year #5 (Of 12)
Avengers Vs Agents Of Atlas #1
Azrael #4
Batman Streets Of Gotham #8
Batman The Brave And The Bold #13
Beyond The Wall #3
Black Widow And Marvel Girls #3 (Of 4)
Blackest Night The Flash #2 (Of 3)
Brave And The Bold #31
Captain America #602
Captain America Road To Reborn TP
Chew #8
Dark Avengers #13 Siege
Dark Wolverine #82 Siege
Darkness Shadows & Flame One-Shot
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #7
Deathlok #3 (Of 7)
Doctor Voodoo Avenger Of Supernatural #4
Excalibur Visionaries Alan Davis TP Vol 2
Fables #92
Farscape Ongoing #3
Free Realms #5 (Of 12)
Garth Ennis Battlefields Happy Valley #2
Gears Of War #11
GI Joe #14
GI Joe Best Of Baroness TP
GI Joe Origins #11
Glamourpuss #11
G-Man Cape Crisis #5 (Of 5)
Gravel #16
Green Lantern Corps #44 Blackest Night
Hellblazer #263
Hulk #19 FOH
Hulk Fall Of The Hulks Prelude TP
Incorruptible #2
Incredible Hercules #140
Incredible Hulk #606 FOH
Invincible #70
Jersey Gods #10
Joe The Barbarian #1 (Of 8)
Marvel Fairy Tales TP
Mice Templar Destiny #6
Mighty Avengers #33
No Hero HC
Nola #3
Nova #33
Outsiders #26
Phantom Stranger #42 Blackest Night
Power Girl #8
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #6
PvP #43
Rapture #6 (Of 6)
Rasl #6
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #3 (Of 5)
Rebels TP Vol 1
Simpsons Comics #162
Solomon Kane Deaths Black Riders #1 (Of 4)
Spider-Man 1602 #4 (Of 5)
Spider-Woman #5
Star Trek DS9 Fools Gold #2
Star Wars Dark Times #15
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #49
Starcraft #7
Starman #81 Blackest Night
Superboy The Greatest Team Ups Ever Told TP
Superman Batman #68
Thor By J Michael Straczynski Prem HC Vol 3
Thunderbolts #140
Tiny Titans #24
Transformers Bumblebee #2
Ultimatum Requiem TP
Uncanny X-Men #520
Veil TP Vol 1
Walking Dead #69
Web Of Spider-Man #4 Gauntlet
Witchblade #134
Wolverine Black Cat Claws TP
Wolverine First Class TP Class Actions
Wolverine Weapon X #9
Young Liars TP Vol 3 Rock Life
The Gosh! Authority 13/01/10
Hello! Despite this morning’s surprise snow you’ll be glad to know that your comics will be waiting for you in their usual places on Thursday. They all arrived on time so there’s no need to worry about anything other than tomorrow’s slippery journey into town. Hooray for everything that isn’t snow.
It’s a tiny one this week so I won’t keep you long. Stuff to look out for includes the first volume of Sanchez Abuli and Jordi Bernet’s masterpiece Torpedo, the very stylish hardboiled crime comic about the underbelly of Noo Yok City in the ‘30s. Bernet’s art is cracking (as is Alex Toth’s who illustrated the first two Torpedo stories) and full of squinty-eyed gangsters, good hats and the occasional boob or two. Jimmy Palmiotti provides the new translation and if you’re wondering why it’s such a lovely looking book (see the end papers) it’s because it’s designed by that old Gosh! favourite of ours, Mr Darwyn Cooke. How d’ya like them credits.
Peter Milligan’s (Greek Street) Human Target: Chance Meetings is released in trade-paperback this week – just in time for the (American) premiere of the TV show. This trade collects for original four-issue Vertigo series from 1999 along with the standalone 96-page graphic novel that followed it. If you’re wondering what the TV show’s going to be like you can head thataway for a trailer.
Alan Moore’s Neonomicon Hornbook is bound to confuse people (read: it confused us) so here’s what it is: it’s the preview book of a sequel series to The Courtyard featuring some completed pages from the first issue, bits of Moore’s original script, design sketches and an interview with the artist Jacen Burrows. The series (in which Moore continues his reinvention of the Lovecraft mythos) was supposed to have launched in the Autumn just gone so I’m guessing we’ll see it pretty soon.
Aliens Vs Predator: Three World War is a new six-parter by John Arcudi with lots of aliens, lots of predators and probably lots of killings too. #1 is out this week and editor Chris Warner tells you all about it here. It’s worth pointing out because Rick Leonardi of the recent Vigilante is doing the art. Have a preview.
And finally (I told you it was a wee’un), there was a minor misprint in last week’s Siege #1. It’s somewhere in the Ares War Plan transcript but don’t ask me exactly where it lurks. If it bothers you, Marvel have put up an online cock-up free version for you.
That’s it! See you Thursday.
-- Hayley
In Store 08/01/10 - 14/01/10
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Archie & Friends TP Vol 2
Archie Digest #260
2000 AD Prog #1666 & #1667
Judge Dredd Megazine #293
Absolution #6 (Of 6)
Action Comics #885
Adventure Comics #6
Age Of Reptiles Journey #2 (Of 4)
Agents Of Atlas Turf Wars Prem HC
Alan Moore's Neonomicon Hornbook One-Shot
Alter Ego #91
Angel #29
Anita Blake LC Executioner #3 (Of 5)
Army Of Two #1
Atomic Robo TP Vol 1 New Ptg
AvP: Three World War #1 (Of 6)
(Rick Leonardi)
Back Issue #38
Batgirl #6
Batman #695
Batman Black & White Statue Lee Bermejo
Batman Widening Gyre #4 (Of 6)
Black Panther 2 #12
Black Widow Deadly Origin #3 (Of 4)
Booster Gold #28
Boys HC Ltd Ed Vol 3 Good For The Soul
Buck Rogers In 25th Century Newspaper Dailies HC Vol 3
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #31
Catwoman #83 Blackest Night
Cavewoman Meriem's Gallery #5
Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy HC Vol 9 1944-45
Conan The Cimmerian: Weight Of The Crown One-Shot
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #4 (Of 5)
Dante's Inferno #2 (Of 6)
Daytripper #2 (Of 10) (Moon/Ba)
Die Hard Year One #4
DMZ #49 (B. Wood)
Doc Savage The Silver Pyramid TP(D. O’Neil/A. Kubert)
Dr Who Magazine #417
Ed Hannigan: Covered One-Shot
Elephantmen TP Vol 2 Fatal Diseases
Fallen Angel Reborn TP Vol 1
Farscape D'argo's Quest #2
Galactica 1980 #4
Ghoul #2 (S. Niles/B. Wrightson)
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes #4
Good The Bad & The Ugly #7
Graylight GN
Green Arrow Black Canary #28
Heavy Metal March 2010
Human Target Chance Meetings TP (P. Milligan)
Invincible Iron Man #22
Jackson 500 HC Vol 4 (T. Biskup)
Lola HC
Magog #5
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #19
Marvels Project #5 (Of 8)(E. Brubaker/S. Epting)
Mister Amperduke GN
No Hero TP (W. Ellis)
Odyssey TP
Phantom Generations #7
Phantom Ghost Who Walks #7
Power Of Shazam #48 BN
Psylocke #3 (Of 4)
PunisherMAX #3 (J. Aaron/S. Dillon)
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #3 (Of 5)
Rebels #12
Red Herring #6 (Of 6)
Red Sonja Omnibus TP Vol 1
Runaways Escape To New York HC
Secret Six #17 Blackest Night
Shield #5
Shutter Island GN
Sky Doll Doll Factory #2 (Of 2)
Spawn Origins TP Vol 4
Amazing Spider-Man #617 Gauntlet
Spider-Man & Secret Wars #2 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Election Day TP
Ultimate Spider-Man TP Vol 22 Ultimatum
Star Trek Captain’s Log Sulu #1
Strange #3 (Of 4) (M. Waid)
Super Friends #23
Super Hero Squad #1
S.W.O.R.D. (Marvel) #3 (K. Gillen)
Talisman Road Of Trials #3
Tim Burton At The Museum Of Modern Art New York SC
Titans #21
Torpedo HC Vol 1
Toyfare #151
Transformers Adventures Vol 3 TP
Transformers All Hail Megatron TP Vol 4
Transformers Ongoing #3
Ultimatum TP
Unwritten #9 (M. Carey/P. Gross)
Weekly World News #1 (C. Ryall)
Cable Prem HC Vol 3 Stranded
Dark X-Men #3 (Of 5)
Nation X #2 (Of 4)
Uncanny X-Men First Class #7 (Of 8)
X-Men Forever #15
X-Men Origins Cyclops One-Shot
MANGA
Big Adventures Of Majoko GN Vol 3 (Of 5)
Blade Of The Immortal TP Vol 22 Footsteps
Ninja Baseball Kyuma GN Vol 2 (Of 3)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Gosh! Weather Channel
Good news! The comics have arrived safe and sound. We're just unpacking 'em now.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Due To Arrive 14/01/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Action Comics #885
Adventure Comics #6
Age Of Reptiles Journey #2 (Of 4)
Agents Of Atlas Turf Wars Prem HC
Alan Moore's Neonomicon Hornbook
Amazing Spider-Man #617 Gauntlet
Anchor #4
Angel #29
Anita Blake LC Executioner #3 (Of 5)
Army Of Two #1
Batgirl #6
Batman #695
Batman The Brave And The Bold TP
Batman Widening Gyre #4 (Of 6)
Black Panther 2 #12
Black Widow Deadly Origin #3 (Of 4)
Booster Gold #28
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #31
Cable Prem HC Vol 3 Stranded
Catwoman #83 Blackest Night
Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy HC Vol 9
Conan The Cimmerian Weight Of Crown Cyberforce Hunter Killer #4 (Of 5)
Dante's Inferno #2 (Of 6)
Dark X-Men #3 (Of 5)
Daytripper #2 (Of 10)
Dead Romeo TP
Die Hard Year One #4
DMZ #49
Fallen Angel Reborn TP Vol 1
Farscape D'argo's Quest #2
Ghoul #2
Good The Bad & The Ugly #7
Green Arrow Black Canary #28
Human Target Chance Meetings TP
Invincible Iron Man #22
Magog #5
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #19
Marvels Project #5 (Of 8)
Mice Templar Destiny #6
Nation X #2 (Of 4)
No Hero HC & TP
Power Of Shazam #48 Blackest Night
Psylocke #3 (Of 4)
PunisherMAX #3
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #3 (Of 5)
Rebels #12
Red Herring #6 (Of 6)
Red Sonja Omnibus TP Vol 1
Runaways Escape To New York Prem HC
Secret Six #17 Blackest Night
Shield #5
Sky Doll Doll Factory #2 (Of 2)
Spawn Origins TP Vol 4
Spider-Man And Secret Wars #2 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Election Day TP
Spider-Man Return Of Black Cat Prem HC
Star Trek Captains Log Sulu #1
Strange #3 (Of 4)
Super Friends #23
Super Hero Squad #1
S.W.O.R.D. #3
Titans #21
Toyfare #151
Transformers All Hail Megatron TP Vol 4
Transformers Ongoing #3
Ultimate Spider-Man TP Vol 22 Ultimatum
Ultimatum TP
Uncanny X-Men First Class #7 (Of 8)
Unwritten #9
Weekly World News #1
X-Men Asgardian Wars HC
X-Men Forever #15
X-Men Origins Cyclops One-Shot
The Gosh! Authority 06/01/10
Theoretically this was going to be the week when everything went back to normal but thanks to the snow (thanks, snow!) it won’t be doing that. This week’s delivery will be delayed because the deliveryman doesn’t want to be stranded in Narnia and then forced to eat your comics in order to survive – and rightly so! So basically we don’t know when they’ll arrive. It’s possible they’ll be in tomorrow as long as nothing goes horribly wrong on the motorway. As soon as they arrive I’ll announce it on Facebook, Twitter and the blog so watch this space.
First up in our collection of books currently snowed in up north is a new one from indie star Dash Shaw, author of Bottomless Belly Button and numerous other bits and bobs you’ll have seen in MOME. In fact it’s mostly his MOME stuff that makes up the bulk of this collection along with a new 20-page story and other lesser-known stories from all over. Fantagraphics have a 10-page PDF preview for you and over at Comics Alliance Shaw talks manga, telepathy, artschool – the usual stuff and junk.
Then there’s the second hardcover instalment of Last Gasp’s Art of Herge: Inventor of Tintin series. The previous volume covered Herge’s first thirty years by reprinting schoolboy sketches, his first published drawings and his earliest comics. This one picks up where the last left off in 1937 when Herge was thirty years old and the world was on the brink of war. It’s loaded with high quality reproductions of illustrations which you’ll be happy to know are all presented in chronological order (top marks) and accompanied by various natterings by Tintinologists Phillipe Goddin and Michael Farr.
The Troublemakers is a hardcover graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez about greedy low-lifes chasing a pile of money. Comicbook Resources placed it in the L&R universe thusly: “The Troublemakers is billed as the second comic adaptation of a film starring Love and Rockets' Luba's half-sister, Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, and the Dark Horse miniseries Speak of the Devil was an account of "actual events" that inspired a movie--although these events and all of Fritz's films, of course, only exist within the Love and Rockets universe.” You get the idea. Hernandez talks about it over here where you can also read a bunch of pages and there’s already a review kicking about over on iFanboy.
If you’re a fan of dinosaurs you’ll probably want to get your mitts on two new ones from William Stout, the illustrator whose name is in the credits of almost every film that’s got a dinosaur in it: The Land Before Time, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Walt Disney’s Dinosaur to name only a few. He’s got two new books out this week and this is them: Dinosaur Discoveries comes in both hardcover and soft and contains 65 full colour illustrations of new dinosaurs discovered within the last twenty years. Dinosaur Discoveries A-Z is the same stuff in a reduced-size kid-friendly format much like the Little Golden Book series. If you’ve not seen his stuff before go and look now.
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is a top notch manga by Fumiyo Kouno that has for whatever reason been unavailable for some time. It’s about the after effects of the Hiroshima bombing and there’s not a shred of cringe-worthy sentimentality to be found. Here’s a review. Highly recommended.
In comics we’ve got the second issue of Greg Rucka’s (Detective Comics, Queen & Country) Stumptown, previously mentioned back on the Gosh! Blog when the first bit arrived. If you head back to that post there’s an interview with Rucka about the series which is shaping up to be something rather special.
Jeff Parker (Agents of Atlas, Thunderbolts) looks back on one of Marvel’s first heroes in Marvel Boy: The Uranian #1 (of 3) which is all about Bob Grayson/Marvel Boy in his pre-Uranian days. There’s already a review of it as well as some promising preview pages over here.
And finally, here’s something kind of odd.
Remember that horrible/excellent Brian Yuzna film Society starring Days of Our Lives star Billy Warlock and a whole lot of gloopy alien sex? If not, skip this and I’ll see you in the next paragraph. Colin Barr, Shelby Robertson and Neill Cameron mark the 20th anniversary of the cult horror film by re-issuing their comics sequel Party Animal in lieu of an actual film sequel. There are two issues of it and I have no idea if they’re any good but if the line “I really am a butthead” means anything to you, you might want to pick this up.
Before I sign off there’s a few other bits of interest. F’rinstance, Image have put up a preview for the cover of Jonathan Ross’ new comic Turf. Just below that is the cover to upcoming Free Comic Book Day book Fractured Fairytales which I’m told has stuff in it by the lovely Christian Ward (Olympus). Also in my bag of blog-end delights is this two-day event in London called Tokyo Day (misleading, it’s two) during which you can experience the various faces of Tokyo. They’ll be screening anime such as Astro Boy so if you fancy it you can get all the details you need at their website.
In the potential absence on comics on Thursday you can console yourself with this week’s Strip! show on Resonance 104.4 FM. Just before Fred Van Lente signed comics for Gosh! customers last year (last year!) he sat out the back and recorded an interview with Alex Fitch. You can hear it at 5pm tomorrow but I’m sure the recording will turn up on the net soon so no tears if you miss it.
And that’s it! Again, NO COMICS TODAY, MAYBE COMICS TOMORROW if you’re lucky. Keep checking the Blog/Twitter/Facebook for updates because you’ll get ‘em as soon as we do.
-- Hayley
In Store 01/01/10 - 07/01/10 (theoretically)
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Digest #200
28 Days Later #5
Angel Hole In The World #2
Anita Blake Prem HC Book 2 LC Necromancer
Arkham Reborn #3 (Of 3)
Art Of Herge: Inventor Of Tintin HC Vol 2
Athena #4
Atomic Robo TP Vol 3
Authority #18
Essential Avengers TP Vol 7
Batman Confidential #40
Big Questions #13 (Anders Nilsen)
Blackest Night Wonder Woman #2 Boys #38 (Garth Ennis)
BPRD King Of Fear #1 (Of 5)
Bringing Up Father HC Vol 1
Buck Rogers #7
Cartoon Network Action Pack #45
Chill HC (Jason Starr -Vertigo Crime)
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #3 (Of 6)
Cinefex #120 Jan 2010
Conan The Cimmerian #17
Conceptual Realism: In The Service Of The Hypothetical SC
Criminal Macabre Cell Block 666 TP
Daffodil #1 (Of 3)
Daredevil TP Born Again
Darkness #82
Definitive Prince Valiant Companion HC &SC
Doom Patrol #6
Echo #18 (Terry Moore)
Female Force #10 J.K. Rowling
Forgetless #2 (Of 5)
FVZA #2 (Of 3)
Garden Of Eye Candy Slipcased HC
Gigantic #5 (Of 5)
God Complex #2
Great Anti-War Cartoons SC
Great Ten #3 (Of 10)
Greek Street #7 (Peter Milligan)
Grimjack Manx Cat #6
Haunt #4
Hercules Knives Of Kush #5 (Of 5)
Hi-Fructose Magazine Quarterly #14
House Of Mystery #21
Incredible Hercules TP Dark Reign
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 3 Most Wanted Part 2
John Sable Freelance Ashes Of Eden #4
Jonah Hex #51
JSA All Stars #2
Juxtapoz Dark Arts HC
King City #4
Knights Of The Dinner Table #157
Dark Reign: The List HC
Little Adventures In Oz Book 1 SC
Luke McBain #2 (Of 4)
Mad About Super Heroes TP Vol 2
Major Thrill's Adventure Book SC
Marvel Boy Uranian #1 (Of 3)
Marvel Divas TP
Marvel Previews January 2010
Maximum Black SC Vol 1 Art Of Tim Bradstreet
Mighty #12
Mini Marvels TP Ultimate Collection
MOME GN Vol 16 Fall 09
Nexus Archives HC Vol 10
Ojingogo GN New Ptg
Orc Stain #1
Phantom Double Shot #1 (Of 6)
Phantom Julie Walker Race Against Death One-Shot
Political Power #4 Ronald Reagan
Portable Grindhouse: Lost Art Of The VHS Box SC
Previews #256 January 2010
Proof #25
Punisher MAX Get Castle One-Shot(Laurence Campbell)
Queen Sonja #3
Red Robin #8
Red Tornado #5 (Of 6)
Resurrection Vol 2 #6
Savage Dragon #156
Siege #1 (Of 4) (Bendis/Coipel)
Siege Embedded #1 (Of 4)
Siege Prelude TP
Simpsons Super Spectacular #10
Society #1 & #2
Soul Kiss HC Vol 1
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Jackpot #1
Spider-Man Noir Eyes Without A Face #2 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #6
Spirit TP Vol 5
Star Wars Clone Wars #12
Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy HC Vol 1
Starstruck #5
Stumptown #2 (Greg Rucka)
Suicide Squad #67 Blackest Night
Superman World Of New Krypton #11 (Of 12)
Sweet Tooth #5 (Jeff Lemire)
Tank Girl Skidmarks #2 (Of 4)
Timely Annuals 70th Anniversary Collection HC
Titans Old Friends TP
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #6
Troublemakers HC (G. Hernandez)
Unclothed Man In The 35th Century AD HC (Dash Shaw)
Unwritten TP Vol 1 (Mike Carey)
Walking Dead TP Vol 11
Warlord #10
Wasteland #27
Weird Western Tales #71 BN
Wildstorm After The Fall TP
William Stout Dinosaur Discoveries Ltd Ed HC & SC
William Stout New Dinosaur Discoveries A - Z HC
Winterworld HC
Wizard Magazine #221
Cable #22
Deadpool Team-Up #897
Nation X/X-Factor One-Shot
New Mutants #9 XN
X-Force Cable Messiah War TP
X-Men Mutant Massacre HC
X-Men Noir Mark Of Cain #2 (Of 4)
X-Men Vs Avengers Prem HC
X-Men Vs Fantastic Four Prem HC
Youngblood TP Vol 2 (Joe Casey)
MANGA
Kazu Kibuishi Copper GN
Negima Neo GN Vol 4
Town Of Evening Calm, Country Of Cherry Blossoms GN
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Gosh! Weather Warning
We'll keep you updated, folks!