Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Astounding Wolf-Man #22
A-Team Shotgun Wedding #3
Authority #21
Avengers Origin #1 (Of 5)
Batman And Robin #1 New Ptg
Batman And Robin #11
Batman Confidential #43
Betty & Veronica Digest #203
Black Widow And Marvel Girls GN TP
Booster Gold Day Of Death TP
Boys #41
Broken Trinity Pandoras Box #2 (Of 6)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #34 Twilight Pt 3 (Of 5)
Captain America Black Panther Flags Of Fathers #1 (Of 4)
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #6 (Of 6)
Daredevil Guardian Devil TP New Ptg
Daredevil Noir GN TP
Darkness Darkchylde Witchblade Kingdom Of Pain (One Shot)
Deadpool And Cable #25
Deadpool Corps #1
Demo Vol 2 #3 (Of 6)
Doom Patrol #9
Electric Ant #1 (Of 5)
Fathom TP Vol 03 Worlds At War
Flash Secret Files And Origins 2010 #1
GI Joe Movie Snake Eyes TP
God Complex #5
Godland TP Vol 05 Far Beyond The Bang
Great Ten #6 (Of 10)
Greek Street #10
Hate Annual #8
House Of Mystery #24
Invincible Returns #1
Iron Man Art Of Iron Man Movie TP
Iron Man Vs Whiplash TP
Jonah Hex #54
JSA All Stars #5
Jugheads Double Digest #159
Lil Abner HC Vol 01
Lone Ranger #21
Marvel Zombies 04 TP
Marvel Zombies 5 #1 (Of 5)
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #5
Nemesis The Impostors #2 (Of 4)
New Avengers Luke Cage #1 (Of 3)
New Mutants TP Vol 01 Return Of Legion
Off HB Marvel Univ A To Z Prem HC Vol 13
Phantom Generations #10
Proof #26
Realm Of Kings Son Of Hulk #3 (Of 4)
Red Robin #11
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods #3 (Of 5)
Savage Dragon #159
Secret Six Depths TP
Shield #1 (Marvel)
Sparta USA #2 (Of 6)
Spawn Endgame TP Vol 02
Spider-Man Fever #1 (Of 3)
Star Wars Purge Hidden Blade One Shot
Starstruck #8
Stephen Kings N #2 (Of 4)
Street Fighter II Turbo #12 (Of 12)
Superman Last Stand Of New Krypton #2 (Of 3)
Superman Secret Origin #5 (Of 6)
Sweet Tooth #8
Tank Girl Dirty Helmets (One Shot)
Teen Titans Childs Play TP
Thor And Warriors Four #1 (Of 4)
Toyfare #154
Turf #1
Ultimate Comics X #2
Uncanny X-Men #523 XSC
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #7
Warlord #13
Weird World Of Jack Staff #2
Wolverine Weapon X #12
World War Hulks #1 WWHS
Zombies Vs Robots Aventure #3
Zorro Matanzas #3 (Of 4)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Due To Arrive 09/04/10
The Gosh! Authority 31/03/10
We’ve been rather busy on the Gosh! Blog while you’ve been looking the other way. Yesterday I announced our upcoming signing with Dan Clowes (Ghost World, David Boring) and Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library) in May, and a couple of days before that we received our Phonogram Volume 2: Singles Club Bookplate Editions. We sold out temporarily but we’ve got ‘em back in again, hurrah. And, of course, if you happened to buy a bookplate-less copy from us earlier in the day you’re more than welcome to come and claim your plate, signed and numbered by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.
As for comics, there’s no shortage of stuff to point at. Late last week we got the Kick Ass trade paperback in, complete with movie poster cover, hyperbolic taglines and various other assorted nonsense. If you’ve not yet jumped on the Kick Ass bandwagon have a gander at Boing Boing’s recent review of the thing which creator Mark Millar calls “a hymn to neo-conservatism”. Over at the Guardian blog there’s a piece on Kick Ass potentially changing the course of comicbook movie adaptations, and Jane Goldman talks about young girls dropping the C-bomb. Then if you still want more here’s Millar talking about lots of things, like his hometown Glasgow, and how every writer in Hollywood is a skinny bald guy with glasses who hangs out in the coffee shop all day.
Jaime Hernandez fans better dig deep for their remaining pennies after blowing all their pocket money on the big red Art of Jaime Hernandez book. Now you’ll be getting another dose of Fantagraphics’ Love & Rockets Library with Penny Century. This volumes picks up right after Perla La Loca left off, beginning with the now out-of-print graphic novel Whoa Nellie! which is probably the best female wrestling comic in town. Fantagraphics have graciously provided you with a 14-page PDF preview and one of their now-famous manhandling videos.
Also from Fantagraphics is the next in their ongoing line of Jaques Tardi books. It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardi’s defining statement on World War I, which has long been an obsession of his. Back in the early 80s RAW published a chapter, and then Drawn & Quarterly did a few more in the ‘90s all of which are now long out of print. Since only a fraction of Trenches was ever available to us English-speaking folk it’s a nice to see the whole lot of it in one place. Art Spiegelman calls ‘this devastating crater of a work...a compulsively readable wail of Existential despair, a kaleidoscope of war’s dehumanizing brutality and of Everyman’s suffering, as well as a deadpan masterpiece of the darkest black humor.’ So it must be good, then. Again, (thanks, Fanta!) a 10-page PDF preview and a video too.
If classic stuff in lovely big hardcovers is your bag you’re definitely in luck this week. Obergeist was voted as Wizard Magazine’s Best Horror Comic of 2001 and still features on their Top 100 list of graphic novels of all time so it’s about time the now hard-to-find work got a fancy hardcover release. Written by Dan Jolley (Firestorm) with art by Tony Harris (Starman, Ex Machina) it’s a controversial series about a Nazi butcher scientist ordered to create telepathic soldiers. In an interview with PopCultureShock Harris talks about his twenty years in the business and also tells you what makes this edition of the series so special. The chronologically conscious will probably be happy to know that while in the initial trade paperback collection their one-shot prequel Obergeist: The Empty Locket was chopped up and inserted between issues as flashbacks, it won’t be the case this time round. In this age of DVD special features it goes without saying (but I’ll saying it anyway) that there’s also the usual bevy of promo art and previously unseen design work as well as a brand new cover by Harris and JD Mettler, regular Harris colourist.
The Creeper by Steve Ditko is another biggie to weigh you down this Thursday. Six years after Spider-Man’s first appearance, The Creeper debuted in Showcase #73 courtesy of Ditko. He then went on to do a six issue miniseries called Beware the Creeper but left DC in a huff midway through the final one. He returned to the character for DC’s short-lived Showcase-esque anothology series 1st Issue Special #7 and again for a few issues of World’s Finest Comics in the late ‘70s. All of that stuff is collected here in what looks to be in the same Archive-y format of DC’s stellar Jack Kirby collections. Here’s a chap doing an examination of Ditko’s evolving art style using The Creeper as an example, complete with loads of page scans, and here’s a history of the character if my wee summary doesn’t suffice. Ditko hands abound.
So that’s all yer classic collected stuff out of the way. What’s new in? Here’s one that’s been getting a lot of buzz recently: A Home For Mr Easter by Brooke A. Allen. It’s the story what-happens-next when an awkward teenager thinks she’s found the Easter Bunny. It’s a road-trip adventure story and the illustration is rather wonderful. There is a dozen or so preview pages over at the publisher’s website.
Big things are brewing over in the Marvel camp with the beginning of the X-Men Second Coming crossover event this week. IGN gives you a full run-down on events so far and a character spotlight to boot. Then you can head over to the ever-reliable CbR for a preview of #1.
And even the small press shelf downstairs has a few new bits on it worth mentioning. There’s Decadence #7, a 68-page comics anthology (reviewed here) featuring work by Leon Sadler, Daniel Swan, Tsemberlidis, Alex Payne, Daniel Hallett and our very own Jon Chandler. There’s also Part 2 of Lando’s Island 3 which then continues in an entirely separate publication right next to it on the shelf, Island 3 Part 3. Lando’s also got an eight-page book called Last Drink which was the 3rd prize winning entry in the Manga Jiman 2009 competition. Lovely cover on it too. Look!
So that’s about it. Don’t forget that next week’s comic delivery will be delayed due to the Bank Holiday weekend. You can come get your stuff on Friday the 9th of April instead of the usual Thursday.
-- Hayley
In Store 26/03/10 - 01/04/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Judge Dredd Megazine #296
Slaine Demon Killer TP
Archie Double Digest #207
Archie Wedding TP Archie In Will You Marry Me
Adventure Comics #9
Aladdin Legacy Of The Lost #2 (Of 3)
Amazing Spider-Man #627
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Coll TP 03
Astro City The Dark Age Book Four #3
A-Team War Stories Ba #1
Detective Comics #863
Best Of Punch Cartoons SC
Bible Eden GN (New Ptg)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #14
Blackest Night #8 (Of 8)
Brave And The Bold Demons And Dragons TP
Captain America Winter Soldier Ultimate Edition
Choker #1 (Of 6) 2nd Ptg
Cinefex #121 Apr 2010
Complete Peanuts HC Vol 13 1975-1976
Cowboy Ninja Viking #5
Creeper By Steve Ditko HC
Darkness #83
Decadence #7 (Jon Chandler Et Al)
Island 3 Part 3
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #10
Dragon Age #1 (Orson Scott Card)
Fantastic Four #577
Godland #31
Gotham City Sirens #10
Kevin Smith Green Hornet #2
Guardians Of Galaxy TP Vol 03 War Of Kings
Heavy Metal May 2010
Hi Fructose Magazine Quarterly #15
Home For Mr Easter GN
Essential Rampaging Hulk TP Vol 02
Impaler #5
Incorruptible #4
It Was War O/T Trenches HC
Jack Of Fables #44
Jersey Gods TP Vol 02 And This Is Home
Justice League Of America #43
Justice Society Of America #37
Kick Ass TP (M Millar/J Romita Jr)
King City #6
Last Drink
Madame Xanadu #21
Marvel Previews April 2010
Nomad Girl Without A World TP GN
Obergeist Essential Ed HC (Harris)
Oracle The Cure TP
Outsiders #28
Penny Century TP (J. Hernandez)
Phonogram Vol 2 TP Bookplate Ed
Poetry In (E)Motion:Illustrated Words
Previews #259 April 2010
Punisher #15
Punisher Max MGC #1
PvP #45
Rasl #7
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #5 (Of 5)
Robin Archives HC Vol 02
She-Hulk Sensational #1
Spin Angels Prem HC
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #5
Star Wars Legacy #46 Monster Pt 4
Strange Adventures TP
Sword #23
Talisman Road Of Trials #5
Teen Titans #81
Terminator #1 (Of 3)
Transformers Ongoing #5
Unknown Soldier #18
Usagi Yojimbo #127 Sword Of Narukami
Web #7
Wizard Magazine #224
Wolverine Origins #46
Wolverine Origins Romulus TP
Wonder Woman #42
Wonder Woman Ends Of The Earth TP
Cloak And Dagger #1
Dark Wolverine #84 Siege
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #5 (Of 5)
New Mutants #11 Siege
X-Force #25
X-Men Forever #20
X-Men Second Coming #1 XSC
MANGA
Melancholly of Haruhi Suzu 5
Ode to Kirihito Vols 1 & 2
Tezuka’s Black Jack TP Vol 10
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Dan Clowes and Chris Ware Signing at Gosh! Comics – Tuesday 25th May 12 – 2pm
A rare and delicious treat is in store for indie comics fans this May! Of course there’s the usual late-May ritual of casting aside our cardigans and dreary Winter coats to look forward to – all full of old sweet wrappers and forgotten pennies to surprise ourselves with next year – but there’s also a Gosh! basement signing to bring joy to your freshly Spring-cleaned lives. Why not dampen a sunny Tuesday lunchtime by getting some classic graphic novels signed by two masters of misanthropic misery? I’ll be there. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Dan Clowes is an award-winning cartoonist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, New Yorker illustrator and all-round over-achiever most famous for his cult classic graphic novel Ghost World, a tale of two best friends just out of high school. Enid Coleslaw and Becky Doppelmeyer are two cynical, pseudo-intellectual and occasionally witty teenage girls who wander aimlessly in the urban sprawl of an unnamed American town criticising pop culture and pretty much everyone they encounter, wallowing in their angst like a latter day Catcher in the Rye.
(Panel from Ghost World. Points awarded for anyone who can spot the film quote.)
Clowes’ work is properly weird and absurd (I’m looking at you Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron) and everything he’s done – especially David Boring – fits snugly in the unwieldy bag of Gosh! favourites right next to those of the remarkable Chris Ware. Conveniently they’ll be right next to each other for their Gosh! signing too. How’s that for a segue?
If you’ve not read Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth yet, get thee to the Gosh! basement immediately and grab yourself a copy. Winner of The Guardian First Book Award in 2001, it’s a long, interconnected story about a boy’s relationship with his father but it’s about pretty much everything else too. It’s a gloriously innovative experiment in graphic design full of compacted plots, subplots and tiny, tiny panels; skim read it and you’ll miss a postage-stamp of genius.
From Jonathan Cape:
Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the author of Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth. He is currently serializing two new graphic novels in his ongoing periodical The ACME Novelty Library, the 20th issue of which will be released in fall 2010. He has guest-edited McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and Houghton-Mifflin’s Best American Comics, and was the first cartoonist chosen to regularly serialize an ongoing story in The New York Times Magazine. A semi-regular contributor to the New Yorker, his work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, was favored with an exhibit of its own at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2006, and will be exhibited at the Gävle Konstcentrum in Gävle, Sweden, in 2010.
His ongoing Acme Novelty Library collections are always quickly snapped up by fans hankering for more stuff on Rusty Brown, Chalky White and the life of a building somewhere in Chicago. It is entirely down to this man that I now need glasses, a fact I fully intend to make known to Mr Ware himself.
By the time these two chaps arrive on our doorstep Clowes’ brand new original graphic novel – the first in years – will be on our shelves. Wilson is about an opinionated, divorced middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. After repeated attempts to engage with life he invariably falls back into his own pessimistic hell. According to the Comics Reporter “It's Clowes being Clowes, and Wilson all by itself makes 2010 a pretty good year for comics no matter what happens from here on out.” 
So if that sounds like your cup of tea make sure you’re in the Gosh! basement between 12pm and 2pm on Tuesday the 25th of May.
This would never have been possible were it not for the Comica Festival in association with Komiks.dk The Copenhagen Comics Festival, Offset 2010 Dublin, and Jonathan Cape so send your thanks their way! I should also mention that Comica have two events with the artists that are bound to sell out so get in fast while you still can. If you're in Brighton you can catch them at the Brighton Dome on the 25th (post Gosh! signing) and us London folk can see them in conversation on the 24th with the utterly lovely Audrey Niffenegger, writer of The Time Traveler's Wife and The Three Incestuous Sisters.
These logos are clickable so go say hello:
If you can’t make it on the day and would like a signed book let us know and we’ll see what we can do. We’ve only got Ware and Clowes for a very limited couple of hours before their publisher whisks them away so whether or not it happens depends entirely on how many people turn up on the day and how much time they’ll have spare at the end of it. But we’ll do our best.
ADDENDUM!
Due to the phenomenal response we've had on this one and the strictly limited time we've got them for, it looks like we'll be unable to take signed book requests. Sorry!
See you there!
-- Hayley
Friday, March 26, 2010
Phonogram: The Singles Club Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
Must be time for another bookplate edition! And fortunately Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie, those cheery chappies behind the excellent Phonogram, have obliged, working with us to create a special, limited bookplate edition of their new collection, Phonogram: The Singles Club.
Set over one magical club night, The Singles Club is a series of one-shot tales focusing on a cast of characters as they move in and out of each other's lives. Music is the backdrop, the thematic and quite literally magical key to each story as McKelvie & Gillen spin their narratively innovative tales of love, loss and self-discovery. And it's damn good fun to boot.
Fans of the original series will be pleased to see plenty of familiar faces, now with lively colour added to McKelvie's clean, crisp art, while Gillen's insightful, character-driven writing remains as fresh and entertaining as ever. Those unfamiliar with the original Phonogram series, Rue Britannia, needn't despair, as The Singles Club will stand handily on its own and comes highly recommended. And if you don't believe me, then let Matt Fraction convince you:
"This is my favorite comic." - Matt Fraction (and his wacky American spelling).
The Gosh-exclusive Phonogram: The Singles Club Bookplate Edition is limited to 200 copies, featuring a numbered colour portrait of Silent Girl by Jamie McKelvie signed by the writer and the artist. At the standard retail price of £10.50, these are sure to get snapped up, so if you'd like to reserve one or arrange a mail order, drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Due To Arrive 01/04/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #9
Astro City The Dark Age Book Four #3 (Of 4)
A-Team War Stories B.A. One-Shot
Detective Comics #863
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #14
Blackest Night #8 (Of 8)
Captain America Winter Soldier Ult. Collection TP
Cloak And Dagger #1
Darkness Darkchylde Witchblade Kingdom Of Pain One-Shot
Fantastic Four #577
Godland #31
Gotham City Sirens #10
Guardians Of Galaxy TP Vol 3 War Of Kings Pt 2
Essential Rampaging Hulk TP Vol 2
She-Hulk Sensational #1
Impaler #5
Incorruptible #4
Iron Man Extremis HC
Iron Man I Am Iron Man TP
Jack Of Fables #44
Justice League Of America #43
Justice Society Of America #37
Green Hornet #2 (Kevin Smith)
Madame Xanadu #21
Marvel Previews April 2010
Milo Ventimiglia Presents Berserker #5
New Mutants #11 Siege
Nomad Girl Without A World TP
Oracle The Cure TP
Outsiders #28
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #5 (Of 5)
Previews #259 April 2010
Punisher #15
RASL #7
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #5 (Of 5)
Amazing Spider-Man #627
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Collection TP Book 3
Spider-Man Complete Clone Saga Epic TP Vol 1
Spin Angels Prem HC
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #5
Star Wars Legacy #46
Strange Adventures TP
Sword #23
Talisman Road Of Trials #5
Teen Titans #81
Terminator #1 (Of 3)
Transformers Ongoing #5
Unknown Soldier #18
Usagi Yojimbo #127
Waking #2 (Of 4)
Weird World Of Jack Staff #2
Wizard Magazine #224
Dark Wolverine #84 Siege
Wolverine Origins #46
Wolverine Origins Romulus TP
Wonder Woman #42
X-Force #25
X-Men Forever #20
X-Men Second Coming #1 XSC
The Gosh! Authority 24/03/10
There are several lovely-looking books languishing on our shelves this week but I challenge you to go past something this orange without picking it up:
The Art of Jaime Hernandez: Secrets of Life and Death is a shockingly gorgeous hardcover full of stuff you’ve never seen before – sketches, childhood Archie-style drawings, unpublished miscellany – all provided by the notoriously private Hernandez along with several photographs from his mohawk days. There’s tons of Love & Rockets stuff (old and new) as well as an introduction by the great Alison Bechdel (Fun Home). Here, read what some bloke wrote about it a little while ago.
There are no preview pictures on the internet so by the power of my brilliant phone I give you a handful of lovingly designed (and badly photographed) pages. My favourite’s the picture of him rubbing shoulders with a visibly nonplussed Robert Crumb. Sadly someone’s big head (mine) got in the way of the light and managed to cast the entire thing in shadow so you’re just going to have to save that one for you visit because I can’t be bothered doing it again.
Great looking book and it even smells nice. Moving on!
The Book of Grickle is another thing that should have come out long, long ago. Grickle is a nonsense nickname bestowed on the author by his father who would try out new ones every week – among the thousands this one stuck. Created by Graham Annable (whose day-job is serving as storyboard artist for Laika Entertainment, the company responsible for last year’s Coraline film) The Book of Grickle is a hand-selected best-of collection of short stories swiped from books now long out of print (one of which Wizard listed among their Top Indie Books of All Time). They’re bleak, immoral, very funny and brilliantly weird little tales. Comicbook Resources have an interview with Annable here along with an animation, more of which can be found at the Grickle YouTube channel, and Dark Horse have a preview of the book. Highly recommended, says me. And Wizard, obviously.
The Newsboy Legion by Simon & Kirby HC Volume 1 is the first restored collection featuring that scrupulous gang of boys from Star Spangled Comics who take on crooked politicians and other unsavoury characters through their self-published newspaper. According to this reviewer, Simon and Kirby provided DC with a hefty load of work before they were swallowed up military service so most of the stuff in this book is solely by them, with only three stories and one cover completed by other artists.
We haven’t seen a Krazy Kat book in a while so this one’s doubly welcome. Krazy & Ignatz: Tiger Tea isn’t another one of the Fantagraphics series of Sunday strip collections but an entirely separate release from IDW of the largely unavailable Krazy & Ignatz dailies. It’s a slim book with roughly a hundred strips from the series’ only extended storyline, the surreal Tiger Tea, in which Krazy imbibes a psychedelic substance. This reviewer reckons it’s a good’un!
Speaking of classics, Drawn & Quarterly have re-released Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s first full-length graphic novel and one of the first ever published examples of gekiga, Black Blizzard. You’ll remember Tatsumi’s autobiographical A Drifting Life from May last year, no doubt. This one’s about a young pianist arrested for murder who ends up handcuffed to a career criminal. After an avalanche derails the prison train they escape into the blizzard outside bound together. Have a preview.
The early work of Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) is collected in a special edition omnibus this week called American Crackers. In it you’ll find two stories; Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks (Yang’s first comic, a three-issue miniseries about a high school bully whose life changes when an alien aircraft becomes lodged in his nostril), and Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order (about a teenage rarebit fiend who visits other worlds in her sleep after eating strange foods). Yang did a new 12-pager for the collection which he previews on his blog.
Also out this week is the Winter edition of MOME (that’s volume 17 if you’re counting) starring regular MOME faces Paul Hornschemeier, Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button), Tom Kaczynski, Olivier Schrauwen, Derek Van Gieson, Ted Stearn, Kurt Wolfgang, Laura Park, Rick Froberg, Sara Edward-Corbett, T. Edward Bak and the extraordinary Renee French (The Ticking). Here’s one of those videos we Gosh! folk like so much.
Three trade paperbacks you might be wanting this week includes Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray’s homage to classic disaster films, Last Resort, a book full of excessive violence, the odd fiery death and a few topless woman thrown in for good measure. Here’s an interview with Palmiotti from ages ago.
There’s also Phonogram Volume 2: Singles Club by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. Gillen talks here about the Singles Club and the third Phonogram series – or probable lack there-of.
In Northlanders TP Volume 3: Blood in the Snow Gosh! favourite Brian Wood gives you more viking combat than you could ask for. Northlanders #26 is also out this Thursday so you can grab that too while you’re about.
Also in comics we’ve got The Guild #1 (of 3) which gives you the origin of the hit web series as told by the creator and star Felicia Day – that’s Penny from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Click here for a preview. Illustrated by Jim Rugg!
The other biggie this week is Mark Millar’s Nemesis #1 (of 4) illustrated by Steve McNiven. It boldly promises to make Kick Ass look like sh*t. Says Millar in an interview with CbR…
Nemesis is a reversal of the Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark archetype. What if this genius billionaire was just this total sh*t, and the only thing that stood between him and a city was the cops? It's Batman versus Commissioner Gordon, in a weird way. Or maybe a super-villain version of Se7en. A billionaire anarchist up against ordinary people. The Joker's the best thing in the Batman movies, so this guy is a bit of an amalgamation of all the stuff we like.
Throwing around DC characters in interviews caused a bit of a stir but apparently it’s all better now. This one’s bound to be a big one so stick it on your standing order now, folks!
And finally, the shockingly under-publicised UK Web & Mini Comix Thing 2010 is happening this weekend. First you’ve heard of it? Me too! Read this now, then. Gosh! Favourites Marc Ellerby, Ellen Lindner, and Roger Langridge are all going to be there. Go say hello!
-- Hayley
In Store 19/03/10 - 25/03/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Digest #262
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #179
2000 AD Prog #1677
Air #19
Aliens More Than Human TP Vol 1
Angel #31
Angel Special Lorne One-Shot
Animal Crackers: A Gene Luen Yang Collection TP
A-Team
- Shotgun Wedding #2
- War Stories Hannibal One-Shot
Art of Jaime Hernandez: Secrets of Life and Death HC
Avengers Initiative #34 Siege
Avengers Initiative Prem HC Dreams & Nightmares
Mighty Avengers #35 Siege
New Avengers #63 Siege
Batman Streets Of Gotham #10
Batman The Brave And The Bold #15
Black Terror #9
Black Widow Web Of Intrigue HC
Book Of Grickle HC (G. Annable)
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #2 (Of 2)
Brit Force Vol 1 Second Coming GN
Captain America #604
Captain America Reborn Prem HC
Chronicles Of Kull TP Vol 2 Hell Beneath Atlantis
Daredevil Echo HC Parts Of A Hole
Darkness Origins TP Vol 1
Echo #20 (Terry Moore)
Enders Shadow Command School HC
Fall Of Hulks Red Hulk #3 (Of 4) FOH
Futurama Comics #48
FVZA #3 (Of 3)
Glamourpuss #12 (Dave Sim)
Green Lantern #52 Blackest Night
Guild #1 (Of 3) (Jim Rugg)
Halo Blood Line #4 (Of 5)
Hardware: Man In The Machine TP
Haunt #6 & Haunt TP Vol 1
Hellblazer #265
Hey Princess GN
I Kill Giants HC Vol 1 (Titan Ed)
Iron Man: Official Index To Marvel Universe TP
Marvel Masterworks Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 1
Justice League The Rise Of Arsenal #1 (Of 4)
Juxtapoz Vol 17 #4 Apr 2010
Killer HC Vol 2
King Of Flies HC Vol 1
Krazy & Ignatz HC Tiger Tea
Last Resort TP Vol 1
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #4
Marvels Project #7 (Of 8)
Michael Golden's More Heroes & Villains Sketchbook
Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Tales To Astonish HC Vol 3
MOME GN Vol 17 2010
Nemesis #1 (Of 4) (Mark Millar)
Newsboy Legion By Simon & Kirby HC Vol 1
Night Owls TP Vol 1
Northlanders #26
Northlanders TP Vol 3 Blood In The Snow
120 Days Of Simon GN
On The Odd Hours GN
Orc Stain #2
Phantom Legacy & Law TP
Phonogram TP Vol 2 Singles Club
Possessions GN Vol 1 Unclean Getaway
Power Girl #10
PvP TP Vol 7 PvP Levels Up
Queen Sonja #5
Riftwar Prem HC
Runaways Homeschooling TP
Sand And Fury : A Scream Queen Adventure SC
Scalped #36 (Jason Aaron)
Secret History Omnibus HC
Secret Warriors #14
Soulfire Volume Two #3
Sparrow HC Vol 15 Pushead
Amazing Spider-Man #626
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #61
Peter Parker #1 (Of 5)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man HC World According
Stand Soul Survivors #5 (Of 5)
Star Trek Movie Adaptation #2
Supergod #3 (Of 5)
Superman #698
Superman Batman #70
Tales Of The Dragon Guard #2 (Of 3)
Tank Girl Royal Escape #1 (Of 4)
Thor #608 Siege
Thor: Marvel's Greatest Comics #1
Thunderbolts #142 Siege
Tiny Titans #26
Tor A Prehistoric Odyssey TP
Toyfare #153
Transformers
- Last Stand Of The Wreckers #3
- Nefarious #1
Victorian Undead #5 (Of 6)
Wildcats #21
Wondermark TP Vol 3 Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters
Deadpool #21
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #4 (Of 5)
Deadpool Corps Rank And Foul One-Shot
Deadpool Suicide Kings TP
Marvel Masterworks X-Men HC Vol 8
Uncanny X-Men #522
X-Factor #203
X-Force TP Vol 3 Not Forgotten
X-Men Origins Nightcrawler One-Shot
MANGA
Black Blizzard GN
Black Jack Vol 10
Chobits Dark Horse Omnibus Vol 1
Dorodedoro Vol 1
Fushigi Yugi Vol 5
Gantz Vol 9
Gundam 00 Lite Novel Vol 1
Hot Gimmick Vol 4 VizBig Ed
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 4
Oh My Goddess! TP Vol 14
Ristorante Pardiso GN
Rurouni Kenshin Vol 9
Twilight Manga HC
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Due To Arrive 18/03/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Air #19
Amazing Spider-Man #626
Angel Special Lorne One-Shot
A-Team Shotgun Wedding #2
Avengers Initiative #34 Siege
Avengers Initiative Prem HC Dreams & Nightmares
Batman Streets Of Gotham #10
Batman The Brave And The Bold #15
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #2 (Of 2)
Captain America #604
Captain America Reborn Prem HC
Daredevil Echo Prem HC Parts Of A Hole
Deadpool #21
Deadpool Corps Rank And Foul #1
Deadpool Suicide Kings TP
Enders Shadow Command School Prem HC
Fall Of Hulks Red Hulk #3 (Of 4) FOH
Futurama Comics #48
Glamourpuss #12
Green Lantern #52 Blackest Night
Halo Blood Line #4 (Of 5)
Hardware The Man In The Machine TP
Haunt #6
Haunt TP Vol 1
Hellblazer #265
Iron Man Official Index To Marvel Universe TP
Justice League The Rise Of Arsenal #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #61
Marvels Project #7 (Of 8)
Mighty Avengers #35 Siege
Mmw Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 1
Nemesis #1 (Of 4)
New Avengers #63 Siege
Northlanders #26
Northlanders TP Vol 3 Blood In The Snow
Orc Stain #2
Peter Parker #1 (Of 5)
Power Girl #10
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #4 (Of 5)
PvP #45
Queen Sonja #5
Resident Evil #4 (Of 6)
Riftwar Prem HC
Runaways Homeschooling TP
Scalped #36
Secret Warriors #14
Soulfire Volume Two #3
Sparrow HC Vol 15 Pushead
Stand Soul Survivors #5 (Of 5)
Star Trek Ds9 Fools Gold #4
Supergod #3 (Of 5)
Superman #698
Superman Batman #70
Tales Of The Dragon Guard #2 (Of 3)
Tank Girl Royal Escape #1 (Of 4)
Thor #608 Siege
Thunderbolts #142 Siege
Tiny Titans #26
Transformers Last Stand Of The Wreckers #3
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Prem HC World According
Uncanny X-Men #522
Victorian Undead #5 (Of 6)
Wildcats #21
X-Factor #203
X-Force TP Vol 3 Not Forgotten
X-Men Origins Nightcrawler One-Shot
X-Men Prelude To Onslaught TP
The Gosh! Authority 17/03/10
I’m sure there’ll be something to tickle your fancy this week. How about the Bronx Kill – the latest in DC’s Vertigo Crime series? It’s written by Peter Milligan (Greet Street, Hellblazer) and illustrated by James Romberger who’s most famous for his New York-themed art so it’s in the right hands. It’s an urban mystery full of family secrets, a missing wife and a murdered grandfather. Pornokitsch reckons it’s the best of the Vertigo Crime lot so far and it’s our pick of the week. Preview!
By the way, Milligan also turns up in the fourth and final issue of Nation X along with Gosh! Favourite and his former X-Statix co-creator Mike Allred, for a brand new Doop tale. Preview of that one here. And while we’re on the subject, X-Factor Forever begins on Thursday. Louise Simonson will tell you all about it. Preview.
While you won’t find me reading any Stephenie Meyer books on the train it’s my job to tell you that the Twilight manga has arrived. It’s hardcover, shiny and full of moontanned teenagers – one of whom looks a lot like old R-Patz. Here’s Entertainment Weekly being excited about it.
Dave Shelton’s Good Dog Bad Dog is a canine cop caper starring two doggy detectives and it looks like a lot of fun. One of ‘em’s a Chandler-esque hardass and his new partner Duncan McBoo likes a dinner or three. The Forbidden Planet International blog has a few preview pages and a nice hefty review. Incidentally, if you like Dave Shelton you should be keeping an eye on his blog. He’s slowly putting up pages from old sketchbooks.
The mysteriously late 22nd volume of Modern Masters is out this Thursday showcasing the art of the very lovely (and obscenely talented) Mark Buckingham. There’s a huge long interview with him about his creative process and an enormous gallery of artwork; some unseen, some commissioned. If you like Sandman and Fables come see what the man’s got to say about ‘em.
Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler’s strange and hilarious Mysterius the Unfathomable (previously mentioned on the Gosh! Blog here) is now collected in trade-paperback. They’re fairly obvious in their mutual love for Douglas Adams so if you’re someone who knows where your towel is you might fancy this series too. Here’s Parker talking about it way back in 2008 before we’d seen any of it.
We’re not sure when or even if Frank Quitely will be turning up again in Grant Morrison’s Batman & Robin but some of his previous Dark Knight adventures can be seen in this week’s Batman International TP. It’s a collection of stuff written by Mark Waid and Alan Grant, and illustrated by Diego Olmos, Arthur Ranson and Quitely (of course). It collects Batman: The Scottish Connection and issues #52 - 53 of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. It’s about moidas. International ones.
And finally, because everyone loved Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet #1 so much Dynamite have decided that Matt Wagner’s Green Hornet: Year One #1 should be let loose three weeks early. Here’s a preview and here’s what Wagner’s got to say about it.
In a strange and unlikely turn of events I will now plug a geek pub quiz. I would have done it anyway, slow news week or not. Big D’s Nerdgasm Quiz V (The Quizmaster Strikes Back) brings you the best in cult quizmastery on Sunday the 28th of March at 7pm. It’s over at the Pillars of Hercules which isn’t all that far from Gosh! so you can have a wander over there after a nice leisurely Sunday visit. Their Facebook event page is here. I have no idea if that link will work for you but I’m going with it.
Another public service announcement: Are you tired rushing over to Gosh! on your lunch break and still missing out on your favourite comics despite pushing several old ladies over on the way? Why not become a standing order customer? We’ll put stuff aside for you and you can collect them at your leisure. It’s easier for all of us and no one gets hurt. Just let a member of staff know what you’d like held aside and we’ll sort the rest out. It’s that easy, folks!
In other helpful hints, the Gosh! Sale will soon come to an end so you’d best have a look before we fill the racks with lovely new books.
You can also follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook so you don’t miss out on any announcements. If you’d like to be added to our weekly mailing list just leave your email address with someone at the counter.
Over and out.
-- Hayley
In Store 12/03/10 - 18/03/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1676
28 Days Later #8
American Vampire #1
Anita Blake LC Executioner #5 (Of 5)
Authority The Lost Year #7 (Of 12)
Avengers Standoff Prem HC
Avengers Vs Atlas #3 (Of 4)
Dark Avengers #15 (Bendis)
Dark Avengers Ares TP
Azrael #6
Back Issue #39
Batman #697
Batman International TP
Battlefields #4 (Of 9) Part 1 of 3 Firefly & His Majesty(Garth Ennis)
Booster Gold #30
Brave And The Bold #32
Bronx Kill HC Vertigo Crime(P. Milligan/J. Romberger)
Choker #2 (Ben Templesmith)
Dead At 17 Witch Queen #1 (Of 4)
Deathlok #5 (Of 7)
Devil #2 (Of 4)
Die Hard Year One #7
Doomwar #2 (Of 6)
Executive Assistant Iris #4
Fables #93
Farscape Ongoing #5
Fell TP Vol 1 Feral City (New Printing)
Flash Gordon Secret History Of Mongo SC
Flash Gordon TP Vol 1 Mercy Wars
Good Dog, Bad Dog HC (Dave Shelton)
Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Neverland #1 (Of 6)
Green Arrow #31
Green Hornet Year One #1
Green Lantern Corps #46 BN
Groo: Hogs Of Horder #4 (Of 4)
Guardians Of Galaxy #24
Hercules Fall Of An Avenger #1 (Of 2)
Hulk #21 Fall Of The Hulks
Incredible Hulk #608 FOH
Illustration Magazine #29
Iron Man Armor Wars Prologue TP
Iron Man End TP
Iron Man Iron Monger Prem HC
Irredeemable #12
Joe The Barbarian #3 (Of 8)(G. Morrison/S. Murphy)
Kookaburra K #3 (Of 3) (H. Ramos)
MAD Magazine #503
Marvel Boy Uranian #3 (Of 3)
Modern Masters SC Vol 22 Mark Buckingham
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #6
Mysterius The Unfathomable TP
Nova #35
Punisher Noir Prem HC
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #5 (Of 5)
Sal Buscema Comics’ Fast & Furious Artist HC & SC
Shield #7
Showcase Presents World's Finest TP Vol 3
Siege #1 (Of 4) Directors Cut
Siege #3 (Of 4) (B. Bendis/Coipel)
Siege Embedded #3 (Of 4)
Simpsons Comics #164
Amazing Spider-Man #625
Spider-Man & Secret Wars #4 (Of 4)
Spider-Woman #7 (Bendis)
Super Real TP (Jim Mahfood)
Supergirl #51
Superman 80 Page Giant One-Shot
Superman Nightwing And Flamebird HC Vol 1
Supernatural Beginning's End #3 (Of 6)
Titans #23
Torch #6 (Of 8)
Twilight: The Graphic Novel HC
Ultimate Comics Iron Man Armor Wars Prem HC
Unknown Soldier TP Vol 2 Easy Kill
Women Of Marvel Celebrating Seven Decades One-Shot
Wonder Woman Chronicles TP Vol 1
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #9
Nation X #4 (Of 4) (Milligan/Allred)
New Mutants Classic TP Vol 5
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #3 (Of 5)
Wolverine Origins #45
X-23 #1
X-Factor Forever #1
X-Men Legacy #234
MANGA
One Piece TP Vol 30
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Due To Arrive 18/03/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
American Vampire #1
Anita Blake LC Executioner #5 (Of 5)
Authority The Lost Year #7 (Of 12)
Avengers Standoff Prem HC
Avengers Vs Atlas #3 (Of 4)
Dark Avengers #15
Dark Avengers Ares TP
Azrael #6
Back Issue #39
Batman #697
Batman International TP
Booster Gold #30
Brave And The Bold #32
Choker #2
Darkness #83
Dead At 17 Witch Queen #1 Of(4)
Deathlok #5 (Of 7)
Devil #2 (Of 4)
Die Hard Year One #7
Doomwar #2 (Of 6)
Executive Assistant Iris #4
Fables #93
Farscape Ongoing #5
Garth Ennis Battlefields #4 (Of 9) Glamourpuss #12
Green Arrow #31
Green Lantern Corps #46 Blackest Night
Groo Hogs Of Horder #4 (Of 4)
Guardians Of Galaxy #24
Haunt #6 & TP Vol 1
Hercules Fall Of An Avenger #1 (Of 2)
Hulk #21 FOH
Incorruptible #4
Incredible Hulk #608 FOH
Iron Man Armor Wars Prologue TP
Iron Man End TP
Iron Man Official Index To Marvel Universe TP
Irredeemable #12
Joe The Barbarian #3 (Of 8)
Kookaburra K #3 (Of 3)
Marvel Boy Uranian #3 (Of 3)
Modern Masters SC Vol 22 Mark Buckingham
Mysterius The Unfathomable TP
Nation X #4 (Of 4)
New Mutants Classic TP Vol 5
Nova #35
Punisher Noir Prem HC
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #5 (Of 5)
Red Sonja TP Vol 7 Born Again
Shield #7
Showcase Presents Worlds Finest TP Vol 3
Siege #1 Director's Cut & Siege #3 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #3 (Of 4)
Simpsons Comics #164
Soulfire Volume Two #3
Spawn Origins HC Vol 1
Amazing Spider-Man #625
Spider-Man And Secret Wars #4 (Of 4)
Spider-Woman #7
Supergirl #51
Superman 80-Page Giant #1
Supernatural Beginnings End #3 (Of 6)
Titans #23
Torch #6 (Of 8)
Ultimate Comics Iron Man Armor Wars HC
Unknown Soldier TP Vol 2 Easy Kill
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #6
Wolverine Origins #45
Women Of Marvel Celebrating 7 Decades #1
Wonder Woman Chronicles TP Vol 1
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #9
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #3 (Of 5)
X-23 #1
X-Factor Forever #1
X-Men Legacy #234
The Gosh! Authority 10/03/10
Afternoon, all. We’re knackered after a week of rough justice so I’m putting things back the way they were by sticking the best looking book at the top of the list like some unfair popularity contest. It just so happens to be incredibly worthy as well (conveniently) so here ‘tis:
The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story HC is another handsome piece of work from IDW’s new (Craig) Yoe Books imprint which last gave us the much fawned-over Art of Ditko. Milt Gross is the chap responsible for what is arguably the first graphic novel ever, He Done Her Wrong - The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too (review here) published way back in 1930. He was also an animator in the ‘20s and wrote a few screenplays with Charlie Chaplin. I first came across him and his hilarious cartoony Yiddish-isms when I found Dunt Esk!! on the bookshelf at home, which was by far the oddest thing I’d ever read at the time and still undoubtedly remains so (Time magazine have a wee excerpt here; I love the internet). This IDW book collects and restores everything Gross from the now incredibly rare and hard to find comics from the ‘40s. There are photos, sketches, some unpublished stuff and even a special fold-in introduction by the man who invented the fold-in thing in the first place, Mr Al Jaffee of MAD. This one looks like a good’un and if I’m wrong I’ll eat my hat.
Here’s a tale of exciting publishing controversy for you. You may have noticed that Modern Masters Volume 24 is out this week showcasing the rather wonderful Guy Davis. Eagle-eyed Goshers might have also noticed one if not two of the following interesting facts: Volume 22 is out next week, and Volume 23 has entirely disappeared off the face of the Earth. That’s excitingly, no? Well, perhaps not. Anyway, next week you can expect the Mark Buckingham edition but if you ever wanted the Darwyn Cooke one you’re out of luck. It was supposed to come out last year around the same time as The Hunter but it has since been removed from the publisher’s schedule and there is no mention of its existence on their website at all! We’re good at scandal, us. We’re like News of the World.
In trade-paperback this week you can have Greek Street Volume 1 if you fancy something with strippers, gangsters, murderous yoot and Greek mythology. It collects the first five issues of the Peter Milligan series (which is proving to be rather popular, I might add), the first of which you can read online. Here’s Milligan talking about it with CbR back last year.
There’s also Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt which saw Mike Mignola reunited with the great Duncan Fegredo. Remember when we had some of the original pages up in our shop? That was nice.
Grant Morrison’s Batman & Robin #10 is the start of a new three-issue arc called Batman Vs. Robin – you get a new artist an’ all. Andy Clarke started off in 2000AD but you will have seen him most recently in R.E.B.E.L.S. and Batman Confidential. He talks about the Batman & Robin stuff here and you can see a preview of it this way.
Then there’s Breaking into Comics the Marvel Way #1 (of 2) which is kind of a how-to and it kind of isn’t. Along with a commentary about how to get your work seen and various submission tips, it’s an anthology of break-out work from twelve up-and-comers selected by Marvel editor C.B. Cebulski. There’s a preview thing here and a teaser video over at Comics Alliance with an interview with the man wot done it.
Other comics this week include James Robinson’s (Starman) Justice League Rise and Fall One-Shot (preview) and the first part of a three-issue miniseries by the same guy, Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton (preview of that one here). The Mystic Hands of Dr Strange has several noteworthy people in it so you’ll probably want to grab a copy this Thursday too. It’s an all-black-and-white one-shot special by Mike Carey (Lucifer), Kieron Gillen (Phonogram), Ted McKeever (Eddy Current) and Peter Milligan (that man again). Preview!
And last one: The Twelve: Spearhead is a one-shot by Chris Weston who not only draws but writes this one too taking his cues from JMS. The “spearhead” refers to Hitler’s most prized possession; an Austrian occult relic called “the spear of destiny”. It’s superheroes vs. Nazis.
And finally, a belated happy 90th birthday to Ronald Searle! From now until July 4 there is an exhibition of his stuff ‘round the corner at the Cartoon Museum. I would have mentioned this last week only I didn’t know it was on until people came in the day after opening night gushing about it. Over at the Searle blogspot you can see pictures from the opening night and YouTube videos of him on the telly. Don’t miss it.
-- Hayley
In Store 05/03/10 - 11/03/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Digest #202
Jughead's Double Digest #158
2000 AD Prog #1675
Alter Ego #92
Angel Hole In The World #4
Annotated Northwest Passage TP
Army Of Darkness #26
A-Team Shotgun Wedding #1
Authority Rule Brittania TP
Avengers X-Men Utopia TP
Mighty Avengers HC Secret Invasion
Batgirl #8
Batman And Robin #10 (G. Morrison)
Batman Heart Of Hush TP
Batman Widening Gyre #5 (Of 6)
Birdhouse GN
Boys TP Vol 6 (Garth Ennis)
BPRD King Of Fear #3 (Of 5)
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #1 (Of 2)
Civil War Adventure GN Vol 1
Classic Bible Stories HC Vol 1
Complete Alice In Wonderland #3 (Of 4)
Complete Milt Gross Comic Book Stories HC Vol 1
Conan Legacy Frazetta Cover #4 (Of 8)
Criminal: The Sinners #5
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #5 (Of 5)
Daytripper #4 (Of 10) (F Moon/G Ba)
DMZ #51 (Brian Wood)
Doom Patrol #8
Dr Who Magazine #419
Elephantmen #24
Enders Game Command School HC
Ex Machina #48 (B.K. Vaughan)
Farscape D'argo's Quest #4 (Of 4)
Fathom #10
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape TP
Ghost Projekt #1 (Of 5)
Ghost Riders TP Heaven’s On Fire
Ghoul #3
Greek Street TP Vol 1 (P. Milligan)
Grendel Behold The Devil HC
Haunted GN
Hellboy TP Vol 9 Wild Hunt
House Of Mystery #23
Hulk Let Battle Begin #1
Human Target #2 (Of 6)
Iron Man 2 Spotlight #1
Jack Kirby Collector #54
Jericho Season 3 #3 (Of 6)
Jersey Gods #11 (Dan McDaid)
Justice League Rise And Fall Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers Unleashed #1 (Of 4)
Magog #7
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #21
Modern Masters SC Vol 24 Guy Davis
Modern Warfare 2 Ghost #4 (Of 6)
Vengeance Of Moon Knight Must Have #1-3
Mystic Hands Of Dr Strange #1
Phantom Ghost Who Walks #8
Powers #3
Prototype TP
PunisherMAX #5 (J. Aaron/Dillon)
R.E.B.E.L.S. #14
Red Robin #10
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods #2
Resurrection TP Vol 1 Deluxe Ed
Resurrection Vol 2 #9
Runaways Parental Guidance HC
Savage Dragon #158 (Erik Larsen)
Secret Six #19
Solomon Kane Death's Black Riders #3 (Of 4)
Spectacular Spider-Girl TP Who Killed Gwen Reilly?
Spider-Girl TP Vol 12 Digest
Amazing Spider-Man #624
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #8
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #1 (Of 4)
Super Friends #25
Super Hero Squad #3
Super Hero Squad TP Get Yer Hero On Digest
Action Comics #887
Superman: Last Stand Of New Krypton #1 (Of 3)
Superman New Krypton HC Vol 3
S.W.O.R.D. #5 (Marvel)
Tank Girl Skidmarks #4 (Of 4)
Toyfare #153
Transformers Best Of The UK Prey TP
Transformers: Bumblebee #4
Twelve: Spearhead #1 (C. Weston)
Unlovable HC Vol 2
Unwritten #11
Warlord The Saga TP
Web Of Spider-Man #6 Gauntlet
Weekly World News #3
Wolverine Dark Wolverine Prem HC Vol 2
Wolverine Mr X #1
Wolverine Weapon X Prem HC Vol 2 Insane In The Brain
Cable #24
Dark X-Men #5 (Of 5)
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #2 (Of 5)
X-Men Forever #19
X-Men Pixie Strikes Back #2 (Of 4)
Zombies Vs Robots Aventure #2
Zorro Matanzas #2 (Of 4)
MANGA
Arata The Legend Vol 1
Bleach Vol 30
Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo Vol 3
Complete Aranzi Hour TP
Detroit Metal City Vol 4
Dragon Ball Z Vol 6 VizBig Ed
Evo Tournament Vol 1
Gantz TP Vol 9
Gunsmith Cats Burst Vol 5
Laon Vol 1
Naruto Chapter Book Vol 12
Naruto Vol 47
One Piece Vols 36 - 38 Omnibus
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Adventures Vol 6
Shaman King Vol 27
Tegami Bachi Vol 2
Waqwaq Vols 1-3
We Were There Vol 9
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Due To Arrive 11/03/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Action Comics #887
Angel Hole In The World #4
Army Of Darkness #26
A-Team Shotgun Wedding #1
Avengers X-Men Utopia TP
Batgirl #8
Batman And Robin #10
Batman Widening Gyre #5 (Of 6)
Boys TP Vol 6 Self-Preservation Society
BPRD King Of Fear #3 (Of 5)
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #1 (Of 2)
Complete Alice In Wonderland #3 (Of 4)
Complete Milt Gross Comic Book Stories HC Vol 1
Conan Legacy Frazetta Cover #4 (Of 8)
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #5 (Of 5)
Daytripper #4 (Of 10)
Dead At 17 Witch Queen #1 (Of 4)
DMZ #51
Doom Patrol #8
Elephantmen #24
Enders Game Command School Prem HC
Ex Machina #48
Farscape D'argo's Quest #4 (Of 4)
Fathom #10
Final Crisis Aftermath Escape TP
Ghost Riders TP Heaven's On Fire
Ghoul #3
Greek Street TP Vol 1 Blood Calls For Blood
Grimjack Omnibus TP Vol 1
House Of Mystery #23
Hulk Let Battle Begin #1
Human Target #2 (Of 6)
Iron Man 2 Spotlight #1
Jack Kirby Collector #54
Jersey Gods #11
Justice League Rise And Fall Special #1
Lockjaw & Pet Avengers Unleashed #1 (Of 4)
Magog #7
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #21
Mystic Hands Of Dr Strange #1
Powers #3
PunisherMAX #5
Rebels #14
Red Robin #10
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods #2 (Of 5)
Resurrection TP Vol 1 Deluxe Ed
Resurrection Vol 2 #9
Runaways Parental Guidance Prem HC
Sal Buscema Comics' Fast & Furious Artist HC
Savage Dragon #158
Secret Six #19
Solomon Kane Death's Black Riders #3 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man #624
Spectacular Spider-Girl TP Who Killed Gwen Reilly?
Spider-Girl TP Vol 12 Games Villains Play Digest
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #8
Web Of Spider-Man #6 Gauntlet
Star Trek Alien Spotlight TP Vol 2
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #1 (Of 4)
Super Friends #25
Super Hero Squad #3 & Get Yer Hero On TP
Superman Last Stand Of New Krypton #1 (Of 3)
S.W.O.R.D. #5 (Marvel)
Toyfare #153
Transformers Best Of The UK Prey TP
Transformers Bumblebee #4
Twelve Spearhead #1
Unwritten #11
Vengeance Of Moon Knight Must Have Collection #1-3
Warlord The Saga TP
Weekly World News #3
Cable #24
Dark X-Men #5 (Of 5)
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #2 (Of 5)
Wolverine Dark Wolverine Prem HC Vol 2
Wolverine Mr X #1
Wolverine Weapon X Prem HC Vol 2 Insane In The Brain
X-Men Forever #19
X-Men Pixie Strikes Back #2 (Of 4)
Zombies Vs Robots Aventure #2
Zorro Matanzas #2 (Of 4)
The Gosh! Authority 03/03/10
I thought I’d do comics first instead of books because I’m ruthlessly shaking it up in the spirit of Rough Justice Week 2011. You’ll get some of Alex Ross’ rough justice in a mo but first you can have Azzarello’s:
First Wave #1 (of 6) sees the unveiling of DC’s new pulp universe helmed by Eisner-award winning big-shot Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets) and illustrated by Rags Morales (Identity Crisis). There are no superheroes here; it’s Batman with Gatling guns in a world of speakeasies and great hats.
“It's fun to take a character like Batman and say, 'How would this character have gone if there was no Superman and all the other super powered characters he got tangled up with?' I've never bought into the idea that Batman would be in the Justice League of America. We're creating a world where none of these super characters exist. Doc [Savage] is the top of the food chain. He's the pinnacle of humanity.”
More of that over at Publisher’s Weekly and an eight-page preview too.
You can expect more good hats in Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet #1, the series that will take the place of the film that never happened (Michel Gondry’s nabbed it). CbR have a preview and you’ll be happy to know that there’ll be none of the usual Kevin Smith (flight) delays – all ten issues are already laid out and ready to go, according to Dynamite.
Punisher Max Butterfly is a one-shot that will undoubtedly be full of ultraviolence or rough justice, if you will. It’s written by Valerie D’Orazio who has waited no less than twenty years to write a Punisher story and illustrated by Gosh! Favourite Laurence Campbell. D’Orazio was so impressed with his “jaw-droppingly visceral, detailed and beautiful” artwork that she has him pegged as the next big thing in comics. Preview his stuff here.
David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Young Liars) pens a new six-part miniseries called Sparta USA about an all-American apple pie town built on football, sabotage and a bit of magic.
“I wanted to set a story in a self-contained town with an idyllic façade but behind the scenes it was all spy games and sabotage. Sort of “Desperate Housewives” on crack. And not a soap opera.
You’re the stock boy, you want to be shift supervisor, so you arrange for the old supervisor to have an accident, or a scandal. We’ve seen this kind of thing happen before but in Sparta everyone does it, so you have to be on your toes. You also have to make sure it doesn’t spill out into the public, because that’s a big no-no. If that happens you get a visit from the Maestro, the mysterious seven-foot tall man who runs the town,” says Lapham in an interview with Comic Book Resources where he also talks about the cancellation of Vertigo’s Young Liars. Sparta USA is illustrated by Johnny Timmons (Wolverine) and you can grab the first issue this week.
The rapidly expanding Ultimate Universe lets its belt out another notch this week to fit in Ultimate Comics New Ultimates #1 written by Jeph Loeb (Batman: Hush) and Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) in his Ultimate debut. Loeb gives you the lowdown over at CbR in which the word “ultimate” is said so many times it has completely lost all meaning to me. Ultimate Oranges.
Books! The amazing-looking Mesmo Delivery came out back in 2008 and I think lasted all of about half an hour on the new shelf. The entire printing disappeared and we were unable to get any more; apparently there were copies going for hundreds on eBay recently but before you go spending your week’s wages on one of those – look here! A brand new printing from Dark Horse. It’s Rafael Grampá’s (Hellblazer) first graphic novel and it’s a doozy. Grampá describes it as a “road thriller” about an ex-boxer who lands a job transporting mysterious cargo he’s not allowed to open. Head here for an interview and preview pages and here for a Comics Journal review. This new edition features an introduction by Brian Azzarello, an expanded sketchbook section plus pin-ups from Eduardo Risso, Mike Allred, Craig Thompson and Fabio Moon.
Strange Tales – the three-issue anthology series in which indie hotshots re-imagined classic Marvel characters – is out in hardcover this week:
In it you’ll find Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid), Pete Bagge (his Incorrigible Hulk’s in ‘ere), 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). It’s oversized. Fancy.
Also in hardcover is the final volume of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary. That’s volume four if you’re counting, ending with issue #27 which surfaced recently much to the happy surprise of Ellis standing order customers who probably thought we’d be wearing silver spacesuits long before it turned up.
Two sketchbooks out this week that might tickle your fancy: Sam Kieth Sketchbooks Volume 1 is 48 pages of unseen stuff from his 25 year old mouldy sketchbooks all made with whatever debris he had to hand. The other is Rough Justice (you heard me) The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross which features loads of unpublished graphite sketches along with an interview he did with Chip Kidd.
And lastly, comedian Robin Ince is hosting a night at The Bloomsbury Theatre later this month featuring the likes of Big Hairy Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Darren Hayman, Jim Bob of Carter USM fame, Kevin Eldon and a brass band (I’ve seen him sing at Karaoke Circus and he’s bloomin’ brilliant) and lots of other things and people. Tickets are on sale now.
-- Hayley