Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Amazing Spider-Man #639
Astounding Wolf-Man #24
Authority #25
Avengers Invaders TP
Avengers Origin #5 (Of 5)
Avengers Prime #2 (Of 5)
Avengers Thor Captain America Off Index MU #4
Baltimore Plague Ships #1
Batman Arkham Reborn TP
Batman Confidential #47
Batman Odyssey #2 (Of 6)
Boys #45
Brigade #2
Brightest Day #7
Captain America #608
Captain America Forever Allies #1 (Of 4)
Captain America Theater Of War TP
Casanova #2
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love TP
Daredevil Black And White #1
Darkstar And Winter Guard #3 (Of 3)
Deadpool #1000
Deadpool Wade Wilsons War #3 (Of 4)
Doom Patrol #13
Doomwar #6 (Of 6)
Electric Ant #5 (Of 5)
Garth Ennis Battlefields TP Vol 05
Gorilla Man #2 (Of 3)
Greek Street #14
Green Hornet Golden Age Remastered #1
Green Hornet Parallel Lives #2
Hawkeye & Mockingbird #3
Hellboy The Storm #2 (Of 3)
Hercules Twilight Of A God #3 (Of 4)
Hit-Monkey #2 (Of 3)
House Of Mystery #28
Hulk Fall Of Hulks TP Savage She-Hulks
Iron Man Legacy #5
Irredeemable #16
iZombie #4
Jonah Hex #58
JSA All Stars #9
Jurassic Park Redemption #2
Kane And Lynch #1 (Of 6)
Kill Shakespeare #4
Light #5 (Of 5)
Losers TP Book 02
Luke Cage Noir TP GN
Magnus Robot Fighter #1 (Of 4)
Magog #12
Magog Lethal Force TP
Marvel Universe Vs Punisher #1 (Of 4)
Marvelman Familys Finest #2 (Of 6)
New Mutants Forever #1 (Of 5)
Orson Scott Cards Ender In Exile #3 (Of 5)
Punisher Max Naked Kills TP
Rebels #19
Red Hood Lost Days #3 (Of 6)
Red Robin #15
Secret Six #24
Secret Warriors #18
Shadowland #2 (Of 5)
Shadowland Bullseye #1 Sl
Shield #3
Soulfire Vol Two #7
Sparta USA #6 (Of 6)
Spider-Man Fantastic Four #2 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Gauntlet Prem HC Vol 04
Spitfire #1
Stand Hardcases #3 (Of 5)
Star Wars Old Republic #2 (Of 6)
Starstruck #12
Supergod #4 (Of 5)
Superman The Last Family Of Krypton #1
Sweet Tooth #12
Thor Rage Of Thor #1
Tom Strong And The Robots Of Doom #3
Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 #6 (Of 6)
Witchblade #137
Young Allies #3
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Due To Arrive 05/08/10
The Gosh! Authority 29/07/10
Tēnā koutou, folks!
Unfortunately Wee Hayley Campbell is off on some kind of crazed party week in France or something, so you’re stuck with me for what will, I’m sure, prove to be a (possibly) stimulating, (conceivably) enlightening and (god willing) brief encounter. So without further ado, let’s get to it!
So, Scott Pilgrim, huh? Who would have thought, all those years ago as Bryan Lee O'Malley shepherded the first volume into the world, that we’d have people in near-hysterics feverishly waiting for the release of the final chapter? But here we are, with midnight launches, street parties and a feature film for what is probably the biggest release of the comic book year. No kiddin’, and you know something else? It’s worth the hype. If you haven’t stuck your beak into Scott Pilgrim before now, put off by its style, affronted by its black-and-whiteness, or just plain unaware it existed, then may I highly recommend it to Sir or Madam? It’s a lot of fun, full of great characters, kung fu, love, swords, life, funny stuff and a good dose of storytelling magic to boot. We’ve got the lot, now in store! And I’ll tell you what: try it out with volume one, and if you don’t like it (and keep it in nice condition) then you can bring it back (with receipt) for full exchange of value. Fair deal?
Get on board now, and don’t forget your chance to meet the man himself at our signing: 18th August, 4.30-6.30pm. Tell your friends (and get here early)!
Another little gem this week is the Joe Kelly / Max Fiumara gangsters’n’dragons story Four Eyes. Set against a backdrop of depression-era Brooklyn in a fantasy world where gangsters are involved in illegal dragon-fighting, Four Eyes is about a young man whose father is killed while trying to capture dragons for a gangland boss. Taken under the wing of the gang, he begins to learn the trade, imprinting himself on a dragon in the process, before learning the dark secret that lies behind his father’s death. It’s intended to be an epic tale of gangland revenge, of which this TP represents the first arc, and so far it’s been a good old read. Fiumara’s art doesn’t hurt either. Hey, try before you buy: here’s the first issue for free.
It’s Whatever Happened week from DC, as Messrs Moore & Gaiman both get new softcover editions of their respective Superman & Batman stories. The Alan Moore collection of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow includes his and Curt Swan’s classic titular story, plus the Superman annual story “For the Man Who Has Everything”, with art by Dave Gibbons, and the Rick Veitch-drawn Superman / Swamp Thing team-up from DC Comics Presents #85. Meanwhile over in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader, Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert’s existential Batman story is collected along with Gaiman shorts from Secret Origins and Batman Black & White, with art by Simon Bisley, Mark Buckingham, Mike Hoffman & Bernie Mireault.Plenty more slightly off-centre bits and pieces this week. The Sean Phillips-drawn WWII Euro-actioner 7 Psychopaths finishes this week, and it’s been a fun ride while it lasted. Meanwhile Peter Milligan takes the scripting reigns for a dark science fiction mini-series published by the always-slick Radical publishing. After Dark is based on a story idea by Antoine Fuqua & Wesley Snipes (Hollywood pitch, anyone?), and drawn by Jeff Nentrup.
Eric Powell’s Goon spin-off Buzzard sees a second issue this week, with his usual lush art (and speaking of the Goon, have you seen the trailer for the animated film, produced by David Fincher?) Between this and Chimichanga, we’ve been a bit spoiled for Powell lately. Take advantage of it and encourage him to do more before he goes off and manages roller derby teams and cage fighters for a living, or something.Also on the block this week: Rick Remender begins the final story arc of his reliably entertaining (and sometimes surprisingly affecting) Fear Agent; Jeff Smith continues to bring the Tesla-inspired fun in Rasl; Northlanders begins a new story arc entitled Metal, of which I heartily approve; Thunda, King of the Congo Archives reprints some classic Frazetta; and Hotwire Deep Cut #1 continues the adventures of Warren Ellis & Steve Pugh’s cyberpunk exorcist. Can I say cyberpunk anymore? Because that’s what it is.
If capes, tights’n’cowls are more your scene, there’s still plenty to keep you busy. Ed Brubaker continues the Serpent-Crown-On-Mars shenanigans of Secret Avengers, while Jonathan Hickman continues to bring us one of the best Fantastic Four runs we’ve seen in quite some time (with new regular artist Neil Edwards).
Meanwhile DC get us the third issue of the pulpy actioner First Wave by Brian Azzarello and Rags Morales, Paul Cornell’s having fun with Lex Luthor in Action Comics #891 and J M Straczynski and Don Kramer begin to play the changed history game in earnest in Wonder Woman #601.
And last but certainly not least, Batman Return of Bruce Wayne #4 rolls into stores this week with Buffy stalwart Georges Jeanty on art chores in place of the previously advertised Cameron Stewart. So, after Caveman Batman, Puritan Batman and Pirate Batman, this week it’s...COWBOY BATMAN! With added Jonah Hex.
Don’t forget to check downstairs this week: we’ve got some great new packs in, including all the Hellboy mini-series, a brilliant Elephantmen pack including sketchbooks, Mike Allred Atomics goodness and lots more. Not to mention the usual array of super-cheap back-issues, both new and old, still in stock.
And that’s about it! Hayley’s back from her Sex & the City-styled gallivanting next week, so normal service will be resumed.
Haere rā!
-Andrew.
In Store 23/07/10 - 29/07/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Pureheart Powerful TP Vol 01
2000 AD Prog #1695
28 Days Later #13
7 Psychopaths #3 (Sean Phillips)
Abe Sapien Abyssal Plain #2 (Of 2)
After Dark #1 (Of 3) (Peter Milligan)
American Vampire #5
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Charmer #3
Artifacts #1 (Of 13)
Aspen Splash 2010 Swimsuit Spectacular
Authority The Lost Year #11 (Of 12)
AVP Three World War #5 (Of 6)
Secret Avengers #3
Azrael Deaths Dark Knight TP
Batman Return Of Bruce Wayne #4 (Of 6) (Grant Morrison)
Batman The Brave And The Bold #19
Batman Whatever Happened Caped Crusader SC (Neil Gaiman)
Batman Widening Gyre #6 (Of 6)
Detective Comics #867
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #18
Buzzard #2 (Of 3) (Eric Powell)
Captain America 1940s Newspaper Strip #2
Cowboy Ninja Viking #7
Neil Gaiman Dangerous Alphabet SC
Do Androids Dream Dust To Dust #3
Fantastic Four #581
Fear Agent #28 Out Of Step (Pt 1 Of 6)
First Wave #3 (Of 6)
Flash #4 (Brightest Day)
Flight GN Vol 07
Four Eyes TP Vol 01 Forged In Flames
Franken-Castle #19
GI Joe Hearts And Minds #3
Glamourpuss #14
Gotham City Sirens #14
Green Arrow #2 (Brightest Day)
Green Hornet Strikes #2
Green Lantern #56 (Brightest Day)
Green Lantern Corps #50 (Brightest Day)
Haunt #8
Hotwire Deep Cut #1 (Of 3) (Pugh)
Hulk Fall Of Hulks TP Red Hulk
World War Hulks Spider-Man Vs Thor #2
World War Hulks Wolverine Vs Captain America #2
Incorruptible #8
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #6
Jack Of Fables #46
James Pattersons Witch & Wizard #3
JSA Vs Kobra TP
Justice League Generation Lost #6
Justice League Of America #47
Juxtapoz Vol 17 #8 Aug 2010
Kevin Smith Kato #3
Madame Xanadu #25
Marvel Previews August 2010
Marvels Project HC Birth Of Super Hero
Myspace Dark Horse Presents TP Vol 05
Northlanders #30
Outsiders #31
Pilot Season Stellar #1 (Kirkman)
Previews #263 August 2010
PunisherMAX #9 (Jason Aaron)
Rasl #8 (Jeff Smith)
Rising #0
Scott Pilgrim GN Vol 06 Finest Hour
Secret Warriors Prem HC Vol 03
Sense & Sensibility #3 (Of 5)
Showcase Presents Sgt Rock TP Vol 03
Shiny Beasts GN (Rick Veitch)
Siege Battlefield Prem HC
Spawn #198
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Black Cat #2
Peter Parker #5 (Of 5)
Spider-Man #4
Star Trek Burden Of Knowledge #2
Star Trek McCoy #4
Star Trek Movie Adaptation #5
Star Wars Invasion Rescues #3
Action Comics #891 (Paul Cornell)
Superman Whatever Happened To Man Of Tomorrow SC
Teen Titans #85
MMW Mighty Thor TP Vol 01
Thor #612 (K Gillen)
Thor Mighty Avenger #2 (Langridge)
Thunda King Of Congo Archives HC Vol 01 (Frazetta)
Ultimate Comics Mystery #1 (Of 4)
Unknown Soldier #22
Usagi Yojimbo #130
Usagi Yojimbo TP Vol 24
Vampire Tales TP Vol 01 GN
Warlord #16
Wildcats #25
Wizard Magazine #229
Women Of Marvel TP Celebrating Seven Decades
Wonder Woman #601 (Straczynski)
Deadpool Team-Up #891
Uncanny X-Men #526 (M Fraction)
Wolverine Origins #50
Wolverine Weapon X #15 (J Aaron)
X-Campus #2 (Of 4)
X-Factor Forever #5 (Of 5)
X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga HC
X-Men Forever 2 #4
X-Men Legacy #238
X-Men Mutant Genesis Prem HC
Yours Truly Jack The Ripper #2
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Due To Arrive 29/07/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Abe Sapien Abyssal Plain #2 (Of 2)
Action Comics #891
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Black Cat #2
American Vampire #5
Authority The Lost Year #11 (Of 12)
Batman Return Of Bruce Wayne #4 (Of 6)
Batman Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader TP
Batman Widening Gyre #6 (Of 6)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #18
Buzzard #2 (Of 3)
Captain America 1940s Newspaper Strip #2
Deadpool Team-Up #891
Detective Comics #867
Drink & Draw HC Vol 2
Fantastic Four #581
Fear Agent #28
First Wave #3 (Of 6)
Flash #4 Brightest Day
Four Eyes TP Vol 1 Forged In Flames
Franken-Castle #19
Fringe Tales From The Fringe #2 (Of 6)
Garrison #4 (Of 6)
Gotham City Sirens #14
Green Arrow #2 Brightest Day
Green Hornet Strikes #2
Green Lantern #56 Brightest Day
Green Lantern Corps #50 Brightest Day
Haunt #8
Hulk Fall Of Hulks TP Red Hulk
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #6 (Of 6)
Jack Of Fables #46
JSA Vs Kobra TP
Justice League Generation Lost #6
Justice League Of America #47 Brightest Day
Legion Of Super Heroes #3
Madame Xanadu #25
Marvel Previews August 2010
Marvels Project HC Birth Of Super Heroes
Marvel Masterworks Mighty Thor TP Vol 1
Northlanders #30
Outsiders #31
Peter Parker #5 (Of 5)
Previews #263 August 2010
Punishermax #9
Secret Avengers #3
Secret Warriors Prem HC Vol 3 Wake Beast
Sense & Sensibility #3 (Of 5)
Siege Battlefield Prem HC
Spawn #198
Spider-Man #4
Star Wars Invasion Rescues #3 (Of 6)
Superman Whatever Happened To Man Of Tomorrow TP
Teen Titans #85
Thor #612
Thor Mighty Avenger #2
Ultimate Comics Mystery #1 (Of 4)
Uncanny X-Men #526
Unknown Soldier #22
Usagi Yojimbo #130
Warlord #16
Wildcats #25
Witchblade #137
Wolverine Origins #50
Wolverine Weapon X #15
Women Of Marvel TP
Wonder Woman #601
World War Hulks Spider-Man Vs Thor #2 (Of 2)
World War Hulks Wolverine Vs Captain America #2 (Of 2)
X-Campus #2 (Of 4)
X-Factor Forever #5 (Of 5)
X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga HC
X-Men Forever 2 #4
X-Men Legacy #238
X-Men Powerless TP
X-Men We Are X-Men TP
The Gosh! Authority 21/07/10
Last week’s Brazilians have flown off to San Diego along with a considerable number of your own fine selves, but we’re carrying on the Brazilian theme without them. Mondo Urbano is a new one from Oni Press, the same publishing house who brought you that Scott Pilgrim chap you like so much. The only preview I can find is in the original Portuguese so you’ll just have to get out your babelfish. It’s about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll by three guys called Mateus Santolouco, Eduardo Medeiros and Rafael Albuquerque who originally self-published it as a four-issue miniseries in 2008/2009, now completely sold out. This 128-page book includes those original stories plus a brand new one, a bonus track if you will. Have a poke about on their website, there’s loads of stuff to see including special Mondo Urbano guitar picks you can get your mitts on at the Comic-Con. Viva o Brasil!
More rock ‘n’ roll in the new four-issue miniseries CBGB, the comic about the legendary New York club that played a huge and historic role in the punk and hardcore scene before its doors shut in 2006.
“As a provincial Brit, CBGB is something which is more of an idea than an actual place. It's sort of asking me what heaven or hell or Narnia means to me. Which of course, is “Everything.” Ideas are important and CBGB is a delightfully seductive idea. You can trace its influence as an idea down the years of pop culture easily,” says Kieron Gillen (Phonogram, Thor), who teams-up with Marc Ellerby (Ellerbisms, Love the Way You Love). So who else is here? Jaime Hernandez (Love & Rockets), Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters), Kim Krizan (writer of Before Sunset/Before Sunrise) Chuck BB (Black Metal), Kelly Sue DeConnick (30 Days of Night: Eben & Stella), Rob G (Teenagers From Mars, Couriers), and Sam Humphries (the mind behind MySpace Comics).
“I suspect anyone who's a Phonogram fan -- all four of you -- will like it,” says Gillen. “It's lighter than the majority of the main Phonogram stories, but tonally not unlike some of the B-sides we did in the single issues. Hell, if you imagine crossing Marc's B-side in the first issue of Singles Club with the Memory Kingdom sequence in Rue Britannia, you're most of the way there. It's an urban-fantasy riff off Dickens' Christmas Carol, about warring Ghosts of Punk-Rock Past.” 
So given they’ve never so much as had a wee in the joint, what strengths do the Ellerby and Gillen bring to the table? “I think what Marc and I share is a lack of strength. We are tiny weak-limbed British folk. Men like us are the reason why the Vikings kicked our arses and took our neat stuff.”
SCANDO SEGUE! The Troll King is the latest in Top Shelf’s Swedish Invasion, but this one is by far the weirdest. I’m serious; read the preview, it’s mental. It’s surreal story about two reclusive hairy mountain men who look a bit like wookies (kind of) but there’s also a carrot having a bath at some point. There’s a review here and an interview with creator Kolbeinn Karlsson who is perhaps the most Swedish-looking man I’ve ever seen. According to Top Shelf, he’s comics’ cuddliest Viking. From the looks of it he does good comics too. Pick it up!
On the subject of weird, one of the most classic and strange stories is now out in hardcover: The Complete Alice in Wonderland as told by Leah Moore and John Reppion. They talk to Newsarama about treading the same ground as the hairier of the Moores here.
Jeff Smith’s sci-fi noir series RASL is released in a pocket-sized volume which is good news for anyone who couldn’t fit that other original-art-sized thing in their bag. Comicbook Resources caught up with Smith back in April. It’s worth a read, he talks about sitting in the Arizona desert for two weeks to get his head around the story. Did he scream “I GET IT!” at the sun like Tony Soprano? We’ll never know.
Bad Planet was one of those unreliable comics with a rocky publishing history, all of which is pretty well documented here, so chances are you lost track of it. Written by Steve Niles and Thomas Jane (yep, the guy who played Punisher) and illustrated by James Daly III, Bad Planet is about mankind defending the Earth against a race of arachnid-like predators hell-bent on using the place as a breeding ground. It’s very much planted in the Tales From the Crypt/EC Comics/sci-fi horror genre with, as one reviewer put it “just enough exploitation of big-boobied scientists to make it entertaining as all get-out.” This is the first time it has appeared in colour and even has a fancy 3D section. Not one to read on the bus, you look ridiculous in those glasses.
There’s a new Walking Dead trade-paperback out this week if you’re in the mood for even more horror. It collects issues #67 to #72 and considering #75 is out too it very nearly brings you bang up to date. That’s Volume 12 if you’re counting. Blimey.
Other notables this week include Mark Millar’s Ultimate Comics Avengers Volume 1 TP (a review of the first issue if you’ve not been paying attention), Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman TP (interview with him), and a history of Marvelman in the Marvelman Classic Primer. Bleeding Cool whinges that it’s a bit of a textbook essay, but there are interviews with Neil Gaiman, Mick Anglo and the like so worth a look, as is this week’s Doctor Who Magazine because it includes a comic by the ever-brilliant Roger Langridge.
Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham has been out for a while now but has just been selected as the Graphic Novel of the Month over at the Guardian. Great review of it here and if you haven’t picked up a copy yet we’ve just received a bunch more. Convenient, no?
And finally, our friends in the North are in a spot of bother. If you can help OK Comics, help them now! We don’t want to see people like us having to go get proper jobs in offices, that’d be awful.
-- Hayley
In Store 16/07/10 - 22/07/10
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2000 Ad Prog #1694
Judge Dredd Megazine #300
Death Lives GN
Age Of Heroes #3 (Of 4)
Air #23
Alter Ego #95
Atlas #3
Avengers #3 (B. Bendis)
Avengers Search For She-Hulk HC
Dark Avengers TP Vol 2 Molecule Man
New Avengers #2 (B. Bendis)
New Avengers TP Vol 12 Powerloss
Ultimate Comics
- Avengers 2 #5 (Of 6)
- Avengers Vol 1 TP
Azrael #10
Back Issue #42
Bad Planet TP Vol 1
Batman Beyond #2 (Of 6)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #14
Battlefields #8 (Of 9) (G. Ennis)
MMW Black Panther HC Vol 1
Black Widow #4
Blackest Night
- Rise Of The Black Lanterns HC
- Tales Of The Corps HC
Boneyard TP Vol 7
Bram Stoker's Death Ship #3
Brightest Day #6 (G. Johns)
Bullet To The Head #2 (Colin Wilson)
Captain America HC Two Americas
CBGB #1 (Of 4)
Cerebus Guide To Self Publishing Expanded Edition
Charmed #1
Classics Illustrated HC Vol 10
Complete Alice In Wonderland HC
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #3
DC Universe Legacies #3 (Of 10)
Dr Who Magazine #424
Dracula #4 (Of 4)
DV8 Gods And Monsters #4 (Of 8)
Dynamo 5 Sins Of The Father #2 Echo #23 (Terry Moore)
Essential Defenders TP Vol 5
Fantastic Four By J. Hickman TP
Marvel Masterworks Golden Age Human Torch HC Vol 3
Farscape Ongoing #9
Fearless Dawn #4 (Of 4)
Fevre Dream #4 (Of 10)
Final Crisis Rogues Revenge TP
Futurama Comics #50
GI Joe A Real American Hero #156
GI Joe Cobra II #6
Green Hornet #6 (Kevin Smith)
Green Lantern Corps Ring Quest TP
Green Lantern Rage Of The Red Lanterns TP
Groo Hogs Of Horder TP
Hellblazer #269 (P. Milligan)
Her-Oes #4
Heroic Age Prince Of Power #3
Iron Man Extremis Director’s Cut #5 (Of 6) (Warren Ellis)
Justice Society Of America #41 BD
Legend Of Percevan GN Vol 4
Legion Of Super Heroes #3
Marvel Zombies 5 #5 (Of 5)
Marvelman Classic Primer One-Shot
Marvelous Land Of Oz #8 (Of 8)
Meta 4 #2 (Of 5) (Ted McKeever)
MGM Drive-In Theater #1
MOME GN Vol 19
Mondo Urbano GN
Neonomicon #1 (Of 4) (A. Moore)
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide SC & HC Vol 40
Power Girl #14
Pug GN
Rasl Pocket Ed TP Vol 1 (J. Smith)
Realm Of Kings HC
Red Mass For Mars #4 (Of 4)
Classic Red Sonja Remastered #2
Resurrection Vol 2 #13
Rolling Thunder HC (Dave Dorman)
Sam Kieth Sketchbooks Vol 2
Shadowhawk #3
Siege Embedded Prem HC
Siege TP
Simpsons Comics #168
Amazing Spider-Man #638
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Collection Vol 4
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #2
Web Of Spider-Man #10
Spike The Devil You Know #2
Spirit #4
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #3 Supergirl #54
Superman Batman #74
Sword TP Vol 4 Air
Thunderbolts #146
Time Masters Vanishing Point #1
Tiny Titans #30
Transformers Nefarious #5
Treasury 20th Century Murder HC Vol 3 (Rick Geary)
Tripwire Magazine #54
Troll King GN
True Blood #1
Ultimate Comics New Ultimates #3
Walking Dead #75
Walking Dead TP Vol 12
Welcome To Tranquility: One Foot In The Grave #1
World Of Warcraft TP Vol 2
Dark Wolverine #88
Deadpool #25
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #13 Lady Deadpool #1
New Mutants #15
Siege X-Men Prem HC
X-Factor #207
X-Men Phoenix Force Handbook
Zatanna #3
Zero Killer TP
MANGA
Akira Kodansha Ed GN Vol 3
Clique Manga GN Vol 1
Dragonball Z Vizbig Ed GN Vol 8
Fullmetal Alchemist TP Vol 23
Peepo Choo Gn Vol 1
Super Pro Ko GN Vol 1
Vagabond Vizbig Ed GN Vol 8
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Due To Arrive 22/07/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Age Of Heroes #3 (Of 4)
Air #23
Alan Moore Neonomicon #1 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man #638
Amazing Spider-Man By JMS Ultimate Collection TP Vol 4
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #3 (Of 4)
Atlas #3
Avengers #3
Avengers Search For She-Hulk Prem HC
Azrael #10
Batman Beyond #2 (Of 6)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #14
Black Widow #4
Bram Stokers Death Ship #3
Brightest Day #6
Bullet To The Head #2
Captain America Prem HC Two Americas
Classic Red Sonja Remastered #2
Complete Alice In Wonderland HC
Dark Avengers TP Vol 2 Molecule Man
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #3
Dark Wolverine #88
DC Universe Legacies #3 (Of 10)
Deadpool #25
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #13 (Of 13)
Dracula #4 (Of 4)
DV8 Gods And Monsters #4 (Of 8)
Dynamo 5 Sins Of The Father #2 (Of 5)
Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman TP Vol 1
Fevre Dream #4 (Of 10)
Futurama Comics #50
Garth Ennis Battlefields #8 (Of 9)
Hellblazer #269
Her-Oes #4
Heroic Age Prince Of Power #3 (Of 4)
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #5 (Of 6)
Justice Society Of America #41 Brightest Day
Kevin Smith Green Hornet #6
Lady Deadpool #1
Legion Of Super Heroes #3
Marvel Zombies 5 #5 (Of 5)
Marvelman Classic Primer #1
Marvelous Land Of Oz #8 (Of 8)
Meta 4 #2 (Of 5)
New Avengers #2
New Avengers Tp Vol 12 Powerloss
New Mutants #15
Power Girl #14
RASL #8 & Pocket Ed TP Vol 1
Realm Of Kings HC
Red Mass For Mars #4 (Of 4)
Rolling Thunder Art Of Dave Dorman Hc
Sam Kieth Sketchbooks Vol 2
Siege Embedded Prem HC
Siege X-Men Prem HC
Simpsons Comics #168
Spike The Devil You Know #2
Spirit #4
Supergirl #54
Superman Batman #74
Thunderbolts #146
Time Masters Vanishing Point #1 (Of 6)
Tiny Titans #30
Transformers Nefarious #5
True Blood #1
Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 #5 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics New Ultimates #3 (Of 5)
Web Of Spider-Man #10
Welcome To Tranquility One Foot Grave #1 Witchblade #137
X-Factor #207
X-Men Phoenix Force Handbook
Zatanna #3
The Gosh! Authority 14/07/10
We’re spoiled here. We’ve had some visitors – a couple of boys from Brazil and I don’t mean a bunch of Nazis, I mean two lovely ones off the list of Gosh! Favourites called Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon. They popped in to scribble on piles of PIXU and the Umbrella Academy in between feverishly trying to finish the final chapter of their creator-owned series Daytripper (issue #8 of 10 is out this week) and being the subject of various events at the Southbank Centre’s Festival Brazil. Busy chaps!
If you were hanging around the Southbank on Friday you will have seen them painting the enormous Wallstrip mural. Indeed if you weren’t as much of a pale fainty wimp as I was (it was Day-The-Earth-Caught-Fire-sunny; I fled) you might have even picked up a paintbrush and joined in. If not, there are several photos over on Bá’s twitpic gallery (a fellow fan of the ol’ Hipstamatic, I see) and their blog. The work will be hanging on the wall for the next couple of months so you’ve got plenty of time to go gaze upon it. I highly recommend you do. They are, after all, the cream of the Brazilian crop.
Our postman also darkened our doorstep and we now have Gosh! Bookplate Editions of Dan Clowes’ brilliant graphic novel, Wilson. There are only 200 of these babies around, all signed and numbered by Clowes, etc etc. You know the drill!
AND we’ve just announced Bryan Lee O’Malley signing. I told you we were spoiled. It’s on Wednesday the 18th of August from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at which point he’ll be taken away from us so he can go to the big London premiere of the Scott Pilgrim film. Stick it in your diaries and get there early – we want minimal tears and absolutely no ass-kicking in the line, please.
Fresh off the van this week you’ll find Richard Stark’s Parker: The Man With the Getaway Face which is the first chapter of the second Parker graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke. Even if you’re planning on getting the upcoming book The Outfit when it’s released in the Autumn you’ll be kicking yourself if you miss out on this one because it’s bigger than you’d expect at 8” by 12” which is, I think, magazine sized (she says, checking the inverted commas so we don’t have any Spinal Tap misunderstandings). Parker: The Hunter was one of the most popular books of last year but Cooke hopes that this oversized, underpriced kidney punch will pull even more people in to the violent world of Parker. Greedy? Nope, they’re practically giving this one away at £1.45.
Cooke turns up again in Fractured Fables HC, a kid-friendly anthology of fairy tales retold by comics’ greatest. How’s this for a cast: Mike & Laura Allred (Madman, iZombie), Jill Thompson (Beasts of Burden), Bryan Talbot (Alice in Sunderland), Peter David (Hulk), Ben Templesmith (Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse), Scott Morse (Plastic Man), Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim), Ted McKeever (Eddy Current), Terry Moore (Echo), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Larry Marder (Beanworld), Jim Valentino (Guardians of the Galaxy), Phil Hester (Green Arrow), Jonathan Hickman (S.H.I.E.L.D.), and friend o’ Gosh! Christian Ward (Olympus). And that’s not even all of ‘em.
If you’re feeling overly virtuous after that you can bag some filth for afters. Night Business is a tribute to late night ‘80s exploitation films, full of serial killers, vigilante strippers and a whole lot of dirty ultra-violence by a guy in Brooklyn called Benjamin Marra whose self-knowingly ridiculous author photo is definitely Gosh! Approved. “I was watching all these Giallo films from the '70s, with these total maniac killers on the loose, killing hot girls, and I was like, "Man, I just wish Charles Bronson would be in this movie and just regulate on this motherf*cker." And that's sort of what Night Business is.” We’ve got three issues of the thing and you can read the rest of that interview here. Also, have a preview of #1. Contains boobs. Lots of. And uncomfortable-looking underwear.
Joe Casey also harks back to straight-to-video grime with Officer Downe, a one-shot about ‘a lone badass with a badge’. Illustrating this piece of work is Casey’s collaborator on the gloriously absurd Nixon’s Pals, Chris Burham, who describes Officer Downe as “a throwback/tribute/reinvention of the 80s ultraviolent right-wing action hero. RoboCop meets Toxic Avenger as played by Sylvester Schwarzenegger.” Joe “People who follow my work already know I can be a twisted motherf*cker” Casey talks to Newsarama here. The mouths on them!
Jim Rugg’s Rambo 3.5 is going great guns so make sure you grab one before they’re all gone. If you still want mo’ Rugg after that might I invite you to pick up this week’s Pood #1, a huge newspaper anthology thing in the same style as Wednesday Comics but featuring a whole gang of alternative comic creators like these ones here: Joe Infurnari, Sara Edward Corbett, Chris Capuozzo, Connor Willumsen, Hans Rickheit, Bishakh Som, Adam McGovern, Paolo Leandri, Lance Hansen, Mark Sunshine, Tobias Tak, and Andrew Vera.
Scott Morse (that man again) began a thing on his blog a while back called Strange Science Fantasy in which he created a series of standalone stories in the style of Jack Kirby/Steve Ditko. They were only available online very briefly and then even briefer still as a limited real-life paper edition at the San Diego Comic-con last year. Now Strange Science Fantasy is a six-issue miniseries with the first two issues being reprints of the stuff you can’t get anymore and then new stuff thereafter. This week’s #1 also includes a one-pager by the brilliant Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid) so if you miss it you’re being a bit silly. Morse explains it all here.
Jeff Parker (of the terminally underrated Mysterius the Unfathomable) also doffs his cap to the Golden Age in his new three-issue miniseries about the simian member of the Agents of Atlas. Gorilla Man #1 is an origin story of sorts in which Parker plays around with pulp genre and wears his inspiration on his sleeve: “In many ways homages work like Roy Crane's Captain Easy and the Caniff/Sickles Terry and the Pirates….With a dash of Indiana Jones for good measure.” He talks about it here, and you can get an eyeful of Giancarlo Caracuzzo’s (Atlas) artwork here.
Kieron Gillen has invented a term to explain what happens in this week’s World War Hulks: Spider-Man VS. Thor #1 (of 2) and it’s now in my phone’s predictive text. Behold: "Spider-Man and Thor landed near each other and... well, disaster follows… The metaphor which leaps to mind – because I'm British, and have to play to stereotype – is drunk people. As in, situations that would be normally free of drama escalate with the slightest encouragement. What started as something as simple as 'Let's get back to the battle and stop this' turns into them being at each other's throats due to their mentalosity increasiment. Which is, I think you'll find, the technical term." More of that and the voices in his head here. Preview? Clicky.
I don’t know what happens in Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book #1 (of 5) but if I read it and see any resemblance to my life I’m going out the back for a cry. It’s out this week and it’s written by Ian Boothby who’s interviewed by Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter. And it has all three variant covers stapled inside the front cover because they know their audience far too well.
And now for the unhappy ending you knew was coming. We’re losing them fast this year; there’s a hole in our bucket. Peter O’Donnell, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, and now Harvey Pekar has is gone too. As my Irish grandma once said, there are a lot of people dying who haven’t died before.
To explain why Pekar’s important would merely be adding to the deafening din of adoration so here’s a quote from the man himself, tweeted by Kieron Gillen when the news broke:
You can do anything with words and pictures."
-- Hayley
In Store 09/07/10 - 15/07/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Double Digest #210
2000 AD Prog #1693
Absolute Planetary HC Vol 2 (Warren Ellis)
Adventure Comics #516
Age Of Reptiles Journey #4 (Of 4)
Agents Of Atlas Vs Prem HC
Angel Immortality For Dummies HC
Astro City Silver Agent #1 (Of 2)
Authority The Lost Year #10 (Of 12)
Avengers Academy #2
Batgirl #12
Batgirl Batgirl Rising TP
Batman #701 (Grant Morrison)
Birds Of Prey #3 Brightest Day
Blackest Night Black Lantern Corps HC Vols 1 & 2
Booster Gold #34
Brave And The Bold #35
Brody's Ghost GN
Bulletproof Coffin #2 (Of 6)(D.Hine/S. Kane)
Calling Cthulhu Chronicles #1
Captain America/Black Panther Flags Of Fathers #4 (Of 4)
Chew #12
Comic Book Guy The Comic Book #1 (Of 5)
Conan The Cimmerian #22
Daredevil #508 SL (A. Diggle)
Daytripper #8 (Of 10) (Ba/Moon)
DMZ #55 (B. Wood)
Doc Savage #4
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #1
Dolltopia GN
Dont Hold Your Breath: Nothing New From Brian Ewing HC
Dracula #3 (Of 4)
Escape From Terra TP Vol 1
Expendables #4 (Of 4)
Famous Monsters Of Filmland #251
Farscape Scorpius #3
Fractured Fables HC
Frenemy Of The State #2 (Of 5)
GI Joe Origins #17
Girl Comics #3 (Of 3)
Gorilla Man #1 (Of 3) (J. Parker)
Green Hornet Year One #4
Halo Blood Line Prem HC
Hi Fructose Magazine Quarterly #16
World War Hulks Spider-Man Vs Thor #1 (Of 2) (Kieron Gillen)
World War Hulks Wolverine Vs Captain America #1 (Of 2)
Human Target #6 (Of 6)
Hyde & Closer TP Vol 1
Imposter's Daughter True Memoir SC
Infinity Gauntlet Prem HC
Invaders Classic TP Vol 4
Invincible Iron Man #28
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 4 Stark Disassembled
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode TP Vol 1
Iron Man Noir #4 (Of 4)
Janet Evanovich Troublemaker HC Vol 1
Justice League Generation Lost #5
Killer Modus Vivendi #4 (Of 6)
Lady Robotika #1
Light #4 (Of 5)
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #6
Magog #11
Marvel Art Of Joe Quesada HC
Mighty Crusaders #1 (Of 6)
Moomins Cookbook HC
Mystery Society #2 (S. Niles)
Nude Magazine #16 Summer 2010
Officer Downe One-Shot (J. Casey)
Orc Stain #4
Pantheon #4
Phantom Generations #13
Pood #1 (Jim Rugg et al)
Predators
- Movie Adaption TP
- Preserve The Game One-Shot
Queen Sonja #8
R.E.B.E.L.S. #18
Red Tornado Family Reunion TP
Resurrection Vol 2 #12
Revolver HC (Matt Kindt)
Richard Stark's Parker Man With Getaway Face Preview Comic
Robert E Howard Hawks Of Outremer #2
Runaways Parental Guidance TP
Savage Dragon #162
Sherlock Holmes TP Vol 1 Trial Of Sherlock Holmes
Siege Prem HC
Signifiers #1
Silver Surfer Rebirth Of Thanos HC
Sixth Gun #2
Smoke #16 July 2010
Spectacular Spider-Girl #3 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man #637
Amazing Spider-Man TP Official Index To The Marvel Universe
Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine #2
Spider-Man Gauntlet TP Vol 1 Electro & Sandman
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #12
Star Wars Invasion TP Vol 1 Refugees
Stargate Daniel Jackson #1
Strange Science Fantasy #1(S. Morse/P. Pope)
Stuff Of Legend The Jungle #1 (Of 4)
Super Friends #29
Super Hero Squad #7
Super Heroes #4
Superman #701
Thanos Imperative #2 (Of 6)
Titans #25 Brightest Day
Toyfare #157
Transformers Ongoing #9
Unwritten #15 (M. Carey/P. Gross)
Viking Prince By Joe Kubert HC
William Stout Hallucinations SC
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #1 (Of 6)
Deadpool Corps #4
Uncanny X-Men Heroic Age #1
X-Force Sex And Violence #1 (Of 3)
X-Men Forever 2 #3
X-Men Hellbound #3 (Of 3)
X-Men Legacy TP Emplate
X-Men Origins Deadpool One-Shot
X-Men Pixie Strikes Back TP
X-Men Second Coming #2
Young Avengers Ult. Collection TP
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Wilson Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
We’ve been mumbling about it for some time now but finally our tease of a postman has obliged and they are here! The Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition of Daniel Clowes’ first graphic novel in ten years Wilson now awaits you in the shop.
Wilson, for those who’ve yet to read it, 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.”
“I know lots of misanthropic types," said the man in the photo above (and look where he is!). "I tend to like them. I find it sort of healthy, comforting. It's a better default setting than over-optimism. But I don't think of Wilson as misanthropic. He thinks he's going to make a connection with people, that they'll be on his wavelength, and then gets frustrated when they aren't. But he doesn't go into it thinking: look at this jerk! He has a naive faith in humanity.”
“Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.”
- Michel Faber for The Guardian.
The Gosh! Exclusive Wilson Bookplate Edition is limited to 200 copies, featuring a signed and numbered plate bearing the cheery face of our bearded hero. At the standard retail price of £12.99 I can’t see it hanging around for long. If you'd like to reserve one or arrange a mail order, drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.
Scott Pilgrim Pre-Premiere Signing – Wednesday 18th August 4:30pm – 6:30pm
How’s this for some breaking news? We’ve just confirmed a signing with the screaming-fangirl-worthy Bryan Lee O’Malley! He’ll be in town for the premiere of the hotly anticipated Scott Pilgrim film which just so happens to coincide with the release of the final volume and finest hour of the ridiculously popular series.
It's finally here... six years and almost one thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain -- all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour!
If you’ve not yet jumped on board we’ve got all five previous volumes in the shop right this very second. The sixth volume will be in our (and your) hot little hands very, very soon.
'Funny, clever, sad, stupid, fantastic, heartbreaking, surreal, confusing and brilliant, just like real life.'
- Eddie Argos
O’Malley will be shooting off to be famous on the red carpet as soon as the bell strikes 6:30pm. We can’t keep him any longer and no matter how hard we try we can’t make time bendy. Please get there early, folks!
(This also means we won’t be able to take signed book requests, alas.)
In the unlikely event you’re doing something better or more important on Wednesday the 18th you’ll be delighted to know you’ve got a second option. Our friends in the (further) North, the esteemed Page 45, get their turn with Mr O’Malley on Monday the 16th of August. You’re advised not to bring along evil ex-boyfriends or girlfriends because Page 45 don’t want no fightin’ in their joint.
Whatever you do, don’t get these dates mixed up. We’re bad with tears and we won’t be able to make it better. So once more with feeling:
Wednesday, 18th August, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Monday, 16th August, 5pm – 7pm.
All clear? See you there!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Due To Arrive 15/07/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #516
Age Of Reptiles Journey #4 (Of 4)
Agents Of Atlas Vs Prem HC Avengers Cover
Amazing Spider-Man #637
Amazing Spider-Man TP Official Index
Astonishing Spider-Man Wolverine #2 (Of 6)
Astro City Silver Agent #1 (Of 2)
Authority The Lost Year #10 (Of 12)
Avengers Academy #2
Avengers Search For She-Hulk Prem HC
Batgirl #12
Batgirl Batgirl Rising TP
Batman #701
Birds Of Prey #3 Brightest Day
Booster Gold #34
Brave And The Bold #35
Captain America/Black Panther #4 (Of 4)
Chew #12
Comic Book Guy The Comic Book #1 (Of 5)
Conan The Cimmerian #22
Daredevil #508 Sl
Daytripper #8 (Of 10)
Deadpool Corps #4
DMZ #55
Doc Savage #4
Expendables #4 (Of 4)
Farscape Scorpius #3
Girl Comics #3 (Of 3)
Gorilla Man #1 (Of 3)
Green Hornet Year One #4
Hack Slash My First Maniac #2 (Of 4)
Halo Blood Line Prem HC
Human Target #6 (Of 6)
Invaders Classic TP Vol 4
Invincible Iron Man #28
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 4
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode TP
Iron Man Noir #4 (Of 4)
Justice League Generation Lost #5 BD
Lady Robotika #1
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #6
Magog #11
Marvel Art Of Joe Quesada HC
Mighty Crusaders #1 (Of 6)
Mystery Society #2
Predators Movie Adaption TP
Predators Preserve The Game One-Shot
Queen Sonja #8
R.E.B.E.L.S. #18
Red Tornado Family Reunion TP
Resurrection Vol 2 #12
Stark's Parker Man With Getaway Face Prelude
Robert E Howard Hawks Of Outremer #2
Runaways Parental Guidance TP
Sherlock Holmes TP Vol 1
Siege Prem HC
Spawn Origins TP Vol 6
Spectacular Spider-Girl #3 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Gauntlet TP Vol 1
Strange Science Fantasy #1
Super Friends #29
Super Hero Squad #7
Super Heroes #4
Superman #701
Thanos Imperative #2 (Of 6)
Titans #25 Brightest Day
Toyfare #157
Transformers Ongoing #9
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #12
Uncanny X-Men Heroic Age #1
Unwritten #15
World War Hulks
- Spider-Man Vs Thor #1 (Of 2)
- Wolverine Vs Captain America #1 (Of 2)
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #1 (Of 6)
X-Force Sex & Violence #1 (Of 3)
X-Men Forever 2 #3
X-Men Hellbound #3 (Of 3)
X-Men Legacy TP Emplate
X-Men Origins Deadpool #1
X-Men Pixie Strikes Back TP
X-Men Second Coming #2
Young Avengers Ultimate Collection TP
The Gosh! Authority 07/07/10
Before I’m knee-deep in this week’s delivery there’s already a bevy of brilliant new things on the shelves that have trickled in over the last few days, all stuff that is unlikely if not downright impossible to be found anywhere else but here (smug). Let’s get them out of the way starting with Jim Rugg’s Rambo 3.5.
Rugg, of Street Angel fame and Gosh! Favourite Afrodisiac, returns to his minicomic roots with a palm-sized black and white photocopied thing that uses the third Rambo film as a vague springboard and then goes mental with it. The real star of the piece of Dubya Bush who, after the attacks on New York and The Pentagon, convinces John Rambo “to get his strap one mo' gin!” as this blogger put it. You should read the rest of his review. He loves it just as much as this guy but has gone ahead and scanned some pages. I doff my cap to people who scan stuff.
Eddie Campbell and Daren White’s The Playwright now sports a limited edition signed bookmark featuring a new portrait of its celibate hero in some shiny brogues. Like the cover, it is astonishingly yellow. If you missed its arrival you can read about it here.
The lovely Posy Simmonds popped in during the week to sign and sketch in every copy of Tamara Drewe we piled in front of her. Come grab one of those before they all disappear in the lead up to the (I’ve heard very good) film which I think comes out some time in September.
We’ve also received a bunch of Sam Hiti’s Death Day Prologue. We’ve had it before but these ones have an original sketch by Hiti on the front cover – each with an entirely different picture. It must have taken him HOURS. You can track the progress of the upcoming graphic novel over at the Death Day blogspot.
Our brood of prints has literally doubled in size. Not only do we have the Becky Cloonan/Jamie McKelvie Gosh! Exclusive Jam Print for those who want it, we’ve also finally got round to producing the frequently requested This Is London print. At £6.95 it’s a steal.
Here ‘tis:
And lastly, be sure to check out the brand to addition to the Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Editions, The Art of Pho by Julian Hanshaw, winner of the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize in 2008. It’s a lovely looking thing indeed.
As for this week’s regular delivery we’ve got a brand spanking new Jason graphic novel called the Werewolves of Montpellier, a 48-page softcover book in the same style as The Last Musketeer and The Left Bank Gang. It’s a lycanthropic thriller starring an aimless Scandinavian artist in Montpellier who gets his kicks making nocturnal raids on houses dressed as a werewolf. As you do. Fantagraphics have a PDF preview.
Gosh! Favourite Roger Langridge pens a new series illustrated by Chris Samnee (Siege: Embedded, The Mighty) who Langridge says ‘draws like the bastard child of Alex Toth’. Thor: The Mighty Avenger #1 sees Thor landing on Earth after a long time away, separated from his hammer and unable to get home. Each issue will be a standalone story with interweaving subplots eventually coming together at the end of its first year. Langridge says he pretty much stopped reading superhero comics in the 90s when they all became utterly joyless, something he plans to fix with this series.
“When I read a super-hero adventure, I want to be taken away, uplifted, thrilled, maybe moved to laughter or tears if I'm lucky. …I mean, look, one of the central icons of the Thor series is a rainbow. How can you not want to write something uplifting around that? It's just begging for it. Thor himself, at least the way we're playing him, should be a fun, likeable character. We're playing up those aspects of his personality. Moody, sure, and a bit reckless; he needs to grow up a bit. But he goes into battle with a devil-may-care grin on his face, and he's got a code of honor you could break rocks on. I'm thinking he's a bit like the original, Siegel-Shuster Superman in that regard - reckless, smiling as he goes into a fight, with an unshakeable sense of what's right."
The rest of that interview’s here and a preview’s here. We reckon this’ll be a good’un.
It’s all a bit darker over in the DC camp when comics legend Neal Adams writes and draws a new six-parter Batman: The Odyssey #1. Everyone turns up in this one, even Deadman! Newsarama have a huge interview with Adams which is well worth a read, and over at The Source there are five pages of preview art.
Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo unite again for the penultimate chapter in this particular chunk of Hellboy’s life, The Storm #1 (of 3), before the final apocalyptic wrap up The Fury which is still to come. Mignola gives you the full run down on what to expect and how pinching ideas from mythology makes you look smart. Preview!
Here’s a quick lasso round-up of the other notable notables on our shelves this Thursday:
Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth) and Mahmud Asrar (Avengers: The Initiative) give you Brightest Day: The Atom Special One-Shot, which kicks off a new major storyline to be continued in next month’s Adventure Comics #516. The editor gushes about it over at the DCU Blog.
Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont teams up with renowned illustrator of ladies’ bottoms Milo Manara in a special X one-shot called X-Women. Claremont talks about it with CbR alongside some preview pages. Bums abound.
Next to that you’ll find X-Men #1 which isn’t a relaunch of the regular ongoing X-Men Legacy but an entirely new thing altogether by Victor Gischler and Paco Medina. Preview.
The new big Daredevil storyline begins in Shadowland #1 (of 5) by Andy Diggle with art by Billy Tan. Diggle talks about where Brubaker left off and what’s in store for the man without fear at CbR. A preview and a Shadowland checklist for your back pocket.
Speaking of Brubaker, he pops up this week writing Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #1 (Of 4) which picks up where Siege left off. Brubaker tells Newsarama all about it and there’s a preview here.
And last of all, Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev give you Scarlet #1, the first of a new ongoing bi-monthly title partly inspired by one of my favourite films of all time ("I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!") Network.
"With that movie, Paddy Chayefsky was able to put together what was almost a parody story, and when it came out, it was like, 'That's crazy! That would never happen!' And now most of what happened in that movie has actually happened on television. In that vein, I think, the way the world is, that if we woke up tomorrow to discover that someone started a revolution in this country, I don't think a lot of us would be completely shocked. I started to picture what the world would be like if someone did and how the media would react to it. And there it is. Scarlet."
More of that interview and a preview too.
And that’s yer lot! See you Thursday.
-- Hayley