Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later TP Vol 1 London Calling
5 Days To Die #1 (Of 5)
Alter Ego #96
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Black Cat #3
Angel Barbary Coast TP Vol 1
Angelus #5 (Of 6)
Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis Dir. Cut #1
Atomic Robo TP Vol 4 Other Strangeness
Authority #26
Avengers Childrens Crusade #2 (Of 9)
Avengers/Thor/Captain America Official Index Marvel Universe #5
Back Issue #43
Batman Confidential #48
Blackbeard Legend Of The Pyrate King #5
Boys #46
Bram Stoker's Death Ship #4
Brightest Day #9
Captain America Forever Allies #2 (Of 4)
Classic GI Joe TP Vol 9
Dark X-Men TP
Deadpool Pulp #1 (Of 4)
Deadpool Wade Wilson's War #4 (Of 4)
Dean Koontz Frankenstein Prodigal Son II #1
Essential Captain America TP Vol 3 New Ptg
Exiles Ultimate Collection TP Book 5
Farscape TP Vol 1
Franken-Castle #20
Freedom Fighters #1
GI Joe A Real American Hero #158
GI Joe Hearts And Minds #4
Gorilla Man #3 (Of 3)
Green Hornet #7, Annual #1 & HC Vol 1 (Smith)
Green Hornet Parallel Lives #3
Hawkeye & Mockingbird #4
Hercules Twilight Of A God #4 (Of 4)
Heroic Age One Month To Live #1 (Of 5)
House Of Mystery #29
I Am An Avenger #1 (Of 5)
Incredible Hulks #612
Iron Man 2 Agents Of Shield #1
Iron Man Extremis HC W/ Motion Comic DVD
Iron Man Legacy #6
iZombie #5
Jack Of Fables #47
Jonah Hex #59
JSA All Stars #10
Kane And Lynch #2 (Of 6)
Marvel Universe Vs Punisher #3 (Of 4)
Marvelman Family’s Finest #3 (Of 6)
Mouse Guard Legends Of The Guard #3 (Of 4)
New Mutants Forever #2 (Of 5)
Origins Of Marvel Comics X-Men #1
Our Army At War #1
Oz Wonderful Wizard Of Oz TP
Queen Sonja #9
Rebels #20
Red Hood Lost Days #4 (Of 6)
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods TP Vol 1
Scarlet #2
Secret Six #25
Shadowland #3 (Of 5)
Shadowland Elektra #1
Siege New Avengers Prem HC
Sky Doll Lacrima Christi #2 (Of 2)
Spider-Man Clone Saga Epic TP Vol 3
Spike The Devil You Know #3
Star Trek Movie Adaptation #6
Stargate Vala Mal Doran #3
Strange Science Fantasy #3
Superman Last Family Of Krypton #2 (Of 3)
Sweet Tooth #13
Taskmaster #1 (Of 4)
Thor For Asgard #1 (Of 6)
Tiny Titans TP Vol 4 The First Rule Of Pet Club
Tom Strong & Robots Of Doom #4 (Of 6)
Torch TP
Transformers Last Stand Of The Wreckers TP
We Will Bury You TP Vol 1
Wolverine #1
Wolverine Road To Hell #1
X-Men Curse Of Mutants Smoke And Blood #1
Young Allies #4
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Due To Arrive 02/09/10
The Gosh! Authority 25/08/10
Lots of strange arty books lurking on the new shelf this week so I’d wager the blog’s going to be fairly jpeg-heavy. Brace your internets.
Rift is the latest from James Jean, the man responsible for the first seventy or so Fables covers, Process Recess and those XOXO Hugs & Kisses postcards we still have by the counter. It’s an accordian-style fold-out book, postcard sized again, which even works in a MAD Magazine fold-IN way too. Fancy. Says the man himself...
“–each card can stand alone as a single image or the set can be folded to reveal new images hidden within the larger landscapes. There will be a few metallic accents on the flying fish and in the rain.”
You ‘eard. Metallic accents! Here’s a preview from someone who likes fiddling about in Photoshop.
Mark Ryden’s Snow Yak Book HC collects pieces from his acclaimed 2009 solo exhibition at the Tokyo’s Tomio Koyama Gallery along with his own photographs from the show. It’s white, woolly, wintry and weird. There’s 64 pages of it (sketches, commentary, miscellaneous photos included) but you can see much of it online here.
There’s a new Claire Wendling book out called Daisies, collecting her artwork for regional French festival posters from 2006-08 which you won’t have unless you actually went to the festivals in question and pinched a poster off the wall. You’ll also be glad to know there’s the usual bevy of preliminary sketches and notes to keep you up past your bedtime. I should mention that Wendling’s book Desk is now safely back in stock having been sadly missed for some time.
Also back in stock are Volumes 2 to 5 of Inside Moebius along with a new sixth volume.
If you missed them the last time they’re kind of sketchbooky, far less polished than other Moebius stuff you’ll know and they’re all in French so get our your dictionaries. This Spanish reviewer says it’s his “most intimate and mentally masturbated work” which if nothing else is an interesting way of putting it. There are some preview bits on Moebius’ site. And we’ve got his 40 Days in the Desert back in the shop too. Conveniently this one’s entirely silent so it doesn’t matter if they only two languages you speak are good English and bad English.
In the same delivery we received the final three volumes (that’s 10, 11 and 12) of the handsomely priced Storm series by Don Lawrence (Trigan Empire). It’s the only way they’re available for now and in fairness they are mighty fine.
The Boy in the Oak HC is an odd and delicate picture book by Jessica “sister of Damon” Albarn that has been exclusively available at Liberty’s for the last couple of months to coincide with a gallery exhibition there. But now we’ve got it too. Dazed have an interview with Albarn alongside some preview sketches, and the Independent has a better one. The book itself is about a boy and an oak tree but it’s definitely something to see rather than be told about.
Also falling into the category of odd is yet another Edward Gorey book (they’re like buses). Three Classic Children’s Stories collects the Gorey illustrated/James Donnelly penned fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant-Killer and Rumpelstiltskin. All in colour too! Have a preview.
Were you at the Comica Comiket over the weekend?
If you were you would no doubt have run into the lovely Paul “Man at the Crossroads” Gravett, just as you would have done if you’d been on the small press scene in the 80s. Artist Ed Pinsent was part of Gravett’s Escape gang, along with people like Eddie Campbell (Alec: The Years Have Pants, From Hell) and Glenn Dakin (Abe: Wrong For All the Right Reasons), and even edited the Fast Fiction magazine for some years. Up until now his work has remained scattered in various self-published comics so if anyone asked for his stuff I couldn’t help them at all. As of this week there’s a great big book I can point them at called Magic Mirror: 354 pages of stories personally selected by Pinsent himself who provides a commentary on them too. They’re scanned from the original artwork so you’ll be seeing them at their original size for the first time rather than shrunk down to fit folded photocopied pamphlets. Pinsent’s got a bunch of sample pages up on his website.
Speaking of the Comiket, we picked up a brand new one from Self Made Hero, a graphic novel adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (the very same one that inspired Apocalypse Now, kiddies). It’s written by David Zane Mairowitz (whose previous work includes Kafka, the Robert Crumb illustrated biography of the novelist) and illustrated by Swedish/Kenyan illustrator Catherine Anyango in murky pencil. Worth a look.
The Tango Collection is a 264-page softcover anthology featuring the selected best bits of the titular Australian romance anthology of which there have been nine volumes since it began in 1997. There are over fifty creators from Australia and New Zealand crammed into the 264 pages including Dylan Horrocks (of Gosh! Favourite Hicksville) and Nicki Greenberg, whose surreal graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is I’m told, a masterpiece, but for copyright reasons is unavailable in the UK. In the meantime you should all head over to her website and check out her comics -- they’re excellent and you’ll be glad you did. The hilarious Never Go To Bed Angry actually appeared in Tango originally, and this one I’ll point at simply because it’s a tribute to Herman Melville which means she scores infinity points from me. For a full list of Tango creators head this way.
Archie: The Classic Newspaper Comics HC Volume 1 collects the very first Archie strips from 1946 to 1948, being Bob Montana’s original take on the characters before Dan DeCarlo stepped in and modernised them in the 50s. They’ve never been reprinted before so chances are you’ve probably never read them either. This blog has some scanned panels so you can see how weird they look. In fact, Archie’s so grotesque in that third one down it looks like a Dan Clowes drawing, cartoon sweat beads and all. Look!
Also hitherto unreprinted are Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker’s Science Dog back-up stories from Invincible. If you’ve only been reading the series in trade collections you will have missed these entirely. Fear not, they’re collected for you this week in a one-shot special. Kirkman talks about it with CbR and there’s a preview here too.
There’s a handful of trade-paperbacks out this week that deserve a mention. Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries and Brian Azzarello’s Filthy Rich (both from the Vertigo Crime line) have arrived, as well as the totally mental Strange Tales, the three-issue anthology series in which indie hotshots re-imagined classic Marvel characters.
Dodgem Logic #5 has landed. In it you’ll find all sorts of delectable nonsense by Tom Pickard, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Kevin O’Neill, Steve Aylett, Steve Holland and its bearded captain Mr Alan Moore. You know the drill.
Here’s one you can expect to see on our shelves very soon. Louis: Night Salad is the latest graphic novel from the Eisner and Ignatz award-nominated Franco-Scottish duo metaphrog aka John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs. It was a staff pick in Previews and you can read their review of it here. Otherwise, sit back and watch their book trailer.
Want it on your order? Let us know.
And lastly, big huge thank yous to everyone who came along to the Bryan Lee O’Malley signing last week. Amazingly, O’Malley managed to sign for everyone in the line before being whisked away to the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World premiere in Leicester Square so no one missed out. Here’s him:
And here’s you:
The film is now OUT so you should go see it. But go see it because you want to see it and not because of Jamie McKelvie’s empty threats on the internet:
If you're in the UK and aren't planning to see Scott Pilgrim when it comes out this week, then I don't think we can be friends.
He said it. I didn't say it.
-- Hayley
In Store 20/08/10 - 26/08/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Classic Newspaper Comics HC Vol 1
Jugheads Double Digest #163
2000 AD Prog #1699
Avengers #4 (B. Bendis)
Batman #702 (G. Morrison)
Batman The Bat And The Beast TP(P. Milligan)
Batman The Brave And The Bold #20
DC Library Batman Annuals HC Vol 2
Detective Comics #868
Battlefields #9 (Of 9) (G. Ennis)
Billy Batson & Magic Of Shazam #19
Black Widow #5
Boy In The Oak HC (J. Albarn)
Bullet To The Head #3
Captain America #609
Captain America 1940s Newspaper Strip #3
Chronicles Of King Conan TP Vol 1
Crusades HC Vol 1 Knight(S. Seagle/K. Jones)
Daisies HC (Claire Wendling)
Danger Girl Deluxe Edition HC
Dark Entries TP Vertigo Crime(Ian Rankin)
Darkness: Four Horsemen #1 (Of 4)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Dust To Dust #4 (Of 4)
Dodgem Logic #5 (Alan Moore Et Al)
Dracula Company Of Monsters #1
Dream Logic #2 (D. Mack)
Dynamo 5 Sins Of Father #3 (Of 5)
Edward Gorey: Three Classic Children’s Stories HC
Fantastic Four #582
Fevre Dream #5 (Of 10)
Filthy Rich TP Vertigo Crime(B. Azzarello)
Fringe Tales From Fringe #3 (Of 6)
Ghost Projekt #4 (Of 5)
Gotham City Sirens #15
Gravel #20 (W. Ellis)
Green Arrow #3 Brightest Day
Guarding The Globe #1 (Of 6)
Haunted Tank TP
Heart Of Darkness GN
Heroic Age Prince Of Power #4 (Of 4)
Essential Hulk TP Vol 6
Invincible #74
Iron Saint TP Vol 1
Jerry Robinson: Ambassador Of Comics HC
Justice League Generation Lost #8
Justice League Of America #48 BD
Lady Robotika #2
Legion Of Super Heroes #4
Madame Xanadu #26
Magic Mirror SC (Ed Pinsent)
Magnus Robot Fighter #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Previews September 2010
Mighty TP Vol 2
Moon Knight Countdown To Dark HC
Ms Marvel TP Vol 9 Best You Can Be
Noble Causes TP Vol 10 Ever After
Outsiders #32
Previews #263 September 2010
Punisher Max Happy Ending One-Shot (P. Milligan)
Rift HC (James Jean)
Runaways TP Vol 11 Homeschooling Digest
Savage Dragon #163
Scalped #40 (J. Aaron)
Science Dog Special #1 (Kirkman)
Secret Warriors #19
Sense & Sensibility #4 (Of 5)
Marvel Masterworks Sgt Fury HC Vol 3
Shadowland Moon Knight #1 (Of 3)
Siege Thor Prem HC
Siege Thunderbolts Prem HC
Marvel Masterworks Silver Surfer TP Vol 2
Bart Simpson Comics #55
Snow Yak Book HC (M. Ryden)
Spider-Girl: The End One-Shot
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #4
Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection TP Vol 3
Star Wars Blood Ties A Tale Jango & Boba Fett #1
Storm HC Vols 10, 11, & 12 (Don Lawrence)
Strange Tales TP
Action Comics #892
Superman Batman #75
Superman Batman Night & Day HC
Superman Secret Origin #6 (Of 6)
Supreme Power Contact TP New Ptg
Tango: A Collection Over 50 Comic Creators From Australia & New Zealand SC
Tales Of Dragon Guard Prem HC
Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Tales Of Suspense HC Vol 3
Tank Girl Hairy Heroes One-Shot
Teen Titans #86
Thor #613
Thor Son Of Asgard TP
Thor Warriors Three Prem HC
Time Masters Vanishing Point #2 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics Mystery #2 (Of 4)
Unknown Soldier #23
Unsinkable Walker Bean GN
Usagi Yojimbo #131
Usagi Yojimbo Ltd HC Vol 24 Return Of The Black Soul
Wildcats #26
Wizard Magazine #230
Wolfskin Hundredth Dream #4 (Of 6) (W. Ellis)
Wonder Woman #602
Astonishing X-Men #35
Dark Wolverine #90
Deadpool Team-Up #890
Namor First Mutant #1
Wolverine Origins TP Seven Hard Way
X-Campus #3 (Of 4)
X-Factor #208
X-Men Curse Of Mutants
- Blade One-Shot
- Storm & Gambit One-Shot
X-Men Forever 2 #6
X-Men Legacy #239
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Due To Arrive 26/08/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Action Comics #892
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #4 (Of 4)
Angelus #5 (Of 6)
Astonishing X-Men #35
Avengers #4
Batman #702
Batman The Bat And The Beast TP
Batman The Brave And The Bold #20
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #19
Black Widow #5
Brigade #2
Captain America #609
Captain America 1940s Newspaper Strip #3 Dark Wolverine #90
Darkness Four Horsemen #1 (Of 4)
Deadpool Team-Up #890
Detective Comics #868
Dream Logic #2
Essential Hulk TP Vol 6
Fantastic Four #582
Fevre Dream #5 (Of 10)
Fringe Tales From The Fringe #3 (Of 6)
Garrison #5 (Of 6)
Garth Ennis Battlefields #9 (Of 9)
Gotham City Sirens #15
Gravel #20
Green Arrow #3 Brightest Day
Haunted Tank TP
Heroic Age Prince Of Power #4 (Of 4)
Invincible #74
Justice League Generation Lost #8 BD
Justice League Of America #48 Brightest Day
Legion Of Super Heroes #4
Madame Xanadu #26
Marvel Previews September 2010
Mighty TP Vol 2
Marvel Masterworks Silver Surfer TP Vol 2
Ms Marvel TP Vol 9 Best You Can Be
Namor First Mutant #1
Outsiders #32
Previews #264 September 2010
Punisher Max Happy Ending #1
Runaways TP Vol 11 Homeschooling Digest
Savage Dragon #163
Scalped #40
Science Dog Special #1
Secret Invasion HC
Secret Warriors #19
Sense & Sensibility #4 (Of 5)
Shadowland Moon Knight #1 (Of 3)
Siege Thunderbolts Prem HC
Spider-Girl End #1
Spider-Man #5
Star Wars Blood Ties Tale Jango & Boba Fett #1 (Of 4)
Strange Tales TP
Superman Batman #75
Superman Secret Origin #6 (Of 6)
Teen Titans #86
Thor #613
Thor Son Of Asgard TP
Time Masters Vanishing Point #2 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics Mystery #2 (Of 4)
Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection TP Vol 3
Unknown Soldier #23
Usagi Yojimbo #131
Wildcats #26
Wizard Magazine #230
Wolverine Origins TP Seven Hard Way
Wonder Woman #602
X-Campus #3 (Of 4)
X-Factor #208
X-Men Curse Of Mutants Blade #1
X-Men Curse Of Mutants Storm & Gambit #1
X-Men Forever 2 #6
X-Men Legacy #239
The Gosh! Authority 18/08/10
I’m having trouble saying “Today’s the day” without following it with “the teddy bears have their picnic” but I will try, dammit, because TODAY’S THE DAY you should bunk off work and come queue in a sunny backstreet in central London. Bryan Lee O’Malley will be here at 4:30pm signing for two hours only because has to rush off and pretend to look comfortable on the red carpet. Tell everyone. Tell your mum. She might not care but she’s probably wondering what you’re up to.
As for this week’s delivery, I reckon Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story HC by Mat Johnson (Incognegro) looks interesting. It’s a thriller set in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, a story of two ex-cons who think the chaotic aftermath is prime time for robbing a bank.
“I spent Hurricane Katrina like a lot of people, at home, watching it unfold on the cable news. Afterwards, I heard a lot of talk about the future of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and there were those who seemed to think the area wasn't worth the cost of saving it, that America should just cut New Orleans loose as if it were a withered branch. I heard many different types of people say this but they all had one thing in common: They'd never truly been there. The purpose of Dark Rain, for me, was to change that.…New Orleans is one of the last places in America that is truly unique, that is both rich in history and culture and yet fully alive today. It is not expendable. It is treasure. And if we lose New Orleans, we lose an essential part of America.”
-- Johnson, at Vertigo’s On the Ledge.
It’s illustrated by Brit Simon Gane “the king of punk comics aesthetics” according to Top Shelf, whose work is actually incredibly lovely (preview). He did a story with Andi Watson (Owly) called Paris a while back and The Comics Reporter did an interview with him at the time. Over at his blog Gane’s posting various bits from his sketchbook and talking about the new book. Worth a look.
The legendary Al Williamson (Flash Gordon) sadly died a couple of months back so the timing on this one is pretty bang on: The Al Williamson Archives Volume 1. If you missed Joe Quesada’s piece on Williamson over at Cup o’ Joe you should go and have a read now. John Fleskes and Mark Schultz spent days at Williamson’s house going through 55 years worth of original drawings and scanning them for the book – it’ll be the first time any of the images (preliminary sketches, visual brainstorms, etc) have seen print. It’s all in full colour so you’ll get the yellowing of the pages, the white paint, the pencil marks, the whole kit and kaboodle. I like that kind of thing. I once saw an exhibition of Quentin Blake illustrations for various Roald Dahl books and discovered that most of the heads were other bits of paper glued on. Anyway, here are some images from the Williamson book, a thing full of dinosaurs, barbarians, spacemen, and sexy maidens.
Bone: Tall Tales (available in hardcover and soft) is a major repackaging of the trade-paperback collection Stupid, Stupid Rail Tails from 2000. It features all new colouring by Steve Hamaker (the man responsible for all of Scholastic’s beautiful colour re-releases of Bone) of the previously black and white story. Also featured are The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero written by Tom Sniegoski and a long out of print story Smith did for Disney Adventures that was never included in the collections but is now returned to Bone cannon. There’s also brand new stuff you’ve never seen before so this ain’t just for the completists. New Bone, I tell you, as Smith writes and draws the framing sequence! Sniegoski, the only person to write the series other than Jeff Smith is interviewed over at Comicbook Resources where you can also see a bunch of preview pages.
If you liked Jeffrey Brown’s Cat Getting Out of a Bag then you’re going to love the action-packed follow-up, Cats Are Weird & More Observations. It pretty much does what it says on the tin. It’s cute and it has cats in. Check out Brown’s blog observations on all sorts of things cat-related and otherwise.
Brown also turns up in Reading With Pictures, an anthology for kids ages 7 and up which hopes to get schools into comics and comics into schools (you can read the rest of their mission statement here). Gosh! Favourite Jill Thompson (Magic Trixie, Scary Godmother) provides the cover art, and inside you’ll find stories by Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man), his Action Philosophers collaborator Ryan Dunlavey, Raina Telgemeier (Smile), Chris Giarrusso (Mini-Marvels) and loads more. In fact there’s over 50 creators contributed to this so there are bound to be some familiar faces.
Another one for the (slightly older) wee’uns is Brain Camp, a quirky release from First Second by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan with art by Faith Erin Hicks about two teenage misfits sent to Summer camp where it soon becomes apparent there’s something deeply creepy going on. iFanboy quite rightly point out it’s more of a kids book in their review, “…but it still has the power to entertain the older and more jaded among us. That's the kids' book's secret weapon: everybody was a kid once.” You can read an excerpt over at First Second.
Hellcity is one of those comics with a publishing history full of doom. Written by Macon Blair and illustrated by Joe Flood, the first volume of the grotesque crime noir series about a human/demon race war was published by a small comics company who then neglected to print the second and the third volumes. They have remained unseen for years until this week’s victorious publication: Hellcity (The Whole Damn Thing). You can read the whole first issue for free on the internet and then read an interview with the guys who did it.
And finally, two fairly apocalyptic mangas deserve a nod this week. Dorohedoro Volume 2 (reviewed here) and the next instalment in the Gosh! favourite Naoki Urasawa series, 20th Century Boys. That’s Volume 10. Count ‘em.
As for floppy comics, here’s what you need to check out:
-- The Boys: Highland Laddie #1 (of 6) by Garth Ennis and John McCrea (Herogasm)
Wee Hughie takes a break from the core Boys series to go visit his ma.
Preview.
-- Bulletproof Coffin #3 (of 6) by David Hine and Shaky Kane.
The “wonderfully mental” (quoth Warren Ellis) series is brilliant. If you’ve missed out so far you can read the sold-out first issue online for free and there’s a preview of #3 here.
-- Ex Machina #50 by Bryan K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) and Tony Harris.
The series concludes with an epic, double-sized issue six years in the making. Harris talks about the series and his artistic process with CbR.
-- Phoenix Without Ashes #1 (of 4) by Harlan Ellison and Alan Robinson.
Ellison’s first comic series in well over a decade.
If you had any non-comics related plans for this weekend you’d better weasel out of them now. This Sunday is the Comica Comiket where independent publishers, small presses, zinesters and self-publishers are gathering under a marquee that looks like this:
It’s being held in Battersea Park as part of the Hypercomics Exhibition at the PumpHouse Gallery which, might I add, you should go and have a look at if you haven’t yet done so.
Where: PumpHouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
When: Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 12pm to 6pm
Also opening this week is StoryWorld, a show at The Illustration Cupboard featuring twenty of Britain’s most talented illustrators one of whom just so happens to have a new book on our shelves. Kellie Strøm’s Sadie the Air Mail Pilot is a great-looking children’s book now available in softcover and you can read all about it over at his website.
And that’s it! The queue’s already started for Bryan Lee O’Malley. Shouldn’t you be in it?
-- Hayley
In Store 13/08/10 - 19/08/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie & Friends TP Vol 5 Archie's Haunted House
Archie Double Digest #211
Pals N Gals Double Digest #144
2000 AD Prog #1698
Judge Dredd Megazine #301
Age Of Heroes #4 (Of 4)
Air #24
Al Williamson Archives SC Vol 1
Angel #36
Atlas #4
Authority The Lost Year #12 (Of 12)
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet #1 (Of 4)
Avengers Academy #3
Avengers Initiative TP Dreams And Nightmares
New Avengers #3
Secret Avengers #4
Azrael #11
Batman Beyond #3 (Of 6)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #15
Bone Tall Tales HC & TP (J. Smith)
Boris Karloff’s Tales Of Mystery Archive HC Vol 3
Boys Highland Laddie #1 (Of 6)(Garth Ennis)
Brain Camp GN
Brightest Day #8
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Riley One-Shot
Bulletproof Coffin #3 (Of 6)(D. Hine/S. Kane)
Cats Are Weird & More Observations HC (J. Brown)
Cavewoman Toy Story One-Shot
CBGB #2 (Of 4)
Chew #13
Dark Rain A New Orleans Story HC(M. Johnson)
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #4
DC Universe Legacies #4 (Of 10)
Eric Powell SDCC Sketchbook
Dr Who Magazine #425
Dragon Age #3
DV8 Gods And Monsters #5 (Of 8)
Ex Machina #50 (B.K. Vaughan)
Fables #97
Farscape Ongoing #10
GI Joe Origins #18
Green Lantern Corps #51 BD
Hellblazer #270 (P. Milligan)
Hellcity The Whole Damn Thing TP
Hellcyon #3 (Of 4)
Honey Hunt TP Vol 5
Honey West #1
Hulk #24
Ides Of Blood #1 (Of 6)
Image United #3 (Of 6)
James Patterson’s Witch & Wizard #4
Jersey Gods TP Vol 3 Thunder Road(G. Brunswick/D. McDaid)
Justice Society Of America #42 BD
Last Phantom #1
Light #5 (Of 5)
Little Lulu's Pal Tubby Vol 1 Castaway
Little Lulu TP Vol 24 Space Dolly
Lone Ranger #23
Mad Magazine #505
Marvel Universe Vs Punisher #2 (Of 4)
Mediterranea #1
MGM Drive In Theater #2 It, The Terror From Beyond The Stars
Mice Templar TP Vol 2.1 Destiny Part 1
Modesty Blaise TP Vol 18 Sweet Caroline
Official Handbook Marvel Universe A To Z Update #3
Phoenix Without Ashes #1 (Of 4) (H. Ellison)
Power Girl #15
Reading With Pictures GN
R.E.B.E.L.S. TP Vol 2 Strange Companions
Classic Red Sonja Remastered #3
Seedless OGN
Shadowland: Daughters Of Shadow #1 (Of 3)
Shadowland: Power Man #1 (Of 4) (F. Van Lente)
S.H.I.E.L.D. Directors Cut #1(J. Hickman)
Showcase Presents Doom Patrol TP Vol 2
Simpsons Comics #169
Sixth Gun #3
Amazing Spider-Man #640
Spider-Woman HC Agent Of SWORD(B. Bendis/A. Maleev)
Spirit #5
Star Trek Burden Of Knowledge #3
Star Wars Adventures TP Vol 4 Will Of Darth Vader
Star Wars Legacy #50
Star Wars Legacy TP Vol 9 Monster
Supergirl #55
Thunderbolts #147
Tiny Titans #31
Torchwood Magazine #23
Transformers Nefarious #6
True Blood #2
True Story Swear To God #13
Uncanny X-Men #527
Web Of Spider-Man #11
Weird World Of Jack Staff #4
Who Will Comfort Toffle A Tale Of Moomin Valley HC
Witchblade Due Process One-Shot
Deadpool #26
Deadpool Corps #5
New Mutants #16
Wolverine Weapon X #16 (J Aaron)
X-Factor Second Coming Prem HC
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #2 (Of 6)
MANGA
Dorohedoro GN Vol 2
Gente TP Vol 1
Hikaru No Go TP Vol 20
20th Century Boys GN Vol 10(Naoki Urasawa)
Ooku Inner Chambers GN Vol 4
Vagabond TP Vol 32
Monday, August 16, 2010
Bryan Lee O'Malley/Scott Pilgrim Signing THIS WEDNESDAY!
Hey folks!
Just a reminder that Bryan Lee O'Malley will be in the Gosh! basement this Wednesday. That's only two sleeps away! All the details you need are back here but all you really need to know is this:
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Gosh! Comics
Wednesday, 18th August
4:30pm - 6:30pm.
NO ASSKICKING ALLOWED IN THE LINE.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Due To Arrive 19/08/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later TP Vol 1 London Calling
Age Of Heroes #4 (Of 4)
Air #24
Amazing Spider-Man #640
Angel #36
Atlas #4
Authority The Lost Year #12 (Of 12)
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet #1 (Of 4)
Avengers Academy #3
Azrael #11
Batman Beyond #3 (Of 6)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #15
Boys Highland Laddie #1 (Of 6)
Brigade #2
Brightest Day #8
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Riley One-Shot
Bulletproof Coffin #3 (Of 6)
CBGB #2 (Of 4)
Chew #13
Classic Red Sonja Remastered #3
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #4
DC Universe Legacies #4 (Of 10)
Deadpool #26
Deadpool Corps #5
Deadworld Classic TP Vol 1
Dragon Age #3
DV8 Gods And Monsters #5 (Of 8)
Ex Machina #50
Fables #97
Farscape Ongoing #10
Farscape TP Vol 1
Free Realms #12 (Of 12)
GI Joe Cobra II #7
GI Joe Origins #18
Green Lantern Corps #51 Brightest Day
Hack Slash Omnibus TP Vol 1
Hellblazer #270
Hellcyon #3 (Of 4)
Hulk #24
Ides Of Blood #1 (Of 6)
Image United #3 (Of 6)
Invincible #74
Iron Man Magazine #3
James Patterson's Witch & Wizard #4
Justice Society Of America #42 Brightest Day
Killapalooza TP
Last Phantom #1
Light #5 (Of 5)
Marvel Universe Vs Punisher #2 (Of 4)
MGM Drive In Theater #2
Muppet Show TP Vol 4 Family Reunion
New Avengers #3
New Mutants #16
Official Handbook Marvel Universe A To Z #3
Phoenix Without Ashes #1 (Of 4)
Power Girl #15
Rebels TP Vol 2 Strange Companions
Secret Avengers #4
Shadowland Daughters Of Shadow #1 (Of 3)
Shadowland Power Man #1 (Of 4) SL
Shield Directors Cut #1
Siege Thor Prem HC
Simpsons Comics #169
Spider-Woman Prem HC Agent Of Sword
Spirit #5
Star Trek Burden Of Knowledge #3
Star Wars Legacy #50 Extremes Part 3 (Of 3)
Supergirl #55
Sweets #2 (Of 5)
Thunderbolts #147
Tiny Titans #31
Transformers Armada Omnibus TP
Transformers Nefarious #6
True Blood #2
True Story Swear To God #13
Uncanny X-Men #527
Web Of Spider-Man #11
Whatever Happened To Baron Von Shock #3
Witchblade Due Process One-Shot
Wolverine Weapon X #16
X-Factor Second Coming Prem HC
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #2 (Of 6)
The Gosh! Authority 11/08/10
It’s a relatively small week but the enormous whale in this new one from Fantagraphics more than makes up for it. You read Moby Dick once and this stuff invariably gets to you:
I’d never heard of Drew Weing until this morning but I’ve very quickly decided he’s brilliant, and not just because of the whale. According to our friend The Internet he’s best known for his webcomic Pup on Serializer and various self-published comics which I have thus far failed to read. At this point I’ll stand aside and let Avoid the Future’s interview with the man himself fill in the blanks.
Fantagraphics quite rightly place his style “somewhere between Gustave Doré engravings and E. C. Segar’s Popeye” and he gets top points for crosshatch in this debut graphic novel Set to Sea. It’s about a “a big dude with a big nose”, an aspiring poet with romantic ideas about the seafaring life that are soon proven to be bogus when he gets stuck on a clipper bound for Hong Kong and has run ins with pirates, bad food, unceremonial funerals and the like. There’s a Gosh! approved manhandling video and a PDF preview here. Loads more images over at his blog too. Highly recommended. Arr.
Speaking of A+ crosshatching, we’ve got two new Edward Gorey arrivals and an Edward Gorey arrival should never go unheralded, doubly so if there are two, obviously. The Utter Zoo is an alphabet of non-existent animals, and The Awdrey-Gore Legacy a murder mystery. They are both predictably lovely.
Another lovely thing is Felix the Cat: The Great Comics Book Tails from comics historian Craig Yoe. There’s over 200 pages of Golden Age stories along with rare art and ephemera. I know I don’t lavish such specific compliments all that regularly, but even the barcode on this thing is something to be celebrated. No, seriously. A+.
Somewhere next to that you’ll find the new Art of Toy Story Postcard Set which is much like the Art of Pixar Set we had ages ago. I hear they’re lovely but I’ve not looked at them. I’m yet to see Toy Story 3 and no one can guarantee a spoiler-free perusal.
Then there's Mike Cary and Peter Gross’ Unwritten TP Volume 2: Inside Man collecting issues #6 to #12, beside which you’ll find the brand new Unwritten #16. Preview of that one here.
Garth Ennis’ war stories are here again in Battlefields TP Volume 5: The Firefly and His Majesty, the second story featuring Sergeant Stiles. Says Ennis:
“Part one saw Stiles gaining a little intel from a ravaged American armored unit, but the rest of the story is a straight cat-and-mouse duel between two tanks and their crews. I do enjoy writing Brits and Yanks interacting, especially at a time in history when they weren't as familiar with each other as they are now, culturally speaking – there's a lot of fun to be had with the notion of 'two nations divided by a common language.'” More of that at Comicbook Resources.
And over on the 2000AD shelf you’ll find Complete Harlem Heroes by Pat Mills, Tom Tully, Dave Gibbons and Massimo Bellardinelli. It’s the year 2050 and the game Aeroball has swept the world. Incidentally, this thing comes courtesy of Gibbons who posted it on the twitters:
What if the Avengers movie was made years before the actual comic book?
(Thanks Matt!)
In comics you’ve got a new BPRD miniseries, Hell on Earth – New World #1 (of 5), which begins a new direction for the title (preview) and the second issue of Scott Morse’s Strange Science Fantasy which was previously seen on the Gosh! Blog here, around the time the brothers Ba and Moon were in town. Speaking of whom, the penultimate Daytripper will be with us on Thursday so don’t miss it. Here’s a preview. They’re gearing up for the final part and promise to deliver a big pay-off. What’ll it be? "Wait for it. Wait for it," Moon said with a smile. "Be patient and wait for it." (via Newsarama)
Paul “The Man at the Crossroads” Gravett invites you to attend a new gallery exhibition Hypercomics: The Shapes of Comics to Come at the Pumphouse Gallery in Battersea Park. Adam Dant, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Dave McKean, Warren Pleece all contribute and you can read about it here. They’re holding an exhibition preview tonight if you can make it, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Go and tell them we sent you. Brownie points in the bank.
The Neil Gaiman/Eddie Campbell/Fourplay Sydney Opera House Thing happened over the weekend. If you’ve not been paying attention Bleeding Cool has a video of Gaiman explaining the Sydney Opera House Thing. In short, he read his story The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, a tale of murder and a Scottish midget to sell-out crowd at the Sydney Bloody Opera House which is this enormous thing here for the record:
Astonishing, and by all accounts it went marvellously. Here are some photos from the night:
Says one blogger, “I attended the performance, it was very good. I particularly enjoyed the Q and A with Eddie Campbell, he had a great sense of humour, he was not happy that the dwarf/midget and his wife are responsible for killing 12 Campbells in the dead of night.”
In fairness though, history has it that us Campbells are a right bunch of bastards anyway. So, y’know. Fair dos.
-- Hayley
In Store 06/08/10 - 12/08/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Complete Harlem Heroes TP
Judge Dredd Complete Case Files TP Vol 16
2000 Ad Prog #1697
Adventure Comics #517
Adventures Of Superboy HC Vol 1
Artist Himself Rand Holmes Retrospective SC
Astounding Wolf-Man #24
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 #1 (Of 6)
Banimon #1 (Of 3)
Batgirl #13
Battlefields TP Vol 5 (Garth Ennis) The Firefly & His Majesty
Birds Of Prey #4 Brightest Day
Booster Gold #35
BPRD Hell On Earth New World #1 (Of 5)
Buzzard #3 (Of 3) (E. Powell)
Calling Cthulhu Chronicles #2
Captain Action Season Two #1
Chew Omnivore Ed HC Vol 1
Comic Book Guy The Comic Book #2 (Of 5)
Daredevil #509 SL (A. Diggle)
Daredevil The Devil’s Hand TP(Andy Diggle)
Daytripper #9 (Of 10) (Gabriel Ba/Fabio Moon)
Deathlok Demolisher Prem HC
DMZ #56 (B. Wood)
Doc Savage #5
Dungeons And Dragons #0
Dust Wars #3 (Of 3)
Farscape Scorpius #4
Felix The Cat’s Greatest Comic Book Tails HC
Final Crisis Revelations TP
Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives HC Vol 1
Fringe: Tales From The Fringe #2 (Of 6)
Gears Of War #13
Gen 13 #37
GI Joe #21
Gimlet Goes To War SC
Girl Genius TP Vol 1 Colour Edition
Godland Celestial Ed HC Vol 2(J. Casey/T. Scioli)
Edward Gorey Books:
- The Utter Zoo HC
- The Awdrey-Gore Legacy HC
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #1 BD
Illustration Magazine #30
Incredible Hulk #611
Invaders TP Eve Of Destruction
Invincible Iron Man #29
Justice League Generation Lost #7
Kato Origins Way Of The Ninja #3
Knights Of The Dinner Table #165
Locke & Key
- HC Vol 3 Crown Of Shadows
- Keys To The Kingdom #1
Marvelman Classic Prem HC Vol 1
Mighty Crusaders #2 (Of 6)
Northlanders #31 (B. Wood)
Penny Arcade TP Vol 6 Halls Below
Project Superpowers Chapter 2 #11
R Crumb Mr Natural Post Card Book
Rawhide Kid #3 (Of 4)
Robert E Howard Hawks Of Outremer #3 (Of 4)
Robert Jordan: Wheel Of Time Eye Of The World #2
Scooby Doo #159
Set To Sea HC (Drew Weing)
Shadowland Blood On Street #1 (Of 4)
Siege Avengers Initiative Prem HC
Sky Doll Lacrima Christi #1 (Of 2)
Spectacular Spider-Girl #4 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #13
Steve Rogers Super-Soldier #2 (Of 4)
Strange Science Fantasy #2(Scott Morse)
Street Fighter TP Vol 6 Final Round
Super Hero Squad #8
Super Heroes #5
Superman #702 (J. M. Straczynski)
Tank Girl Skidmarks TP
Team Ups Of Brave And The Bold HC
Thanos Imperative #3 (Of 6)
Thor Mighty Avenger #3(Roger Langridge)
Titans #26 Brightest Day
Toyfare #158
Transformers Ongoing #10
Ultimates II Ultimate Collection TP
Unwritten #16
Unwritten TP Vol 2 Inside Man
Walking Dead #76 (R. Kirkman)
Wasted Magazine #5
Welcome To Tranquility One Foot Grave #2
Witchblade #137
Dark Wolverine #89
Excalibur Visionaries Warren Ellis TP Vol 2
Wolverine Dark Wolverine TP Vol 2 My Hero
X-Force Sex And Violence #2 (Of 3)
X-Men #2
X-Men Forever 2 #5 (C. Claremont)
X-Men Forever TP Vol 4 Devil In A White Dress
Zatanna #4
MANGA
Alice In The Country Of Hearts GN Vol 4
Bakuman TP Vol 1
Biomega GN Vol 3
Color Bleach Official Bootleg SC
Inu Yasha TP Vol 51
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure TP Vol 15
Kimi Ni Todoke GN Vol 5 From Me To You
Maoh Juvenile Remix TP Vol 2
Pokemon Adventures TP Vol 8 2nd Ed
Rosario Vampire Season II TP Vol 2
Slam Dunk GN Vol 11
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Due To Arrive 12/08/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #517
Archie Double Digest #211
Astounding Wolf-Man #24
Batgirl #13
Birds Of Prey #4 (Brightest Day)
Booster Gold #35
BPRD Hell On Earth New World #1 (Of 5)
Buzzard #3 (Of 3)
Calling Cthulhu Chronicles #2
Captain Action Season Two #1
Comic Book Guy The Comic Book #2 (Of 5)
Daredevil #509 Shadowland
Daredevil The Devils Hand TP
Dark Wolverine #89
Daytripper #9 (Of 10)
Deathlok Demolisher Prem HC
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DMZ #56
Doc Savage #5
Dust Wars #3 (Of 3)
Escape From Wonderland HC
Excalibur Visionaries Warren Ellis TP Vol 02
Farscape Scorpius #4
Felix The Cats Greatest Comic Book Tails HC
Fringe Tales From The Fringe #2 (Of 6)
Gen 13 #37
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #1 (Brightest Day)
Hack Slash My First Maniac #3 (Of 4)
Incredible Hulk #611
Invaders TP Eve Of Destruction
Invincible Iron Man #29
Justice League Generation Lost #7 (Brightest Day)
Kato Origins Way O/T Ninja #3
Locke & Key HC Vol 03 Crown Of Shadows
Locke & Key Keys To The Kingdom #1
Marvelman Classic Prem HC Vol 01
Mighty Crusaders #2 (Of 6)
Northlanders #31
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #11
Rawhide Kid #3 (Of 4)
Robert E Howard Hawks Of Outremer #3 (Of 4)
Shadowland Blood On Street #1 (Of 4)
Siege Avengers Initiative Prem HC
Sky Doll Lacrima Christi #1 (Of 2)
Sonic Universe #19
Spectacular Spider-Girl #4 (Of 4)
Steve Rogers Super-Soldier #2 (Of 4)
Strange Science Fantasy #2
Superman #702
Thanos Imperative #3 (Of 6)
Thor Mighty Avenger #3
Titans #26 (Brightest Day)
Toyfare #158
Transformers Ongoing #10
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 #1 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #13
Ultimates II Ultimate Collection TP
Unwritten #16
Unwritten TP Vol 02 Inside Man
Welcome To Tranquility One Foot Grave #2 (Of 6)
Witchblade #137
Wolverine Dark Wolverine TP Vol 02 My Hero
X-Force Sex And Violence #2 (Of 3)
X-Men #2
X-Men Forever 2 #5
X-Men Forever TP Vol 04 Devil In A White Dress
Zatanna #4
The Gosh! Authority 05/08/10
Bonjour or sumsing! I have returned and I have eaten all of the cheese in France. Y’know, France: famous for its artists which is why The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition gets top billing this week. Aah? Aaaahhh? See? Relevant.
IDW have excelled themselves with this one – a mammoth 12” by 17” hardcover full of actual-size reproductions of Dave Stevens’ original Rocketeer art. It’s black and white but was scanned in colour so you’re going to get all the blue-line preliminary sketch stuff you wouldn’t usually see in the final product. It’s a hefty book and carries a pretty hefty pricetag too (£100!) but these two chaps think it’s worth it. They’ve got preview images too for the benefit of your eyeballs.
McSweeney’s have released the comics section of the enormous San Francisco Panorama all on its lonesome so you don’t have to buy the whole lot then throw out the sports section just to get yourself some Chris Ware Rocket Sam. Loads of brilliant indie comics creators pop up in this one so it’s well worth a go: Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, Gene Luen Yang, Kim Deitch, Seth, Erik Larsen, Keith Knight, Jon Adams, Gabrielle Bell and of course Mr Ware himself. That said, we’ve still got some copies of the original newspaper if you’d rather go for the whole shebang. Here’s the comics bit action:
Gosh! Favourites abound in this week’s delivery so there’s going to be blatant favouritism for the next couple of paragraphs. Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s Casanova #2, the long awaited third volume of the series is out and you should read it. Fraction talks to GQ about the recent hiatus here and there’s a preview of the new issue at Comics Alliance.
If you’ve been following the twins on twitter you will have seen Moon’s Blog War collaboration with Craig Thompson (Blankets, Carnet De Voyage). Moon headed to Portland after the Comic-Con where he hung out with the comics folk there and blogged their activities in cartoon form, a back-and-forth dialogue with Thompson a bit like the Top Shelf/James Kochalka Conversation minicomics. There are four parts and they’re lovely. One. Two. Three. Four. Spot the special guest stars! No prizes ‘cos they’re bloody well labelled.
Ian Edginton (Scarlet Traces, Hound of the Baskervilles) appears twice on our shelves this week, bibliographically speaking. Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost TP collects the recent miniseries that took the old classic and turned it into a ‘a thundering sword and sorcery epic’ (Previously, on the Gosh! Blog). Then there’s Kane & Lynch #1, the first part of a six-issue miniseries based on the best-selling videogame. Here’s a preview of the art by Christopher Mitten (Wasteland), a man with an excellent name.
The also brilliantly named illustrator Laurence Campbell has a trade-paperback out rounding up four of his top-notch Punisher one-shots written by Valerie D’Orazio, Rob Williams, Jonathan Maberry and Mike Benson. There’s Butterfly (preview), Get Castle, Naked Kill (preview), and the Punisher Max 2007 Annual. D’Orazio described Campbell’s art as “jaw-droppingly visceral, detailed and beautiful” and we rather like it too. Highly recommended.
Maberry also writes Marvel Universe Vs. The Punisher #1 (of 4) this time illustrated by Goran Parlov (Hellblazer: Lady Constantine) in which a worldwide plague has turned everyone into sadistic cannibal predators. Cheery preview this way.
Plague’s in this week, evidently. Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1 (of 5) comes courtesy of Mike Mignola and Witchfinder artist Ben Stenbeck, based on Mignola and Christopher Golden's 2007 novel Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. Says he, “If you've read the book, there's a hole in the middle of the book where the character takes off after the man who ruined his life, and that's where the comic picks up. There's this giant chunk of years from the middle of the novel that hopefully this series of miniseries will fill in the blank for.” Judging from the preview images floating about on the web you can consider this an antidote to the oh-so-dreamy R-Patz variety vampires.
Deadpool #1000 is out this Thursday and boy, didn’t those hundred issues since last year’s #900 fly by like THAT. It’s another milestone clusterf*ck of creators, eleven of ‘em if you’re counting. “Once the word was out I was doing another jam book, the calls flooded in. Dean Haspiel even did a shirtless audition. Or was that a sweater? Whatever,” says editor Axel Alonso. Here’s who called: Paco Medina, David Lapham, Jerome Opena, Matteo Scalero, Denys Cowan, Howard Chaykin, Philip Bond, Dean Haspiel (him again), Michael Kupperman, Peter Bagge and Tim Hamilton. It has Hot-Pants Zeus in it. That’s really all you need to know. Preview.
This blog is set to become unwieldy so how about I just do a lasso round-up of the notable notables. I’ve got news at the end as well. Important news about Scott Pilgrim:
- Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture HC is the first book of its kind with over fifty contributors and creators between its covers. It got a great write-up in Publishers Weekly last month.
- Captain America: Forever Allies #1 (of 4) written by Roger Stern and
illstrated by Nick Dragotta and Marco Santucci. Stern words over at CbR and a preview at Comixology.
- Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love by Chris Roberson with art by Shawn McManus is collected in trade-paperback this week. There’s also iZombie #4 by Roberson and Mike Allred hitting the shelves so grab one of them while you’re at it. Comics with brains.
- Hellspawn Complete Collection HC includes the entire series by Brian Michael Bendis, Steve Niles, Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith along with unseen art and a cover gallery all wrapped up in one oversized hardcover. Preview.
- Shadoweyes is the lastest graphic novel from Ross Campbell of the chubby goth extravaganza Wet Moon. Preview and early review over at CbR.
- Shadowland continues with #2 of the series as well as the first of the tie-in one-shots, Shadowland: Bullseye. Writer John Layman (of Chew fame) talks about it with CbR and there’s a preview too. Mark it off on your Shadowland checklist.
- Spitfire One-Shot is the latest from Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and the MI:13, Doctor Who) who spills the beans over at CbR. Preview.
- Torchwood #1 is a comic to tide you over until the next Torchwood series. It’s even written by its leading man, John Barrowman. Tommy Lee Edwards (Turf) is in charge of the drawings so it could be good but I can’t find a preview. You’ll just have to wait and see.
- Aaaand Superman: Last Family of Krypton #1 by legendary Superman writer Cary Bates, art by Renato Arlem (Stormwatch). Bates interview over here and a preview there.
Right then. News. That Neil Gaiman/Eddie Campbell/Fourplay Sydney Opera House Thing I mentioned a few weeks back is happening THIS WEEKEND. If you’re in Sydney, you should go. I love their old school marketing – they’re like rock stars. My pal in Sydney has been snapping these photos in his travels:
Good hat.
Ed “Ilya” Hillyer (Best New Manga) curates a month-long show at the Whitechapel Ideas Store from now until the 5th of September. He says: The show is called MANGA UK and seeks to put authentic Japanese manga in context for the general public, as well as to reflect the vibrant manga scene here in the UK. It features work from Manga Jiman competition grand-prize winners past and present, Best New Manga contributors and even - gulp - examples of my own strips. Gulp indeed! More information here.
There’s also an exhibition over at the No Brow gallery featuring the works of Matthew the Horse and Jon Boam, a collection of insane, absurd, humorous and horrific things that they promise will make your eyes bleed with joy. Maybe they will.
This is the Scott Pilgrim bit I promised you earlier:
My favourite cinema in London is putting on an Edgar Wright double bill (Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz) in the lead-up to the release of that film everyone keeps going on about. Two movies for the price of one regular admit! I love the Brixton Ritzy and went there many times in my pajamas before moving north of the river. Go keep this place alive and buy your tickets now.
Film magazine Little White Lies have a new free-to-attend nationwide film club sponsored by Grolsch beer which means get a free film PLUS free booze to go with it (A+). Their first screening is Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World on the 19th of August with a Q&A with Edgar Wright himself at the Curzon Soho. You need to sign up in advance to win tickets. Win tickets? I guess that’s what you’re doing. Go do it.
This seems as good a place as any to remind you of the Bryan Lee O’Malley signing happening TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY. Make sure your boss knows you’re skiving off work that afternoon.
And finally, here’s a sketch from friend-of-Gosh! Richard Sandling: the absolutely completely true story of how Iron Man got greenlit by the film studios. Something looks familiar here.
I get roundly told off if I put my feet up like that.
-- Hayley