Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Alan Moore Neonomicon #2 (Of 4)
American Vampire #7
Authority #27
Avengers Academy #5
Avengers Thor Captain America Official Index #6
Back Issue #44
Batman Confidential #49
Batman Hidden Treasures #1
Batman Unseen TP
Black Widow Deadly Origin TP
Blondie HC Vol 1
Boys #47
Brightest Day #11
Bruce Wayne The Road Home
- Batman & Robin One-Shot
- Red Robin One-Shot
Buffy The Vampire Slayer TP Vol 7 Twilight
Cable TP Vol 4 Homecoming
Captain America Forever Allies #3 (Of 4)
Carmine Infantino Penciler Publisher HC
Chaos War #1 (Of 5)
Civil War Fantastic Four HC
Dark Tower Long Road Home TP
DC Comics Presents Green Lantern #1
DC Comics Presents Jack Cross #1
Deadpool Pulp #2 (Of 4)
Deadpoolmax #1
Doom Patrol #15
Fantastic Four In Ataque Del Modok One-Shot
Freedom Fighters #2
Ghost Rider By Jason Aaron Omnibus HC
Greek Street #16
Green Hornet Golden Age Remastered #3
Hawkeye & Mockingbird #5
Hi Fructose Magazine Quarterly #17
House Of Mystery #30
Iron Man Legacy #7
iZombie #6
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files Storm Front II #3
Jonah Hex #60
JSA All Stars #11
Kane & Lynch #3
Klaws Of Panther #1 (Of 4)
Locke & Key TP Vol 2 Head Games
Lone Ranger #24
Madame Xanadu #27
Marvelman Familys Finest #4 (Of 6)
Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spider-Man HC 12
New Mutants Forever #3 (Of 5)
Pilot Season Crosshair #1
Power Girl Aliens And Apes TP
Rebels #21
Red Hood Lost Days #5 (Of 6)
Scalped #41
Secret Six #26
Secret Six Danse Macabre TP
Shadowland Spider-Man #1 SL
Shield #4
Spider-Man Back In Quack One-Shot
Stephen King’s N Prem HC
Strange Science Fantasy #4
Superman Last Family Of Krypton #3 (Of 3)
Sweet Tooth #14
Sweets #3 (Of 5)
Taskmaster #2 (Of 4)
Thor And Warriors Four TP Digest
Thor For Asgard #3 (Of 6)
Tom Strong & Robots Of Doom #5 (Of 6)
Transformers Drift #3 (Of 4)
Transformers IDW Collection HC Vol 2
Tron Betrayal #1 (Of 2)
Ultimate Comics Thor #1 (Of 4)
Uncanny X-Force #1
Unknown Soldier #24
Walking Dead Covers HC Vol 1
Wolverine #2
Young Allies #5
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Due To Arrive 07/10/10
The Gosh! Authority 29/09/10
It’s a Gosh! Favourite overload this week so I don’t know where to start. Um.
First of all, the brilliant Sarah McIntyre’s Vern and Lettuce arrived yesterday – two days early, in fact – and is now sitting on the shelf where it boasts gorgeously designed exclusive Gosh! Bookplates signed by the lady herself. Who wants one? You want one.
Fluffy sheep and rabbits contrast rather vividly with the violent world of Richard Stark’s Parker, also out this week. You’ll want one of those too. The Outfit is the second of four planned adaptations by Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier), the previous being the award-winning, New York Times bestselling The Hunter which we also have if you’re yet to jump on board.
In the new book we find our now-rugged-faced antihero living it up in swanky hotels before he’s ratted out to The Outfit by a squealer for cash. Enter lots of guns and gnarly faces. Newsarama have a preview for you and there’s already a review kicking about.
Louis: Night Salad HC is a book I mentioned a while ago, the latest graphic novel from the Eisner and Ignatz award-nominated Franco-Scottish duo metaphrog aka John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more colourful thing on the shelf this week. If you head over to Bleeding Cool you can see the “beautiful, weird, melancholy, life-affirming, perspective-twisting trailer… Probably best not to watch if you’ve just been through a recent emotional trauma though. It’s just all a bit… mmmm.” And a review too, if you fancy it.
The Brazilian twins Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s excellent Vertigo series Daytripper has come to an end, so if you’re feeling bereft we’ve got just the ticket: Their long unavailable short stories are released in hardcover this week courtesy of Dark Horse. De:Tales is their most personal work so far, full of stuff about chasing girls (and getting them – strange for comics, no?), human life and the weird magical realism they’re so good at. There’s a preview here and a couple of reviews here and there. Highly recommended!
Also out in hardcover is Billy DeBeck’s Barney Google, care of the ever-reliable Craig Yoe so it’s bound to be a lovely looking thing indeed. It’s not a complete collection but a selection of his most famous escapades. If you like Little Nemo, Krazy Kat or Pogo this should be the first thing you pick up on Thursday. There are some great scans of Barney Google pages (apparently thanks to the excellent Roger Langridge) over at this blog here where he can be seen being booted up the arse by Spark Plug, gambling on the gee-gees, and whatever other fine messes he got himself into.
The strip was adapted to film, animation, and most importantly, a cracking song written by Billy “It’s Only a Paper Moon” Rose in 1923, “Barney Google (with his Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)”. I’m not familiar with the original version but ever since I heard this book was incoming I’ve had the Firehouse Five rendition stuck in my head. It’s totally mental, full of birdcalls and duck quacks, from a record that was on fairly regular rotation in my house. This blogger writes about the group and if you’ve not heard ‘em I recommend it. I couldn’t find the version I know on YouTube so you can have the Spike Jones one instead.
I digress! As usual.
More classic stuff is collected in John Cullen Murphy’s Big Ben Bolt Dailies Volume 1, the strip about the anti-stereotypical boxing champ/journalist. Written by Elliot Caplin, Murphy illustrated the strip from 1950 ‘til ’77 when Gray Morrow (Tarzan, Buck Rogers, man with an upsetting end) took over. This book collects roughly the first two years of the series so there’s (obviously) lots more to come. You can see a preview over at Classic Comics Press and an excerpt of an interview with Murphy from the Comics Journal too.
One of Murphy’s occasional assistants on the series was one Neal Adams (Batman: Odyssey) who coincidentally has a book out this week. The Art of Neal Adams comes in both a regular hardcover edition and a Previews Exclusive Deluxe Signed Slipcased Whizbang Extravaganza Edition which has 16 additional pages. In it you’ll find classic and rare bits of work spanning his entire career (an exceptional one it is too) all annotated by the guy himself.
Neal Adams will undoubtedly weigh you down on the bus but probably not as much as the Absolute Promethea HC Volume 2 for which you’ll have Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III to thank. Collecting issues #13-23 of the series, it’s the bit where the forces of Hell take control of New York’s mayor. All the usual Absolute bonus features apply.
A couple of things from the world of MAD deserve a mention this week. MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones is the first MAD collection of the ridiculously prolific artist, featuring stuff from 1963 to now, all hand-picked (and arranged chronologically – most important) by Aragones himself. It’s got cartoons, interviews, and a pull-out poster of his famous Marginals. It looks like a great book and he sounds like a stand-up guy. Just read this thing about the translator.
There’s also Al Jaffee’s MAD Life SC, a biography of the man responsible for the iconic fold-in and the magazine’s longest-running contributor – he’s still going! Jaffee, who is about a thousand years old and still alive (“serious people my age are dead,” says he), is interviewed here.
But if you’re in the mood for some dazzling, filthy violence then perhaps Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit Volume 2 is more up your alley. It’s got CF the barbarian from outer space on the cover, dripping in blood and wearing nowt but pants. “I wanted to a book about monster-men beating the sh*t out of each other. That's my main idea, that's all it's about. There's no real subtext to it. It's about the fighting.” More of that interview here and you can have both a PDF preview and a video from our best pal over at Fantagraphics.
Liquid City Volume 2 is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed anthology collecting the work of celebrated Southeast Asian creators. It’s full of stories about cities and the people who live in them, by established creators (such as the incredible Lat of Kampung Boy, A+ book that one) and those that you’ve not yet heard of. Editor Sonny Liew talks about the new book here where you can also see a bunch of preview pages too.
When American Vampire Volume 1 hits the shelves this Thursday you can consider it your hardcover antidote to the sparkly variety of bloodsuckers. The main story was written by Scott Snyder and every issue featured a back-up story by Stephen King (if you missed it you can read about it). Collected here are the first five issues of the series, plus all the variant covers by Jim Lee, Bernie Wrightson, Andy Kubert, J.H. Williams III, and Paul Pope, plus a sketchbook section by series artist Rafael Albuquerque and sample script pages too. Head this way for an interview with Snyder.
In trade-paperback you can grab yourself a new edition of Warren Ellis’ RED, his three-parter miniseries of intrigue and revenge. It’s now a film starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and the lovely Helen Mirren, pictured here wearing the shirt that made San Diego Comic-Con fall in love with her. As well as the usual you’ll also find the script to #1 and never-before-seen developmental art by Cully Hamner.
And finally, there’s The Sandman: The Dream Hunters TP by P. Craig Russell. Here he is talking about it at The Beat but you might have seen it already if you’ve been reading the Gosh! Blog forever.
Comics lasso round-up!
- Machete #0 is a comic based on one of the faux trailers tagged on to the beginning of the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse double-feature, now a feature film itself due for release in late November. It’s an origin story co-written by Rodriguez and Aaron Kaufman, with art by Stuart Sayger. Calling itself ‘the ultimate Mexploitation tale of revenge’ it leads right into an ongoing series that’ll be on our shelves some time in December.
- Bryan J.L. Glass (The Mice Templar) gives you the untold story of an Avenger in the Valkyrie One-Shot. The character was resurrected by J. Michael Straczynski in 2007 and has recently popped up in Red Hulk and Secret Avengers, but Glass says it’s a long time since she’s been spotlighted. There are preview pages by Phil Winslade (Wonder Woman) and an interview too.
- The Wetworks team is back in a one-shot called Mutations, written by Kevin Grevioux (writer of the Underworld movies) and Christopher Long with newcomer artist Julius Gopez. They talk about it with Comicbook Resources.
- X-Men: Curse of the Mutants: X-Men Vs Vampires #1 (Of 2) sees the X-Men pitted against a clan of vampires, B-movie style. There’s four new stories plus a reprint of Uncanny X-Men #159, the classic Storm vs. Dracula story by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.
And that’s it! I think I got it all.
-- Hayley
In Store 24/09/10 - 30/09/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Double Digest #212
Pals N Gals Double Digest #145
2000 AD Prog #1704
5 Days To Die #5 (Of 5)
Absolute Promethea HC Vol 2
American Vampire HC Vol 1
Angel #37
Army Of Two Vol 1 (Peter Milligan)
Art Of Neal Adams HC & PX Deluxe Signed Slipcased HC Edition
Artifacts #2 (Of 13)
Atlas #5 (Jeff Parker)
Avengers Prime #3 (Of 5) (A. Davis)
Barney Google HC
Detective Comics #869
Bullet To The Head #4 (Colin Wilson)
Captain Action Season Two #2
Captain America #610 (E. Brubaker)
Captain America Patriot #2 (Of 4)
Carmine Infantino: Penciler Publisher Provocateur SC
Casanova #3 (Fraction/Ba/Moon)
Chew #14
Chip: Second Crack #1 (Of 3)
Clint #2 (Edited by Mark Millar)
Crossed Family Values #4 (Of 7)
Daredevil Echo Prem HC Vision Quest
Darkness Four Horsemen #2 (Of 4)
De: Tales HC (G. Ba/F. Moon)
Do Androids Dream.. Dust To Dust #5
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom TP Vol 1
Dragon Age #5
Eerie Archives HC Vol 4
First Wave #4 (Of 6) (B. Azzarello)
Flash Chronicles TP Vol 2
Franken-Castle #21 (R. Remender)
Franklin Richards TP Son Of Genius Ultimate Collection Vol 1
Futurama Comics #51
Gotham City Sirens #16
Green Arrow #4 Brightest Day
Heroic Age One Month To Live #5 (Of 5)
Iron Man 2 TP Public Identity
Ultimate Comics Iron Man Armor Wars TP
John Cullen Murphy's Big Ben Bolt Dailies TP Vol 1
Justice Society Of America #43
Juxtapoz Vol 17 #10 Oct 2010
Kevin Smith Kato #4
Showcase Presents Legion Of Super-Heroes TP Vol 4
Liquid City GN Vol 2
Little Lulu Giant Size TP Vol 2
Lobo Highway To Hell TP
Louis Night Salad HC (Metaphrog)
Machete #0
Al Jaffee’s MAD Life SC
MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones HC
Marvel Previews October 2010
Namor First Mutant #2
Occult Files Doctor Spektor Archives HC Vol 1
Okko Cycle Of Air #3 (Of 4)
Phantom Generations Special #1
Pilot Season The Asset One-Shot
Powers #6 (B. Bendis/M. Oeming)
Previews #265 October 2010
Prison Pit GN Vol 2 (Johnny Ryan)
Punisher Noir TP
Queen Sonja #10
Red TP New Edition (Warren Ellis)
Resurrection TP Vol 2
Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit HC (Darwyn Cooke)
Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time Eye Of The World #5
Sandman The Dream Hunters TP
Savage Dragon #164
Secret Warriors #20
Amazing Spider-Man #644
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man TP Amazing
Star Spangled War Stories One-Shot
Star Wars Invasion Rescues #4 (Of 6)
Stuff Of Legend: Jungle #2 (Of 4)
Action Comics #893 (Paul Cornell)
Swedish Comics History SC
Teen Titans #87
Terminator 1984 #1 (Of 3)
Time Masters Vanishing Point #3 (Of 6)
Tomb Of Dracula TP Vol 2
Transformers Sector 7 #1
Valkyrie #1
Wasteland Apocalyptic Ed HC Vol 2
Wetworks Mutations #1
Wizard Magazine #231
Wonder Woman #603
Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Collection TP 04
Vern & Lettuce HC Gosh! Bookplate Edition (Sarah McIntyre)
X-Men Curse Of Mutants X-Men Vs Vampires #1 (Of 2)
X-Men Forever 2 #8
X-Men Legacy #240
X-Men Second Coming HC
Zippy GN Ding Dong Daddy(Bill Griffith)
MANGA
Gear School GN Vol 2
Japanese Animation HC
Oh My Goddess TP Vol 36
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Due To Arrive 23/09/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
5 Days To Die #5 (Of 5)
Action Comics #893
Amazing Spider-Man #644
Angel #37
Army Of Two Vol 1
Atlas #5
Avengers Prime #3 (Of 5)
Batman The Brave And The Bold #21
Bullet To The Head #4
Captain America #610
Captain America Patriot #2 (Of 4)
Carmine Infantino Penciler Pub Provocateur SC
Cartoon Network Action Pack #52
Casanova #3
Crossed Family Values #4 (Of 7)
Daredevil Echo Prem HC Vision Quest
Darkness Four Horsemen #2 (Of 4)
Detective Comics #869
Dragon Age #5
First Wave #4 (Of 6)
Flash Chronicles TP Vol 2
Franken-Castle #21
Franklin Richards TP Son Of Genius Ultimate Collection Vol 1
Futurama Comics #51
Gotham City Sirens #16
Green Arrow #4 Brightest Day
Heroic Age One Month To Live #5 (Of 5)
Iron Man 2 TP Public Identity
Justice Society Of America #43
Kevin Smith Kato #4
Lobo Highway To Hell TP
Machete #0
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man TP Amazing Digest
Namor First Mutant #2
Nipper TP Vol 1 1963-1964
Pilot Season The Asset One-Shot
Powers #6
Previews #265 October 2010
Punisher Noir TP
Queen Sonja #10
Secret Warriors #20
Star Spangled War Stories #1
Teen Titans #87
Time Masters Vanishing Point #3 (Of 6)
Tomb Of Dracula TP Vol 2
Ultimate Comics Iron Man Armor Wars TP
Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Collection TP Vol 4
Valkyrie #1
Wetworks Mutations #1
Wizard Magazine #231
Wonder Woman #603
X-Men Curse Of Mutants X-Men Vs Vampires #1 (Of 2)
X-Men Forever 2 #8
X-Men Legacy #240
X-Men Second Coming HC
Yours Truly Jack The Ripper TP Vol 1
The Gosh! Authority 22/09/10
It’s a pretty cracking week all round. The sun is shining, the tea is hot, and we’re welcoming back our ol’ pal Cages to the Gosh! shelves. Many of you have probably already heard about our exclusive bookplate edition via the magic of twitter but if you haven’t go read this. I neglected to mention what is clearly the most important detail regarding the bookplates and that is that they were carefully couriered by Dave McKean’s recent houseguest and obliging smuggler, Neil Gaiman. If they hadn’t been we’d probably still be waiting for the postman to kick them all the way back from Kent.
On the subject of bookplates, we’ll soon have a brand new book by my incredibly talented fellow giant Sarah McIntyre complete with Gosh! bookplate and all. Vern & Lettuce is a story that originally appeared in the (now sadly defunct) DFC, along with other Gosh! Favourites like Mezolith. Everything you need to know is here.
Love & Rockets New Stories Volume 3 is the latest from the Hernandez Brothers and sees Jaime return to the cast of Locas after his superheroic two-parter. Gilbert’s offering is a somewhat weirder tale of alien terrain and a furry mating season. Alien mating season. Not the dress-up-as-squirrels kind of furry. Or something. I think. Anyway, here’s a PDF preview and all I’ve got to go on right now plus a video of the Fantagraphics dude flipping through the book.
Fingerprints is another strange one – an oddball debut graphic novel from Will Dinski who’s best known for his beautifully handmade mini-comics and typically bleak endings. Last year he won the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics previously awarded to the likes of Danica Novgorodoff of Slow Storm and Refresh Refresh fame (mentioned on the Gosh! Blog this time last year). It’s an absurdist sci-fi comedy poking fun at an image-obsessed culture through the story of Dr Fingers, a previously successful cosmetic surgeon on his way down. Avoid the Future have a great review and Things From Another World nabbed an exclusive interview with the man himself.
It’s Tubby’s turn in the latest of Drawn & Quarterly’s exquisitely reproduced John Stanley stuff. This volume collects issues #9 to #12 of the Little Lulu offshoot, full of all the mischief and shenanigans you’ve come to expect. D&Q have put up a full classic story about Tubby’s moustache as a teaser. As usual it’s designed by the reliably brilliant Seth (It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken) just like the previous volumes so not only will it look great, it’ll also line-up perfectly with the other volumes on your shelf. Real nice and kentucky.
Drew Friedman’s been beavering away painting portraits of the famous and the infamous for the likes of The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Business Week, Mojo and a bunch of other folk so it’s about time someone collected the last fifteen years’ worth. Too Soon? is a hardcover full of familiar, grotesque faces including this one, Schlitzie, who I’ve selected out of all the actors, singers, presidents and first ladies to go on the Gosh! Blog because I’m a fan of Tod Browning’s Freaks. That’s the way it goes around here. Here’s a preview of the rest of ‘em.
Joe Casey’s Wildcats Version 3.0 Year One TP collects the first 12 issues of the pivotal Joe Casey (Gødland) run on the series, illustrated by Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Streets of Gotham). Our own Andrew Salmond likes it and reckons you will too. It ended after 24 issues due to a cancellation after increasingly low sales rather than an actual planned ending. Fans weren’t happy.
“I’ve been more like a “cult writer” in the mainstream for most of my career and it’s been a relatively comfortable place to be. I hate playing it safe, and I don’t want other creators playing it safe either. Guys like Chaykin and Miller and Moore showed me that you can make demands on the reader in the mainstream and it can pay off, because they essentially created a new mainstream. Maybe Wildcats was a “book out of time”. Either we were ahead of the curve or too far behind it. I don’t really know. I just know I loved it.”
Casey talks about where the series would have gone after the final issue in this old interview with Newsarama.
In comics you’ve got The Example, a one-shot illustrated by Colin Wilson (2000AD) and adapted by Tom Taylor (The Authority) from his own award-winning play about terrorism and paranoia. It’s not a new comic but it’s the first time it’s seen print outside of Australia. It’s because of The Example that Taylor landed a writing gig on Dark Horse’s Star Wars, or so he tells Comicbook Resources.
Then there’s Kodiak, a one-shot by Joe Hill (Locke & Key), Jason Ciaramella and Nat Jones, about three men and a bear locked in a basement together. Hill said on his blog he wanted to do something in the style of the gruesome faux-folk tales seen in Tales from the Crypt, Creepy and Eerie and this is what happened. CbR have a preview for you. Rhoor.
Halloween’s on the way so you probably knew this one was in the post too. Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror #16 features a story written by Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden) called I Screwed Up Big-Time and Unleashed The Glavin on an Unsuspecting World! about an intergalactic monster out destroying distant planets when he intercepts a space broadcast from Professor Frink. Dorkin talks about it on the Bongo Blog. There’s also a bit by the great Kelley Jones in which Flanders gets his revenge on Homer but Jones doesn’t seem to be talking about it anywhere on the internet. How rude.
You’ve undoubtedly seen the work of Japanese art superstar Yoshitomo Nara before, even if it was just by idly flipping through those Oh My God! I Miss You! Postcards that hung around the Gosh! counter some time ago. Nobody’s Fool is the name of his first major New York retrospective exhibition, showcasing stuff from his early career in the 1980s right up ‘til the shiny new stuff of now. As you can see in these photographs from the gallery, there are paintings, sculptures, drawings, enormous installations, ceramics, the lot. And they’re all in the lovely slip-cased hardcover I can see on the shelf already.
AX is Japan’s greatest magazine for alternative comics and has been published bi-monthly since 1998. The stuff you find in AX is innovative, experimental, personal, and entirely in Japanese. This week Top Shelf give you a 400-page collection of selected stories that have appeared over the last ten years, all translated for the very first time. Editor Sean Michael Wilson talks to Things From Another World about what to expect here, and there’s a preview here. It even features an introduction by Paul “Man at the Crossroads” Gravett who is, incidentally, appearing tonight in conversation with Flemish author Judith Vanistendael. If you’re anywhere in the vicinity of Curtain Road you’d best go say hello.
-- Hayley
In Store 17/09/10 - 23/09/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD Prog #1703
5 Days To Die #4 (Of 5)
Anne Frank: Authorised Graphic Biography SC
Avengers #5 (Bendis/Romita Jr)
Avengers Academy #4
Avengers Under Siege Prem HC
Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Iron Man
New Avengers Luke Cage TP Town Without Pity (Arcudi/Canete)
Secret Avengers #5 (Ed Brubaker)
Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror #16 (E. Dorkin, K. Jones et al)
Batman Streets Of Gotham #16
Billy Batson & Magic Of Shazam #20
Black Widow #6
Bram Stoker's Death Ship TP
Cages TP (Dave McKean)Gosh! Bookplate Edition
Captain America Reborn TP(Ed Brubaker/Bryan Hitch)
Chronicles Of Kull TP Vol 3 Screams In The Dark
Cinefex #123 Oct 2010
Cowboy Ninja Viking #9
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #5 (Of 5)
Dawn TP Vol 3 Three Tiers
Die Hard Year One TP Vol 1
Do Androids Dream... Of Electric Sheep? #15
Doctor Who Magazine #426
Dracula Company Of Monsters #2
Dynamo 5 Sins Of The Father #4 (Of 5)
Elephantmen #27
Example One-Shot (Colin Wilson)
Fables #98
Fantastic Four #583
Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four TP Vol 4
500 Years Of Resistance Comic Book SC
Fingerprints GN (Will Dinski)
Flash #5 Brightest Day
Fringe: Tales From The Fringe #4 (Of 6)
G I Combat #1
Garrison #6 (Of 6)
Girl Comics HC
Green Lantern Corps #52 BD
Harvey GN
Heavy Metal November 2010
Heroic Age One Month To Live #4 (Of 5)
Hit-Monkey #3 (Of 3)
Hulk #25
Husk Prem HC
Iron Man Noir Prem HC
John Stanley Library Tubby HC Vol 1
JSA Black Adam And Isis TP
Jurassic Park Redemption #3
Justice League Generation Lost #10 BD
Justice League Of America #49 BD
Kato Origins Way Of The Ninja #4
Killing The Cobra Chinatown Trollop #4
Kodiak One-Shot (Joe Hill)
Legion Of Super Heroes #5
Love & Rockets New Stories TP Vol 3 (Hernandez Brothers)
Marvel Super Special #1
Marvel Zombies Return TP
MGM Drive In Theater #3
Mice Templar HC Vol 2.2 Destiny Part 2
Modern Warfare 2 Ghost TP
Mystery Society #3
Nam TP Vol 2
Nemesis #3 (Of 4)
Phoenix Without Ashes #2 (Of 4)
Power Girl #16
Project Superpowers Chapter II #12
Runaways Live Fast TP
Sense & Sensibility #5 (Of 5)
Shadowland: Daughters Of Shadow #2 (Of 3)
Shadowland Moon Knight #2 (Of 3) SL
Smurfs GN Vol 1 The Purple Smurf
Smurfs GN Vol 2 The Magic Flute
Spider-Man #6
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #14
Spike The Devil You Know #4
Spirit #6
Star Trek Burden Of Knowledge #4
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #4 (Of 4)
Supergirl #56
Superman Batman #76
Pilot Season 39 Minutes #1
Thor #615
Titans #27 Brightest Day
Too Soon? Famous/Infamous Faces HC (Drew Friedman)
Transformers Drift #2 (Of 4)
Transformers Ongoing #11
Ultimate Comics Mystery #3 (Of 4)
Unknown TP Vol 1
Velocity #2 (Of 4)
Walking Dead #77 (R. Kirkman)
Wildcats #27
Wildcats Version 3.0 Year One TP(Joe Caey/Dustin Nguyen)
Witchblade #138
Wolverine Reckoning Prem HC
Worlds Greatest Super Heroes TP
Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #3 (Of 5) (W. Ellis/K. Andrews)
Deadpool & Cable Ultimate Collection TP Vol 3
Deadpool Team-Up #889
Uncanny X-Men #528
X-Campus #4 (Of 4)
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool HC
MANGA
AX TP Vol 1 Collection Of Alternative Manga
Bokurano Ours GN Vol 2
Hetalia Axis Powers GN Vol 1 (Of 3)
Koko Be Good GN
Maximum Ride TP Vol 3
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Cages TP Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
After years of publishing limbo, Dave McKean’s magnum opus Cages has finally returned.
McKean is best known for his numerous collaborations with Neil Gaiman: Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, Mr Punch, several children’s books and, of course, the iconic covers for the phenomenally popular Sandman series. In Cages McKean is both writer and artist, constructing an entire universe in 500 pages. It is an incredibly rich story about life, death, art, religion, philosophy, birds, a black cat, and the cages we build for ourselves. It has won several awards and broken even more bookshelves.
"Cages has all the qualities of a real universe - sprawling yet contained, chaotic yet organised, mysterious yet discernible, comedic yet serious. Assuming you have a re-enforced bookshelf, $50 [old edition! - Ed.] doesn't seem too much to ask for both a universe and a work of art.”
-- TIME
"One of the most important works of comic art in the last decade."
-- The Comics Journal
“Mesmerising.”
-- Terry Gilliam
The ten-issue tale first appeared in late 1990, published by the ambitious Tundra whose exceedingly high production values meant that the enterprise never became a profitable one – as sales rose, so did losses, and the whole thing collapsed a few years later. It found its next home in Kitchen Sink Press who picked up the reigns for the last three issues. The massive tome was released a couple of times by two different parties (in 1998 and 2002), making it available again for a brief moment before the print run would sell out and the book would eventually go for incredible amounts on eBay. Too many books have a similar history.
This week Dark Horse release the first affordable softcover edition of the behemoth and you can thank your lucky stars you won’t be carrying home the 2002 hardcover (getting that home on the bus was a mighty feat and no mistake). Fully remastered and redesigned, it even boasts an all-new cover by McKean.
The Exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition features art created just for us, signed and numbered by the man himself for no more than the £22.50 cover price. There’s only 200 of them around so you’d best get in quick. Given how long it’s been out of town it’s due an enthusiastic welcome home.
If you'd like to reserve one or arrange a mail order, drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Vern & Lettuce Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
If you’ve not come across the work of Sarah McIntyre yet you’re in for a treat. From the same publishing house as the incredible Mezolith (another of our Gosh! Bookplate Editions) comes McIntyre’s Vern & Lettuce, a comic strip that originally ran in the highly lauded though now sadly defunct DFC.
It stars a sheep and a rabbit who live in a tower block in a neighbourhood in south London. While Lettuce the rabbit is watching a talent-spotting show on telly, she suddenly decides she wants to be famous, and scoots her best friend Vern off to the big city, despite his protestations that they need to work on getting a talent first. They are both hugely inept at doing most things, but while reading, you hope that the strength of their friendship will help them survive in dark and dangerous places.
--- Sarah McIntyre, in coversation with Philip Reeve at the Solitary Bee.
There’s a full page of Vern and Lettuce’s furry escapades still available online at the Guardian where it ran for 12 weeks. With its soft colours and round-faced characters it feels nostalgic and English in a brilliant after-school-telly sort of way.
Have a nosey about on Sarah’s blog where where she posts new drawings pretty much every single day straight from the Fleece Station in South London, the studio she shares with fellow DFC-er Gary Northfield (Derek the Sheep), Ellen Linder (Undertow, Whores of Mensa), and Lauren O’Farrell (of Stitch London). I’m convinced she’s ordering big boxes of time off Amazon; I have no idea how she manages to churn out so much amazing stuff.
The Gosh! Exclusive Vern & Lettuce Bookplate Edition is limited to 200 copies, featuring a signed and numbered plate with all new art by for not a penny more than the standard cover price of £9.99.
If you'd like to reserve one or arrange a mail order, drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Due To Arrive 23/09/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
5 Days To Die #4 (Of 5)
Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #3 (Of 5)
Avengers #5
Avengers Academy #4
Avengers Initiative TP Dreams And Nightmares
Bart Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror #16
Batman Streets Of Gotham #16
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #20
Black Widow #6
Captain America Reborn TP
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey Begins #5 (Of 5)
Deadpool & Cable Ultimate Collection TP Book 3
Deadpool Team-Up #889
Die Hard Year One TP Vol 1
Dracula Company Of Monsters #2
Dynamo 5 Sins Of The Father #4 (Of 5)
Fables #98
Fantastic Four #583
Flash #5 Brightest Day
Fringe Tales From The Fringe #4 (Of 6)
G I Combat #1
Girl Comics HC
Green Lantern Corps #52 Brightest Day
Heroic Age One Month To Live #4 (Of 5)
Hit-Monkey #3 (Of 3)
Hulk #25
Husk Prem HC
Iron Man Noir Prem HC
Justice League Generation Lost #10 Brightest Day
Justice League Of America #49 Brightest Day
Kato Origins Way Of The Ninja #4
Killing The Cobra Chinatown Trollop #4
Legion Of Super Heroes #5
Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Iron Man Digest
Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four TP Vol 4
Marvel Zombies Return TP
MGM Drive In Theater #3
Mice Templar HC Vol 2 .2 Destiny Pt 2
Modern Warfare 2 Ghost TP
Nam TP Vol 2
Nemesis #3 (Of 4)
New Avengers Luke Cage TP Town Without Pity
Power Girl #16
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #12
Secret Avengers #5
Sense & Sensibility #5 (Of 5)
Shadowland Daughters Of Shadow #2 (Of 3)
Shadowland Moon Knight #2 (Of 3)
Spider-Man #6
Spike The Devil You Know #4
Spirit #6
Star Trek Burden Of Knowledge #4
Supergirl #56
Superman Batman #76
Thor #615
Titans #27 Brightest Day
Transformers Drift #2 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Mystery #3 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #14
Uncanny X-Men #528
Unknown TP Vol 1
Velocity #2 (Of 4)
Wildcats #27
Wildcats Version 3.0 Year One TP
Witchblade #138
Wolverine Reckoning Prem HC
X-Campus #4 (Of 4)
The Gosh! Authority 15/09/10
It’s a relatively smallish week but Fantagraphics have beefed it up with two brilliant looking books. Lucky in Love: A Poor Man’s History HC is the first of a two-part story written by George Chieffet about Lucky Testatuda, a rascally teen from New Jersey’s Little Italy and his experiences before, during, and after the war. But it’s not your usual take on the old familiar when-I-went-to-war tale...
"It's a serious novel, telling the story of one man's relationship with the Hollywood dream. We follow the title character Lucky from his teenage years, to his time in the Pacific during WWII, and then his personal triumphs and tragedies in his post-war life. Despite the occasionally serious tone of our story, I drew it in a very traditional cartooning style, reminiscent of Popeye, but also other classic strips, like DeBeck's Barney Google, Chic Young's Blondie, and the work of Milt Gross. I've always liked the idea of combining a serious story with the look of a classic Sunday newspaper strip, and I felt like Lucky was my opportunity to do it."
I yoinked the above quote from an interview with the incredible artist Stephen DeStefano about his work on Popeye for which he is best known, along with Looney Tunes, Spongebob Squarepants, Dexter’s Lab and Ren & Stimpy. From the looks of this preview (or trademark Fantagraphics video if you fancy it) he’s excelled himself in this one. You can check out some early sketches of the character over at DeStefano’s blog, before they’d even settled on a name for the guy.
“...Lucky wasn’t always Lucky. Originally he was named ‘Cholly Potatoes’. A year or two after that, he was named ‘Lefty’.”
Part of me wishes they’d kept Cholly Potatoes. You can expect the second half of the story some time in 2013.
The other offering from Fantagraphics is From Shadow to Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin, a coffee table art book, biography and critique of a highly influential Golden Age artist who for some reason is nowhere near as well known as peers Joe Kubert or Steve Ditko. He was the first guy to draw Sheena of the Jungle, shared a studio with Jerry Robinson, worked for Simon, Kirby and Stan Lee, but unless you’re an expert on old comics you’ve probably never heard of him.
This book not only looks at his entire comics career which spanned for about 30 years from the 40’s but also goes on to include stuff from 1965 and onwards, when he went on to become some sort of Don Draper character (one cheerily imagines) in an advertising firm in 1965. Here’s the Fantagraphics man fondling some pages again.
Friend of Gosh!/lady with impeccable taste in eyewear Ellen Lindner (Undertow) popped in last week to drop off the latest issue of Whores of Mensa, a small press comics anthology taking its name from Woody Allen’s 1974 New Yorker piece (you can find it online if you subscribe) which she says “is the kind of writing they aspire to: sexy, original, and slightly cra-zay.” The book was funded by donations through Kickstarter and having exceeded the target Lindner & co. used the extra dosh to bump up the original 44 pages to a whopping 52, thus being able to include the incredible Patrice Aggs of the DFC in their already stellar line-up. So who else is here? The ridiculously talented Sarah McIntyre (last seen on the Gosh! Blog drawing yours truly – be sure to check out her blog where she posts new drawings pretty much every single day. She must be ordering big boxes of time from Amazon or something; I have no idea how she does it), Howard John Arey, Francesca Cassavetti, Richard Cowdry, Jeremy Day, Peter Lally, Cliodhna Lyons, Tanya Meditzky, Emily Ryan Lerner, Maartje Schalkx and the lovely Lindner herself.
Two books from the Alison Dare series about a young, female Indiana Jones type character by J. Torres and Darwyn Cooke’s frequent collaborator J. Bone are on the shelf this week. You’ll have seen Bone and Cooke’s work in Justice League: The New Frontier Special, The Spirit, Batman/Spirit, Witchblade Animated, Spider-Man’s Tangled Web and Wolverine/Doop, and his work with Torres most recently includes Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Comics Worth Reading reviews both Alison Dare books – Little Miss Adventures and Heart of the Maiden – here. Incidentally, Bone’s blog is worth keeping an eye on – there are new sketches going up all the time.
Lots of issue #1s out this week so here’s a round-up:
Captain America: Patriot #1 (of 4) by Karl Kesel and Mitch Breitweiser which takes place after WW11. “Jeff Mace became the Patriot because he was inspired by Captain America, so, we do start there. We start with his origin, which as far as I can tell has never been told before.” More of that interview with Kesel here and a preview too.
Thor First Thunder #1 (of 5) by Harvey Award Winning writer Bryan J. Glass and Eisner Award winning artist Tan Eng Huat. It’s a modern day retelling of the Thor origin story and Glass talks to GeekTyrant all about it here. Preview.
There’s a new X-book in X-23 #1 by Marjorie Liu and artist Will Conrad, taking place after the whole Second Coming thing and spinning out of Wolverine #1. Preview of that one here.
The latest in DC’s war comics line is Our Fighting Forces #1 by B. Clay Moore and Chad Hardin. Preview here. Only Star-Spangled War Stories by William Tucci and Justiniano and G.I. Combat by Matt Sturges and Phil Winslade to go. Expect ‘em over the next couple of weeks.
And finally, there’s a bunch of Red one-shot specials based on the film which was based on the comic by Warren Ellis. You might need to read that sentence twice. There’s four in total – Frank, Joe, Marvin and Victoria. In coming weeks you can expect a final one-shot called Red: Eyes Only which stands as a prequel to the original miniseries. None of them are written by Ellis but you can get a full run-down on the creative teams here.
Speaking of creative teams, there’s a change in the post re: Batman & Robin. Grant Morrison’s run comes to an end with October’s issue #16, at which point former Green Lantern Corps team Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason takeover. But fear not, Morrison fans, November brings a new ongoing Batman series called simply Batman, Inc. drawn by Yanick Paquette and penned by the bald one. The Hero Complex talks to Morrison about his plans for the series.
The follicly unchallenged Alan Moore will be giving a talk in his hometown of Northampton in early October to help benefit The Northampton Committee of Fight For Sight. Tickets are 20 quid a pop and all proceeds help fund world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. You can even say hello to his beard at the signing afterwards. Phone 01295 768516 or email stuart.sally@gmail.com for tickets. And do go, you can’t read comics without eyes after all.
And lastly, if you’re up in Leeds this Saturday the 18th of September you should head on over to the first Leeds Alternative Comics Fair taking place behind the City Art Gallery from 12pm ‘til 6pm. Their website, for all your informational requirements.
And that’s about the size of it.
-- Hayley