Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
28 Days Later #16
Adventure Comics #520
Amazing Spider-Man #647
Authority #28
Avengers Academy #6
Avengers/Thor/Captain America Official Index To The Marvel Universe #7
Avengers X-Men TP Maximum Security
Baltimore Plague Ships #4
Batman And Robin #16
Batman Catwoman Follow The Money #1
Batman Confidential #50
Berlin #17
Boys #48
Boys TP Vol 7 The Innocents
Brightest Day #13
Broken Trinity Pandora's Box #4 (Of 6)
Buffy Vampire Slayer #38
Bullet To The Head #5
Bullseye Perfect Game #1 (Of 2)
Captain America Man Out Of Time #1 (Of 5)
Cartoon Network Action Pack #53
Chaos War #3 (Of 5)
Coffin HC 10th Anniversary Edition
Cold Space TP
Crossed Family Values #5 (Of 7)
DC Comics Presents Chase One-Shot
DC Comics Presents Flash Green Lantern Denys Wortman's New York TP
Doom Patrol #16
DV8 Gods And Monsters #8 (Of 8)
Freedom Fighters #3
Generation Hope #1
Graphic NYC Presents SC Vol 1 Dean Haspiel
Green Hornet Year One TP Vol 1
Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6
Heroic Age TP
House Of Mystery #31
Human Target TP
Iron Man Legacy #8
Iron Man Thor #1 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #19
iZombie #7
Jack Kirby Collector #55
Jonah Hex #61
JSA All Stars #12
Kabuki HC Vol 1
Kevin Smith Kato #5
Kill Shakespeare TP Vol 1
Marvelman Family's Finest #5 (Of 6)
Mystery Society #4
Namor First Mutant #3
Ozma Of Oz #1 (Of 8)
Punisher In Blood #1 (Of 5)
Punisher Max Kingpin TP
Queen Sonja #11
Red Hood Lost Days #6 (Of 6)
Scarlet #3
Secret Six #27
Siege TP
Spectacular Spider-Girl TP Last Stand
Spider-Man #7
Star Wars Old Republic #5 (Of 6)
Strange Science Fantasy #5
Strange Tales 2 #2 (Of 3)
Superboy #1
Sweet Tooth #15
Taskmaster #3 (Of 4)
Tom Strong & Robots Of Doom #6 (Of 6)
Transformers Spotlight Nefarious TP Vol 1
Tron Original Movie Adaptation #1 (Of 2)
Unknown Soldier #25
Warriors Three #1 (Of 4)
Wolverine #3
Women Of Marvel #1
X-Men To Serve And Protect #1 (Of 4)
Young Allies #6
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Due To Arrive 04/11/10
The Gosh! Authority 26/10/10
And so it transpires that the most exciting thing on the shelf this week features six-limbed monsters, a one-armed cyborg and a whole bunch of terrifying floating orbs in a horrifying alien world. And why not? You can’t top something like that; I challenge you to try.
Death-Day Part One by Gosh! Favourite Sam Hiti (Tiempos Finales) is deliriously strange and brilliant. Back in January you probably picked up a copy of the Prologue, a small red pamphlet the contents of which are now lumped in with Part One. You’ll have to choose between two editions depending on how much pocket money you’re willing to part with: there’s the regular softcover for £14.99 or the slightly fancier slipcased deal with a black band for £22.50. The contents are the same and both editions feature an original sketch by Hiti on the title page. Look! You can even see him sketching them in this video because we live in the future and everything is on the internet. Comicbook Resources have a review of the book already. As for other in-stock Hiti books, if your collection is currently lacking signed and sketched-in copies of Ghoulash I, El Largo Tren Oscuro or indeed the Death-Day Prologue you’re in luck.
For more unspeakable horrors you’ll should pick up a copy of Ian Culbard’s At the Mountains of Madness being – as you can probably imagine – a stellar adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft classic. When it arrives (which could be this week, could be next week) we’ll have an exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition featuring an all-new portrait of Lovecraft himself by the exceedingly good Culbard. Want one held aside for you? Just say the word.
No Hallowe’en is complete without new stuff from Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) so failing to pick up this one would be an embarrassing faux pas. She and her frequent collaborator Evan Dorkin have teamed up with Mike Mignola for a 32-page Beasts of Burden/Hellboy crossover which sees the World’s Greatest Paranormal Detective help the team solve a case of unexplained animal slayings. You won’t be seeing a Li’l Hellboy toddling about in the woods though – Mignola put the kibosh on that idea before it was even suggested. It’s all fully painted by Thompson and if there’s a more colourful, beautiful thing out on Thursday I’ll eat my hat. Preview here.
Having said that, there is brand new stuff from the ridiculously talented Sean Phillips too. He and Ed Brubaker give you another dose of pulp noir in a follow-up to last year’s hit series in Incognito: Bad Influences #1:
“…it touches on some similar things as we did in the first series, but from a different angle now. [Zack is] living in New York City, he has to maintain a secret identity, but he doesn't have to go to a job or any of that other stuff. His job is working with the good guys now. 
A big part of the series takes a darker noir twist on an old pulp and comic book cliche that you'll see when you read the issue. It's a twist I've never seen explored before, so I thought I'd use that as a jumping off point before I send Zack off down the well.”
More of that interview with Brubaker here, and you can see Phillips’ work over at CbR. Incidentally, if you’re not following Phillips’ blog you’re missing out. He frequently posts working sketches, life drawings, and generally interesting bits and pieces. Also he has Gosh! Approved hair and that sort of thing gets you places.
Earlier this week we received Dodgem Logic #6 in which Big Hairy Alan Moore ponders about the possibilities of life on other planets, Iain Sinclair writes about JG Ballard, Stewart Lee says there are no comedy gods and Kevin O’Neill does a full-colour page about – uh – well I think it’s about sex or something. It’s rude, anyway. You’ll find it on the counter like impulse-buy sweets.
We’ve also got Tunes: A Graphic History of Rock ‘n’ Roll SC, being a compendium of vignette comics about rock personalities edited by Vincent Brunner of France’s Rolling Stone. It’s a translation from the French Rock Strips and covers everything from Elvis to grunge, illustrated in black and white by the likes of Serge Clerc, Charles Berberian, Killoffer, Menu and Sattouf. Points awarded to those who recognise the R. Crumb homage on the cover.
For classic Marvel UK Arthurian fantasy you’ll want to grab yourself a copy of Knights of Pendragon Volume 1: Once and Future TP, collecting the first nine issues of the controversial twenty-year-old series by Dan Abnett, John Tomlinson, Gary Erskine and Andy Lanning. Extra bits include reminiscences from the writers and original series editor Steve White about getting the series off the ground in the face of outright hostility from the dudes upstairs, and a cover gallery by the likes of Alan Davis (who coincidentally provides the cover to this week’s X-Men: Nation X TP), Simon Bisley, John Bolton and loads more. Win Wiacek gives you the full history of the Knights over at Comics Review.
In Superman: Earth One HC J. Michael Staczynski (Thor) gives you "an untold period in Clark Kent's life, a year one sort of tale,” according to its artist Shane Davis. It’s the first in a line of original graphic novels from DC by big cheese comics creators called Earth One, a re-imagining of DC’s top heroes. Preview hereabouts.
Last week John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs aka metaphrog came in and signed a pile of the latest book in their line of critically acclaimed ones, Louis: Night Salad. It came out last month and I wrote about it then.
Other bits worth picking up include Rian Hughes’ Yesterday’s Tomorrows at a staggeringly low price of a mere tenner (60% off!). Hughes was last seen on the Gosh! Blog as the editor of Lifestyle llustrations of the ‘60s (reviewed here by The Independent) and has done more for comic book design than you probably know (see also: the Gosh! logo). Yesterday’s Tomorrows is a collection of his comics, mostly written by others (including Grant Morrison, John Freeman, Tom DeHaven) all illustrated in Hughes’ trademark retro style along with covers, sketches, bubblegum cards, and other rare visual treats. Newsarama interview him about the book. Highly recommended.
We’ve also managed to secure a limited pile of Top Shelf gems at stupidly low prices – and so can you if you’re quick! Eddie Campbell’s burglar-stunning behemoth Alec: The Years Have Pants HC was previously £37.99 but you can have it for £22, Alan Moore’s and Melinda Gebbie’s Collected Lost Girls HC is down to £22 from £33.99, and the softcover edition of his first novel The Voice of the Fire is now just £5.50 instead of £10.99. We’ve only got a few copies of each so we can’t hold any aside – you’d best hurry down to the shop with your elbows at the ready.
How d’ya like them apples?
-- Hayley
In Store 22/10/10 - 28/10/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
2000 AD #1708
Andy Capp Annual 2011 HC
Angel #38
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned The Charmer #5
Avengers #6
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet #3 (Of 4)
Avengers Vs Pet Avengers #1 (Of 4)
Secret Avengers #6
Ultimate Comics Avengers TP
Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 TP
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 #3 (Of 6)
Batman Streets Of Gotham HC Vol 2
Batman The Brave And The Bold #22
Detective Comics #870
Billy Batson & Magic Of Shazam #21
Billy The Kid’s Old Timey Oddities Ghastly Fiend Of London #2
Black Widow #7
Bruce Wayne: The Road Home
- Oracle One-Shot
- Ra's Al Ghul One-Shot
Bulletproof Coffin #5 (Of 6)
Captain America #611
Captain America Patriot #3 (Of 4)
Clint #3 (Mark Millar et al)
Creepy Comics #4
Death Day TP & Special Ed (S. Hiti)
Digested #2
Do Androids Dream...Dust To Dust #6 (Of 8)
Dodgem Logic #6 (A. Moore Et Al)
Doomwar HC
Dracula Company Of Monsters #3
Dungeon Monstres GN Vol 3
Dynamo 5 Sins Of Father #5 (Of 5)
Epic Chronicles Of Hagar The Horrible HC Dailies 1974-75
Famous Monsters Of Filmland #252
Fantastic Four #584
Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman HC Vol 3
Fear Agent #30
Fringe Tales From Fringe #5 (Of 6)
Gravel #21 (Warren Ellis)
Green Arrow #5 Brightest Day
Green Hornet Blood Ties #1 (Of 4)
Green Lantern Chronicles TP Vol 3
Hellblazer City Of Demons #2 (Of 5) (S. Spencer/S. Murphy)
Hellboy/Beasts Of Burden One Hogarth's (New Printings)
- Drawing Dynamic Hands SC
- Dynamic Light & Shade SC
Hotwire Deep Cut #2 (Of 3) (Pugh)
Fall Of The Hulks Vol 2 End Is Nigh
Hulk World War Hulks TP Hulked-Out Heroes
Incredible Hulk HC Vol 3 WWHS
Incredible Hulks #615
Incredible Hulks Enigma Force #2 (Of 3)
Illustration Magazine #31
Incognito Bad Influences #1 Incorruptible #11
Jack Of Fables #48
Jonah Hex Counting Corpses TP
Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery HC Vol 2
JLA The 99 #1 (Of 6)
Justice League Generation Lost #12
JSA All Stars Constellations TP
Justice Society Of America #44
Kill Shakespeare #6 (Of 12)
Klaws Of Panther #2 (Of 4)
Mad Magazine #506
Madame Xanadu #28
Marvel Previews November 2010
Marvel Universe End Prem HC
Ultimate Comics Mystery #4 (Of 4)
Northlanders TP Vol 4 (B. Wood)
Previews #266 November 2010
Requiem Vampire Knight Vols 3 & 4
Sanctuary GN
Savage Dragon #165
Scalped #42 (Jason Aaron)
Secret Warriors #21
Secret Warriors HC Vol 4 Last Ride
Shadowland Moon Knight #3 (Of 3)
Bart Simpson Comics #56
Amazing Spider-Man #646
Spider-Man Fantastic Four #4 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Peter Parker TP
Spider-Man Vs Vampires #1
Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spider-Man TP Vol 5
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #15
Star Trek Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor TP Vol 1 (John Byrne)
Star Wars
- Invasion Rescues #5 (Of 6)
- Long Time Ago Omnibus Vol 1
Action Comics #894 (Death)
Supergirl Annual #2
DC Comics Presents Superman
Superman #704
Superman Earth One HC (JMS)
Teen Titans #88
Terminator 1984 #2 (Of 3)
Knights Of Pendragon Vol 1 TP
Thunderbolts #149 SL
Tick New Series #6
Time Masters Vanishing Point #4 (Of 6)
Torchwood #4
Torchwood Magazine #24
Transformers Sector 7 #2 (Of 6)
Tunes Graphic History Of Rock N Roll SC (S Clerc/C Baberian)
Usagi Yojimbo #132
Weird World Of Jack Staff #5
Wildcats #28
Wizard Magazine #232
Wonder Woman #604
World Of Warcraft HC Vol 4
Wrong Place GN (B. Evans)
Astonishing X-Men Exogenetic HC
Deadpool Team-Up #888
Uncanny X-Men #529
X-Factor Forever TP
X-Men Curse Of Mutants X-Men Vs Vampires #2
X-Men Forever 2 #10
X-Men Legacy #241
X-Men Nation X TP (M. Allred et al)
DC Comics Presents Young Justice
Zatanna #6
At The Mountains of Madness Bookplate Edition - Exclusive to Gosh!
Gosh! Favourite Ian Culbard (Dorian Gray, A Study in Scarlet) is no stranger to the bookplate edition. You’ll no doubt remember his last one from the Hound of the Baskervilles by Ian Edginton, a sell-out success and not just because of the Gosh! Comics cameo on said bookplate.
This time ‘round Culbard steps out on his own in a new adaptation from Self Made Hero. At the Mountains of Madness is a tale of Antarctic terror by the master of unspeakable horrors, H.P. Lovecraft. First published in 1936 and now in graphic novel form some 74 years later, this is one Lovecraftian horror worth seeking out.
The barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found strange fossils of unheard-of creatures, carved stones tens of millions of years old and, finally, the unspeakable, mind-twisting terror of the City of the Old Ones.
“I could not help feeling that they were evil things – mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”
“There's been a lot of Lovecraftian work over the past few years, but [this] may be the best of them all.”
-- Pornokitsch
I could tell you a vigintillion times over that Culbard’s work is remarkable but instead I’ll point you at several early reviews lavishing praise on his latest effort: The FPI Blog, Butterfly Hunt, and Geek Syndicate.
At the Mountains of Madness: Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition boasts a signed and numbered print featuring all-new art by Ian Culbard for the standard cover price of £14.99. As a gentle nod of respect he’s done a portrait of Lovecraft himself, in blues and blacks and probably colours out of space too:
If you’d like to reserve a copy or arrange a mail order, drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Due To Arrive 26/10/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Action Comics #894
Amazing Spider-Man #646
Angel #38
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Charmer #5
Astonishing X-Men Exogenetic Prem HC
Avengers #6
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet #3 (Of 4)
Avengers Vs Pet Avengers #1 (Of 4)
Bart Simpson Comics #56
Batman The Brave And The Bold #22
Beasts Of Burden/Hellboy One-Shot
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #21
Billy The Kid Ghastly Fiend London #2
Black Widow #7
Bruce Wayne The Road Home Oracle One-Shot
Captain America #611
Captain America Patriot #3 (Of 4)
Creepy Comics #4
DC Comics Presents Superman One-Shot
DC Comics Presents Young Justice One-Shot
Deadpool Team-Up #888
Detective Comics #870
Do Androids Dream Dust To Dust #6 (Of 8)
Doomwar HC
Dracula Company Of Monsters #3
Dynamo 5 Sins Of The Father #5 (Of 5)
Famous Monsters Of Filmland #252
Fantastic Four #584
Fantastic Four By J. Hickman Prem HC Vol 3
Fear Agent #30
Fevre Dream #8 (Of 10)
Fringe Tales From The Fringe #5 (Of 6)
Gravel #21
Green Arrow #5 Brightest Day
Hellblazer City Of Demons #2 (Of 5)
Hotwire Deep Cut #2 (Of 3)
Hulk World War Hulks TP Hulked-Out Heroes
Incognito Bad Influences #1
Incorruptible #11
Incredible Hulk Prem Hc Vol 3 World War Hulks
Incredible Hulks #615
Incredible Hulks Enigma Force #2 (Of 3)
Jack Kirby Collector #55
Jack Of Fables #48
JLA The 99 #1 (Of 6)
Jonah Hex Counting Corpses TP
Justice League Generation Lost #12 BD
Justice Society Of America #44
Kill Shakespeare #6 (Of 12)
Klaws Of Panther #2 (Of 4)
Madame Xanadu #28
MMW Amazing Spider-Man TP Vol 5/Var Ed
Previews #266 November 2010
Scalped #42
Secret Avengers #6
Secret Warriors #21
Secret Warriors Prem HC Vol 4 Last Ride
Shadowland Moon Knight #3 (Of 3) SL
Spider-Man Fantastic Four #4 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Peter Parker TP
Spider-Man Vs Vampires #1
Star Trek L. McCoy Frontier Doctor TP Vol 1
Star Wars Invasion Rescues #5 (Of 6)
Supergirl Annual #2
Superman #704
Teen Titans #88
Terminator 1984 #2 (Of 3)
Thunderbolts #149 SL
Time Masters Vanishing Point #4 (Of 6)
Transformers Sector 7 #2 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 #3 (Of 6)
Ultimate Comics Mystery #4 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #15
Uncanny X-Men #529
Weird World Of Jack Staff #5
Wildcats #28
Wizard Magazine #232
Wonder Woman #604
X-Factor Forever TP
Curse Of Mutants X-Men Vs Vampires #2
X-Men Forever 2 #10
X-Men Legacy #241
X-Men Nation X TP
Zatanna #6
The Gosh! Authority 20/10/10
Hello Wednesday, would you like a carrot on a stick? In an effort to give you some sort of reassurance that we haven’t gone all Big Numbers, here is an update on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In short you can expect Century Chapter II: 1969 some time around April next year. Spring-ish, anyway. Hip hip!
In the far less vague future Absolute All-Star Superman will be on the shelf and as this excited iFanboy points out it’s about time too. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s epic emotional 12-issue series is collected in full, graced with an all-new cover by Quitely and an introduction by Chip Kidd (which you can read here, as it happens). It’s a frequently and enthusiastically recommended classic here at Gosh! and the 320-page Absolute behemoth will undoubtedly be worth the price of entry.
Incidentally, this week also sees the release of the penultimate issue of Morrison’s run on Batman & Robin. Peter J. Tomasi takes the reigns from #17 so if you’re not planning on sticking with the series post-Morrison please let us know. Tomasi talks about his plans with Newsarama.
On the flipside you can get Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s (both of Joker fame) Luthor HC, which collects the 2005 five-issue miniseries about Superman’s longtime foe, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel. It’s not new stuff but it’s good stuff, which is pretty much what this review says here.
This month DC are rifling through their archives to bring you lots of uncollected and previously unpublished gems, and they’re not stopping with Deadman. That’s an unsubtle segue right there in case you didn’t notice: If you didn’t pick up a copy of last week’s DC Comics Presents Brightest Day 100-page Special you should definitely do so – Neil Gaiman and Teddy Kristiansen’s beautiful Deadman story On the Stairs from Kristiansen’s Solo #8 is in it, along with the first ever Deadman story by his creator Arnold Drake – totally worth it for just a smidge over a fiver. It also features stuff by Ed Brubaker whose Scott McDaniel illustrated Batman vs. The Penguin arc is collected in this week’s DC Comics Presents Batman.
Then the much whispered about but never actually published Warren Ellis Hellblazer story finally sees the light of day in Vertigo Resurrected #1:
“Years ago, I wrote a brief run on the DC Vertigo horror comic John Constantine: Hellblazer. Brief, because I wrote a horror story therein called Shoot. Shoot was about schoolyard slayings in the United States. It was completed before Columbine happened, but scheduled to appear not long after. The regime at DC Comics at the time decided that it could not be released in its completed form. I refused to go along with the changes they wanted to make. They decided not to publish the book at all. I quit.”
There are also Vertigo rarities by Brian Azzarello, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Jim Lee, Phil Jimenez, and Bernie Wrightson.
About a year ago Gosh! Favourite Ian Edginton began his six-issue miniseries Victorian Undead; tomorrow it’s collected in trade paperback. I posted about it then, with links to interviews and the like. Moriarty’s zombie minions in 19th century London – what more could you ask for on a cold Thursday?
Perhaps something by Dan Clowes (Wilson, Ghost World) maybe. I would. Daniel Clowes: Conversations SC is a collection of interviews going as far back as 1988 when they appeared in rare small press and self-published zines, right up to last year when he was interviewed specifically for this book. There are 240 pages of the stuff so it should keep you occupied for a while. You can see photos of it here on the editor’s blog. Amusingly, if you’ve ever wondered how to pronounce Clowes’ name correctly read this.
There’s an armful of big arty books worth mentioning:
Blab World HC Vol 1 is the new deluxe incarnation of what was previously just known as Blab! the digest-sized art magazine with acclaimed graphic designer Monte Beauchamp at the wheel; "It's like the New Yorker for Mutants," says the Los Angeles Reader. This volume features stuff by Mark Ryden, Joe Sorren, Kris Kuksi, Femke Hiemstra, Ron English, Natalia Fabia, Alex Gross, Sue Coe, Gary Taxali, Gary Baseman, Ryan Heshka, Owen Smith, Martin Wittfooth, Yoko D'Holbachie, Andy Kehoe, Travis Lampe, Jean-Pierre Roy, John Pound, Andrea Dezso, Edel Rodriguez, Fred Stonehouse, Spain (ZAP!) Rodriguez. Sample pages abound over at the Blab World website.
Icons: The DC Comics & Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee HC does what it says on the tin; a big coffee table art book spanning his entire career to date. Comicbook Resources have a preview for you.
Then there’s Shameless Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists That Define It HC which gives you page upon page of under-appreciated genre art by the likes of Tom Lovell, Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage, and Enoch Bolles. Expect dames, pin-ups and bad girls. It’s basically a time capsule of naked and less-naked ladies.
Born Modern: The Art and Design of Alvin Lustig HC has no naked ladies in it despite designing a book cover for Henry Miller. Lustig’s the man who introduced Modern art to graphic design and managed to pack a phenomenal amount of work and influence into what was a ridiculously short life. If, like me, you think you haven’t heard of him, you definitely have; you can buy posters of his iconic book cover designs in every Oxfam.
Lynda Barry’s best-selling What It Is finally gets a follow-up in Picture This, a book in which she asks Why do we stop drawing?
“I wanted to find a way to do a book about drawing that wasn't just writing about drawing. Or you know, those instructions that always make me feel tired right away, like how to draw a picture of a glass of water and the color wheel and all those things that just make you go ‘Huhn-uhhh!’”
Barry is funny; she once called the San Diego Comic-Con the largest collection of near-sighted people in the Northern Hemisphere. Read this interview immediately, and then have a look at Drawn & Quarterly’s PDF preview.
If you’re a James Kochalka fan you’ve got two things to pick up this Thursday. There’s another Johnny Boo book for starters, and a whole new thing called Dragon Puncher HC; a mix of drawings and photographs featuring a ruthless cat in an armoured battle suit (Kochalka’s own, Spandy) and his sidekick Spoon-E (a guy with a spoon, aka Kochalka’s wee boy Eli) who fight a huge, drooling dragon (James Kochalka Superstar himself). Top Shelf have a preview here and Things From Another World have an exclusive interview. Incidentally, his American Elf daily strip, which has been going since forever, is still going. I know, big news, right? But it’s good, and every now and then I like to remind people.
Other notable stuff includes Punisher Max: Tiny Ugly World One-Shot, another ultraviolent offering from David Lapham (Stray Bullets) illustrated by Dalibor Talajic (Deadpool). Preview here.
Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.’s Kick Ass 2 #1 begins, Hit Girl, swear words and all. Preview here.
The new five-week-long Pilot Season event launches with a thing called 7 Days From Hell, about a guy spared from a fiery eternity by a renegade demon seeking redemption. It’s written by the guys behind Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box – Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin, with art by Phil Noto (Batgirl). Preview.
And finally, Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero #1 sees a wheelchair-bound student go through superhuman changes after being infected by an alien parasite. It’s written by Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and the MI:13) who talks about it with Newsarama, and illustrated by Javier Pina (Superman, Batman) whose stuff you can see in this preview. You can even have a review though they’ve headlined it with a BOOM! POW! and I reckon there should be a moratorium on that sort of thing, along with the word “quadrilogy”.
Event news! As part of the South Asian Literary Festival Paul Gravett is hosting a panel this Saturday the 23rd of October on graphic novels at the Q Forum, a new venue near Piccadilly Circus. There’s also an exhibition of comic art opening this Friday at the London Print Studio featuring work by the likes of Charlie Adlard, Ho Che Anderson, Brick, Darryl Cunningham, Karrie Fransman, Anthony Hope-Smith, John Hicklenton, Robert Kirkman, Chie Kutsuwada, Metaphrog, John Miers, Mustashrik, Nobrow, The Pleece Brothers, Pulp Theatre, David Quantick, Paul Rainey, Philippa Rice, Savage Pencil, Sean Michael Wilson, Carlos Nine, and our very own Will Bingley. All you need to know is here.
If you’re up for some theatre The Rememberers is a live hip hop graphic novel previewing at the Albany in Deptford on Thursday and Friday night this week. Their event page is here.
And that, I think, is about it.
-- Hayley
In Store 13/10/10 - 19/10/10
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #185
2000 AD #1707
Adventures Of Unemployed Man GN
Alter Ego #97
Astro City: The Dark Age HC Vol 2
Ultimate Comics Avengers Prem HC Crime & Punishment (Millar)
Azrael #13
Batman And Robin #15 (G Morrison)
Batman Beyond #5 (Of 6)
Bruce Wayne The Road Home
- Catwoman One-Shot
- Commissioner Gordon
DC Comics Presents Batman
Billy & Buddy Vol 2 SC
Blab World HC Vol 1
Blake & Morimer Vol 8
Born Modern: The Art & Design of Alvin Lustig
Boys Highland Laddie #3 (Of 6)
Brightest Day #12
Calling Cthulhu Chronicles #4
Carnage #1 (Of 5)
CBGB #4 (Of 4)
Chaos War #2 (Of 5)
Chap #53
Classics Mutilated MMPB
Conan The Cimmerian #24
Daniel Clowes Conversations SC
Daredevil #511 SL (Andy Diggle)
Darkstalkers Red Earth TP Vol 1
DC Universe Legacies #6 (Of 10)
DCU Halloween Special 2010
DMZ #58 (Brian Wood)
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #3
DV8 Gods And Monsters #7 (Of 8)
Diana Gabaldon Outlander GN Vol 1
Dr Who Magazine #427
Dragon Puncher HC Vol 1 (Kochalka)
Farscape Ongoing #12
Fables #99
Final Crisis Legion Of 3 Worlds TP
Gen 13 #38
God Complex TP (Mike A. Oeming)
Green Hornet TP Vol 1 (K. Smith)
Green Hornet Parallel Lives #4
Green Hornet Year One #6
Green Lantern Corps #53 BD
Guarding The Globe #2 (Of 6)
Halo Fall Of Reach Boot Camp #2 Haunt #10
Hellblazer #272 (P. Milligan)
Hellblazer India TP (P. Milligan)
Hereville How Mirka Got Her Sword HC
Hulk #26
Hulk Prem HC Vol 6 WWHS
Hulk TP Vol 5 Fall Of Hulks
Icons DC & Wildstorm HC (Jim Lee)
Ides Of Blood #3 (Of 6)
Johnny Boo HC Vol 4 (J. Kochalka)
Justice League Of America #50
Justice League Of America When Worlds Collide HC
Kick-Ass 2 #1 (Mark Millar/JRJR)
Legion Of Super Heroes #6
Loki #1 (Of 4)
Luthor HC (Azzarello/L. Bermejo)
Marvel Her-Oes TP
Marvel Zombies 5 HC
Megamind Movie Prequel TP
Morning Glories #3
Off Handbook Marvel U Update #4
Picture This HC (Linda Barry)
Pilot Season 7 Days From Hell #1
Power Girl #17
Punisher Max: Tiny Ugly World
Ragman Suit Of Souls One-Shot
Ratchet And Clank #2 (Of 6)
Saga Of Rex TP
Shadowland Power Man #3 (Of 4)
Shameless Art: 20th Century Genre & The Artists That Define It HC
Simpsons Comics #171
Sixth Gun #5
Skullkickers #2
Soulfire Volume Two #8
Spider-Man Gauntlet TP Vol 3 Vulture & Morbius
Spider-Man Grim Hunt Prem HC
Spirit #7
Stan Lee: Soldier Zero #1 (Cornell)
Stand Hardcases #4 (Of 5)
Star Trek Captain's Log Jellico
Steve Rogers Super-Soldier #4 (Of 4) (Ed Brubaker)
Supergirl #57
Absolute All Star Superman HC
Superman Archives HC Vol 8
Superman Batman #77
Uncle Silas Genetis SC
Tales Of The Dragon Guard Into The Veil #2
MMW Mighty Thor HC Vol 9/Var Ed
Thor First Thunder #2 (Of 5)
Thor Vs Hercules TP
Tiny Titans #33
Transformers Drift #4 (Of 4)
True Blood #4 (Of 6)
Turf #3 (J. Ross/T.L. Edwards)
Ultimate Comics New Ultimates #4
Vertigo Resurrected #1 (Ellis et al)
Best Of The Victor 50th Anniversary Edition HC
Victorian Undead TP (Ian Edginton)
Walking Dead #78 (R. Kirkman)
Deadpool #28
New Mutants #18
X-23 #2
X-Factor #210
X-Factor TP Vol 9
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #4 (Of 6)
X-Men Forever TP Vol 5
Y The Last Man Dlx HC Vol 4
MANGA
20th Century Boys GN Vol 11(Naoki Urasawa)
Chi Sweet Home GN Vol 3
Kingyo Used Books TP Vol 2
March Story TP Vol 1
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Chapter II: 1969
I can tell by the half-hearted “I’m preparing myself for disappointment” inquiries that most of you have given up hope of ever seeing the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen book. Granted it has taken roughly a century itself for the book to be completed. But you know what? Century Chapter II: 1969 is something that is happening. And it’s happening very soon. Delivery is ridiculously, perilously close. (Perhaps overegging it a bit: I mean "about April". Spring-ish. Fingers crossed.)
Progress was slow to begin with but the word from above is that we’re now just 17 pages short of having all the story art completed – and that’s including the batch Kevin O’Neill is handing over this week. Once we’ve got them scanned they’ll be shot from a cannon pointed at the USA where they’ll be cleaned up nice and shiny, then pinballed over to Japan for colouring before they’re boomeranged right back to the USA to be lettered. That’s how it happens. Top secret comics mechanics.
Before you ask when you can expect the final instalment, allow me to pre-emptively give you the spiel on the deal:
Alan Moore has already completed the script for Century Chapter III: Let It Come Down and O’Neill is eager to get started. Theoretically this means it shouldn’t take as long this time round, but have you ever seen the size of an Alan Moore script?
However big it may be the wait between chapters will be a far shorter one. Longer than a lunchtime but not quite a lifetime.
Want one saved for you? Email us a info@goshlondon.com and tell us so.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Due To Arrive 21/10/10
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Alter Ego #97
Azrael #13
Batman And Robin #15
Batman Beyond #5 (Of 6)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #21
Brightest Day #12
Bruce Wayne The Road Home Catwoman #1
Bruce Wayne The Road Home Commissioner Gordon #1
Carnage #1 (Of 5)
Chaos War #2 (Of 5)
Daredevil #511 Sl
DC Comics Presents Batman #1
DC Universe Legacies #6 (Of 10)
DCU Halloween Special 2010 #1
Deadpool #28
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DMZ #58
DV8 Gods And Monsters #7 (Of 8)
Fables #99
Green Hornet Parallel Lives #4
Green Lantern Corps #53 (Brightest Day)
Guarding The Globe #2 (Of 6)
Halo Fall Of Reach Boot Camp #2 (Of 4)
Hellblazer #272
Hellblazer India TP
Hulk #26
Hulk TP Vol 05 Fall Of Hulks
Justice League Of America #50
Kevin Smith Green Hornet TP Vol 01 Sins O/T Father
Kick-Ass 2 #1
Legion Of Super Heroes #6
Loki #1 (Of 4)
Marvel Her-Oes TP GN
Marvel Zombies 5 HC
New Mutants #18
Off Handbook Marvel Universe A To Z Update #4
Pilot Season 7 Days From Hell #1
Power Girl #17
Project Superpowers Chapter Two TP Vol 02
Punisher Max Tiny Ugly World #1
Ragman Suit Of Souls #1
Saga Of Rex TP
Shadowland Power Man #3 (Of 4) Sl
Simpsons Comics #171
Spider-Man Gauntlet TP Vol 03 Vulture & Morbius
Spider-Man Grim Hunt Prem HC
Spirit #7
Stand Hardcases #4 (Of 5)
Star Trek Captains Log Jellico (One Shot)
Steve Rogers Super-Soldier #4 (Of 4)
Supergirl #57
Superman Batman #77
Tales Of The Dragon Guard Into Veil #2 (Of 3)
Thor First Thunder #2 (Of 5)
Thor Vs Hercules TP
Tiny Titans #33
Transformers Drift #4 (Of 4)
True Blood #4 (Of 6)
Turf #3
Ultimate Comics Avengers Prem HC Crime & Punishment
Ultimate Comics New Ultimates #4 (Of 5)
Vertigo Resurrected #1
Victorian Undead TP
Walking Dead #78
Weird World Of Jack Staff #5
X-23 #2
X-Factor #210
X-Factor TP Vol 09 Invisible Woman Has Vanished
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #4 (Of 6)
X-Men Forever TP Vol 05 Once More Into The Breach
The Gosh! Authority 13/10/10
It’s that time of year (the BEST time of year) when stuff is getting spooky and we’re gearing up to accidentally set our trousers on fire in Lewes. Expect the coming weeks to be full of gods and monsters.
Best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveller’s Wife) spent the last few years writing about ghosts in Highgate Cemetery but when she wasn’t doing that she was doing a syndicated comic for the Guardian in the space usually occupied by Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe). Now collected, the strange and lovely Night Bookmobile Exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition is on the shelves signed by the lady herself.
Gosh! Favourite Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother is finally collected in one big hardcover from Dark Horse. In it you’ll get all four children’s books (Scary Godmother, Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu) but not the one-shots or comic miniseries. If you’ve never read the it before Thompson says, "Think the Addams Family and the Andy Griffith Show mash up! It's a slightly gothic, totally silly, spooky fun comic that mixes in all of the things that I love - Halloween, monsters, wrestling, cooking, craft, humor and fun all in one comic!” You can see her amazing art in the preview. Perhaps this reissue will mean more Scary Godmother comics in the post? Fingers crossed.
Thompson also turns up in the House of Mystery Halloween Annual #2 doing a new Madame Xanadu story written by Mike Kaluta. Chris Roberson and Mike Allred’s iZombie’s in there, as well as Hellblazer by Peter Milligan and Guiseppe Cumoncoli and loads more. Matthew Sturges was the captain of this particular ship; he talks about it with CbR.
Mark Gatiss’ excellent History of Horror has probably got you all re-watching classic films and hankering for some proper old Universal monsters, so the timing for the re-release of Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein couldn’t be better. It’s the first volume in Craig Yoe’s new Horror Comic Book Masters Library, a series of hardcovers that will no doubt be as lovingly reproduced and presented as all of Yoe’s previous publications.
Briefer’s Frankenstein is a far different creature to the shambling unnamed thing in Shelley’s novel, even being referred to as The Merry Monster on frequent occasions. It’s regarded as the first ongoing comic book series in the horror genre and goes through stages of being darkly horrific and then alternatively just weird and funny. Briefer, who worked with Will Eisner on some of the very first ever comic books, popped up in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time in which he said of him:
...[Briefer was] one of the few guys in the 1940s who had that loose, gestural art style that's funny. The drawing is inherently funny. Which is really unusual for humor comics of the time ... [in that] it's tight drawing. It's self-contained and beautiful. But Briefer is all over the place. When he does these swooping pratfalls that Frankenstein takes, the lines actually reflect the gag. It's nice. [...] And they're funny as comics. They read well and are beautifully drawn; they're full of unforgettable images, like the wizard eating Frankenstein on a hot dog. You'll never forget it, for better or for worse.
If you like Fletcher Hanks or Basil Wolverton you’ll probably fancy this one too.
We’ve also got bunnies topping their wee selves in Dawn of the Bunny Suicides, another cracking book of cartoons from the very funny Andy Riley. In an incredibly interesting sidenote, I recently noticed that the broom in a packet of Haribo Horror Mix looks like a frightened Andy Riley bunny. This is a true fact though I have no proof on account of I ate it.
Another one from Dark Horse is Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso’s (100 Bullets) 1995 graphic novel Vampire Boy supposedly published in English for the first time though sources say otherwise (but argue that the SAF Comics edition was such a poor translation it doesn’t count). Comicbook Resources have a preview for you.
The Wednesday Conspiracy is another translation from Dark Horse, this time from the 2005 Spanish horror comic by Sergio Bleda. It’s about a Wednesday afternoon support group for people with supernatural powers they don’t want and can’t control that all goes horribly wrong when something starts to kill them off one by one. If you’re a fan of Buffy or the Umbrella Academy this may well be up your street.
It’s Halloween in California too in Odd Is On Our Side, a graphic novel adaptation of the Dean Koontz popular ghost-whisperer novel. It’s written by Fred Van Lente (Action Philosophers!) and illustrated by Australian manga artist Queenie Chan. If that sounds like your bag you can check out the preview here. There are more in the series to come.
And in a final Halloweeny push, you should pick up a copy of Ian Edginton and Horacio Domingues’ Victorian Undead Special. It’s got Dr Jekyll in it ipso facto the other guy too. Preview. Next week you can expect the trade collection of the original miniseries. There’s also the Tomb of Terror One-Shot featuring four Marvel monster tales by Paul Hornschemeier, Joe R. Lansdale, Joseph Thomas Pruett, Rob Williams, Jordan Raskin and Mark Texeira. Preview.
In trade paperback this week you’ll get 7 Psychopaths, the Fabien Vehlmann penned, Gosh! Favourite Sean Phillips (Criminal, Incognito) illustrated WWII Hitler assassination series. Andrew liked it a lot and so did this dude. Preview here.
More war in Brahm Revel’s Guerillas TP Volume 1, the series that saw the U.S. government send a bunch of specially trained monkeys to fight the Vietnam War. “Guerillas looks at the nature of war, the nature of man, and all the grey areas in between. It's also an action-packed thrill-ride full of jungle warfare and simian acrobatics!” says Revel. Broken Frontier have a huge preview.
Scott Pilgrim fans will want to pick up Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits TP from Oni Press, the Eisner-nominated series about two ageing punk rockers who get married and move to the suburbs. Written by Jen Van Meter (Amazing Spider-Man Presents Black Cat), it’s illustrated by Christine Norrie (Queen & Country), Chynna Cluggston (Blue Monday), Ross Campbell (Wet Moon), and Bryan Lee O'Malley. This trade collects all the existing stuff so you’ll be bang up to date when the new series begins in 2011.
Then there’s British graphic novel maestro Al Davison’s Hokusai Demons & Other Tales of the Fox Mother TP which sold out completely in its hardcover incarnation. It’s 96-pages of and about Davison’s dreams of the Kitsune, a Japanese term for ‘fox’ but also the name of a mythical shape-changing trickster in Japanese folklore. Davison talks about the book, Doctor Who and other bits and pieces with Alex Fitch in this interview at Panel Borders.
And lastly, there’s Hellboy TP Volume 11: Masks & Monsters by Mike Mignola, James Robinson (Starman), Scott Benefiel and Jasen Rodriguez, collecting two long-out-of-print crossover stories featuring the spectral vigilante Ghost, Batman and Starman.
Speaking of Batman, there are loads of Bat-related titles that need mentioning – a colony, if you will. Here goes:
Paul Cornell’s (Captain Britain & The MI:13) Batman spin-off, Knight & Squire, launches this week. The first issue of six can be previewed here, with art by Jimmy Broxton of The Unwritten fame. Says Cornell, “The Knight and Squire are going to have some reasonably exciting adventures if that's all right with everyone.” More of that here.
Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne #5 (Of 6) by Grant Morrison and Ryan Sook sees Wayne on the hard-boiled streets of Gotham as a private investigator. Goods hats. Preview.
Bruce Wayne: The Road Home one-shot line starts with four of ‘em out of the gate in one go. Bruce Wayne The Road Home: Batman & Robin is particularly notable because it’s written by Fabian Nicieza (Red Robin) and drawn by Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
For classic Bat-stuff pick up the DC Comics Presents Batman/Catwoman One-Shot which collects the 2004 two-parter Trail of the Gun written by Ann Nocenti with typically great art by Ethan Van Sciver.
DC Comics Presents Brightest Day also hits the shelf, being 96-pages of hard-to-find Deadman/Hawkman stuff by Neil Gaiman, Ed Brubaker, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Scott Kolins, Arnold Drake, Carmine Infantino, Teddy Kristiansen, Joe Bennett, Sean Phillips and Ryan Sook. You can pick it up in tandem with Untold Tales of Blackest Night, a one-shot by Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi, J.T. Krul, Ethan Van Sciver (him again), Ivan Reis and Jay Fabok.
As for #1s, here’s the lowdown:
Strange Tales II #1 is more classic Marvel characters done by indie hotshots. Namely Rafael Grampa, Kate Beaton, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, Shannon Wheeler, Jillian Tamaki, Jeff Lemire, Kevin Huizenga, Jhonen Vasquez, Gene Yang, and Nick Gurewitch. Preview.
Speaking of indie comics, Digested #1 is by Melbourne-based cartoonist Bobby N. Back in Australia they’re already up to #3 of the slice-of-life series but this is the first issue we’ve had. There’s a preview over on his site.
Superior #1 (of 6) is a new superhero comic from Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) and his Ultimate Avengers 2 collaborator Leinil Francis Yu (Secret Invasion). “Superior is in a lot of ways is the project I’ve wanted to write my entire life. It’s everything I love about those big bombastic kind of Superman/Captain Marvel heroes.” Preview.
Edge of Doom #1 is a new ongoing series by Steve Niles and Kelley Jones. Niles talks Edge of Doom with CbR and there are preview bits here.
And finally, Hellblazer: City of Demons #1 (of 5) is written by Si Spencer and illustrated by Sean Murphy whose excellent artwork you’ll have seen in Grant Morrison’s Joe the Barbarian.
I reckon that’s about your lot. It’s a huge week with loads of stuff I’ve undoubtedly left out so make sure you check the shipping list so you don’t miss anything and blame it on me.
-- Hayley