Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
5 Ronin #1 (Of 5)
Angel Illyria #4 (Of 4)
Annihilators #1 (Of 4)
Astonishing Thor #3 (Of 5)
Avengers Academy #10
Avengers Thor Captain America Official Index To The Marvel Universe #11
Axe Cop Bad Guy Earth #1 (Of 3)
Azrael #18
Batman Beyond #3
Batman Beyond Hush Beyond TP
Batman Confidential #54
Batman Streets Of Gotham #20
Batman Time And The Batman HC
Billy Batson Magic Shazam Mr Mind Over Matter TP
Brightest Day #21
Captain America And Falcon #1
Captain America Hail Hydra #3 (Of 5)
Carbon Grey #1
Chew #17
Daken Dark Wolverine #6
Daomu #2
Dark Tower Treachery TP
DC Comics Presents Superman Doomsday #1
DC Universe Online Legends #3
Deadpool #33.1
Drafted TP Essential Edition
Firebreather Holmgang #2 (Of 4)
First Wave #6 (Of 6)
Giant Size Atom #1
Green Lantern #63
Halcyon #4
Hellblazer TP Vol 1 Original Sins New Ed
Herculian #1
Heroes For Hire #4
House Of Mystery #35
Incognito Bad Influences #4
Joe The Barbarian #8 (Of 8)
John Byrne Next Men #4
Jonah Hex #65
Jurassic Park Devils In The Desert #3 (Of 4)
Locke & Key Keys To The Kingdom #5 (Of 6)
Marineman #4
Marvel Previews March 2011
Marvel Zombies Supreme #1 (Of 5)
Marvel Masterworks Mighty Thor TP Vol 2
Oz Primer
Pilot Season Hardcore #1
Popeye HC Vol 5 Whas A Jeep
Powers #7
Secret Six #31
Secret Warriors #25
Spider-Man Grim Hunt TP
Stand No Mans Land #2 (Of 5)
Superpatriot Americas Fighting Force TP
Sweet Tooth #19
Takio HC
Thanos Imperative HC
Thor First Thunder TP
Thor Spotlight
Thor Tales Of Asgard TP
Thunderbolts #154
Ultimate Comics Captain America #3 (Of 4)
Venom By Daniel Way Ultimate Collection TP
Walking Dead Weekly #9
Wildcats Version 3.0 Year Two
Witchfinder Lost & Gone Forever #2 (Of 5)
Wolverine Best There Is #4
Wolverine/Hercules Myths Monsters And Mutants #1 (Of 4)
Wolverine Wolverine Goes To Hell Prem HC
X-Factor #216
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Due To Arrive 02/03/11
The Gosh! Authority 22/02/11
It was looking like a pretty mediocre week until about five minutes ago, when Self Made Hero’s latest book turned up. To avoid of being blocked by all your profanity filters (again) (sorry), it is [expletive deleted] gorgeous.
Self Made Hero are on a roll, and everything they’ve expertly ushered onto our shelves is highly recommended. Last week they personally carted in a box of signed Kiki de Montparnasse (which I wrote about a couple of weeks back), and then Ian Edginton and Ian Culbard carted themselves in and signed all three of their Sherlock Holmes books. You should snap them up quickly before someone else does.
Their latest is Baby’s in Black by Arne Belstorff. It’s about The Beatles’ time in Hamburg, particularly the relationship between former band member Stuart Sutcliffe and the young photographer Astrid Kirchherr, or (if you’d prefer) it’s very much like the “Official Comic Book Adaptation" of the film Backbeat as my colleague Nat so succinctly put it.
Bellstorf’s blog chronicles the book’s development, occasionally peppered with the photography of Kirchherr herself whenever a Beatle’s birthday rolls around. I’ve not read the book yet, but from the looks of it Criswell predicts this one may soon reach Gosh! favourite status.
Speaking of Gosh! favourites, Posy Simmonds will be giving a talk at the French Institute about the adaptation of the moustachio’d Gustave Flaubert’s novel into what has now become a classic on its own terms, Gemma Bovery. It’s on Thursday the 24th of March and the reason I’m telling you over a month in advance is because tickets are already on sale. They will undoubtedly sell out swiftly, as well they should, because Simmonds is excellent. But you already knew that.
Other books this week include Thor: Godstorm, a hardcover collection of the three-part mini-series from ten years ago.
Written by Kurt Busiek (Astro City) and illustrated by Steve Rude and Mike Royer, the series “has every hallmark of the classic Lee/Kirby era Thors and then some,” says this reviewer. And if that ain’t enough you’ll also be getting a bonus story by Mike Mignola to boot.
Outlaw Territory Volume 2 is the follow-up instalment of the critically acclaimed Western anthology featuring a gaspingly long list of excellent creators: Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire), Paul Azaceta (Captain Marvel), Marc Bernardin, Werther Dell’edera (House of Mystery), Joshua Dysart (BPRD), Tom Fowler (Mysterius the Unfathomable), Francesco Francavilla, Adam Freeman, Stuart Immonen, Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead), Andy Kuhn, Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), Joshua Ortega, Greg Pak (Silver Surfer), Sean Phillips (Incognito), Dustin Weaver, Len Wein, John Whalen, and Michael Woods. Nic Klein provides the front cover and there’s even more people behind it. Preview over at the Daily Blam.
Frequent collaborators Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, currently the duo bringing you Scarlet, see their Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. released in trade-paperback this week. If you missed it the first time round, the story spins out of the New Avengers and the whole Secret Invasion thing, which seems like a terrifyingly long time ago now. “[S.W.O.R.D. is] more intergalactic while this is more Earth-bound. What's interesting about Spider-Woman and S.W.O.R.D. is how different in tone they'll be. This is much more gritty and nourish [noir-ish? – Hayley], almost like Alias and my other work with crime comics,” says Bendis. You can have several positive reviews if you need ‘em.
Autobiographical cartoonist David Chelsea (of David Chelsea in Love) has cut out a new career for himself producing top notch How To books. His previous, Perspective! For Comic Book Artists, is now joined by Extreme Perspectives For Artists in which, as the subtitle suggests, you can Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page. Comics Worth Reading reckon it’s a comic worth reading. More details on its innards over at Flipkart.
As for regular comics, rising star Nick Spencer (Infinite Vacation) is becoming the ubiquitous Nick Spencer with no less than three things new on the shelf. His new ongoing series, Iron Man 2.0, stars Iron Man’s friend and partner, James Rhodes, last seen in 2009’s cancelled series War Machine and the Blu-Ray cover of Iron Man 2. “When I was a kid, Rhodey was Iron Man,” Spencer told Newsarama, referring to the character’s two stints filling in for Tony Stark. “I had always viewed the character as a little bit more of a lead than maybe a lot of other people do.” Preview here. Spencer’s Morning Glories #7 is also out so if you grab last week’s Morning Glories Volume 1 TP, which collects the first six, you’re bang up to date.
The Mission #1, written by Jon and Erich Hoeber (RED) and illustrated by Werther Dell’edera (Dark Entries, Loveless), is a new thriller from Image about a an average guy who is dragged into a battle between good and evil when he’s handed a mission by what he thinks is an angel. “One of the things we're trying to do in this is essentially have no supernatural elements in play,” said one of the Hoebers in an interview with Comicbook Resources. “In a lot of ways, genre-wise, it's sort of like these old spy thrillers where there's a handler who gives these assignments and tells you to do things, but you don't know which end is up. You see a lot of evidence that this is all true, but it's very oblique evidence. Part and parcel of this concept is the idea of what is real, what is not, questions of epistemology, what do we know and how do we know it. It's all bound up in this guy's head.” Preview over at Image.
There’s a few X-books worth noting this Wednesday: X-Men Legacy #245 and New Mutants #22 are the first two parts, respectively, of Mike Carey’s Age of X, for which you can find a checklist at Comicvine. Astonishing X-Men #36 (previewed here) is the first issue post-Warren Ellis, with Daniel Way (Wolverine Origins, Deadpool) and Jason Pearson (Body Bags) taking up the reins. You can pick up the last five issues of Ellis’ run on the series in Astonishing X-Men TP Volume 6: Exogenetic, also out this week.
And finally, don’t forget about our 25th Anniversary Sale! You’ve got until this coming Friday to stock up on 25p backissues. We’re restocking the bins with new stuff daily so it’s worth popping in more than once, though if you’re after anything WWE related prepare for disappointment: I saw one ten year old boy blow his entire month’s pocket money on the lot.
Before I sign off let me recommend a thing I’ve just finished reading that’s not in Gosh! but probably should be: Michael Chabon’s Maps & Legends – Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands. It’s a collection of sixteen incredible essays in defence of genre fiction. He writes about detective and horror fiction, ghost stories and fantasy, M.R. James and Arthur Conan Doyle, but the bits that hit home hardest are about comics: Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg!, Ben Catchor’s Julis Knipl: Real Estate Photographer, and Jack Kirby and Will Eisner’s everything. Originally published in hardcover by McSweeney’s, if you get yourself a copy of the 4th Estate paperback edition you’ll get an extra essay, written too late for inclusion in the initial collection – it’s called Secret Skin: An Essay in Unitard Theory, and you can guess what it’s about. HOWEVER! The original edition had a Jordan Crane (The Last Lonely Saturday, Uptight) cover design. So, weigh up your options.
If you ever find your enthusiasm for comics waning, just let Chabon tell you why they matter. His rapture is totally and unavoidably infectious.
-- Hayley
In Store 17/02/11 - 23/02/11
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2000 AD #1722
Judge Dredd Complete Case Files TP Vol 17
American Vampire #12
Angelus TP Vol 1
Atomic Robo Deadly Art Of Science #4 (Of 5)
Avengers #10 (Bendis/Romita Jr)
Secret Avengers #10(Ed Brubaker)
Baby’s In Black GN (Arne Bellstorf)
DC Comics Presents Batman Conspiracy One-Shot (D. Moench/J.H. Williams III)
Black Terror #14
Captain America #615 (E. Brubaker)
Chronicles Of Kull TP Vol 4 Blood Of Kings & Other Stories
Crossed Psychopath #1 (Of 6)(David Lapham)
Detective Comics #874(S. Snyder/F. Francavilla)
Detective Comics Classics One-Shot
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #5
Dracula Company Of Monsters #7(Kurt Busiek)
Echo #28 (Terry Moore)
Extreme Perspective For Artists SC
Fallen Angel Return Of The Son #2 (Of 4)
Fantastic Four #587 2nd Ptg & 588
Flash Gordon Invasion Of The Red Sword #1
Freakangels HC & TP Vol 5 (W. Ellis)
Ghost Projekt HC Vol 1 (S. Rolston)
Godland #34 (J. Casey/T. Scioli)
Gotham City Sirens #20
Green Arrow #9
Green Hornet TP Vol 2 Wearing Green (Kevin Smith)
Kevin Smith Kato #8
Halo Fall Of Reach Boot Camp #4 (Of 4)
Heavy Metal Spring 2011
Hellblazer Pandemonium TP(J. Delano/Jock)
Incorruptible #15
Incredible Hulks #623
Invincible Iron Man #501
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 6
Iron Man 2.0 #1 (Nick Spencer)
Iron Man Thor #4 (Of 4)
JLA The 99 #5 (Of 6)
Justice League Generation Lost #20
Justice League The Rise And Fall HC
Showcase Presents: Justice League Of America TP Vol 5
Justice Society Of America #48
Kill Shakespeare #9 (Of 12)
King Conan Scarlet Citadel #1 (Of 4)
Kull The Hate Witch #4 (Of 4)
Metalocalypse Dethklok #3 (Of 3)
Mission #1 (Werther Dell’Edera)
Morning Glories #7 (Nick Spencer)
Namor First Mutant #7
New York Five #2 (Of 4) (B. Wood)
Outlaw Territory GN Vol 2
Power Girl #21
Power Man And Iron Fist #2 (Of 5)
Punisher In Blood #4 (Of 5)(R. Remender/R. Boschi)
Queen Sonja #14
Savage Dragon #169
Scalped #46 & TP Vol 7 Rez Blues(Jason Aaron/R.M. Guera)
Seven Soldiers Of Victory HC Vol 2(Grant Morrison)
Shadowland:
- Daredevil Prem HC
- Street Heroes Prem HC
- Thunderbolts Prem HC
Bart Simpson Comics #58
Sixth Gun #9
Spawn #203
Spawn Architects Of Fear One-Shot
Amazing Spider-Man #655
Spider-Man #11
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #154
Spider-Woman TP Agent Of S.W.O.R.D. (Bendis/Maleev)
Spike #5 (Of 8)
Stan Lee Traveler #4
Stand Hardcases Prem HC
Star Trek Infestation #2 (Of 2)
Star Wars Darth Vader & Lost Command #2 (Of 5) (Leonardi)
Star Wars Legacy War #3 (Of 6)
Action Comics #898 (Paul Cornell)
Tank Girl Royal Escape TP Vol 1
Teen Titans #92
Thor #620
Thor Godstorm HC (Busiek/DeFalco/Rude/Mignola)
True Blood Tainted Love #1
Turf #4 (J. Ross/T.L. Edwards)
Ultimate Comics Doom #3 (Of 4)
Walking Dead Weekly #8
Warriors Three #4 (Of 4)
Who Is Jake Ellis? #2
Astonishing X-Men #36 (J. Pearson)
Astonishing X-Men TP Vol 6 Exogenetic (Warren Ellis)
Deadpool #33
Deadpool Corps #11
New Mutants #22 (Age of X: Pt 2)
Uncanny X-Men #533
X-23 #6
X-Men #8
X-Men Legacy #245 (Age of X: Pt 1)
X-Men To Serve & Protect #4 (Of 4)
Zita The Space Girl GN
MANGA
7 Billion Needles GN Vol 3
Dragon Heir Reborn GN
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Due To Arrive 23/02/11
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Action Comics #898
Amazing Spider-Man #655
American Vampire #12
Angelus TP Vol 1
Artifacts #6 (Of 13)
Astonishing X-Men #36 & TP Vol 6 Exogenetic
Authority The Lost Year TP Book 2
Avengers #10
Captain America #615
Darkness #90
DC Comics Presents Batman Conspiracy #1
Deadpool #33
Deadpool Corps #11
Deadpool Team-Up #884
Detective Comics #874
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #5
Elephantmen Cover Stories #1
Fallen Angel Return Of The Son #2 (Of 4)
Fantastic Four #588 Three
George Perez Art Of HC
Godland #34
Gotham City Sirens #20
Green Arrow #9
Guarding The Globe #4 (Of 6)
Halo Fall Of Reach Boot Camp #4 (Of 4)
Hellblazer Pandemonium TP
Incredible Hulks #623
Incredible Hulks TP Dark Son Enigma Force
Infinite Vacation #2
Invincible Iron Man #501
Iron Man 2.0 #1
Iron Man Thor #4 (Of 4)
JLA The 99 #5 (Of 6)
John Carter Of Mars Warlord Of Mars TP
Justice League Generation Lost #20
Justice League The Rise And Fall HC
Justice Society Of America #48
Kill Shakespeare #9 (Of 12)
King Conan Scarlet Citadel #1
Kull The Hate Witch #4 (Of 4)
Little Lulu Giant Size TP Vol 3
Locke & Key Keys To The Kingdom #5 (Of 6)
Madman Atomica HC
Magnus Robot Fighter #4 (Of 4)
Metalocalypse Dethklok #3 (Of 3)
Mice Templar Vol 3 #3
Mission #1
Morning Glories #7
Namor First Mutant #7
New Mutants #22
New York Five #2 (Of 4)
Outlaw Territory GN Vol 2
Power Girl #21
Power Man And Iron Fist #2 (Of 5)
Punisher In Blood #4 (Of 5)
Savage Dragon #169
Scalped #46 & TP Vol 7 Rez Blues
Secret Avengers #10
Seven Soldiers Of Victory HC Vol 2
Showcase Presents Justice League Of America TP Vol 5
Spawn #203
Spawn Architects Of Fear One-Shot
Spider-Man #11
Spike #5 (Of 8)
Star Trek Infestation #2 (Of 2)
Star Wars Darth Vader & Lost Command #2 (Of 5)
Star Wars Legacy War #3 (Of 6)
Starstruck HC Deluxe Edition
Teen Titans #92
Thor #620
Thor Godstorm HC
True Blood Tainted Love #1
Turf #4
Ultimate Comics Doom #3 (Of 4)
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #154
Uncanny X-Men #533
Usagi Yojimbo #135
Vampire Tales TP Vol 2
Walking Dead Weekly #8
Warriors Three #4 (Of 4)
X-23 #6
X-Men #8
X-Men First Class GN TP Vol 1
X-Men Forever 2 TP Vol 2
X-Men Legacy #245
X-Men To Serve And Protect #4 (Of 4)
The Gosh! Authority 15/02/11
Happy birthday to us! We are now a quarter of a century old. Hands up who’s been coming here for twenty-five years? Doesn’t matter if you’ve only been coming since yesterday, you’re still welcome to raid our backissue bins and plug the holes in your comic collection to the tune of 25p a pop.
Almost as rare as a 25th birthday but not quite, is the arrival of a new issue of Uptight by Jordan Crane. We last saw an issue of this one-man anthology series two (gah!) years ago. As a recap, here it is being recommended on Boing Boing, whose opinion you no doubt hold in higher regard than my own (I certainly do). It doesn’t really matter what Crane does from here on out – he’s already got a lifelong fan in me thanks to The Last Lonely Saturday, that weird little book about an old man going to visit his wife’s grave – so I’ll pretty much recommend everything he does. Uptight #4 looks amazing though, and The Comics Journal have squeezed out an early review. Thirty-six ad-free black and white pages of indie comics excellence to look forward to this Wednesday. Fantagraphics have one of their videos for you.
Speaking of indie comics, a small-press book arrived this week that deserves to be shouted about because it’s brilliant. The Man Who Clapped is written by Tanya Meditzky and illustrated by Matt Abbiss, and one of the pages looks like this:
You can find it on the counter next to the latest Adrian Tomine book and it’s yours for a fiver.
On the new shelf you can find some previously unpublished stuff by Alex Toth. When he was stationed in Japan after being drafted in 1954, Toth created his award-winning newspaper strip Jon Fury. It was the first time he’d had total creative control over a story, and it would be years before he had the same kind of freedom again. Alex Toth: Adventures of Jon Fury in Japan is a 64-page special edition comic containing unpublished stuff that you won’t have seen anywhere else, along with the last interview he ever gave, “Life Ran Out of Time” which is a lovely turn of phrase if ever I heard one.
You can bag some other rediscovered stuff in the Joe Kubert Reader, a trade-paperback collecting lost horror/adventure/romance/superhero comics from the 40s and 50s by the guy who not only created Sgt. Rock but Adam Kubert and Andy Kubert too.
An Edward Gorey book never arrives in Gosh! without trumpets to herald it, so here’s another two you should add to your loot this week: The Evil Garden sees a happy family inadvertently wander into a garden where the peaches, apples, plums, and pears are guarded by ferocious bears, while Why We Have Day and Night sees four children and a cat stumbling around in the dark asking wondering what’s going on. The latter is penned by frequent Gorey collaborator Peter F. Neumeyer, whose previous efforts include Donald Has a Difficulty.
Finder is a series that for a long time has been hard to get hold of despite the best efforts of its self-publishing creator. By having Dark Horse take care of the publishing end of things not only will the Eisner Award-winning Carla Speed McNeil will have more time to churn out great comics but you’ll actually get to read them too. The first chunk to be released is Voice, which was serialised on her website – later we can expect two collections of the original series in Library Edition hardcovers. Bleeding Cool says McNeil is “one of the greatest modern comic book artists, occupying a space somewhere between Alan Davis and Jeff Smith, Terry Wiley and Philip Bond, Dave Sim and Bryan Talbot that is all her own,” so if you’ve not checked out her stuff before now’s your chance. She tells you all about it in this interview with Comicbook Resources and Dark Horse have a preview.
The latest off the Vertigo Crime conveyor belt is Noche Roja, by Simon Oliver (The Exterminators) and Jason Latour. It’s the story of a burnt-out ex-cop investigating a soup of corruption, money, sex and politics on the border between the US and Mexico. “I kind of have a fascination with borders,” said Oliver, “No matter where you are in the world any point that two countries meet always ends up being the worst combination of both countries.” They’re billing it as a hard-boiled noir tale akin to Chinatown or L.A. Confidential. Jason Latour illustrated a recent issue of Scalped so he’s no stranger to the grittier side of comics. You can see a preview of his stuff at the Vertigo Blog, read the rest of that interview with Oliver at Newsarama, and if you’re still unconvinced Fangoria will tell you it’s well worth a read.
Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s Nemesis is out in hardcover. Never read it? Here’s how Millar would pitch it to you: “Nemesis is a reversal of the Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark archetype. What if this genius billionaire was just this total sh*t, and the only thing that stood between him and a city was the cops? It's Batman versus Commissioner Gordon, in a weird way. Or maybe a super-villain version of Se7en. A billionaire anarchist up against ordinary people. The Joker's the best thing in the Batman movies, so this guy is a bit of an amalgamation of all the stuff we like.” I linked to it when the series was about the start, but I’ll point you at that interview all over again. It’s long enough to require at least three scrolls of the mouse and there’s preview images to boot.
Twilight of the Assholes is the latest collection of Tim Kreider’s political cartoons – after The Pain: When Will It End? and Why Do They Kill Me? – in which he is even more apocalyptic and deranged than usual. Fantagraphics have a big PDF preview if you’ve not seen his stuff in the New York Times before. It’s getting a mention here almost purely because of the quote on the press release from the late, great David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) who said “These cartoons are extremely, extremely f*cking good.” Semi-related aside: Excellent twitterer George Lazenby linked to a recent radio documentary on DFW and if you like his stuff I think you should listen to it. But and so, as a disclaimer, you should be aware that if you don’t know what the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment is you will probably find it boring. See also: depressing.
In trade-paperback you can bag Peter Milligan’s (Hellblazer) Human Target: Second Chances, which collects all ten issues of the canned ongoing series from 2004. It gets the thumbs up from us. There’s also Morning Glories Volume 1: For a Better Future which collects the first six issues of the hit series written by rising star Nick Spencer, whose Infinite Vacation #2 (illustrated by friend of Gosh! Christian Ward) is out next week and bound to be in similarly hot demand.
In comics you should keep an eye out for a brand new ongoing series by Garth Ennis called Jennifer Blood, suburban housewife by day, ruthless vigilante by night. This first issue also comes with a bunch of preliminary sketches and an interview with Ennis, but if you fancy hearing what he’s got to say about it right this second there’s an interview over at the MTV site. “This is something she feels she has to do, and afterwards she reckons she'll be able to go back to suburbia and live happily ever after. One week of slaughter and out. Which I just think is funny, really; one minute she's reading the kids a bedtime story (although she doesn't, because she's already drugged their cocoa), the next she's loading the guns and priming the hand grenades.” Preview at Comicbook Resources.
Greg Pak has been shoehorning the Silver Surfer into everything he could for years, but this week sees the start of his series entirely about that one favourite character: Silver Surfer #1, the inaugural issue of a five-parter. “The Silver Surfer may be the most original character in superhero comics. No one had ever seen anything like him when he first appeared, and he remains an internationally recognized icon to this day. My earliest memories of the Surfer come from reading a battered trade paperback of Son of Origins over and over again. I think what compelled me was that intense combination of sacrifice, heroism, tragedy, romance, and mind-blowing cosmic adventure. And there was the sheer audacity of putting a silver dude on a surfboard — and making it AWESOME.” He gushes about the silver dude some more over at Newsarama, and if you want to see what it looks like IGN has a preview.
Jason Aaron’s Wolverine #6 is the start of a new arc called Wolverine Vs. The X-Men, and if you picked up Wolverine #5.1 last week you’re mentally equipped to jump on board now. Aaron talks about it here and you can have a preview too.
Doom Patrol #19 by Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark is part one of a two-part crossover story that concludes in Secret Six #30 by Gail Simone and J. Calafiore, out later this month. At the end of it a one of the Six leaves the team forever, so miss it at your peril.
The Venom/Deadpool One-Shot is a bunch of back-up stories and one-shots collected from hither and yon, answering the question “What would happen if the Venom Symbiote possessed Deadpool?” It’s by Rick Remender (Last Days of American Crime) and Shawn Moll so it should be interesting, especially if you’ve resolutely failed to collect all of those back-ups yourself over the last few months.
And if you want something light and fun or just want to wear some 3D glasses, pick up a copy of Captain Wonder, a 48-page 3D one-shot by Brian Haberlin (Witchblade) and Philip Tan (Spawn) in which the hero of the city has been missing for months and everything rests on the shoulders of a ten-year-old boy. More about it here.
And finally, here’s a thing from ex-Gosh! staff member Matt Zitron who became a proud dad two days ago. It’s a short fan film by Rob Pratt, who combined classic elements of Superman through the ages to create this rather wonderful thing.
-- Hayley
In Store 10/02/11 - 16/02/11
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie New Look Series TP Vol 5 Goodbye Forever
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #188
2000 AD #1721
28 Days Later #20 & TP Vol 3
Alex Toth Adventures Jon Fury In Japan One-Shot
Angel #42
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet TP
Avengers Academy #9
Batman #707
Bayou TP Vol 2
Booster Gold #41
Boys #51 (Garth Ennis)
Brightest Day #20
Captain America Man Out Of Time #4 (Of 5)
Captain America Scourge Of Underworld TP
Captain Wonder 3D One-Shot
Chap Magazine #55
Cyclops #3 & #4 (Matz/L. Jacamon)
Daredevil Reborn #2 (Of 4)(Andy Diggle)
DC Universe Online Legends #2
DMZ #62 & TP Vol 9 Mia (B. Wood/R. Burchielli)
Doom Patrol #19
Dr Who Magazine #431
Dungeons And Dragons #4
Edge Of Doom #4 (Kelley Jones)
Fables #102
Finder GN Vol 1 (C. Speed McNeil)
Formic Wars Burning Earth #1 (Of 7)
Fringe Tales From The Fringe TP
Edward Gorey Books:
- The Evil Garden
- Why We Have Day & Night
Green Hornet Year One #8
Green Lantern #62
Green Lantern Corps #57
Hawkeye: Blind Spot #1 (Of 4)
Hellblazer #276 (Peter Milligan)
Hulk #3
Human Target Second Chances TP (Milligan/Chiang/Pulido)
Illustration Magazine #32
Iron Man Rapture #4 (Of 4)
Jennifer Blood #1 (Garth Ennis)
Jericho Season 3 #4 (Of 6)
Joe Kubert Reader TP
Justice League Of America #54
Juxtapoz #122 Mar 2011
Legion Of Super Heroes #10
Let Me In Crossroads #3 (Of 4)
Loki #3 (Of 4)
Magdalena (Ongoing) #5
Magnus Robot Fighter #3 (Of 4)
Marineman #3
Mass Effect Evolution #2 (Of 4)
Memoir #2 (Of 6) (Ben McCool)
Mighty Samson #2
Morning Glories Vol 1 For A Better Future
Nemesis HC (Millar/McNiven)
Noche Roja HC Vertigo Crime(Simon Oliver/Jason Latour)
Outsiders #36
Plane Story TP (Kevin Sacco)
Proof Endangered #3
Robert Jordan Wheel Of Time Eye Of The World #8
S.H.I.E.L.D. #6 (Jonathan Hickman)
Silver Surfer #1 (Of 5) (Greg Pak)
Simpsons Comics #175
Amazing Spider-Man #654.1(Dan Slott/Humberto Ramos)
Spider-Girl #4
Spider-Man Gauntlet Vol 5 Lizard TP
Spirit #11
Stan Lee Soldier Zero #5 (Cornell)
Star Wars Knight Errant #5 (Of 5)
Suicide Forest #3 (Of 4)
Supergirl #61
Superman Batman #81
Superman Batman Torment TP
Tank Girl Bad Wind Rising #2 (Of 4)
Thor And Loki HC Blood Brothers
Thunderbolts #153
Tiny Titans #37
Twilight Of The Assholes GN(Tim Kreider)
Uptight #4 (Jordan Crane)
Vampirella #3
Walking Dead Weekly #7
Wolverine #6 (Jason Aaron)
Wolverine & Jubilee #2 (Of 4)
Wolverine Reckoning TP
Wonder Woman #607
Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #5 (Of 5) (W. Ellis/K. Andrews)
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth TP Vol 1
DeadpoolMAX #5 (David Lapham/Kyle Baker)
Generation Hope #4 (Kieron Gillen)
Marvel Girl #1
Uncanny X-Force #5
Young Justice #1
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Due To Arrive 16/02/11
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Amazing Spider-Man #654.1
Angel #42
Angel Illyria #4 (Of 4)
Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #5 (Of 5)
Avengers & Infinity Gauntlet TP
Avengers Academy #9
Batman #707
Booster Gold #41
Brightest Day #20
Captain America By Jack Kirby Omnibus HC
Captain America Man Out Of Time #4 (Of 5)
Captain America Scourge Of Underworld TP
Captain Wonder 3D One-Shot
Chronicles Of Kull TP Vol 4
Daredevil Reborn #2 (Of 4)
DC Universe Online Legends #2
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth TP Vol 1
Deadpoolmax #5
Detective Comics Classics One-Shot
DMZ #62 & TP Vol 9 Mia
Doom Patrol #19
Edge Of Doom #4
Fables #102
Fallen Angel Return Of The Son #2 (Of 4)
Finder GN Vol 1 Voice
Formic Wars Burning Earth #1 (Of 7)
Fringe Tales From The Fringe TP
Generation Hope #4
Green Lantern #62
Green Lantern Corps #57
Halcyon #4
Hawkeye: Blind Spot #1 (Of 4)
Hellblazer #276
Hulk #30
Human Target Second Chances TP
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 6
Iron Man Rapture #4 (Of 4)
Jericho Season 3 #4 (Of 6)
Justice League Of America #54
Legion Of Super Heroes #10
Let Me In Crossroads #3 (Of 4)
Loki #3 (Of 4)
Mad Magazine #508
Magdalena (Ongoing) #5
Magnus Robot Fighter #3 (Of 4)
Marineman #3
Marvel Girl #1
Mass Effect Evolution #2 (Of 4)
Memoir #2 (Of 6)
Mighty Samson #2
Morning Glories TP Vol 1 For A Better Future
Phoenix Without Ashes HC
Pilot Season Hardcore #1
Proof Endangered #3
Savage Dragon #169
Shadowland Daredevil Prem HC
S.H.I.E.L.D. #6
Silver Surfer #1 (Of 5)
Spider-Girl #4
Spider-Man Gauntlet TP Vol 5 Lizard
Spider-Woman TP Agent Of Sword
Spirit #11
Stand Hardcases Prem HC
Suicide Forest #3 (Of 4)
Supergirl #61
Superman Batman #81
Superman Batman Torment TP
Thor And Loki HC Blood Brothers
Thunderbolts #153
Turf #4
Uncanny X-Force #5
Venom/Deadpool One-Shot
Walking Dead Weekly #7
Who Is Jake Ellis? #2
Wolverine #6
Wolverine & Jubilee #2 (Of 4)
Wonder Woman #607
X-9 Secret Agent Corrigan HC Vol 2
Young Justice #1
The Gosh! Authority 08/02/10
If you’ve been paying attention to the twitters you’ve probably already heard about the huge-ass sale we’re about to have, starting Saturday:
While the rest of the world is buying tacky lovehearts and watching terrible romantic comedies, we Goshers will be collectively blowing out twenty-five candles. The 14th of February 2011 marks twenty-five years of selling comics from this little shop on Great Russell Street, and I’ll bet there are some of you who’ve been coming here to spend your pocket money since Day One.
It’s our party and instead of crying we’re knocking 25% off all books for this weekend only, and until the 25th you can grab any backissue in the backissue bins downstairs for a meagre 25p, which is considerably less than a bag of crisps and will take you longer to finish.
Kiki de Montparnasse is a book from SelfMadeHero (the same publishing house who brought you the Gosh! recommended Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson, Ian Culbard’s At The Mountains of Madness and more) by José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller. It’s about Alice Prin, the French model, nightclub singer and painter whose face I see every day in the numerous Man Ray photographs on my wall. You’ve undoubtedly seen her before but perhaps you didn’t know who she was:
The book is teeming with cameos which comes as no surprise given that she was a celebrated character in bohemian circles and inspired countless artists in 1920s Paris, such as Fernand Léger, Maurice Utrillo and most famously Man Ray, who fell in love with her. Her wild and debauched life as the muse of a generation is chronicled in this lovely looking black and white graphic novel, which got a rave review in the Guardian on Sunday. If you’re really into it you can go along to SelfMadeHero’s special Valentine’s Day dinner on Monday and meet the creators while being entertained by ladies in frilly garters or somesuch.
If the shelves are looking nicer this week it’s probably got something to do with the fact we’ve got two new Rian Hughes books to look at. There’s the second instalment in his line Custom Lettering compendiums, this time showcasing the handlettered typographical wonders of the 40s and 50s (last time we had the 60s and 70s). Eye Magazine review it and its predecessor. Then there’s On the Line HC, a collection of his experimental newspaper strip in The Guardian written by Rick Wright, which evidently involved a lot of faffing about with the Adobe Illustrator vector tools. And if you still haven’t picked up a copy of Yesterday’s Tomorrows, featuring comics written by Grant Morrison and the like, we’ve got a few going for a tenner. Who wants one?
Femina and Fauna: The Art of Camilla d’Errico is the largest collection of the pop surrealist’s work to date, full of strange manga-tinted young girls with big-eyes, trees on their heads, and numerous other oddities from the highly lauded paintbrush of the Canadian d’Errico. Dark Horse have a preview for you.
There’s hardly a shortage of stories about mid-life crises, but this new one from Drawn & Quarterly looks like a painful and worthy addition to the genre, if I can call it that (and I will). Tom Spurgeon said in the Comics Reporter that Joe Ollmann, a fixture on the Montreal cartooning scene, “sees the world as a relentless drip drip drip of indignities and nettlesome situations through which one must grimace and/or shift uncomfortably in one's seat.” It’s a thinly veiled autobiographical story about a man who goes through the process of getting married and having kids all over again at the age of forty. “There is a bit of the idea of therapy on paper in this for the simple reason you have to reexamine the past and analyze it a bit and also knowing that the other people involved in it will read it forces a sense of over-honesty. That's probably why I come off as such a dick in the story.” PDF preview courtesy of D&Q.
Jeff Smith’s Bone saga continues in Quest for the Snark, the first of three prose novels by fantasy author Tom Sniegoski (of Bone: Tall Tales) available in both hardcover and soft. If you remember back when Tall Tales came out, Smith wasn’t overly keen on handing the reigns to someone else, until he actually read the thing: “I laughed so hard, I agreed to do it.” Smith provides twenty or so full-page illustrations, all coloured by the excellent Steve Hamaker who is responsible for those amazing single colour volumes of the original series. Here’s a review and you can read the prologue on the internet.
Some classic comics from the 90s are being repackaged this week and John Byrne turns up in both of ‘em. There’s the Acts of Vengeance Omnibus HC, collecting all the strands of Marvel’s crossover series from 1989/90 in which Loki rallies a bunch of master supervillains to team up and rally against the Avengers. Mark Gruenwald, Paul Ryan, Vince Mielcarek, Dwayne Turner, Al Milgrom, Kieron Dwyer, Ron Lim, Erik Larson, Todd McFarlane, Sal Buscema, Alan Davis and the aforementioned Byrne are all here. Then there’s Namor Visionaries TP Volume 1: John Byrne, collecting Namor, The Sub-Mariner #1 – 9 from 1990, also written and illustrated by he of Next Men fame.
New comics include Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #1, the first issue of a six-parter by Chris Roberson (iZombie) and Shawn McManus (who illustrated the previous Cinderella miniseries too). There’s been a bad murder up on the Farm and all signs point to an arch-nemesis thought long dead. Roberson talks about it with Newsarama here, and there’s a preview at the DCU Blog. Don’t forget you can pre-order your iZombie Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition signed by Roberson and Allred, due in March.
Li’l Depressed Boy #1 is the inaugural issue of a series by S. Steven Struble (colourist on Chew) that found its beginning years ago as a webcomic drawn by the likes of Sam Keith (The Maxx), Jim Mahfood (Mixtape) and Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram), whose strips you can still see here. Sina Grace took over regular art duties three years ago and it’s his artwork you’ll find in the new ongoing story. Grace is interviewed at Book Banter. If you’ve never read it before, start here.
Other issue #1s include Fred Van Lente’s (Action Philosophers) efforts to reunite a Marvel mismatched duo in Power Man & Iron Fist #1 (of 5). Comicbook Resources give you the scoop on the buddy-up and a preview too.
The Death of Spider-Man arc continues in Mark Millar’s Ultimate Comics Avengers Vs. New Ultimates, previewed here, another one of those comics conspiring to make the word “ultimate” a totally meaningless sound to this comicshop employee.
Wolverine #1000 is a super-sized special featuring the work of people you probably like, such as Jimmy Palmiotti and a whole lot more. Preview at CbR. And Wolverine #5.1 gives you a chance to jump on board something you might like: a Point One Wolverine story, being a contained one-shot which sets up everything you need to know in order to make sense of the regular series. It’s written by Jason Aaron (Scalped), so it’ll probably come recommended to you by Andrew who loves that guy. Preview at Newsarama.
And finally, the new Spongebob Comics ongoing series plans to take you to Bikini Bottom twice-monthly, steered by the likes of Hilary Barta (Fear Agent), Graham Annable (Grickle), Gregg Schigiel (X-Babies), Jacob Chabot (Mighty Skullboy Army, X-Babies), and the very excellent James Kochalka (Johnny Boo, American Elf) who has just been appointed Vermont Cartoonist Laureate. You can here him interviewed on the radio about it here.
That’s it from me, but if you fancy even more blather about comics and graphic novels you can join the Islington Comic Forum, which meets on the last Tuesday of every month – it’s like a bookclub, but a bit less Richard and Judy. They also have a blog which is an index of some of the best books in the Islington Library collection (sourced from none other than Gosh! Comics). This seems as good a place as any in which to shoehorn a Save Our Libraries plea, so I will, because the idea of a world without libraries is a pretty horrible thing. It was my favourite place to be when I was wee, and I have no idea what I would have done with my afternoons had libraries not existed: I probably wouldn’t have read as much horror (I probably would have slept better), or got that thrill of borrowing a book which was clearly marked as being a thing not for the eyes of eight-year-olds. But I’m sure many people use the powers of library for good, and Alan Moore has a lot more to say about it in this video:
-- Hayley
In Store 03/02/11 - 09/02/11
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
B & V Friends Double Digest #211
World Of Archie Double Digest #4
2000 AD #1720
27 #3 (Of 4)
Acts Of Vengeance Omnibus HC
Adventure Comics #523
Air TP Vol 4 A History Of The Future
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Ingenue #2
Area 2: 100 Graphic Designers/10 Curators/10 Design Classics
Assassins Creed The Fall #3 (Of 3)
Atomic Robo Deadly Art Of Science #3 (Of 5)
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #4 (Of 4)
New Avengers #9
Batgirl #18
Batman And Robin #20
Knight & Squire #5 (Of 6) (P Cornell)
Birds Of Prey #9
Black Panther Man Without Fear #515
Bone: Quest For Spark HC & SC
BPRD Hell On Earth Gods #2 (Of 3)
Buck Rogers Annual #1
Captain America Korvac Saga #3 (Of 4)
Captain America Patriot TP
Ultimate Comics Captain America #2
Carnage #3 (Of 5)
Casanova Gula #2 (Of 4) (F. Moon)
Chip Second Crack #3 (Of 3)
Cinderella Fables Are Forever #1 (Of 6) (Chris Roberson)
Crypt Of Horror #10
C ustom Lettering Of The 40s & 50s SC (Rian Hughes)
Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Eluria #3 (Of 5)
DC Universe Legacies #9 (Of 10)
Deus Ex #1 (Of 6) (R. Morrison)
Doc Savage #11 (Azzarello/Klein)
Dungeons & Dragons Dark Sun #2 (Of 5)
MMW Fantastic Four TP Vol 5
Farscape #16
Fathom Blue Descent #2
Femina And Fauna HC (C. D'Errico)
Flash #9 (Flashpoint)
Flash: Dastardly Death Of The Rogues HC (Geoff Johns)
Green Hornet #13
Green Hornet Golden Age Remastered #8
DC Comics Presents Green Lantern Fear Itself #1
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #7
Haunt #13 & Haunt TP Vol 2
Heroes For Hire #3
Hotwire Deep Cut #3 (Of 3)
Incognito Bad Influences #3
Incredible Hulks #622
Invaders Now #5 (Of 5)
Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 5
Justice League Generation Lost #19
Kiki De Montparnasse GN
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage TP Vol 8
Lil Depressed Boy #1
Little Lulu TP Vol 26
Mid-Life GN (J. Ollmann)
Namor First Mutant TP Vol 1
Namor Visionaries TP Vol 1 (Byrne
Next Men #3 (John Byrne)
Northlanders #37 (B. Wood)
Occult Files Doctor Spektor HC Vol 2
On The Line HC (Rian Hughes)
Onslaught Unleashed #1 (Of 4)
Original Johnson TP Vol 2
Osborn #3 (Of 5)
Power Man And Iron Fist #1 (Of 5)
PunisherMAX #10 (Aaron/Dillon)
Raise The Dead II #3
R.E.B.E.L.S. #25
Red Robin #20 (Teen Titans)
Secret History Omnibus HC Vol 2
Secret Warriors #24
Shadowland Prem HC
Sherlock Holmes Year One #1
Spawn #202
Amazing Spider-Man #654
Spider-Man Animal Magnetism TP
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #153
Spongebob Comics #1
Stan Lee Starborn #3
Star Trek Infestation #1 (Of 2)
Suicide Squad TP Vol 1 Trial By Fire
Superman #708 (J.M. Straczynski)
Superman Mon El TP Vol 1
Teen Titans Hunt For Raven TP
Thor Death Of Odin TP New Ed
Thunder Agents #4
Thunderstrike #3 (Of 5)
Titans #32
Transformers Ongoing #16
Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #1 (Mark Millar)
Unwritten #22
Victorian Undead II #4 (Of 5)
Walking Dead #81
Walking Dead Weekly #6
Warlord Of Mars #4
Wasteland #30
Widow Maker #4 (Of 4) (D. Lopez)
DC Comics Presents Wonder Woman
Deadpool Team-Up #885
New Mutants Forever TP
Wolverine #1000 (J. Palmiotti)
Wolverine #5.1 (Jason Aaron)
X-Factor #215
Young Allies TP
MANGA
Amnesia Labyrinth GN Vol 1
Bakuman TP Vol 3
Biomega GN Vol 5
Gunslinger Girl Omnibus TP
Naruto TP Vol 50
Nura: Rise Of The Yokai Clan
Oh My Goddess Rtl TP Vol 37
One Piece TP Vol 56
Pokemon Adventures TP Vol 11
Pokemon Arceus & Jewel Of Life
Tegami Bachi GN Vol 4
Sunday, February 6, 2011
25th Anniversary Sale at Gosh!
While the rest of the world is buying tacky lovehearts and watching terrible romantic comedies, we Goshers will be collectively blowing out twenty-five candles. That’s right, the 14th of February 2011 marks twenty-five years of selling comics from this little shop on Great Russell Street, and I’ll bet there are some of you who’ve been coming here to spend your pocket money since Day One. Don your party hat and drape yourself in streamers because we’re having a whacking great sale to celebrate!
You can grab a massive 25% discount on all books in the shop (not counting new comics) on Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th, and from the 12th to Friday the 25th any backissue in the backissue bins downstairs will be a ridiculously low 25p (thematically priced!).
Now’s the time to buy that hardcover you’ve been eyeing, or to fill in the gaps in your backissue collection, or to buy what you’d probably buy anyway and have a chunk of change left over.
It starts this Saturday, and you don’t even have to sing us Happy Birthday while we’re toting up your swag.