tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48600009829419823412024-02-21T07:57:52.994+00:00Gosh! Comics BlogGosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.comBlogger638125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-53964075593519852202011-09-24T17:11:00.002+01:002011-09-24T17:14:50.532+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" >Hello folks,<br /><br />this old, tired blog is now defunct and the Gosh! Authority, new comics updates, and much much more has moved over to a proper website! It's at:</span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b><a href="http://www.goshlondon.com">http://www.goshlondon.com</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >So update your bookmarks if you want to continue getting all the news and chatter about what's come out this week and what exciting events we will be hosting at our new digs in Soho (1 Berwick Street, W1F 0DR).</span><br /><br /></div>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-61947944487854035512011-06-28T15:56:00.005+01:002011-06-28T15:59:47.602+01:00Dear Internet, change your bookmarks.We're shifting all of our blogging over to our <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/">new website</a>. The weekly Gosh! Authority will no longer appear here so change your RSS feeds, browser bookmarks or simply replace this memorised web address in your head with a new one.<br /><br />-- HayleyGosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-18950725430458691982011-06-28T15:38:00.001+01:002011-06-28T15:38:59.441+01:00Due to Arrive 06/07/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />15 Love #2 (Of 3)<br />50 Girls 50 #2 (Of 4)<br />Adventure Comics #528<br />Anita Blake Circus Damned TP Vol 1<br />Astonishing Thor #5 (Of 5)<br />Batman And Robin #25<br />Batman Beyond #7<br />Batman Knightfall TP Part 1 <br /> Broken Bat New Ptg<br />Blue Estate #4<br />Broken Trinity TP Vol 2 Pandora's Box<br />Cap And Thor Avengers #1<br />Captain America First Vengeance TP<br />Captain America Hail Hydra TP<br />Cars 2 #2 (Of 2)<br />Chew #19<br />Classic Next Men TP Vol 1<br />Conan Legacy Frazetta Cover #8 (Of 8)<br />Conan TP Vol 5 Rogues In The House<br />Danger Girl Campbell Sketchbook HC<br />Dark Tower Gunslinger Battle Of Tull #2 (Of 5)<br />DC Comics Presents Superman #4<br />DC Universe Online Legends #11<br />Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #7<br />Elephantmen #32<br />Fear Itself #4 (Of 7) Fear<br />Fear Itself Uncanny X-Force #1 (Of 3) Fear<br />Fear Itself Wolverine #1 (Of 3) Fear<br />Fear Itself Youth In Revolt #3 (Of 6) Fear<br />Flashpoint #3<br />Flashpoint <br /> Abin Sur The Green Lantern #2 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Batman Knight Of Vengeance #2<br />Flashpoint Secret Seven #2 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The World Of Flashpoint #2 (Of 3)<br />Gladstone's School For World Conquerors #3<br />Godzilla Kingdom Of Monsters #4<br />Gotham Central TP Vol 2 Jokers And Madmen<br />Green Arrow HC Vol 1 Into The Woods<br />Green Wake #4 (Of 5)<br />Halo TP Blood Line<br />Hellboy The Fury #2 (Of 3)<br />Heroes For Hire #9 Fear<br />Heroes For Hire TP Control<br />House Of Mystery #39<br />Hulk #36<br />Infinity Inc HC Vol 1 The Generations Saga<br />Intrepids #5<br />Iron Siege TP<br />iZombie #15<br />Jonah Hex #69<br />Kull TP Vol 2 Hate Witch<br />Locke & Key HC Vol 4 Keys To The Kingdom<br />Locke & Key TP Vol 3 Crown Of Shadows<br />Mad Harry Potter Special #1<br />Magic Knight Rayearth Omnibus Vol 1<br />Magnus Robot Fighter #7<br />Marineman #6<br />Memoir #4 (Of 6)<br />Moon Knight #3<br />Moriarty #3<br />Mysterious Ways #1 (Of 6)<br />Northlanders TP Vol 5 Metal<br />Ozma Of Oz #8 (Of 8)<br />Red Skull #1 (Of 5)<br />Reed Gunther #2<br />Repulse One-Shot<br />Revolver TP<br />Rodd Racer One-Shot<br />Scarlet Prem HC Vol 1<br />Screamland Ongoing #2<br />Secret Six #35<br />Shinku #2<br />Solomon Kane Red Shadows #4 (Of 4)<br />Spider-Girl #8<br />Suicide Girls #4 (Of 4)<br />Superboy #9<br />Supreme Power #2 (Of 4)<br />Sweet Tooth #23<br />That Hellbound Train #2 (Of 3)<br />Thunderbolts #160 Fear<br />Titans Annual 2011 #1<br />Trailblazer One-Shot<br />Transformers 3 Movie Adaptation #4 (Of 4)<br />True Blood Tainted Love #5<br />Uncanny X-Men #540 Fear Itself<br />Usagi Yojimbo Ltd HC & TP Vol 25 Fox Hunt<br />Vengeance #1 (Of 6)<br />Walking Dead Survivors Guide #4 (Of 4)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #27<br />Wolverine And Black Cat Claws 2 #1 (Of 3)<br />X-23 #12<br />X-Files 30 Days Of Night TP<br />X-Men #14<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-81372099426453709992011-06-28T14:42:00.017+01:002011-06-28T15:40:18.178+01:00The Gosh! Authority 28/06/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbu2en1TbDtqzpbrQGxqEdrgFb2R-T4tMnKpJv6aHkyCBuCaBG1KGKprSSAFZgzipSOhMhJrhe7qSqE0jouKzNuEpe2O0vcbTyffOE9ugTJiUzqWiftAL6IdMrPrw5f2s1LZbQAtXp-ZW/s1600/weremoving.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzbu2en1TbDtqzpbrQGxqEdrgFb2R-T4tMnKpJv6aHkyCBuCaBG1KGKprSSAFZgzipSOhMhJrhe7qSqE0jouKzNuEpe2O0vcbTyffOE9ugTJiUzqWiftAL6IdMrPrw5f2s1LZbQAtXp-ZW/s400/weremoving.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623271079096996066" border="0" /></a>In the words of Professor Farnsworth, “Good news, everyone!” Gosh! has outgrown its wee shop at 39 Great Russell Street so <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/move/">WE’RE MOVING</a> to new, bigger premises at No. 1 Berwick Street, Soho – the first time this has happened in just over 25 years. Our fancy new shop is being kitted out by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Callum Lumsden</span> whose work you might have seen <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Portas</span> praising on telly. That alone is all very exciting – but there’s MORE! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Moore</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kevin O’Neill</span> will be joining us for <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/events/"> a signing on the 30th of July</a> to celebrate the release of their <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969</span> and to tread biscuit crumbs into the carpet I will no longer have to hoover. The new shop opens on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday the 6th of August</span> and we’ve got more signings and events to dribble out in bite-size chunks over the coming weeks.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6E67adxYfp3rt2CkbbYp0MSyhIai7qPEq0aBaA_OKf7P5R_ObnowLmPxGEQnhn6d-fBJtB2BVmB4zD2vD9ooTaUMl7ubSe9kHi5PvA5fzFQNtPg9jvyP5xknuJlhtmjcRjdkVRQvSNA5h/s1600/loegposterweb.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6E67adxYfp3rt2CkbbYp0MSyhIai7qPEq0aBaA_OKf7P5R_ObnowLmPxGEQnhn6d-fBJtB2BVmB4zD2vD9ooTaUMl7ubSe9kHi5PvA5fzFQNtPg9jvyP5xknuJlhtmjcRjdkVRQvSNA5h/s400/loegposterweb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623271677177040354" border="0" /></a>I’ve just read <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/06/the-king-of-the-sunday-funnies/240188/">an interview</a> with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Maresca</span>, the man who accidentally became a publisher just because he wanted to show off his collection of classic strip comics. With a stash that included <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Little Nemo</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Walt & Skeezix</span> who wouldn’t? The latest from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maresca</span>’s Sunday Press is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Forgotten Fantasy: Sunday Comics 1900 – 1915</span> and it gets top billing this week not just because it dwarfs everything beside it, but because <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maresca </span>puts so much effort and love into these mammoth books that probably daunt most retailers. They’d probably be easier to set sail on than get home on the tube. In this new one you can find <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Kin-der-Kids</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wee Willie Winkie’s World</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Explorigator</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry Grant Dart</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Nibsy the Newsboy</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">George McManus</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dream of the Rarebit Fiend </span>Sundays by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Winsor McCay</span>, and dozens of other bits from <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Gruelle</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gustave Verbeek</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Herbert Crowley</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">John R. Neill </span>and more. There’s also this one:<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Many pages display a "steampunk" sensibility 100 years before it became a popular comics sub-genre. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Forbell</span>'s<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Naughty Pete</span> (1913) is unlike any comic strip of its day, with a look that is decades ahead of its time. In theme and design you can sense the work of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank King</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Schulz</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jules Feiffer</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Watterson</span>, and, of course, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Ware</span>.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIIffgXngQQk6c9egVzCfroUAgXESQBDZ8ggpWqqixZwHAYJ7xJ5srSZCcw1QJajg61l4wmrHW-9O5BpXBqYsn1OabtGzqT9rF7HwIS28yI95igb7rcSa5mmwD3iDAEDm1Je9dhN5CX1g/s1600/NaughtyPeteB.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIIffgXngQQk6c9egVzCfroUAgXESQBDZ8ggpWqqixZwHAYJ7xJ5srSZCcw1QJajg61l4wmrHW-9O5BpXBqYsn1OabtGzqT9rF7HwIS28yI95igb7rcSa5mmwD3iDAEDm1Je9dhN5CX1g/s400/NaughtyPeteB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623272151699920210" border="0" /></a>Preview pages run alongside that interview but there are a few more over at <a href="http://www.sundaypressbooks.com/ffbook.php">Sunday Press</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8w4qPy8NKgFm1i1ds7YYknEf4yfWCoRfxlHjMp5ddjTxgv1uvxl-NuzY1R8eTy9fzeqO8ppHn_Rzn4RrPsX80JLi0s8hxL2zox7xqnu5hUVEVJCAhTmwungItVgvPo_myKKsn-i_CHBk/s1600/lucille41371.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8w4qPy8NKgFm1i1ds7YYknEf4yfWCoRfxlHjMp5ddjTxgv1uvxl-NuzY1R8eTy9fzeqO8ppHn_Rzn4RrPsX80JLi0s8hxL2zox7xqnu5hUVEVJCAhTmwungItVgvPo_myKKsn-i_CHBk/s400/lucille41371.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623272748588112402" border="0" /></a>From Top Shelf you can have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lucille</span>, the English translation of an award winning French graphic novel by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ludovic Debeurme</span>. Two complexly traumatised teenagers who have inherited strange and terrible problems from their families embark on a bold trip across Europe to try and overcome them. Clocking in at 550 pages you can expect this one to weigh you down a bit. So far, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Debeurme</span>’s stripped-back line art universally reminds every reviewer of <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Porcellino</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anders Nilsen</span> or early-<span style="font-weight: bold;">Chester Brown</span> indie comics – it’s not his set style though, as I discovered when I delved further into the Internet and discovered <a href="http://ludovic.debeurme.free.fr/">these frankly creepy illustrations</a>. There’s a preview of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lucille </span><a href="http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2821587.html">here</a> (though I’ll warn you they’re not the cheeriest 15 pages of comic you’ll read today) and a <a href="http://www.graphicnovelreporter.com/content/lucille-review">review here</a> and <a href="http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/eurocomics/6893/">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheythphc4VlOI25kxIyneb6XBh3MBdOfCa-H08pcp26WQSYbRHy-I2WP4Wu5PndipkZzju1ras8wpaJqz-RYSv0TbsPNoei2ZY7v3kOZePoldUfiKMq5OypWAmKf3UZClmLeW8pxX6XxYx/s1600/ditko.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheythphc4VlOI25kxIyneb6XBh3MBdOfCa-H08pcp26WQSYbRHy-I2WP4Wu5PndipkZzju1ras8wpaJqz-RYSv0TbsPNoei2ZY7v3kOZePoldUfiKMq5OypWAmKf3UZClmLeW8pxX6XxYx/s400/ditko.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623273496522441170" border="0" /></a>Marvel are going through their bottom drawers again and just like the Grant Museum <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/21/dodo-found-grant-museum-drawer">finding a dodo they never knew they had</a>, they discovered some <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Ditko</span> pencils they never got round to publishing. In the introduction, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Karl Kesel</span> writes about how he had too much on his plate back in 1986 so had to pass on inking some other <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ditko </span>job, but he gets another go at it in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Incredible Hulk & Human Torch: From The Marvel Vault #1</span> and is pretty astounded and thankful about it too. Read all that in the <a href="http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/previews/marvel-previews/14384.html">online preview</a>. Next to it on the shelf you can also grab the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Incredible Hulks Annual #1</span> written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Layman</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chew </span>fame. Preview <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=9057">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNeyjyRIspAvb2v7hG7qLeUEm-8B3AoccTHT_c-uVyesRPp4PaJIgIb7ND-XefCug1IndD0SZQ82s_JPfZJmIgTa6yL9Ko1mgaJInUA42ZLwSnthTlLt60TS4VePnlBCcUMrCvNxYmG47j/s1600/prv9057_pg3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNeyjyRIspAvb2v7hG7qLeUEm-8B3AoccTHT_c-uVyesRPp4PaJIgIb7ND-XefCug1IndD0SZQ82s_JPfZJmIgTa6yL9Ko1mgaJInUA42ZLwSnthTlLt60TS4VePnlBCcUMrCvNxYmG47j/s400/prv9057_pg3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623274089821072434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kesel </span>is revelling in it this week – he also gets to see his work next to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack “King” Kirby</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Captain America Rebirth </span>is a one-shot collecting <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tales of Suspense #63, #65 – #69</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stan Lee</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kirby</span>, in which the origins of Captain America and the Red Skull are revealed. The issues are all fully remastered and re-coloured and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kesel </span>writes and draws a new framing sequence. Don’t forget you can get more Captain America in the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All Winners Squad: Band of Heroes #1 </span>(of 8) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Jenkins</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carmine Di Gidandomenico </span>where it’s WWII and Cap heads up a top-secret all-hero unit of the military. <a href="http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/06/24/marvel-comics-preview-all-winners-squad-band-of-heroes-1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">The Daily Blam</a> has a preview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL96enbRw6UtugCccbZI-qFRGsXFaz3r3GhFjMlT1Lnzz4kQCxkA3vtt7N0ngtTqsHHA3A7GErj1Re0V9OrRKqzw0xDpcIoEZYvzmF2wFv4xexJBbOUgxe98WF-FAxSiLsogcc13sgFshw/s1600/IAMLEGION_01_cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL96enbRw6UtugCccbZI-qFRGsXFaz3r3GhFjMlT1Lnzz4kQCxkA3vtt7N0ngtTqsHHA3A7GErj1Re0V9OrRKqzw0xDpcIoEZYvzmF2wFv4xexJBbOUgxe98WF-FAxSiLsogcc13sgFshw/s400/IAMLEGION_01_cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623274625960557586" border="0" /></a>Speaking of WWII, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fabien Nury </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Cassaday</span>’s (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Planetary</span>) <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I Am Legion HC</span> is a supernatural take on the event. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I've always been a bit of a WWII buff, and the way Fabien inserted the supernatural element into a wartime thriller made it an easy choice,” </span>said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cassaday </span>back in 2008 to <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18626">Comicbook Resources</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I didn't want to be a part of any cliché run-of-the-mill horror story. There's nothing out there quite like it, at least not in comics.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jucu_YrkQfyNbFxuKbslcj6_Sd_gl9we1rKUogFNhTuITBHZTO-J_NMtVCJxT_mzxTuYsO_hPzaHxvvPFynewHwtD6LM0QRBrpcO5SNvC6EBdFcnlt0YPAUxgFKyp8VkJT5Jqjrbz0ol/s1600/knight-squire_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jucu_YrkQfyNbFxuKbslcj6_Sd_gl9we1rKUogFNhTuITBHZTO-J_NMtVCJxT_mzxTuYsO_hPzaHxvvPFynewHwtD6LM0QRBrpcO5SNvC6EBdFcnlt0YPAUxgFKyp8VkJT5Jqjrbz0ol/s400/knight-squire_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623275235357547634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Cornell</span> is one of the most English men in England so it’s little wonder he swung it at DC so he could stage the entire first issue of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Knight & Squire</span> entirely at the pub. The six-issue miniseries illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy Broxton</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Unwritten</span>) is collected in trade-paperback this week. Here’s <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/comics/paul-cornell-knight-squire-100713.html">an old interview</a> I linked to before the comic landed.<br /><br />There are some fairly horrific things in comics this week, not least of which is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Something Monstrous </span>by grim-doings enthusiast, Mr <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Niles</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">30 Days of Night</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">R.H. Stavis</span>. Illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stephanie Buscema</span> (who started out as an inker for her grandfather <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Buscema</span>), it’s about something mysterious killing all the old people in town. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buscema</span>’s cartoon retro art is the hook on this one – head over to <a href="http://stephaniebuscema.blogspot.com/">her blog</a> to see what I’m on about.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbPOLTu_kmUiyUMwzu4ILDo6mcpz97sG-kPbWawjddTJI9jY91AOHmruKLI7ptvejfWuhjpr3-yPDAfZZ6i04638Vzs035NcXn2lzswf2QTsaKqe75wYt0EKMKawJWMxVH6zzsLLP8N9c_/s1600/witchdoctor.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbPOLTu_kmUiyUMwzu4ILDo6mcpz97sG-kPbWawjddTJI9jY91AOHmruKLI7ptvejfWuhjpr3-yPDAfZZ6i04638Vzs035NcXn2lzswf2QTsaKqe75wYt0EKMKawJWMxVH6zzsLLP8N9c_/s400/witchdoctor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623277426704938226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Kirkman</span>’s <a href="http://www.multiversitycomics.com/2010/07/robert-kirkmans-skybound-arrives.html">new Image imprint Skybound</a> sees is flagship title hit the shelves this week. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Witch Doctor #1</span> (of 4) is a book <span style="font-weight: bold;">Warren Ellis</span> has simply called “mental”. In an interview with <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/comics/1387">Bloody Disgusting</a>, writer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brandon Seifert </span>said<span style="font-style: italic;"> “[artist] Lukas [Ketner] and I are both big fans of series that blend horror and SF with other genres — Lukas loves The Goon, I love Buffy, and we both love Hellboy and Doctor Who. Those are all series where you can do a variety of stories with a variety of tones, and Witch Doctor is sort of our own personal equivalent. More specifically, I love the idea of the occult doctor, the doctor who investigates the supernatural. That’s an idea that’s been around almost as long as horror fiction, but I’d never seen it played straight. I wanted to see a hero who approached monsters the way a doctor would, instead of being played as a generic monster hunter or mystic. Lukas and I both love jerky, snarky anti-hero types, and we thought it’d be fun to make our occult doctor sort of a Dr. House type. So that was another element. The last thing, the final ingredient, was the monsters. Pretty soon into thinking about Witch Doctor, I realized the monsters all needed to be crossed with actual diseases and awful stuff from real biology. For me, that’s when everything finally came together, and we had our comic."</span> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8132">Preview</a> and <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=3624">a review over at Comicbook Resources</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6owLbxIMbgT8t0yh4cQt1CUNDWNZudr5zO3toJ35haPyFo4z0bfyjNrpa3zzy_m-M2VeM6r2l0aXShYPiUAF-fbz2N6UtgQ-ggMRuyuIn5lKOGnr_1-VKvNrWhQKIAB4mfL1psLoBlHb/s1600/sixpennymurder_1_backcover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6owLbxIMbgT8t0yh4cQt1CUNDWNZudr5zO3toJ35haPyFo4z0bfyjNrpa3zzy_m-M2VeM6r2l0aXShYPiUAF-fbz2N6UtgQ-ggMRuyuIn5lKOGnr_1-VKvNrWhQKIAB4mfL1psLoBlHb/s400/sixpennymurder_1_backcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623277813796926130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Sixpenny Murder</span> is a one-shot about Victorian street crime that was made as part of a 16-week program for modern-day youths involved in gang culture and the like. It’s written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">John A. Short</span>, publisher at <a href="http://kultcreations.blogspot.com/">Kult Creations</a>, and illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Hitchcock</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Springheeled Jack</span>). Review and preview at <a href="http://escape-from-tomorrow.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_23.html">Escape From Tomorrow</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Moore</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Boneyard </span>gives you a new four-part series with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gobs #1</span> about a bunch of goblins who, after being kicked out of their old favourite pub, set up a new one in the hollowed-out body of a dead giant. As you do.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3eCuNhUnBuz-XwXx8Pgh4Fs3v2EWJqBsvJRxkPnXy9_uE9lirzQlBn33jKGEc8NMJb-TJ8gnbL1hO8CfSyXdlOUXyXZ-I_VyX5EkDC9-rddZqQ1YIXoxIDYxF4sizWN7WQyhYIYHYTMp/s1600/campbell.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3eCuNhUnBuz-XwXx8Pgh4Fs3v2EWJqBsvJRxkPnXy9_uE9lirzQlBn33jKGEc8NMJb-TJ8gnbL1hO8CfSyXdlOUXyXZ-I_VyX5EkDC9-rddZqQ1YIXoxIDYxF4sizWN7WQyhYIYHYTMp/s400/campbell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623278347199778466" border="0" /></a>In the Marvel camp you can get <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Marvel Universe Vs The Punisher</span> -– the four-issue miniseries by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Maberry </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Goran Parlov </span>in trade paperback, as well as <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Marvel Universe Vs Wolverine #1</span> the first of another four-parter by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Maberry</span>, this time with Gosh! Favourie <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laurence Campbell </span>on art duties. Preview of that one <a href="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/joshw24/news/?a=40393">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGijWtO5QC9tvhf_0nTHpMhN0IUJinVlh8n9txttkp_k8o63IbpZ1oj92ykXEkKlLjFlIP8WHsAvBu-cNotQ8Rvyt6rHiyo78kwPPmhzpndCpTFtZ1eyChXk9PGultZDCxhowaocU-6K1l/s1600/omtlcov_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGijWtO5QC9tvhf_0nTHpMhN0IUJinVlh8n9txttkp_k8o63IbpZ1oj92ykXEkKlLjFlIP8WHsAvBu-cNotQ8Rvyt6rHiyo78kwPPmhzpndCpTFtZ1eyChXk9PGultZDCxhowaocU-6K1l/s400/omtlcov_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623278885920609666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">One Month To Live</span> was a five-part series penned by four different writers (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Remender</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Williams</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stuart Moore</span> & <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Ostrander</span>) and illustrated by even more artists (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Andrea Mutti</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koi Turnbull</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shawn Moll</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shane White</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Graham Nolan</span> & <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jamie McKelvie</span>) As for the plot: <span style="font-style: italic;">“This was a concept that [Wacker] had come up with after dealing with some personal issues... It’s a unique story in the Marvel Universe exploring things that we all can relate to, an examination of mortality, somewhat akin to ‘The Death of Captain Marvel’ but with an everyman bestowed powers. [Main character Dennis Sykes] is sort of like any of us in this situation... We all think we have 70 to 80 years to mess around; Dennis realizes he’s only got 30 days. It boils down to him discovering what is truly important to him, and what kind of mark he wants to leave on the world.”</span> The rest of that interview and preview pages are <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/comics/one-month-to-live-100901.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Here’s an odd piece of news. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pat Mills </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">2000AD</span>) has penned a series of comic strips to launch the game inFAMOUS by PS3. The strips are a series of moral dilemmas featuring celebrities like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Beyonce</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay-Z</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cheryl Cole</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lady Gaga</span> and the like, illustrated by a bunch of UK comics creators you’ll no doubt recognise. You can see them over at the inFAMOUS <a href="http://www.infamousthegame.com/">website</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YAhsrjgAfOIp7OkIpJbarSr4XUuY2u7qBhGiMG4WXYwhrpgSUDOIxE-HPANvsbyerFYE5LjTdXjHLwB0m5QSwZI23kYJvYzyegpdZ1_YgNja8fjn9xp104lKFqxlhPr78hjMtiHp0PZ1/s1600/graphic.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YAhsrjgAfOIp7OkIpJbarSr4XUuY2u7qBhGiMG4WXYwhrpgSUDOIxE-HPANvsbyerFYE5LjTdXjHLwB0m5QSwZI23kYJvYzyegpdZ1_YgNja8fjn9xp104lKFqxlhPr78hjMtiHp0PZ1/s400/graphic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623279292534220738" border="0" /></a>And finally, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eddie Campbell</span> <a href="http://www.eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/">has started blogging again</a>. If I were you I’d get amongst it NOW because you never know when he’ll chuck a strop again and disappear from the Internet. Heads up for those in Australia: he’s doing at talk at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Graphic festival, at which <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Crumb</span> is a guest too! Can someone give <span style="font-weight: bold;">Crumb </span>a piggyback on my behalf?<br /><br />-- Hayley<br /><br />P.S. RSSers! This is the last post I'll be doing at the blogspot. Please change all your bookmarks etc over to <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com">our website</a>.<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-6541895756394855922011-06-28T14:39:00.001+01:002011-06-28T14:42:15.076+01:00In Store 23/06/11 - 29/06/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />2000 AD #1739 & #1740<br />Judge Dredd Megazine #312<br />27 TP Vol 1 First Set<br />American Vampire #16<br />Angel Omnibus TP Vol 1<br />Aquaman Death Of A Prince TP<br />Artifacts #8 (Of 13)<br />Avengers Childrens Crusade #6 (Of 9)<br />Batman Arkham City #3 (Of 5)<br />Batman Incorporated #7 (Morrison)<br />Batman Knight And Squire TP (Paul Cornell)<br />Detective Comics #878<br />Butcher Baker Righteous Maker #4<br />All Winners Squad Band Of Heroes #1 (Of 8) (Di Giandomenico)<br />Captain America<br />- America’s Avenger #1<br />- First Vengeance #4 (Of 4)<br />- Rebirth One-Shot (Jack Kirby)<br />Creepy Comics #6<br />Danger Girl Army Of Darkness #2<br />Daomu #5<br />Daredevil Yellow TP (Tim Sale)<br />Death Of Zorro #5<br />Dr Who Insider #4<br />Drums #2 (Of 4)<br />Dungeons & Dragons HC Vol 1 Shadowplay<br />Fear Itself Black Widow #1 Fear Itself<br />FF #5 (Jonathan Hickman)<br />Flashpoint Green Arrow Industries One-Shot<br />Flashpoint:<br />- Hal Jordan #1 (Of 3)<br />- Project Superman #1 (Of 3)<br />- Canterbury Cricket One-Shot<br />Forgotten Fantasy: Sunday Comics 1900-1915 HC<br />Gobs #1 (Of 4) (Richard Moore)<br />Goon #34 (Eric Powell)<br />Gotham City Sirens #24<br />Green Hornet Strikes #8<br />Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #11 (War of the GLs)<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Hal Jordan One-Shot<br />Heavy Metal Summer 2011<br />I Am Legion SC (John Cassaday)<br />Incorruptible #19<br />Incredible Hulk & Human Torch: From Marvel Vault One-Shot (Steve Ditko)<br />Incredible Hulks Annual #1<br />Iron Age #1 (Of 3)<br />JSA 80 Page Giant 2011 #1<br />Justice Society Of America #52<br />Knights Of The Dinner Table #175<br />Lucille GN<br />Mad Magazine #510<br />Magdalena #7<br />Marvel Previews July 2011<br />Marvel Universe Vs Punisher TP<br />Marvel Universe Vs Wolverine #1 (Of 4) (Laurence Campbell)<br />Marvel Zombies Supreme #5 (Of 5)<br />One Month To Live TP (J. McKelvie)<br />Previews #274 July 2011<br />Project Superpowers Black Terror TP Vol 3<br />Ratchet And Clank TP<br />Red Robin Hit List TP<br />Rocketeer Adventures #2 (Of 4)<br />Scalped #50 (J. Aaron/D. Haspiel)<br />Secret History #15<br />She-Hulks TP Hunt For Intelligencia<br />Simpsons Super Spectacular #13<br />Sixpenny Murder One-Shot<br />Sixth Gun #12<br />Something Monstrous GN (S. Niles)<br />Amazing Spider-Man #664<br />Amazing Spider-Man Big Time One-Shot<br />Spider-Man Original Clone Saga TP<br />Strange Case Of Mr Hyde #3 (Of 4)<br />Super Dinosaur #3<br />Marvel Masterworks Mighty Thor TP Vol 3<br />Thor TP Blood And Thunder<br />Thunder Agents #8<br />Transformers Heart Of Darkness #4<br />Ultimate Comics X #5 (Art Adams)<br />Vampirella Scarlet Legion #2<br />Venom #4<br />Walking Dead #86 (R. Kirman)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #26<br />Witch Doctor #1 (Of 4)<br />Wonder Woman #612<br />Deadpool Dead Head Redemption TP<br />Uncanny X-Men #539 (K. Gillen)<br />Wolverine Best There Is #7<br />X-Force TP Sex And Violence<br />X-Men Prelude To Schism #4 (Of 4)<br />X-Men Second Coming Revelations TP<br />Xombi #4(Frazer Irving)<br /><br /><br />Air Gear GN Vol 18<br />Yakuza Moon True Story Of Gangsters Daughter GN<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-66144204801558542092011-06-21T15:22:00.000+01:002011-06-21T15:23:38.621+01:00Due to Arrive 29/06/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />27 TP Vol 1 First Set<br />All Winners Squad Band Of Heroes #1 (Of 8)<br />Amazing Spider-Man #664<br />Amazing Spider-Man Big Time #1<br />American Vampire #16<br />Angel Omnibus TP Vol 1<br />Aquaman Death Of A Prince TP<br />Avengers Children's Crusade #6 (Of 9)<br />Batman Arkham City #3 (Of 5)<br />Batman Incorporated #7<br />Batman Knight And Squire TP<br />Broken Trinity TP Vol 2 Pandora's Box<br />Butcher Baker Righteous Maker #4<br />Caniff HC<br />Captain America Americas Avenger #1<br />Captain America First Vengeance #4 (Of 4)<br />Captain America Rebirth #1<br />Chew #19<br />Conan TP Vol 5 Rogues In The House<br />Creepy Comics #6<br />Daomu #5<br />Daredevil Yellow TP<br />Deadpool Dead Head Redemption TP<br />Detective Comics #878<br />Drums #2 (Of 4)<br />Dungeons & Dragons HC Vol 1 Shadowplague<br />Elephantmen #32<br />Fear Itself Black Widow #1 Fear<br />FF #5<br />Flashpoint Green Arrow Industries #1<br />Flashpoint Hal Jordan #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Project Superman #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The Canterbury Cricket #1<br />Godzilla Kingdom Of Monsters #4<br />Goon #34<br />Gotham City Sirens #24<br />Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #11<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Hal Jordan #1<br />Incredible Hulk & Human Torch Marvel Vault #1<br />Incredible Hulks Annual #1<br />Iron Age #1 (Of 3)<br />JSA 80 Page Giant 2011 #1<br />Justice Society Of America #52<br />Mad Magazine #510<br />Magdalena #7<br />Magic Knight Rayearth DH Omnibus Ed Vol 1<br />Marineman #6<br />Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Captain America Marvel Universe Vs Punisher TP<br />Marvel Universe Vs Wolverine #1 (Of 4)<br />Marvel Zombies Supreme #5 (Of 5)<br />Mice Templar Vol 3 #5 <br />Marvel Masterworks Mighty Thor TP Vol 3<br />One Month To Live TP<br />Ratchet And Clank TP<br />Red Robin Hit List TP<br />Rodd Racer One-Shot<br />Sam & Twitch Complete Collection HC Vol 1<br />Scalped #50 <br />She-Hulks TP Hunt For Intelligencia<br />Something Monstrous GN<br />Spider-Man Original Clone Saga TP<br />Strange Case Of Mr Hyde #3 (Of 4)<br />Suicide Girls #4 (Of 4)<br />Super Dinosaur #3<br />Thor TP Blood And Thunder<br />Thunder Agents #8<br />Transformers Prime TP Vol 3<br />True Blood Tainted Love #5<br />Ultimate Comics X #5<br />Uncanny X-Men #539<br />Usagi Yojimbo #138 & Ltd HC & TP Vol 25<br />Venom #4<br />Walking Dead #86<br />Walking Dead Weekly #26<br />Witch Doctor #1 (Of 4)<br />Wolverine Best There Is #7<br />Wonder Woman #612<br />World Of Archie Double Digest #8<br />X-Force TP Sex And Violence<br />X-Men Prelude To Schism #4 (Of 4)<br />Xombi #4<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-61536028034341585852011-06-21T14:10:00.024+01:002011-06-21T15:22:04.401+01:00The Gosh! Authority 21/06/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7BC_yBDiAvAwXBFtEozjBidNJnG7pokCX5uB15Lvfkxs-apuPWBrhj6pKloLXSk55yRCUIFDDVV5D1v4OARKi092pnpNqU_3Wx6vDmrBa6rU0rWFBkgudVhllZnPHpFVosOrJsRrLj5N/s1600/gallery.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7BC_yBDiAvAwXBFtEozjBidNJnG7pokCX5uB15Lvfkxs-apuPWBrhj6pKloLXSk55yRCUIFDDVV5D1v4OARKi092pnpNqU_3Wx6vDmrBa6rU0rWFBkgudVhllZnPHpFVosOrJsRrLj5N/s400/gallery.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620667339647384978" border="0" /></a>Exciting things are afoot! We have <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/">a brand new website</a> designed by our very own <a href="http://www.juliascheele.co.uk/">Julia Scheele</a> (with a <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/meet-the-staff/">Meet The Staff</a> page and everything, hello how do you do) so make sure you switch your RSS feeds and bookmarks, etc. Also we’ve also got ten pieces of original art from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Moore</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kevin O’Neill</span>’s upcoming <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969</span> on our walls. They’ve been there for about a week and already loads of you have come and gazed up at them with longing and downright impatience.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eIBWNSvMjK2a00QpOpjRQtERwtMq9OD8zz47avDbKX4j833m3rx3mTbv7fawJadIBWcyfK4JvaMbkexQJ2akFo6AfUiQtAff6W7FbuUiG8NMtDKiPauaW3NnfkX2G35VmZXeJVszVI7w/s1600/gallery2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eIBWNSvMjK2a00QpOpjRQtERwtMq9OD8zz47avDbKX4j833m3rx3mTbv7fawJadIBWcyfK4JvaMbkexQJ2akFo6AfUiQtAff6W7FbuUiG8NMtDKiPauaW3NnfkX2G35VmZXeJVszVI7w/s400/gallery2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620667636506636914" border="0" /></a>We may be biased but we highly recommend popping in for a real life preview if you haven’t already, and while you’re here you can <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2011/06/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html">reserve your bookplated copies</a> with our handy standing order service. I will keep going on about this until you do, yes.<span id="fullpost"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIMpP2E01EKRaCTJVmQ3VB99ED6_zUCqQYEldktCVSGYxq7jxYLeO9l96aUflWQChOl0N-6M3z_Q2KfS_Yz7fLxunr5pnwoYg49ns8_-81UZWFyllaKdTQ2fMCVlL6RprbjKsExY8WAb4/s1600/scarygodmother.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIMpP2E01EKRaCTJVmQ3VB99ED6_zUCqQYEldktCVSGYxq7jxYLeO9l96aUflWQChOl0N-6M3z_Q2KfS_Yz7fLxunr5pnwoYg49ns8_-81UZWFyllaKdTQ2fMCVlL6RprbjKsExY8WAb4/s400/scarygodmother.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620668411489125362" border="0" /></a>Top of the pops this week is the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Scary Godmother Comic Book Stories TP</span> by Gosh! Favourite <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jill Thompson</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Beasts of Burden</span>, <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32775">soon to be a motion picture</a> don’t you know). It differs from the most recent <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Scary Godmother</span> hardcover in that it’s a collection of the <span style="font-style: italic;">comic book</span> stuff rather than all of her children’s books stuck together. There are also nineteen pages full-colour sketchbook which – if sitting beside her and watching her sketch for hours at a Gosh! signing is anything to go by – should be a compendium of ridiculously beautifully and polished artwork of a calibre rarely found in bonus sketchbook sections. She really is an excellent artist and a lovely lady too. Here’s a preview courtesy of <a href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/17-306?page=0">Dark Horse</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOpwfLpmflS__GIwWz8rvpbnLGwpL_S4XmjoLT2FmvRbh8vsEMrUa8ZFVy1CIILrDq96iSZKsixx8axMxMoOXPcmNxdrV8Wx3k1Ke41_eWAwQ4ODv77VhyLqAg5lqaDiQJW4ZxI_bmPF5/s1600/chester5000_03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOpwfLpmflS__GIwWz8rvpbnLGwpL_S4XmjoLT2FmvRbh8vsEMrUa8ZFVy1CIILrDq96iSZKsixx8axMxMoOXPcmNxdrV8Wx3k1Ke41_eWAwQ4ODv77VhyLqAg5lqaDiQJW4ZxI_bmPF5/s400/chester5000_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620668970146696770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chester 5000 VXY</span> is a book I wouldn’t suggest doing a Google image search on if you’re positioned at, say, the front door of a comic book store: it is <span style="font-style: italic;">rude</span>, ladies and gentlemen.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Chester was originally a seven-page story for one of the Eros anthologies,”</span> says creator<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Jess Fink</span> over at <a href="http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1921">Sequential Tart</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“It was just a little idea I had, I was really inspired by the Tijuana Bibles which were these little eight-page illegal porn comics sold on the street during the '30s and '40s.” </span>Formerly a webcomic, it’s a wonderfully drawn silent story set in 1885 in which a busy inventor creates a robot called Chester to keep his sexually frustrated wife occupied. It gets a funny review over at <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/chester-5000-xvy/">The Comics Journal</a> by someone who has handled more comic book pornography than I knew existed. <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/preview/?id=721">This preview</a> comes courtesy of Top Shelf and carefully skirts around the ruder pages which (if you’re curious) you can find for yourself. If I stick one the Gosh! Blog I will be summarily fired.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNJ3ysymAZQOGv74XWNnZUBKCLH0n8SNYX6pMmLcO1VCwbvqVXnrUFL7ApbuLHOQYhD-ZRO4cMyLtSuc1CwQkARiCvvBpIio8e1EzM2O8SPc0Gv-RA7foK6DxCVShJ6GjXuNlA5upRnPs/s1600/gingerbreadgirlcoversmlg-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNJ3ysymAZQOGv74XWNnZUBKCLH0n8SNYX6pMmLcO1VCwbvqVXnrUFL7ApbuLHOQYhD-ZRO4cMyLtSuc1CwQkARiCvvBpIio8e1EzM2O8SPc0Gv-RA7foK6DxCVShJ6GjXuNlA5upRnPs/s400/gingerbreadgirlcoversmlg-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620669313924282402" border="0" /></a>Also dragged in from the wilds of The Internet is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gingerbread Girl </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Tobin</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Colleen Coover</span> which was serialised in the lead-up to its Top Shelf collection. <span style="font-style: italic;">“At heart,”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tobin</span> <a href="http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/08/tobin-and-coover-catch-the-gingerbread-girl/">told CbR</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">“it’s a strange bird of a character study focused on the main character, Annah, with a changing group of narrators (including a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a magician, a pigeon, a thug, a store clerk, a doctor, an English bulldog, and many more) searching for the truth behind our ‘Gingerbread Girl,’ who believes that her mad scientist father extracted a part of her brain (the Penfield Homunculus) and used it to create a sister for Annah.”</span> <a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/11/gingerbread-girl-preview-coover-tobin/">Comics Alliance</a> have an 18-page preview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkTgVTneT7qPU_gcA-guDhh1xJRpOa4qQuWBKWQOrClECGkAcY-jGG-kMGREVMAzn6u-p8wN7RhxeRxx9-2en7tRlpJA6jPmxywwIvO92fMxjzOOBEd5z7hJolWvcUPpaFyHCB9PU8VNj/s1600/mcsweeneys.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkTgVTneT7qPU_gcA-guDhh1xJRpOa4qQuWBKWQOrClECGkAcY-jGG-kMGREVMAzn6u-p8wN7RhxeRxx9-2en7tRlpJA6jPmxywwIvO92fMxjzOOBEd5z7hJolWvcUPpaFyHCB9PU8VNj/s400/mcsweeneys.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620669700859202354" border="0" /></a>The McSweeney’s logo on my oft-worn giant squid vs. colossal squid T-shirt has had some subliminal effect on our books-ordering dude and we now have a McSweeney’s shelf here in Goshland. They’re not new books but we’ve never had them before so I thought I’d do a guide to our red-faced and screaming corner of the bookshelf (I’m making a newborn baby analogy right there). If you have no interest at all in McSweeney’s I won’t be the least bit offended if you skip this bit in which I probably come off sounding like some Southern preacher man. I now give you Five Paragraphs In Which Your Regular Gosh! Blogger Gets To Legitimately Poke About On The McSweeney’s Website For Ages During Work Hours And Likes It:<br /><br />While looking for a review or some pictures or in fact <span style="font-style: italic;">anything </span>to give you good people at home some sort of idea of what to expect from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid</span> I came across this half-review/half-personal account of what it’s like to be an intern at McSweeney’s. I offer you a snippet, now:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“If there’s one truth I uncovered in my time as an intern for a McSweeney’s publication, it’s that the people there love getting together, writing a silly book, and publishing it under a ridiculously and undeniably false assumed name… This stems, I think, from the noble fact that they do not care whether or not their business loses money. When I began my internship with The Believer last year, an old poetry professor who once conducted an interview for them cornered me in his office (no homo) and demanded to know how they manage to stay afloat. My answer to him then, which, accrued with all of the “insider” knowledge I have gathered since, is also my answer to you now, is this: I have no idea. What I observed was that the Believer and McSweeney’s teams devote all of their effort to quality and an overwhelming desire to appeal to their own left-of-center sensibility… and for that reason they ought to have sunk. But they didn’t and that’s the McSweeney’s miracle.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSRbxqfcQRGJDd0leR47E-EgN9emsO7kG0bFAT8B9SEdG3voLH0Gy43RW0doF9KvqWF46SmY7eBYL7DaKonwVbKu6u5PDY1RG8zYICZDHWYwb1R316tclrawqfzNWKMrIeAVCK_UjYoSf/s1600/squid.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSRbxqfcQRGJDd0leR47E-EgN9emsO7kG0bFAT8B9SEdG3voLH0Gy43RW0doF9KvqWF46SmY7eBYL7DaKonwVbKu6u5PDY1RG8zYICZDHWYwb1R316tclrawqfzNWKMrIeAVCK_UjYoSf/s400/squid.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620669892009691154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid</span> is supposedly by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. & Mr. Doris</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Haggis-on-Whey</span> and <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/in+particular+the+giant+squid">the ex-intern reviews it</a> after the above (as an aside, I’m think I’m a fan of <a href="http://booksbenread.tumblr.com/">this guy’s book blog</a> in which he talks amusingly, <span style="font-weight: bold;">boldly </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">italicly </span>about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pekar</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Millar</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ware </span>et al). By the same <span style="font-weight: bold;">Haggis-on-Whey</span> and in the same illustrated, hardcover vein you can also have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Giraffes? Giraffes! </span>which is about, well, y’know, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cold Fusion</span> which is about one of the most controversial scientific pursuits that can be conducted in a bathtub.<br /><br />Timothy McSweeney (He’s Only Taking You Hiking Because He Can’t Afford Dinner) <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/reviews-of-lawrence-weschlers-everything-that-rises-a-book-of-convergences">collects reviews</a> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawrence Weschler</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences </span>and interviews him too, which might sound a little in-housey but there are some books that can only exist in the sheltered sphere of oddball anthology fans and I reckon this is one of them. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Secret Language of Sleep</span> (discussed over at <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/23/politics-of-sharing-a-bed">The Guardian</a>) is a square hardcover for you and your honeybee to have lighthearted fights over, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Poets Picking Poets</span> is a sort of chain-mail poetry collection <a href="http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/mcsweeneys-book-of-poets-picking-poets.html">as this reviewer explains</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ9mnkyN7ROpOj3jzU_3oKYxZVeQUfLE9WPu9C7bqMGOM-0Y_DX48sV_424_H0WXcSSvemxcvBJXnhIkDLQWCcLhalDfRunuMjeSNx-QdZbQCY8JuNQ5viDil3TbeVuynJrjJA1yr9ffY/s1600/artof.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZ9mnkyN7ROpOj3jzU_3oKYxZVeQUfLE9WPu9C7bqMGOM-0Y_DX48sV_424_H0WXcSSvemxcvBJXnhIkDLQWCcLhalDfRunuMjeSNx-QdZbQCY8JuNQ5viDil3TbeVuynJrjJA1yr9ffY/s400/artof.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620671221960794210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">McSweeney’s #37</span> sees their quarterly anthology publication (featuring the likes of <span style="font-style: italic;">New Yorker</span> regular <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Franzen</span>) return to book-form in a typically McSweeney’s way: <span style="font-style: italic;">it’s a book designed to look like a book! </span>they boast (and it is, in <span style="font-weight: bold;">M.C. Escher</span>-esque 2D 3D), and if you’re a fan of their graphic design there’s always the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Art of McSweeney</span>’s to keep you happy. Finally, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Read Hard</span> is a paperback collection of essays and articles from the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Believer </span>magazine, reprinting such gems at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Lethem</span>’s (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fortress of Solitude</span>) essay on the American writer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nathanael West</span> and if I wasn’t currently trying to read the longest novel in the history of everything you’d probably have to fight me for it.<br /><br />Non-believers, I invite you back into the room.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5kBiP1Co-Ir67YnqQFmq5odOLr2t8Hs8bOgFBYxbWJLb6E0duhNET4xVX3vJW9cXH5e1QJJBJSqubJdEUw4IaOica9aA_mnP34GeW0h5kI6XgMUtVcW5k1W7x8vK-JJ6Ob_BqJ3DHMQ4/s1600/sneyd.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5kBiP1Co-Ir67YnqQFmq5odOLr2t8Hs8bOgFBYxbWJLb6E0duhNET4xVX3vJW9cXH5e1QJJBJSqubJdEUw4IaOica9aA_mnP34GeW0h5kI6XgMUtVcW5k1W7x8vK-JJ6Ob_BqJ3DHMQ4/s400/sneyd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620671922192406562" border="0" /></a>A couple of big art books have landed on our doorstep this week. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Art of Doug Sneyd HC </span>collects nearly 300 full-colour, full-page cartoons (some previously unpublished) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sneyd </span>who has been <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Playboy</span>’s gag cartoonist since 1964. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Many people have always said that they read <span style="font-weight: bold;">Playboy </span>for the ‘articles,’ so I thank <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doug Sneyd</span> because I have always been able to say, ‘I read Playboy for the cartoons,’”</span> writes <a href="http://www.lucidforge.com/film-news/other-interviews/2331-doug-sneyd-hefners-man-in-comics.html">this journalist</a> who conducted a short interview with the man himself a couple of years back. <a href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/17-288?page=0">Dark Horse</a> has a preview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhSXbJJ_x37lRe6cLabxuSz4X94HqN7MlSOZriM5tZSAWfd5tnAuYnHHrUi_D-FU3RO0hPjWwSJHAkkcPuNckVc4MnRgS2nIrfefveGGA_5vbwvcoLcojsvmCzO7Et48htk4YYM834xKM/s1600/awful-resilient-pardee_i2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQhSXbJJ_x37lRe6cLabxuSz4X94HqN7MlSOZriM5tZSAWfd5tnAuYnHHrUi_D-FU3RO0hPjWwSJHAkkcPuNckVc4MnRgS2nIrfefveGGA_5vbwvcoLcojsvmCzO7Et48htk4YYM834xKM/s400/awful-resilient-pardee_i2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620672240610142946" border="0" /></a>There’s also <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Awful/Resilient: The Art of Alex Pardee HC</span> showcasing the insane art of Californian <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pardee </span>– a bunch of monsters, visions of nightmare and the occasional decapitation. <a href="http://www.gingkopress.com/03-gra/awful-resiliant-padree.html">Ginko Press</a> tell you what it’s all about.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTi8phZnEcrCkY7qb9y9KjLEiwUE5_5rcoRgzubv-D4eVIEW5z4btIC1ZR6VYW7JQymjy7A1Jtqrxjhd6eShJs3_N2XvJ2JkmZedGFyCy20Ts5QL4xhy4Yu_AG0W7N8SnuBM_F851SWIeM/s1600/romance.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTi8phZnEcrCkY7qb9y9KjLEiwUE5_5rcoRgzubv-D4eVIEW5z4btIC1ZR6VYW7JQymjy7A1Jtqrxjhd6eShJs3_N2XvJ2JkmZedGFyCy20Ts5QL4xhy4Yu_AG0W7N8SnuBM_F851SWIeM/s400/romance.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620672751469077154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Agonizing Love: The Golden Era of Romance Comics SC</span> is by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Barson</span> who had <span style="font-style: italic;">“already worked [his] way thorough big collections of superhero things and war comics and other manly pursuits” </span>before a big collection of 40s/50s era romance comics landed in his lap and he fell in love with them. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barson </span>talks about the melodramatic, tear-stained minidramas with <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/06/15/135919828/a-romantic-anthology-of-comically-agonizing-love">NPR</a> where there are some preview pictures too, and the <a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/agonizing-love-golden-era-romance-comics">NY Journal of Books</a> has a review.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBX2C5MC7P4x00UdUqgMKIWDn_kqjkGdPkeeuFIjAWAsjYSlh-dFV_TUmxOC2V5D4tUl8fChd5os83UFPZqJfdAgPEoPLKP4b2YGQCpR14D5Kifz34VrORRbfzw8JJ9JJcOPMGm5TJ8jL/s1600/Miss+Fury+3-01-1942_swastika.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 378px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBX2C5MC7P4x00UdUqgMKIWDn_kqjkGdPkeeuFIjAWAsjYSlh-dFV_TUmxOC2V5D4tUl8fChd5os83UFPZqJfdAgPEoPLKP4b2YGQCpR14D5Kifz34VrORRbfzw8JJ9JJcOPMGm5TJ8jL/s400/Miss+Fury+3-01-1942_swastika.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620673738797722306" border="0" /></a>While the comics showcased in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Agonising Love</span> were mostly by men, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Miss Fury</span> – the first female superhero, predating <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wonder Woman</span> by eight months – in her skintight black catsuit was created, written and drawn by a lady called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tarpé Mills</span>, using her non-gender specific middle name for print. <span style="font-style: italic;">“It would have been a major let-down to the kids if they found out that the author of such virile and awesome characters was a gal,” </span>she said. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trina Robbins</span> has picked the best of the stories and there’s even an unpublished, unfinished <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Miss Fury </span>graphic novel from 1979. Preview over at <a href="http://www.comicsbeat.com/2011/02/02/exclusive-preview-of-miss-fury-from-the-library-of-american-comics/">Comics Beat</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWqm5SeKYSEypLu6pvu1a8gDLB9oLglSMTuTQH-fsCxUBiXdSkKsdHZ4BgJgQPmpuV_1gVbrrcVSlK5XaeeQqhgU4jAhyphenhyphentnPJiEa__0pb9cHRZE6_s4bZAIBdzRiA6jxKzejlzJiycinL/s1600/roy-rogers.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWqm5SeKYSEypLu6pvu1a8gDLB9oLglSMTuTQH-fsCxUBiXdSkKsdHZ4BgJgQPmpuV_1gVbrrcVSlK5XaeeQqhgU4jAhyphenhyphentnPJiEa__0pb9cHRZE6_s4bZAIBdzRiA6jxKzejlzJiycinL/s400/roy-rogers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620675026349110786" border="0" /></a>If cowboys are more your thing you can pick up <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Roy Rogers: The Collected Newspaper Dailies and Sundays</span> in hardcover, giving you the entire 12-year run of one of the most widely read newspaper strips of the 1950s. I don’t really need to give it any more of a push than to just say: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Toth</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVixWYaTP-2IN74e_rtXb5n7v9XF8v_1xLrfhFMS4J7O_lvY9Q9Os1-_TSaoak7YoFgB0vjZoQ-J1zhhqR8Y1AHzs2RnB8KWS2W-RHvgyZs0fhnA4IfpkPiO8ZvWZivyrpQc9U84Nnoecv/s1600/metal.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVixWYaTP-2IN74e_rtXb5n7v9XF8v_1xLrfhFMS4J7O_lvY9Q9Os1-_TSaoak7YoFgB0vjZoQ-J1zhhqR8Y1AHzs2RnB8KWS2W-RHvgyZs0fhnA4IfpkPiO8ZvWZivyrpQc9U84Nnoecv/s400/metal.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620675622747868274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Metal Hurlant Collection Volume 1 HC</span> is the first of two planned collections reprinted short stories from the titular anthology by people like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Geoff Jones</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Green Lantern</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ryan Sook</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne</span>). And there’s more old stuff rounded up in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dr. Strange: Into The Dark Dimension HC </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Roger Stern</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Smith</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bret Blevins</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Badger</span> – collecting <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dr Strange #68 – 74 </span>from 1974 in which the cosmic balance is thrown outta whack.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWdyUr-9wwLXJ2b_SOBubJP1jVgbFK4LPB8F3n3lOovOu2eYxSWfGMnMk2J9d_L_KxyMKrkB3Qse3sjN_oR-vvT0zJQuz6EzL3NRZTEgsUjwRSZUWuSenkszhtR-Pz3UBPIowX0d3X4q5/s1600/firstwave.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWdyUr-9wwLXJ2b_SOBubJP1jVgbFK4LPB8F3n3lOovOu2eYxSWfGMnMk2J9d_L_KxyMKrkB3Qse3sjN_oR-vvT0zJQuz6EzL3NRZTEgsUjwRSZUWuSenkszhtR-Pz3UBPIowX0d3X4q5/s400/firstwave.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620676146140615090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">First Wave HC</span> collects the pulp noir mini-series from a couple of years ago by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Azzarello</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">100 Bullets</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rags Morales</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“We’re moving Gotham. Where do you think Gotham City is? New York? Nah, how would you feel about L.A.? The sun sets in L.A. just like anyplace else. And I’m really kind of focusing on L.A. in the ’40s, when it was a new town in the ‘20s, ‘30s and ’40s. It’s pretty much a new place. There was certainly a bit of lawlessness going on. And there was a huge, huge divide between rich and poor. And I think that really works well for this.”</span> Old interview and preview pages <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23294">over at CbR</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVvlyx7EOEiGkTwGgr66anSUFhuilkUoR_mchnwR0ghO6EoSv2o2shmqythciHxufDbrykl_bGleHPwjyp9YmoTr6TKGNZYljsT35SOhfUxS2VGVhfwyKSSiks8xKrj7WfGRgwjCCyNNb/s1600/wraith.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCVvlyx7EOEiGkTwGgr66anSUFhuilkUoR_mchnwR0ghO6EoSv2o2shmqythciHxufDbrykl_bGleHPwjyp9YmoTr6TKGNZYljsT35SOhfUxS2VGVhfwyKSSiks8xKrj7WfGRgwjCCyNNb/s400/wraith.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620676769421587602" border="0" /></a>In new comics this week you can have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dark Horse Presents #2</span> featuring – among other notables like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Neal Adams</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Howard Chaykin</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Chadwick</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carla Speed McNeil </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Corben</span> – my much-missed pal on the other side of the world, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Alexander</span>. He contributes (I think) eight pages featuring his character The Wraith (<span style="font-style: italic;">He stalks the night, like a moose!</span>) and you can see some of it <a href="http://www.comics.chickennation.com/archive/0013-approx/">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ExBf9ubwdvoee5f8bs2rwFIyGoetdl0MNyny45MmU7HV2awZQNUI3ntfbqUbyTofT5uLoSYVcgz6D22PN3RKQsWm1Ci-FkWNpNRwbBQDtxYJzCjIGyBXbFa8xXg5cTZbOyTl9mEAeb22/s1600/petrefax.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ExBf9ubwdvoee5f8bs2rwFIyGoetdl0MNyny45MmU7HV2awZQNUI3ntfbqUbyTofT5uLoSYVcgz6D22PN3RKQsWm1Ci-FkWNpNRwbBQDtxYJzCjIGyBXbFa8xXg5cTZbOyTl9mEAeb22/s400/petrefax.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620677083968546690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Vertigo Resurrected: Sandman Presents Petrefax </span>reprints a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sandman </span>spin-off you might have missed if you weren’t there on the day. Written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Carey</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Unwritten</span>) and illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Leialoha</span>, it was a four-issue miniseries all about Petrefax the young undertaker at the World’s End.<br /><br />Speaking of undertakers, one might be required in this week’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160</span> if everything goes wrong for the webslinger. It’s a top-secret polybagged affair but Bleeding Cool have spilled the beans and for those who want spoilers – <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/21/marvel-spoils-the-death-of-spider-man-in-usa-today/">here they are</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQ8PB8CLUGTU1FM-qFZHgZF5nL9luwji74oxGySzlHLwsCOxOEM7F_7zclngM5CZXcdTDaCFjQlMkRAwrv7Ak0C_awciB9zUbnFgNYKNJIfMvGLPQK8kSUV-X8IWNPuFCAzSFjT09DHn8/s1600/bat_out_40_cover_solicit_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQ8PB8CLUGTU1FM-qFZHgZF5nL9luwji74oxGySzlHLwsCOxOEM7F_7zclngM5CZXcdTDaCFjQlMkRAwrv7Ak0C_awciB9zUbnFgNYKNJIfMvGLPQK8kSUV-X8IWNPuFCAzSFjT09DHn8/s400/bat_out_40_cover_solicit_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620677507013153122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Outsiders </span>has been retitled for its final issue to include the man who was there at the start. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Batman and the Outsiders #40</span> even features a cover homage to that first issue back in 1983, <a href="http://www.richlovatt.com/2011/02/batman-and-the-outsiders-ends-as-it-began">as this blogger points out</a>.<br /><br />And lastly, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search #1</span> is the first of three issues detailing the fallout of that event and the integration of John Constantine and Swamp Thing into the DC Universe. DC are being mighty shady on this one so no previews, but <a href="http://www.hypergeek.ca/2011/03/dc-announces-brightest-day-aftermath-the-search.html">here’s the cover</a>.<br /><br />That’s your lot. Come visit our pop-up art gallery. It’s nice.<br /><br />-- Hayley<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-74325686251245228112011-06-21T14:07:00.001+01:002011-06-21T14:09:58.804+01:00In Store 16/06/11 - 22/06/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Archie Babies GN<br />B & V Friends Double Digest #215<br />Jugheads Double Digest #171<br />Agonizing Love: The Golden Era Of Romance Comics SC<br />All Nighter #1 (Of 5) (David Hahn)<br />Art Of Doug Sneyd HC<br />Avengers Vs Pet Avengers TP<br />Secret Avengers #14Fear Itself<br />Secret Avengers Prem HC Vol 2 Eyes Of Dragon (Ed Brubaker)<br />Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #5<br />Awful/Resilient: The Art Of Alex Pardee HC<br />Batman And The Outsiders #40<br />Batman Gates Of Gotham #2 (Of 5)<br />Batman Red Hood The Lost Days TP<br />Black Panther Man Without Fear #520<br />Black Widow TP Name Of Rose<br />Brightest Day Aftermath The Search #1 (Of 3)<br />Captain America #619<br />Captain Easy: Soldier Of Fortune HC Vol 2 1936 - 1937<br />Carnage #5 (Of 5)<br />Cars 2 #1 (Of 2)<br />Disney Pixar Presents Cars 2<br />Chester 5000 HC (Jess Fink)<br />Cinefex #126 May 2011<br />Conan Road Of Kings #6 (Of 6)<br />Creepy Comics TP Vol 1<br />Dark Horse Presents #2 (N. Adams/H. Chaykin/P. Chadwick et al)<br />Darkness Origins TP Vol 3<br />DMZ #66 (B. Wood)<br />Dr Strange HC Into Dark Dimension (Paul Smith)<br />Dracula Company Of Monsters #11<br />Echo TP Vol 6 Last Day (T. Moore)<br />Fables #106<br />Fantastic Four Last Stand One-Shot<br />First Wave HC (Brian Azzarello)<br />Flashpoint Kid Flash Lost #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Lois Lane & Resistance #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The Outsider #1 (Of 3)(James Robinson)<br />Flashpoint The Reverse Flash #1<br />Gingerbread Girl GN (P. Tobin)<br />Girl Genius TP Vol 10 Agatha H & Guardian Muse<br />Green Arrow #13<br />Guild Bladezz One-Shot (F. Day)<br />Hellboy Library Edition HC Vol 4 Crooked Man (M. Mignola)<br />Hounds Of Hell GN<br />Impossible Man TP<br />Incredible Hulks #631<br />Infestation Outbreak #1 (Of 4)<br />Iron Man 2.0 #6 Fear Itself<br />Janet Evanovich Troublemaker TP<br />Justice League Of America #58<br />Juxtapoz #126<br />Kane And Lynch TP (Ian Edginton)<br />Last Phantom #7<br />Marvel Zombie Christmas Carol #2 (Of 5)<br />McSweeney’s Books<br />- Animals Of The Ocean HC<br />- Cold Fusion HC <br />- Everything That Rises SC<br />- Giraffes? Giraffes! HC<br />- McSweeney’s #37 HC <br />- Poets Picking Poets SC<br />- Read Hard SC<br />- Secret Language Of Sleep HC <br />Metal Hurlant Collection HC Vol 1(G. Johns/R. Sook et al)<br />Mighty Thor #3 (Fraction/Coipel)<br />Miss Fury HC (T. Mills)<br />Mission #5<br />Mystery Men #2 (Of 5)<br />Namor First Mutant #11<br />Next Men #7 (John Byrne)<br />Next Men HC Vol 1<br />Power Girl Bomb Squad TP<br />Rage #1 (Of 3)<br />Red Sonja: Revenge Of The Gods #4 (Of 5)<br />Roy Rogers Collected Newspaper Dailies & Sundays HC<br />Runaways TP Vols 5 & 6 New Ptgs<br />Vertigo Resurrected (Mike Carey)Sandman Presents Petrefax<br />Scary Godmother Comic Book Stories TP (J. Thompson)<br />Sigil #4 (Of 4)<br />Bart Simpson Comics #60<br />Silver Surfer #5 (Of 5)<br />Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Prem HC Death Prelude<br />Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160<br />Spirit #15<br />Stan Lee's The Traveler #8<br />Star Wars Jedi Dark Side #2<br />Suicide Girls #3 (Of 4)<br />Action Comics #902<br />Superman #712<br />Terminator TP 2029 To 1984<br />The Lengths #2 Pay As You Go<br />Thunderbolts #159<br />Transformers 3 Movie Adaptation #3 (Of 4)<br />Vampirella #7<br />Walking Dead Weekly #25<br />Deadpool #39<br />Mystique By Sean Mckeever Ultimate Collection SC<br />New Mutants #26<br />NYX TP Vol 1 Wannabe TP New Ptg<br />Wolverine #11 (Jason Aaron)<br />X-Factor TP Vol 11 Happenings In Vegas<br />X-Men Legacy #251<br />X-Men Second Coming TP<br /><br />MANGA<br /><br />20th Century Boys Vol 15 (Naoki Urasawa )<br />Avatar Last Airbender TP Vol 1 Lost Adventures<br />Negima Omnibus GN Vol 1<br />Phoenix Wright GN Vol 1<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-58098837382411960302011-06-14T16:36:00.001+01:002011-06-14T16:41:35.844+01:00Due to Arrive 22/06/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Action Comics #902<br />All Nighter #1 (Of 5)<br />Avengers Vs Pet Avengers TP<br />Batman And The Outsiders #40<br />Batman Gates Of Gotham #2 (Of 5)<br />Batman Red Hood The Lost Days TP<br />Black Panther Man Without Fear #520<br />Black Widow TP Name Of Rose<br />Brightest Day Aftermath The Search #1 (Of 3)<br />Broken Trinity TP Vol 2 Pandora's Box<br />Buffy Omnibus TP Vol 3 New Ptg<br />Captain America #619<br />Carnage #5 (Of 5)<br />Choker #6 (Of 6)<br />Conan Road Of Kings #6 (Of 6)<br />Dark Horse Presents #2<br />Darkness Origins TP Vol 3<br />Deadpool #39<br />DMZ #66<br />Drums #2 (Of 4)<br />Elephantmen #32<br />Fables #106<br />Fantastic Four Last Stand #1<br />First Wave HC<br />Flashpoint Kid Flash Lost #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Lois Lane & Resistance #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The Outsider #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The Reverse Flash #1<br />Green Arrow #13<br />Guarding The Globe #5 (Of 6)<br />Guild Bladezz One-Shot<br />Impossible Man TP<br />Incredible Hulks #631<br />Infestation Outbreak #1 (Of 4)<br />Iron Man 2.0 #6 Fear<br />John Byrne Next Men #7<br />Justice League Of America #58<br />Kane And Lynch TP<br />Locke & Key Clockworks #1 (Of 6)<br />Magdalena #7<br />Marineman #6<br />Marvel Zombie Christmas Carol #2 (Of 5)<br />Mice Templar Vol 3 #5<br />Mighty Thor #3<br />Miss Fury HC<br />Mission #5<br />Mystery Men #2 (Of 5)<br />Mystique By Sean Mckeever Ult. Collection TP<br />Namor First Mutant #11<br />New Mutants #26<br />Next Men HC Vol 1<br />NYX TP Vol 1 Wannabe New Ptg<br />Power Girl Bomb Squad TP<br />Rage #1 (Of 3)<br />Rocketeer Adventures #2 (Of 4)<br />Runaways TP Vol 6 Digest New Ptg<br />Saga Of The Swamp Thing HC Vol 5<br />Secret Avengers #14<br />Secret Avengers Prem HC Vol 2 Eyes Of Dragon<br />Sigil #4 (Of 4)<br />Silver Surfer #5 (Of 5)<br />Spirit #15<br />Star Wars Jedi Dark Side #2<br />Super Dinosaur #3<br />Superman #712<br />Thunderbolts #159 Fear Itself<br />Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #5 (Of 6)<br />Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160<br />Vertigo Resurrected Sandman Presents Petrefax #1<br />Walking Dead Weekly #25<br />Wolverine #11<br />X-Men Legacy #251<br />X-Men Second Coming Revelations TP<br />X-Men Second Coming TP<br />Young Justice #5<br />Zatanna #14<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-49474839210026870812011-06-14T15:42:00.022+01:002011-06-14T17:02:20.483+01:00The Gosh! Authority 14/06/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5PkQYyLlwKhbOc4gKmPf0e-Kz8perDAjFPPUqM1A0aC3VMbVqVhlvnOH0NcDQG-7_hG65-yFRl018tWBeR0dBZhyphenhyphen1XLu6w9gry4rOcnCw5LtF5z8Q8_KdK5OUIxMj86V0DyV-mNPie2s/s1600/leaguecropped.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5PkQYyLlwKhbOc4gKmPf0e-Kz8perDAjFPPUqM1A0aC3VMbVqVhlvnOH0NcDQG-7_hG65-yFRl018tWBeR0dBZhyphenhyphen1XLu6w9gry4rOcnCw5LtF5z8Q8_KdK5OUIxMj86V0DyV-mNPie2s/s400/leaguecropped.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618090701957163826" border="0" /></a>Everybody stop what you’re doing and set up a standing order for <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2011/06/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html">THIS</a>: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The League of Gentlemen III</span> triptych bookplate set. That’s a fancy way of saying <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kevin O’Neill</span> is retroactively adding a bookplate to the already-published-and-probably-already-in-your-house <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1910</span>, and doing two more for the upcoming volumes (the next due in late July with the final one expected in summer next year so you’ve got something to read in the likely event you missed out on Olympics tickets). Don’t get pre-emptively stroppy if you already own a copy of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1910</span> – it’s all taken care of. Read the blog post.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDkpE0V3cflozSSTKVZgX7rmcqvN0cuq42WUd0ZJ_cvgHW00pPhZQFLOdNLuhMkGsp98kkJsfrHPPxou0EYduo8DXtAus6IW2xDmyA3eh85GL4iM0g9zE43hJHgyLK6TM0ZX9hLDvig-u/s1600/smallpress1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDkpE0V3cflozSSTKVZgX7rmcqvN0cuq42WUd0ZJ_cvgHW00pPhZQFLOdNLuhMkGsp98kkJsfrHPPxou0EYduo8DXtAus6IW2xDmyA3eh85GL4iM0g9zE43hJHgyLK6TM0ZX9hLDvig-u/s400/smallpress1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618091415811212146" border="0" /></a><span id="fullpost"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Porcellino</span> sent us a big care package of small press stuff from his side of the world. They’re sitting neatly (well, we’re trying – they’re funny-shaped) beside <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2011/06/gosh-authority-070611.html">his own offerings of last week</a>:<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> The Game</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Monologuist Paper Blog Update</span>. Along with issues of his own <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">King-Kat Comics</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man</span>, there are a handful of issues of late 90’s work by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tim Lane </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Abandoned Cars</span>) in his series <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Happy Hour in America</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFW9bn07gDRlsdQ20Idef5C8YZNWzXjbq0d3zI9CQdsJVmfv67ydgDf_Gl6KyY6jnZKCJsSU3cFno-zpMvuLn6KHZ2a0MIFPvtU8VDtnmkFe5rfu9nVb1wWp3VKGWEG76iyV2ltvByksf/s1600/smallpress2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFW9bn07gDRlsdQ20Idef5C8YZNWzXjbq0d3zI9CQdsJVmfv67ydgDf_Gl6KyY6jnZKCJsSU3cFno-zpMvuLn6KHZ2a0MIFPvtU8VDtnmkFe5rfu9nVb1wWp3VKGWEG76iyV2ltvByksf/s400/smallpress2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618091526280717938" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeffrey Brown</span> influence is very strong in stuff like the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">AOA</span> diary comics by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Melinda Boyce</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ten Thousand Things To Do</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Reklaw</span>. Diary and autobiographical comics account for most of the swag –<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> L.A Diary </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gabrielle Bell</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Noah Novella </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Noah Van Sciver</span> (whose <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Blammo #6</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">#7</span> are here too), and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">My Alaskan Summer</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Corinne Mucha</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Blindspot #1</span> is by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph Remnant</span>, someone who has evidently spent a long time looking at the crosshatched panels of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Crumb</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Bound & Gagged</span> is the result of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Neely</span> asking all the artists, cartoonists and writers he knows to do one-panel gag comics which could have been disastrous.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFthP-pTlL785YiHcStsvfMyY6ak6fBIqcd_tmpIxuDHd0wqBKdgGn3y2CDxyOf8tKqBFTEiv4nV_VCNzmJfy6nLS7FFAGrL7nMAonHsSQN-mTESM4RzLcdPZFxmRsF811BfLsdDE9lUF/s1600/smallpress3.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFthP-pTlL785YiHcStsvfMyY6ak6fBIqcd_tmpIxuDHd0wqBKdgGn3y2CDxyOf8tKqBFTEiv4nV_VCNzmJfy6nLS7FFAGrL7nMAonHsSQN-mTESM4RzLcdPZFxmRsF811BfLsdDE9lUF/s400/smallpress3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618091678830222898" border="0" /></a>There are <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Clutch </span>comics by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clutch McBastard</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Jin & Jam</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hellen Jo</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Asthma </span>by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> John Hankiewicz</span>, and one of the biggest of the lot – <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I Want Everything To Be Okay</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carrie McNinch</span>. There’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in St. Petersburg</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Phillipe Girard</span>, and bagged and ribboned comicbook diaries with Post-Its saying “Open me in private” by I-don’t-know-who because I’m sticking to the rules and can’t see inside them. There are several issues of Tugboat Press's award-winning anthology series <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Papercutter</span>, which is dedicated to showcasing underexposed and emerging artists but you’ll most definitely know at least a few of them -- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nate Powell</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Swallow Me Whole</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Rugg</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Afrodisiac</span>), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Drew Weing</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Set to Sea</span>) are all here.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23iYaeOHM0Du1XuV2boyCcFipKKh02cnHMw5T6kD5KxarEDAGovugEIYzcVmVc9zdeG_d5u2xywGcUIMhpCIgvDgwf3kgi4-GhOm8Ory0Jv-vnLTMZvF_gCXXu9nbtzIdgw-X7mk3P8Aj/s1600/smallpress4.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23iYaeOHM0Du1XuV2boyCcFipKKh02cnHMw5T6kD5KxarEDAGovugEIYzcVmVc9zdeG_d5u2xywGcUIMhpCIgvDgwf3kgi4-GhOm8Ory0Jv-vnLTMZvF_gCXXu9nbtzIdgw-X7mk3P8Aj/s400/smallpress4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618091853304192258" border="0" /></a>As for the rest of it – there are anthologies from countries I can’t locate on a map, like Latvia, which has also produced some big fold-out posters and bundles of colourful mini-comics from the their own equivalent of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nobrow</span>. Some of them aren’t even in English (I’m looking at you, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Colibri #2</span>) but they look cool, so whatever. There’s a big anthology called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cyclops </span>collecting an array of contemporary narrative art from people in Canada. I’m pretty sure I know where Canada is.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYRwhvhTFwmpfjEkkqeWKRkdb_W7-aaSmT2DFg_2u8_6JkVhQaSA_ox0slDtcSkBTkZQ49KQdCzKY-H4uS2H1zju684biOmwgXYiYxDDU3cweCMH3vcI3S5VW7lnvVNW219K3pN2SMM8-/s1600/oddville.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYRwhvhTFwmpfjEkkqeWKRkdb_W7-aaSmT2DFg_2u8_6JkVhQaSA_ox0slDtcSkBTkZQ49KQdCzKY-H4uS2H1zju684biOmwgXYiYxDDU3cweCMH3vcI3S5VW7lnvVNW219K3pN2SMM8-/s400/oddville.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618092025814694162" border="0" /></a>Speaking of which, here’s something nobody outside of Toronto has seen yet – except for this <a href="http://www.adhousebooks.com/books/images/previews/AD.W2ODDVILLE.PREV.pdf">preview</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Welcome to Oddville</span> is a hardcover collecting all of (phenomenally talented and eye-wateringly busy animator and cartoonist) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay Stephens</span>’ all-ages weekly newspaper comic strip about an eight-year-old girl called Jetcat that originally appeared in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Toronto Star </span>between 2003 and 2006.<span style="font-style: italic;">“It's pretty crazy, they tell me,”</span> says <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stephens </span>to <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30673">Comicbook Resources</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“You'll meet a Ghost Pumpkin, Talking Bandage, Gangs of Apples and a very rude snail.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNxzwWXYoWCLVHgHBeEsvEigOQ2sCwbPyYNwDThJEwxDy-unrQ3dDfbgDNu-9einJ7IHBLugRJWXh7eDDdQG5NVgT7DpXapM2ufjfOJ8qmOj-mEbjRuXrWrCUh773f5jpUD7wE6QcCOvZM/s1600/AnyasGhost.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNxzwWXYoWCLVHgHBeEsvEigOQ2sCwbPyYNwDThJEwxDy-unrQ3dDfbgDNu-9einJ7IHBLugRJWXh7eDDdQG5NVgT7DpXapM2ufjfOJ8qmOj-mEbjRuXrWrCUh773f5jpUD7wE6QcCOvZM/s400/AnyasGhost.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618092569628213330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Anya’s Ghost</span> is another graphic novel by an animator, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vera Brosgol</span>, who currently lives in Portland and does storyboard and concept art for Laika Entertainment – the company that produced the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry Selick</span> adaptation of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Neil Gaiman</span> book, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Coraline</span>. As <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cory Doctorow</span> of <a href="http://boingboing.net/2011/04/06/anyas-ghost-sweet-an.html">Boing Boing</a> said in his review, <span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="font-weight: bold;">Anya’s Ghost </span>starts out as a simple young adult story about a girl who's having a hard time fitting in at school, moves smoothly into a lighthearted story about an awkward girl and her ghostly BFF, and then slides precipitously (and scarily) into a no-fooling ghost story that'll have you jumping out of your skin while you finish it off.” </span>It’s <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brosgol</span>’s debut book (previewed at <a href="http://firstsecondbooks.com/anyas/anya.html">First Second</a>) and if I were you I’d head over to <a href="http://verabee.com/">her sketch blog</a> to see what else she’s up to.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoMNgW1mIYyteNvDooY5tEoWKEl7aAviF2ecfH0a2cDTqYxqOjfx__SbIyTLgNnYTOiEe-SqsP24WP99Mhy6Jj1Itb88C6Drv36cehyKW5HDYlcRq_Ww04IjrDm48tykxC_vknDf_R37B/s1600/levelup.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoMNgW1mIYyteNvDooY5tEoWKEl7aAviF2ecfH0a2cDTqYxqOjfx__SbIyTLgNnYTOiEe-SqsP24WP99Mhy6Jj1Itb88C6Drv36cehyKW5HDYlcRq_Ww04IjrDm48tykxC_vknDf_R37B/s400/levelup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618092700537469666" border="0" /></a>Also from First Second is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Level Up</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gene Luen Yang</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">American Born Chinese</span>) with art by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thien Pham</span> (a man who is the president of his <a href="http://thienisawesome.blogspot.com/">own fan club</a>) about a guy whose parents want him to become a doctor but all he really wants to do is play video games. <a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/levelup/levelup.html">Preview at :01</a>, and <a href="http://www.gamingbits.com/general-gaming-news-bits/charming-%E2%80%98level-up%E2%80%99-graphic-novel-coming-in-2011/">review over here</a>. The cover of this book makes me miss my old Game Boy like nobody’s business. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggxyeCNlpghkwrzXYOoWSDBaeBUGAzDC0-LmpcTZ9ZFG6MvKV__cpuhsof7wmGPggTfYMQmVMnSMgXuVhkMdD5hxJXlz-GthSx7xeN5Qw-e0JoWOEzTCoTraxdZCJbAGi-I7nb0uOvNKuB/s1600/Seedscover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggxyeCNlpghkwrzXYOoWSDBaeBUGAzDC0-LmpcTZ9ZFG6MvKV__cpuhsof7wmGPggTfYMQmVMnSMgXuVhkMdD5hxJXlz-GthSx7xeN5Qw-e0JoWOEzTCoTraxdZCJbAGi-I7nb0uOvNKuB/s400/Seedscover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618092963841545922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Seeds </span>is a graphic novel by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ross Mackintosh</span>, who grew up in Yorkshire. In this, his first book (having spent the time between growing up in The North and Now as a graphic designer) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mackintosh </span>charts the autobiographical story of how his own father’s unsuccessful battle with cancer affected him and his family. <span style="font-style: italic;">"Until the events in the book happened, I'd not really thought how it might feel when I get to the end of my life; who will be there, what will cause it, how I might react and how it will feel,"</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mackintosh </span>said <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31013">at CbR</a>, alongside preview pictures. <span style="font-style: italic;">"I have young children myself and feel at the prime of life – at the beginning of something – but seeing my dad as a dying parent made me realise that's just what I am, albeit 40 years younger."</span> It’s already been optioned for an animated film, says <a href="http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/com-x-graphic-novel-seeds-to-be-adapted-as-an-animated-film/">Geek Syndicate</a>. That was quick. It’s £6.99 and a share of the proceeds will go to cancer charities.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQ-JA8ue3HQnBhzjYvZIU5IfvOj5zXhF95RejlwWSFGPezxEUt2h6W_PhftRdcwzCVUsD1Qgem9AWx1NQJegbrlcLbNHubFyRHYWai0PekRxBubNlGIFthX1akh2uYOmWZWyTW9M3H1DG/s1600/markschulz.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQ-JA8ue3HQnBhzjYvZIU5IfvOj5zXhF95RejlwWSFGPezxEUt2h6W_PhftRdcwzCVUsD1Qgem9AWx1NQJegbrlcLbNHubFyRHYWai0PekRxBubNlGIFthX1akh2uYOmWZWyTW9M3H1DG/s400/markschulz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618093607803137282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mark Schultz: Various Drawings Volume 5</span> is one of the best looking books on the shelf this week and also the proud bearer of the most pretentious blurb in my own living memory: <span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="font-weight: bold;">Schultz </span>has never stopped expanding his visual vocabulary, never shied away from experimenting, never slowed in his relentless pursuit of graphic Nirvana.”</span> But ignore that – this book is full of pulp and noir femme fatales, pin-ups, dinosaurs and scary ladies, spaceships and more, and it’s very good indeed. Most of the art is unseen stuff from private collections and commissions, as well as a few previously published bits so brilliant they warranted a second outing. Head to <a href="http://fleskpublications.com/publications/mark-schultz-various-drawings-volume-five/">Flesk</a> for some preview pages. It comes in both a limited hardcover edition and a softcover too.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMKYhXHYnRQ-hnQgmdnysUAmm0CQHQnrIeJt_lmGMFRws3LrdqAUay7nmFdcEOvHiFOWQ17c5pY26Xo_B9pFfzMVH01cacFIKlKm1-J47rvi1p0_h7eFSwhGC4fioLYFplwkv-LzYRv0y/s1600/mark-schultz-various-drawings-5-sample-1-big.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMKYhXHYnRQ-hnQgmdnysUAmm0CQHQnrIeJt_lmGMFRws3LrdqAUay7nmFdcEOvHiFOWQ17c5pY26Xo_B9pFfzMVH01cacFIKlKm1-J47rvi1p0_h7eFSwhGC4fioLYFplwkv-LzYRv0y/s400/mark-schultz-various-drawings-5-sample-1-big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618093751030171602" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4Jb_fMb7rxoL3V34RyA80UvB0GTQnHtnIU4xVMsQCi4LRRZ6FIGkjALJuXNttJIlwRwy6a9wXdJTuSReeJEpLNqI5dOYo1uOEFqU5jN4g7QUmSXGXtNV7Mw-q85LUmVpNrDtWTJ5HfPW/s1600/mark-schultz-various-drawings-5-sample-6-big.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4Jb_fMb7rxoL3V34RyA80UvB0GTQnHtnIU4xVMsQCi4LRRZ6FIGkjALJuXNttJIlwRwy6a9wXdJTuSReeJEpLNqI5dOYo1uOEFqU5jN4g7QUmSXGXtNV7Mw-q85LUmVpNrDtWTJ5HfPW/s400/mark-schultz-various-drawings-5-sample-6-big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618093860139513906" border="0" /></a>Two art magazines full of old and beautiful illustrations this week courtesy of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr</span> (<a href="http://archives.tcj.com/267/r_images.html">The Comics Journal archive</a> now includes a piece on his whole unlikely publishing enterprise). There’s the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Vadeboncoeur Collection of Images #12</span>, showcasing stuff by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lejaren A. Hiller</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry Clive</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sigismund de Ivanowski</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">J. C. Leyendecker</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arthur Rackham</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Godwin</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Heinrich Kley</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">René Vincent</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Willy Pogany</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gustav Tenggren</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Robinson</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Pape</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Herman Vogel</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Stilwell Weber</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Erich Schutz</span>. Then there’s the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Black & White Images Fifth Annual Collection </span>which includes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Daniel Vierge</span> from the French L'Image of 1897, part two of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Railton</span>'s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Haunted House</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Helen Stratton</span>'s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Little Mermaid</span> (both from 1899), comic art (shot from the originals, obviously) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Will Crawford</span> and more.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5iyy1taLxm3gHzeyhzAl-mvKCIOTBUJbIV2VD1vszb2j8r-ePbrwIM7WssfYa8abKai7iHNODPvYQ00tTyz5pwWQevnPY81f_x2RNuH7k5RBOjs-6CgKgsq69O-GOTx_ySZQBJQH3fbR/s1600/teenangels01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5iyy1taLxm3gHzeyhzAl-mvKCIOTBUJbIV2VD1vszb2j8r-ePbrwIM7WssfYa8abKai7iHNODPvYQ00tTyz5pwWQevnPY81f_x2RNuH7k5RBOjs-6CgKgsq69O-GOTx_ySZQBJQH3fbR/s400/teenangels01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618095258798753090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Teen Angels & New Mutants</span> by horror comics guru <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Bissette</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Taboo</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Swamp Thing</span>) originally began, as <a href="http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2011/04/fed-up-history-of-sidekicks.html">Forces of Geek</a> said in their review, <span style="font-style: italic;">“as a companion article for the aborted, hardcover edition of [<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Veitch</span>’s] <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brat Pack</span>. It quickly expanded into a total dissemination of the sidekick phenomenon –considering every sociological condition that contributed to the real world environment that indulged them. Way more than a loving tribute to the work of a dear friend, this is the absolute, authoritative text on the subject, and should be required reading in every Sociology of Media program.”</span> It’s a history of the boy sidekick, traces juvenile delinquency through the ages, is<span style="font-style: italic;"> “a 400-page crash-course on teen pop culture, the fetishism of childhood, [...] the impact of the independent press on sequential publishing”</span> and covers every ancillary topic that pops up along the way, however uncomfortable they may be. In other words: far too thorough and far-reaching a thing to sum up in a paragraph. In short, it looks worthy of your pocket-money.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHrKOHAEOz5ijymTsiRNO80n1xFsh0XmdxRxtLado-99xQHXz46Qy60T8lg58OTVyl-n_dpVKQC048Ovn9fDfbP-YDt4p5VDrCT3ORGl46qL5VzdGRXf5QDf_S8JF91zFLqZgFcIvytF_/s1600/arkham.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHrKOHAEOz5ijymTsiRNO80n1xFsh0XmdxRxtLado-99xQHXz46Qy60T8lg58OTVyl-n_dpVKQC048Ovn9fDfbP-YDt4p5VDrCT3ORGl46qL5VzdGRXf5QDf_S8JF91zFLqZgFcIvytF_/s400/arkham.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618096059108462114" border="0" /></a>In trade paperback this week you can have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Walking Dead Volume 14: No Way Out</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sam Keith</span>’s original <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Batman </span>graphic novel, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Arkham Asylum: Madness</span> which is both reviewed and previewed over <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/09/12/a-review-a-day-arkham-asylum-madness/">at CbR</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Brubaker</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Captain America: Red Menace Ultimate Collection</span> in softcover collects the entire story arc that followed <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Winter Soldier,</span> featuring Russian General Aleksander Lukin and Cap’s eternal nemesis the Red Skull. The creator-centric<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fantastic Four</span> collections continue with<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Fantastic Four by Waid and Wieringo Ultimate Collection Volume 1 </span>which means this might be one of those weeks where <a href="http://imgur.com/UpK5Z">I totally lose the ability</a> to say “ultimate”.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL_txfDCGSVU3mIlM8yOl_3dMH0oxMj2HizlgJJtVRkVzYRdfYbC1EXGNL9KXWKWwD2sHKAdL86hkq7wibGEG5A6FWZTB7gZLOqAUR8TIyEEo-bEMnWN01Ip1OGoQ024krLy5QgNUJ406p/s1600/graysons.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL_txfDCGSVU3mIlM8yOl_3dMH0oxMj2HizlgJJtVRkVzYRdfYbC1EXGNL9KXWKWwD2sHKAdL86hkq7wibGEG5A6FWZTB7gZLOqAUR8TIyEEo-bEMnWN01Ip1OGoQ024krLy5QgNUJ406p/s400/graysons.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618096341363932194" border="0" /></a>As for comics, there’s a new <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Alpha Flight</span> eight-part series by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fred Van Lente</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greg Pak</span> which ties into the whole <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fear Itself </span>thing (<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8646">preview here</a>) and no less than <span style="font-style: italic;">four </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint</span> titles to cross off <a href="http://www.thirdeyecomics.com/third-eye-checklists/checklist-dc-comics-flashpoint/">your checklist</a>. Assume the prefix <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint </span>is a given here so I don’t have to keep saying it. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deadman and The Flying Graysons #1 </span>(of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">J.T. Krul</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mikel Janin </span>is written about and previewed on the <a href="http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/05/06/flashpoint-friday-boston-brand-and-dick-grayson-live-up-in-the-air/">DCU Blog</a>. There’s the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Grodd of War One-Shot</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sean Ryan </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ig Guara</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Legion of Doom #1</span> (of 3) by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Adam Glass</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rodney Buchemi</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wonder Woman & The Furies #1</span> (of 3) by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dan Abnett</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Lanning</span>, with art by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Clark</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Beaty</span> – none of the aforementioned being even remotely previewable anywhere on the Internet.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1dMBPVVTkbk0lfpe-hWFQNW0UmO1Ed9bNKBW5x4fqjzZAC__lYNnYvCReDHYCsi8u-YetjXUQUmJdGZG90AZbQ_DPT6EtGr33qb69V_5SdXvnzYYTR8JAzTXWRWP94P6b-11Bi_irLDWn/s1600/hellbound3_menton3cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1dMBPVVTkbk0lfpe-hWFQNW0UmO1Ed9bNKBW5x4fqjzZAC__lYNnYvCReDHYCsi8u-YetjXUQUmJdGZG90AZbQ_DPT6EtGr33qb69V_5SdXvnzYYTR8JAzTXWRWP94P6b-11Bi_irLDWn/s400/hellbound3_menton3cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618097858929663154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">That Hellbound Train #1</span> is the first of a three-part miniseries based on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Bloch</span>’s (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Psycho</span>) Hugo-winning short story of the same(ish) name. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe and John Lansdale </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">30 Days of Night: Night, Again</span>) are taking care of the words, while<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dave Wachter</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Guns of Shadow Valley</span>) is on art duties. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wachter </span>talks about cover art on <a href="http://davedrawscomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/robert-blochs-that-hellbound-train.html">his blog</a> and you can see <a href="http://ryalltime.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/that-hellbound-train/">some interiors</a> over at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Ryall</span>’s site.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEot41Ocwmnt_w83rK0LBIaBPB_-Amjt0nu_TzpCO0HRMqtFUDHpf_yuXTfA0v9PzS_XdcYUXPOi_-mtLZ8ZaD90sHq09MzZdN-d8wBt_C2HtHh6cxKozkbYz3nxNGdVq9q-39CKyhedgF/s1600/godzilla.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 321px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEot41Ocwmnt_w83rK0LBIaBPB_-Amjt0nu_TzpCO0HRMqtFUDHpf_yuXTfA0v9PzS_XdcYUXPOi_-mtLZ8ZaD90sHq09MzZdN-d8wBt_C2HtHh6cxKozkbYz3nxNGdVq9q-39CKyhedgF/s400/godzilla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618098472494901810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Godzilla: Gangsters and Goliaths #1</span> (of 5) by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> John Layman </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chew</span>) and Eisner-nominated artist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alberto Ponticelli</span> is tailor-made for those of you who aren’t getting enough rampaging monster in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Powell</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tracy Marsh</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Phil Hester</span>’s series. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I'm very into Asian cinema, arguably moreso than American cinema, which mostly bores the crap out of me,” </span>said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Layman</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I wanted to fuse two of my favourite Asian cinema genres -- the monster movie with the hard-boiled gun-fu cops and gangsters movie. So the story is about a framed cop, wanted by the underworld and the police force, trying to clear his name, trying to protect his family, and trying to get revenge. He gets some help when he gets hold of the Mothra Twins, and starts using Mothra to systematically eliminate the families of the Tokyo criminal underworld.” </span>More of that <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32147">at CbR</a>.<br /><br />In other news, we’ve got more <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Paying For It</span> on the shelf, a book which is still causing comics reviewers to have arguments with themselves. <a href="http://www.tcj.com/drawing-sex-and-paying-for-it/">Read this</a> at The Comics Journal and see what I mean. And we’ve still got some signed copies of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chico & Rita</span> hanging about, but sadly none of them include this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mariscal </span>strip which landed in my inbox a couple of days ago and cheered me up no end:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NyMA09cMNqZz2nRgkfPA2nOpOV2M982Lgt8Qcw38H_lwVfUkctxgR49cxfBqK51shLlPvjhPacmY7QYivt7wCyNMFpjr-6lTZxlN-FyjDXQKMNBBH4g9iDZhA0JOlkF_mmhSiSvzjQ4u/s1600/mariscal.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NyMA09cMNqZz2nRgkfPA2nOpOV2M982Lgt8Qcw38H_lwVfUkctxgR49cxfBqK51shLlPvjhPacmY7QYivt7wCyNMFpjr-6lTZxlN-FyjDXQKMNBBH4g9iDZhA0JOlkF_mmhSiSvzjQ4u/s400/mariscal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618098991443646898" border="0" /></a>-- Hayley</span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-44506622158909153392011-06-14T15:37:00.001+01:002011-06-14T15:41:26.451+01:00In Store 09/06/11 - 15/06/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Archie & Friends Double Digest #6<br />2000 AD #1738<br />Al Williamson Archives SC Vol 2<br />Alpha Flight #1 (Of 8) (F. Van Lente)<br />Anya’s Ghost GN<br />Astronaut Academy Zero Gravity GN<br />Avengers #14 Fear Itself<br />Avengers Academy #15<br />Avengers Infinity Quest #1<br />Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Digest Hulk<br />Batgirl #22<br />Arkham Asylum Madness TP (Sam Keith)<br />Batman #711<br />Black & White Images Fifth Annual Collection SC<br />Captain America First Vengeance #3 (Of 4)<br />Captain America Red Menace Ult. Collection SC (Brubaker)<br />Chap Magazine #57<br />Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #5 (Of 6) (Chris Roberson)<br />Conan Island Of No Return #1 (Of 2)<br />Crossed 3D HC Vol 1<br />Crossed Psychopath #3 (Of 6)<br />DC Universe Online Legends #10<br />Deadlands One-Shot<br />Deus Ex #5 (Of 6) (Robbie Morrison)<br />Dr Who Magazine #435<br />Dungeons And Dragons #8<br />Fantastic Four By Waid & Wieringo Ultimate Collection TP Vol 1<br />Fear Itself Home Front #3 (Of 7)<br />Fear Itself Youth In Revolt #2 (Of 6)<br />Flashpoint Deadman & The Flying Graysons #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Grodd Of War One-Shot<br />Flashpoint Legion Of Doom #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Wonder Woman & The Furies #1 (Of 3)(Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning)<br />Gladstones School For World Conquerors #2<br />Godzilla Gangsters & Goliaths #1 (Of 5) (John Layman)<br />Graveyard Of Empires #1 (Of 4)<br />Green Hornet #16<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Abin Sur One-Shot<br />Hellblazer #280 (Peter Milligan)<br />Hulk #35<br />Hulk TP Gray (Tim Sale)<br />Incorruptible TP Vol 4<br />Invincible #80 (R. Kirkman)<br />Invincible Iron Man #505 Fear Itself<br />DC Comics Presents JLA Black Baptism #1<br />Justice League Cry For Justice TP<br />Kirby Genesis #1 (Busiek/Ross)<br />Legion Of Super Heroes #14<br />Level Up GN (Gene Yang)<br />Li'l Depressed Boy TP Vol 1 She Is Staggering<br />Mark Schultz Various Drawings Vol 5 Ltd HC & SC Editions<br />Mini-Comics! A whole miscellany of US & Finnish small press too long to list here. <br />Northlanders #41<br />Power Girl #25<br />Red Sonja Blue One-Shot<br />Ruse #4 (Of 4)<br />Seeds GN (Ross Mackintosh)<br />Bart Simpson Prince Of Pranks SC<br />Simpsons Comics #179<br />Sixth Gun TP Vol 2<br />Skaar King Of Savage Land #4 (Of 5)<br />Stan Lee Soldier Zero #9<br />Star Wars <br />- Adventures TP Vol 5<br />- Blood Ties TP Vol 1<br />- Old Republic TP Vol 2<br />Supergirl #65<br />Superman Batman #85<br />Teen Angels & New Mutants SC(Steve Bissette)<br />Teen Titans #96<br />That Hellbound Train #1 (Of 3)<br />Undying Love #3 (Tomm Coker)<br />Vadeboncoeur Collection Of Images #12<br />Vampirella Masters Series TP Vol 4<br />Walking Dead TP Vol 14 No Way Out (R. Kirkman)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #24<br />Warlord Of Mars Dejah Thoris #4<br />Welcome To Oddville HC<br />Witchblade #145<br />Daken Dark Wolverine #10<br />Deadpool HC Vol 7 Space Oddity<br />DeadpoolMAX #9 (Kyle Baker)<br />Generation Hope #8 (Kieron Gillen)<br />Uncanny X-Force Prem HC Deathlok Nation<br />Uncanny X-Men #538<br />Uncanny X-Men TP Quarantine<br />X-Factor #221<br />X-Men #13<br />X-Men Prelude To Schism #3 (Of 4)<br /><br />MANGA<br /><br />Amnesia Labyrinth GN Vol 2<br />Certain Scientific Railgun GN Vol 1<br />High School Of The Dead GN Vol 1 & 2<br />Spice And Wolf GN Vol 4<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-38354399131410070502011-06-09T14:33:00.016+01:002011-06-10T10:40:10.764+01:00League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 - Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBX_wJnQD5a-DTkHbF0yq0n2Tf5PxuFBuNV8QfikBcbeszi6-eGwPJf7YzJGh8ZvAf_6DHHRlH_GSmHLtNowSstmeB55lagf2m6rPOykKDG45ROuWFEw7L8u7ffdnhjbWrnfN_DOCt9va/s1600/LOEGCentury1969+final+webreadyjpg.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBX_wJnQD5a-DTkHbF0yq0n2Tf5PxuFBuNV8QfikBcbeszi6-eGwPJf7YzJGh8ZvAf_6DHHRlH_GSmHLtNowSstmeB55lagf2m6rPOykKDG45ROuWFEw7L8u7ffdnhjbWrnfN_DOCt9va/s400/LOEGCentury1969+final+webreadyjpg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616219132670326930" border="0" /></a>We’ve been <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2010/10/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html">waiting so long</a> for this book that not only has the dinner gone cold and been thrown in the bin, we’d very nearly turned out the lights and gone to bed. To celebrate its long awaited and very welcome arrival on our doorstep we thought we’d do something mighty special indeed.<br /><br />The latest installment of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Moore</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Kevin O’Neill</span>’s hit series is on the presses as I type and due to be on a boat leaving Hong Kong on the 19th of June. It should be in all UK book and comic shops in the week of the 25th of July providing no pirates or fans gone mad with impatience inexpertly commandeer the ship and crash it on foreign shores, littering the sea with psychedelic colours and leagues of extraordinary gentlemen.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsotJIrhYgOrGiCWH4ki6WUXWfqL4xa0AOsMCHf9Fheey3VXGKW4YKJKnEq4MLZMyWOx72ggdYzoTV33khxeRAZeSQRJfsWKCe2DiBpc4tRh5BZRi2V6pEaxM7zFL1yJp7mFE4ubLMgrL/s1600/LOEG1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLsotJIrhYgOrGiCWH4ki6WUXWfqL4xa0AOsMCHf9Fheey3VXGKW4YKJKnEq4MLZMyWOx72ggdYzoTV33khxeRAZeSQRJfsWKCe2DiBpc4tRh5BZRi2V6pEaxM7zFL1yJp7mFE4ubLMgrL/s400/LOEG1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616220964368434514" border="0" /></a>Gosh!’s <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/search/label/Bookplate%20Editions">Bookplate Editions</a> are usually limited to just the one volume of a series or stand-alone graphic novel. Never before have we done what we’re about to do. The talented <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr O’Neill</span> is busy illustrating a triptych of mini-prints for each part of the current series, available exclusively at Gosh! and limited to 1000 copies of each. It’s a mighty hike up from the usual 200 copies but that’s just because the demand for this thing is so deservedly huge, and we hate to see disappointment on your wee faces.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBofRxuiFqlLw3VnN1y4JlO8HbEN8ss5NIGK-h6wJ-7RtFquMffD2fSuqu7vdTO6Qq651epUenG5HQaDF7qTI9STvksHESM3jcU36vG_xFbEtqARmz_CPDgPHLgMgOxNczG3lpdRlHX80v/s1600/leaguebookplate.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBofRxuiFqlLw3VnN1y4JlO8HbEN8ss5NIGK-h6wJ-7RtFquMffD2fSuqu7vdTO6Qq651epUenG5HQaDF7qTI9STvksHESM3jcU36vG_xFbEtqARmz_CPDgPHLgMgOxNczG3lpdRlHX80v/s400/leaguebookplate.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616218352550334002" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:78%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;color:transparent;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7199693386829867" >Each plate is A5 format. 210cm x 148cm<br /><br /></span></div>Details on how you can get your mitts on all three prints after this other bit of exciting news: a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</span> art exhibition right here in Gosh!<br /><br />When <span style="font-weight: bold;">O’Neill</span> handed in the first 20 pages of the third and final part of the book (he is currently at his desk drawing the next batch) he also dropped in 10 internal pages of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1969</span> -- the volume currently being printed in Hong Kong. From Monday the 13th of June you’ll be able to see those pages on the walls of Gosh! which I’m sure you’ll agree is far more interesting than a regular old Internet preview. Pay us a visit, have a sneak peek at the new book, and while you’re here you can put your name down for a reserved copy.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XewZjeWJ6C6LagKy6zrxrUoVijLkGB4Us_uTc0bkc55a9YO7XIFRvu2c0Whqhi6Z-eiRw2ssJ3OWJSJZ78loTdt1luMyxauxS1MFYa47r2fq1p2bqBBwtTiWWTJHjap9Q3IdvuP76rTc/s1600/LOEG2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7XewZjeWJ6C6LagKy6zrxrUoVijLkGB4Us_uTc0bkc55a9YO7XIFRvu2c0Whqhi6Z-eiRw2ssJ3OWJSJZ78loTdt1luMyxauxS1MFYa47r2fq1p2bqBBwtTiWWTJHjap9Q3IdvuP76rTc/s400/LOEG2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616219981508980130" border="0" /></a>So, here are the details on the bookplates and how you can get them:<br /><br />Plates for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1910</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1969</span> will both be released on the same day (the week of July 25th) and given away free with a purchase of the book while stocks last. If you already <span style="font-style: italic;">have </span>a copy of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1910</span>, you can request a separate bookplate for it when you’re putting your name down for the next bookplated volume, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1969</span> (though we will ask for an extra £2 to cover our costs).<br /><br />To ensure you don’t miss out on the third and final volume, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: Let It All Come Down</span> (currently slated for summer 2012) leave us with your contact details so we can get in touch with you when it arrives.<br /><br />All customers who have a standing order for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</span> at the time of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Century: 1969</span>’s release will automatically receive the<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> first two plates for <span style="font-weight: bold;">free</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(ie. no extra £2 for the first bookplate) and be at the top of the list when the third plate arrives. So if you’ve been thinking about starting a standing order with us, perhaps <a href="http://www.goshlondon.com/standing%20order%20information.html">you’d best get on it</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA35IDaGAy4NynT1a87q6DISvAmeuJtqXvOsar3kO3CsWsQlkawUluDAPfoqH8BuNOO3dYt7DeTsT6VOkFIsRHQD1BG4BeTB2wruNKYJoc76GUVnTXLGmJYYbpGxaHP_GMl_8ywTKVPVEg/s1600/LOEG3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA35IDaGAy4NynT1a87q6DISvAmeuJtqXvOsar3kO3CsWsQlkawUluDAPfoqH8BuNOO3dYt7DeTsT6VOkFIsRHQD1BG4BeTB2wruNKYJoc76GUVnTXLGmJYYbpGxaHP_GMl_8ywTKVPVEg/s400/LOEG3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616220379228430306" border="0" /></a>Confused? Here’s all that broken down for monetary clarity:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910</span> with mini-print - <span style="font-weight: bold;">£5.95</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 </span>with mini-print - <span style="font-weight: bold;">£7.99</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969</span> with first 2 mini prints – <span style="font-weight: bold;">£9.99</span><br /><br />If you'd like to reserve a copy send us an email saying so to info@goshlondon.com.<br /><br />There’ll be more <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">League </span>news in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the Gosh! Blog, add us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gosh.london">Facebook</a>, follow us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/goshcomics">Twitter</a>, subscribe to our RSS feed or camp under our window if you’re that way inclined.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Only available</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> in store at Gosh!</span> (no mail orders on this one, sorry) </span>and from the looks of it: only available for a ridiculously limited time. Pirates willing.Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-54651232810595520792011-06-07T17:07:00.000+01:002011-06-07T17:08:05.573+01:00Due to Arrive 15/06/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Alpha Flight #1 (Of 8)<br />Arkham Asylum Madness TP<br />Avengers #14 Fear<br />Avengers Academy #15 Fear<br />Avengers Infinity Quest #1<br />Batgirl #22<br />Batman #711<br />Captain America Corps #1 (Of 5)<br />Captain America First Vengeance #3 (Of 4)<br />Captain America Red Menace Ult. Collection TP<br />Cinderella Fables Are Forever #5 (Of 6)<br />Conan Island Of No Return #1<br />Daken Dark Wolverine #10<br />DC Comics Presents JLA Black Baptism #1<br />DC Universe Online Legends #10<br />Deadlands One-Shot<br />Deadpool Prem HC Vol 7 Space Oddity<br />DeadpoolMax #9<br />Deus Ex #5 (Of 6)<br />Dungeons & Dragons HC Vol 1 Shadowplague<br />Dungeons And Dragons #8<br />Fantastic Four By Waid & Wieringo Ultimate Collection TP Vol 1<br />Fear Itself Home Front #3 (Of 7)<br />Fear Itself Youth In Revolt #2 (Of 6)<br />Flashpoint Deadman & Flying Graysons #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Grodd Of War #1<br />Flashpoint Legion Of Doom #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Wonder Woman & Furies #1 (Of 3)<br />Generation Hope #8<br />Gladstones School For World Conquerors #2<br />Godzilla Gangsters & Goliaths #1 (Of 5)<br />Graveyard Of Empires #1 (Of 4)<br />Green Lantern Brightest Day HC<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Abin Sur #1<br />Hellblazer #280<br />Hero Comics 2011 One-Shot<br />Hulk #35<br />Hulk TP Gray<br />Invincible #80<br />Invincible Iron Man #505<br />John Byrne's Next Men #7<br />Justice League Cry For Justice TP<br />Legion Of Super Heroes #14<br />Li'l Depressed Boy TP Vol 1 She Is Staggering<br />Mad Magazine #510<br />Marvel Adventures Avengers TP Digest Hulk<br />Miss Fury HC<br />Next Men HC Vol 1<br />Northlanders #41<br />Power Girl #25<br />Runaways TP Vol 5 Digest New Ptg<br />Ruse #4 (Of 4)<br />Skaar King Of Savage Land #4 (Of 5)<br />Supergirl #65<br />Superman Batman #85<br />Teen Titans #96<br />Trailblazer One-Shot<br />Uncanny X-Force Prem HC Deathlok Nation<br />Uncanny X-Men #538<br />Uncanny X-Men TP Quarantine<br />Undying Love #3<br />Walking Dead TP Vol 14 No Way Out<br />Walking Dead Weekly #24<br />Witchblade #145<br />X-Factor #221<br />X-Factor TP Vol 11 Happenings In Vegas<br />X-Men #13<br />X-Men Prelude To Schism #3 (Of 4)<br />Zombies Vs Robots Undercity #3 (Of 4)<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-27489375169604883382011-06-07T15:55:00.025+01:002011-06-07T17:06:51.642+01:00The Gosh! Authority 07/06/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTEe7pxNST2q-zYZx_YgNdXi5ORqCHhrD-iVJJsF23629ezLsdy6FYJUEoQs8tZq9r1XuoanFiRbaVCuVfOY6HbPiGcszhuvvmqOlEfMq8AYnXZq5oxo-cHujDSuuT4MzbccflZf34b2EM/s1600/celluloid.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTEe7pxNST2q-zYZx_YgNdXi5ORqCHhrD-iVJJsF23629ezLsdy6FYJUEoQs8tZq9r1XuoanFiRbaVCuVfOY6HbPiGcszhuvvmqOlEfMq8AYnXZq5oxo-cHujDSuuT4MzbccflZf34b2EM/s400/celluloid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615498518880458322" border="0" /></a>The shelves are almost buckling like a knackered Ikea bookcase under the weight of excellent new stuff – lemme rush through them before they snap.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-HqoZfyrcG_bylk8ZTRcoXdv_ISlmVlcS1mhOmUq-d0Jom4egk8M7XVSoTDgeftlyf0wXIDho4cxXsXTmCqx2GZFMaf4aU1PtuoFtQRHiI4H8r5DYwrdjARVR9z7euUSNqGyaIadygsB/s1600/cell2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-HqoZfyrcG_bylk8ZTRcoXdv_ISlmVlcS1mhOmUq-d0Jom4egk8M7XVSoTDgeftlyf0wXIDho4cxXsXTmCqx2GZFMaf4aU1PtuoFtQRHiI4H8r5DYwrdjARVR9z7euUSNqGyaIadygsB/s400/cell2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615498999756674258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave McKean</span> – whose <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cages Bookplate Edition</span> <a href="http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2010/09/cages-tp-bookplate-edition-exclusive-to.html">can account for</a> a considerable part of the bookshelf bend – gives us his first solo graphic novel since that aforementioned weighty tome. It’s called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Celluloid </span>and it’s got rude bits in. <span style="font-style: italic;">“There are so many comics about violence. I’m not entertained or amused by violence, and I’d rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, ‘does the job.’ I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.”</span> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32469">Comicbook Resources</a> have a big interview with <span style="font-weight: bold;">McKean </span>and lots of preview pages too, but if you need more you can find them at Fantagraphics’ <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantagraphics/sets/72157626623303707/with/5733067458/">Flickr</a>.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEeiWaFSb4UXa-Nn_k8c2Mebmtut9-7ypdspTKNsLxmfnFerVccHme4ruqYTm6QeuRFxEA3umym27ocT_uEV8Pv5Nwtm-UFaad3UB7deVrssnzUMoaamQ68wZUeTgD2zf3t-sA9Me8sHQ/s1600/newghost.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEeiWaFSb4UXa-Nn_k8c2Mebmtut9-7ypdspTKNsLxmfnFerVccHme4ruqYTm6QeuRFxEA3umym27ocT_uEV8Pv5Nwtm-UFaad3UB7deVrssnzUMoaamQ68wZUeTgD2zf3t-sA9Me8sHQ/s400/newghost.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615500407503949730" border="0" /></a>Two new things from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nobrow </span>this week – and I say <span style="font-style: italic;">things </span>because one of ‘em ain’t a book. There’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The New Ghost</span>, a softcover comic by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Hunter</span> (whose work you’ll have seen in<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> A Graphic Cosmogeny</span>) about a ghost’s first day being a ghost. Canadian arts blog <a href="http://www.squidfaceandthemeddler.com/">Squidface & The Meddler</a> (which is a good one to keep an eye on, incidentally) has <a href="http://www.squidfaceandthemeddler.com/books/the-new-ghost/">a short review</a> along with a preview. <span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Hunter</span>’s art runs against many of the strong currents in the world of comics…how often do you come across a comic that’s light as air, dreamy and poetic?”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6G9uJpApWEnxn2mI4KgFMOtuZ1uvu16UoDnG014vYfYQANHWQhyxJM3zYUGX9uZjM14w4mZNCwPt9lZiBzteNvomIipsvaCDPuUv2jCWXd9NtB3UeP2K3l7Zh94cUCQXYNrUiMPq5kFo/s1600/flesh1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6G9uJpApWEnxn2mI4KgFMOtuZ1uvu16UoDnG014vYfYQANHWQhyxJM3zYUGX9uZjM14w4mZNCwPt9lZiBzteNvomIipsvaCDPuUv2jCWXd9NtB3UeP2K3l7Zh94cUCQXYNrUiMPq5kFo/s400/flesh1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615500963902456290" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzrp306DOjP_AidjrksSu-Tdoaw7i4ROx5YjQXVxV7F6Gy46VBbPx3YhFk5UJntttg2Z_i1C4LLZ_CqjZ5UwZPd2iCIVCnGL4LKMSdq80wtW3ofyI7bdpZtYvLqldHXPrz4yu8KPbdVel/s1600/flesh2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzrp306DOjP_AidjrksSu-Tdoaw7i4ROx5YjQXVxV7F6Gy46VBbPx3YhFk5UJntttg2Z_i1C4LLZ_CqjZ5UwZPd2iCIVCnGL4LKMSdq80wtW3ofyI7bdpZtYvLqldHXPrz4yu8KPbdVel/s400/flesh2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615501240691971826" border="0" /></a>The other <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nobrow </span>offering is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flesh and Bone: A Colouring Concertina</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Sibbick</span>, who in his long career illustrating natural history books and designing things for London’s Natural History Museum probably has a lot to do with what the dinosaurs in your head look like. As a long-standing fan of dinosaurs (the Stegosaurus is the best one, by the way) and basically everything’s skeletal insides – this is my pick of the week. It’s a double-sided fold-out, much like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Micah Lidberg</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Rise and Fall: A Concertina of Life </span>– a black and white panorama of animals on one side (monkey, sloth, lizard, whale et al) with the exact same composition on the back with flesh and fur now gone and only skeleton remaining. Give it to a kid to colour in or stick it on your bedroom wall like I’m about to. <a href="http://www.nobrow.net/5041">Preview</a> at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nobrow</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKQ_d1TqcDWbN6J9s1zyPjZiEDxvqXccHRmMt5QpEozsD-CD6fHc24rRsFYeKXqxzHQj6bJbMHpWueOqfa8wrzBNhzrH-ZT-h5IojnfeuFllY4S4OI90SPIVgu1om_CtHzN0y1VUrL6nV/s1600/frank.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKQ_d1TqcDWbN6J9s1zyPjZiEDxvqXccHRmMt5QpEozsD-CD6fHc24rRsFYeKXqxzHQj6bJbMHpWueOqfa8wrzBNhzrH-ZT-h5IojnfeuFllY4S4OI90SPIVgu1om_CtHzN0y1VUrL6nV/s400/frank.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615502342487224210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Woodring</span>’s follow-up to last year’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Weathercraft </span>has landed. In <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Congress of the Animals</span> Frank’s left home and is dealing with all manner of horrific realties, though I don’t see him crying over his tax returns in <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/congan-preview.pdf">the preview</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">"The story <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress of the Animals</span> is one I've wanted to tell for a long time. In a lot of ways it's the most personal of the Frank stories and it breaks some aspects of the Frank mold,"</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Woodring </span>said to <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32129">Comicbook Resources</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">"There's a lot going on that may not be apparent, but I operate on the theory that is, there is something there people will pick up on it even if they don't see it directly. And that if they are sufficiently interested in puzzling it out, the meaning will become apparent.”</span> In the same interview <span style="font-weight: bold;">Woodring </span>talks about wielding a massive nib pen he made called the Nibbus Maximus, an impractical illustration tool which he didn’t use on a single panel in this book but it’s a funny and absurd story worth a read anyway.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtlgUPoEtAv-qKbRlU6ycYaKM6l9l_m8hRZK3ANvyIjr4rj6D3CZO0zbF_EiMVTrCpyTORDaY7SU1-WnpXLgcfuYNVijSwEj61DHc9JvNWFHQc2YXkg4TysBrKf8l3SMhEq0DiyKKF5qV/s1600/Bird-king-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtlgUPoEtAv-qKbRlU6ycYaKM6l9l_m8hRZK3ANvyIjr4rj6D3CZO0zbF_EiMVTrCpyTORDaY7SU1-WnpXLgcfuYNVijSwEj61DHc9JvNWFHQc2YXkg4TysBrKf8l3SMhEq0DiyKKF5qV/s400/Bird-king-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615502731475166674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRblEXVooWPtH1wQkUoR2ncNl-75On5mblBf0x8SQhWvEepvNCrQHjkUUeIlQ-veFjSu25LZKjC7aTrGL7T8VQqx6tGR3knV4qUmV-3tZ85OpZMMlZ-gGLYutFop_yi4clRzcg8_Is1SoB/s1600/birdkingkoala.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRblEXVooWPtH1wQkUoR2ncNl-75On5mblBf0x8SQhWvEepvNCrQHjkUUeIlQ-veFjSu25LZKjC7aTrGL7T8VQqx6tGR3knV4qUmV-3tZ85OpZMMlZ-gGLYutFop_yi4clRzcg8_Is1SoB/s400/birdkingkoala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615502848499294178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shaun Tan</span>’s got another typically lovely looking book on the shelf already: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Bird King</span>, being a collection of sketches from all over the place – preliminary book designs, theatre stuff, and drawings from life. There’s 128 pages of it – including <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tan</span>’s written explanations – and he has a preview over on <a href="http://www.shauntan.net/books/Bird%20King.html">his website</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEY_wX-EzwFNFgjxXp-Cn0ydIX4XHxU44FCqaNjS0JXll9ecyF-8FtElOW_QyzxJqC4pAo4PDNnaSnljhDi4dF17-3GfXCAaYGMzlaqUHuq8xIZ6Gcqg2GzA-D8eDrHyYUfTP-N-o3Oo4/s1600/two.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEY_wX-EzwFNFgjxXp-Cn0ydIX4XHxU44FCqaNjS0JXll9ecyF-8FtElOW_QyzxJqC4pAo4PDNnaSnljhDi4dF17-3GfXCAaYGMzlaqUHuq8xIZ6Gcqg2GzA-D8eDrHyYUfTP-N-o3Oo4/s400/two.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615503267133629250" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyH3cYumtxGMdhe9GOaMf-shp2gJkFsz2A5jLusuFYvPvW_9PsA3588yvTNlM0t5yWjl-ysC4iC-AX4DBRuhyy8M7zaJRD91Y7zcsXDvCc3Sq-3Gski6i8UI_dgi_6L2hqMvF1uyo6NwDi/s1600/sentence.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyH3cYumtxGMdhe9GOaMf-shp2gJkFsz2A5jLusuFYvPvW_9PsA3588yvTNlM0t5yWjl-ysC4iC-AX4DBRuhyy8M7zaJRD91Y7zcsXDvCc3Sq-3Gski6i8UI_dgi_6L2hqMvF1uyo6NwDi/s400/sentence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615503114854260930" border="0" /></a>Our own <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barnaby Richards</span> has teamed up with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tanya Meditzky</span> (most recently of <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Man Who Clapped</span> with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Matt Abbiss</span>) and come up with a book called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Two Sentences</span>. The two exchanged sentences for the other to illustrate – an experiment in seeing how they would each interpret the other’s words and worlds. As <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barnaby </span>writes <a href="http://www.barnabyrichardsarchive.com/2011/05/two-sentences.html">in his blog preview</a>, they did this five times and the result is the beautiful hand-stitched book currently looking mighty swish on the new release shelf.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UFGqiuUQZYN4OThOk8BEP_xI3CLhpoTnx9wUQVuA1p6VpUjCDq1GYAM3wa1N-5oKzeSPW5uFeHvTkZHWnNSzQlXnOpGDqMseZlsSMuDueJAViiSwOynWgdXN4VRXbVXaMrk32Uv9wSW3/s1600/andersnilsengame.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UFGqiuUQZYN4OThOk8BEP_xI3CLhpoTnx9wUQVuA1p6VpUjCDq1GYAM3wa1N-5oKzeSPW5uFeHvTkZHWnNSzQlXnOpGDqMseZlsSMuDueJAViiSwOynWgdXN4VRXbVXaMrk32Uv9wSW3/s400/andersnilsengame.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615503533152665570" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDQUN7OS5LVt54mllvxv7-vJLOIZZFxsrKIZK87dk2kaPEDBjkuXyOMKoTx3qfkvY-xKP0spUDqZjuXXglSGbCuL1R-Gf39c2up9jSQw8r7QZOGlmfB4R6O2yAvZRq4VXq7VcH8j3uEYV/s1600/monologuist+mini+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDQUN7OS5LVt54mllvxv7-vJLOIZZFxsrKIZK87dk2kaPEDBjkuXyOMKoTx3qfkvY-xKP0spUDqZjuXXglSGbCuL1R-Gf39c2up9jSQw8r7QZOGlmfB4R6O2yAvZRq4VXq7VcH8j3uEYV/s400/monologuist+mini+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615503715072245010" border="0" /></a>There are two strange self-published things from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anders Nilsen</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Big Questions</span>) you might like, none of which take the usual book form: There’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Game</span>, which reprints the three-page strip <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nilsen </span>did for the now long-out-of-print and ridiculously eBayable <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Kramers Ergot #7</span> in 2008 as a poster, along with a previously unpublished fourth page. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Monologuist Paper Blog</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update </span>is a mini-comic with a bunch of postcards, a sticker and a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Big Questions</span> trading card. Pictures of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Game</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Monologuist Paper Blog Update</span> are available <a href="http://themonologuist.blogspot.com/2011/05/game-postermini.html">here</a> and <a href="http://themonologuist.blogspot.com/2009/11/paper-blog-update-supplemental.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYEK9id5v5db42C5wrKYkoNf3HVdUdbXYm3BKM3-s-Z5Fc10iYzel68dc7dV-s1gVVR5vFDNZ6hMkodgwskuP9rEPhUhmOXeveZqYqdEMCvwMmOq2GmcPp8_TYaknZzwQsq8hMjN0frcQ/s1600/jason.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYEK9id5v5db42C5wrKYkoNf3HVdUdbXYm3BKM3-s-Z5Fc10iYzel68dc7dV-s1gVVR5vFDNZ6hMkodgwskuP9rEPhUhmOXeveZqYqdEMCvwMmOq2GmcPp8_TYaknZzwQsq8hMjN0frcQ/s400/jason.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615504909748770674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I Killed Adolf Hitler</span>) has enlisted a writer for the first time in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fabien Vehlmann</span>, a well known name in France but the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sean Phillips </span>illustrated <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Seven Psychopaths</span> is his only translated work so far, except for this new one of course. <span style="font-style: italic;">"I expect to run out of ideas at some point, and then I will have to work with a writer, so I tried it out now to see how it felt,”</span> said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason </span>to <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=32380&page=article">CbR</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">"I was a bit surprised by the darkness of the story, since I figured it to be an all-ages book. I think my stories can be dark occasionally, but Fabien went much further than I had expected when the story reached the island. Like the scene with the parrot in the dungeon, it was almost like a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Treasure Island </span>film suddenly being directed by <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Lynch</span>."</span> It’s about pirates, obviously. There’s a preview at <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/islgra-preview.pdf">Fantagraphics</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlwj6vmKuLxYtpLmYj6rzLSKNZ21R9cICFr_85wzKQQBpBqwQFGw74kSW_xKQCMetSg9I3hVEzek9GcSvV3axUI6b3R32KDo4Xw_eAMaJOzqhozYGhG0DPrwaNT9BFLLNXgAiBAoHnyh3/s1600/mouse.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlwj6vmKuLxYtpLmYj6rzLSKNZ21R9cICFr_85wzKQQBpBqwQFGw74kSW_xKQCMetSg9I3hVEzek9GcSvV3axUI6b3R32KDo4Xw_eAMaJOzqhozYGhG0DPrwaNT9BFLLNXgAiBAoHnyh3/s400/mouse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615505705080441362" border="0" /></a>Another one from Fantagraphics is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Disney’s Mickey Mouse Volume 1: Race to Death Valley</span>, a hardcover collecting old strips all fully remastered and shot directly from the proof sheets of Disney and private collections. They’re by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Floyd Gottfredson</span>, who was employed at Disney as an apprentice animator and in-betweener in the early ‘30s. He was temporarily put on the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mickey Mouse</span> strip and somehow ended up drawing it for the next 45 years. Check out his work at <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/wdmm01-preview.pdf">Fantagraphics</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-odEzieXIrTA7fKYjUH1cJpy41LDHCv_CpSmjJxJeLmkmsFEX2othiC8QaY7kU_Kt9sdy_6OQOcFnEdOARxg22ijwMfsmLDo3PboOQ1oeVnpcyfgeLgMCTqgWqZKNspdr6mFJ6LkWd8uy/s1600/pride.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-odEzieXIrTA7fKYjUH1cJpy41LDHCv_CpSmjJxJeLmkmsFEX2othiC8QaY7kU_Kt9sdy_6OQOcFnEdOARxg22ijwMfsmLDo3PboOQ1oeVnpcyfgeLgMCTqgWqZKNspdr6mFJ6LkWd8uy/s400/pride.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615506151479065234" border="0" /></a>Gosh! Favourite <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ian Edginton</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Scarlet Traces</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sherlock Holmes</span>) has another classic adaptation on the shelf in the form of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Pride and Prejudice</span> from SelfMadeHero. Art on this one is by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Deas</span>, whose work you’ll most recently have seen in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">A Tale of Two Cities </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Le Morte D’Arthur</span>. The preview function on the SelfMadeHero site is becoming the bane of my existence so if I were you I’d head straight to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deas</span>’ <a href="http://www.rdcomics.co.uk/prideandprejudice">own site</a> where he gives you full pages of artwork to peruse at your leisure, rather than the infuriating enforced slideshow of the aforementioned.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtxRyyOu9IPMsEUBDrmxnM0NJGvDneWuOYmmwM4TgBc6-NQWxLtcwLAmjBgTE5GAgBpPYsjpLKMOsaniEetq7cVAskntt9e1nlTiAAA64wgjKvD6DsXX6Pc6YqbAHgnm46o65O6oCZNoS/s1600/londonwalks.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtxRyyOu9IPMsEUBDrmxnM0NJGvDneWuOYmmwM4TgBc6-NQWxLtcwLAmjBgTE5GAgBpPYsjpLKMOsaniEetq7cVAskntt9e1nlTiAAA64wgjKvD6DsXX6Pc6YqbAHgnm46o65O6oCZNoS/s400/londonwalks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615506395147917074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">London Walks</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Badaude </span>is an illustrated guided journey around this old city of ours that starts and ends at the famous Foyles, on Charing Cross Road. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I’m not a Londoner born and bred. When I first moved here, I’d just finished a degree in English Literature. I’d spent all my life building up a mental map of the city through books but, although I’d visited a few times, I’d never experienced the city day-in, day-out. It was interesting to draw a map of personal experiences on top of the map of everything I’d read. And, after living in different parts of the city for several years, I found parts of my experience crossed other parts, like lines drawn on a map, some hard and some faint, each erasing and distorting others I’d made. I wanted to draw attention to and replicate this multilayered, four dimensional experience of being in a city.”</span> Interview and preview pages at <a href="http://www.designweek.co.uk/3026047.article">Design Week</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hNBVw0euBNQy4Lpxtc6iH0Ces7Xv7_iWOuTYALRwl13Be6XhBPCFjR9hgEerU-R0J_IhqGSBYqNY5XpF2CIRdCYBlmB7r-NGk6CizLzvwNy2QSgGOHIGirGgxdXCre6cX2pCDBXJc-Ke/s1600/bat.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_hNBVw0euBNQy4Lpxtc6iH0Ces7Xv7_iWOuTYALRwl13Be6XhBPCFjR9hgEerU-R0J_IhqGSBYqNY5XpF2CIRdCYBlmB7r-NGk6CizLzvwNy2QSgGOHIGirGgxdXCre6cX2pCDBXJc-Ke/s400/bat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615506643552434786" border="0" /></a>That’s it for new books but here’s some collections you might like to bag: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Generation Hope Volume 1: Future Is a Four Letter Word</span> written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kieron Gillen</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Phonogram</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Batwoman Elegy TP Volume 1</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greg Rucka</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">J.H. Williams III</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Baltimore: Plague Ships</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Golden</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ben Stenbeck</span> in hardcover, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mister X: The Brides of Mister X</span> also in hardcover, which collects <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dean Motter</span>’s return to Radiant City in the late 1980s. For a preview and proper list of that last one’s contents head to <a href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/17-802?page=0">Dark Horse</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXPhGp-VP_bW7DHeTbmmQyc3e3XAa9oqNI_pZvJ3rVnAbkl8mZe9RtDgNVdZraopZAYVh9F55V20U8ovY4xztrTO9iCBY66bfLMHuC37KSryDxW193xe1cUx7Wz-kNS97LlV2HV4RFspl/s1600/balls.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXPhGp-VP_bW7DHeTbmmQyc3e3XAa9oqNI_pZvJ3rVnAbkl8mZe9RtDgNVdZraopZAYVh9F55V20U8ovY4xztrTO9iCBY66bfLMHuC37KSryDxW193xe1cUx7Wz-kNS97LlV2HV4RFspl/s400/balls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615507024698913762" border="0" /></a>As for floppy comics, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Space Warped #1</span> (of 2) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Herva Bourhis</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rudy Spiessert</span> is billed as being in the tradition of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Robot Chicken: Star Wars </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spaceballs </span>so it should be fun. <a href="http://www.comixology.com/previews/APR110907/Space-Warped-1-of-2-?utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=preview%252bAPR110907">Comixology</a> has a preview. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andi Watson</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">15 Love #1</span> (of 3) illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tommy Ohtsuka</span> is out and previewed <a href="http://www.hypergeek.ca/2011/03/preview15-love-1.html">here</a>, and if you think it sounds familiar it probably does: the series was <a href="http://comicsworthreading.com/2011/03/21/andi-watsons-15-love-to-finally-be-published-eight-years-later/">announced eight long years ago</a>. There’s a preview of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Samurai’s Blood #1</span> (of 6) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Owen Wiseman</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nam Kim</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew Dalton</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jessica Kholinne</span> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8136">here</a>, and will be of interest to people who like samurais and blood and vengeance and stuff.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Screamland #1</span> is a comic set in a world where movie monsters are real and mostly unemployed. That’s, uh, except for the ones cast in some monster porn film, of course. Preview <a href="http://www.renderwrx.net/apps/blog/show/6871415">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMegwa7TERcj0Z2kj0wa-jaeZYWv6sDFSidY0bhhTsBr9uolu9n4JbfYX36UEGmguuZRAB_bd-qFOhvAkUm2rsQr_cEyxz5rumGI_KqqwjqyvdKEh8vg4aAzgABOAhVru8T1TsCzVRVCMC/s1600/kazar.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMegwa7TERcj0Z2kj0wa-jaeZYWv6sDFSidY0bhhTsBr9uolu9n4JbfYX36UEGmguuZRAB_bd-qFOhvAkUm2rsQr_cEyxz5rumGI_KqqwjqyvdKEh8vg4aAzgABOAhVru8T1TsCzVRVCMC/s400/kazar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615507800825342322" border="0" /></a>In the Marvel camp there’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ghost Rider #0.1</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Williams</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dark Wolverine</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew Clark</span>, offering new readers a chance to jump on the back of that particular motorbike (<a href="http://comicbuzz.com/ghost-rider-0-1-preview">preview</a>), and<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Iron Age Alpha #1</span>, also by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Williams</span>, is previewed <a href="http://comics.cosmicbooknews.com/content/preview-iron-age-alpha-1">here</a>. There’s also <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ka-Zar #1</span> (of 5) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Jenkins</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Inhumans</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pascal Alixe</span> which sees the Savage Land under seige – <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=31633&page=article">preview</a> – and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Supreme Power #1</span> (of 4) previewed <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8816">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1zHy8HPOGdGPz8eIkYiBm8tCsVku309kJoIrFptdyNHJimOSETvZM9gd239VIcLDKHFF_b7WwlUqIBsVU7_Ry0V25ryhKpHTq2_b-guyCEqa8tIHBuYYRKAMQvm5JQHaVBUt68k1Vsk6/s1600/mysterymen.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1zHy8HPOGdGPz8eIkYiBm8tCsVku309kJoIrFptdyNHJimOSETvZM9gd239VIcLDKHFF_b7WwlUqIBsVU7_Ry0V25ryhKpHTq2_b-guyCEqa8tIHBuYYRKAMQvm5JQHaVBUt68k1Vsk6/s400/mysterymen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615508219582808562" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mystery Men #1</span> (of 5) is a comic in which you should <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>expect to see an appearance from The Shoveller or even Captain Amazing but you <span style="font-style: italic;">can </span>expect comic shop employees the world over to beg Marvel to just do a brainstorm session or something and come up with new names for things. Written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Liss</span> and illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Zircher</span>, it’s about what dark conspiracies drive five heroes to put on masks and save the world. From the <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32307">preview</a> it looks kind of pulpy.<br /><br />As for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fear Itself</span>, you can cross <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fear Itself: Fearsome Four #1</span> (of 4) off your list (<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=42769">preview</a>) along with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fear Itself: Deadpool #1</span> (of 3) too (<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8868">preview</a>) .<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatRRWLmHS4xnWJP-pbx1gpCKKvWcsOPugRgzAjtI-0rBT3rqwKIJtx8009-kI_TWN_8hp288xeHFxy-DQ1OLddmuZE_lBMopIPcCWR1-3ITgdvjEiSNSezyrDl9YjEGzGZx4o9ECtNf4V/s1600/blam.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatRRWLmHS4xnWJP-pbx1gpCKKvWcsOPugRgzAjtI-0rBT3rqwKIJtx8009-kI_TWN_8hp288xeHFxy-DQ1OLddmuZE_lBMopIPcCWR1-3ITgdvjEiSNSezyrDl9YjEGzGZx4o9ECtNf4V/s400/blam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615508739492525362" border="0" /></a>Vertigo launches a spin-off series in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #1</span> (of 5) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Snyder</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sean Murphy</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Joe the Barbarian</span>). It’s set during WWII in a Nazi-occupied Romania where some vampire hunters have gone behind enemy lines. <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8616">Preview</a>.<br /><br />There’s a couple of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Green Lantern Movie Prequel</span> one-shots which fill newbies in on key characters so they won’t have to elbow whoever’s next to them in the film and whisper, <span style="font-style: italic;">Who’s that guy?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Kilowog </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tomar-Re </span>are first off the block, by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter J. Tomasi/Joe Bennett </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marc Guggenheim/Cliff Richards</span>, respectively.<br /><br />Four <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint </span>titles this week ensure the F shelf will be mostly red and yellow:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint Citizen Cold #1</span> (of 3) written and illustrated by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Skott Kolins</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint Deathstroke: Curse of the Ravager #1 </span>(of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy Palmiotti</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Bennett</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint Emperor Aquaman #1</span> (of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tony Bedard</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ardian Syaf</span><br />And <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint: Frankenstein – Creatures of the Unknown #1 </span>(of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeff Lemire</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sweet Tooth</span> fame, with art by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ibraim Roberson</span>.<br /><br />If you’re losing your place (and why wouldn’t you be) here’s a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint</span> <a href="http://www.dccomics.com/media/special/Flashpoint_Checklist_Part_1.pdf">checklist again</a>. Stick it in your pocket.<br /><br />Finally, I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle</span> but you should do. It’s excellent. As a special bonus <span style="font-weight: bold;">Big Hairy Alan Moore</span> turned up for a short history lesson in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011p4lk/Stewart_Lees_Comedy_Vehicle_Series_2_Identity/">this episode here</a>, which you’d best watch now because it’ll disappear from the Internet in about a week or so.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEgm9TAf0tZP9wp3CCdYwGzH-TBgfa2cNLhJDOf_1mYEJSCOoopSGWqp_2UmqOFKaYL5yK9LGWYQbMaiZgozyoKu7304-bIkP1mKsFevRD7L5TNSeA0GuE5nWuxc4QHRF4DnAPnQK9oKZ/s1600/bighairy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEgm9TAf0tZP9wp3CCdYwGzH-TBgfa2cNLhJDOf_1mYEJSCOoopSGWqp_2UmqOFKaYL5yK9LGWYQbMaiZgozyoKu7304-bIkP1mKsFevRD7L5TNSeA0GuE5nWuxc4QHRF4DnAPnQK9oKZ/s400/bighairy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615509477841406754" border="0" /></a>-- Hayley</span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-56896126031826812832011-06-07T15:52:00.001+01:002011-06-07T15:55:37.675+01:00In Store 02/06/11 - 08/06/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Archie Double Digest #219<br />2000 AD #1737<br />15 Love #1 (Of 3) (Andi Watson)<br />American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest #1 (Of 5)<br />Annihilators #4 (Of 4)<br />Ant-Man And Wasp TP Small World<br />New Avengers #13<br />New Avengers Nannies And Nazis One-Shot<br />Baltimore Plague Ships HC<br />Batman And Robin #24<br />Batman Arkham City #2 (Of 5)<br />Batwoman TP Vol 1 Elegy(G. Rucka/J.H. Williams III)<br />Bird King HC (Shaun Tan)<br />Birds Of Prey #13<br />Black Panther Man Without Fear #519<br />Blue Estate #3 (Valley/Cypress)<br />Booster Gold #45 (Flashpoint)<br />Breed III #2 (Jim Starlin)<br />Caligula #2 (Of 6) (Dave Lapham)<br />Captain America <br />- By Dan Jurgens TP Vol 1<br />- Fighting Avenger TP<br />- No Escape TP<br />Celluloid HC (Dave McKean)<br />Congress Of The Animals HC(Jim Woodring)<br />Crysis #1 (Of 6) (Peter Bergting)<br />Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Of Eluria HC<br />DC Comics Presents Impulse #1<br />Doc Savage #15<br />Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Fool Moon #2<br />Echo #30 (Terry Moore)<br />Empowered Special #2: 10 Questions For The Maidman<br />Famous Monsters Of Filmland #256<br />Farscape #20<br />Fear Itself Fearsome Four #1 (Of 4)<br />Flashpoint <br />- Citizen Cold #1 (Of 3)<br />- Deathstroke: Curse Of Ravager #1 (Of 3)<br />- Emperor Aquaman #1 (Of 3)<br />- Frankenstein: Creatures Of Unknown #1 (Of 3)<br />Flesh & Bone (Nobrow)<br />Ghost Rider #0 Point One<br />Glamourpuss #19 (Dave Sim)<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequels <br />- Kilowog One-Shot<br />- Tomar-Re One-Shot<br />Green Wake #3 (Of 5)<br />Hulk-Sized Mini-Hulks #1<br />Incredible Hulks #630<br />Iron Age Alpha #1<br />Isle Of 100,000 Graves HC (Jason)<br />Journey Into Mystery #624 (Gillen)<br />Ka-Zar #1 (Of 5)<br />Knights Of The Dinner Table #174<br />Li'l Abner HC Vol 3<br />London Walks SC (Badaude)<br />Lucky Luke Vol 29<br />Disney’s Mickey Mouse HC Vol 1 Race To Death Valley<br />Mister X HC: Brides Of Mister X (Motter/Milligan/D’Israeli)<br />Moriarty #2<br />Morning Glories #10<br />Mystery Men #1 (Of 5)<br />New Ghost SC (Rob Hunter/Nobrow)<br />Nick Cardy Artist At War HC Signed Edition<br />Anders Nilsen books:<br />- The Game<br />- Monologuist Paper Blog <br />Pearl HC (N. Richardson)<br />Preacher HC Vol 4 (Garth Ennis)<br />Pride & Predjudice (Ian Edginton)<br />PunisherMax #14 (Aaron/Dillon)<br />Red Robin #24<br />Samurai's Blood #1 (Of 6)<br />Savage Dragon #171<br />Scalped #49 (Jason Aaron)<br />Screamland Ongoing #1<br />Soulfire Vol 3 #1<br />Space Warped #1 (Of 2)<br />Spawn #208<br />Amazing Spider-Man/Ghost Rider Motorstorm One-Shot<br />Fear Itself Spider-Man #2 (Of 3)<br />Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #159<br />Spongebob Comics #3<br />Stan Lee's Starborn #7<br />Stand No Man's Land #5 (Of 5)<br />Superman Chronicles TP Vol 9<br />Supreme Power #1 (Of 4)<br />Sweet Tooth TP Vol 3 (Jeff Lemire)<br />Thor TP Gods On Earth New Ptg<br />Titans #36<br />Twilight Experiment TP<br />Two Sentences SC (B. Richards/T. Meditzky)<br />Unwritten #26 (M. Carey/P. Gross)<br />Vampirella #6<br />Walking Dead Weekly #23<br />Warlord Of Mars #7<br />Deadpool #38<br />Deadpool Team-Up TP Vol 2 <br />Fear Itself Deadpool #1 (Of 3)<br />Generation Hope TP: Future's A Four Letter Word (K. Gillen)<br />New X-Men By Grant Morrison TP Vol 2<br />Wolverine #10<br />X-Men Legacy #250<br />Yoko Tsuno Vol 6<br /><br />MANGA<br /><br />Black Jack TP Vol 14 (Tezuka)<br />Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex GN<br />Ouran High School Host Club GN Vol 16<br />Pokemon Adventures <br />- Platinum GN Vol 2<br />- TP Vol 13<br />Vampire Knight TP Vol 12<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-67863555856390509332011-05-31T17:32:00.000+01:002011-05-31T17:33:32.333+01:00Due To Arrive 01/06/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />15 Love #1 (Of 3)<br />All New Batman The Brave And The Bold #8<br />Amazing Spider-Man Ghost Rider Motorstorm One-Shot<br />American Vampire Survival Ot Fittest #1 (Of 5)<br />Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Ingenue #4(Of 5)<br />Annihilators #4 (Of 4)<br />Ant-Man And Wasp TP Small World<br />Avatar Last Airbender TP Vol 1 Lost Adventures<br />Baltimore Plague Ships HC Vol 1<br />Batman And Robin #24<br />Batman Arkham City #2 (Of 5)<br />Batwoman TP Vol 1 Elegy<br />Birds Of Prey #13<br />Black Panther Man Without Fear #519<br />Blue Estate #3<br />Booster Gold #45<br />Breed III #2<br />Captain America By Dan Jurgens TP Vol 1<br />Captain America Fighting Avenger TP<br />Captain America No Escape TP<br />Creepy Comics TP Vol 1<br />Danger Girl Campbell Sketchbook HC<br />Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Of Eluria Prem HC<br />DC Comics Presents Impulse #1<br />Deadpool #38<br />Deadpool Team-Up TP Vol 2 Special Relationship<br />Doc Savage #15<br />Empowered Special #2 10 Questions For Maidman<br />Fear Itself Deadpool #1 (Of 3)<br />Fear Itself Fearsome Four #1 (Of 4)<br />Fear Itself Spider-Man #2 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Citizen Cold #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Deathstroke The Curse Of Ravager #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Emperor Aquaman #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Frankenstein Creatures Of Unknown #1 (Of 3)<br />Generation Hope TP Futures A Four Letter Word<br />Ghost Rider #0 Point One<br />Golly TP Vol 1 Catching Hell<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Kilowog One-Shot<br />Green Lantern Movie Prequel Tomar-Re One-Shot<br />Green Wake #3 (Of 5)<br />Incredible Hulks #630<br />Iron Age Alpha #1<br />Journey Into Mystery #624<br />Ka-Zar #1 (Of 5)<br />Li'l Abner HC Vol 3<br />Li'l Depressed Boy TP Vol 1 She Is Staggering<br />Magnus Robot Fighter #6<br />Mister X HC Brides Of Mister X & Other Stories<br />Moriarty #2<br />Morning Glories #10<br />Mystery Men #1 (Of 5)<br />New Avengers #13<br />New X-Men By Grant Morrison TP Vol 2<br />Preacher HC Book 4<br />PunisherMax #14<br />Red Robin #24<br />Samurais Blood #1 (Of 6)<br />Savage Dragon #171<br />Scalped #49<br />Screamland Ongoing #1<br />Something Monstrous GN<br />Spawn #208<br />Stand No Man's Land #5 (Of 5)<br />Star Wars Old Republic #1 (Of 5)<br />Superman #712<br />Superman Chronicles TP Vol 9<br />Supreme Power #1 (Of 4)<br />Sweet Tooth TP Vol 3 Animal Armies<br />Titans #36<br />Transformers Classics TP Vol 1<br />Twilight Experiment TP<br />Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #159<br />Unwritten #26<br />Walking Dead Weekly #23<br />Wolverine #10<br />X-Men Alpha Flight Prem HC<br />X-Men Legacy #250<br />X-Men Second Coming TP<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-78737215634215134462011-05-31T16:10:00.014+01:002011-05-31T17:49:45.916+01:00The Gosh! Authority 31/05/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FOOmZ0PbzddjOiWvNskjnJurjtojzFGM0f6fm6nZcTSzaBP5KwixoX-_IWScX2gy4q_Wkeh59UQl_yu4YSqrVRPuruRi8mfU6wlFqCwMYoxVabTbW3OGPVQPyy825qReHIqkkN8JpLUQ/s1600/wolves.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FOOmZ0PbzddjOiWvNskjnJurjtojzFGM0f6fm6nZcTSzaBP5KwixoX-_IWScX2gy4q_Wkeh59UQl_yu4YSqrVRPuruRi8mfU6wlFqCwMYoxVabTbW3OGPVQPyy825qReHIqkkN8JpLUQ/s400/wolves.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612905370123399906" border="0" /></a>First up, <span style="font-weight: bold;">IMPORTANT BORING STUFF</span>: [Blah blah <span style="font-style: italic;">Bank Holiday Monday</span> blah blah <span style="font-style: italic;">delay</span>] This week's comics are arriving on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday</span> ie. the same day we put them on the shelf. They could arrive late in the afternoon, or early in the morning, my point being: nobody actually knows but the truck driver. If you're able to wait until Thursday to pop your cheery face through the door that would probably be a better idea.<br /><br />Onward!<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Given that the International Alternative Press Festival was held over the weekend just around the corner from this very shop, it make sense that the best stuff on the shelf is of the hand-delivered, self-published variety (mostly dropped in by the artists themselves on the way home from said festival). <span style="font-weight: bold;">Becky Cloonan</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wolves </span>arrived in a FedEx box of course, but that’s no reason to discount it:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN930Tn7a485Z_8cVIn_gnztvz7cJ9MLzdxdWYWLR7SXWZkbCSzh59MZAGkj8F-kRwn6g5sxCD5n_smzXMLJ8yFjUYy2Cklw5ve9LsVMIqrXadyf3ABjO4eL7WkXEHveoy95tEESP3g10B/s1600/wolves1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN930Tn7a485Z_8cVIn_gnztvz7cJ9MLzdxdWYWLR7SXWZkbCSzh59MZAGkj8F-kRwn6g5sxCD5n_smzXMLJ8yFjUYy2Cklw5ve9LsVMIqrXadyf3ABjO4eL7WkXEHveoy95tEESP3g10B/s400/wolves1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612906091633664786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“Anyone who has been following my blog for a while might remember that last year I published this short story in an anthology me and some friends published in Japan for a convention in Tokyo - it was originally in Japanese; this version will be in English, and will have a few added pages,”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cloonan </span>said on her blog a while back when she was still looking for a printer. <a href="http://insidepulse.com/2011/05/14/review-wolves-by-becky-cloonan/">Inside Pulse</a> has a review and tells you what it’s all about. It’s a limited, screen-printed and signed edition of only 1000 copies so if you fancy one you’d best hurry in.<br /><br />The second issue of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Comix Reader</span> is piled high on the Gosh! counter, full of one-pagers by those you’ll have seen in the previous issue (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord Hurk</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ellen Lindner</span> et al) as well as new additions to the line-up including our very own <a href="http://www.barnabyrichards.co.uk/Barnaby_Richards/BARNABY.html">ridiculously talented</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr Barnaby Richards</span>. If you missed the first issue here’s <span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Cowdry</span>, the brains behind <a href="http://www.thecomixreader.com/">the whole operation</a>, telling you what the point of it all is:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2klhHCCXhhm0K2RtCpMqJfnigXUWamhIMDf1Vzf-QXTUuH_ajuM3X0XVwggDKxOhcnpC7D7Yh5Xoduvl77x9BJlsGrCJOda7zrHCXEAHF2pyVjFpUuDK8E-21qXe4Aflk-qmid6A4StF/s1600/comix_reader_flier_colour.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT2klhHCCXhhm0K2RtCpMqJfnigXUWamhIMDf1Vzf-QXTUuH_ajuM3X0XVwggDKxOhcnpC7D7Yh5Xoduvl77x9BJlsGrCJOda7zrHCXEAHF2pyVjFpUuDK8E-21qXe4Aflk-qmid6A4StF/s400/comix_reader_flier_colour.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612909074603873218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Hey <span style="font-style: italic;">Comix Reader </span>dudes!<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Put some previews on The Internet or I will continue to use year-old flyers!<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Love, Hayley<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“A few years ago I went to an exhibition of 60's Underground Comix at the ICA. Even though they were presented under glass display cases, they radiated the power and energy of artists who were free to do as they pleased. There was also some modern cartoon art on display, and comparing the two, I had to ask : Where did all the fun go? <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Comix Reader</span> is in part an attempt to recapture some of the free spirit of the underground press.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ7VhHhAICEBFU4Bh1mDQOHTP_oexDFrSh9fYRmoVtak8YmC60M3apqXMXZCvznPqX3nW4jIPwKGRvijV3xe5lL99Qz8fsuWvf4C5WZ_hjHhJObRLnD0jtfquJV9U3emLlncviUxlt1ZM/s1600/meathill.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ7VhHhAICEBFU4Bh1mDQOHTP_oexDFrSh9fYRmoVtak8YmC60M3apqXMXZCvznPqX3nW4jIPwKGRvijV3xe5lL99Qz8fsuWvf4C5WZ_hjHhJObRLnD0jtfquJV9U3emLlncviUxlt1ZM/s400/meathill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612909773098546450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Meat Hill #2</span> is the second instalment of the story set in a distant retro-future London,<span style="font-style: italic;"> “a heady mix of superheroes, monsters, jazz bands and greasy spoons,”</span> by the aforementioned Gosh! Favourite <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lord Hurk</span>, who also dropped in the second issue of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Static Revolter</span>. That’s “revolter” with a “t” which I have been calling <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Static Revolver</span> for probably about a year – I can only blush and apologise. It’s by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hurk </span>and Gosh! alumni <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kevin Ward</span> and it looks even better than the last one. Here’s <a href="http://www.fancybutcher.com/shock-revolter-news/">a teaser picture</a> of some screenprinted covers drying on the rack (and a colour off being completed but it’s the best I’ve got for now).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjac4FT8YIAJIBe_csH2J9M37fu91C6IMOG2R9rwhfYmotrAPPSHxynajpFQklQfIMG5gdoEzYu19t0avxLRrAzwUKFLG5-kWnz6hOVcVyM2QX-VNpfwZwKC6RieS0FmTqVQxrSChsDjJwE/s1600/holmes1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 345px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjac4FT8YIAJIBe_csH2J9M37fu91C6IMOG2R9rwhfYmotrAPPSHxynajpFQklQfIMG5gdoEzYu19t0avxLRrAzwUKFLG5-kWnz6hOVcVyM2QX-VNpfwZwKC6RieS0FmTqVQxrSChsDjJwE/s400/holmes1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612911115052320818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ian Edginton</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ian Culbard</span> add another <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sherlock Holmes</span> classic to their line of graphic novels, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Valley of Fear</span>. It’s the fourth and final book in the series which <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cory Doctorow</span> of <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/19/sherlock-holmes-as-a.html">Boing Boing</a> is such a fan of:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDepBV2ubwAulFSttPKh3P44PEk7su4rq_C2Iz1tMOSk2boqljSbgdFP7P1HoLnVVQgRV6v5QGlxuqt5YVfp8TUKQQNMfJg6yRyc1yyjpVSvsflCArLcgBMPnp9HGfd2GRaRMXAHsqz-1/s1600/holmes21.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDepBV2ubwAulFSttPKh3P44PEk7su4rq_C2Iz1tMOSk2boqljSbgdFP7P1HoLnVVQgRV6v5QGlxuqt5YVfp8TUKQQNMfJg6yRyc1yyjpVSvsflCArLcgBMPnp9HGfd2GRaRMXAHsqz-1/s400/holmes21.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612911210513068818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“…These four volumes are among the most exciting treatments of the Holmes novels that I've ever seen -- Culbard's pulpy, golden-age illustration style complements Edginton's sharp eye for pacing to great effect… I've loved Sherlock Holmes all my life, and I've read the original novels a dozen times or more, but these adaptations still brought new life and energy to the familiar texts.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfds97Iq9yZzLSPxuZZ7WQ0V65ZvnFZDJ2FdB1gjQe80_TN54ckvfUoPLrn-yVWHym2hyphenhyphennTu33r3w6AacYv2PdiYc559WfUrdkFnosX2Myzhnh8MKbXZYcWaYRQsnVXybpRdFuxc9fnPG/s1600/dang_cov_FINAL_loRES.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZfds97Iq9yZzLSPxuZZ7WQ0V65ZvnFZDJ2FdB1gjQe80_TN54ckvfUoPLrn-yVWHym2hyphenhyphennTu33r3w6AacYv2PdiYc559WfUrdkFnosX2Myzhnh8MKbXZYcWaYRQsnVXybpRdFuxc9fnPG/s400/dang_cov_FINAL_loRES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612911499630876466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Hornschemeier </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Three Paradoxes</span>) has been serialising a story in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mome </span>for years and this week sees it collected in softcover. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Life With Mr. Dangerous</span> is about a girl who spends too much time watching a cartoon and starts to think the main character is talking to her through the television. In an interview with <a href="http://lit.newcity.com/2009/10/27/danger-drawing-paul-hornschemeiers-life-with-mr-dangerous-comes-to-an-end/">Newcity Lit</a> he said he <span style="font-style: italic;">“wanted to write a story about that strange time between your early twenties and whatever adulthood is supposed to be. When you’ve embraced reality by getting a job, renting an apartment, getting a cat or a dog or a car or a fern — but you don’t really know who you are yet.” </span>Here’s <a href="http://blog.forlornfunnies.com/2011/04/life-with-mr-dangerous-on-press.html">another preview</a> in the form of snapshots taken at the printer’s before the book was assembled into a book. But in this one you get the added bonus of a jetlagged author smiling next to it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRcx5UcRqZeOIgaLtzasUvJoFeMUWu7QmWhsQpxp5Hwg76LxYY3u7Pty2NQvENx9CbAYnGnfmeDwcDEUG_Iv0YNCQoJjTo-hTeL0mLcglGTxU2fM_ERfhb3aO51GYvijTbRQD-bv8afop/s1600/citizenrex.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRcx5UcRqZeOIgaLtzasUvJoFeMUWu7QmWhsQpxp5Hwg76LxYY3u7Pty2NQvENx9CbAYnGnfmeDwcDEUG_Iv0YNCQoJjTo-hTeL0mLcglGTxU2fM_ERfhb3aO51GYvijTbRQD-bv8afop/s400/citizenrex.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612912228153702898" border="0" /></a>Also collected is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Citizen Rex </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mario and Gilbert Hernandez </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Love & Rockets</span>) which was a six-issue miniseries set fifty years in the future where an anti-robot movement is happening. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I just like the whole idea of robots, always have. To me, they’re free of the constraints of race, religion and societal mores that hamstring humans, and of course they piss people off,”</span> said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mario </span>in an interview with <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21418">Comicbook Resources</a>. It runs alongside some preview pages if you need ‘em.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9YMKCJ09fYj5U3FfhKS_Ayicq-EtXHboATHQgmuQ8mGW-hLQrE0ALM9HjH58Z1OWopMecdkQVGSxlB61ncLofv4_Xm5NqEK4AGgFqSwLpVE1iI4a_cOLkSGNSdyzi5UKAtcs3G99YOcn8/s1600/stuckrubber.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9YMKCJ09fYj5U3FfhKS_Ayicq-EtXHboATHQgmuQ8mGW-hLQrE0ALM9HjH58Z1OWopMecdkQVGSxlB61ncLofv4_Xm5NqEK4AGgFqSwLpVE1iI4a_cOLkSGNSdyzi5UKAtcs3G99YOcn8/s400/stuckrubber.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612912651210932114" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Howard Cruse</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wendel</span>) sees his <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Stuck Rubber Baby</span> reprinted in honour of its 15th anniversary. It’s about gay and race relations in the 1960s American South, and is partly autobiographical. It comes with a new introduction by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alison Bechdel </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fun Home</span>) and <a href="http://blog.newsarama.com/2010/07/08/review-stuck-rubber-baby/">Newsarama</a> have a review. If you’ve never seen it before head to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cruse</span>’s <a href="http://www.howardcruse.com/howardsite/aboutbooks/stuckrubberbook/srbpreview/index.html">website</a> to see the teaser pamphlet he drew way back before the book was printed for the very first time.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn9w-cmYqob5xU_pPKkHQoSdyxuM9XJxkFP6WABW7SbUHsQzco3B9Lp2hhK90N3TlRsEIxlJ8jPD2RodjdSRKnjIOZoQ9r3xNqzUPbczGNyqYZfaIJPekSO67lv8eYSTZc9IKUtsGVXZA/s1600/tooth.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn9w-cmYqob5xU_pPKkHQoSdyxuM9XJxkFP6WABW7SbUHsQzco3B9Lp2hhK90N3TlRsEIxlJ8jPD2RodjdSRKnjIOZoQ9r3xNqzUPbczGNyqYZfaIJPekSO67lv8eYSTZc9IKUtsGVXZA/s400/tooth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612912972578071682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cullen Bunn</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Sixth Gun</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shawn Lee </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Matt Kindt</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Super Spy</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man</span>) have teamed up for something they admit is totally ludicrous – <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Tooth</span> – a 200-page graphic novel whose main character has no face or eyes and is essentially just a yellow fang on legs. <span style="font-style: italic;">“[It’s] <span style="font-weight: bold;">Swamp Thing</span>-meets-<span style="font-weight: bold;">Clash of the Titans</span>-meets all the awesome comics your mom threw away when you went to college kind of a book,"</span> said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bunn</span> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=31351&page=article">at CbR</a>, where they have a preview too. There are monsters, dragons, vicious demons, sorcerers, vengeful spirits and from the sounds of it they all take a thorough beating from The Tooth.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOl884JQ-3mBCCNRwLfcoVAHrKbJpVP7MX3rtkH_g9VHK4qf6wTBaKt1AGJ2d4TkmICmd60NWQFEziIF3LbvOBOwpOGVqUTtE103vpYTIXwrjTdyPDvyWVz8F0E0v18NKL6CqkAIFpLK0/s1600/constructive.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOl884JQ-3mBCCNRwLfcoVAHrKbJpVP7MX3rtkH_g9VHK4qf6wTBaKt1AGJ2d4TkmICmd60NWQFEziIF3LbvOBOwpOGVqUTtE103vpYTIXwrjTdyPDvyWVz8F0E0v18NKL6CqkAIFpLK0/s400/constructive.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612913482152067826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Constructive Abandonment</span> is a hardcover collection of small surreal paintings accompanied by minimal text by two founding members of The Royal Art Lodge – an influential Canadian collective that parted company about three years ago – <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Dumontier</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Neil Farber</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Beyond often being extremely funny, there is frequently something poignant in these works that speaks succinctly to culture and human experience more generally; I am totally amazed at how these two are able to say so much with such an economy of means,” </span>says the <a href="http://drawnandquarterly.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html#7553677671620796374">Drawn & Quarterly blog</a>. Preview <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/imagesPreview/a4d0298129edfd.pdf">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tbWUc0n8L9eH6G_-xHrj1dTQggxxRUPpI642p0MtBoARpTTDek5miVz02_g_2WrvfaRDiygVyggZXHVR9-4AH90qf8TJg6EbemdPY6P4l3Vrte-LZUspb8enMlORsjoqa4c41EpFrYgv/s1600/majestic.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tbWUc0n8L9eH6G_-xHrj1dTQggxxRUPpI642p0MtBoARpTTDek5miVz02_g_2WrvfaRDiygVyggZXHVR9-4AH90qf8TJg6EbemdPY6P4l3Vrte-LZUspb8enMlORsjoqa4c41EpFrYgv/s400/majestic.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612914025265291282" border="0" /></a>From Fantagraphics you can have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Eye of the Majestic Creature</span> which is a collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasy-based comics by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesley Stein</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Larrybear is a naïve woman on the verge of Whatever, a cute Candide floundering about in an increasingly complicated world,”</span> writes <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/eye-of-the-majestic-creature/">The Comics Journal</a> in their review. PDF preview <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/eyemaj-preview.pdf">available here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVl6mZqpGAIHsirn-8z-3k57IQUXAc0gAlVBcNWP9E1mFItPgTaubFFwKTHegUDwQBMkbk-ov82WfQtcmdhPKmdLljyxRyGv8l3SIlwJv6YuMgt55nrmU81ZJbh8yvqzqQuDdg0E3W3F54/s1600/parker_logo.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVl6mZqpGAIHsirn-8z-3k57IQUXAc0gAlVBcNWP9E1mFItPgTaubFFwKTHegUDwQBMkbk-ov82WfQtcmdhPKmdLljyxRyGv8l3SIlwJv6YuMgt55nrmU81ZJbh8yvqzqQuDdg0E3W3F54/s400/parker_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612914721003050722" border="0" /></a>There’s another <span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Stark</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Parker </span>book on the shelves – that’s the prose variety rather than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Darwyn Cooke</span> adaptations. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Backflash </span>is the eighteenth volume of a hefty twenty-four, and they all come highly recommended from us lot behind the counter.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48MmfTm05-AAXoDJ6SrQGTCIse_iTVgj8y0TD71A9h3vpdxxHrK9mwBAap6n3km3VAw8oH1iqi_a6oxA36_lTg4y09OoIztNeTD1d1O-O70NbScptG0rW2nemSWT3Yf3Z5OFQEqEefhdx/s1600/batman1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48MmfTm05-AAXoDJ6SrQGTCIse_iTVgj8y0TD71A9h3vpdxxHrK9mwBAap6n3km3VAw8oH1iqi_a6oxA36_lTg4y09OoIztNeTD1d1O-O70NbScptG0rW2nemSWT3Yf3Z5OFQEqEefhdx/s400/batman1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612915636849073826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Warren Ellis</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Cassaday</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth</span> sees the light of day again in the form of a deluxe hardcover. The Planetary crowd cross paths with Batman – that is every version of Batman that has ever existed in the character’s history: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bob Kane</span>’s original, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Adam West</span>’s ‘60s camp extravaganza,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Frank Miller</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dark Knight</span> and all the others in between. No reviews of this new edition as yet but <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/comics/planetary-batman-night-on-earth.shtml">Pop Matters</a> wrote a good one back in 2003 when the comic was originally published. This hardcover differs from previous editions in that it now boasts <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ellis</span>’ script for the story at the back of the book.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqTsytRWH5bUit2Gr4BkDsNpxoBtsDNYQ1F1rAeCAqBN3umAbvcAaOHb1Oja4MUBlh3-KFxkLadYDEcHSqbR1_NL47DtEzS3I_qtZxCjKKt0FlIv3SKmeYbNv-kUjfJB_zaSmAmhUBEWo/s1600/batman2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqTsytRWH5bUit2Gr4BkDsNpxoBtsDNYQ1F1rAeCAqBN3umAbvcAaOHb1Oja4MUBlh3-KFxkLadYDEcHSqbR1_NL47DtEzS3I_qtZxCjKKt0FlIv3SKmeYbNv-kUjfJB_zaSmAmhUBEWo/s400/batman2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612915729505399282" border="0" /></a>As for new comics, here are some of the things you can slap on your standing order:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6JCa_vPJpMse9vbYEckn1GaVJjUPQ8VOZhFezJmXed7imelbj0Ww4H9CJiKGZokXfO3HDXgDdR0P31L9ff0hyphenhyphenObZm2BaCWS9c112mykApCX5boim20r8YlREkJQw0tZF2fM5x3-cfd9y/s1600/hellb.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6JCa_vPJpMse9vbYEckn1GaVJjUPQ8VOZhFezJmXed7imelbj0Ww4H9CJiKGZokXfO3HDXgDdR0P31L9ff0hyphenhyphenObZm2BaCWS9c112mykApCX5boim20r8YlREkJQw0tZF2fM5x3-cfd9y/s400/hellb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612916114020148722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hellboy: The Fury #1</span> (of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Mignola</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Duncan Fegredo</span> which <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mignola </span>says <span style="font-style: italic;">“is kind of this giant, apocalyptic wrap up to this middle chapter of Hellboy's life.”</span> He talks about the whole crazy story arc in an interview over at <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25618">Comicbook Resources</a>, and there’s a preview of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fegredo</span>’s typically excellent artwork <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8823">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuPibGi76qfNrzwJasRd3C8Bo7PN0WJIGpWMo2gTEc0qFy_EK6KqUi-zcfFtaWaFgBX1-hKZq4WFWb5H5V3Vb7sNVmynNtGqjMMszbfxDAUcp3G7mPF4Bh4BMNptvFTQ52Ft31WLwQSof/s1600/reedguntheraipg3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuPibGi76qfNrzwJasRd3C8Bo7PN0WJIGpWMo2gTEc0qFy_EK6KqUi-zcfFtaWaFgBX1-hKZq4WFWb5H5V3Vb7sNVmynNtGqjMMszbfxDAUcp3G7mPF4Bh4BMNptvFTQ52Ft31WLwQSof/s400/reedguntheraipg3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612916865389010818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Reed Gunther #1 </span>is an all ages comic by two brothers (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Shane </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Houghton</span>) which was existing as a self-published series until Image picked it up not so long ago. Reed Gunther’s a goofy cowboy who – along with his bear, Sterling – rides through the Old West fighting monsters and catching runaway trains. <a href="http://www.comicvine.com/news/talking-to-the-brothers-houghton-about-their-bear-ridin-snake-rasslin-comic-reed-gunther/143092/">Comicvine</a> has an interview with the pair (who also run How To Make Comics classes for kids over in the US, aw) and <a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/06/reed-gunther-exclusive-preview/">Comics Alliance</a> have a preview.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Hickman</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">FF</span>) embarks on the second chunk of his popular series with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume II #1</span> illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dunstin Weaver</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">X-Men</span>). <a href="http://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/preview/8627323/shield-vol-2-1">The League of Comic Geeks</a> has a preview.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Grim Ghost #2</span> is a new supernatural series by screenwriter <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stephen Susco</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Grudge</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tony Isabella</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Black Lightning</span>), illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kelley Jones</span>. We missed the boat on this one, first issue-wise, but we’re trying to get some more in. <a href="http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/p/detail/the-grim-ghost-2">Broken Frontier</a> have a review already, and say it’s <span style="font-style: italic;">“highly recommended candy for your brain.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Static Shock Special</span> is a one-shot tribute to the late comic creator and TV animation legend <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dwayne McDuffie</span>, who was instrumental in the production of animations like <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Justice League </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Ben 10</span> (he died earlier this year following complications after heart surgery). It’s 32 pages of stuff by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Felicia Henderson</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Denys Cowan</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Prentis Rollings </span>and loads of others. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Henderson </span>talks <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=32411&page=article">to CbR</a> about the project.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">50 Girls 50 #1</span> (of 4) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Cho </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Doug Murray</span> with artist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Axel Medellin</span>. There’s a big interview <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=32274&page=article">at CbR</a> with all of them, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cho </span>summarises its content thusly:<span style="font-style: italic;"> “We've got dinosaurs, we've got primitive aliens and giant bugs and women getting their clothes torn off. Issue #3 is all about dinosaurs. Doug wrote a great story about a race of dinosaurs that were descendants of these hyper-intelligent reptiles. So, you have the women who are evolved from apes versus the reptile people who evolve from dinosaurs. Issue #4 has more aliens in a haunted ship type of story.”</span> I think that covers everything but you can have <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8131">a preview</a> just in case.<br /><br />All the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint </span>stuff is kicking off so if you’ve lost your checklist <a href="http://www.dccomics.com/media/special/Flashpoint_Checklist_Part_1.pdf">here it is again</a>. You can cross these ones off this week:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmtk3Uy1mfkrwzGAb7DtcNl83rLJsOJAV7JTiscNnDsU5MeXtNFYfao32WLOJAKAHGyVkz9hsD1Ei2KDWKxasXrLa8JeHntUHMH8qcVJ82Z4S9YBRX5EzrtR-xXrKgpboxfLdg57aCLJC/s1600/knight.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmtk3Uy1mfkrwzGAb7DtcNl83rLJsOJAV7JTiscNnDsU5MeXtNFYfao32WLOJAKAHGyVkz9hsD1Ei2KDWKxasXrLa8JeHntUHMH8qcVJ82Z4S9YBRX5EzrtR-xXrKgpboxfLdg57aCLJC/s400/knight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612917300145598498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint: Batman – Knight of Vengeance #1</span> (of 3) by the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">100 Bullets</span> crowd – <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Azzarello</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eduardo Risso</span> with covers by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Johnson</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I think this Batman is a little bit more of a bad-ass than we've seen before,”</span> Azzarello told <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/comics/flashpoint-brian-azzarello-batman-110506.html">Newsarama</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">“And that includes when I've written Batman, even though I've written some bad-ass Batman stories. This Batman is older, and he's much more angry. He's not the brilliant detective. He's still a brilliant tactician. I think he's even called that in Flashpoint. But he's much more of a pragmatic individual. His motivations come from a different place, and how he acts on them. It's not what you'd expect from Batman.”</span> Preview <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8824">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAD488YZFKaAThetSoklqPWY-iGiTYpZkfX6XWLJTlT3j6xI2FxVVH30OJ2v9-bf6T_-SdmSWT8sqXD7d-rIPGVRM3OOJf3h1UreKzSVfM4fN90UrYbxjcUoF260CjEtG91eopJgHhedwD/s1600/secret.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAD488YZFKaAThetSoklqPWY-iGiTYpZkfX6XWLJTlT3j6xI2FxVVH30OJ2v9-bf6T_-SdmSWT8sqXD7d-rIPGVRM3OOJf3h1UreKzSVfM4fN90UrYbxjcUoF260CjEtG91eopJgHhedwD/s400/secret.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612918386875123650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint: Secret Seven #1</span> (of 3) by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Peter Milligan </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Perez</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I don't know if I'm Vertigo-izing the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Secret Seven</span>, but it doesn't feel like a straight up superhero team book, whatever the hell that is. There is some weirdness and strangeness in there, as you'd expect from a book featuring <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shade, The Changing Man</span>. It's pretty dark and psychological, which I suppose suggests there are elements of Vertigo in it.”</span> More of that <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=32099&page=article">interview here</a> and a <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8825">preview too</a>.<br /><br />And <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint: Abin Sur The Green Lantern #1</span> (of 3) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Adam Schlagman</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Felipe Massafera</span> about which I can tell you nothing but where they’ve stashed <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8830">the preview</a>.<br /><br />Lastly, in the world of the redesigned <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wonder Woman</span> you can get <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wonder Woman HC Volume 1: Odyssey</span>, which collects the first seven issues of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> J. Michael Straczynski</span>’s run (or six issues plus the short in #600 if you’re being pedantic). It’ll be on the shelf next to this week’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wonder Woman #611</span>.<br /><br />That’s it for comics. If you’re looking elsewhere for entertainment let me point you towards Stratford. Children’s authors <span style="font-weight: bold;">Neal Layton</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Vere</span> and Gosh! Favourite <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah McIntyre</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Vern & Lettuce</span>) have created a 3D Monsterville which I’m not even going to both explaining because it won’t do it justice. Go look at <a href="http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/402367.html">these pictures</a>.<br /><br />Or (or “and”) you can go to Brighton and see <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Aylett</span>’s documentary on pulp science fiction author and philosopher<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Jeff Lint</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Caterer</span>). According to <a href="http://www.snowbooks.com/wiki/Jeff_Lint/">Wikipedia</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">“He was the first person to steal <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Moorcock</span>'s 'Multiverse' idea and the first to point out to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Vance</span> how unfortunate the title<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Servants of the Wankh</span> really was.”</span> The movie stars <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Moore</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stewart Lee</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Aylett</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Josie Long</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeff Vandermeer</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">D Harlan Wilson</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robin Ince</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitzi Szereto</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Ectric</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andrew O'Neill</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vessel</span> (of A+ band <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Devant & His Spirit Wife </span>fame, aka <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr Solo</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Leila Johnston</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">7-Inch Stitch</span> and more, and is screening in Brighton on June 26. More on the movie at <a href="http://westhillkinoclub.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-were-back.html">its website</a>, and you can secure your seat in the West Hill Community Hall <a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/120117">here</a>. The man wrote an (as yet unpublished) novel called <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Man Who Gave Birth To His Arse</span>. </span>How could you not want to see this film?<br /><br />-- Hayley<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-90860256895757098692011-05-31T16:08:00.000+01:002011-05-31T16:10:46.770+01:00In Store 26/05/11 - 01/06/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Betty & Veronica Double Digest #191<br />2000 AD #1736<br />30 Days Of Night Night Again #2 (Of 4)<br />50 Girls 50 #1 (Of 4) (Frank Cho)<br />Adventure Comics #527<br />Al Capp's Complete Shmoo Newspaper Strips HC Vol 2<br />Alan Moore’s A Small Killing TP New Printing (Oscar Zarate) <br />Aliens Vs Predator Three World War TP<br />Avengers Academy #14 Point One<br />Backflash PB (Richard Stark)<br />Batman Beyond #6<br />Boys #55 (Garth Ennis)<br />BPRD Dead Remembered #3 (Of 3)<br />Breed TP Vol 1 Book Of Genesis<br />Buffy Season 8 TP Vol 8 <br />Captain Britain HC Vol 1 Birth Of Legend (Chris Claremont)<br />Citizen Rex HC (G & M Hernandez)<br />Constructive Abandonment HC<br />Comix Reader #2 (B. Richards et al)<br />Criminal Last Of Innocent #1 (Of 4)<br />Dark Tower Gunslinger Battle Of Tull #1 (Of 5)<br />Darkness #91<br />DC Comics Presents: Superman Infestation (Joe Kelly)<br />DC Universe Online Legends #9<br />Death Of Zorro #4<br />Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #2<br />Doctor Who Insider #3<br />Dracula Company Of Monsters #10<br />Dungeons And Dragons #7<br />Eye Of The Majestic Creature GN<br />Fathom Vol 4 #0<br />Fear Itself #3 (Of 7)<br />Fear Itself Deep #1 (Of 4)<br />Flash Gordon: <br />- Invasion Of The Red Sword #2<br />- Mercy Wars #0<br />Flashpoint #2 (Johns/Andy Kubert)<br />Flashpoint: Abin Sur The Green Lantern #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint: Batman Knight Of Vengeance #1 (Of 3) <br />Flashpoint: Secret Seven #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint #1<br />Godzilla Kingdom Of Monsters #3<br />Green Hornet Year One #10<br />Green Lantern Brightest Day HC<br />Grim Ghost #2 (Kelley Jones)<br />Halcyon #5 (Of 5)<br />Hellboy The Fury #1 (Of 3)<br />Herc #4<br />Heroes For Hire #8<br />House Of Mystery #38<br />Hulk #34<br />Intrepids #4<br />Iron Man War Of Iron Men TP<br />Irredeemable #26<br />iZombie #14 (Roberson/Allred)<br />Jonah Hex #68<br />Jurassic Park TP Devils In The Desert (John Byrne)<br />Kevin Smith Kato #10<br />Kill Shakespeare #11 (Of 12)<br />Life With Mister Dangerous GN(Paul Hornschemier)<br />Marvel Previews June 2011<br />Marvel Zombie Christmas Carol #1 (Of 5)<br />Meat Hill #2 (Lord Hurk)<br />Moon Knight #2 (Bendis/Maleev)<br />Osborn TP Evil Incarcerated<br />Ozma Of Oz #7 (Of 8)<br />Peanuts: Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown HC<br />Planetary/Batman Deluxe HC(W. Ellis/J. Cassaday)<br />Previews #273 June 2011<br />Queen Sonja #17<br />Red Spike #2 (Of 5) (Mark Texiera)<br />Reed Gunther #1<br />Secret Six #34 (Gail Simone)<br />Sherlock Holmes: Valley Of Fear SC (I. Edginton/I. Culbard)<br />SHIELD #1 (Jonathan Hickman)<br />Shinku #1<br />Solomon Kane Red Shadows #3 (Of 4)<br />Amazing Spider-Man #663<br />Static Revolter #2 (Hurk/K. Ward)<br />Static Shock Special One-Shot<br />Stuck Rubber Baby SC New Edition<br />Suicide Forest TP<br />Superboy #8<br />Superman New Krypton TP Vol 4<br />Sweet Tooth #22 (Jeff Lemire)<br />Tarzan Jesse Marsh Years HC Vol 9<br />Thor For Asgard TP<br />Thunderbolts #158<br />Tintin Young Readers Edition GN Secret Of The Unicorn<br />Tooth HC (Matt Kindt Et Al)<br />Turf #5 (J. Ross/T. L. Edwards)<br />Walking Dead Survivors Guide #3 (Of 4)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #22<br />Weird Worlds #6 (Of 6)<br />Who Is Jake Ellis? #4<br />Witchfinder: Lost & Gone Forever #5 (Of 5)<br />Wolves SC Ltd Ed (Becky Cloonan)<br />Wonder Woman #611<br />Wonder Woman HC Vol 1 Odyssey<br />Astonishing X-Men #39<br />Deadpool Classic TP Vol 5<br />Wolverine Hercules Myths Monsters & Mutants #4 (Of 4)<br />Uncanny X-Force #11<br />X-23 #11<br />X-Factor #220<br />X-Men #12<br />X-Men Great Power #1<br />X-Men To Serve And Protect TP<br /><br />MANGA<br /><br />Biomega GN Vol 6 (Of 6)<br />Naruto 3-In-1 Ed Vol 1<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-12427758462628257332011-05-24T17:12:00.001+01:002011-05-24T17:12:54.006+01:00Due To Arrive 01/06/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />30 Days Of Night Night Again #2 (Of 4)<br />50 Girls 50 #1 (Of 4)<br />Adventure Comics #527<br />Aliens Vs Predator Three World War PB<br />Amazing Spider-Man #663<br />Astonishing X-Men #39<br />Avengers Academy #14 Point One<br />Batman Beyond #6<br />BPRD Dead Remembered #3 (Of 3)<br />Broken Trinity TP Vol 2 Pandora's Box<br />Captain Britain HC Vol 1 Birth Of Legend<br />Citizen Rex HC<br />Criminal Last Of Innocent #1 (Of 4)<br />Dark Tower Gunslinger Battle Of Tull #1 (Of 5)<br />Darkness #91<br />DC Comics Presents Superman Infestation #1<br />DC Universe Online Legends #9<br />Deadpool Classic TP Vol 5<br />Fear Itself #3 (Of 7) Fear<br />Fear Itself Deep #1 (Of 4) Fear<br />Flashpoint #2<br />Flashpoint Abin Sur The Green Lantern #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Batman Knight Of Vengeance #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint Secret Seven #1 (Of 3)<br />Flashpoint The World Of Flashpoint #1 (Of 3)<br />Green Wake #3 (Of 5)<br />Halcyon #5 (Of 5)<br />Hellboy The Fury #1 (Of 3)<br />Herc #4 Fear<br />Heroes For Hire #8<br />House Of Mystery #38<br />Hulk #34<br />Intrepids #4<br />Iron Man War Of Iron Men TP<br />iZombie #14<br />Jonah Hex #68<br />Jurassic Park TP Devils In The Desert<br />Marvel Zombie Christmas Carol #1 (Of 5)<br />Moon Knight #2<br />Osborn TP Evil Incarcerated<br />Ozma Of Oz #7 (Of 8)<br />Planetary Batman Deluxe HC<br />Red Spike #2 (Of 5)<br />Reed Gunther #1<br />Secret Six #34<br />SHIELD #1<br />Solomon Kane Red Shadows #3 (Of 4)<br />Static Shock Special #1<br />Stuck Rubber Baby SC New Edition<br />Suicide Forest TP<br />Superboy #8<br />Superman New Krypton TP Vol 4<br />Supreme Power #1 (Of 4)<br />Sweet Tooth #22<br />That Hellbound Train #1 (Of 3)<br />Thor TP Thunderstrike<br />Thunderbolts #158 Fear<br />Turf #5<br />Uncanny X-Force #11<br />Walking Dead Survivors Guide #3 (Of 4)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #22<br />Weird Worlds #6 (Of 6)<br />Who Is Jake Ellis #4<br />Witchfinder Lost & Gone Forever #5 (Of 5)<br />Wolverine Hercules Myths Monsters And Mutants #4 (Of 4)<br />Wonder Woman #611<br />Wonder Woman HC Vol 1 Odyssey<br />X-23 #11<br />X-Factor #220<br />X-Men #12<br />X-Men Great Power #1<br />X-Men To Serve And Protect TP<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-63677624500440178232011-05-24T16:07:00.034+01:002011-05-24T17:11:55.074+01:00The Gosh! Authority 24/05/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw3IU5AreSS71QKJltTUYGNptT9FqrNpPG8RbRZMc38xpuzEyyywYVPs_cDEmMZ-qVR2bZ7_Qyc2urtS-rWHbzvPzMO6e7kQvNzgByK0fQXsGPSJ4uqLhE7awEdIj8wnYVwRYTo_4LR6HU/s1600/strangeadventurespope.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw3IU5AreSS71QKJltTUYGNptT9FqrNpPG8RbRZMc38xpuzEyyywYVPs_cDEmMZ-qVR2bZ7_Qyc2urtS-rWHbzvPzMO6e7kQvNzgByK0fQXsGPSJ4uqLhE7awEdIj8wnYVwRYTo_4LR6HU/s400/strangeadventurespope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610304044301678242" border="0" /></a>Everyone grabbed a copy of<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Paying For It</span> last week before I got a chance to nab one for myself, so if you (like me) are waiting on news of a restock: this is it. Come get ‘em.<br /><br />Joining it on the new shelves is Vertigo’s<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Strange Adventures #1</span>, a science fiction anthology featuring all new stuff by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Milligan</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hellblazer</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Snyder </span>(<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">American Vampire</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeff Lemire </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sweet Tooth</span>), plus the very first chapter of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spaceman </span>(a new series by <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">100 Bullets</span> creators <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Azzarello</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Eduardo Risso</span>), all topped off with a cover by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Pope </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">100%</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Heavy Liquid</span>).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/29/vertigo-releases-strange-adventures-creative-teams-paul-pope-cover/">Comics Alliance</a> have a full contents page for those who like to open their presents early, but it’s all quiet on the preview front.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU2zKCbZ9wXlzAsszguLqXp3IjhyphenhyphenjblartssgayX0t6KEJWhB8TwlvEyRBBNJ0UYdvytu9lLFNdsxSALOxgRHErm47UWDk6HQiFGYyKO7Lzgm5Asy_iKrin_dDaX2EI2raX9IlNEyFY8A/s1600/strangeadventureslemire.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU2zKCbZ9wXlzAsszguLqXp3IjhyphenhyphenjblartssgayX0t6KEJWhB8TwlvEyRBBNJ0UYdvytu9lLFNdsxSALOxgRHErm47UWDk6HQiFGYyKO7Lzgm5Asy_iKrin_dDaX2EI2raX9IlNEyFY8A/s400/strangeadventureslemire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610304207128319314" border="0" /></a>Back in 1999/2000 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Bagge</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hate</span>) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gilbert Hernandez</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Love & Rockets</span>) teamed up for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Yeah!</span> – a nine-issue all-ages series about an intergalactically famous girl group who were totally unknown on their home planet Earth. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwhxmqNaa6y_9UDpq_tkAJ4k3AkyzsvqOid8rTQR2tYtL-TJZjDvUm5Oo-SENTNq2DUcUbPoFgHoFNcgIVuDB06vUQZ-8Nrnkq_Sn7Fll-rgo7mUpxgfOeHIya0NqYjA1QeotcZu9PLUd/s1600/yeah.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwhxmqNaa6y_9UDpq_tkAJ4k3AkyzsvqOid8rTQR2tYtL-TJZjDvUm5Oo-SENTNq2DUcUbPoFgHoFNcgIVuDB06vUQZ-8Nrnkq_Sn7Fll-rgo7mUpxgfOeHIya0NqYjA1QeotcZu9PLUd/s400/yeah.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610304860938122530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“My daughter by then, in 1999, was eight, nine years old, and she was a girly girl and hated to way my comics looked and was like, “Do a comic for girls.” So it was very much me writing something that would entertain her,”</span> said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bagge</span>, of <a href="http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2011/05/02/interview-peter-bagge-pt-2-of-4/">his Comics Code of Authority-approved (!) book</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I managed to convince Gilbert Hernandez to draw it, because I knew that he would capture that sort of Dan DeCarlo 60s or 70s Archie look. Since I’m ripping off Josie and the Pussycats, it may as well look like it.”</span> Fantagraphics have a <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/yeah-preview.pdf">preview</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_601KJd6PfF8qKeyG5hjCV6hQhdUh2-dY1bx6svefwqowQgeQETxfV0vlyIROnnlqpBrrn6B-_2QuCdDMbTs9oFYPVlErUIKim17ZO6OkFHNbEqQ1dNSbAT-M6vCPYVg-KevnnygOP11/s1600/ryan.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_601KJd6PfF8qKeyG5hjCV6hQhdUh2-dY1bx6svefwqowQgeQETxfV0vlyIROnnlqpBrrn6B-_2QuCdDMbTs9oFYPVlErUIKim17ZO6OkFHNbEqQ1dNSbAT-M6vCPYVg-KevnnygOP11/s400/ryan.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610305447381625650" border="0" /></a>If you like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bagge </span>chances are you’re a fan of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Johnny Ryan</span> too. This week’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Take a Joke </span>collects all the best bits from his one-man laffs anthology <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Angry Youth Comix</span> as well as a bunch of stuff yoinked from the pages of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Vice </span>magazine. There’s all manner of potty-mouthed things you’d expect from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Johnny Ryan</span>. <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/takejo-preview.pdf">Preview</a> at Fantagraphics.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCJegbFA0wRAxmKR367Hv2yjnT5RaJlsVPpsEAccGrT95ZPK26zUPCQShVKYZGkRsi2p2j0-sA2sFc6XjfCbLwcAkomg7CVpR09bz7J361Z4K-3Vw5NlktMw0hj9uEHYSJQTHcBuCNMhE/s1600/kirby.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaCJegbFA0wRAxmKR367Hv2yjnT5RaJlsVPpsEAccGrT95ZPK26zUPCQShVKYZGkRsi2p2j0-sA2sFc6XjfCbLwcAkomg7CVpR09bz7J361Z4K-3Vw5NlktMw0hj9uEHYSJQTHcBuCNMhE/s400/kirby.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610307421364278146" border="0" /></a>Last week <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kurt Busiek </span>was all about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Stevens</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Rocketeer</span> but this week it’s all <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Kirby</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Kirby: Genesis #0</span> is the prelude to a new series he’s writing, illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Ross</span> in their first collaboration since 1994. They’ve trawled through years and years worth of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kirby</span>’s unused ideas and forgotten designs which they’re expanding upon to make a whole new series in itself. There’s a big long interview with them at <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30542">Comicbook Resources</a> and a preview <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8740">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“I think something that's important to say about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Kirby</span> that we can't say about anybody else over this last 100 years of creating comics and comic strips is that there isn't this wellspring of an unending sea of ideas for every artist,” </span>said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ross</span>.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “At least not all the ones I've admired. Certainly, some people have come along and created all kinds of characters, but to have this many offshoots and things that were done independently that could be mined for creative potential...when you look at some of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kirby</span>'s designs and see the intricacy of thought and detail he'd put into a throwaway drawing, you realize this was a mind that was exploding with concepts. That's a very unique thing for a very unique person, and it makes it very special for us to be doing this. We couldn't just do this with Artist X, Y or Z.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNm543VhXiSnwrnsJPI5jowo7FaGEN0vC6RccT0y17YUWwbc_jrQreuGFr6lIPbfGf7aRNMOSOxbUiOO2yg5QCx_de9pwPKc5oV2FoDvnjzmlLKc0gi2kJokSBo_k-Y9cgPaZg0xdcK-E/s1600/cap8.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNm543VhXiSnwrnsJPI5jowo7FaGEN0vC6RccT0y17YUWwbc_jrQreuGFr6lIPbfGf7aRNMOSOxbUiOO2yg5QCx_de9pwPKc5oV2FoDvnjzmlLKc0gi2kJokSBo_k-Y9cgPaZg0xdcK-E/s400/cap8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610307917545324594" border="0" /></a>The Comics Journal are slowly loading old pre-Internet Comics Journal issues onto their new website and most recently made <a href="http://www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-interview/">this</a> available: an interview with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kirby </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gary Groth</span> from 1990.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz28G263IZ5QIol-iKgNjY0iDuEzQi6axKDQ3ajf1XReGvvx0SO4CN7Lfm02Crx5MjNXbAVhrxh6OCGDLyPKcEIVxMHb-V8IxcJTh4u4RZnafYYXtc0S3pGy8fMNRmcSVqiRo16PRcsU6p/s1600/MrMiracle.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz28G263IZ5QIol-iKgNjY0iDuEzQi6axKDQ3ajf1XReGvvx0SO4CN7Lfm02Crx5MjNXbAVhrxh6OCGDLyPKcEIVxMHb-V8IxcJTh4u4RZnafYYXtc0S3pGy8fMNRmcSVqiRo16PRcsU6p/s400/MrMiracle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610308232663803874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“I was a movie person. I think it was one of the reasons I drew comics. They galvanized me. When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It’s just part of the American scene. Superman is going to live forever. They’ll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt in that respect I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn’t going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0jtLTtjvPVTAQbZmSBW865-HJMYQu-8xiPMiwoxjVTFT-fRfYrb7jrb9XFE9OUiy69p53X9hcmA-hrsOhG3mFwnioZ8Ff1QypbuGV4xyhge0sKk1c4MfMTL45ztTbNc-0c7N7S1vB5zUx/s1600/kat.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0jtLTtjvPVTAQbZmSBW865-HJMYQu-8xiPMiwoxjVTFT-fRfYrb7jrb9XFE9OUiy69p53X9hcmA-hrsOhG3mFwnioZ8Ff1QypbuGV4xyhge0sKk1c4MfMTL45ztTbNc-0c7N7S1vB5zUx/s400/kat.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610308890611393426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig Yoe </span>always delivers some of the most handsome books on the shelves, and this new one should be no different. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman HC</span> is his tribute to the genius comics creator featuring rare art, memorabilia, and new essays by the likes of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay Cantor</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Wolk</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Harry Katz</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Thompson</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dee Cox</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Herriman</span>'s granddaughter), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig McCracken</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Watterson</span>, along with reprinted classic ones from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gilbert Seldes</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">e. e. cummings</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszBZLCEc46Y2h9egQmNq2dJJlle_ASEPPWX4gjGYkgbxIEOb8Bt_VUaHRqoU6b4MnqKr20mCKpR9wGxaS3Vm-elBqS1a4KgIvWAk882q9qtn096t_xJwchycyq8T2BMw2E9zlBiO53KCC/s1600/lewis.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszBZLCEc46Y2h9egQmNq2dJJlle_ASEPPWX4gjGYkgbxIEOb8Bt_VUaHRqoU6b4MnqKr20mCKpR9wGxaS3Vm-elBqS1a4KgIvWAk882q9qtn096t_xJwchycyq8T2BMw2E9zlBiO53KCC/s400/lewis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610309411042122146" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lewis Trondheim</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Approximate Continuum Comics </span>were some of the first autobiographical works to come out of France. This volume from Fantagraphics (<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/approx-preview.pdf">previewed here</a>) collects the first three chapters from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Nimrod </span>(which were originally released in English as regular American floppies) as well as a bunch of previously untranslated stuff, plus a section at the back in which the real life characters pick fault with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trondheim</span>’s depictions of themselves. <span style="font-weight: bold;">David B. </span>has got something to say, as does <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trondheim</span>’s Mum. How often does that happen? <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/approximate-continuum-comics/">The Comics Journal</a> have a review of it. While you’re in the mood for some <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trondheim </span>you might like to pick up <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dungeon TP Monstres Volume 4: Night of the Ladykiller</span>, also featuring work by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joann Sfar</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoNQyCcSYTt4sL-9s7Gdn4zTMUliOMTDVHJuDJFVOWyRVdlHDqC95kxnGbDtURBw-grvdPJFiJ10jnbNfusxOoAY-IpLN0PDl4LYLTkdTeP4I2q-SF8AsPDdglzuxk27J2k5ynpWjP5Ki/s1600/superjug.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoNQyCcSYTt4sL-9s7Gdn4zTMUliOMTDVHJuDJFVOWyRVdlHDqC95kxnGbDtURBw-grvdPJFiJ10jnbNfusxOoAY-IpLN0PDl4LYLTkdTeP4I2q-SF8AsPDdglzuxk27J2k5ynpWjP5Ki/s400/superjug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610309708438233314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Accidental Salad</span> looks like an <span style="font-style: italic;">Ignatz </span>book only it isn’t – it’s part of the wave of new stuff we got from <a href="http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/">Blank Slate Books</a> last week. The UK publisher has hatched a plan to produce large format comics showcasing previously unpublished artists and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Decie</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Accidental Salad</span> is the first off the block.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “[It’s] the cream of my current work, including a nice chunk of new and unseen strips,”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Decie </span>told <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave O’Connell</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tozo</span>) in <a href="http://scribblehound.com/?page_id=793">this interview</a>. Head to <a href="http://joedecie.livejournal.com/">his blog</a> to see what he’s all about: ink washed stories of the everyday with a twist of the absurd.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfyvmPFxB5gMXP8gDuAQbPdbazN573ZVmnwRHeYOpmV82f7-KAj5OyUXH-TZCPpcZY11ojn2dE7uWUxRbWnOAOLlWB5ISBvBjkfsYPFXr37hHPxH5q43zm5r9tOEq9t_IMvz_4SMIBhj1/s1600/mawil_01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfyvmPFxB5gMXP8gDuAQbPdbazN573ZVmnwRHeYOpmV82f7-KAj5OyUXH-TZCPpcZY11ojn2dE7uWUxRbWnOAOLlWB5ISBvBjkfsYPFXr37hHPxH5q43zm5r9tOEq9t_IMvz_4SMIBhj1/s400/mawil_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610310193628318914" border="0" /></a>Also from Blank Slate are two books by German comic artist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mawil</span>, the first time any of his colour stuff has appeared in English: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Band</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Home and Away</span>. In the former <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mawil</span> relives his schoolboy fantasy of being in a rock band, while the latter has nothing to do with a terrible Australia soap opera. It’s actually about growing up in East Berlin after the wall came down and fighting videogame addiction. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Matt </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spent</span>) thinks it’s brilliant.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9Oh3x4-P0Kr7UaFllKwKATqCeIAEkKz6H4Mmv7kqasVReBru9AygYKKnt9DQgm-cRE8OfO4TtVHKSaP4kvmpkK8arFdqk7JzU0FlU1qu52ucyJLWdzE0iLL9ns1YA4bpBBJ3RxJBOLzv/s1600/Luchadoras-Peggy-Adam-Blank-Slate-2011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9Oh3x4-P0Kr7UaFllKwKATqCeIAEkKz6H4Mmv7kqasVReBru9AygYKKnt9DQgm-cRE8OfO4TtVHKSaP4kvmpkK8arFdqk7JzU0FlU1qu52ucyJLWdzE0iLL9ns1YA4bpBBJ3RxJBOLzv/s400/Luchadoras-Peggy-Adam-Blank-Slate-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610310454737207794" border="0" /></a>French graphic novelist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peggy Adam</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Luchadoras </span>has the same sort of look to it as <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Persepolis</span>. Set on the Mexican border, it’s about a woman attempting to escape an abusive gang-member fiancé, a corrupt society and a world of senseless atrocity. Basically, it’s about all sorts of things you can’t cram into a one-sentence synopsis eloquently or remotely well. It was chosen for the 2007 Sélection Officielle at the Angouléme International Comics Festival, and <a href="http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/p/detail/luchadoras">Broken Frontier</a> have a review. They reckon you should read it once then read it all again.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw94qe1O3foxhKclZvm_EMzKB7joLcu7B4XTWlTZ2KNC4R3T5kTGEjFxW1CaOKZDo6kJlNMVOuC_v7mi3HRmxMGv6xa4X2zmGKBpSkfOhPxzBPSjNeZgkvlvoRUiDv9cuSdnH1-JggAeYi/s1600/ForgetSorrow_Page_011.fullwidth.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw94qe1O3foxhKclZvm_EMzKB7joLcu7B4XTWlTZ2KNC4R3T5kTGEjFxW1CaOKZDo6kJlNMVOuC_v7mi3HRmxMGv6xa4X2zmGKBpSkfOhPxzBPSjNeZgkvlvoRUiDv9cuSdnH1-JggAeYi/s400/ForgetSorrow_Page_011.fullwidth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610310881735030914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale SC</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Belle Yang</span> is also about fleeing an abusive boyfriend, though in this story she shacks up with her Old World Chinese parents. Much like <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Maus</span>, it’s about her relationship with her father and learning how he and her ancestors survived in China in during World War II. Yang talks about it <a href="http://www.graphicnovelreporter.com/content/belle-yangs-forget-sorrow-interview">in this interview</a> and <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/06/12/a-review-a-day-forget-sorrow-an-ancestral-tale/">CbR really like it</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5B_GU_DgS3ZvO2BGHoukbKdlNGoFFli9SAb26C_uPz6ob9EJbDv2cxqS6K8HWRr9A0hmNyLkFu-NhY9WOkycV6e3efxx8jepYXHt8YIv0JSEWCJzTMD_A1PyhByxo8h0aJ5kNAE2Fzn6/s1600/prison-stories-transition.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5B_GU_DgS3ZvO2BGHoukbKdlNGoFFli9SAb26C_uPz6ob9EJbDv2cxqS6K8HWRr9A0hmNyLkFu-NhY9WOkycV6e3efxx8jepYXHt8YIv0JSEWCJzTMD_A1PyhByxo8h0aJ5kNAE2Fzn6/s400/prison-stories-transition.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610311120425169714" border="0" /></a>On the subject of “grim and foreign” how’s this one: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Prison Stories</span> by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Igor Hofbauer</span>, a Croation underground illustrator and poster artist. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Prison Stories is a rolling narrative of seven interlocking stories exploring imprisoned characters. The book is frankly terrifying. Not in a ‘goblins are going to eat my skull’ way, but a ‘humanity has deserted all bonds of allegiance’ way,”</span> writes <a href="http://www.lasthours.org.uk/reviews/prison-stories/">Last Hours</a>, before going on to compare the mood of it to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Burns</span>’ <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Black Hole</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHcTxXNV73KrsIKs56pA9GgqvT0HtV3ygf5beRCo7CCyRsj8hPtXQoHSB4yJzvokiIkCqx7D-wLkG8eXEBW4qLwIVCT-KxMD0jmdg3AmbX1fBgZDc3h7gQR1hLypMAsycRifWdvXgL3Uy/s1600/3clonk.jpeg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHcTxXNV73KrsIKs56pA9GgqvT0HtV3ygf5beRCo7CCyRsj8hPtXQoHSB4yJzvokiIkCqx7D-wLkG8eXEBW4qLwIVCT-KxMD0jmdg3AmbX1fBgZDc3h7gQR1hLypMAsycRifWdvXgL3Uy/s400/3clonk.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610311473766433778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Clonk </span>is something that almost snuck in under the radar entirely. There are nearly no reviews of it, almost as if the thing doesn’t exist. Why? I don’t know. It looks marvellous in a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason </span>kind of way, or maybe even<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Goodbye Chunky Rice</span>. It’s like a creepy kids book that starts with a suicidal hanging, so maybe that’s why. <a href="http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=11768">The Innsmouth Free Press</a> has a rave review and here are two preview pages hidden in a corner of the publisher’s website: <a href="http://www.kettledrummerbooks.com/images/1clonk.jpeg">One</a>. <a href="http://www.kettledrummerbooks.com/images/3clonk.jpeg">Two</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mXL6CTuqbYk8Ew_LU1CNIADCHMZycBDwQ4O31NU7oXEJ8GABF-7-3UE2NNoaJyHKgAJ2PMDlLdngYnvYe-3bXwfQlUsxTiPkuis36KnxHydE7oVWLOvd6Cy5cQW-DKJ8wp7BeFWXDrwf/s1600/SneezeCat.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mXL6CTuqbYk8Ew_LU1CNIADCHMZycBDwQ4O31NU7oXEJ8GABF-7-3UE2NNoaJyHKgAJ2PMDlLdngYnvYe-3bXwfQlUsxTiPkuis36KnxHydE7oVWLOvd6Cy5cQW-DKJ8wp7BeFWXDrwf/s400/SneezeCat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610311877268894482" border="0" /></a>If you’re after something actually cute with no underlying weirdness <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeffrey Brown</span> has just the ticket: the unbelievably twee postcard set <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Cutest Sneeze in the World</span>. Someone is already enthusiastically <a href="http://www.missivemaven.com/2009/10/cutest-sneeze-in-world.html">posting them all over the world</a>. It’s about cats sneezing, cats getting out of bags, cats expanding, and cats looking at things, but if it’s any better than <a href="http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/">Kim Jong-il looking at things</a> I’ll eat my hat.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSg70-w4-ilSjBOy0-xdWJmKEj2sRpKmEp-dk4gDjges0UkBXSUxAfmR1YRSRU2cCs3Y7m2bdbMXB8tvxCCk61NYiDUtp2q8f2Z-_SgE93C0iFTG2mGSNWMy9lAQ1D3WzikW6p9AAJKRe/s1600/tom.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSg70-w4-ilSjBOy0-xdWJmKEj2sRpKmEp-dk4gDjges0UkBXSUxAfmR1YRSRU2cCs3Y7m2bdbMXB8tvxCCk61NYiDUtp2q8f2Z-_SgE93C0iFTG2mGSNWMy9lAQ1D3WzikW6p9AAJKRe/s400/tom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610312308691568290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Hogan</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Sprouse</span>’s six-issue miniseries <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom</span> is now in paperback, and if you missed it the first go round you should read this interview with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hogan</span> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26222">at CbR</a>, where he talks about getting one of the best gigs in comics.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR_Kf2AcZ_D9thzLgAAN82M7QY0ZjWzkPSENLaq6NxcltgesWiK-PLxG2SkQM8qoF5ri0mh77YudJnGc7Z7ohOqj-4NPQ7aJoC6YIj6ba-_ZlHoXAoY-9Zny66-jfEzXqyzR3lX_MFx0b/s1600/gutwrencher_pinup.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR_Kf2AcZ_D9thzLgAAN82M7QY0ZjWzkPSENLaq6NxcltgesWiK-PLxG2SkQM8qoF5ri0mh77YudJnGc7Z7ohOqj-4NPQ7aJoC6YIj6ba-_ZlHoXAoY-9Zny66-jfEzXqyzR3lX_MFx0b/s400/gutwrencher_pinup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610312694664354722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gutwrencher </span>was a four-issue story by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Niles</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Keith Giffen</span> that first appeared in 2006. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Gutwrencher really is the most straight forward horror thing I've ever done because it's really a nod to the horror movies of the '80s – the slasher films, the Prom Nights, the Friday The 13th's and things like that. It's about a high school reunion and the kid who thought he was abused in high school by all these people who comes back for a little revenge. I'll leave it at that,” </span>said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Niles</span>, <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=5083">way back when</a>. It’s out in trade paperback tomorrow, so you can grab that <span style="font-style: italic;">and </span><a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28677">their more recent</a> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Doc Macabre</span> in hardcover to add to your grisly reading pile.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Phil Hester </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Huddleston</span> (of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Coffin </span>fame) see their series about dreams and levels of reality – <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deep Sleeper</span> – collected in hardcover for the first time ever. No new reviews so you can <a href="http://www.graphicnovelreview.com/?p=17">have this old one for now</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI4WdxNcg933TsFEmwJvC1BSQIPzncrmGjDWeslzDdKvs8WOsPKfJhPrMLOyHSdeMEX11bf4TVaONYdfa8koQD3MEXP_QcsMPAYIPjwg3sG3iVEJzeBLdPtziOPaLqC9GQn7hyphenhyphen79sp3cJ-/s1600/ronin.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI4WdxNcg933TsFEmwJvC1BSQIPzncrmGjDWeslzDdKvs8WOsPKfJhPrMLOyHSdeMEX11bf4TVaONYdfa8koQD3MEXP_QcsMPAYIPjwg3sG3iVEJzeBLdPtziOPaLqC9GQn7hyphenhyphen79sp3cJ-/s400/ronin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610313247161038098" border="0" /></a>Also in hardcover is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Milligan</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">5 Ronin</span>, which <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30494">he talks about with CbR</a>, with each of the five issues illustrated by a different artist: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tomm Coker</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dalibor Talajic</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laurence Campbell</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Goran Parlov</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Leandro Fernandez</span>. Next to it on the X-shelf you’ll find <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mystique By Brian K. Vaughan: The Ultimate Collection TPB</span> collecting issues #1 to #13 of the blue lady. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Millar </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Bachalo</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ultimate War HC </span>has arrived too, and if that’s not enough <span style="font-weight: bold;">Millar </span>for you there’s always the new issue of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">CLiNT</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdheySMYZpxlh4VXe8V-M_KA0u52nghaiXWRwBLlrO4OjfdwOKxlMYOZXoOYvh7lo1qHzmjKd8ziBPNqQHSdqLE8EJeGdbY1Y1_cVwIACKo1R5nEiC_dp56qzbER6GLFmR3phM5d2tnGU/s1600/tatteredman_cvr.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdheySMYZpxlh4VXe8V-M_KA0u52nghaiXWRwBLlrO4OjfdwOKxlMYOZXoOYvh7lo1qHzmjKd8ziBPNqQHSdqLE8EJeGdbY1Y1_cVwIACKo1R5nEiC_dp56qzbER6GLFmR3phM5d2tnGU/s400/tatteredman_cvr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610313706149429570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Tattered Man</span> is a one-shot from the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Jonah Hex</span> team – <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justin Gray</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy Palmiotti </span>– about a spirit of vengeance whose existence has something to do with the WWII concentration camps. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I have always believed in giving people a second chance (except ex-girlfriends) and the theme of redemption and making hard choices have always interested me. It’s my human nature to believe there is some good in even the worst person… and this story takes an interesting idea/concept and runs with it. That said, there is a lot of simply horrible people in this book that die in horrific ways… but we make sure, at least, that they have what’s coming to them.” </span>More of that interview at <a href="http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/03/01/exclusive-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-tattered-man-with-justin-gray-and-jimmy-palmiotti/">MTV Geek</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGC2sdk_fbDHJfMlgDepbUL3Ts8F7-1l2xOJv9DqmnTDGYSb5Y38rRozNzKnDuz-6yrRlNRJu4j1PBZOcjGL2g0QODq1rOq2uEyaaUgJrDIyQp60sW_3db0gem932ByLO450O9Kmhh1q8/s1600/Willworld.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGC2sdk_fbDHJfMlgDepbUL3Ts8F7-1l2xOJv9DqmnTDGYSb5Y38rRozNzKnDuz-6yrRlNRJu4j1PBZOcjGL2g0QODq1rOq2uEyaaUgJrDIyQp60sW_3db0gem932ByLO450O9Kmhh1q8/s400/Willworld.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610314124437461954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">DC Comics Presents Green Lantern: Willworld</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">J.M. DeMatteis</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Seth Fisher </span>reprints stories from the early days of Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. <span style="font-weight: bold;">DeMatteis </span>described it as <span style="font-style: italic;">“Green Lantern meets Little Nemo in Quantum Wonderland. A playful, surreal, quantum physics fairytale.” </span>It has been out of print for ages so bag a copy while you still can. Also, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Seth Fisher</span>’s an excellent artist who didn’t end up doing a whole lot – five years after receiving an Eisner nomination for this <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Green Lantern</span> comic he died at the age of 33 after falling off a roof in Japan.<br /><br />Lastly, here’s a couple of things from the wilds of the Internet that you might like:<br /><br /><a href="http://spaceintext.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/covers-bill-sienkiewicz/">A gallery</a> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Sienkiewicz</span> covers that somebody sent me after I whinged that cover artists always draw the same grimace on every superhero face. If only there were more Siekiewiczes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RJAOb89InYySPTCdLD1tUWlvXlQSXaDSpp-elXgZjOcU0rXwd_7sBmnI-l1aK5GMB8qUODAdaB7kVEl_bs_NfmpJjvuAonE1MFEPZqJukV43XXOIval5R_4qrlwRI42HSWLjiHc6S6HR/s1600/SienkBATMAnCHOKE.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RJAOb89InYySPTCdLD1tUWlvXlQSXaDSpp-elXgZjOcU0rXwd_7sBmnI-l1aK5GMB8qUODAdaB7kVEl_bs_NfmpJjvuAonE1MFEPZqJukV43XXOIval5R_4qrlwRI42HSWLjiHc6S6HR/s400/SienkBATMAnCHOKE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610314557510241202" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtY7WP18dzHiOHAEkR9agEOfkWGzMbPiyyel5O_reV972u_qGojXMB5nBJCl2C9N5ovqM7S3dSflAZMM5TnlUfR4MJzBVhGdDHeiBqJly5772YvViKY0cBhpXAcj9B72qaE1y8wrUxJVSQ/s1600/newmutants2cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtY7WP18dzHiOHAEkR9agEOfkWGzMbPiyyel5O_reV972u_qGojXMB5nBJCl2C9N5ovqM7S3dSflAZMM5TnlUfR4MJzBVhGdDHeiBqJly5772YvViKY0cBhpXAcj9B72qaE1y8wrUxJVSQ/s400/newmutants2cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610314794058953090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeffrey Catherine Jones</span> has died. <a href="http://www.tcj.com/jeffrey-catherine-jones-a-life-lived-deeply/">The Comics Journal</a> posts an obituary and some pictures of lovingly rendered naked ladies.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “I am a romantic and a painter and I love women…The female form just reflects light so simply and beautifully,” </span>he once said.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FdZmz0v2wfGbjgWkTM4VUSAeXEkQ6m7Xt05beqnkk4hLdcc-cPzLLeBbUnPSxaGiy_OYT41UwYVq5PjeRu2FiTUKs5akMrfu6lPVZw1UtH5BkaPO1FeJkMkiWg_rk2SsHOXIoNHngYCx/s1600/Jeffrey+Catherine+Jones+11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FdZmz0v2wfGbjgWkTM4VUSAeXEkQ6m7Xt05beqnkk4hLdcc-cPzLLeBbUnPSxaGiy_OYT41UwYVq5PjeRu2FiTUKs5akMrfu6lPVZw1UtH5BkaPO1FeJkMkiWg_rk2SsHOXIoNHngYCx/s400/Jeffrey+Catherine+Jones+11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610315457379940258" border="0" /></a>That’s about it. I’ve just been told that next week people with proper jobs get another <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bank Holiday Monday</span> (I don’t, I’ll be here). The comics will be doing that thing where they arrive on the same day we’re allowed to sell them, so in all probability they won’t be available to buy until Wednesday afternoon. If you can save your visit until the Thursday it’ll be less chaotic and there will definitely be comics. You know the drill!<br /><br />-- Hayley<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-21259842041065379772011-05-24T15:51:00.000+01:002011-05-24T15:52:44.908+01:00In Store 19/05/11 - 25/05/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />2000 AD #1735<br />Judge Dredd Megazine #311<br />5 Ronin HC (Milligan/Campbell )<br />Accidental Salad SC (Joe Decie)<br />Alter Ego #101<br />American Vampire #15 & HC Vol 2<br />Approximate Continuum Comics GN (Lewis Trondheim)<br />Secret Avengers #13 <br />Band SC (Mawil)<br />Batman Brave And The Bold Emerald Knight TP<br />Detective Comics #877(S. Snyder)<br />Butcher Baker Righteous Maker #3<br />Captain America #618<br />Captain America Official Index To Marvel Universe TP<br />Ultimate Comics Captain America HC<br />Carbon Grey #3<br />Charlaine Harris Grave Sight GN Vol 1<br />CLiNT #8 (M. Millar/J. Ross Et Al)<br />Clonk GN Vol 1<br />Conan Road Of Kings #5 (Of 6)<br />Crossed 3D TP Vol 1 (David Lapham)<br />Cutest Sneeze In The World Postcard Set (Jeffrey Brown)<br />Daomu #4<br />Marvel Masterworks Daredevil TP Vol 2<br />Deep Sleeper HC (P. Hester/M. Huddleston)<br />Doc Macabre HC (Niles/Wrightson)<br />Dungeon TP Monstres Vol 4 Night Of The Ladykiller(J. Sfar/L. Trondheim)<br />DV8 Gods And Monsters TP (Wood)<br />Even The Giants GN (J. Jacobs)<br />FF #4 (Jonathan Hickman)<br />Forget Sorrow An Ancestral Tale SC<br />Futurama Comics #55<br />Gotham City Sirens #23<br />Green Arrow #12 <br />DC Comics Presents: Green Lantern Willworld (J.M. DeMatteis/Seth Fisher)<br />Green Lantern #66 (War of GLs)<br />Green Lantern Corps #60 (War GLs)<br />Green Lantern Corps Revolt Of Alpha Lanterns HC<br />Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #10 (War of Green Lanterns)<br />Gutwrencher TP (Niles/Giffen)<br />Hellraiser #2<br />Home And Away GN (Mawil)<br />House Of Mystery TP Vol 6 Safe As Houses<br />I Never Liked You SC New Ptg<br />Incorruptible #18<br />Incredible Hulks #629<br />Infamous #6 (Of 6)<br />Influencing Machine HC<br />Iron Man 2.0 #5 Fear<br />Justice League International TP Vol 6<br />Justice Society Of America #51<br />Kato Origins #9 The Hellfire Club<br />King Conan Scarlet Citadel #4<br />Kirby Genesis #0 (Busiek/A. Ross)<br />Krazy Kat & The Art Of George Herriman HC (Craig Yoe)<br />Lengths #1 Weird Hours<br />Luchadoras GN<br />Magnus Robot Fighter #4 (Of 4)<br />Marvels Project: Birth Of Super Heroes TP (Ed Brubaker)<br />Mighty Samson #3<br />Mission #4<br />Namor First Mutant #10<br />Onslaught Unleashed #4 (Of 4)<br />Pixar Presents Cars #1<br />Power Man And Iron Fist #5 (Of 5)<br />Prison Stories SC (I. Hofbauer)<br />Punisher In Blood TP (R. Remender)<br />Robert E Howard's Savage Sword #2<br />Ruse #3 (Of 4)<br />Secret Warriors #27<br />Simpsons Summer Shindig #5<br />Slaughterman's Creed One-Shot <br />Smurfs GN Vol 6 Smurfs & Howlibird<br />Amazing Spider-Man #662<br />Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine #6 (Of 6)<br />Spider-Girl #7<br />Stan Lee's The Traveler #7<br />Star Wars Darth Vader & Lost Command #5<br />Strange Adventures #1 <br />Strange Case Of Mr Hyde #2 (Of 4)<br />Suicide Girls #2<br />Action Comics #901<br />Super Dinosaur #2<br />Take A Joke TP (Johnny Ryan)<br />Tattered Man One-Shot(J. Palmiotti/J. Gray)<br />Mighty Thor #2<br />Tom Strong & Robots Of Doom TP (P. Hogan/C. Sprouse)<br />Transformers 3 Dark Moon Movie Adaptation TP<br />True Blood Tainted Love #4<br />Ultimate War Prem HC<br />Uncanny X-Men #537 (K. Gillen)<br />Unknown Soldier TP Vol 4 Beautiful World<br />Venom #3<br />Walking Dead #85 (R. Kirkman)<br />Walking Dead Weekly #21<br />Chaos War X-Men TP<br />Daken Dark Wolverine #9.1<br />Deadpool #37<br />Emma Frost Ultimate Collection TP<br />Mystique By Brian K Vaughan Ultimate Collection TPB<br />Wolverine #9<br />X-Men Earth's Mutant Heroes #1<br />X-Men Legacy #249<br />X-Men Spotlight<br />Xombi #3<br />Yeah GN (P. Bagge/G. Hernandez)<br /><br />MANGA<br /><br />Gente TP Vol 3 (Of 3)<br />Gundam 00 Season 2 GN Vol 3 <br />Mega Man Gigamix TP Vol 1<br />Saturn Apartments TP Vol 3<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-5310886514314248362011-05-17T16:24:00.001+01:002011-05-17T16:27:23.491+01:00Due To Arrive 25/05/11Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />5 Ronin HC<br />Action Comics #901<br />Amazing Spider-Man #662<br />American Vampire #15<br />American Vampire HC Vol 2<br />Art Of Amanda Conner HC<br />Astonishing Spider-Man Wolverine #6 (Of 6)<br />Barks Bear Book HC<br />Batman Brave And The Bold Emerald Knight TP<br />BPRD TP Vol 3 Plague Of Frogs New Ptg<br />Breed Vol 1 Book Of Genesis TP <br />Broken Trinity TP Vol 2 Pandora's Box<br />Butcher Baker Righteous Maker #3<br />Captain America #618<br />Captain America Official Index To Marvel Universe TP<br />Carbon Grey #3<br />Chaos War X-Men TP<br />Conan Road Of Kings #5 (Of 6)<br />Daken Dark Wolverine #9 Point One<br />Daomu #4<br />Darkness #91<br />Darkness Origins TP Vol 3<br />DC Comics Presents Green Lantern Willworld Deadpool #37<br />Detective Comics #877<br />Dungeons And Dragons #7<br />DV8 Gods And Monsters TP<br />Emma Frost Ultimate Collection TP<br />FF #4<br />Godzilla Kingdom Of Monsters #3<br />Gotham City Sirens #23<br />Green Arrow #12<br />Green Lantern #66<br />Green Lantern Corps #60<br />Green Lantern Corps Revolt Of Alpha Lanterns HC<br />Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #10<br />Halcyon #5 (Of 5)<br />House Of Mystery TP Vol 6 Safe As Houses<br />Incredible Hulks #629<br />Infamous #6 (Of 6)<br />Iron Man 2.0 #5 Fear Itself<br />Justice League International TP Vol 6<br />Justice Society Of America #51<br />King Conan Scarlet Citadel #4<br />Li'l Abner HC Vol 3<br />Magnus Robot Fighter #4 (Of 4)<br />Marvels Project Birth Of Super Heroes TP<br />Memoir #4 (Of 6)<br />Mighty Samson #3<br />Mighty Thor #2<br />Mission #4<br />Marvel Masterworks Daredevil TP Vol 2<br />Mystique By Brian K Vaughan Collection TP<br />Namor First Mutant #10<br />Onslaught Unleashed #4 (Of 4)<br />Power Man And Iron Fist #5 (Of 5)<br />Punisher In Blood TP<br />Robert E Howard's Savage Sword #2<br />Runaways TP Vol 4 True Believers Digest New Ptg<br />Ruse #3 (Of 4)<br />Secret Avengers #13 Fear Itself<br />Secret Warriors #27<br />Spider-Girl #7<br />Spider-Man #14<br />Star Wars Darth Vader & Lost Command #5<br />Star Wars Legacy War #6 (Of 6)<br />Strange Adventures #1<br />Strange Case Of Mr Hyde #2 (Of 4)<br />Super Dinosaur #2<br />Tattered Man One-Shot<br />Thunderstrike TP Youth In Revolt<br />Tom Strong And The Robots Of Doom TP<br />Transformers 3 Dark Moon Movie Adaptation TP<br />Transformers Prime TP Vol 2<br />True Blood Tainted Love #4<br />Turf #5<br />Ultimate Comics Captain America Prem HC<br />Ultimate War Prem HC<br />Uncanny X-Men #537<br />Unknown Soldier TP Vol 4 Beautiful World<br />Venom #3<br />Walking Dead #85<br />Walking Dead Weekly #21<br />Wolverine #9<br />Wonder Woman #611<br />X-Men Earth's Mutant Heroes #1<br />X-Men Legacy #249<br />X-Men Spotlight<br />Xombi #3<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-71717834161053034282011-05-17T14:51:00.028+01:002011-05-18T12:52:54.370+01:00The Gosh! Authority 17/05/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCp-Urz1sc-AezMitAh5cOiWf8NWsYsnC_plLasEemlIviK9ekwRzO-vPI64isCFWyYJ5cJJ7yRnVjJWXtAWCRJajlsBW1qyIB3tn8nZioLzvpTdebvuDLtkjujzpSXq4i-8ZYtNb2Q04/s1600/paying-for-it.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWCp-Urz1sc-AezMitAh5cOiWf8NWsYsnC_plLasEemlIviK9ekwRzO-vPI64isCFWyYJ5cJJ7yRnVjJWXtAWCRJajlsBW1qyIB3tn8nZioLzvpTdebvuDLtkjujzpSXq4i-8ZYtNb2Q04/s400/paying-for-it.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607689544483844690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chester Brown</span>’s<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Paying For It</span> has arrived and I’ve been instructed not to say anything rude on the Gosh! Blog. Let’s see how long that lasts.<br /><br />It’s an autobiographical book about prostitution and being a john from the guy who did <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I Never Liked You</span>. I can’t remember the last time a book arrived with such anticipation heaped before it (probably it’s because <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chester Brown</span> is excellent and the last time we saw a book from him was five long years ago – <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Louis Riel</span>, an A+ piece of work). There are interviews all over the place but the most extensive one comes courtesy of <a href="http://www.tcj.com/a-johns-gospel-the-chester-brown-interview">The Comics Journal</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brown </span>talks about how <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Sim</span>’s famously misogynistic rant section in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cerebus #186</span> had an effect on how he viewed romantic relationships:<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Up until [Cerebus #186] I just kind of accepted [that] everyone’s supposed to have a girlfriend and that’s the natural order. If you don’t have a girlfriend, you’re a loser. That’s what men do, they either have girlfriends or they marry—well, as long as you’re heterosexual. So, reading Cerebus #186, even though I didn’t agree with all the misogynistic views—I didn’t agree that women are inferior, all that stuff—still, here was a guy who was looking at male-female relationships in a different way. It kind of showed me, you don’t have to think like everyone else thinks about these things. Part of it was that I respected Dave a whole lot, and I knew him, and I thought he was very intelligent. That issue of Cerebus was a bombshell in a lot of ways. Like a lot of people at the time, I wasn’t sure, “Is he kidding? Is this a joke? Is he serious?” But it got me re-evaluating the whole male-female dynamic, and thinking about it in a different way, even if my conclusions are different from Dave’s.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WthfjDp4B6ppNf43TH94S8wx-k5jz0CekdPGyMJ73DLK63PPNbA4KyQEcyUEJU_jdwxQdwCpNOfzsIY0ArFI_X1fwHb0OJF9JFDrymj4VYStVsnM_jznOfvlK1nRxRa23nDHSVkI1Jjy/s1600/chester_brown_paying_for_it.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2WthfjDp4B6ppNf43TH94S8wx-k5jz0CekdPGyMJ73DLK63PPNbA4KyQEcyUEJU_jdwxQdwCpNOfzsIY0ArFI_X1fwHb0OJF9JFDrymj4VYStVsnM_jznOfvlK1nRxRa23nDHSVkI1Jjy/s400/chester_brown_paying_for_it.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607689787468157618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“Marriage is such a ridiculous, outdated institution that it almost doesn’t seem worth the energy to point out how stupid it is,” </span>says <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brown </span>in another interview in the <a href="http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/05/14/laying-it-bare-an-interview-with-chester-brown/">Montreal Gazette</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69qz5lTyAVfdUW5uPI2Mwzek4wSQifCMuTmwDSX25M3mRj3xmoo9EtZylqtvVAzfnLsO70qzdaWzH4d2BM2lrjM_9esF70gpGM9KYZU8j69Gw37G1nbCznVz5dr3y-ZU57nfKuKoYdk6y/s1600/paying1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69qz5lTyAVfdUW5uPI2Mwzek4wSQifCMuTmwDSX25M3mRj3xmoo9EtZylqtvVAzfnLsO70qzdaWzH4d2BM2lrjM_9esF70gpGM9KYZU8j69Gw37G1nbCznVz5dr3y-ZU57nfKuKoYdk6y/s400/paying1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607690595607312754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeet Heer</span>, a friend of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brown</span>’s (<span style="font-style: italic;">“Chester's sex life has long been a staple of amused and amazed conversation in my social circle”</span>) writes a guest column at Canada’s <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/my-friend-the-john-on-chester-browns-graphic-memoir/article2021715/">Globe and Mail</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Ultimately,”</span> he says, <span style="font-style: italic;">“sex work should be considered a trade, like auto repair or journalism. (Some people will never accept it; then again, some people will always hate the media, or mistrust their mechanics.)”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9xu7Npcnpaeyc8XSKKwwNjYqiXNFNkGsNBfBIxofpGl25uqdYIAjlR0Wx5rTiZZtM01Fs6VXpbEEQkGmiKBFIo0KamgNIhvBRlMzukRONdGZXjsFfRwGhG3iQ0NF2CRwvwEB7ObwSvXc/s1600/paying2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9xu7Npcnpaeyc8XSKKwwNjYqiXNFNkGsNBfBIxofpGl25uqdYIAjlR0Wx5rTiZZtM01Fs6VXpbEEQkGmiKBFIo0KamgNIhvBRlMzukRONdGZXjsFfRwGhG3iQ0NF2CRwvwEB7ObwSvXc/s400/paying2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607690756602782562" border="0" /></a>It’s causing a stir on the internet and people are arguing for and against it (prostitution <span style="font-style: italic;">and </span>the book). Either way, I’m looking forward to reading it. Here are a couple of reviews at our favourite comic book acronyms, <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/paying-for-it/">TCJ</a> and <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/paying-for-it-chester-brown-tells-all/">FPI</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bQZuCdrnRxXfLHhptEeCXm0OB3-X1S_3iWKzf75BovEnUHM7w4631qeDj08T1K2V8seE8c8bHe3LQ_0KHS5Hc5J3KZcm_TfzanO2Obr3egrTGmRaIUaxnOZQv-MmS8eP3UdTOnOnykoP/s1600/rocketeer.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bQZuCdrnRxXfLHhptEeCXm0OB3-X1S_3iWKzf75BovEnUHM7w4631qeDj08T1K2V8seE8c8bHe3LQ_0KHS5Hc5J3KZcm_TfzanO2Obr3egrTGmRaIUaxnOZQv-MmS8eP3UdTOnOnykoP/s400/rocketeer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607691527410632930" border="0" /></a>The biggest comic this week has got to be the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Rocketeer Adventures #1</span> (of 4) – an all-new anthology series featuring <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Rocketeer </span>stories by some of the best guys in the business: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Ross</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> John Cassaday</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Allred</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kurt Busiek</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Kaluta</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Mignola</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Silke</span> (and that’s just the first issue!).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtQlHZJah5NcvXuW4OSv3MPVPCcCew-hJBur6cWWZtJ8jl-Bs5pRytYq-LnzZVQc5kBaQsynfHzn4eKV5N1M8n7Zg3jt7mSkydOlsOyqY3cBUJpuRZgQ4oxag37Tl_eHSfBW13BsBW7uQ/s1600/rocket.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtQlHZJah5NcvXuW4OSv3MPVPCcCew-hJBur6cWWZtJ8jl-Bs5pRytYq-LnzZVQc5kBaQsynfHzn4eKV5N1M8n7Zg3jt7mSkydOlsOyqY3cBUJpuRZgQ4oxag37Tl_eHSfBW13BsBW7uQ/s400/rocket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607692243687186418" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31469">Comicbook Resources</a> have a huge feature on it (preview pages too) in which they talk to everyone involved in this week’s issue. A portion of the profits go straight to the researchers currently trying to figure out a cure for the type of leukemia <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Stevens</span> died from back in 2008. A good cause and all that, but from the looks of it you won’t be needing that extra incentive.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62Vhar2O-aIc-nHcYjsn8DXwxBuMYmVPejDOZm6VmnfF5NXff1kBCzqltXnoKxUF-lgHKEaBv8GSJxnXZeWlrfCmWeK9WMVLtF1MNsCYdrLMeWUK695QZJdXmQkB57g2dhe3eo8fSE6zJ/s1600/chico1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62Vhar2O-aIc-nHcYjsn8DXwxBuMYmVPejDOZm6VmnfF5NXff1kBCzqltXnoKxUF-lgHKEaBv8GSJxnXZeWlrfCmWeK9WMVLtF1MNsCYdrLMeWUK695QZJdXmQkB57g2dhe3eo8fSE6zJ/s400/chico1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607692752812020946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chico & Rita </span>arrived some time last week so chances are you’ve already nabbed a copy. It’s the graphic novel version of the animated film (a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Waltz With Bashir</span> type deal) illustrated by the great <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mariscal </span>(legendary Spanish cartoonist who appeared in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Raw </span>back in 1980) and written by Oscar-winning director <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fernando Trueba</span>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPBk_7gJ1O2mWjRergJdSvMoHxmY4bUdp9Yz627SkI0tQjEAvQMjOarFmSciSt3Q_rpOEHLubeFAFHM2zWHAb1DBCyegbCHprTY3326Ix2-YkGsjFynMlYut8wAD4KJSyOL6XFWjLv7Wd/s1600/chico2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkPBk_7gJ1O2mWjRergJdSvMoHxmY4bUdp9Yz627SkI0tQjEAvQMjOarFmSciSt3Q_rpOEHLubeFAFHM2zWHAb1DBCyegbCHprTY3326Ix2-YkGsjFynMlYut8wAD4KJSyOL6XFWjLv7Wd/s400/chico2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607693271154132658" border="0" /></a>Inspired by the true story of Cuban band leader <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bebo Valdes</span>, it’s about a young piano player and his romantic entanglement with Rita, a singer. <span style="font-style: italic;">“1948 was the first year of the fusion between jazz and Cuban music: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dizzy Gillespie</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chano Pozo</span>,” </span>said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trueba</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“We set it in 1948 [because] we love all the Chevrolets and old advertisements,” </span>added <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mariscal</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">“Everywhere in the US and Europe people were dancing to cha cha and mambo. There was a big explosion of Cuban music.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPiAJ-h8QQx6YiU62jSnliEkkiubq5r3N4q3wofdpmA8TPz0GrLDCqQvvPYfZ3uadlg48Ey8mRrh6cHKGOAT3oqKS1k63Horb83SgWleQtL7VIo7PVg4lZO4Fyh89nbO67WSupDdfbY8j/s1600/chico3.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPiAJ-h8QQx6YiU62jSnliEkkiubq5r3N4q3wofdpmA8TPz0GrLDCqQvvPYfZ3uadlg48Ey8mRrh6cHKGOAT3oqKS1k63Horb83SgWleQtL7VIo7PVg4lZO4Fyh89nbO67WSupDdfbY8j/s400/chico3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607693603958366530" border="0" /></a>It’s another SelfMadeHero production so the quality is top-notch and they’ve even given us a bunch of signed and bookplated copies. Come in and grab one before they all go.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LX5XK9pRK2KWTgt1CULuaMW3kQ8RNCQzYMoSbf3ilbGtkiI0yvsXr3wrHHd8RqIIHR8pw8oC3_XL634qpzcgs3vlmlaMUJ3DBbAhBd3M83rWPxZsC3IxosmFkY7Dmcra4nFhVccPORSw/s1600/steadman.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LX5XK9pRK2KWTgt1CULuaMW3kQ8RNCQzYMoSbf3ilbGtkiI0yvsXr3wrHHd8RqIIHR8pw8oC3_XL634qpzcgs3vlmlaMUJ3DBbAhBd3M83rWPxZsC3IxosmFkY7Dmcra4nFhVccPORSw/s400/steadman.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607694231784278706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralph Steadman</span>’s gone and done another book of splattery dog pictures. <span style="font-style: italic;">"To do another book about dogs in the wake of my three other books about dogs is, I am aware, a trifle excessive,"</span> he said. The Independent are into it – <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/unleash-the-gonzo-hounds-steadmanrsquos-world-of-dogs-2099568.html">read their review here</a> – and if you want to woof at some preview hounds <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/unleash-the-gonzo-hounds-steadmanrsquos-world-of-dogs-2099568.html?action=Gallery">point your nose at this</a>.<br /><br />Big heavy coffee table books from Gingko Press are all over the new release shelf this week making everything else look small and insignificant. In the unlikely event your gaze misses them, here’s what they’ve sent us:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2uXqMgMcWW43TRZvGcKgOENyzR_gFEqBizW2kt8Lbh2unejpP7ZMI5XE9qtiMKA-Liw_IvuQ95Q7Y6gtNsTrcVtvVRiyjtIpYFPnLQfHyZom6bkmEMLogmQbQWGOa6NRtWGWJCAAjPAPX/s1600/gross.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2uXqMgMcWW43TRZvGcKgOENyzR_gFEqBizW2kt8Lbh2unejpP7ZMI5XE9qtiMKA-Liw_IvuQ95Q7Y6gtNsTrcVtvVRiyjtIpYFPnLQfHyZom6bkmEMLogmQbQWGOa6NRtWGWJCAAjPAPX/s400/gross.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607696110494137762" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Discrepancies HC</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Gross </span>gives you pop surrealism aplenty. It includes most of the pieces from his most recent exhibition, as well as the entire show before that and various other bits from the sands of time. He talks to <a href="http://hifructose.com/the-blog/876-alex-gross-discrepencies-.html">Hi-Fructose</a> about it and they’ve got a fair whack of previews for you too.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1wh2o0M-aSBNv9dHCsJAl0O5SNAjpj3teSRrSETcyuUm7zVvJlO1GS2UoLduZWhKNVDg6dnPRB6exgeDkvIin15BYsmblGuYsffYysmv4FLvuuMdbuDEvde33EppoDUKxYkU09G795PU/s1600/sorren1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1wh2o0M-aSBNv9dHCsJAl0O5SNAjpj3teSRrSETcyuUm7zVvJlO1GS2UoLduZWhKNVDg6dnPRB6exgeDkvIin15BYsmblGuYsffYysmv4FLvuuMdbuDEvde33EppoDUKxYkU09G795PU/s400/sorren1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607696438756045410" border="0" /></a>More pop surrealism in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Joe Sorren’s Painting/Sculpture: 2004 – 2010</span>, published in conjunction with an exhibition of his in California. Head to <a href="http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/1014-an-interview-with-joe-sorren.html">Hi-Fructose</a> again for an interview/preview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6LvyyDlm6iUynCnEr2W0yYgBWW5oMLvNHgtOvVLxzJhyes4D_R2lWTv3HzuxNs9gYXdwwHZDg10Xtxbt4lWpjvB-RbY_ra6AXQ727vi4Pzt5AEr0XSuqoBrDJXaJ_xFwAeDxsLLC7FrL/s1600/emek-thinking-mans_i4.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6LvyyDlm6iUynCnEr2W0yYgBWW5oMLvNHgtOvVLxzJhyes4D_R2lWTv3HzuxNs9gYXdwwHZDg10Xtxbt4lWpjvB-RbY_ra6AXQ727vi4Pzt5AEr0XSuqoBrDJXaJ_xFwAeDxsLLC7FrL/s400/emek-thinking-mans_i4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607696779795465106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">EMEK: The Thinking Man’s Poster Artist HC</span> collects a load of posters from the LA artist who helped revive the popularity of good old fashioned rock art. They’re a bit ‘60s psychedelia, a bit punk, and they’re done for the likes of <span style="font-weight: bold;">NIN</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nick Cave</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bright Eyes</span>. Pictures at <a href="http://www.gingkopress.com/03-gra/emek-thinking-mans-poster.html">Gingko</a> and the <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/12/emek_art_show.php">LA Weekly has an interview</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Monster Revolt! The Art of Dirty Donny HC</span> gives you more rock and lowbrow art from the guy most famous for his work with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Metallica </span>(who provide the commentary in this book). Pictures at <a href="http://www.gingkopress.com/03-gra/monster-revolt-dirty-donny__pop.html">Gingko</a>.<br /><br />Not a big heavy hardcover at all but an artbook nonetheless is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Zero: Jm Ken Nimura Illustration TP</span>, a collection of colourful whimsy from the Eisner-nominated artist on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I Kill Giants</span>. Preview at <a href="http://comicbuzz.com/zero-makes-trek-across-the-atlantic">Comic Buzz</a> and if you’re interested in the details of the guy’s technique there’s a video interview over at <a href="http://www.thecomicarchive.com/archives/991">The Comic Archive</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Kubert</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dong Xoai, Vietnam TP</span> is in, thus completing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kubert </span>trifecta I mentioned last week.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJz2FTbtXbvgrGj5n2V7rWN3izYa6PPr_xYjbt6bUoGZ4o740pEfQCEaYKY6FVw1b2SjlS0ZaXtIgyuWPPCKFyZBM68lYSpPpoAvIHEBuXJpLXA1zGRJyu2SgvUtj5AAmTfF7dDA571cye/s1600/dong.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJz2FTbtXbvgrGj5n2V7rWN3izYa6PPr_xYjbt6bUoGZ4o740pEfQCEaYKY6FVw1b2SjlS0ZaXtIgyuWPPCKFyZBM68lYSpPpoAvIHEBuXJpLXA1zGRJyu2SgvUtj5AAmTfF7dDA571cye/s400/dong.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607697264473747394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“What I expect people to see, and the way I tried to draw it, are those events the way that I imagined them, having read the material that [retired colonel] Bill gave me. I tried to do it in such a way that it doesn’t look like a comic book or a comic strip but perhaps more like a combat reporter - that is, somebody who was there while the events were happening. And that’s why I did it in pencil and a lot of it may seem unfinished because I wanted that feeling of immediacy and the illustrations that I’ve done convey that to the reader so they themselves would feel that they are looking at the events happening while they’re happening.” </span>More at <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26087">Comicbook Resources</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeTUVh6lAt4EyKGkTLQ2pU7locXmcCX2OPfnye-6xlxyavWS6IzuN_tLIMU2bFVtUyWZf_22-oqc1RcjPcIeWdL6HwG1Th7o_jdI8HE6_Jh2tvd3OOph8PbCMnDKbeh3Aj8ZUb_gNlqUET/s1600/liarskiss.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeTUVh6lAt4EyKGkTLQ2pU7locXmcCX2OPfnye-6xlxyavWS6IzuN_tLIMU2bFVtUyWZf_22-oqc1RcjPcIeWdL6HwG1Th7o_jdI8HE6_Jh2tvd3OOph8PbCMnDKbeh3Aj8ZUb_gNlqUET/s400/liarskiss.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607697855959557330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Liar’s Kiss HC</span> is the debut graphic novel by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eric Skillman</span>, a man whose name you probably don’t know but whose work you’ll definitely have seen (he designed the cover of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eddie Campbell</span>’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Alec: The Years Have Pants</span>, for starters). <span style="font-style: italic;">“Without giving too much away—it is a whodunit after all—the book is about a private detective, Nick Archer, who spends his nights with the woman he's supposed to be surveilling on behalf of her jealous husband,”</span> he tells <a href="http://geek-news.mtv.com/2011/03/16/lying-for-his-money-writer-eric-skillman-talks-top-shelfs-liars-kiss/">MTV Geek</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">“But when the husband turns up murdered, his cheating wife is the prime suspect and it's up to Nick to clear her name… and even in those two sentences I've already lied to you at least once. Sorry, it's just that kind of book.”</span> With classic crime noir influences worn on his sleeve, you’ll probably be up for this if you’re a fan of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brubaker</span>. Preview at <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/liars-kiss/728">Top Shelf</a>, and a review at <a href="http://classic.tcj.com/review/liar%E2%80%99s-kiss-by-eric-skillman-and-jhomar-soriano/">TCJ</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4w4Fx8QJAvdHRGEH7LNeC8HYoXO8W3JvGN9A4EeoqRLxALedf59a3iJOIMxRLjRIc0QDhey2Yk-Q7iRFrBB3U6dGjbOIE-4orKY9byGUxTUWobHVH36hT2-5_pciR3Obyx0uqFiZgKiR/s1600/yummy1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4w4Fx8QJAvdHRGEH7LNeC8HYoXO8W3JvGN9A4EeoqRLxALedf59a3iJOIMxRLjRIc0QDhey2Yk-Q7iRFrBB3U6dGjbOIE-4orKY9byGUxTUWobHVH36hT2-5_pciR3Obyx0uqFiZgKiR/s400/yummy1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607698185311977202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Yummy SC</span> is a sort of true story – a graphic novel about the life and death of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer">Robert ‘Yummy’ Sandifer</a>, an 11-year-old gang member killed by his own gang, as seen through the eyes of a fictional classmate. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Back in 1994 I was a filmmaker teaching workshops to kids in the inner-city schools of Los Angeles. When the Yummy story broke, a lot of discussions started popping up among the kids. Some felt Yummy was a straight-up thug who got what he deserved. Others felt he was a victim too. At the time, there was a gang war going on in the area and there had been several memorials for students who'd been killed. Many of the kids had siblings who were in gangs or had been affected by gangs. It was a loaded topic.”</span> Author <span style="font-weight: bold;">G. Neri</span> and illustrator <span style="font-weight: bold;">Randy DuBurke</span> <a href="http://www.leeandlow.com/p/yummy_bt.mhtml">talk about it here</a>.<br /><br />Having now met <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robbie Morrison</span> at our recent Free Comic Book Day signing, you should read some <span style="font-weight: bold;">2000AD </span>stuff he did almost ten years ago. Collected for the very first time, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Bendatti Vendetta</span> is a bloody gangland story set in contemporary Europe. Fully painted <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Burns</span> art throughout.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Hastings’<span style="font-style: italic;"> The Adventures of Dr McNinja TP Volume 1</span></span> is a comic from The Internet.<span style="font-style: italic;">“In a world where a doctor can also be a ninja, you can expect some things. Little boys with large moustaches, giant lumberjacks, raptor riding banditos, Dracula's moon base... If you like action mixed with comedy and doctors mixed with ninjas, Dr. McNinja is a comic you'll most likely enjoy.”</span> And why not? Anything can happen on The Internet, except for whatever happens in the story that’s exclusively print-only. They’ve put together a list of <a href="http://www.drmcninja.com/newreaders.php">10 Most Awesome McNinja Moments</a> so you can do some preliminary detective work to see if you like it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnfVYiORY6sh4t7JB0uL5ocbH9lashtyYVXyzx7qhK7454QimzMSZx29DYC6DVGfYWfmInig8PaWhYEPYGpH6HdoRl3t_wIcjk3DHucpzh__ZJzJ9nWy5QptfwOaQa1d492WCqYmu1Rts/s1600/powers-13.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 354px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnfVYiORY6sh4t7JB0uL5ocbH9lashtyYVXyzx7qhK7454QimzMSZx29DYC6DVGfYWfmInig8PaWhYEPYGpH6HdoRl3t_wIcjk3DHucpzh__ZJzJ9nWy5QptfwOaQa1d492WCqYmu1Rts/s400/powers-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607698868970515394" border="0" /></a>In hardcover you can have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Powers Volume 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?</span> which is the fully reformatted, redesigned, re-everything’d original Eisner Award-winning series by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Michael Bendis </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Avon Oeming</span>. You can also get the controversial 2003 five-issue miniseries by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Millar</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Terry Dodson</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Trouble</span>. It was a (failed) attempt to reach female readers with romance stories, and the book caused a stir for the two reasons listed over at <a href="http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/11/mark-millar-terry-dodsons-controversial-trouble-to-be-collected-in-2011/">CbR’s Robot6</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dodson </span>provides the illustrated cover on this one, so casual browsers won’t be creeped out by the original photo versions.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Shadoweyes: Volume 2: Shadoweyes in Love </span>continues the offbeat teen superhero story by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ross Campbell</span> who’s cast aside the plump goth girls of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wet Moon</span> for a bit. Preview at <a href="http://ghettomanga.blogspot.com/2011/02/preview-shadoweyes-in-love-by-ross.html">Ghetto Manga</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZvtrLfcBZmEPecVqreyNs4RP4N-AnL1gmA5601LSlu4HY72RJAymTKOnmSnmU4uhGzBbNAR_6qUGCi2hYPtTPuNTqnxXeGTL4_jtmHSXyEtM4s7OJii6kgKArxcndhG54CTAchZyucgb3/s1600/darkcity_18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZvtrLfcBZmEPecVqreyNs4RP4N-AnL1gmA5601LSlu4HY72RJAymTKOnmSnmU4uhGzBbNAR_6qUGCi2hYPtTPuNTqnxXeGTL4_jtmHSXyEtM4s7OJii6kgKArxcndhG54CTAchZyucgb3/s400/darkcity_18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607699858336878338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">DC Comics Presents: Batman Dark City</span> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Milligan</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hellblazer</span>) will be of interest to anyone reading <span style="font-weight: bold;">Grant Morrison</span>’s Bat-related titles, because he’s picked up on the Demon Barbathos plot point that began in this three-issue run by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Milligan </span>back in the early ‘90s. <span style="font-style: italic;">“I was interested – and still am – in the relationship between Gotham City and Batman. Interested in how Gotham is a character in itself, as important and Batman, The Joker or, indeed, The Riddler. Because of the varied nature of Gotham City I suppose it’s a story than can be told in a number of different ways,”</span> said <span style="font-weight: bold;">Milligan</span>, talking about the (then uncollected) series in <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27788">this interview from last year</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oXNdNmZIftcmXbOQKnDA7wdoZMprtw5_lhQuUW4sd2r0PpOG0Yav2FLd-eAvWsRJ_L0clAE_SxPP6-NjNTCVeZXPiJaCzSmb59q8ss0J24HivdxKbaI4C6oJ9QPsDbUq9zqrzxeOeQeI/s1600/bm_gates_cv1_02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oXNdNmZIftcmXbOQKnDA7wdoZMprtw5_lhQuUW4sd2r0PpOG0Yav2FLd-eAvWsRJ_L0clAE_SxPP6-NjNTCVeZXPiJaCzSmb59q8ss0J24HivdxKbaI4C6oJ9QPsDbUq9zqrzxeOeQeI/s400/bm_gates_cv1_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607700824140501186" border="0" /></a>New series <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Batman: Gates of Gotham #1</span> (of 5) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Snyder</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">American Vampire</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kyle Higgins</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trevor McCarthy </span>seems to be all about the same sort of thing:<span style="font-style: italic;"> “I think when people refer to Gotham as a character, what they're reacting to is the mood it creates, the shadow that the city casts. In our story, we're really exploring the make-up of the city, and trying to take that concept of Gotham as a character to another level.” </span>More at <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/comics/gates-of-gotham-batman-110221.html">Newsarama</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Z7kcHnnSaKe78scM4FuX2Zp7PLuosqWjQ4_5unxn186h_tFN1wbQVMMzUOSH3xJEtp1w8HMQVlUBjdBpSIjxaVTw6cqkg0Wl0udxG0a6YO0lXEGbMhLLoc1lPLtc_qYp-3xY8Fq0-fd5/s1600/drums.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Z7kcHnnSaKe78scM4FuX2Zp7PLuosqWjQ4_5unxn186h_tFN1wbQVMMzUOSH3xJEtp1w8HMQVlUBjdBpSIjxaVTw6cqkg0Wl0udxG0a6YO0lXEGbMhLLoc1lPLtc_qYp-3xY8Fq0-fd5/s400/drums.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607701978844957682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Drums #1</span> (of 4) is a new one from <span style="font-weight: bold;">El Torres</span>, the writer of the recent miniseries <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Suicide Forest</span>. Preview at <a href="http://www.mtv.com/geek/comic/issue/1092/drums-1.jhtml">MTV Geek</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8Qo8LLcLreWbVwVnbUhr_4WIm6hgPaOf7pDnSwjYIH9DtwoyyauwCnhyphenhyphenupyZdfqEdaWkKTblHKHp0vop_qspskw0V6bbD3AHQHi15UWj-_pMcpJF4xH52KP-9cLFAxI8b-lheeFEZNxb/s1600/boog-445.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8Qo8LLcLreWbVwVnbUhr_4WIm6hgPaOf7pDnSwjYIH9DtwoyyauwCnhyphenhyphenupyZdfqEdaWkKTblHKHp0vop_qspskw0V6bbD3AHQHi15UWj-_pMcpJF4xH52KP-9cLFAxI8b-lheeFEZNxb/s400/boog-445.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607703526647218754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Alpha Flight #0 Point One</span> provides a good jumping on point for new readers courtesy of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greg Pak</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fred Van Lente</span>, with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ben Oliver</span> illustrating the Canadian superheroes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Van Lente</span> said some stuff about it in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-04-13-AlphaFlightPointOne_N.htm">USA Today</a> (preview there too). Pick up <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Booster Gold #44</span> for the return of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dan Jurgens</span> and a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Flashpoint </span>prelude (<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=42889">preview</a>). And if you’ve been following <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Asmus</span>’ annuals crossover story <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Escape From The Negative Zone</span> (in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Uncanny X-Men Annual #3</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Steve Rogers: Super Solider Annual #1</span>) you’ll be needing <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Namor First Mutant Annual #1</span> for the third and final chapter (<a href="http://www.comixology.com/previews/MAR110712/Namor-The-First-Mutant-Annual-1">preview</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEDN8JJRD8U_T2-MjqijcQ3aZEHxtgXkUeFfP_uz8acelD5ydIPWdvysOZf96K3x7rCSYfjHvBxynz2y4qhVeWJti6bdj125PA0NOcOqm_Zi-ElXKe2orO3GAfsJ4yUM5E6mssF-avw7N/s1600/spacedog.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilEDN8JJRD8U_T2-MjqijcQ3aZEHxtgXkUeFfP_uz8acelD5ydIPWdvysOZf96K3x7rCSYfjHvBxynz2y4qhVeWJti6bdj125PA0NOcOqm_Zi-ElXKe2orO3GAfsJ4yUM5E6mssF-avw7N/s400/spacedog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607704494778430370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Kirkman</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cory Walker</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Invincible</span>) indulge in their <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Science Dog</span> side-project again with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Science Dog Special #2.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">“I think Science Dog is something Cory and I always wanted to do – even when we were doing Invincible; so it's been fun to come back to it every 25 issues. After doing it in Invincible #25, #50 and #75 we didn't want to wait until #100 to wrap up the story. So basically what we've done with Science Dog Special #2 is run the 12 pages from Invincible #75 that continued from the other two collected in Science Dog Special #1 and then go ahead and do a wrap-up conclusion to the entire story – and it ends up being pretty much a full-size issue. The story gets pretty epic by the end – at that point we're 50+ plus pages into it.”</span> More at <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/comics/kirkman-science-dog-110315.html">Newsarama</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3T7VozaVJ94SQbJNs-1uqjb8KZKcDOcovr3Eh7t0UE4cppE4cBTp912X6WF94N4ztLWazHPtV14xXHfNhXoNMWFsV_MIW_AeLwHDvwqprgOQEeXs6OrcqDzVpY_PaRmcr60JTICHmarB/s1600/deadpool.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3T7VozaVJ94SQbJNs-1uqjb8KZKcDOcovr3Eh7t0UE4cppE4cBTp912X6WF94N4ztLWazHPtV14xXHfNhXoNMWFsV_MIW_AeLwHDvwqprgOQEeXs6OrcqDzVpY_PaRmcr60JTICHmarB/s400/deadpool.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607705212771040562" border="0" /></a>And finally, a bunch of notable <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">X</span>-books. There’s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">X-Men Giant Size #1 </span>in which <span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Yost</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paco Medina </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dalibor Talijic</span> begin a story they’ll finish up in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">X-Men #12 </span>next month (<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31081">preview</a>). <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Astonishing X-Men #38</span> continues with the parallel continuity thing (<span style="font-style: italic;">“The X-Men split into two teams, each on seemingly separate missions told by rotating creative teams that collide with major consequences for the X-Men!”</span> writes <a href="http://www.thecomicbooknerd.com/2011/02/14/marvels-astonishing-x-men-37-and-38/">The Comic Book Nerd</a>), <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8652">previewed here</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deadpool: Wade Wilson’s War</span> is collected in trade, and if you missed the series by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Duane Swierczynski </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason Pearson</span> you can preview the first issue <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=5239">at CbR</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Lapham</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kyle Baker</span>’s popular run on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">DeadpoolMAX</span> continues this week with #8, and you can get the first six issues of the series in hardcover too. <span style="font-style: italic;">“Will it be sophomoric? Yes. Will it be fun? Yes. Will it be smart? Define smart.”</span> Preview of this week’s issue <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8504&disp=table">here</a>.<br /><br />Before I sign off, here’s <a href="http://www.planetslade.com/insect-horror.html">a six-page comic</a> written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Slade</span> and illustrated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hans Rickheit</span> of the webcomic <a href="http://www.ectopiary.com/page1.html">Ectopiary</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgfCY8qvHop_8umi6TPk3uMk_5Vtvg164CsD69SNoESGkhVGIVkit-BC2UU-GacG4PBPMPgRZINVkmYYCa81pJ61rKwwgS42FPzJbD1gNYMcz-xvjlGj7jX7pHfQRVykX2SNTSP6l9Yj6/s1600/md2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgfCY8qvHop_8umi6TPk3uMk_5Vtvg164CsD69SNoESGkhVGIVkit-BC2UU-GacG4PBPMPgRZINVkmYYCa81pJ61rKwwgS42FPzJbD1gNYMcz-xvjlGj7jX7pHfQRVykX2SNTSP6l9Yj6/s400/md2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607705722724033970" border="0" /></a>Insects are weird.<br /><br />-- Hayley<br /></span>Gosh!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02353983326997510001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860000982941982341.post-80361750921158719492011-05-17T14:48:00.000+01:002011-05-17T14:50:57.572+01:00In Store 12/05/11 - 18/05/11Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Archie & Friends #155<br />B & V Friends Double Digest #214<br />Jugheads Double Digest #170<br />2000 AD #1734<br />Bendatti Vendetta TP (R. Morrison)<br />Adventures Of Dr McNinja TP Vol 1<br />Alpha Flight #0 Point One<br />Avengers #13 (Fear Itself/Bachalo)<br />Avengers Academy #14<br />New Avengers 100 Project SC<br />Ultimate Avengers TP Volume 3 Blade Vs The Avengers<br />Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #4<br />Batgirl The Flood TP<br />Batman #710<br />Batman And Robin #23<br />Batman Gates Of Gotham #1 (Of 5) (Scott Snyder)<br />DC Comics Presents Batman Dark City (Peter Milligan)<br />Book Of Dogs HC (Ralph Steadman)<br />Booster Gold #44 Flashpoint<br />Captain America First Vengeance #2 (Of 4)<br />Chaos War Incredible Hulks TP<br />Chico & Rita HC (Mariscal)<br />Cinema Retro #20<br />Courtney Crumrin Tales #2<br />Dark Shadows Complete Series HC Vol 2<br />Darkness Four Horsemen #4 (Of 4)<br />DC Universe Online Legends #8<br />Death Of Dracula TP<br />Deus Ex #4 (Of 6)<br />Discrepancies HC (A. Gross)<br />DMZ #65 (B. Wood)<br />Dong Xoai Vietnam TP (Joe Kubert)<br />Drums #1 (Of 4) (El Torres)<br />Electric Ant TP <br />Emek: The Thinking Man’s Poster Artist HC<br />Fables #105<br />Fighting American TP (Simon/Kirby)<br />Flash Omnibus By Geoff Johns HC Vol 1<br />Hawkeye: Blind Spot #4 (Of 4)<br />Hellblazer #279<br />Hellblazer City Of Demons TP<br />Herc #3 Fear Itself<br />Heroes For Hire #7<br />Hulk #33<br />Illustration Magazine #33<br />Invincible Iron Man #504 Fear Itself<br />Joe Sorren: Painting/Sculpture HC<br />Justice League Of America #57<br />Juxtapoz #125 June 2011<br />Knights Of The Dinner Table Black Hands 2011 One-Shot<br />Legion Of Super Heroes #13<br />Liar's Kiss HC<br />Li'l Depressed Boy #4<br />Modesty Blaise TP Vol 19 Double Agent<br />Monster Revolt! 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