Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.

28 Days Later #5
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Jackpot #1 (Of 3)
Angel Hole In The World #2
Athena #4
Authority #18
Batman Confidential #40
Blackest Night Wonder Woman #2 (Of 3)
Boys #38
Bprd King Of Fear #1 (Of 5)
Buck Rogers #7
Cable #22
Cartoon Network Action Pack #45
Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #3 (Of 6)
Conan The Cimmerian #17
Daffodil #1 (Of 3)
Daredevil TP Born Again
Darkness #82
Deadpool Team-Up #897
Dingo #2
Doom Patrol #6
Forgetless #2 (Of 5)
Gigantic #5 (Of 5)
God Complex #2
Great Ten #3 (Of 10)
Greek Street #7
Grimjack Manx Cat #6
Haunt #4
Hercules Knives Of Kush #5 (Of 5)
House Of Mystery #21
Invincible Iron Man Prem HC Vol 3 Most Wanted Pt 2
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #3 (Of 3)
John Sable Freelance Ashes Of Eden #4
Jonah Hex #51
JSA All Stars #2
Kill Audio #4 (Of 6)
List HC
Mad About Super Heroes TP Vol 2
Marvel Boy Uranian #1 (Of 3)
Marvel Divas TP
Marvel Previews January 2010
Mass Effect Redemption #1 (Of 4)
Mighty #12
Nation X X-Factor One-Shot
New Mutants #9 XN
Orc Stain #1
Previews #256 January 2010
Proof #25
Punisher Max Get Castle #1
Queen Sonja #3
Red Robin #8
Red Tornado #5 (Of 6)
Resurrection Vol 2 #6
Siege #1 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #1 (Of 4)
Siege Prelude TP
Simpsons Super Spectacular #10
Spider-Man Noir Eyes Without A Face #2 (Of 4)
Spirit TP Vol 5
Star Trek Spock Reflections TP
Star Wars Clone Wars #12
Starstruck #5
Stumptown #2
Suicide Squad #67 Blackest Night
Superman World Of New Krypton #11 (Of 12)
Sweet Tooth #5
Talisman Road Of Trials #3
Timely Annuals 70th Anniversary Collection HC
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #6
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #6
Unwritten TP Vol 1
Warlord #10
Wasteland #27
Weird Western Tales #71 Blackest Night
Wildstorm After The Fall TP
Wizard Magazine #221
X-Men Mutant Massacre HC
X-Men Noir Mark Of Cain #2 (Of 4)
X-Men Vs Avengers Prem HC
X-Men Vs Fantastic Four Prem HC

As it’s Christmas/New Year/Bedlam there are only two comics in this week and this is them:

Blackest Night #6 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis which means we’re nearing the end of the series – only two more issues to go! Johns talks about life, the universe and everything over at Newsarama.

The other one is Origins Of Siege, the prologue to next month’s Avengers event Siege. Preview pages galore over at Comicbook Resources.

And that’s your lot! Next week is business as usual with (more than two) new comics hitting the shelves on Thursday despite the bank holiday.

Happy New Year!
– Hayley

No new comics next week apart from Blackest Night #6 and Origin of Siege, folks! The Gosh! Sale will start on the 28th of December so it’s still worth making the trip if you can – there’ll be loads of recent hardcovers going for half price and anything else we felt like throwing into the mix.

Considering New Comics Day is also Christmas Eve we were hoping those ol’ comics publishers would be gentle with us and make it a nice easy week. Unfortunately for us they were only thinking of you lot and have thus landed us with a huge truckload of stuff, so there’s no way you’re going to run out of things to read over Christmas and get stuck watching Showboat for the 47th time. You’ll also get to see the ghosts of Gosh! past and scoff the remaining chocolates on the counter so it’ll probably be a good day all round. Don’t forget we shut at 4pm so get in early if you’d like to see our cheery faces.

So here’s what we’ve got:

Eric Powell begins his first new creator-owned series since The Goon with Chimichanga #1 (of 3), a story about a bearded girl, a rubbish travelling circus (see Randy – the man with the strength of a slightly larger man or Esmerelda and her amazing two-eyed goat) and a pet monster. It’s a quirky tale with a Goon-like atmosphere, kid-safe but not just for kids, says Powell. Previews are non-existent for this one so you’ll just have to wait ‘til Thursday. Speaking of Powell, his original Goon graphic novel Chinatown & The Mystery Of Mr. Wicker is finally out in softcover this week.

The lovely Christian Ward and Nathan Edmondson’s Olympus is collected in trade-paperback so if you missed it the first time round you can give it a go over Christmas. Edmondson talks about it with CBR where you’ll also find a bunch of preview pages.

Rick Remender’s got a pile of stuff out including Last Days of American Crime #1, the first of a three part series about a terrifying not-too-distant future. “At its heart it’s a classic heist story with touches of science fiction and socio-political business around the perimeter of it. The story takes place in America eight or nine years in the future where a few spats of domestic terrorism have caused a spike in public paranoia,” says Remender.

“In this climate the U.S. Government, in secret, has been developing a broadcast that neurochemically inhibits anybody within the range of the broadcast from doing anything they know to be unlawful. Their response is to seize every radio tower in the country, broadcast this beam and no more crime, no more illegal activity, no more jay-walking, no more anything.” But there are two weeks to go until that happens and it’s the last chance for everyone to get their yah-yahs out. There are loads of interviews for you to read and a preview too.

Garth Ennis’ war stories continue with Battlefields: Happy Valley #1, a three-parter about an Australian member of the British bomber crew in 1942. Ennis talks about it here and the artist Paul Jason “PJ” Holden gets his turn too.

Captain America: Who Will Wield the Shield? is a one-shot by Ed Brubaker which will see the shield returned to Steve Rogers or left with Bucky Barnes. Or maybe they’ll share it, with Bucky having it on weekends and every other Friday. Have a preview.

Andrew is very excited about the More Than Complete Action Philosophers! TP which is pretty much what it says on the tin plus four all-new stories that you won’t find anywhere else. Fred Van Lente talks about how it all began in this interview. Supergirl Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade TP comes highly recommended by Andrew too. It was a six-issue all-ages miniseries and you can see a preview of #1 here. Ridiculously good fun.

Mike Mignola and Richard Corben give you another one-shot Hellboy collaboration a year after their Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Hellboy: Bride of Hell sees a nineteen-year-old girl kidnapped in order to be offered to Asmodeus, King of Demons. But Hellboy’s here to make it all better. Preview!

And finally, this week sees the release of the 300th issue of the Comics Journal! There’s loads of stuff in this one which is probably just as well because it’ll take you a week to read it and you won’t notice the lack of comics on New Year’s Eve (I’ll get to that in a second). It’s a collection of interviews by creators with creators – the idea is that an established, influential type talks with a rising-star type and they print the results. So you’ll get Kevin Huizenga/Art Spiegelman, Zak Sally/Jaime Hernandez, Frank Quitely/Dave Gibbons, Alison Bechdel/Danica Novgorodoff, Denny O’Neil/Matt Fraction, Hitchcock/Truffaut (maybe not) and more. David Mazzucchelli talks with Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button) and you can read a bit of it here.

Right, so next week: No comics are shipping except for Blackest Night #6 and Origin of Siege. But there’s still a reason to get off your post-Christmas arse and that reason is the Gosh! sale! From the 28th of December you’ll find loads of recent hardcovers going for half price or more, plus a whole heap of other books we felt like throwing into the mix. No tat here, it’ll be worth the trip, with fresh stock added regularly. Look for the sale sign!

Probably won’t be a mail-out next week, what with there being no comics to talk about and all, so I’ll see you in two weeks.

Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!

– Hayley

Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.

Jughead’s Double Digest #156
Absolution #5 (Of 6)
Agents Of Atlas TP Dark Reign
All Kinds Of Families! HC
Alphabeasties HC
Angel Annual #1
Angel Only Human #5 (Of 5)
Angelus #1 (Of 6)
Anita Blake Prem HC Book 2 LC Necromancer
Around The World With Mouk HC(M. Boutavant)
Avengers Initiative #31 Siege
Dark Avengers Ares #3 (Of 3) (K. Gillen)
New Avengers #60
Batman The Wrath TP
Detective Comics #860(G. Rucka/JH Williams III)
Battlefields: Happy Valley #1 (Of 3)(Garth Ennis)
Beasts Of Burden #4 (Of 4)(E. Dorkin/J. Thompson)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #11
Black Terror #6
Black Widow & Marvel Girls #2 (Of 4)
Blackest Night JSA #1 (Of 3)
Brian Michael Bendis 10 Years At Marvel TP
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Willow One-Shot
Captain America Reborn: Who Will Wield the Shield? One-Shot(E. Brubaker)
Chew #7
Chimichanga #1 (Of 3) (E. Powell)
Cinema Retro #16
Comics Journal #300
Complete Dracula #5 (Of 5)(L. Moore/J. Reppion)
Criminal: The Sinners #3 (Of 5)(E. Brubaker/S. Phillips)
Crossed #8 (Of 9) (Garth Ennis)
Dan Dare: Safari in Space HC
Daredevil By Bendis Omnibus HC Vol 2
Dark Reign
- The Hood TP
- Sinister Spider-Man TP
- Skrull Kill Krew TP
- Young Avengers TP
Dark Tower Battle Of Jericho Hill #2 (Of 5)
Dead At 17 Afterbirth TP Vol 1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? #7
Doctor Voodoo: Origin Of Jericho Drumm One-Shot
Enders Game Command School #4 (Of 5)
Enders Shadow Command School #4 (Of 5)
Fantastic Four #574
Fantastic Four TP Masters Of Doom (R. Remender)
Fear Agent TP Vol 5 I Against I
Frank Frazetta’s Dark Kingdom #3 (Of 4)
Gahan Wilson: 50 Years Of Playboy Cartoons HC
GI Joe Origins #10
Goon TP Vol 6 Chinatown And The Mystery Of Mr Wicker(Eric Powell)
Gotham City Sirens #7
Green Lantern #49 Blackest Night
Green Lantern Chronicles TP Vol 2
Guardians Of Galaxy #21
Guardians Of Galaxy Prem HC Vol 3 War of Kings Part 2
Halo Blood Line #1 (Of 5)
Hellboy Bride Of Hell One-Shot
Fall Of Hulks Gamma One-Shot
Image United #2 (Of 6)
Incredible Hercules #139
Incredible Hercules Prem HC Mighty Thorcules
Invincible #69
Iron Man Vs Whiplash #2 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #9
Irredeemable TP Vol 2
Jack Of Fables #41
Justice Society Of America #34
Last Days Of American Crime #1 (Of 3) (R. Remender)
Madame Xanadu #18
Marvel Zombies Return HC
Marvels TP New Ptg
Mighty TP Vol 1
More Than Complete Action Philosophers! TP (F. Van Lente)
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent Of Shield HC Vol 2
Northlanders #23
Okko Cycle Of Earth #4 (Of 4)
Olympus TP Vol 1 (N. Edmondson/C. Ward)
Original Johnson GN Vol 1
Powers #2 (Bendis/Oeming)
PTA Night HC
Punisher #12 (R. Remender)
Runaways True Believers Prem HC
Scourge Of Gods Prem HC Fall
Secret Warriors #11
Bart Simpson Comics #51
Spartacus Blood And Sand #3 (Of 4)
Amazing Spider-Man #616 Gauntlet
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #58
Spider-Woman #4
What If? Spider-Man House Of M One-Shot
Stand Soul Survivors #3 (Of 5)
Star Trek TNG Ghosts #2
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #48
Star Wars Legacy #43
Sub-Mariner TP Depths(P. Milligan/E. Ribic)
Supergirl Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade TP
Superman #695
Teen Titans #78 Blackest Night
Thor #605 (K. Gillen)
Tim Burton SC
Torchwood #19
Classic Transformers TP Vol 5
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #5 (Of 5)
Unknown Soldier #15
Usagi Yojimbo #125
Victorian Undead #2 (Of 6)
Web #4
Wildcats #18
Witchblade #133
Wonder Woman #39
Worlds Finest #3 (Of 4)
New Mutants #8 XN
Marvel Masterworks Uncanny X-Men TP Vol 2
Uncanny X-Men #519
What If? Astonishing X-Men One-Shot
Wolverine Origins #43
Wolverine Weapon X #8
X-Force Prem HC Vol 3 Not Forgotten
X-Men Forever #14
X-Men Legacy #231 XN
Zorro #18

MANGA

Gantz TP Vol 8
NGE Shinji Ikari Raising Project TP Vol 3
Samurai Deeper Kyo GN Vol 35-36

Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.

Absolution #5 (Of 6)
Angel Annual #1
Angel Only Human #5 (Of 5)
Angelus #1 (Of 6)
Arkham Reborn #3 (Of 3)
Bart Simpson Comics #51
Batman The Wrath TP
Beasts Of Burden #4 (Of 4)
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #11
Blackest Night JSA #1 (Of 3)
Brian Michael Bendis 10 Years At Marvel TP
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Willow One-Shot
Chew #7
Classic Transformers TP Vol 5
Criminal Sinners #3
Crossed #8 (Of 9)
Dark Reign Hood TP
Dark Reign Sinister Spider-Man TP
Dark Reign Skrull Kill Krew TP
Dark Reign Young Avengers TP
Dellec #2
Detective Comics #860
Doctor Voodoo Origin Of Jericho Drumm One-Shot
Frank Frazetta’s Dark Kingdom #3 (Of 4)
Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash Nightmare Warriors #6(Of 6)
GI Joe Origins #10
Gotham City Sirens #7
Green Lantern #49 Blackest Night
Green Lantern Chronicles TP Vol 2
Guardians Of Galaxy #21
Hellboy Bride Of Hell One-Shot
Image United #2 (Of 6)
Incredible Hercules #139
Invincible #69
Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode #3(Of 3)
Irredeemable #9
Irredeemable TP Vol 2
Jack Of Fables #41
Justice Society Of America #34
Madame Xanadu #18
Mighty TP Vol 1
Northlanders #23
Powers #2
Soulfire New World Order #5 (Of 5)
Star Trek The Next Generation Ghosts #2
Star Wars Knights Old Republic #48
Star Wars Legacy #43
Supergirl Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade TP
Superman #695
Teen Titans #78 Blackest Night
Transformers Tales Of The Fallen #5 (Of 5)
Unknown Soldier #15
Usagi Yojimbo #125
Victorian Undead #2 (Of 6)
Web #4
Wildcats #18
Witchblade #133
Wonder Woman #39
Worlds Finest #3 (Of 4)

Blimey! It’s snowing! It’s also a week ‘til Christmas and this one’s arrived just in time if you’ve blanked on what to get people and have decided to give them stuff you want so you can borrow it off them in January: The Rocketeer Complete Collection is the entire long out-of-print saga of Cliff Secord and his mysterious jet pack in one fancy definitive hardcover. It’s all re-coloured by Laura Martin who was chosen by Dave Stevens before he died (she talks about it over at Comicbook Resources) so the 1930s look extra shiny.

More classic stuff of a considerably grimmer variety is collected in the Tomb of Dracula Omnibus Volume 2. There’s over 800 pages of fang and Transylvanian demonic nonsense from the likes of Marv Wolfman, Steve Englehart, David Kraft, Gene Colan, Tom Palmer and Virgilio Redondo for you to peruse while scoffing your mince pies and waiting for a Morecambe & Wise special.

It’s an odd one to follow but I’ll stick it here anyway: Marc Ellerby popped in earlier this week to load our shelves with his self-published comics. We’ve now got more of the first issue of Chloe Noonan plus the brand-spanking #2 which is a few pennies more expensive than the last but considerably bigger and beefier. You’ll also find all three volumes of his autobiographical Ellerbisms which are about all sorts of things. All in all, they’re the best looking small press things around and more than worth their measly cover price. He’s redoing his website at the mo so it’s temporarily stripped down to the bare essentials but you’ll still find links to previews and stuff.

Mark Waid’s Incorruptible #1 is hot on the tails of his smash hit series Irredeemable, a study of caped morality at the end of the world. This series sees the irredeemable Max Damage attempt to turn over a new leaf after witnessing the Plutonian’s worldwide destruction and starts by changing his name to Max Danger. There’s a preview of it here.

The Next Issue Project is the series that sees top modern comics creators draw and write what they imagine would be the next issue of classic cancelled titles from the 1930s-1950s. You saw the first one in February of last year which featured Joe Casey, Erik Larsen, Mike Allred, Kyle Baker, Frank Cho, Bill Sienkiewicz, Howard Chaykin, Steve Niles, Phil Hester, Jay Faerber, Steve Gerber, and Jim Valentino. Pages from that one are still banging about on the web if you missed ‘em and there’s a review too. In the latest issue you’ll find Erik Larson (him again), Paul Grist, Steve Horton, and Michael T. Gilbert paying homage to the Golden Age greats. Comixology have five lovely looking preview pages for you.

It’s a smallish week so that’s about it comic-wise, but there is one last bit of news. Thunderbolts #139 is the first of a two-part story written by Jeff Parker starring Agents of Atlas. Parker’s taken over the Thunderbolts writing job so you can expect more from him.

Lastly, Alex Fitch has a few interesting bits in his bag of Panel Borders podcasts. First up you can find Reinhard Kleist talking about his graphic novel Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness (of which we still have a few bookplate editions if you’ve still got presents to buy for Cash fans), then you can hear Logicomix author Apostolos Doxiadis talking smart about all sorts of things, and finally you can catch the last in Fitch’s series on British Mavericks – graphic designer Rian Hughes. He’s on there talking about the early days of small press and beyond. Have a poke around on the Panel Borders site. I’m sure you’ll find lots of stuff I’ve missed.

Christmas Opening Times! Business as usual except for a few funny ones: Christmas Eve (which is also New Comics Day) we’re open 10-4pm. Closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. New Year’s Eve we’re open 10-4pm and closed on New Year’s Day.

That’s all folks.

– Hayley

Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.

Pals N Gals Double Digest #137
2000 AD Prog 2010
Air #16
Amory Wars TP Vol 2 Second Stage Turbine Blade
Angel #28
Art Of Emily The Strange HC
Asterix HC Asterix & Obelix Birthday
Authority The Lost Year #4 (Of 12)
Dark Avengers #12 (B.M. Bendis)
Mighty Avengers #32
Azrael #3
Batman #694
Batman 80-Page Giant One-Shot
Batman Arkham Asylum Special
Batman Confidential #39
Batman Dark Knight Archives HC Vol 6
Batman Streets Of Gotham #7
Batman The Brave And The Bold #12
Battlestar Galactica Cylon War TP
Black Panther 2 #11
Boys HC Limited Edition Vol 4 We Gotta Go Now
Brave And The Bold #30
Captain America Reborn #5 (Of 6)
Chloe Noonan #1 & 2 (Marc Ellerby)
Classics Illustrated HC Vol 7 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Complete Alice In Wonderland #1
(Of 4) (L. Moore/J. Reppion)
Complete Crumb Comics SC Vol 12 New Printing
Complete Little Orphan Annie HC Vol 4
Connie TPs
- Vol 1 Captives Of Space Pirates
- Vol 2 Battle For Titan
Crypt Of Horror #7
Dan Dare Omnibus TP Vol 1 UK Ed
Daredevil #503
Darkness Pitt #3 (Of 3)
Doctor Voodoo Avenger Of Supernatural #3
Drawing Down The Moon Art Of Charles Vess HC
Elephantmen #23
Ellerbisms #1, 2, & 3 (M. Ellerby)
Escape From Wonderland #3 (Of 6)
Ex Machina #47 (B.K. Vaughan)
Fables #91
Farscape Ongoing #2
Fir Tree GN (Lilli Carre)
Fringe TP
GI Joe #13
GI Joe Vs Cobra Fall Special Crimson Strike
Giant-Size GFT 2009 Holiday Edition
Gift Of The Magi GN
Godland #30
Gravel HC & TP (Warren Ellis)Vol 2 The Major Seven
Green Arrow Black Canary Enemies List TP
Green Lantern Corps #43 BN
Hellblazer #262 (Peter Milligan)
Hulk #18
Illustration Magazine #28
Incorruptible #1 (Mark Waid)
Justice League Of America #40 BN
Kookaburra K #2 (Of 3) (H. Ramos)
Lady Action Special One-Shot
Last Resort #5
Locke & Key Crown Of Shadows #2
Luis Royo Malefic HC Revised Ed
Marvel Illustrated TP Kidnapped
Marvel Super Hero Squad #4 (Of 4)
Marvelous Land Of Oz #2 (Of 8)
Ms Marvel #48
Next Issue Project #2 (Larsen Et Al)
Nomad Girl Without A World #4 (Of 4)
Official Index To The Marvel Universe #12
Okko Cycle Of Earth #3 (Of 4)
Outsiders #25 Blackest Night
Power Girl #7
Project Superpowers Chapter 2 #5
Punisher Dead End Prem HC
Punisher Frank Castle Max TP Welcome To The Bayou
Realm Of Kings Inhumans #2 (Of 5)
Robert E Howard Thulsa Doom #4
Rocketeer Complete Collection HC
Secret Warriors TP Vol 1 Nick Fury Agent of Nothing
Showcase Presents Wonder Woman TP Vol 3
Simon Dark TP Vol 3 Game Of Life
Simpsons Comics #161
Amazing Spider-Man #615 Gauntlet
Amazing Spider-Man Presents Anti-Venom #3
Spider-Man 1602 #3 (Of 5)
Spider-Man Clone Saga #4 (Of 6)
Star Trek DS9 Fools Gold #1
Star Wars Legacy TP Vol 7 Storms
Street Fighter II Turbo #10
Supergirl #48
Superman Batman #67 BN
Thor TP Ages Of Thunder
Thunderbolts #139 (Agents of Atlas)
Thunderbolts Prem HC Widowmaker
Mangalicious Tick #4 (Of 4)
Tiny Titans #23
Tomb of Dracula Omnibus Vol 2 HC
Transformers Animated TP Vol 12
Transformers Bumblebee #1
Transformers Timeless Fall Special Wings of Honor
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #3 (Of 4)
Underground #4 (Of 5)
Unknown Devil Made Flesh #3
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #4
Vixen Return Of The Lion TP
What If? Daredevil Vs Elektra One-Shot
World Of Warcraft Special #1
Astonishing X-Men #33
Cable #21
Dark Wolverine #81
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #6
Deadpool TP Vol 2 Dark Reign
Uncanny X-Men First Class #6 (Of 8)
X-Factor #200
X-Force #22 XN
X-Infernus TP
X-Men Legacy #230
Zombies That Ate The World #7 (Of 8)

MANGA

Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D GN
Yellow Vol 1 Omnibus Ed
Yellow Vol 2