Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Adventure Comics #12
Agents Of Atlas TP Turf Wars
Authority #23
Avengers Origin #3 (Of 5)
Avengers Prime #1 (Of 5) HA
Avengers Spotlight #1
Avengers Thor Captain America Official Index #2
Batman Confidential #45
Brightest Day #3
Captain America/Black Panther Flags Of Fathers #3 (Of 4)
Cartoon Network Action Pack #50
Daredevil TP Man Without Fear New Ptg
Darkstar And Winter Guard #1 (Of 3)
Demo Vol 2 #5 (Of 6)
DMZ TP Vol 8 Hearts And Minds
Electric Ant #3 (Of 5)
Enders Game War Of Gifts Prem HC
Franken-Castle #17
Freakangels TP & HC Vol 4
GI Joe Origins #16
God Somewhere TP
Great Ten #8 (Of 9)
Greek Street #12
Grimm Fairy Tales #47
Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1 HA
Heralds #1 (Of 5)
Hercules Twilight Of A God #1 (Of 4)
Hulk Planet Skaar TP
Icon Mothership Connection TP
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #2 (Of 6)
Iron Man Magazine #2
iZombie #2
Joker’s Asylum The Riddler #1
JSA All Stars #7
Killer Modus Vivendi #2 (Of 6)
Legendary Talespinners #3 (Of 3)
Metal Gear Solid Omnibus TP
Mice Templar Destiny #9
Mouse Guard Legends Of The Guard #1 (Of 4)
Nemesis The Impostors #4 (Of 4)
Night Of The Living Dead TP Vol 1
Official Handbook To The Marvel Universe A To Z Prem HC Vol 14
Orson Scott Card’s Ender In Exile #1 (Of 5)
Pilgrim #2
Punisher Franken-Castle Birth Of Monster #1
Queen Sonja #7
Red Hood Lost Days #1 (Of 6)
Red Robin #13
Sky Doll Space Ship #1 (Of 2)
Sparta USA #4 (Of 6)
Spectacular Spider-Girl #2 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Noir Prem HC Eyes Without A Face
Stand Hardcases #1 (Of 5)
Starstruck #10
Stephen King’s N #4 (Of 4)
Superman Batman Annual #4
Sweet Tooth #10
Thanos Imperative #1 (Of 6)
Thor And Warriors Four #3 (Of 4)
Tom Strong & The Robots Of Doom #1 (Of 6)
Torch #8 (Of 8)
Transformers Best Of Optimus Prime TP
Transformers Ironhide #2
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #9 HA
Waking #4 (Of 4)
War Of Kings Warriors TP
X-Babies TP Stars Reborn
X-Men Forever Giant-Size #1
“The cleanest toilet I’ve ever seen in a comic shop.”- Dan Clowes. A proud moment in Gosh! history.
A big thank you to everyone who came to the Dan Clowes and Chris Ware signing yesterday!
Lovely chaps the both of ‘em. I never got to whinge to Ware about my Jimmy Corrigan-induced eye damage but whatever – the sun was out and sometimes you can’t help being cheery. Look! Here’s you:
I hope your sunburn has subsided. (Incidentally, here’s a Gosh! Public Service Announcement from someone who used to live in Australia where sun equals certain screaming death: Listen to Syd Seagull. No, really! I’m quite serious.)
Anyway, if you’re now flipping through your diaries and despairing you can stop – we’ve got big news! Becky Cloonan (Demo, Pixu, American Virgin), Kieron Gillen (Phonogram, Thor) and Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram, Suburban Glamour) will be stopping by on Saturday the 5th of June for a Gosh! basement signing. All details are over in this post here, along with a preview of the special Cloonan/McKelvie jam print you’ll get for free on the day if you’re in early. Aw hell, it’s so nice I’ll put it here too:
Right then, here’s what this week’s delivery holds in store. There’ll be a huge Wednesday Comics hardcover collection for starters (oh yes!), and a deluxe 10-year anniversary hardcover edition of Brian Michael Bendis’ Fortune & Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story, the tale what happened when one of his stories got optioned and the movie madness that followed. It’s his personal Hollywood experience in cartoon form full of ridiculous phonecalls, endless meetings, characters and anecdotes so absurd they have to be true. iFanboy have a review and preview pages and Comics Bulletin have an interview with Bendis from around the time the book first appeared.
‘…It’s almost like that scene in The Big Picture where that agent says to Kevin Bacon, “You’re a genius, I haven’t read your work but I’m never wrong.” It’s the same thing, I mean, they call you up, they’ve not read your work but they’re telling you how much they love you and how much money everyone’s gonna make and what a genius you are and then they realize they haven’t even read the book. They literally give you a ten-minute speech about how they’re the perfect place for you to be, and then “Could you send us a copy?”’
Madam Samurai looks like it’ll be a good’un. Written by Gary Young (screenwriter of the recent Michael Caine film Harry Brown) and illustrated by Eagle Award-winning artist David Hitchcock (Spring Heeled Jack), it’s about a young female samurai warrior who travels from feudal Japan to Victorian London on a mission of vengeance. Optimum Wound reckons it looks like a “badass little graphic novel” and have preview pages and even a book trailer if you fancy it. This way, folks.
Gosh! Favourite Sean Phillips (Incognito, Criminal) leaves the beaten path of noir and turns his hand to WWII in the series written by French comics scribe Fabien Vehlmann (Green Manor), 7 Pychopaths #1. It came out in France in 2007 but this is the first time the series will see print in the States/UK. Like Inglorious Basterds it’s a Hitler assassination plot but this early reviewer says it’s much more than that and wagers you’ll be hooked after one issue.
Phillips says“this is probably the only chance you’ll get to see me draw uniforms and tanks and planes. And a roomful of Hitler impersonators…”
Here’s a preview of his reliably brilliant artwork which he talks about in this Newsarama interview, Bristol board and all.
Phillips’ Criminal co-conspirator Ed Brubaker begins his run on the Heroic Age’s Secret Avengers #1 this week and talks about it here.
“The real crux of what I’m trying to do is a team book that feels somehow different from how we’ve seen team books up to this point. This is very much about taking that pulpy espionage flavour, mixing it with a Mission Impossible vibe, and doing it with superheroes. It’s a new starting point…. It’s very much something that ties in with real world history, but bringing in that Doc Savage, H.P. Lovecraft tradition that superheroes came out of. It’s very much about stuff we haven’t seen in Marvel.”
Illustrated by Mike Deodato Jr. Preview here.
There’s also a mad Titan loose in the Marvel Universe in The Thanos Imperative: Ignition One-Shot by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. If you’ve not been keeping up to date on your cosmic books Lanning says this is a great jumping-on point as well as being full of stuff for devoted readers.
“…This is probably the biggest and most serious cosmic epic we’re ever going to produce, but there’s still going to be an opportunity for a gag or two. Rocket Raccoon’s in it, after all.”
An interview and a preview too over at CbR.
The second issue of Grant Morrison’s six-parter Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne hits the shelves tomorrow and this time ‘round it’s illustrated by Frazer Irving (Azrael, Seven Soldiers). Next time it’s Yanick Paquette’s turn. Preview!
That’s it for now. Remember that next week’s comics are delayed because of bank holiday Monday. There’ll be nothing here for you on Thursday but our helpless shrugs.
See you tomorrow.
– Hayley
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Archie Americana Series TP Vol 10
Archie Digest #264
Jughead #201
2000 AD Prog #1686
Judge Dredd Megazine #298
7 Psychopaths #1 (S. Phillips)
Air TP Vol 3 Pureland
Anita Blake Prem HC Book 3 Laughing Corpse Executioner
Astounding Wolf-Man #23
Avengers: West Coast Avengers Assemble Prem HC
Marvel Masterworks Avengers HC Vol 10
Secret Avengers #1 HA
Batman Long Shadows HC
Batman Return Of Bruce Wayne #2 (Of 6) (G. Morrison/F. Irving)
Detective Comics #865
Billy Batson & Magic Of Shazam #16
Brave And The Bold #34
Captain Long Ears GN
Marvel Masterworks Golden Age Captain America HC Vol 4
Captain Marvel: Death Of Captain Marvel Prem HC
Choker #3 (Of 6) (B. Templesmith)
Complete Invincible Library HC Vol 2
Darkness Darkchylde Witchblade Kingdom Of Pain One-Shot
DC’s Greatest Imaginary Stories TP Vol 2
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Dust To Dust #1 (Of ?)
Doc Savage The Man Of Bronze TP
Doomwar #4 (Of 6)
End League TP Vol 2 Weathered Statues
Essential Fantastic Four TP Vol 8
Fantastic Four #579 HA
Fathom Blue Descent #0
Fortune & Glory Deluxe Anniversary HC Edition (B. Bendis)
Fraggle Rock #2 (Of 4)
Fun Never Stops Anthology Of Comic Art 1991 – 2006 (D. Friedman)
Futurama Comics #49
Garrison #2 (Of 6)
Gotham City Sirens #12
Green Hornet #4 (Kevin Smith)
Green Hornet Year One #3
Green Lantern #54 Brightest Day
Green Lantern Corps #48 BD
Guild #3 (Of 3)
Fall Of Hulks Savage She-Hulks #3 (Of 3)
Incorruptible #6
Invincible TP Vol 12 Still Standing
Iron Man Captain America TP
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #1 (Of 6)
Justice League Generation Lost #2 BD
Justice League Rise Of Arsenal #3 (Of 4)
Killer Kaiju Monters: Strange Beasts Of Japanese Film HC
Knights Of The Dinner Table #162
Little Women And Werewolves SC
Luis Royo Dead Moon HC Vol 2 Epilogue
Madam Samurai GN
Madame Xanadu #23
Marvel Zombies 5 #3 (Of 5)
Metabarons TP Vol 2 Aghnar & Oda
Mighty Crusaders Special #1
Northlanders #28 (B. Wood)
Okko Cycle Of Air #2 (Of 4)
Power Girl #12
Project Superpowers Chapter 2 #9
Proof #27
Roy Of The Rovers World Cup Special SC
Sam & Twitch Writer #2 (Of 4)
Scalped #38 (J. Aaron)
Secret History #9
Secret Warriors #16
Sense & Sensibility #1 (Of 5)
Simpsons Summer Shindig #4
Amazing Spider-Man #632
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #37
Marvel Masterworks Amazing Spider-Man TP Vol 4
Peter Parker #3 (Of 5)
Spider-Man #2
Spider-Man Complete Clone Saga Epic TP
Star Wars Invasion Rescues #1 (Of 6)
Star Wars Legacy #48
Super Friends #27
Superman New Krypton TP Vol 1
Superman: War Of The Supermen #4 (Of 4)
Tales Of The Dragon Guard #3 (Of 3)
Teen Titans #83
Terminator #3 (Of 3)
Thanos Imperative Ignition One-Shot
There’s No Time Like The Present #6 (P. Rainey)
Thor #610 Siege Epilogue
Thor Latverian Prometheus TP
Thunderbolts #144 HA
Titans TP Vol 3 Fractured
Ultimate Comics Enemy #4 (Of 4)(B. Bendis)
Unknown Soldier #20
Weapon X Noir #1
Wednesday Comics HC
Wildcats #23
Wizard Magazine #226
Wolfskin Hundredth Dream #2 (Of 6)
Wonder Woman #44
Dark Wolverine #86
Dazzler #1
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #11 (Of 13)
Wolverine Origins #48
Wolverine Weapon X #13(J. Aaron)
X-Force #27 XSC
X-Men Forever TP Vol 3 Come To Mother
X-Men Origins Emma Frost #1
X-Men Psylocke TP
X-Men Second Coming Revelations Blind Science One-Shot
Get out your diaries out, folks!
The very first Saturday in June the very stylish and excellent trio of Becky Cloonan (Demo, PIXU, American Virgin), Kieron Gillen (Phonogram, Thor) and Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram, Suburban Glamour) will be in the Gosh! basement signing books just for you. And as if that wasn’t enough the first 100 people through the door will get a special jam print by Cloonan and McKelvie! It’s a doozy. Check it out:
And that’s not even the finished product. After the signing we’ll have a very limited quantity for sale but this is the only time you’ll be able to get it for free.
Cloonan began in minicomics and was part of the art school anthology Meathaus Collective along with James Jean (Fables covers). Since then she has gone on to collaborate with Brian Wood on Channel Zero: Jennie One and the Eisner-nominated Demo which Wizard dubbed its Indie Comic of the Year in 2004, and with Steven T. Seagle (The Amazon) on the Vertigo title American Virgin. She’s currently finishing up the second volume of her own solo graphic novel East Coast Rising as well as a new series of the hugely popular Demo. In amongst all that she managed a bit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and PIXU with Vasilis Lolos and the brothers Moon and Ba. Busy bee!
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s magical “love letter to music” Phonogram never sits on our shelves at Gosh! for long, and Warren Ellis described it as “one of the few truly essential comics of 2006.” Since then they’ve completed a second volume of the series which is now available at Gosh! as an exclusive signed Bookplate Edition.
All three will be here on Saturday the 5th of June at 2pm and so should you! We’ll have them signing ‘til 4pm but if you want to get your mitts on the exclusive McKelvie/Cloonan jam print you’d best get here early.
See you there!
Grab your Clowes and Ware collection and leave your ice creams at the door! The biggest signing of the year is happening here tomorrow at 12pm. Come line up with your fellow man and say hello to some big cheese comic creators. It’ll be lovely.
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Amazing Spider-Man #632
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #37
Angel #33
Anita Blake Prem HC Book 03 LC Executioner
Army Of Two #5
Batman Return Of Bruce Wayne #2 Of(6)
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #181
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #16
Brave And The Bold #34
Complete Little Orphan Annie HC Vol 05
Dark Wolverine #86
Darkness Darkchylde Witchblade Kingdom Of Pain (One Shot)
Dazzler #1
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #11 (Of 13)
Detective Comics #865
Doomwar #4 (Of 6)
Essential Fantastic Four TP Vol 08
Fall Of Hulks Savage She-Hulks #3 (Of 3)
Fantastic Four #579 Heroic Age
Fathom Blue Descent #0
Fortune & Glory A True Hollywood Comic Book GN HC
Fraggle Rock #2 (Of 4)
Futurama Comics #49
Garrison #2 (Of 6)
GI Joe Hearts And Minds #1
Gotham City Sirens #12
Green Hornet Year One #3
Green Lantern #54 (Brightest Day)
Green Lantern Corps #48 (Brightest Day)
Iron Man Captain America TP
Iron Man Extremis Directors Cut #1 (Of 6)
Justice League Generation Lost #2
Justice League The Rise Of Arsenal #3 (Of 4)
Kookaburra K Prem HC
Madame Xanadu #23
Marvel Zombies 5 #3 (Of 5)
Mighty Crusaders Special #1
MMW Amazing Spider-Man TP Vol 04
Mystery Society #1
Northlanders #28
Okko Cycle Of Air #2 (Of 4)
Peter Parker #3 (Of 5)
Phantom Generations #11
Power Girl #12
Previews #261 June 2010
Project Superpowers Chapter Two #9
Scalped #38
Secret Avengers #1 Heroic Age
Secret History Book 09
Secret Warriors #16
Sense & Sensibility #1 (Of 5)
Simpsons Summer Shindig #4
Spider-Man #2
Spider-Man Complete Clone Saga Epic TP Book 02
Star Trek Movie Adaptation #4
Super Friends #27
Superman War Of The Supermen #4 (Of 4)
Tales Of The Dragon Guard #3 (Of 3)
Teen Titans #83
Thanos Imperative Ignition #1
Thor #610 Siege Epilogue
Thor Latverian Prometheus TP
Thunderbolts #144 Ha
Torpedo HC Vol 02
Ultimate Comics Enemy #4 (Of 4)
Unknown Soldier #20
Weapon X Noir #1
Wildcats #23
Wolfskin Hundredth Dream #2 (Of 6)
Wolverine Origins #48
Wolverine Weapon X #13
Wonder Woman #44
X-Force #27 X-Men Second Coming
X-Men Forever TP Vol 03
X-Men Origins Emma Frost #1
X-Men Psylocke TP
X-Men Second Coming Revelations Blind Science #1
Yes, that’s right, kicking off the blog this week is a release that will have fans of disturbing surrealist fare salivating in their freaky, freaky dreams: Jim Woodring is back. Weathercraft represents the first full-length graphic novel by Woodring featuring his odd, cute-yet-unsettling hero Frank and – more importantly – his just-plain-unsettling co-star Manhog, who takes centre stage this time around. Why him? In Woodring’s words over at CBR:
“In a lot of ways, Manhog is the most interesting character in the Unifactor. He has the most potential for change and the widest range of dramatic possibilities. Besides, it’s fun to put him in awful circumstances and watch him suffer.”
Yes, let Manhog suffer for your pleasure in our Gosh pick of the week.
We’ve just received a shipment of stuff from Nobrow, finest purveyors of beautifully produced arty books, last seen in these waters when their second anthology magazine landed on our shelves.
There’s also one called Jeff: Job Hunter by Jack Teagle who’s currently kicking off Nobrow’s maiden voyage into galleryhood with his exhibition Dungeons and Desktops, which “seamlessly melds the worlds of the fantastic and mundane, a cornucopia of staplers and swords, benefits and beasts, hair monsters and HR managers.” The show opens next week on the 27th at Nobrow HQ (Facebook event).
Have you ever started reading Jean van Hamme & William Vance’s XIII in English, only to have the publisher fold or just quit after one, two, or (if you were lucky enough to buy the editions by Catalan back in the late 80’s) three books? Annoying, isn’t it? Well, your time has come! UK-based Euro-book translator par excellence Cinebook is on the case, with a new volume of the book due every two months at the low, low price of £5.99. With the success of their titles both here and abroad, Cinebook aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, so buy with the confidence that this time you’ll get to see it through to the end. Hell, we’re so excited about it we’re even going to run a competition! See the end of the blog for details!
Fans of the more satirical edge of Dan Clowes will want to sit up and take notice of the wonderful Wally Gropius HC released this week by Fantagraphics. Originally serialised in Mome, Tim Hensley’s razor-sharp satire of celebrity and power, with its grown-up Richie Rich-style protagonist, is a real discovery. With a visual style tipping its hat to the Harvey & Dell humour comics of the 50’s and 60’s, the slick, appealing surface of the art is a perfect mask for the darker, subversive belly of this colourful beast.
Classic strip folk will be happy to see the first volume of Roy Crane’s Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune, handsomely packaged by Fantagraphics in all of its full-colour glory. Crane produced some of the most innovative Sunday strip layouts of the ‘30’s during this run, and the adventure yarns of his stoic hero can be viewed as much as a masterclass in page layout as anything. Well worth picking up.
Almost every Marvel comic synopsis this week begins with The Heroic Age is Here, and I couldn’t be more excited. I know what’s going on my pull list this week!
Age of Heroes #1 is the first of a four-part anthology series by the likes of Kurt Busiek, Paul Cornell, Rick Remender, Dan Slott, Marko Djurdjevic, Chris Samnee, Leonard Kirk and Ty Templeton. It’s more along the lines of Nation X than 52, with each creative team working on their own bits rather than pooling their talents for one big storyline.
“This isn’t a side project or something happening outside the regular continuity or walled off from it in some way,” says Busiek (who, you may be interested to know, prefers to be called The Booze: try it out at conventions and watch him smile!) “It’s, for lack of a better word, a recalibration of the Marvel Universe in the wake of all that’s gone on the last few years. That’ll be happening throughout the line, of course, but what you’ll see in each book is how it affects things in that book. How does it affect things for the overall Marvel Universe, though? That’s what we’re exploring.”
There’s more of that interview along with words from the mouths of Cornell, Remender, and editor Tom Brevoort. Preview.
All sorts of characters turn up in Age of Heroes (even the sh*tcanned MI:13 and Dr. Voodoo pop in and wave hello) and according to Busiek you’ll even get some new line-up Avengers stuff too. “The new team does appear in my Age of Heroes story, but I’m not involved in whatever’s going on with the team beyond that. I was delighted, working with the line-up I worked with, but I don’t think I’m allowed to tell you who they are. Brian Bendis doesn’t live that far away from me, and there’s always the possibility that he’s armed.”
He’s referring to the new monthly ongoing title Avengers (#1 out this week) illustrated by John Romita Jr. and written by (an unarmed, we hope) Bendis. While I’m sure it reads pretty well, the one thing we can certainly say is that it looks stunning. Preview here.
Also joining the Heroic Age gang is Atlas #1, written by Jeff Parker (Mysterius the Unfathomable) and illustrated by Gabriel Hardiman. It’s Agents of Atlas with the ‘Agents of’ bit cut off, basically. When asked what readers should expect Parker replied, “Readers can expect excellence.” Big words. Check it.
Over in the DC camp they’re getting their head around their own tangled web with DC Universe Legacies #1, the first of a ten-part history lesson that’s far from the textbook timeline stuff we’ve seen in the past (see History of the DC Universe).
“I’ve never been big on timelines, because as soon as you put a timeline down, you have to revise it because our characters don’t age at the same speed as actual time,” says editor Dan DiDio. “If they did, I’d have these 80-year-old guys in these baggy suits that would look really ridiculous.”
What they’re doing is they’re giving each of the five generations of superheroes two issues each, with a changing line-up of creators to match the evolving characters too. “We’re seeing the Flashes change. We see the Green Lanterns change. And we see how the world evolves around them by seeing it through the point of view of [the] characters… We tell stories, and it makes more sense to tell this info in a story than in text.” First stop: The Golden Age and the Crimson Avenger by Len Wein (Swamp Thing), Joe Kubert (Sgt. Rock) and his son Andy Kubert (Batman, X-Men).
Competition time! As mentioned above, this week sees the release of volume one of Jean Van Hamme & William Vance’s classic thriller XIII. Last week we were lucky enough to have Cinebook supremo Olivier Cadic pop in with Mr Van Hamme himself, who kindly signed a couple of XIII prints for us. So, if you’d like to win yourself one of these limited items, then tell us: who is this?
Answers in the comments below, please. First two correct answers (or first correct answer and quickest person to copy it, you cheeky devil) get a print, which will be available for collection from the store. No mail order I’m afraid! Please be sure to leave your full name with your answer so we know who it’s for. Good luck!
By the way, this will be your last dispatch from Gosh! before the most excellent Dan Clowes/Chris Ware signing. So, here’s me tellin’ you for the last time: They don’t do it often, but they’re doing it right here on Tuesday at 12pm – or as Big Ben would say, BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG
– Hayley
Click the full post link below for a list of items in store this week.
Betty & Veronica Digest #204
Jugheads Double Digest #160
2000 AD Prog #1685
Age Of Heroes #1 (Of 4) Heroic Age
Air #21
American Vampire #3
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Charmer #1 (Of 5)
Astounding Wolf-Man #23
Atlas #1 Heroic Age (Jeff Parker)
Atomic Robo Revenge O/T Vampire Dimenson #3
Avengers #1 Heroic Age (JRJR)
Avengers Assemble #1 Heroic Age
Avengers Prem HC Red Zone
AVP Three World War #4 (Of 6)
Azrael #8
Batman Streets Of Gotham #12
Batman Streets Of Gotham HC Vol 01
Batman The Brave And The Bold #17
Garth Ennis Battlefields #6 (Of 9)
Garth Ennis Battlefields TP Vol 04
Birchfield Close HC (Jon McNaught)
Brightest Day #2
Captain America Reborn TP UK Edition
Captain Easy HC Vol 01 Soldier Of Fortune (Roy Crane)
Catland Empire GN
Codename Knockout TP Vol 01 The Devil You Say
Creepy Comics #3
Dark Tower: Gunslinger #1 (Of 5)
DC Universe Legacies #1 (Of 10)
Deathlok #7 (Of 7)
Destroyer TP
Devil #4 (Of 4)
Dog Crime (Blex Bolex)
DV8 Gods And Monsters #2 (Of 8)
Enter The Heroic Age #1 Heroic Age
Ex Machina #49
Ex Machina Deluxe Edition HC Vol 03
Executor HC
Expendables #1 (Of 4)
Farscape Ongoing #7
Galacta Daughter Of Galactus #1
Ghoul HC
GI Joe #18
Girl Comics #2 (Of 3)
God Complex #6
Hastings & Sulphite Vol 1 (D. Fennings/T. Meditsky)
Haunt #7
Stan Drake Heart Juliet Jones TP Vol 03
Hellblazer #267
Her-Oes #2
Hulk Prem HC
Insiders Vol 2 TP
Invincible Iron Man #26 Heroic Age
Jeff: Job Hunter (Jack Teagle)
Jersey Gods #12
Joe The Barbarian #5 (Of 8)
Justice League Of America #45
Justice Society Of America Bad Seed TP
Kill Shakespeare #2
Krazy And Ignatz TP 1916-1918
Legion Of Super Heroes #1
Legion Of Super Heroes Enemy Manifest TP
Lenore Wedgies HC Color Ed
Malevolent Melody (McBess)
Marvelous Land Of Oz #6 (Of 8)
Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins On Stage TP 07
Nobrow Vol 3 TP
Ouroboros (Ben Newman)
Origins Of Marvel Comics #1 HA
People I’ve Never Met & Conversations I’ve Never Had
Rescue #1
Resurrection Vol 2 #11
Rise & Fall (Micah Lidberg)
Scalped TP Vol 06 The Gnawing
Simpsons Comics #166
Solomons Thieves GN
Soulfire Volume Two #5
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #1 (Of 4)
Spider-Man Gauntlet Prem HC Vol 03 Vulture Morbius
Spider-Man Red Headed Stranger TP
Spirit #2
Stargate Vala Mal Doran #1
Supergirl Friends And Fugitives TP
Superman Batman #72
Superman War Of The Supermen #3 (Of 4)
Tank Girl Royal Escape #3 (Of 4)
Tiny Titans #28
Trojan War TP GN
Turf #1 2nd Ptg (Jonathan Ross)
Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 #2
Walking Dead #72
Wally Gropius HC (Tim Hensley)
Weathercraft HC (Jim Woodring)
Deadpool #23 Heroic Age
X-Factor #205 X-Men Second Coming
X-Factor Prem HC Invisible Woman Has Vanished
X-Men Forever #24
X-Men Legacy #236 Second Coming
X-Men Origins TP
X-Men Pixie Strikes Back #4 (Of 4)
XIII Vol 1 (J. Van Hamme)
Zatanna #1 (Paul Dini)
Zorro TP Vol 02 Clashing Blades
MANGA
Art Of Blade The Immortal HC
Biomega Vol 2
Bunny Drop Vol 1
Cat Paradise Vol 4
Gantz TP Vol 10
Hikaru No Go Vol 19
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 5
Inu-Yasha Vol 48
Jormungand Vol 3
Maoh Juvenile Remix Vol 1
Rin-Ne Vol 3
Click the full post link below for a tentative list of titles due to ship next week.
Age Of Heroes #1 (Of 4) HA
Air #21
Amazing Spider-Man Presents American Son #1 (Of 4)
American Vampire #3
Anita Blake Circus Of Damned Charmer #1 Of (5)
Astounding Wolf-Man #23
Atlas #1 HA
Avengers #1 HA
Avengers Assemble #1 HA
Azrael #8
Batman Streets Of Gotham #12
Batman The Brave And The Bold #17
Battlefields #6 (Of 9)
Battlefields TP Vol 4 Happy Valley
Brightest Day #2
Codename Knockout TP Vol 1 The Devil You Say
Dark Tower Gunslinger #1 (Of 5)
Darkness Darkchylde Witchblade Kingdom Of Pain One-Shot
DC Universe Legacies #1 (Of 10)
Dead At 17 Witch Queen #3 (Of 4)
Deadpool #23 HA
Deathlok #7 (Of 7)
Destroyer TP
DV8 Gods And Monsters #2 (Of 8)
Enter The Heroic Age #1 HA
Ex Machina #49
Expendables #1 (Of 4)
Galacta Daughter Of Galactus #1
Ghoul HC
GI Joe #18
Girl Comics #2 (Of 3)
God Complex #6
Hellblazer #267
Her-Oes #2
Hulk Fall Of Hulks Prem HC
Invincible Iron Man #26 HA
Joe The Barbarian #5 (Of 8)
Justice League Of America #45 Brightest Day
Justice Society Of America Bad Seed TP
Kill Shakespeare #2
Legion Of Super Heroes #1
Marvelous Land Of Oz #6 (Of 8)
Origins Of Marvel Comics #1 HA
Resurrection Vol 2 #11
Scalped TP Vol 6 The Gnawing
Simpsons Comics #166
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GOOD GRIEF! IT’S ALL BACK TO NORMAL! G’bye, ashcloud! So long, bank holiday Monday! Hello New Comics Day, you’re looking swell.
It’s the 20th anniversary of Steven T. Seagle and Tim Sale’s phenomenal three-issue miniseries The Amazon so Dark Horse have released a fancy deluxe hardcover to brighten our shelves. It’s one of their earliest projects and one that Sale says spoiled him for life. “[Seagle] wrote a full script for The Amazon and asked for three panels on a page. It opened my eyes and I loved it… So I have very good memories of The Amazon, and it started me on the path of my whining and complaining to every writer afterwards: ‘three panels on a page’.”
It’s a lovely looking thing with new colours by Matt Hollingsworth which you will have seen in the recent re-released issues but if you missed ‘em here’s a preview.
Morrison’s ongoing Batman saga continues with the hotly anticipated six-part series Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. He’s not really dead, merely lost in time with nowt on but his utility belt. We first find him in an actual cave in prehistoric times and follow him through to the 1950s and the present day as he battles history to get there.
“For me, the time thing is to take Bruce Wayne to the limit of what he is as a character, because he’s thrown back into prehistory with no memory and no uniform and no tools apart from the fact that he’s got his belt. I like of the idea of exploring Batman with this time travel story, but to do it quite convincingly and realistically so that he’s really at the edges of what Batman can possibly be. I wanted to see him survive out there, and expose him to these challenges through history that would allow us to watch Batman being born from nothing, basically, from this amnesiac man. I kind of explored him psychologically in Batman R.I.P.; I broke him down and deconstructed him, and this is really about putting Batman back together again, but in a sequence of what will hopefully be pretty cool one-off stories, with each set in a different time and with a different genre feeling to it.”
Each issue is illustrated by a different artist, the first being Chris Sprouse then Frazer Irving, Yanick Paquette, Cameron Stewart, Ryan Sook and Lee Garbett. There’s more of the Morrison interview over at Comics Alliance and a preview too.
On the subject of not being quite dead, Gilbert Shelton’s got a brand new full colour affair sitting right next to Fat Freddy’s Cat and the infamous Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Not Quite Dead #6 Last Gig in Shnagrlig (I spell it differently every time; if I got it right it’s a miracle) is a satire on fundamentalist religion and Western imperialism starring the least successful rock band in the world, Crème Brulee. Or did I get that wrong too.
We’ve had a shipment of interesting British things including various stuff by Oliver East and one called Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham, a semi-regular face on the indie comics scene since the eighties. As day jobs go his was one of the most interesting – a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward – during which he kept a diary and amassed a huge amount of material on the workings of a mental ward, the characters therein and his own deep depression. Originally he envisioned it as a prose story but then came the simply drawn black and white Persepolis, a huge inspiration for Cunningham who began work on the webcomic which would go on to be praised by the likes of Boing Boing and The Comics Reporter.
“Psychiatric Tales is first and foremost a book that attempts to demythologise mental illness. Forget what you’ve seen in movies or on TV, this book shows what the experience of mental illness actually is for both patients and the staff who treat them. Media representations of people who suffer mental illness tend to be appalling. We live in an age where racism and sexism is considered unacceptable, yet the mentally ill are still considered fair game for ridicule and are subject to the worst kind of prejudice.” Cunningham talks more about it with CbR. Preview pages there too.
While we’re the subject of the unwell, Gene Colan still needs a helping hand in the dosh department for a growing pile of medical bills. The Hero Initiative have put together the Invincible Gene Colan, a hardcover benefit book edited by comics historian Clifford Meth (who recently began the Colan benefit auction). It’s a visual biography of the man with written bits by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Walter Simonson, Neil Gaiman, Tom Palmer and Tom Spurgeon. Colan talks about it with CbR.
There’s also a new five-parter by superstar comics duo Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews you might like. In Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis #1 a newborn baby sprouts metal electrodes and explodes. If that sounds like your bag, here’s a preview. Then there’s the Siege: Fallen one-shot written by Paul Jenkins and drawn by Tom Rainey which follows on from the end of the core Siege series. Final issue of that out tomorrow.
Now, remember last week how I said that Iron Man 2 Public Identity #2 had arrived yet the previous issue had never deigned to grace our shelves? Well, you’ll never guess. Not only do we have the #1 we’ve also got #3 and we have some left over copies of #2 so you can grab the whole three part series in one wallop and may be never speak of this debacle again.
The other thing we’ve been watching the skies for is the belated Marvel Previews. This too has arrived. All rejoice.
Andrew reckons you should all head over the Pillars of Hercules on Sunday night for another NerDgasm quiz night. Here’s what happened on their last one.
And in what I hope isn’t going to become a Gosh! Blog tradition, here’s another sad bit of news to end on. This week it was Frank Frazetta’s turn to shuffle off this mortal coil and he did it aged 82.
There’s a great old interview with him over at The Comics Journal and Comics Beat write about the Frazetta legacy. A cool cat if ever there was one.
– Hayley
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