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

Amazing Spider-Man #650 Big
Angel #40
Assassins Creed The Fall #2 (Of 3)
Atomic Robo Deadly Art Of Science #2 (Of 5)
Avengers Academy #7
Avengers Vs Pet Avengers #3 (Of 4)
Batgirl The Greatest Stories Ever Told TP
Batman #705
Batman And Robin #18
Batman Orphans #2 (Of 2)
Birds Of Prey #7
Black Panther Man Without Fear #513
Black Terror #12
Boys Highland Laddie #5 (Of 6)
Brightest Day #16
Captain America Man Out Of Time #2 (Of 5)
Chaos War #4 (Of 5)
Chaos War Thor #2 (Of 2)
Chronicles Of Conan TP Vol 20 Night Of Wolf
Conan The Road Of Kings #1 (Of 6)
DC Comics Presents Batman #3
Deadpool Pulp #4 (Of 4)
DeadpoolMax #3
DMZ #60
Doc Macabre #1 (Of 3)
Doctor Solar Man Of Atom #4
Dungeons And Dragons #2
Farscape Ongoing #14
Gen 13 #39
Generation X Classic TP Vol 01
Green Hornet #11
Green Lantern #60 (Brightest Day)
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #5
Green Lantern Plastic Man #1
Iron Man Legacy #9
Iron Man Rapture #3 (Of 4)
Iron Siege #1 (Of 3)
John Byrne Next Men #1
Light TP Vol 01
Loki #2 (Of 4)
Meta 4 #4 (Of 5)
Metalocalypse Dethklok #2 (Of 3)
Mighty Crusaders #6 (Of 6)
Mighty Samson #1
Mystery Society TP Vol 01
New Mutants Forever #5 (Of 5)
Occultist #1
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A To Z Update #5
Powers Definitive Collection HC Vol 04
Rawhide Kid TP Sensational Seven
Rebels TP Vol 03 The Son And The Stars
Sherlock Holmes HC Vol 03
Simpsons Comics #173
Spirit #9
Stan Lee Soldier Zero #3
Strange Tales 2 #3 (Of 3)
Supergirl #59
Superman #706
Tales Of The Dragon Guard Into Veil #3 (Of 3)
Tales Of The Green Lantern Corps TP Vol 03
The Suicide Forest #1 (Of 4)
Thor First Thunder #4 (Of 5)
Thunderbolts #151
Tick New Series #7
Time Masters Vanishing Point #5 (Of 6)
Titans #30
Tron Original Movie Adaptation #2 (Of 2)
Two Step TP
Uncanny X-Force #3
Uncanny X-Men TP Birth Of Generation Hope
Unwritten #20
Vertigo Resurrected Hellblazer #1
Victorian Undead II Holmes Vs Dracula #2
What If Spider-Man
Wolverine #4
World War 3 Illustrated #41
X-Factor #212
X-Files 30 Days Of Night #6 (Of 6)
X-Necrosha TP

Best thing out this week by miles is Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson by our very own Will Bingley and friend o’ Gosh! Anthony Hope-Smith and you can call me biased if you want to. You may remember I mentioned it last week, alluding to maybe having a special Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition round about now. Well, that is a thing that definitely happened. Read about it here. Excellent Christmas present for anyone who likes the grandaddy of Gonzo and we’ve even got the wrapping paper to match it.

We’ve also got a boatload of stuff from those arty folk Nobrow whose screenprinted offerings are some of the best-smelling books we stock (I’m quite serious – stick your beak in next time). There’s Nobrow #4: Like Night and Day, their (possibly) biannual anthology featuring excellent illustrators from the world over. We’ve got all three previous issues on the shelves downstairs if you missed ‘em – Gods & Monsters, The Jungle, and Topsy Turvy. They only ever print 3000 copies of these things so if you’re thinking about it I’d get in before they disappear. Here are a few images I stole wholesale off their fancy website:

There’s also A Graphic Cosmogony HC which not only includes a fun word to say on its cover but an introduction by the Man at the Crossroads, Mr Paul Gravett behind it. It’s a comics compendium in which 24 artists tell the history of life, the universe and everything in a few pages as if it’s their own personal Genesis, though as this reviewer quite rightly points out there’s “no specific religion unless your spiritual allegiance lies with the great comic in the sky”.

The first edition of this one sold out completely but Nobrow has improved it for round two: A Bento Bestiary is the result of two Bristolian men’s efforts to draw the near-forgotten Japanese Yokai, an ancient race of demons who further down the family tree would become Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan and terrorise the earth. You’ve probably seen the drawings by Toriyama Sekien who attempted to illustrate each one of them in the 18th Century. Here’s what Ben Newman and Scott Donaldson’s look like:

Wolf’s Whistle is the first in Nobrow’s Behind the Tails series, which is a line of prequels to the fairytales we all know. This one’s all about what happened before the Three Little Pigs, when the Big Bad Wolf was just a scrawny little dude who drew comics after school. It’s by a guy called Bjorn Rune Lie who has preview pages and loads of amazing bits of art over on his blog.

And the last one out the bag Nobrow-wise is Hildafolk by Luke Pearson, in which a girl called Hilda follows the sound of a bell and ends up in strange lands ruled by magical folk. As with all of the Nobrow people he has a decidedly beautiful blog. Look at it with your eyeballs.

We’re about a month late for the Mexican Day of the Dead but that’s generally how publishing tends to work. Day of the Dead: El Dia De Los Muertos is from the same people who brought you those two usual Gosh! suspects, Burlesque Poster Design and Wildsville: The Art of Derek Yaniger. It’s another big, beautiful coffee table book of graphic design giving you a tour of how the Mexican tradition with its sugar skulls, flowers and devils has been appropriated by contemporary artists, hot rodders, tattoo artists and even Latino gangs. There are girls in corsets with their faces painted like skulls, manipulated ancient magazine covers, cartoons and all sorts. I approve.

IDW’s Eisner-Award winning Library of American Comics (dedicated to preserving and reprinting the very best comic strips in American history) launch their new oversized hardcover Champagne Edition series this week, starting with Cliff Sterrett‘s Polly and Her Pals, considered by critics and historians to be one of the essential old timey strips. This book collects every Sunday page from 1925 to 1927 in full colour, along with the topper strips Damon and Pythias and Dot and Dash. It’s edited by Dean Mullaney (former publisher of Eclipse Comics: MiracleMan, Zot!) who also provides you with the biographical and background stuff that we’ve all come to expect from them. They do things properly, they do.

In trade paperback you can get Sweet Tooth Volume 2: In Captivity, the ongoing series by Jeff Lemire (Essex County) of which Andrew is a raving fan. There’s also Orc Stain Volume 1 by James Stokoe (Oni Press’ Wonton Soup), a fantasy story set on a war-ridden planet overrun by orcs. Stokoe spoke to Comicbook Resources about it late last year where you can see a bunch of preview pages too.


The first four issues of Gosh! Favourite Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger (previously seen on the Gosh! Blog here) are collected in trade along with a couple of early Journey into Mystery reprints to keep them company. You can also pick up #7 of the series as well, previewed here.

New titles starting this week include Let Me In: Crossroads #1 (of 4) which is the prelude to the American version of the Swedish film. I’ve not seen the remake yet so I don’t know why the blurbs are being so specific, but I can (in a pointless aside) highly recommend the original film and not just because of the top notch Scandinavian knitwear (but it has to be said they are very good at jumpers). The cover’s by the exceedingly excellent Sean Phillips (Incognito), written by Marc Andreyko (Manhunter) and drawn by Patric Reynolds (Serenity). Preview at CbR.

27 is a new one from Image by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta which – if Bleeding Cool is right – will potentially go the way of Chew with respect to its soaring popularity. It’s about musicians who die at the age of 27 (Kurt Cobian, Jimi Hendrix et al) and a 27-year-old musician who tries to change his certain fate. There’s a preview over at iFanboy.

Marvel’s latest is a four-parter called Widowmaker (first issue out this week) in which an all-new Ronin targets Marvel’s super-spies for death. Head to CbR for a sneak peek.

And finally, this year Brendan McCarthy is urging you to give the Gift of Weirdness at Christmas. Comicbook art dealer Albert Moy has acquired a huge stash of art from all periods of McCarthy’s career. There are outtakes from his DC Solo book, Spider-Man: Fever, character designs like The Spark and Battery Girl, some great concept art for a Beatles project and many other rare and bizarre pieces. Moy’s doing a one-off online sale of the work in the run up to Christmas here. It’s unlikely this stuff will turn up again so nab it while you’re able.

That’s about your lot. See you Thursday. I’ll be the one shivering in a big jumper.

– Hayley

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

Archie & Friends Double Digest #1
2000 AD #1714
Judge Dredd Megazine #305
27 #1 (Of 4)
Achewood HC Vol 3 Home For Scared People
Alter Ego #98
I Am An Avenger #4 (Of 5)
New Avengers #7
Azrael Angel In The Dark TP
Batgirl #16
Batman Chronicles TP Vol 10
Batman The Widening Gyre HC Vol 1 (Kevin Smith)
Detective Comics Annual #12
Bento Bestiary HC (Ben Newman)
Booster Gold #39
BPRD Hell On Earth New World #5 (Of 5)
Captain America Korvac Saga #1 (Of 4)
Captain America HC No Escape(Ed Brubaker)
Captain America TP America First
Cavewoman Hunt #1
Chaos War Ares #1
Chronicles Of Conan TP Vol 20 Night Of The Wolf
Cinebooks Presents The Falklands War
Crossed Family Values #6 (Of 7)(Dave Lapham)
Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Eluria #1
Day of the Dead HC
DC Comics Presents Brightest Day #3
DCU Holiday Special 2010 (F. Van Lente/S. Kolins Et Al)
Doc Savage #9 (Azzarello/Klein)
Dragon Age #6
Echo #26 (Terry Moore)
Fables #100 (M. Buckingham)
First Wave #5 (Of 6)
Flash #7 Brightest Day
Flywires GN
God The Dyslexic Dog TP Vol 3
Gonzo GN (Gosh! Exclusive Signed & Numbered Bookplate Edition By Will Bingley & Anthony Hope-Smith)
Graphic Cosmogony HC (NoBrow)
Green Hornet HC Vol 2 (K. Smith)
Hellblazer City Of Demons #5 (Of 5)
Hildafolk (NoBrow- Luke Pearson)
House Of Mystery #32
Incredible Hulks #618
Invaders Now #4 (Of 5)
Irredeemable TP Vol 5
Justice League Generation Lost #15
Kane And Lynch #4 (Of 6)
Killer Modus Vivendi #6 (Of 6)
Knight & Squire #3 (Of 6) (Cornell)
Lady Mechanika #1 (Joe Benitez)
Lenore Cooties HC Colour Edition
Let Me In: Crossroads #1 (Of 4)
Long John Silver Vol 1
Metal HC
Mystery Society #5 (Of 5)
Nemi HC Vol 4
Night Of The Living Dead #2 (Of 5)
NoBrow #4: Like Night & Day
Northlanders #35 (B. Wood)
Orc Stain TP Vol 1 (James Stokoe)
Polly & Her Pals: Complete Sunday Comics Vol. 1: 1925-1927 TP
Project Superpowers Christmas Special One-Shot
Queen Sonja #12
R.E.B.E.L.S. #23
Red Robin #18
Shadowland After Fall #1
Sin City TP Vol 7 Hell And Back (New Miller Cover)
Spike #3 (Of 8)
Stan Lee’s Starborn #1
Star Trek Khan Ruling In Hell #3 (Of 4)
Star Wars Knight Errant Aflame #3 (Of 5)
Super Hero Squad #12
Super Hero Squad TP Heroed Out Digest
Super Heroes #9
Superboy #2
Superman Batman Big Noise TP
Sweet Tooth TP Vol 2 In Captivity(Jeff Lemire)
Thor #618 (M. Fraction)
Thor: Mighty Avenger TP Vol 1 God Who Fell Into The Earth
Thor Mighty Avenger #7(R. Langridge/C. Samnee)
Thunder Agents #2
Tiny Titans Little Archie #3 (Of 3)
Torchwood #5
Toyfare #162
Transformers Ongoing #14
Transformers Ongoing TP Vol 2 International Incident
Vengeance Of Moon Knight TP Vol 2 Killed Not Dead
Welcome To Tranquility One Foot Grave #6 (Of 6)
What If? Wolverine Father One-Shot
Widowmaker #1 (Of 4)
Wildstorm Presents Planetary Lost Worlds One-Shot (Warren Ellis)
Witchblade #140
Wizard Magazine #233
Wolf’s Whistle HC (NoBrow)
Excalibur Visionaries Warren Ellis TP Vol 3
X-Force Sex And Violence HC
X-Men Forever 2 #13
Young Sherlock Holmes Adventures GN

MANGA

Hagakure Code Of Samurai GN
Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D GN
Sgt Frog GN Vol 20 (Of 20)

“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.”

Everyone’s heard of Hunter S. Thompson – the man was mythical in his own lifetime, undoubtedly more so now he’s gone. His legendary adventures birthed a style of journalism now synonymous with his name. He’s an icon and a vital force in the history of the 20th century. But you know all this.

Newcomers Will Bingley and Anthony Hope-Smith fill in the bits you maybe don’t know in their debut graphic novel Gonzo from the same publishing house that brought you that other excellent biography, Cash: I See a Darkness.

“Of course everyone is painfully aware of Hunter’s persona in popular culture and to an extent the Gonzo mythos is a terrible mis-representation of the man,” says Bingley.

“Thompson caricatured himself to the point of self-parody, and it sadly became the perception among his many detractors that this was indeed the man himself. We wanted to reflect that aspect of his character, where relevant, but to also peel back the curtain to show the man,” says Hope-Smith, whose beautifully European styled artwork is totally Gosh! approved.


The book is reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, and over at the SelfMadeHero website you can see both Bingley and Hope-Smith blogging about Thompson, the book, and their working methods. In fact if you’re thinking of writing a comic yourself Bingley gives you his Nine Rules of Writing Comics that he implores you to ignore.
We have a strictly limited 200 copies of the Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition signed and numbered by both authors for just the standard cover price of £14.99. If you’d like to reserve a copy or arrange a mail order just drop us a line at info@goshlondon.com.

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

Alter Ego #98
Atomic Robo Deadly Art Of Science #2 (Of 5)
Azrael Angel In The Dark TP
Batgirl #16
Batman Chronicles TP Vol 10
Booster Gold #39
BPRD Hell On Earth New World #5 (Of 5)
Captain America Korvac Saga #1 (Of 4)
Captain America TP America First
Chaos War Ares #1
Constantine Hellblazer City Of Demons #5
Crossed Family Values #6 (Of 7)
Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Eluria #1
DC Comics Presents Brightest Day #3
DCU Holiday Special 2010 #1
Detective Comics Annual #12
Doc Savage #9
Dragon Age #6
Excalibur Visionaries Warren Ellis TP Vol 3
Fables #100
First Wave #5 (Of 6)
Flash #7 Brightest Day
House Of Mystery #32
I Am An Avenger #4 (Of 5)
Incredible Hulks #618
Invaders Now #4 (Of 5)
Irredeemable TP Vol 5
Justice League Generation Lost #15 BD
Kane And Lynch #4 (Of 6)
Kevin Smith Green Hornet HC Vol 2
Knight & Squire #3 (Of 6)
Mystery Society #5 (Of 5)
New Avengers #7
Northlanders #35
Orc Stain TP Vol 1
Polly & Her Pals Complete Sunday Comics Vol 1 1925-1927 HC
Project Superpowers Christmas Special #1
Queen Sonja #12
Rebels #23
Red Robin #18
Shadowland After Fall #1
Spike #3 (Of 8)
Stan Lee’s Starborn #1
Star Trek Khan Ruling In Hell #3 (Of 4)
Star Wars Knight Errant Aflame #3 (Of 5)
Superboy #2
Superman Batman Big Noise TP
Sweet Tooth TP Vol 2 In Captivity
Thor #618
Thor Mighty Avenger #7 & TP Vol 1
Thunder Agents #2
Tiny Titans Little Archie #3 (Of 3)
Toyfare #162
Transformers Ongoing #14 & TP Vol 2
Vengeance Of Moon Knight TP Vol 2
Welcome To Tranquility One Foot Grave #6
What If? Wolverine: Father One-Shot
Wildstorm Presents Planetary Lost Worlds #1
X-Force Sex And Violence HC
X-Men Forever 2 #13

If you’re worried about a little snow delaying your comics you can stop that right now. Everything’s gonna be alright. They’re here. Perhaps it’ll be snowing when you’re here too and you can look out our back window and gaze upon the ridiculously sweet Christmas card image of snow on the Gosh! Christmas tree. I highly recommend it. I’ve been doing it pretty much all day long.

In amongst the batch of stuff this week you’ll find Bryan Talbot’s new Grandville book, Mon Amour. We’ve got 200 signed and bookplated editions at the ready. If you know nothing of this thing you should read this. Already placed an order for a copy? You’ll be hearing from me very shortly.


(Image taken from Anthony Hope-Smith‘s stint as guestblogger on SelfMadeHero.com)

Rather excitingly, we also have the debut graphic novel from our very own Will Bingley and Anthony Hope-Smith, a cracking looking book from the same publishing house that brought you Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist. Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson is just what it says it is on its phenomenally bright orange cover. Bingley blogs about the book over at the SelfMadeHero site. I’m sure if you asked him nicely he’d pretend to be embarrassed about it and autograph your book but if you can wait a bit we’ll have a Gosh! Exclusive Bookplate Edition. More on that in the next week or so.

Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is far and away my favourite bracketed subtitle ever. According to Penguin’s annotated edition, the poem tells the story “with infinite humour, the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature”. It’s the kind of thing that breeds infinite adaptations: even Boris Karloff had a go.

The latest comes from Canadian illustrator Mahendra Singh who by his own description is trying to fit Carroll into a “protosurrealist straitjacket with matching dada cufflinks.” His style harks back to something old but is still very different to Henry Holiday’s original 1874 illustrations (which are brilliantly grotesque and wunnerful: All ten plates are here). As Comics Worth Reading point out, Singh’s style looks like what would happen if Edward Gorey made woodcuts. He blogs about it at the publisher’s website and you can see some coloured versions of the images over on Flickr.

Speaking of Gorey, we’ve just received a few copies of Edward Gorey in Colour by the artist Simon Henwood, released to mark the 10th anniversary of the master storyteller’s death. It publishes an old interview alongside photographs Henwood took of Gorey in 1995 at his home in Cape Cod, most of which have never been seen before and tend to involve Gorey sitting in a chair playing with his ginger cat. It’s limited to just 200 copies, all signed by Henwood. Obviously we don’t have all 200 of ‘em so if you’d like one you’d best get in quick. There’s a short preview video here.

While I’m on the subject of signed stuff, Nathan Fox (Pigeons From Hell) popped in last week and scribbled on our copies of Fluorescent Black, the bio-punk science fiction story that originally ran in Heavy Metal. I wrote about it on the Gosh! Blog when the collection landed in October.

The latest from Fantagraphics (leaders in the field of preview videos) is Special Exits, a graphic novel from 71-year-old Joyce Farmer. Debut book it may be but she’s no newbie: Farmer was part of the whole underground comix scene in the time of R. Crumb, releasing the feminist anthology with a name rude enough to get me sacked if I wrote it here (but these guys can do what they like). In fact it was Crumb who contacted Fantagraphics on her behalf and calls Special Exits “one of the best long-narrative comics I’ve ever read, right up there with Maus… I actually found myself moved to tears.” It’s the kind of memoir you can sit alongside Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, or anything Harvey Pekar: a story about her elderly parents’ slow decline. She’s interviewed in the LA Times and you can see a video of the book here. PDF preview too.

Man of Glass is another debut, a 44-page mostly wordless one-shot story by Danish creator Martin Flink about a man gone wrong. This review compares it to early Paul Grist (Jack Staff), and another to the silent comics of Jason (I Killed Adolf Hitler) or Bob Byrne (Mr. Amperduke). Both were written by people who aren’t remotely interested in boxing and were pleasantly surprised to find out it wasn’t actually about boxing. Covers can be funny sometimes.

Here’s one that slipped in about a month ago and may have escaped your notice: A Disease of Language in softcover, being a compendium of Eddie Campbell’s illustrated adaptations of Alan Moore’s spoken word pieces: Snakes & Ladders and The Birth Caul. It also contains the epic Moore interview from Campbell’s Egomania magazine, as well as pages of preliminary sketches of the dancing girl from Snakes & Ladders which Campbell sketched from life by candlelight. The book’s been unavailable for the past few months while we waited on this softcover version. There’s a new review over on The Comics Journal that talks about the comic as well as the spoken word performance, and if you want to hear Campbell blathering about it you can take your pick from these videos at Top Shelf. Highly recommended.

Danny Husk: The Hollow Planet is a graphic novel written by comedian/actor Scott Thompson (The Kids in the Hall) who’s been playing the character Danny Husk for over twenty years. It began as a screenplay: “I had been schlepping this screenplay called Husk around Hollywood for years until one day I thought no one’s going to make this movie with me in the lead. I’m an obscure openly gay Canadian comedian who wants to star in a hundred million dollar picture. But the problem was I was so obsessed with this story that I had to get it out some way.” More of that and a bunch of preview pages here by newcomer artist Kyle Morton.

It’s a week full of newcomers but you won’t find many of ‘em in the all-star Image Comics 2010 SDCC Yearbook HC – it’s a collection of pin-ups by people such as Charlie Adlard (Walking Dead), Mike Allred (Madman, iZombie), Tommy Lee Edwards (Turf), Brandon Graham (King City), Eric Shanower (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), Ben Templesmith and more, including Ian Churchill who coincidentally has a new comic out this week too called Marineman #1.

The character is one he created when he was about eight years old – a sort of Steve Zissou style TV presenter/marine biologist sans the excellent red hat. Churchill gives you a short history of Marineman here, and you can also have a preview and a review too.

Speaking of big name artists, if you’re a fan of Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets you might want to pick up this week’s Jonah Hex #62 for the Eduardo Risso illustrations. Newsarama have a preview.

Mark Millar’s CliNT #4 is out and about boasting stuff by David Mitchell, Kevin Smith and even a comic written by top notch comedian Stewart Lee, illustrated by Steve Yeowell (2000AD’s Zenith). Bleeding Cool show you their preview bits.

Remember Vertigo’s short-lived anthology series Winter’s Edge? There were only three issues of the 100-or-so page annual special (the first in 1998) and each one featured stuff by creators like Neil Gaiman, Brian K. Vaughan, Garth Ennis, Paul Pope, Dave Gibbons, Sean Phillips and more. Thursday’s Vertigo Resurrected: Winter’s Edge #1 reprints ten previously uncollected short stories selected from those anthologies by the guys I’ve just mentioned.

Leah Moore and John Reppion’s Raise the Dead is out in hardcover this week, coinciding with the first issue of the equally bloody sequel, Raise the Dead II. If you didn’t catch it the first time ‘round, Reppion sums it up pretty well when he says… “It’s not about ponderous philosophising, or slow cinematic wanderings through a post apocalyptic landscape; it’s about blood and guts, life and death and doing whatever it takes to make sure that you don’t end up as one of them.” More at Newsarama.

Other comics include Heroes For Hire #1, the new ongoing series by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning set in the aftermath of Shadowland. Preview Brad Walker’s (Guardians of the Galaxy) art at CbR. There’s also Wolverine: Best There Is #1, another brand-spanking ongoing which introduces a new villain to Wolverine’s rogues gallery. A preview and there’s an interview with writer Charlie Huston at CbR.

Also, don’t miss What If? Iron Man: Demon in an Armor One-Shot if you’re a fan of Rick Remender (Last Days of American Crime) – he provides the back-up story illustrated by Shawn Moll. Preview.

Paul Cornell (Captain Britain and the MI:13, Batman & Robin) continues his Lex Luthor epic in the pages of Action Comics Annual #13. Preview over at Comixology and an interview with Cornell about the folically-challenged leading man over at CbR.

And that’s your lot. The above is all fairly pointless if you’re not going to make it in on time before they sell out, but we can fix that:

Sick of missing weekly comics? Let me show you the way to perhaps not eternal happiness but at least the weekly kind: a standing order. All the information you need is there. It’s the way of the future.

– Hayley

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

Archie Double Digest #214
2000 AD #1713 (B. McCarthy et al)
Adventure Comics #521
American Vampire #9
Ant-Man & Wasp #2 (Of 3)
Authority #29
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #2 (Of 4)
Avengers/Thor/Captain America: Official Index To The Marvel Universe #8
Baltimore: The Plague Ships #5
Batman 80 Page Giant 2010 #1
Batman Confidential #51
Batman Dead To Rights TP
Batman Orphans #1 (Of 2)
DC Comics Presents: Batman Beyond #1
Booster Gold Tomorrow Memory TP
Boys #49 (Garth Ennis)
Brightest Day #15 & HC Vol 1
Bring The Thunder #1 (A. Ross)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #39
Bullet To The Head #6 (C. Wilson)
Burma Chronicles SC (Guy Delisle)
Captain America Patriot #4 (Of 4)
Chaos War God Squad #1
Clint #4 (David Mitchell, Kevin Smith, Stewart Lee Et Al)
Damned TP Vol 1 Three Days Dead
Danny Husk The Hollow Planet GN
Daredevil #512 SL (Andy Diggle)
Darkness #87
Marvel Masterworks Defenders HC Vol 2 & Var Ed 148
Do Androids Dream… (C. Roberson) Dust To Dust #7 (Of 8)
Doom Patrol #17
Edge Of Doom #2
Edward Gorey In Colour HC Photos By Simon Henwood
Ex Machina TP Vol 10 Term Limits (B.K. Vaughan/T. Harris)
Fables TP Vol 14 Witches(B.Willingham/Buckingham)
Fevre Dream #9 (Of 10)
Freedom Fighters #4
Gonzo: A Graphic Biography Of Hunter S. Thompson(W. Bingley/A. Hope-Smith)
Gorilla Man TP (Jeff Parker)
Grandville: Mon Amor HC (Gosh! Exclusive Limited Signed Bookplate Edition)
Green Hornet Strikes #5
Guild TP Vol 1 (Jim Rugg)
Robert E Howard’s Hawks Of Outremer TP
Heavy Metal Jan 2011
Hercules TP Twilight Of A God
Heroes For Hire #1
Hunting Of The Snark HC(L. Carroll/M. Singh)
Image Comics 2010 SDCC Yearbook HC (C. Adlard/M. Allred/T.L. Edwards Et Al)
Incredible Hercules TP New Prince Of Power (F. Van Lente)
Insiders: The Afghan Trap SC
Iron Man Thor #2 (Of 4)
Irredeemable #20
iZombie #8 (C. Roberson/Allred)
Jonah Hex #62 (Eduardo Risso)
JSA All Stars #13
Justice Society Of America Axis Of Evil TP (B. Willingham)
Juxtapoz Vol 17 #12 Dec 2010
King City #12
Kolchak Night Stalker Files #1
Man Of Glass GN
Marineman #1 (Ian Churchill)
Marvelman Family’s Finest #6 (Of 6)
Miss Don’t Touch Me GN Vol 2
Marvel Masterworks Golden Age Marvel Comics HC Vol 5
Mouse Guard Black Axe #1 (Of 6)
Mouse Guard Legends Of The Guard #4 (Of 4)
Negative Burn: Very Best From 1993-1998 SC
Okko Cycle Of Air #4 (Of 4)
Ozma Of Oz #2 (Of 8) (S. Young)
Pug Davis TP Vol 1
Raise The Dead II #1 & HC Vol 1
Rasl #9 (Jeff Smith)
Secret History #12
Secret Six #28
Shadowhawk #5
She-Hulks #2 (Of 4)
Siege TP Avengers Initiative
Sin City TP Vol 6 Booze, Broads & Bullets (New Edition)
Sky Doll Space Ship Prem HC
Special Exits HC (Joyce Farmer)
Spider-Man Noir TP Eyes Without A Face
Spike The Devil You Know TP Vol 1
Star Wars Old Republic #6 (Of 6)
Strange Science Fantasy #6
Super Friends Head Of The Class TP
Supergod #5 (Of 5) (Warren Ellis)
Action Comics Annual #13 (Paul Cornell)
Sweet Tooth #16 (Jeff Lemire)
Taskmaster #4 (Of 4) (Jefte Palo)
Thor For Asgard #5 (Of 6)
Thor Prem HC If Asgard Should Perish
Transformers Ironhide TP Vol 1
Vampirella Masters Series TP Vol 2 Warren Ellis
Vertigo Resurrected Winters Edge #1
Warriors Three #2 (Of 4)
What If? Iron Man: Demon In An Armor One-Shot (Rick Remender)
Women Of Marvel #2 (Of 2)
XIII Spads SC (J. Van Hamme)
Deadpool Team-Up TP Vol 1 Good Buddies (F. Van Lente)
Generation Hope #2 (Kieron Gillen)
Wolverine Best There Is #1

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7 Billion Needles GN Vol 2
Akira GN Vol 4 (Kodansha Ed )
Gundam 00F GN Vol 4
Sasameke GN Vol 1
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei GN Vol 8
Street Fighter Gaiden TP Vol 1
Tezuka Ayako GN