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Hallo Goshers! At least part of this missive was typed along to Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You which was (at this point in the sentence) being blasted from a window across the street on its third repeat play. One suspects there is cheap red wine, Green & Blacks and possibly numerous romantic comedies on this evening’s agenda for someone.
Not here though. Over here we’ve got a DC reboot to keep us occupied and the Green & Blacks is long gone.
But first, some housekeeping! As you were all no doubt aware, this week was a bank holiday weekend for most of you, including the good folks at Diamond Comics. So it is that our delivery will not be arriving until Wednesday morning, to be put out on the shelf as soon as we receive it. The upshot for you is this: Wednesday will be new comics day as per normal, but we might not have them out on the shelves until lunchtime, or possibly later. We advise: call before heading down to avoid disappointment! We’ll also be updating our Facebook & Twitter accounts to keep you informed.
Meanwhile, back in the land of four-colour funnies…
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There’s a lot of Fantagraphics stuff in this week (no complaints here) which is enough of an excuse to kick off the blog with some exciting future Fantagraphics news cheer up your soggy, rain-drenched faces: the first volume of Pogo (that long-awaited, white whale of a planned twelve-volume collection) is actually at the printers. I love Pogo, and for about two years communicated with a friend in another country just by emailing Pogo strips back and forth across the world. Mark Evanier (who’s helping out on the book) writes about the progress of the thing over at his blog. “I don’t want to claim that Pogo was the best newspaper strip ever done,” he says, “But if you want to say that, I sure won’t give you an argument.” Fingers crossed we’ll see it some time in December.
Anyway, dry your mitts and have a look at this week’s offerings:
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We’re still waiting for the dust to settle after the recent chaos – I’m referring to our move rather than the London riots (by which the shop was untouched, but thank you to everyone who asked) – and if you asked me for a stapler I’m pretty certain I would totally fail to provide one, having absolutely no idea where that thing is. Smaller items are still being moved across from the old shop, which now looks like the sad ex-squat of characters in a zombie film after they left in a hurry, trailing empty packets of Jaffa Cakes and Transformers comics as they fled.
I’ve been back three times and it doesn’t get any less weird. But we now have our mugs, kettle and PG Tips, and frankly, that’s all I was missing.
Pick of the Week is Grant Morrison’s We3 Deluxe Edition, which sees the classic three-issue miniseries get the hardcover treatment for the first time ever. But! It’s not just the trade paperback you’ve probably already got on your shelf with a kind of sturdier card around its pages: there are ten new pages by Morrison and Frank Quitely. As Geeks of Doom put it, “If you realize that this is the same team that summed up all of Superman’s origin in one page, then ten pages can do a lot.” Then there’s your expected 28-pages of bonus stuff like character designs and sketches, plus commentary and bits of script by Morrison. In the event you’re entirely new to the book, here’s an old archived interview with Morrison courtesy of the Wayback Machine. He talks about animal rights, Watership Down, and says things like: “I’ve always wanted to do one of those classic animal stories that make people cry, so this is like that…Disney with fangs. We3 is probably one of the first of these kind of stories to treat the animal heroes as animals and not as anthropomorphized representations with human emotions and speech patterns.” And while we’re on about Morrison, there’s also New X-Men By Grant Morrison TP Volume 4 on the X-shelf.
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