On The Shelves: 7/19/06
Read GOOD Comics, not just the ones you’re used to! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 7/19/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure
Review: Iron West
Iron West By Doug TenNapel (Image Comics, 2006; $14.99) Going for wacky is a dangerous gambit, particularly in comics where it can easily drift over into unintentional camp or, even worse, come completely unhinged and end up convoluted and unfunny, so when I realized Doug TenNapel‘s Iron West included both Sasquatch and the Loch Ness
Say What?: Battle of the Sex(ists)es
“My career really didn’t begin until I started working on books that I helped create. Vertigo is probably the only publisher today that wouldn’t have laughed me out of their offices for pitching them a fully painted hardcover novel for ‘mature readers’ about the Iraq war… starring talking lions.”–Brian K. Vaughan, Graphic Attack: Vertigo Raises
CBC Quickees: Death, Villains and more…
Just as I decide to drastically cut back my pull list, a slew of great new comics are seemingly coming out every other week now, including a couple of unexpected treats from DC thanks to Brave New World. At this rate, I may have to stop drinking just to keep up! Let’s do this… Death
On the Shelves: 7/6/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Thursday, 7/6/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
Say What?: 6/22/06
“…the exact same phrase ‘That stuff from Japan…’ was used two weeks earlier on my last trip through Customs and my manga examined for the same reason; because Japanese manga is ‘really filthy stuff.’ The reason I was so heavily raided this time, I found out afterward, was one of the manga titles had the
HYPE: Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud Mountain
Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud MountainBy Debbie Huey; Published by AdHouse Books128 one-color pages 5.5″ x 7″ $8.95 US funds ISBN: 0-9766610-1-2 Ship date: July, 2006 Diamond Code: MAY06 2772
Crystal Ball: September 2006 Solicitations, Part I
Support GOOD Comics! Pre-order something new EVERY month. My monthly look at select comic books being solicited for release in September 2006. The full solicitations for DC, Marvel and Image are available at Comic Book Resources. Dark Horse’s solicitations are available at Comics Continuum. Independent publishers will follow in a separate post. [NOTE: Not all
On the Shelves: 6/21/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 6/21/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
LINK: Sent Forth from the Power
It usually takes me a few issues after I drop something from my pull list to lose the phantom limb feeling whenever I’m picking up my weekly stash, but in the case of 52, I miss it about as much as I miss Mo Vaughn playing for the Mets. I am still enjoying Douglas Wolk’s