This Week's Books.
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DC Comics
AUG060283 100 BULLETS #77 (MR) $2.99This series continues to quietly be one the best titles on the stands, long after its initial burst out of the gate. Azzarello is a bit of a one-trick pony for me, but that trick the pony does, it's a very clever one and worthy of respect.
AUG060252 AUTHORITY #1 (MR) $2.99Two Grant Morrison comics featuring two wildly divergent ideas in the Wildstorm universe coming out on the same day with Jim Lee (who I like if I read quickly enough) and Gene Ha (whose art I want to spend hours poring over) on art?
JUL060220 WILDCATS #1 $2.99
This is a late goddamn birthday present, guys.
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AUG061764 CASANOVA #5 (MR) $1.99Brilliant material. I like Casanova more with each issue. It's a bit akin to hearing Coltrane's Impulse material with that sheets of sound effect. At first you're trying to figure out what the hell they're doing and after two or three listens, it catches your ear just right and then you're completely in step with him.
Yeah, it's like that. Except with sequential art on paper. And not a lot of people I know (besides me) prefer Coltrane on Impulse.
Marvel
AUG062123 ESSENTIAL MARVEL HORROR VOL 1 TP $16.99Lots of odds and sods here - I'm not sure if I ordered it. Considering I've yet to read the Tales of the Zombie volume, it'd just be more pulp on my shelf. Not that I have a problem with that.
AUG062091 JACK KIRBYS GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #3 $2.99I think I'm just buying this so Jack's kids can, I dunno, pay off their mortgages faster.
AUG062109 MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS VOL 1 HEROES ASSEMBLED DIGEST TP $6.99Buy this and make sure you tell your shopkeep that it's because Jeff Parker wrote it.
Other Companies
AUG063143 CIVIL WARDROBE $3.50This looks to be not quite my thing, but Rich Johnston deserves a bit of a nod, as he's comics' own Louella Parsons.
AUG062913 CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL MANGA VOL 8 TP $10.95DIAMOND, IF YOU WOULD SHIP MY SHOP THE COPY OF #6 I ORDERED MONTHS AGO, I WOULD BUY THIS COMIC WHEN IT CAME OUT. PLEASE RECTIFY THIS.
AUG068144 JOHN WOOS SEVEN BROTHERS CVR COMBINE #1 $2.99God help me, I think I'm getting this.
AUG062916 SEVEN SONS GN $12.95Clever, Larry Young. Very. Clever.
AUG063131 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING MONSTER MASH UP ONE SHOT $3.99I wrote three things that are in it. I'd very much appreciate it if you'd buy it. Here's what it looks like. Marc Mason liked one of my contributions OK. Johanna Stokes really does knock it out of the park with her story "Hats Off," though. Made me a little jealous.
