is kind enough to provide
a list of products theoretically
shipping for the
current week.
I generally ignore about 85% of it
and bring you, the loyal readers,
the cream of the comics crop.
Diamond Monolithic Indu Previews Publications.
APR060002 MARVEL PREVIEWS JUNE 2006 PI
APR060005 PREVIEWS ADULT VOL XVI #6 PI
APR060001 PREVIEWS VOL XVI #6 PI
APR060003 PREVIEWS VOL XVI CONSUMER ORDER FORM #6 PI
You know the routine - your shop pays to have their distributor’s catalogs shopped to them so you can pay for them to order product. Among leisure products, it seems that only comics does the Neiman-Marcus model of punishing the consumer and vendors.
Dark Horse
FEB060054 CONCRETE VOL 5 THINK LIKE A MOUNTAIN TP $12.95
I’m not sure I like how these things are shipping out of sequence. Still, the latest volume that came out was a remarkably thoughtful piece of fiction examining overpopulation.
DC Comics
MAR060311 52 WEEK #3 $2.50
I am pretty much going to stop listing this unless I hear something reliable concerning, say, ninjas or pirates or monkey ninja pirates or something. Would anyone miss me saying “Yes, I’m buying that weekly DC series?” Is anyone even listening to me?
Hello?
Are you there, God? It’s me, Batman.
MAR060334 SECRET SIX #1 (OF 6) $2.99
Go, go Gail Simone writing things about bad people doing things of dubious moral value!
OCT050332 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 INNER CASE PI
OCT050336 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 JIMMY OLSEN AF PI
OCT050334 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 LEX LUTHOR AF PI
OCT050335 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 LOIS LANE AF PI
OCT050331 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 MASTER CASE PI
OCT050333 SILVER AGE SUPERMAN SERIES 1 SUPERMAN ROBOT AF PI
Look, you tell me where else I can find a Silver Age Jimmy Olsen and Beppo figure and then you can make fun of me. Yes, I know I’m stupid for wanting these so very badly. I don’t really care. These and the upcoming New Frontier toys are the only thing DC Direct has made in the last year or so that I have any interest in.
OCT050344 WHOS WHO MYSTERY BOX SET SERIES 1 PI
These look pretty neat. I dunno about the whole Mystery Box thing, which sounds like a sub-Kirbyism, but I like tiny cheap tchotskes well enough.
Image
MAR061861 ROCKETO JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN SEA #8 $2.99
Outside of the odd lettering choices made, I have quite literally no complaints with this book of late. If you’ve not, do. That is all.
Marvel
MAR062083 DAREDEVIL #85 $2.99
Everyone’s said everything about this I would say already. Good, solid work that manages to touch on past tropes while doing its own thing. I do wonder when Matt Murdock’s going to have another reason to smile, though.
MAR062141 MARVEL MASTERWORKS FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 10 NEW ED HC $49.99
With this, I will have collected all the Kirby FF material. This makes me happy and sad at the same time. Bittersweet, how nerditry can be.
MAR062109 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #5 $2.99
FEB068167 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE CRAYON BUTCHERY VAR #5 (PP #712 PI
I got last week’s All Star Batman variant because Mike knows I like Frank Miller. I’m sure I’ll get this because Mike knows I’m like a child and I like to make with the coloring.
MAR062133 X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #5 (OF 5) $2.99
Please let there be a follow-up to this series. It’s just so funny and human and pretty and stuff.
Other Companies
APR063148 ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #11 (MR) $3.50
I love how banal and stupid this comic is willing to be for the sake of a laugh. It’s like Humor Porn or something.
FEB063168 BUCKAROO BANZAI #1 (OF 3) $3.50
Every issue of this comic should end with the creative team doing the walk in a drainage area. The end.
MAR063223 CARL BARKS GREATEST DUCKTALES STORIES VOL 1 TP $10.95
This? Essential stuff for anyone who enjoyed last year’s The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck
MAR062876 CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL MANGA VOL 6 TP $10.95
I have yet to get #5 and here’s #6. Bah. Stupid comics.
OCT053132 SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 3 INFINITE SADNESS GN (MR) $11.95
Mal’s said it’s coming out, Diamond has said it’s coming out, Oni’s said it’s coming out, but part of me refuses to believe in it until it’s in my hands. It’s like Santa Claus’s throat.
JAN063042 SCRUBLANDS GN $16.95
This looks pretty neat: South African cartoonist John Daly gets a spotlight from Fantagraphics. The material I’ve seen looks pretty ginchy, and I look forward to seeing it, even if I’m unsure about my managing to preorder the damned thing.
While I’ve got Fantagraphics on the brain, I should mention that last week’s Hotwire was, by the by, a very well-done slab of funnybookism from a nice crossection of the artier end of things. Seeing Johnny Ryan and R. Siroyak in the same volume is a strange treat, much like following a really gross and somehow satisfying fried chicken meal with some 18-year single malt.
