Kevin’s June 2008 Previews Readalong: Part 01

Grab your copy of the big book and follow along! Again, I’m skipping Marvel and DC as you all have seen, analyzed, and dismissed those quite thoroughly already, I’m sure. Sims hit on most of the highlights, anyway, especially that Morrison Final Crisis: Superman thing.

Dark Horse
The Art Of Tony Millionaire (Page 26)
This is a large-trim, 200 page look at one of those artists that I just can’t get over. John Hodgman compares Millionaire to Herriman in a pull-quote featured in the solicitation, but I honestly think I like Millionaire’s work more, as his art surprises me almost every time versus the gorgeous but repetitive art in Krazy Kat.

Empowered Volume 4 (Page 30)
I was talking to a Vegas pal of mine and he told me that the odds of the previous volumes being in stock at Diamond when this ships are 14:1. You really can bet on anything there. (More Adam Warren smarter-than-they-should-be sexual, superheroic shenanigans? Ys, pls.)

Mister X Archives (Page 37)
Yeah, I’m pretty much going to have to get Dean Motter’s saga of an architect who fights the effects of psycheture in the city he designed, especially if it corrects the print issues from those incomplete iComics reprints from a couple of years ago. Yes, it’s $80, but there’s ways around that, my friend. Ways.

Hellboy Stuff (Pages 41-43)
I’m a little sad how much I enjoyed the recent Lobster Johnson trade paperback versus the parent title’s contemporary materials. Maybe it’s just tired of watching a giant red guy with a stone hand punch his way out of situations. (I understand that if I’m tired of that, then I’m tired of live. C’est la vie.)

Image
Guerillas #1 (Pages 142-145)
Seriously, nine issues about commando chimps in Vietnam? Really? Damn.

The Pro (Page 150)
You know, I think I may have to pick this up as I seem to have lost my original copy from a few years ago. My Garth Ennis Hooker Superheroine Comics section is missing its centerpiece.

Hawaiian Dick: Screaming Black Thunder (Page 153)
They have to know exactly what they’re doing there, don’t they? Don’t they?

Ultra: Seven Days (Page 156)
Another book I may have to get just to replace one that appears to have gone missing. You know, the Luna Brothers could have walked away from comics after this and I would have been happy. How they went from a female-positive superheroine series that looked at the psychological and sociological impacts of a world where commoditization of the empowered is the norm to “Invasion Of The Naked Flesh-Eating Egg Girls” is one of those enigmas that will baffle me for a long, long time.

Top Cow
Wanted (Movie Edition Trade Paperback) (Page 177)
“Hey, check out this thing that’s completely unlike that Angelina Jolie thing with the same name!”