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Kramer's Ergot 5 edited by Sammy Harkham Avodah Books $34.95 Featuring contributions from Chris Ware, Mat Brinkman, Jordan Crane, Marc Bell, Gary Panter, Souther Salazar and Ron Regé Jr, Kramer's Ergot is a vital comics anthology featuring the cream of alternative comic creators and treats comics as a serious artform. This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every comic reader interested in the future of the medium. Highly recommended. View a preview at www.indyworld.com. |
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Balthazar 1: A Miracle Play In Five Parts |
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Locas: A Love & Rockets
Book (HC) by Jamie Hernandez Fantagraphics $49.95 Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race and gender issues. Maggie's story begins in the early 1980's punk scene of Southern California, where she meets Hopey Glass, a feisty anti-authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie's on/off lover and a constant presence in her life throughout the book. Maggie evolves from an anger young punk into a mature woman, encountering cruelties large and small and resigning herself to dashed hopes, shattered illusions, and even death with ironic acceptance over her 20 year story arc. This is a hardcover collection of all the Maggie stories from the original Love & Rockets series. |
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Club Zero-G by Douglas Rushkoff & Steph Dumais The Disinformation Company $19.95 Syndicated columnist and best selling author Douglas Rushkoff presents a strange tale that takes place on the front lines of the thought wars. This mind expanding graphic novel offers an allegory for today's highly-managed collective psyche, and offers a hint at the power available to anyone willing to step out of the story in which we are living. |
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Gulf War Journal |
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The Huge Book Of Hell by Matt Groening Pantheon $22.00 Matt Groening's philosophy on social criticism is to "delight half your audience and really annoy the hell out of the other half." But there is more to Matt Groening than just being the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama. If you've never sampled his Life In Hell strips you are in for a treat. The Huge Book Of Hell is Groening's tenth Life in Hell book, a series that has evolved from a cynical, bitter outlook on life into a sharp, subversive comic strip... and it's very funny too. |
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Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker DC/Vertigo $14.95 A new printing of the Kyle Baker classic. Anne is a twenty-something writer living in New York, barely holding her life together, recklessly tossed about on the sea of fate, cut loose by a series of coincidences and plot points well beyond her control, used and abused by crazed ex-boyfriends, sisters, and editors. The Comics Journal listed this book a one of the top 100 comics of the 20th century, saying "... the rapid fire dialogue still crackles with life while Baker's hyper-expressive visuals still make this one of the most approachable graphic novels of the past decade." |
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Hard Boiled |
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The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman, Frank Quietly, P Craig Russell, Milo Manara, Glen Fabry & others DC/Vertigo $17.95 The New York Times best-selling and 2004 Eisner Award nominated book is now available in softcover... Neil Gaiman revisits the cast from The Sandman series. Seven stories... one for each of the Endless. Alternately haunting, erotic and nightmarish, these tales reveal strange secrets and surprising truths. Quality writing and art throughout. |
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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol
2 by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill DC/ABC $14.95 The hardback version has been out a while, but if you've been waiting for the softcover... here it is. A Victorian adventure story set in 1898 starring a cast of familiar characters from Victorian literature. In volume two... A beleaguered London has barely had time to assess the injuries of recent conflagrations in its lower class districts when a new threat arrives, falling from the upper atmosphere in gargantuan metal cylinders that leading scientists claim have traveled from the planet Mars. Once again a call goes out through the channels of British Military Intelligence to an improbable group of champions.. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen... Mina Murray (Dracula), Allan Quatermain (King Solomon's Mines), Captain Nemo (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, together with The Invisible Man. |
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The Spirit Archives
Vol 14 by Will Eisner DC $49.95 If you've been ignoring The Spirit reprint series from DC, now is the time to give it a try. These classic strips from the 1940's are a masterclass in the potential of sequential storytelling, and are great fun too. Will Eisner began to really hit his stride in the post-War years (reprinted from Volume 12 onwards) and he continually experimented in new ways to tell the weekly story of his masked crime-fighter Danny Colt and which still seem fresh today. Volume 14 reprint the weekly strips originally published between January and June 1947. |
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The Hollow Grounds by Luc Schuiten & Francois Schuiten DC/Humanoids $19.95 This book collects all three books in Francois Schuiten's Hollow Grounds trilogy, the tale of a hollow planet inhabited only by women and the startling appearance of men. |
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BLAB! #15 |
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Fred The Clown |
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Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Adventures Vol 1 of 2 by Evan Dorkin Slave Labor Graphics $13.95 The rare chance to read a Marvel comic that was intentionally funny. Now reprinted by SLG, this first volume reprints #1-4 of the original series that appeared in the early 90's and which was nominated for an Eisner Award at the time. |
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Bone: The One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith Cartoon Books $39.95 The complete 1300-page epic adventure, from start to finish, in one deluxe paperback. This book will not be reprinted so get it while it's available. For those who don't know... Bone is about three cartoon cousins who spend a year in a pre-technological valley, making new friends and out-right dangerous enemies. Their many adventures include conning the local people in The Great Cow Race; meeting the giant mountain lion named Rock Jaw; learning about sacrifice and hardship in The Ghost Circles; and they finally discover their own true natures in the climatic journey to The Crown Of Horns. |
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Pink Sketchbook 1: GRRR! by Scott Morse AdHouse Books $10.00 Pink is a new mini-sketchbook series with each issue dedicated to one creator. In issue 1, Scott Morse shares his love of Monsters. |
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Tommysaurus Rex by Doug Tennapel Image $11.95 Earth Worm Jim creator, Doug Tennapel, follows his 2002 series Creature Tech with a tale about a boy and his T Rex. Ely is a boy trying cope with the death of his dog Tommy, when he finds a live 40 foot T Rex trapped in a cave behind his grand fathers house. Fun, all ages romp. |
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Grampa & Julie: Shark Hunters |
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Scandalous by J Torres & Scott Chantler Oni Press $9.95 From the creators of Day Like This!, Scandalous is a story of old Hollywood glamour and McCarthy-era intrigue. The most powerful woman in town is Paige Turner, the celebrity columnist. But what happens when a new guy comes to Tinsel Town and he doesn't want to play by the rules? Can he topple the reigning queen of backlot shop talk? |
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The Exlibris |
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Jack Staff Vol 2:
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Six by Michael Avon Oeming & Eathan Beavers Image $5.95 Agent Six has been sent to Earth to retrieve defectors from Command in a Logical Aliens Infected By Emotions Of Humanity type sci-fi romp. |
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The Authority: Human On The Inside (HC) |
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Absolute Planetary (HC) |
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Lucifer: Mansions Of The Silence |
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Transmetropolitan: Tales Of Human Waste |
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Worn Tuff Elbow #1 by Marc Bell Fantagraphics $4.95 A new series from the creator of Shrimpy & Paul!, Marc Bell's work combines surreal dream logic with psychological acuity (?). If you like the absudist worlds of Jim Woodring or Dave Cooper, you'll love Marc Bell's work. |
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Love & Rockets Vol 2 #11 By Jamie Hernandez & Gilbert Hernandez Fantagraphics $4.50 Jamie begins a cycle of short, self-contained stories spotlighting various members of his cast. In the lead story Ray has a sinking feeling and he doesn't know what it is - could it be his best friend homosexuality or the return of his ex-girlfriend Maggie? A second story features Hopey coping with her job as bartender in a seedy neighbourhood which puts her in contact with the locals. Gilbert continues the Julio's Day serial. |
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Ojo #1 of 5 by Sam Kieth & Alex Pardee Oni Press $2.99 Annie has terrible luck with her pets. For a hamster, getting Annie as an owner is like a death sentence. But when Annie finds a little beastie in a drain pipe named Ojo, has her karma really changed or is she destined for more disappointment? |
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A1 Special: Bricktop by Glenn Fabry Atomeka Press $3.50 Collected from the original A1 anthology from the early 1990's, Bricktop focuses on the misadventures and mishaps of Lucy Wales and her friend Andy Parkhurst. Stunning Fabry artwork. |
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Mr Monster: Worlds War Two by Michael T Gilbert & George Freeman Atomeka Press $6.99 Ever since the original Mr Monster series in the 1980's, Doc Sturn will forever find a place in our hearts and its good to see him back fighting insidious alien hordes. |
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I Am Legion: The Dancing
Faun by Fabien Nury & John Cassaday DC/Humaniods $6.95 John Cassaday (Planetary) joins European comic/screenwriter Fabien Nury for a breathless World War II spy/supernatural thriller. As the war rages on, the Nazi's pursue a top-secret project code-named Legion, centering on a young Romanian girl with apparent supernatural talents... and her abilities could give the Naziz unimaginable power. |
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WE3 #1 of 3 by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely DC/Vertigo $2.95 Apparently this will be Grant's attempt to create Western Manga... whatever that means. As part of a Government program to replace human soldiers with expendable animals, The US Government has transformed a dog, a rabbit and a cat into the ultimate cyborg killing machines. But the three animals have seized the chance to make a last, desperate run for Home, pitting them against the might of the entire military/industrial complex. An unlikely scenario, but I have faith. |
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Terra Obscura Vol 2 #1 of 6 by Alan Moore, Peter Hogan, Yanick Paquette & Karl Story DC/ABC $2.95 Another outing for Tom Strange and the heroes of Terra Obscura, the alternate Earth reality of the ABC universe. As a concept, this is everything we usually hate about superhero comics, but Alan Moore's concept seems fresh and fun. Recommended. |
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Astro City Special by Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson DC/Wildstorm $3.95 A forty page special focused on Supersonic, one of the greatest heroes of the 1960's. Today, he's long-retired, but he's the only one who can save Astro City from a rampaging engine of destruction. |
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The Comics Journal #262 |
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Writers On Comic Scriptwriting 2 Titan Books $16.95 Offering an insight into the creative writing process as well as behind the scenes information, anecdotes and stories from top comic writers, including Kevin Smith, Mike Mignola, Mark Miller, Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, Bruce Jones, Greg Rucka and Bill Willingham. |
| Other Magazines About Comics This Month: Alan Moore: The Dynamic & Extraordinary Interviews (Dynamic Forces, $9.95) Alter Ego #39 (TwoMorrows, $5.95) Comic Buyer's Guide October 2004 #1597 (Krause Publications, $5.99) Graphic Novel Scene #1 (Blue Line Pro, $6.95) Juxtapoz Special #2 2004 (High Speed Productions, $4.99) Sketch Magazine #26 (Blue Line Pro, $5.95) Wizard X (Wizard Entertainment, $4.99) Wizard: Best Of Wolverine HC (Wizard Entertainment, $29.99) |
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Shigeru Sugiura Tribute Book
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Quimby The Mouse Wooden Toy Dark Horse $24.99 From the pages of Chris Ware's ACME Novelty Library this wood, wire, cloth and rope approximation of Quimby The Mouse is available to re-enact all his adventures and tragedies and comes packaged with a 32 page hardcover book and a Sparky The Cat replica. |