Comic Book Coming Attractions: JUNE 2008
Dave’s PREVIEWS PICKS - Cool comics from the April edition of Previews
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AIT/PLANETLAR
Hench Graphic Novel – Adam Beechen (Robin) writes this story of a super villain “goonâ€. [p. 203]
BOOM! STUDIOS
Station #1 – Sorry, this is not a comic about the alien from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. This is about a murder mystery on the International Space Station. [p. 238]
CARTOON BOOKS
Bone: Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails TPB – Collecting The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero, the story of why the rat creatures wear their tales long, for the first time. [p. 241]
DARK HORSE COMICS
Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #1 – An all-new Indy adventure. [p. 30]
Conan the Cimmerian #0 – A new ongoing series starts here with a new era that sees Conan returning to his native land after years exploring (and pillaging) the world. [p. 32]
Herbie Archive Volume 1 Hard Cover – In the ‘60s ACG published stories of the unlikeliest superhero of all, Herbie the Fat Fury, an overweight youth who gained various powers from his beloved lollipops. [p. 36]
Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy—From Tatooine to Dark Empire Hard Cover – All of the biggest stories of Luke’s career are collected in this huge hard cover. [p. 49]
DC COMICS
Trinity #1-4 – Do we need another weekly series from DC? What would you say if you knew every issue was written by Kurt Busiek and Fabien Nicieza with art by Mark Bagley and Art Thibert? What if I told you that every issue featured the team of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman? Sounds way better than Countdown. [p. 67]
Superman #677 – Starman and The Golden Age are proof that James Robinson writes a mean comic with character development and great plots. His soon-to-be-classic run starts here. [p. 75]
Action Comics #866 – Superman has rarely been better than when in the hands of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. The team behind the recent Legion story is back for “Brainiacâ€. [p. 83]
DC COMICS/Wildstorm
Chuck #1 – The geek fave TV show comes to comics with all-new stories. [p. 105]
DC COMICS/Vertigo
Madame Xanadu #1 – Grendel creator Matt Wagner finally gives the fortune teller her own story in this new ongoing fantasy series. [p. 115]
DISNEY PRESS
Wonderland Hard Cover – In Alice In Wonderland the White Rabbit thinks Alice is “Maryannâ€, but who is Maryann? This book tells her tale. [p. 282]
GEMSTONE PUBLISHING
Donald Duck Family: The Dan Jippes Collection Volume 1 TPB – Carl Barks-written stories drawn by Jippes collected. [p. 292]
EC Archives: Frontline Combat Volume 1 Hard Cover – Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, John Severin, and Will Elder. ‘Nuff said. [p. 293]
GRAPHIX
Knights of the Lunch Table Volume 1: Dodgeball Chronicles Graphic Novel – A light-hearted modern take on the Arthurian legend with Artie King, student at Camelot Middle School. [p. 295]
GREAT BIG COMICS
The Voyages of She-Buccaneer #1 – A buxom, bad-ass beauty in a swashbuckling quest to rescue her beau from the devil. [p. 296]
HERO INITIATIVE
What If? – The Fantastic Four Tribute to Mike Wieringo Special – The last work of Wieringo was a story featuring the teaming of Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Wolverine. Marvel has allowed this to become a special that will benefit the Hero Initiative foundation. [p. 298]
IDW PUBLISHING
Star Trek: Mirror Images #1 – Telling the story of how the “Mirror Universe†Kirk took the Enterprise from Captain Pike. [p. 301]
IMAGE COMICS
War Heroes #1 – A new six issue miniseries from Mark Millar (Civil War) and Tony Harris (Ex Machina). [p. 142]
Charlatan Ball #1 – A stage magician is transported to a wacky world of real magic. From the twisted mind of Joe Casey (Godland). [p. 148]
Dynamo 5 Volume 2: Moments of Truth TPB – A compelling series about a strange extended family given superpowers. Joe’s favorite! [p. 160]
The Sword Volume 1: Fire TPB – Collecting the first six issues of the series by the Luna Brothers (Girls). “If you like Kill Bill, Blade of the Immortal, or Highlander, you’ll love The Sword! [p. 162]
MARVEL COMICS
Marvel Illustrated: The Three Musketeers #1 – The Marvel adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Man in the Iron Mask was excellent, so this should be as well. (And have a look at the cover: that’s Led Zeppelin!) [p. 5]
Ultimate Origins #1 – Brian Bendis, one of the architects of the Ultimate Universe, gives us the background that connects the main players in this alternate take on Marvel heroes. [p. 11]
Skaar: Son of Hulk #1 – This is Greg Pak’s sequel to “Planet Hulk†and “World War Hulkâ€. [p. 29]
Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers #1 – Both teams already know that two of them are Skrulls. So what do they do about the Skrull invasion? [p. 47]
Wolverine #66 – The Civil War team, Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, begin an 8-part story about the return of Logan 50years after the fall of the heroes. [p. 65]
ONI PRESS
The Big Book of Barry Ween, Boy Genius TPB – This collects the adventures of Judd Winick’s hilarious foul-mouthed mini Einstein. [p. 322]
Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #2 – The adventures of Colbert’s outer space super-spy finally continue. [p. 323]
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Turning Points: Little Rock Nine Graphic Novel – The Little Rock Nine were the first black students to attend the previously all-white school in Arkansas after Brown v. Board of Education. [p. 332]
TOKYOPOP
Star Trek: The Manga Volume 3: Uchu Graphic Novel – New Original Series stories by David Gerrold and Wil Wheaton. [p. 339]
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