Dave’s PREVIEWS PICKS - Cool comics from the April edition of Previews
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AIT/PLANETLAR
Dugout Graphic Novel – Adam Beechen (Robin) writes a unique story for comics. A 1960s pro baseball team needs to break their star pitcher out of prison. [p. 205]
A-OKAY COMICS
The Myth of 8-Opus: Prologue Expanded Edition Graphic Novel – Before the bizarreness of Godland Tom Scioli wrote and drew the cosmic Kirby-ness of Myth of 8-Opus. This re-presents all 20 issues with extra material. [p. 212]
ARCHAIA STUDIOS PRESS
Titanium Rain #1 – Futuristic bio-tech war in the spirit of Ghost in the Shell and Black Hawk Down. [p. 216]
ARCHIE COMICS
Archie #587 – Archie and the gang in their Freshman year at Riverdale High! [p. 216]
Archie & Friends #121 – Archie and the gang go to California for the big Comic-Con! [p. 216]
Betty & Veronica Spectacular #84 – The ‘Back to School’ issue! [p. 217]
BOOM! STUDIOS
Challenger Deep #1 – The creator of Sci-Fi Channel’s Eureka writes this comic about the final earthly frontier—the Marianas Trench. [p. 241]
CARTOON BOOKS
Bone Volume 8: Treasure Hunters Color Edition Hard Cover & Soft Cover – The popular saga continues with the new color collection. [p. 248]
CHIMAERA STUDIOS
Consortium of Justice #1 – Earth’s greatest heroes versus a world threatening menace. [p. 250]
Wargod #1 – The recently resurrected Egyptian hero must face a group of super beings who thinks the world would be better off without Wargod and his god-like brethren. [p. 250]
DARK HORSE COMICS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #16 – Joss Whedon and Karl Moline introduce Buffy to their slayer from the future, Fray! [p. 30]
Hellboy: The Crooked Man #1 – Just in time for the movie. This is the new mini-series from Mike Mignola and Richard Corbin. [p. 34]
The Night of Your Life Hard Cover – This book collects strips from the popular online comic where the artist turns real dreams into stories. [p. 49]
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack Hard Cover – Collecting the surreal comic strips of Nicholas Gurewitch. [p. 52]
Nothing Nice to Say TPB – Collecting punk-rock comic strips from the website of the same name. [p. 53]
DC COMICS
The Joker’s Asylum One Shots – “A 5-part weekly Joker event!†The series features Penguin, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Two-Face. [p. 81]
Batgirl #1 – Cassandra Cain is back in a mini-series by Adam Beechen (Robin). [p. 82]
Two-Face Year One #1 – Harvey Dent is featured in The Dark Knight. Appropriately enough this is a two issue series. [p. 83]
Jonah Hex #33 – Even if you don’t care about Hex, this is drawn by Darwyn Cooke! [p. 94]
Justice Society of America Annual #1 – Earth-2 returns in this story by Geoff Johns and Jerry Ordway. [p. 96]
Absolute Ronin Hard Cover – Frank Miller’s futuristic samurai story gets the deluxe slipcover treatment. [p. 100]
Gotham Central Volume 1: In the Line of Fire Hard Cover – This is the first ten issues of the police procedural by Ed Brubaker (Criminal), Greg Rucka (Whiteout), and Michael Lark (Captain America). [p. 102]
DC COMICS/Johnny DC
Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #1 – Super fun stories about an 11-year-old boy who can become a full-grown superhero. Written and drawn by Herobear creator Mike Hunkel. [p. 106]
Super Friends #5 – The Super Friends are Super Apes? [p. 107]
The Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century #16 – Finally: Arm-Fall-Off Boy! [p. 107]
DC COMICS/Wildstorm
Wildcats: World’s End #1 – How does the team deal with the new status quo in the Wildstorm Universe? [p. 110]
DESPERADO PUBLISHING
Antoine Sharp, The Atheist Volume 2 #1 – Sharp is his own B.P.R.D. except his job is to debunk the supposed supernatural phenomena. [p. 268]
EVIL TWIN COMICS
Comic Book Comics #2 – The award-winning creative team behind Action Philosophers, Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, deliver one of Dave’s favorite new series. It’s an entertaining journey through the history of comics. [p. 298]
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING
Magic Trixie Volume 1 Graphic Novel – Jill Thompson writes and draws this fun comic story about a little witch who makes her sister disappear. [p. 306]
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Graphic Novel – Gaiman and P. Craig Russell adapt Gaiman’s novel to comics. [p. 306]
Zot! Volume 1: The Complete Black and White Stories 1987-1991 TPB – Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud developed a character-centric sci-fi adventure series that became a cult classic. [p. 306]
IDW PUBLISHING
Spike: After the Fall #1 – What happened to Spike the first night that L.A. went to hell? [p. 309]
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1 – Earth belongs to the Decepticons! [p. 311]
Journey Volume 1 TPB – This collects William Messner-Loebs’ frontier adventures of Wolverine McAlistaire. [p. 321]
IMAGE COMICS
Liberty Comics: A CBLDF Benefit Book One Shot – Proceeds from this book by Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke, Garth Ennis, Mark Millar, Sergio Aragones, and more benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. [p. 158]
Broken Trinity #1 – You discovered this on Free Comic Book Day—find out what happens next. [p. 180]
MARVEL COMICS
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #1 – Remember that Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man Free Comic Book Day book? Marvel presents an ongoing all-ages team-up series. [p. 33]
Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Agent of the Initiative #1 – Former model Avenger and Defender gets recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect Alaska as a member of the Initiative. [p. 40]
Skrulls vs. Power Pack #1 – Skrulls are messing with Marvel’s youngest super team. [p. 41]
True Believers #1 – Classic creators Cary Bates (Superman) and Paul Gulacy (Master of Kung Fu) bring is a miniseries about a female super hero “fight clubâ€. [p. 58]
Astonishing X-Men #25 – Still astonishing post-Whedon! Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi are on board. [p. 59]
X-Men: Odd Men Out One Shot – The first appearance of two lost X-men stories by classic X-artist Dave Cockrum. [p. 71]
TOKYOPOP
Warcraft Legends Volume 1 Graphic Novel – “New adventures based on the bestselling video game.†[p. 351]
VIZ MEDIA
Black Lagoon Volume 1 Graphic Novel – Mercenaries aboard a WWII torpedo boat get in dangerous adventures up against the Russian mob drug cartels and more. [p. 386]
Pokemon: Ranger and the Temple of the Sea Graphic Novel – Hey, kids! Pokemon comics! [p. 386]
May 19th, 2008 |
