This Isn't A Library: New And Notable Releases To The Comics Direct Market



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Here are the books that jump out at me from this week's probably mostly accurate list of books shipping from Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. to comic book and hobby shops across North America.

I might not buy all of the works listed here -- I might not buy any -- but were I in a comic book shop I would likely pick up the following and look them over, and this might be not a good thing as far as my retailer is concerned.

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HERBIE ARCHIVES HC VOL 01 $49.95
I think the whole comics-in-trade-form revolution has been leading up to this moment: Hardcover Herbie.

JUN080180 FINAL CRISIS LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #1 (OF 5) $3.99
I'm not much of a follower of big superhero events, and haven't been following this latest one, but a bunch of the Legion reboots fighting in a casualty-producing style with an evil Superboy might be fun. Huh. That's interesting. Suddenly I have a hankering for Mountain Dew and Cheetos.

MAY080258 SANDMAN PRESENTS DEAD BOY DETECTIVES TP (MR) $12.99
JUN082319 CAPTAIN AMERICA #41 $2.99
Your week in Ed Brubaker.

JUN082361 INCREDIBLE HERCULES #120 SI $2.99
Your week in well-liked second-tier Marvel books.

JUN082327 MARVEL 1985 #4 (OF 6) $3.99
This is still coming out? I wish it had photos, although I'm told the art is very nice.

JUN083955 ABANDONED CARS HC $22.99
Tim Lane's powerful debut book, sporty a lovely design and several muscular stories.

JUN083973 AMAZING REMARKABLE MONSIEUR LEOTARD SC $16.95
New Eddie Campbell! In my world, people greet the new Eddie Campbell by holding it at arm's length and dancing round and round in circles.

APR083839 DELPHINE #3 $7.95
APR083845 GROTESQUE #2 $7.95
Your Ignatz offerings of the week, both of them beautiful installments in attractive series.

MAY083867 MOME VOL 12 GN $14.99
Maybe the best issue of the anthology yet, with compelling work by five or six cartoonists and not an outright dud from anyone.

MAY084228 NAOKI URASAWAS MONSTER TP VOL 16 $9.99
The only manga that leapt out at me this week. That sounds kind of spooky, but I really just meant the idea of it leapt out at me not that the book launched itself off the shelf in my direction.

APR083922 SCORCHY SMITH AND THE ART OF NOEL SICKLES HC $49.99
The size and scope of this book would be incredible if it featured a really bad artist instead of a frequently thrilling one. A really nice book.

MAR083709 WHERE DEMENTED WENTED THE ART AND COMICS OF RORY HAYES $22.99
A great artist, a great comic book artist and a great American artist gets a little bit of his due.

JUN084472 JEWS & AMERICAN COMICS ILLUS HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART FORM $29.95
This is the latest from Paul Buhle, I think.

MAY084264 TRIPWIRE 2008 ANNUAL $14.95
As this magazine's 25th most powerful person in comics and by my count therefore the most powerful person per-dollar-earned in entertainment history, I command you to consider buying this resurgent publication about comics and pop culture.

MAY080061 MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS TP VOL 01
Is it weird to anyone else that DHC would want to replicate the anthology feel of its MySpace.com comics offerings with a print anthology? I think for most people the on-line anthology means those works get to print that step going to print.

MAY083868 TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE #4 (MR) $4.50
The best comic book of the week. I don't know, Frank, I think I could walk out of the store this week having thrown a $20 bill at the Sala, this book, the Captain America maybe and I guess the one where I might get to see Brainiac 5's arms pulled off and I'd be a satisified serial comics customer.

JUN080289 AIR #1 (MR) $2.99
This seems to me an interesting concept executed poorly. Kind of like the Bill Richardson presidential campaign.

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The full list of this week's releases, including some titles with multiple cover variations and a long, impressive list of toys and other stuff that isn't comics, can be found here. Despite this official list there's no guarantee a comic will show up in the stores as promised, or in all of the stores as opposed to just a few. Also, stores choose what they carry and don't carry.

To find your local comic book store, check this list; and for one I can personally recommend because I've shopped there, albeit a while back and probably drunk, try this.

The above titles are listed with their Diamond order code in the first field, which may assist you in finding comics at your shop or having them order something for you they don't have in-stock.

If I didn't list your new comic, it was on purpose. How do you like it, chump?

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