This Isn’t a Library: New and Notable Releases to the Comics Direct Market



Here are a few books that jump out at me from this week's 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 following, but were I in a comic book shop I would likely pick them up and look at them, potentially annoying my retailer.

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OCT060027 ALICE IN SUNDERLAND GN $29.95
I know some people who are looking forward to buying it and twice as many as want to see Bryan Talbot's new book and then decided if it's for them or not. I'm in the latter category. But I really want to see it.

JAN078263 CAPTAIN AMERICA 2ND PTG EPTING VAR #25 CW $3.99
FEB078049 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER VAR CVR NEW PTG #1 (PP #759) $2.99
FEB073431 DON'T GO WHERE I CANT FOLLOW GN (MR) $17.95
You can get a second shot at the serial comic book issues that were the focus of much discussion all month -- Captain America eating a bullet in Captain America #25, and the continuation of the Buffy saga Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #1 -- and/or another chance to buy one of the books everyone should be talking about right now, Anders Nilsen's Don't Go Where I Can't Follow.

JAN073666 HOUDINI HANDCUFF KING CENTER OF CARTOON STUDIES HC BOOK $16.99
Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi are smart to have released their straightforward, through the prism of a single day biography with CCS and the Disney folks during a moment in which people are actually talking about Harry Houdini again. How'd they manage that? Will we someday soon dig up the body of Satchel Paige?

NOV063528 OH SKINNAY HC $24.95
A new version of a 1913 book that looks like the 1913 book, Drawn & Quarterly's Oh Skin-nay! is a collaboration between the cartoonist Clare Briggs and the poet Wilbur Nesbit that looks at a year in a small town through a youth's eyes and activities. If you've read any essays, histories or novels from the first half of the 20th century, you'll recall how affectionately most people of that era remember being a kid in the pre-World War I era -- with its mix of outdoor and city activities, and America's slow reclamation of sport from its scariest, most violent elements. I look forward to this.

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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, 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's not because I missed it by accident or that our tastes differ. It's because I hate you.
 
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