March 3, 2015
This Isn’t A Library: New And Notable Releases Into Comics’ Direct Market
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Here are the books that make an impression on me staring at this week's no-doubt largely 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. You never know. I'd sure look at the following, though.
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JAN151445 INNER CITY ROMANCE TP (MR) $24.99
Fantagraphics and Patrick Rosenkranz continue their admirable surge of works about and buy various stalwarts of the underground era. I have no idea how this material might work on a modern audience, but I think it's still recognizable when someone is trying to depict the world they see around them with all of the tools at their disposal.
NOV140465 DIAMOND ISLAND TP $29.99
This may be the lightest week in a couple of years for comics in which I'm naturally interested, so this post is going to be looser than usual as I stumble around the shop waiting for my Mom to give me a ride home. This is a book I think with work stretching back for quite a while: kind of a self-generated all-age book that hasn't caught on quite like some others in that category. It carries the IDW imprimatur but I swear I also remember a crowd-funding campaign. At any, it's bright and it's blue and there's enough time in the comic book store if your tastes run close to mine to pick it up and give it a look-over.
JAN150537 WINTERWORLD #0 $3.99
JAN150704 SAGA #26 (MR) $2.99
DEC140766 SUPREME BLUE ROSE #7 (MR) $2.99
JAN151254 BLACKCROSS #1 BLANK AUTHENTIX CVR $10.00
JAN151250 BLACKCROSS #1 CVR A LEE MAIN $3.99
JAN150761 ALL NEW HAWKEYE #1 $3.99
DEC140815 GUARDIANS TEAM-UP #1 $3.99
JAN150097 HELLBOY AND THE BPRD #4 1952 $3.50
Here are some of the comic-book formatted comics that jumped out at me from the list. The return of the
Winterworld comics was for a lot of us a chance to stare at Jorge Zaffino's art one more time, but now we're in the part of that project where they print brand-new material. I like both Tommy Lee Edwards and Chuck Dixon as reliable mainstream-mostly performs, and would give this book a shot standing there in the store.I would imagine from a sale standpoint this is a
Saga week, that strikes me as an unbelievably strong and consistent book for the stores that have invested in it, and maybe for a few that haven't.
Supreme Blue Rose is the writer Warren Ellis ending one of his new cycles of short-burst series (with Tula Lotay) and beginning a new one (with Colton Worley). The
All-New Hawkeye is there. With Jeff Lemire and Ramon Perez on board, the latest shot at a
Hawkeye series would seem to have a reasonable chance at success. Standing in the shadow of the Matt Fraction and (mostly) David Aja run can't be easy, though. Looking to see what Jog write about
ICR at TCJ allowed me to learn that
Guardians Team-Up #1 will feature Art Adams art. I'm far away from that world, but I haven't detected a glimmer of heat from those
Guardians comics since the movie came out, not really: not on their own, anyway. For reliability across the ages, there's
Hellboy.
JAN151216 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #24 VIP ULTRA PREMIUM CVR (MR) $29.99
JAN151223 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT BASEBALL CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151224 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT BASKETBALL CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151225 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT BOXING CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151226 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT FOOTBALL CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151227 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT HOCKEY CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151228 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT SOCCER CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151229 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT TENNIS CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151230 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT TRACK CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151231 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #25 SEXY SPORT VOLLEYBALL CVR (MR) $9.99
DEC141272 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #1 DLX COLLECTOR BOX SET (MR) $79.99
DEC141276 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #1 LEATHER CVR (MR) $19.99
JAN151209 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 (MR) $3.99
JAN151217 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 ALTERNATE HISTORY CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151212 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 AUXILIARY CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151218 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 PREMIUM PURE ART CVR (MR) $9.99
JAN151211 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 SULTRY CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151210 LADY DEATH APOCALYPSE #2 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151214 LADY DEATH DARK HORIZONS DLX COLL BOX SET #1 (MR) $99.99
JAN151215 LADY DEATH ORIGINS ANNUAL #1 COLLECTORS BOX SET (MR) $99.99
This is sort of amazing to me, as it's a row of entries that could have appeared in a similar listing from 20 years ago. I don't understand anything about the way that comics makes this kind of product offering work.
JAN151077 UBER #23 (MR) $3.99
JAN151079 UBER #23 PROPAGANDA POSTER CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151080 UBER #23 WAR CRIMES CVR (MR) $3.99
JAN151078 UBER #23 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
I'm really glad I didn't try to make a dumb app/transportation joke when #1 came out, because I would be exhausted by now.
JAN151803 CHESTER BROWN CONVERSATIONS SC $30.00
JAN151804 COMICS & LANGUAGE REIMAGINING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON FORM SC $30.00
JAN151805 COMICS & NARRATION SC $30.00
JAN151806 DRAWING FROM LIFE MEMORY & SUBJECTIVITY IN COMICS ART SC $30.00
This was probably the most interesting thing on the list to me: a re-issue of recent comics scholarship works at a price that reminds you that academic prices are even worse. Still, that's an affordable price pint for most fans, particularly when discounted.
Comics And Narration is the belle of the ball being from Thierry Groensteen. A book of interviews with Chester Brown sounds promising and perhaps it's excellent; he always seems pretty guarded and studied in interviews to me.
JAN150567 DESCENDER #1 CVR A NGUYEN (MR) $2.99
I didn't have any big book to put down here -- whether that's an oversight or my lack of imagination I'll leave to you -- but this is a comic that's already been sold as a film, and no matter what goes on in the comics shop this week there's an involved element that will be intensely curious about what's inside. It's been well-received so far, at least as far as I can tell.
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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 so your shop may not carry a specific publication. There are a lot of comics out there.
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,
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. Ordering through a direct market shop can be a frustrating experience, so if you have a direct line to something -- you know another shop has it, you know a bookstore has it -- I'd urge you to consider all of your options.
If I failed to list your comic, that's because I hate you.
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