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.

*****

JAN070265 BATMAN AND THE MAD MONK TP $14.99
This is a collection of recent Matt Wagner Batman stories driven by the earliest Detective Comics appearances. If it's anything like the individual comics I've seen, it's very handsome, well-crafted adventure comics, and I would at the very least pick it up off the shelves for a look.

FEB070296 SPIRIT #5 $2.99
I haven't seen any of these since issue #1 because of my lack of proximity to a comic book shop. I liked the one I read: it was handsome and distracting, and seemed perfectly suited to the comic book format. I may be in a comic shop today, so hopefully they carry this so I can root around for some and catch up. I have no idea if it's working or not.

FEB071896 ROCKETO VOL 2 TP JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN SEA $19.99
It's stylish-looking adventure comic book week! Frank Espinosa's first volume was like the Dell adaptation of the best 1960s animated TV show pilot that no one ever saw again after its initial airing. It's pretty, and it's raggedly energetic, and I'm not sure the story makes a lick of sense. This may not stop you.

DEC063831 ALEX TOTH EDGE OF GENIUS VOL 1 TP $25.00
See what I'm saying? This is apparently three years of early 1950s Alex Toth, back when he was one of a handful of guys that owned mainstream American comic books. I'll want this eventually, whether or not I grab it the first day.

JAN073805 ALIAS THE CAT GN $23.00
Kim Deitch is one of the greatest cartoonists in the whole wide world, and this material from his more recent comic book series work has the grand mix of show business past and obsessive show business worship present that fans of his have come to love.

JAN073975 DRIFTING CLASSROOM VOL 5 TP (MR) $9.99
The best manga series with a new volume out this week. I'm a few behind in the series, but Kazuo Umezo's 1970s horror classic is as good as advertised thus far, a mini pop-culture classic almost as much fun in terms of identifying seeds of its approach in modern comics and movies as for the story itself.

FEB073462 LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #19 (MR) $4.50
There's no comic I love seeing on the stands more, and with Gilbert Hernandez maybe entering into what looks like another interesting transitional period in terms of his stellar career, one of the ten great series in comics history bears special watching.

*****

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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