This Isn’t A Library: New, 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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MAY181777 SMILEY DREAM BOOK HC PICTUREBOOK $17.99
Jeff Smith draws the way a genie would grant the wish of it, so I'm excited to see him work his characters into the board book realm for as long as he wants to make the pages.

MAY180464 ACTION COMICS #1001 $3.99
MAY189269 ACTION COMICS #1001 INKS ONLY VAR ED $3.99
MAY180466 ACTION COMICS #1001 MACK VAR ED $3.99
MAY180465 ACTION COMICS #1001 MANAPUL VAR ED $3.99
MAY180242 SAGA #54 (MR) $2.99
Brian Bendis on Superman should be interesting to close-watchers of Superman, if nothing else -- what the writer emphasizes and what he does about Superman's villain problem being two of the obvious things on which to keep an eye. The Saga I think has to be the last issue before another break, but I think that every issue because I'm inattentive and dumb. I sometimes wonder if the series can ever again feel as expansive in its setting and breadth of characters as it did very early on.

MAR180059 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 26 $49.99
This is the series that made me realize I would never own all the series, but I'm okay with it and there are gems in every volume.

APR180267 DC UNIVERSE BY MIKE MIGNOLA TP $19.99
MAY180953 SHIELD BY HICKMAN AND WEAVER HC HUMAN MACHINE $29.99
MAY180820 X-MEN GRAND DESIGN SECOND GENESIS #1 (OF 2) $5.99
JAN180392 ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY HC VOL 02 NEW ED $75.00
Four superhero comics I like, a rarity on any new comics week. I like Mike Mignola's work, period, and watching him work with the stately DC icons yields some really interesting single-moment illustrations. Jonathan Hickman's mainstream comics are the ones where I feel like the most distances has been traveled since original conception. It's an approach that flatters the material. Ed Piskor's is super-fun in a design sense, although I couldn't tell with the first round of this work what the hell actually happened in the comics and what the hell Piskor added to shape the material to his liking. The Authority books sure are pretty, and nearly every book of superhero import and half the memories are within shouting distance of what this material was up to.

MAY181976 GOOD EARTH TP $19.99
I read Nick Bertozzi's adaptation of the one-time prose novel and related media sensation with a bit of confusion as to the purpose of adapting this book into graphic novel form. Bertozzi seems game for anything, and dives right into the material, but I'm not sure I ever understood what the commissioning editor thought the end result would bring to the work. It's been 10,076 years, since I read the novel, and then cursorily to get through a few test questions, but I'd love to return with it having seen what Bertozzi pulled out as important to him.

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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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