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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NOV170560 GOAT GETTERS HC $49.99
I don't know much about this book, although I think I was in the room at the Billy Ireland when Eddie Campbell was researching the 1910s era sports pages and cartoon pages that inform a lot of this book. It's great to have Campbell back with two books this year, and I'll buy anything he creates.

DEC171793 YOUR BLACK FRIEND AND OTHER STRANGERS HC (MR) $20.00This is a great week for comics at the shop. I don't know if this is a re-offering or if it's late, but Ben Passmore's comics over the last few years have been really interesting and you should own a copy of the best run at this material.

FEB181233 GIANT DAYS #37 $3.99
JAN180411 ASTRO CITY #51 $3.99
FEB180699 SCALES & SCOUNDRELS #8 $3.99
JAN180823 SEX CRIMINALS #23 (MR) $3.99
JAN180828 SNOTGIRL #10 $2.99
FEB180713 WALKING DEAD #178 CVR A ADLARD & STEWART (MR) $3.99
FEB180714 WICKED & DIVINE #35 CVR A MCKELVIE & WILSON (MR) $3.99
FEB180869 BLACK BOLT #12 LEG $3.99
Solid week for comic-book comics, too. Giant Days is John Allison writing, and I'm a fan. That has to be one of the last issues of Astro City before its move to graphic novel only formatting. Scales & Scoundrels is a wanderer from the Lands Of Cliche, but it's charmingly drawn. That's four Image Comics heavy-hitters in a row. I'm having fun with this volume of Sex Criminals. Black Bolt I buy because my brother collects all Black Bolt-related comics, and this one sure is pretty.

JAN180397 FLASH BY MARK WAID TP BOOK 04 $34.99
JAN180401 GLOBAL FREQUENCY DELUXE ED HC $34.99
Mark Waid's Flash comics were some of the most important of the 1990s and the Global Frequency series feels like it could come out right now. I would imagine most fans have this work, but it's nice that they pay attention to keeping material like this in print.

DEC170548 CAT N BAT TP $9.99
JAN180567 WARDS VALLEY TP $19.99
Two stand-alone, non-licensed kids works, and on that basis alone I'd look at them.

FEB180630 HEAD LOPPER TP VOL 02 CRIMSON TOWER $16.99
DEC170546 PRISON SHIP HC $19.99
JAN180562 THE REPRIEVE TP $29.99
FEB181164 COPRA TP ROUND FIVE (MR) $21.95
FEB181581 DEOGRATIAS TALE OF RWANDA GN NEW PTG $19.99
JAN181857 WINDOW HORSES SC $20.00
This is a bunch of intriguing books. I love Head Lopper, where Hellboy meets Adventure Time desing. Prison Ship is '80s sci-fi and quite beautiful, as I recall. The Reprieve is an actual Jean-Pierre Gibrat album -- that's an artist I'm used to see only in pin-ups, but he's a very good pin-up artist. Copra continues on; don't know if this is current, but all of that work is very right now. JP Stassen remains maybe the most intriguing artist published by First Second. Window Horses was a movie and a comic; this is the comic. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit.

FEB181182 WHAT TO DO WHEN IM GONE HC $22.00
Another stand-alone book, I'd certainly pick it up wanting to see more of the art.

FEB181683 YELLOW NEGROES & OTHER IMAGINARY CREATURES GN (RES) $22.95
This is some of the best comics work of the 20th Century, period.

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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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