This Isn’t A Library: 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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JAN150495 DON ROSA LIFE & TIMES SCROOGE MCDUCK ARTIST ED HC VOL 01 PI
Don Rosa is a cartoonist greater than the sum of his craft-level parts and his duck work is one of the great, pleasant, overall surprises of the last five decades. Seeing the work at this size and in this format strikes me as fun; but just about every encounter with this work is fun.

MAY151312 STROPPY HC (MR) $21.95
No better way to mark the new regime at Drawn and Quarterly than a big, fat, sure-to-be-lovely Marc Bell book. I think this is Bell's first significant book in four, perhaps five years, and this one promises something of a continuing narrative -- enough to make note of it on their web site. You should go look at a few pages to see if it's something that you might want to give a try; I find that work deeply rewarding.

FEB150117 KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE TP VOL 14 (MR) $12.99
This is the best of the mainstream ("known to fans of translated manga) works out this week. It's amazing to me they're up to volume fourteen.

APR150022 RESIDENT ALIEN SAM HAIN MYSTERY #2 $3.99
APR150256 BATGIRL #41 $2.99
APR150252 SUPERMAN #41 $3.99
APR151254 ADVENTURE TIME #41 $3.99
APR158439 KAIJUMAX #1 2ND PTG $3.99
APR150672 SEX #22 (MR) $2.99
It's an interesting week for comics periodicals. I've liked all the Resident Alien comics I've read and will likely enjoy this one when I catch up. The books starring Batgirl and Superman listed here are going to be among the DC books of highest interest coming out of the summer: Batgirl as more and more people see it as a paradigm-changing book, Superman to see if writer Gene Yang can match his very effective personal work and solid licensed work with one of the bigger properties ever. There's an Adventure Time comic book out this week; might be a good week to try one of those if you haven't. Zander Cannon's first issue of Kaijumax is in a second printing; he's always a fun cartoonists. Finaly, Sex #22 is in full-on layered storyline mode now, a bunch of previous groundwork beginning to pay off even as they build to the next work

APR150984 HIC HOC JOURNAL OF HUMOR VOL 01 UNITED STATES (MR) $10.00
Interesting young publisher; great price point. That's a nice line-up of younger talent, too. I'm pretty sure this is a reprint or retry of some kind, as I'm sure I've seen a version in stores.

APR151830 ON THE ROPES GN $17.95
This is a softcover reprint of the Kings In Disguise sequel from 2013; I liked the book, and it was fascinating to read something done in a style that was so common 25 years and isn't used all that much anymore. I wish James Vance had done more comics like this, with a variety of artistic partners, but I kind of wish that were a true thing more generally.

MAR150857 RUSSIAN OLIVE TO RED KING HC (MR) $24.95
Stuart and Kathryn Immonen are two of the best comics citizens. One thing I like about their non-mainstream work is that it seems stridently different than the work each one does for corporate superhero comics. This is a sharp-looking book from that publisher of sharp-looking books, AdHouse.

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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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