This Isn’t A Library: Notable Releases To The Comics Direct Market



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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MAR121075 BABYS IN BLACK HC $24.99
This is the Arne Bellstorf early-Beatles love story of long-winded anecdote and movie fame. It sure is handsome-dorable. Just look at that thing. I want to take it to high tea and cluck over it.

JAN121091 NONNONBA GN (MR) $26.95
This Shigeru Mizuki book is the release of the week, maybe by a wide margin. I would have stuck it up top but I couldn't find in immediate fashion a large enough image. I know some people had a negative reaction to it when it won at Angouleme a few years back, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it for myself.

JAN120105 FLCL OMNIBUS GN $19.99
I'm more familiar with this material for the animated version, which I remember finding baffling but just interesting enough I wished I were less intoxicated when I encountered it. I think this is one of those comics that came after the animation, maybe? I'm sure Jog has something clever to say about this. Jog is clever all the time.

JUL110248 BIBLE HC $29.99
I remember reading the original treasury-sized comic over and over again when I was a kid, under approving parental eyes. Nestor Redondo art; Joe Kubert supervising the package; market forces of its day kidney-punching so that there was only this one issue. I'd like to see what they're doing with it to make it $30, but I suppose that's a fair reflection of what oversized, full-color books cost now.

JAN120480 ARCHIE SUNDAYS FINEST HC $49.99
As always with the Archie material that's out there, I'm a little bit lost as to exactly what this is, but I'll always look at it.

MAR120318 FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE ALIVE #1 $3.99
This is Bernie Wrightson drawing Frankenstein, in comics form with recent collaborator Steve Niles providing the writing. Bernie Wrightson! I would knock over a couple of children to look at it, not because I'm mean, but because I would go, "Oh yeah, hey, look at this."

FEB120868 SPACE DUCKS HC INFINITE COMIC BOOK MUSICAL $19.99
A complete Daniel Johnston graphic novella complete with tie-in media and Johnston making appearances at recent comics-related parties and performing in its promotion. There is a high, high curiosity factor with this one. Feel lucky if you shop in the kind of store that carries a book like this as a matter of course.

MAR120041 LOBSTER JOHNSON THE BURNING HAND #5 (OF 5) $3.50
MAR120482 FATALE #5 (MR) $3.50
JAN120590 INVINCIBLE #91 $2.99
DEC110563 MORNING GLORIES #18 (MR) $2.99
FEB128170 SAGA #2 VAR CVR 2ND PTG (MR) $2.99
FEB128171 SECRET #1 VAR CVR 2ND PTG $3.50
FEB128172 THIEF OF THIEVES #3 VAR CVR 2ND PTG $2.99
MAR120507 WALKING DEAD #97 (MR) $2.99
MAR120583 CAPTAIN AMERICA #11 $3.99
A fascinating week for adventure comics of the should-be-$3 variety: bookends of the latest Mignola-verse and what I assume is an Ed Brubaker-written superhero comic sandwiching a ton of the higher-aiming Image serial books right now from their top talent. It should be fun for fans of those books to follow the Robert Kirkman comics as they close in on their issues #100 -- Kirkman's enough of a traditionalist those should be major narrative moments.

MAR120675 MAGNETO NOT A HERO TP $14.99
Still adore this title. I hope the sequel employs the word "seriously."

MAR120670 OZ OZMA OF OZ GN TP $19.99
I don't personally know anyone that's following the not-movie-branded Marvel bookstore material, but they look awfully attractive and if they weren't selling at least pretty well Marvel wouldn't do them.

JAN121172 GON GN KODANSHA ED VOL 05 $10.99
There are more good comics now. I like these little dinosaur comics just fine, but 15 years I felt compelled to pay way more attention to them as they came out than I feel compelled to now.

MAR121077 MASTERING COMICS SC $34.99
Matt Madden and Jessica Abel are going back to school with this First Second-published textbook follow-up to their Drawing Words And Writing Pictures. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you're going to imagine Madden, Abel or both doing the Triple Lindy.

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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 on me. I apologize.

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