Just One Week Until FCBM3!

Next Tuesday will be May 1st, and longtime readers of this blog know that May is Free Comic Book Month! Just like the two previous years I'll be taking your lists of favorite comics and matching you up with a comic I think you'll like. Look for details on Monday the 30th.

New This Week: April 25, 2007

Based on the NCRL, here are some comics you may want to look at picking up at your friendly local comic shop tomorrow:


The Pick of the Week is Marvel's Agents of Atlas hardcover collecting the mini-series by Jeff Parker & Leonard Kirk. It's a modern adventure about retro characters, not at all depressing or horribly revisionist and a lot of fun. The hardcover has lots of bonus features too, including reprints of the first appearances of the various characters.


In other comics:

AdHouse premiere Fred Chao's Johnny Hiro.

Amaze Ink/Slave Labor kick off a new story in Serena Valentino's Nightmares and Fairy Tales #19, with new artist Camilla d'Errico.

Archie have a new issue of Sabrina (#84).

Boom! debut Hunter's Moon and have new issues of Planetary Brigade Origins (#3) and Tag: Cursed (#3).

Dark Horse have a new volume of Path of the Assassin (vol. 6) and new issues of Rex Mundi (#5) and Usagi Yojimbo (#102).

DC have Cary & Bolton's new OGN God Save the Queen; a new collection of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4); the start of Amazons Attack (#1); the final issue of Firestorm (#35); and new issues of 52 (week 51), Action Comics (#848), Astro City: The Dark Age (book 2 #3), Blue Beetle (#14), Catwoman (#66), Justice Society of America (#5), and Supergirl and the Legion (#29).

Dork Storm Press have a new issue of Dork Tower (#36).

Fantagraphics have Castle Waiting vol. 2 #6 and the latest ish of The Comics Journal (#282).

First Second have the GNs The Professor's Daughter and Tiny Tyrant.

Image have new issues of True Story Swear to God (#5) and The Walking Dead (#37).

Marvel have a big ol' Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus; a new Runaways digest (vol. 7); and new issues of Daredevil (#96), Powers (#24), Wisdom (#5), and X-Men: First Class (#8).


Plenty of comics for your enjoment this week!

CiL 2007 Cartoon Liveblogging

Derik Badman did liveblog cartooning for sessions at the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference. Very cool (if you're a geeky librarian, that is). I was at a couple of the sessions he covered and he does a spot-on summary of them.

(via Jessamyn)

New Library Comics: Week of April 16, 2007

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Fito, Alex. Dia de Muertos en Mexico. /Inreves Edicions, 2004.

Celestelle. /Detroit, MI : Yul Tolbert/Timelike Line Productions, c1998- no. 3.5

You ain't no dancer. /Maple Ridge, BC, Canada : New Reliable Press, c2005- vols. 1-2

Wide awake (Greenville, S.C.) Wide awake. /Greenville, SC : J Chris Campbell nos. 3, 5

Charme. /Roma : Edizioni Lancio no. 733

Darling (Rome, Itlay) Darling. /Roma : Lancio vol. 2 no. 11

Kiss (Rome, Italy) Kiss. /Roma : Lancio vol. 2 nos. 7, 8; vol. 3 no. 19

Snakepit, Ben. The snakepit quarterly. /San Diego, CA : Yound American Comics nos. 11, 12

Melby comics. /Royal Oak, MI : Melby Comics, c2004- no. 1

McVey, G.A. Toddle town : daycare with humor and a heart. /[S.l.] : Quarter-Two, 2003?- nos. 1-2

McVey, G.A. Terra 2920. /Hamtramck, MI : Gem Studios, c2002- vol. 1 no. 1

McVey, G.A. Toddle town flip side. /[S.l.] : Quarter-Two Press, 2003?- no. 1

Steckler, Ben T. S. N. A. P. decision : 3 Halloween mini-comics /[York, PA?] : Ben T. Steckler, c2005.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Phoenix /San Francisco, CA : Viz, c2003- vol. 7

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Apes and monkeys know kung-fu! It's Bill Alger's cover to Cartoon Network Presents #8 from 1998.

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Battle of the Century

So I'm flipping through the newest Showcase Presents: Superman (vol. 3) when I come across a story titled: "Krypto Battles Titano." Has there ever been a more perfect idea for a comic story? A dog with the powers of Superman battles a giant ape with Kryptonite vision! I almost don't want to read the story itself, because it cannot possibly live up to my imagination of it...

All a-Twitter

I've finally found a good use for Twitter: I'll be using my Twitter account to post updates on the comics I'm reading, as I read them. Think of them as really-mini reviews. I'm davereadscomics, so feel free to follow my Twitter feed in whatever way you like. You'll also find it in the sidebar of this blog.

Not terribly useful if it's just me, but if a bunch of you start doing the same thing, we can all merge together as a quick source for what's good (and not-so-good) in comics. So if any of you decide to do the same thing, please let me know so I can track you.