New Library Comics: Week of October 3, 2005

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:



Atagawa, Fumihiro. Furupawa monkey /Tokyo : Shueisha, 1998- v. 1

Jones, Sabrina. Prisoners of the war on drugs /Northampton, MA : The Real Cost of Prisons Project, c2005.

Pyle, Kevin. Prison town : paying the price /Northampton, MA : The Real Cost of Prisons Project, c2005.

Monkey Covers

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

Back to the jungle this week, and George Wilson paints the cover to 1967's Tarzan #172, as Tarzan faces off against a big ol' gorilla with a spear and a loincloth!

(standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies)

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

YAMR: Soundtrack Songs

Playing this week on Yet Another Music Radio: Soundtrack Songs, over three hours of songs from movie soundtracks.


Songs from: Batman Forever; Blue Crush; Bubba Ho-Tep; Cold Mountain; Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; Cruel Intensions; D.E.B.S.; Die Another Day; Donnie Darko; Ella Enchanted; Freaky Friday; Herbie: Fully Loaded; Hitch; Ice Princess; Josie and the Pussycats; Kill Bill, vol. 1; Kill Bill, vol. 2; The Lizzie McGuire Movie; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Mallrats; Me, Myself & Irene; Mean Girls; Men with Brooms; Napoleon Dynamite; The Perfect Man; The Princess Diaries 2; Shanghai Knights; Shark Tale; Shrek 2; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; Starsky & Hutch; Sweet Home Alabama; A Walk to Remember.

With songs by: The 5, 6, 7, 8's; Abra Moore; Alana Grace; Alison Krauss; Aly & A.J.; Amerie; Anne Hathaway; Annie Lennox; Atomic Kitten; Ben Folds Five; Beulah; Bowling for Soup; Brian Tyler; Chantal Kreviazuk; Charlotte Martin; Christy Carlson Romano; Disposal Unit; The Donnas; Eddie Murphy & Antonio Banderas; The Faders; Fatboy Slim; Frou Frou; Gary Jules; The Goops; Ivy; Jessica Harp; Jewel; Josie and the Pussycats; Kari Kimmel; Katy Rose; Lillix; Lindsay Lohan; Lipps Inc.; Nancy Sinatra; Paul Oakenfold; Pink; Placebo; Plumb; Pussycat Dolls; Rogue Wave; Sarah Harmer with The Tragically Hip; Seal; Shannon McNally; Shivaree; Simple Plan; Superchic[k]; Tom Scott; Tomoyasu Hotei; Toploader; U2; The Weekend; Zero 7.


The makes for over 50 songs of rockin'/poppin' soundtrack goodness. Get 'em while they're hot!

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

I am so glad that I live in a world that can produce this:

"Dolphins sing 'Batman' theme"

Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.

Yet Another Fantasy League: Week 4 Results

Here are the results from week 4 of Yet Another Fantasy League:



B.P.R.D. 62
Kickers Inc. 82

Moon Knights 48
The Inferior Five 40

Inferior 5 plus 6 58
www.rickgebhardt.net 36

Nine Pound Hammers 61
Power Pack 74

Danger Unlimited 55
Tomorrow Syndicate 81

Secret Six 77
The Maxx Squad 74



Current Standings:

   Team                 W-L-T  Pct    Pts  Streak
   -------------------  -----  -----  ---  ------
1. Inferior 5 plus 6    4-0-0  1.000  259  W-4
2. Power Pack           3-1-0   .750  263  W-2
3. Nine Pound Hammers   3-1-0   .750  245  L-1
4. Kickers Inc.         3-1-0   .750  229  W-2
5. B.P.R.D.             2-2-0   .500  282  L-2
6. Tomorrow Syndicate   2-2-0   .500  278  W-2
7. Secret Six           2-2-0   .500  266  W-1
8. Moon Knights         2-2-0   .500  201  W-1
9. The Maxx Squad       1-3-0   .250  226  L-2
10.The Inferior Five    1-3-0   .250  200  L-1
11.www.rickgebhardt.net 1-3-0   .250  176  L-2
12.Danger Unlimited     0-4-0   .000  208  L-4

Week 5 Games:

#
Power Pack
vs.
Kickers Inc.

B.P.R.D.
vs.
The Inferior Five

Moon Knights
vs.
www.rickgebhardt.net

Nine Pound Hammers
vs.
Tomorrow Syndicate

Danger Unlimited
vs.
The Maxx Squad

Inferior 5 plus 6
vs.
Secret Six


Good luck to all!


In my other Fantasy Leagues, I lost 70-59 in my friends & family league (2-4-0, fourth place); finally won, 80-52, in my public league (1-3-0, ninth place); and only scored 271.70 points in my Pass & Kick league, but still remain in first place. In the finals of my fantasy basebell league I ended up losing 7-3 and thus finish as the runner-up (although on the morning of the last day I was winning 7-3--I guess my team just decided to sleep through the final day!)

The Flash comes to DVD

TVShowsOnDVD.com has the news that The Flash is coming to DVD on January 10, 2006.

IMHO one of the better super-hero-based television shows, The Flash starred John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen and Amanda Pays as Dr. Christina McGee. Mark Hamill appeared on several episodes as The Trickster, and Howard Chaykin & John Francis Moore co-wrote several episodes. It ran just one season on CBS from 1990-1991, but is fondly remembered by the five of us who were watching.

New This Week: October 5, 2005

Based on the NCRL list for this week's comics shipping from Diamond, here are a few things to look for at the local comic shop later today:


The pick of the week should be no surprise to those of you who read this blog regularly: Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards, a story from the wild west days of paleantology, by Jim Ottaviani & Big Time Attic. You read the FCBD preview, so I'm sure you're all excited to read the whole thing, right?


In other comics:

Amazing Aaron Productions has the second collection A College Girl Named Joe strips.

Antarctic has the Gold Digger Halloween Special and the fourth issue of Oz: The Manga.

Boom Studios has the collection of Keith Giffen's Trencher.

DC has Dean Haspiel illustrating Harvey Pekar's The Quitter; another huge Showcase Presents volume, this time spotlighting Metamorpho; the final issues of Infinity Crisis prologue minis DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy (#4) and Rann/Thanagar War (#6); new issues of Albion (#3), Detective Comics (#812), Gotham Central (#36), JSA (#78), Superman/Shazam (#2), Swamp Thing (#20), and Wonder Woman (#221); and new editions of collections of Arkham Asylum, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen (in a deluxe hardcover).

Drawn & Quarterly have three hardcovers: Bagdad Journal: An Artist In Occupied Iraq, Push Man and Other Stories, and Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea.

Fantagraphics have the 16th volume of Blab.

iBooks finally release their new Magnus: Robot Fighter comic.

Image have the long-delayed Rising Stars hardcover, and new issues of Fell (#2) and Freshmen (#3).

Marvel have Marvel Monsters: Devil Dinosaur (with art by The Goon's Eric Powell); a digest-sized collection of the second Mary Jane mini; and new issues of Incredible Hulk (#87), Marvel Team-Up (#13), New Thunderbolts (#13), Powers (#13) (Hmmm, three #13s on the same day...), The Punisher (#26), and Supreme Power: Nighthawk (#2).

Speakeasy have a collected edition of the first three issues of Elk's Run.

Top Shelf have Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed.

Viz have a new volume of Banana Fish (vol. 10).


There are a slew of hardcovers out this week, so take care that you don't pull your back as you're bringing you loot home from the comic shop this week!