Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:
Brown, Sam. Amazing rain /Brooklyn, N.Y. : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2004.
James, Dan. The octopi and the ocean /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2004.
Monday, 9 January 2006
YACB Bulletins
ITEM! Ever wonder what happened to ex-Quantum & Woody artist M. D. "Doc" Bright? In addition to illustrating one of the upcoming Untold Tales of the New Universe one-shots, he's created his own syndicated comic strip: Level Path. (via Steve Bennett)
ITEM! "We thought that American television was much better than it actually was because they didn’t send over any of the rubbish!" - Neil Gaiman, in an interview on 92Y Blog (via Tom). This used to be the case with Japanese manga here in the U.S.--until the last couple of years when, desperate for material, the publishers started licensing the cheap crap along with the good stuff, giving us a more accurate look at the range of quality in Japanese comics.
ITEM! Apparently Joe Q thinks that the market can support another ongoing Wolverine series. Because what everyone is clamoring for is another comic starring the most overexposed character of the past two decades.
ITEM! Over at The Great Curve, Tom Bondurant takes the opportunity of the occasion of the end of Superman to take a look back at the 20-year post-Crisis history of the enduring super-hero.
ITEM! The 2005 Nebula Awards preliminary ballot is available--as usual, I haven't read anything on it (yet...)
ITEM! "We thought that American television was much better than it actually was because they didn’t send over any of the rubbish!" - Neil Gaiman, in an interview on 92Y Blog (via Tom). This used to be the case with Japanese manga here in the U.S.--until the last couple of years when, desperate for material, the publishers started licensing the cheap crap along with the good stuff, giving us a more accurate look at the range of quality in Japanese comics.
ITEM! Apparently Joe Q thinks that the market can support another ongoing Wolverine series. Because what everyone is clamoring for is another comic starring the most overexposed character of the past two decades.
ITEM! Over at The Great Curve, Tom Bondurant takes the opportunity of the occasion of the end of Superman to take a look back at the 20-year post-Crisis history of the enduring super-hero.
ITEM! The 2005 Nebula Awards preliminary ballot is available--as usual, I haven't read anything on it (yet...)
Sunday, 8 January 2006
Giant Tire
In honor of the return of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, here's one of my favorite (non-monkey) covers:
(Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #16 cover by Scott Shaw!)
(click to enlarge)
This of course being an homage to the famous War Wheel cover, and obviously inspired by this:
The 8-story tall giant Uniroyal tire in Allen Park, MI--just off I-94, where I see it every time I drive to the airport.
(Ah, insomnia--it makes a blogger post the oddest things...)
(click to enlarge)
This of course being an homage to the famous War Wheel cover, and obviously inspired by this:
The 8-story tall giant Uniroyal tire in Allen Park, MI--just off I-94, where I see it every time I drive to the airport.
(Ah, insomnia--it makes a blogger post the oddest things...)
Monkey Covers
Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.Our second Monkey Cover of the year is also from one of my 2005 Favorites: Y, the Last Man #35 features Ampersand the monkey on a cover by Massimo Carnevale.
Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.
Friday, 6 January 2006
Yet Another Friday Question - Out of Print Manga
Which out-of-print manga do you think should be brought back in print?
My votes would be for Mai the Psychic Girl and all of the Moto Hagio stuff that Viz published way back when, like They Were 11 and A, A'.
What do you think?
My votes would be for Mai the Psychic Girl and all of the Moto Hagio stuff that Viz published way back when, like They Were 11 and A, A'.
What do you think?
Previews-o-Rama part 1: The Front
It's time once again to page through the latest Previews. Items supposedly shipping in March (but don't hold your breath or anything...)
Dark Horse
Another Conan mini-series debuts: Book of Thoth by Kurt Busiek, Len Wein, and Kelley Jones. Dark Horse are going to drive this license right into the ground just liek they did with Star Wars, aren't they?
Speaking of Star Wars, it's a chance for the better as the first issue of Star Wars: The Return of Tag & Bink--Special Edition come out. The first mini, Tag & Bink Are Dead, was highly enjoyable; if you ever called yourself a Star Wars fan, you'll want to check this out.
Paul Chadwick's Concrete: The Human Dilema--one of last year's best mini-series--gets a collected edition.
DC Comics
It's One Year Later! Or something. I'm most excited about James Robinson writing Batman and Detective Comics; Geoff Johns & Kurt Busiek writing Superman and Action Comics; and Walt Simonson & Howard Chaykin doing Hawkgirl. I'm glad to see Gail Simone syaing on Brids of Prey and the cretive team intact on Firestorm and Manhunter. Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes intrigues. I'm not so sure about the new Blue Beetle--that costume is ugly. And the new direction on Nightwing looks really bad.
But more important, there's the third issue of All Star Superman. Vootie!
And there's Showcase Presents The Superman Family--nearly 600 pages of pre-silver age wackiness.
The final issues of the last three Seven Soldiers minis all hit the racks, as does a second Seven Soldiers trade collection.
Superman in the Eighties leads off with the classic Pa Kent Returns story from Action Comics #507-508, which honestly is almost worth the price of admission right there. There's also the kick-ass "If Superman Didn't Exist" by Marv Wolfman & Gil kane from Action #554. The first Silver Banshee story from Action #595 and the Superman luvs Wonder Woman story from Action #600 (both by John Byrne); Marv Wolfman & Jerry Ordway's story from The Adventures of Superman #430, which I honestly don't remember a thing about, even after having looked at the cover; and a cosmic Superman meets The Spectre story by Len Wein & Jim Starlin from DC Comics Presents #29 (oddly the third part of a 3-part story). Wouldn't it have been useful for DC to actually include the information about which stories these are in their Previews copy?
The Johnny DC sectino has not one but two digest collections of the Justice League Unlimited comic.
Who the %&#$! asked for a crossover between Red Sonja & Claw the Unconquered?
Ah well, at least there's a new Ex Machina collection, helping to justify WildStorm's continued existance.
Over in Vertigo-land there's a new collection for 100 Bulelts, and collection of two Hellblazer minis: Papa Midnight and Lady Constantine.
Image
About that cover to Bomb Queen #2: Ummm... Really? I have a good deal of faith in Jimmie Robinson, but I dunno about this...
A new Lions, Tigers and Bears mini debuts, free from its Alias shackles.
Truth, Justin, and the American Way debuts as well.
Something I never even remotely saw coming: Dave Sim is co-writing the new Gun Fu mini.
Was the world really crying out for a return of CyberForce?
Marvel
Is anybody else worried that the copy for the new Squadron Supreme comic sounds a lot like the original premise for Youngblood?
I really don't want to be pulled in to this Annihilation thing, but darn it if Giffen didn't win me over with the Drax the Destroyer mini.
I'll be shamelessly pulled into the Untold Tales of the New Universe, at least the Justice, Star Brand and DP7 issues.
Bendis finally brings his bastard stepchild The Pulse to an end.
Thunderbolts returns to its original name and numbering with an old-fashioned #100 anniversary issue.
I love Ryan Sook and all, but it didn't take very long for fill-in artists to be called in on X-Factor, did it?
Alias gets a huge-ass 720-page oversized hardcover--for a whopping $70...
Does Thor: Blood Oath really warrant a hardcover collection?
Ooo cool--a new Runaways digest.
That wraps up part one. Part two--the middle--will be along at some point...
Dark Horse
Another Conan mini-series debuts: Book of Thoth by Kurt Busiek, Len Wein, and Kelley Jones. Dark Horse are going to drive this license right into the ground just liek they did with Star Wars, aren't they?Speaking of Star Wars, it's a chance for the better as the first issue of Star Wars: The Return of Tag & Bink--Special Edition come out. The first mini, Tag & Bink Are Dead, was highly enjoyable; if you ever called yourself a Star Wars fan, you'll want to check this out.
Paul Chadwick's Concrete: The Human Dilema--one of last year's best mini-series--gets a collected edition.
DC Comics
It's One Year Later! Or something. I'm most excited about James Robinson writing Batman and Detective Comics; Geoff Johns & Kurt Busiek writing Superman and Action Comics; and Walt Simonson & Howard Chaykin doing Hawkgirl. I'm glad to see Gail Simone syaing on Brids of Prey and the cretive team intact on Firestorm and Manhunter. Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes intrigues. I'm not so sure about the new Blue Beetle--that costume is ugly. And the new direction on Nightwing looks really bad.But more important, there's the third issue of All Star Superman. Vootie!
And there's Showcase Presents The Superman Family--nearly 600 pages of pre-silver age wackiness.
The final issues of the last three Seven Soldiers minis all hit the racks, as does a second Seven Soldiers trade collection.
Superman in the Eighties leads off with the classic Pa Kent Returns story from Action Comics #507-508, which honestly is almost worth the price of admission right there. There's also the kick-ass "If Superman Didn't Exist" by Marv Wolfman & Gil kane from Action #554. The first Silver Banshee story from Action #595 and the Superman luvs Wonder Woman story from Action #600 (both by John Byrne); Marv Wolfman & Jerry Ordway's story from The Adventures of Superman #430, which I honestly don't remember a thing about, even after having looked at the cover; and a cosmic Superman meets The Spectre story by Len Wein & Jim Starlin from DC Comics Presents #29 (oddly the third part of a 3-part story). Wouldn't it have been useful for DC to actually include the information about which stories these are in their Previews copy?The Johnny DC sectino has not one but two digest collections of the Justice League Unlimited comic.
Who the %&#$! asked for a crossover between Red Sonja & Claw the Unconquered?
Ah well, at least there's a new Ex Machina collection, helping to justify WildStorm's continued existance.
Over in Vertigo-land there's a new collection for 100 Bulelts, and collection of two Hellblazer minis: Papa Midnight and Lady Constantine.
Image
About that cover to Bomb Queen #2: Ummm... Really? I have a good deal of faith in Jimmie Robinson, but I dunno about this...A new Lions, Tigers and Bears mini debuts, free from its Alias shackles.
Truth, Justin, and the American Way debuts as well.
Something I never even remotely saw coming: Dave Sim is co-writing the new Gun Fu mini.
Was the world really crying out for a return of CyberForce?
Marvel
Is anybody else worried that the copy for the new Squadron Supreme comic sounds a lot like the original premise for Youngblood?I really don't want to be pulled in to this Annihilation thing, but darn it if Giffen didn't win me over with the Drax the Destroyer mini.
I'll be shamelessly pulled into the Untold Tales of the New Universe, at least the Justice, Star Brand and DP7 issues.
Bendis finally brings his bastard stepchild The Pulse to an end.
Thunderbolts returns to its original name and numbering with an old-fashioned #100 anniversary issue.
I love Ryan Sook and all, but it didn't take very long for fill-in artists to be called in on X-Factor, did it?
Alias gets a huge-ass 720-page oversized hardcover--for a whopping $70...
Does Thor: Blood Oath really warrant a hardcover collection?
Ooo cool--a new Runaways digest.
That wraps up part one. Part two--the middle--will be along at some point...
Thursday, 5 January 2006
Miyazaki!
Those of you who get Turner Classic Movies on your cable or satellite may want to fire up the ol' TiVo starting tonight, as all this month TCM is featuring Miyazaki movies every Thursday (and no commercials!).Here's the schedule (via AICN):
Jan. 5
Spirited Away (2001) 8 p.m.
Princess Mononoke (1997) 10:15 p.m.
Jan. 12
Nausicaa of the Valley (1984) 8 p.m.
Castle in the Sky (1986) 10 p.m.
Jan. 19
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 8 p.m.
Porco Rosso (1992) 9:30 p.m.
Whisper of the Heart (1995) 11:15 p.m
Jan. 26
Only Yesterday (1991) 8 p.m.
Pom Poko (1994) 10:15 p.m.
(times I assume are EST--I don't know if TCM has a separate west coast feed)
If I'm interpreting my TiVo programming guide correctly, they are showing the dubbed versions at the times listed above, and then in the wee hours of the morning are showing the subtitled versions with the original dialogue.
AFAIK, the last three listed have never had a domestic DVD release, making for an extra special treat!
More info on all these classics on the TCM Website.
Edit: Actually those last three I believe aren't Miyazaki films, though they are from Studio Ghibli.
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