New This Week: February 22, 2006

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 tomorrow:


The Pick of the Week is Mouse Guard #1 from Archaia Studio Press. Yes, its story of mice in a fantasy-like world is somewhat derivative of Redwall, but the art is charmingly realistic and well-done. It's a funny shape though (square) so don't miss it.


In other comics:

Aardvark-Vanaheim & Win-Mill have another installment of comics criticism with Following Cerebus #7.

Alias have collected editions of both Lions, Tigers & Bears and Lullaby: Wisdom Seeker.

Antarctic have the last issue of Oz: The Maga (#8), although I think there's also an epilogue on the way.

Boom! Studios have Zombie Tales: Death Valley #2.

Dark Horse have a new issue of Usagi Yojimbo (#91).

DC have the earliest adventures of the Man of Steel in Superman Chronicles, vol. 1; debut issues of John Ridley's American Way and Jones & Sears' Warlord revival; and new issues of Catwoman (#52), JLA Classified (#17), Legion of Super-Heroes (#15), Lucifer (#71); and the final issue of Wonder Woman (#226).

Fantagraphics have a new issue of Luba's Comics and Stories (#7).

Marvel have the return of Whedon & Cassiday's Astonishing X-Men (#13); the final issue of Black Widow 2 (#6); and new issues of Captain America (#15), Book of Lost Souls (#5), Kabuki (#6), Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (#3), Supreme Power: Hyperion (#4), and Ultimate Spider-Man (#90).

TokyoPop have a ton of books, including volume 3 of Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.


That about does it. Looks like DC wasn't able to ship an issue of Infinite Crisis during February--that's really going to hurt their dollar share...

New Library Comics: Week of February 13, 2006

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


Atangan, Patrick. The silk tapestry and other Chinese folktales /New York : NBM Pub., c2004.

Atangan, Patrick. The yellow jar : two tales from Japanese tradition /New York : NBM Pub., [2002]-

Atangan, Patrick. Tree of love /New York : Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Pub., 2005.

Birbal the clever /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1997.

Dasharatha /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1998.

Dead herring comics /Tel Aviv, Israel : Actus Independent Comics, [2004]

Jataka tales : bird stories /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1997.

Kaulfersch, Ron. Van Von Hunter /Los Angeles, CA : Tokyopop, c2005. v. 1

Krishna /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1998.

Kurtzman, Harvey. Playboy's Little Annie Fanny /Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Comics, 2000-

Mansukhani, G. S. Guru Nanak /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1998.

McCay, Winsor. Little Nemo in Slumberland /Palo Alto, CA : Sunday Press, c2005.

Noisy outlaws, unfriendly blobs, and some other things that aren't as scary, maybe, depending on how you feel about lost lands, stray cellphones, creatures from the sky, parents who disappear in Peru, a man named Lars Farf, and one other story we couldn't quite finish so maybe you could help us out /San Francisco : McSweeney's, c2005.

Pekar, Harvey. The quitter /New York : DC Comics, c2005.

Sala, Richard. Mad night /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2005.

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935- The Push Man, and other stories /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005.

The hidden treasure : a Jataka tale /Mumbai, India : India Book House, 1998.

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! "I'm always sorry to have to rush to the defense of idiots." Joe Sacco, along with Art Speigelman, discusses the Danish cartoon controversy on The Nation.

ITEM! Linkology: How the Most-Linked-To Blogs Relate from New York Magazine. And not a single comics blog among them.

ITEM! Infuze magazine has the entire first issue of David: Shepherd's Song available online (free registration required). I previously reviewed this comic favorably.

ITEM! Over on Newsarama, Andy Diggle interviews David Lloyd about the V for Vendetta movie (Lloyd's take is quite different from Alan Moore's...) and his upcoming graphic novel, Kickback (with sample pages!)

ITEM! On this weekend's Speaking of Faith, host Krista Tippett speaks in-depth with American Muslim scholar Vincent Cornell about the Danish Cartoon Controversy. It's very interesting, but missing from the conversation is any mention of the inflamatory fake cartoons.

Monkey Covers

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

Win Mortimer draws the cover to 1954's Adventure Comics #196, featuring Superboy facing off against the improbably-named Kingorilla.

(Standard disclaimer about giant gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

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

100K Contest Winner

The winner of the YACB 100,000th Visitor Free Comic Giveaway Contest--randomly chosen via a die roll out of the 19 entries I received--is Nate Atkinson.

Congratulations to Nate, and thanks to everyone who entered. There will be plenty more chances to win free comics in May when we have our 2nd Annual Free Comic Book Month here at YACB.

Time is Running Out!

There are less than six hours remaining to send in your entry for our 100,000th Visitor Free Comic Giveaway Contest. Don't miss out on your chance to win a bunch of cool comics, all for the cost of a single emai

The official 100,000th visitor hit the site at 5:41pm EST, following a link to the contest from P. Jarvinen's Comic Book Wife blog (thanks for the link!) If this person was you, email me with enough identifying information that I can match you to the site meter (e.g. your ISP and city where you live) and I'll send a special prize your way.

100,000th Visitor Free Comic Giveaway Contest!

Sometime today YACB will have its 100,000th visitor.

To celebrate, I'm offering a special prize package to one lucky YACB reader.

What's in the prize package? I'm glad you asked!


It consists of two graphic novels:

• Sea of Red, vol. 1: No Grave But the Sea by Rick Remender, Kieron Dwyer & Salgood Sam. It features pirates, vampires, and vampire pirates.


• A Trip to Rundberg by Nate Southard & Shawn Richter. It features zombies, zombies, and more zombies.

Plus a set of recent #1 issues of the following comics:

• Fury: Peacemaker #1 by Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson & Jimmy Palmiotti


• Generation M #1 by Paul Jenkins, Ramon Bachs & John Lucas


• Jeremiah Harm #1 by Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, & Rael Lyra


• Loveless #1 by Brian Azzarello & Marcelo Frusin


• Planetary Brigade #1 by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, & friends


• Revelations #1 by Paul Jenkins & Humberto Ramos


• Sentinel Squad O*N*E #1 by John Layman, Aaron Lopresti & Norm Rapmund


• Team Zero #1 by Chuck Dixon, Doug Mahnke & Sandra Hope


• Underworld #1 by Frank Tieri, Staz Johnson & Tom Palmer


• Vigilante #1 by Bruce Jones & Ben Oliver

And that's not all--I'm also tossing in a DVD of 10 classic Fleischer Superman cartoons!


What do you have to do to enter for a chance to win this prize package? It's simple!

Just email me with a note saying that you want to enter, and include '100K Contest' in the subject line. That's it! All entries must be received by Midnight tonight (EST). Tomorrow morning I'll randomly choose a name out of the winning entries, and that person will win the prize package detailed above.

Of course, there's some fine print:

* The decision of the winner is solely at my discretion--it will be chosen at random--and my decision is final.

* Only one entry per person.

* All entrants must live within the United States.

* All entrants must be at least 18-years-old.

* If you are chosen to win, your name will be used on this blog for the announcement of the winner.


Remember, you have to enter today if you want to win, so enter now!

And thanks to everyone for reading this comic book blog.