FCBM6 Day 14

It's day fourteen of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Cardner Clark The five comics that Cardner likes are:

1. I Kill Giants
2. Fables
3. Sin City
4. The Umbrella Academy
5. The Unwritten

And his other thing of interest is strategic board games.

For Cardner I have the first issue of the new PunisherMAX series by Jason Aaron & Steve Dillon.

For Cardner's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Popeye Halloween comic.

Cardner's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
29 entries
41 free comics sent so far
17 days remaining

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2 (-). Kick-Ass
3 (+3). Wilson
4 (+21). The Walking Dead Book 5 *
5 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 *
6 (+7). Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984
7 (-3). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
8 (R). Invincible: The Ultimate Collection Volume 5
9 (+5). Instructions
10 (-7). The Flash: Rebirth
11 (+5). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
12 (+3). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour *
13 (N). The Talisman: Volume 1: The Road of Trials
14 (-6). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
15 (+6). Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
16 (-5). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
17 (+1). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
18 (-1). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
19 (R). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
20 (+24). Watchmen
21 (-9). Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Vol. 1
22 (-12). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
23 (+4). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
24 (-). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
25 (-18). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
26 (R). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
27 (+5). V for Vendetta
28 (+2). The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel *
29 (R). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
30 (+4). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art *
31 (N). B.P.R.D. Volume 12: War on Frogs
32 (-1). Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
33 (N). Odd Is on Our Side *
34 (-25). Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3 (Deluxe Edition)
35 (N). Dark Tower: The Battle Of Jericho Hill Premiere HC *
36 (-17). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
37 (-8). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
38 (-10). Treasury of the Lost Litter Box: A Get Fuzzy Treasury
39 (-17). Batman: The Killing Joke
40 (R). FoxTrot Sundaes: A FoxTrot Collection
41 (-1). Batman: Year One
42 (N). Walking Dead Volume 12 *
43 (R). Star Wars: Legacy Volume 8 - Tatooine
44 (-24). The Boys Volume 6 SC
45 (-22). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
46 (+2). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
47 (-12). Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days
48 (-2). Green Lantern: Blackest Night *
49 (-7). Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
50 (R). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid



Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* The big winner this week is Stephen King, with The Talisman debuting up at #1, and a new Dark Tower debuting further down the list

* Daniel Clowes' Wilson continues to be strong, climbing all the way up to #3.

* Also big this week is the Walking Dead; the 5th hardcover collection vaults way up to #4, and volume 12 in the softcover series debuts stealthily at #42.

* The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus I expect would be selling better if not for the fact that it's on long back order ("Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks" in Amazon parlance).

* Another dark horse to look for: Odd Is on Our Side is new graphic novel set in Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series, written by Fred Van Lente and drawn by Queenie Chan.

Look what you've done...

Readers of MYTHFITS aren't ones to shy away from strange mushrooms. According to the poll, you felt a little nibble was in order:

Should Nut eat the mushroom?
just a nibble (37%)
sure (33%)
I'd eat him (22%)
no way (12%)

FCBM6 Day 13

It's day thirteen of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Davidb Marchetti. The five comics that Davidb likes are:

1. Daredevil
2. Amazing Spider-Man
3. Deadpool
4. Thunderbolts
5. Batman

And his other thing of interest is writing for The International Society of Supervillains.

Davidb also says that he "share[s] my comics with my daughter who's old enough to start enjoying them."

So for Davidb and his daughter I have The Amazing Spider-Man Family #5, featuring stories about Spider-Girl, Peter Parker, Screwball, and The Spectacular Swiney-Girl.

For Davidb's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Casper/Little Lulu Halloween comic.

Davidb's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
28 entries
39 free comics sent so far
18 days remaining

Airport Monkey Business

Bizarro is brought to you today by Hair at First Sight.

This cartoon was inspired by the laughable system of security that we have adopted at U.S. airports since 9/11. I've long thought that it was designed primarily to create an "appearance" of safety so as to calm travelers and a couple of airline pilots I've spoken to in recent years confirmed that. A couple of weeks ago, while a small bottle of distilled water that I was carrying to keep my cigars humidified was confiscated by security, the guy who put a car bomb in Times Square was allowed to board a plane unmolested. He was on the No Fly List and was sought by every law enforcement agency in the free world, but at least he didn't have a bottle of water.

If you fly as much as I do, you cannot help but just shake your head at the idiotic structure of the T.S.A. I'm convinced that the only reason a plane hasn't been victimized since 9/11 is because nobody with any brains has tried very hard. One of the pilots I referenced above told me they consider T.S.A. to stand for "thousands standing around."

On to lighter subjects, here's a look at the old "a million monkeys typing" theory. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed finishing it and moving to the couch for a nap.

Wrong Size Sandwich

(click the images to see them LARGE)

Bizarro is brought to you today by Liza Minelli.

Here's another post with a two-fer, to make up some ground on the cartoons I didn't post while away. I really like cartoons like "Clown Mistakes," ones that are outside the usual formula of one-panel comics. More like a chart or diagram than a scene, my hero, B. Kliban was a genius at this kind of joke and the first person I ever saw employ this style.

Lots of readers really loved the sandwich joke, one even said it was the "best Bizarro ever." Normally I'd be happy about such a compliment, but I confess I didn't write this joke. It was given to me by my colleague, Wayno, who was kind enough to help me get ahead while trying to prepare for my lengthy trip away. Several of the jokes that printed last week and this were by Wayno. You can see them all on his blog. Many thanks, amigo!

Still catching up, must run.

FCBM6 Day 12

It's day twelve of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Shawn Kilburn. The five comics that Shawn likes are:

1. Pluto
2. 20th Century Boys
3. Batman & Robin
4. Scott Pilgrim
5. Freakangels

And his other thing of interest is Thomas Pynchon's Inverent Vice .

For Shawn I have the first issue of Masamune Shirow's Dominion.

For Shawn's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Star Wars Halloween comic.

Shawn's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

There's still time to send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
26 entries
37 free comics sent so far
19 days remaining