Adventures of Superman on DVD

TVShowsOnDVD.com has all the details about the release of the first season of Adventures of Superman on DVD on October 18. This is the classic television show from the 1950s that starred George Reeves as the Man of Steel. It also includes the full-length feature Superman and the Mole Men that introduced Reeves in the role.

We here at YACB Central are quite stoked. (Do the kids even say 'stoked' these days?) Despite having been born nearly 20 years after the show first aired, we remember watching it in afternoon reruns as a kid. Yes, the production values weren't great, but it was a daily dose of Superman! Now we all can relive the nostalgia.

New This Week: June 29, 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 tomorrow:


The Pick of the Week is Penny & Aggie #1 by T Campbell and Gisele Lagace--yes, it's an Alias book. I really liked Campbell & Lagace's now-defunct Cool Cat Studio, so I have high hopes for their new project, which appears to be told in the form of Sunday strips. (There's also an online comic, but this print version I think is all-new material.)


In other comics:

About comics have a new issue of Nat Gertler's Licensable Bear (#2).

Antarctic have the second issue of Oz: The Manga.

Ape Entertainment have Go Go Gorilla & Jungle Crew Summer Special--you can't go wrong with monkeys!

Checker have a trade collection of the old Topps X-Files comics.

DC debut the Moore/Moore/Repion reworking of old British super-heroes that no one else remembers in Albion #1. There's a trade collection of Matt Wagner's Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman: Trinity; an eigth collection of Lucifer; the Authority Lobo Spring Break Massacre one-shot; and new issues of City of Tomorrow (#3), Hellblazer (#209), JLA Classified (#9), The Losers (#25), The OMAC Project (#3), Planetary (#23), Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight (#3), Solo (#5), and Wonder Woman (#217).

Del Rey have the first volume of a new manga series, Perfect Day for Love Letters (sounds like Shojo!); and the latest volumes of Negima (vol. 6), Othello (vol. 4), and Wallflower (#4).

FC9 have the debut issues of Genie and Hell, Michigan. Yes, there really is a town named Hell here in MI. We also have a town named Paradise--sort of balances it all out.

Hyperion have the first volume of Disney's W.I.T.C.H. manga (although mine arrived last week...)

IDW debut Angel: The Curse and have the second volume of The Complete Jon Sable, Freelance.

Image have Jimmie Robinson's Avigon: Gods & Demons GN.

Kenzer & Co. have a new issue of Knights of the Dinner Table (#104).

Kyle Baker Publishing have the debut of Kyle Baker's Nat Turner biography.

Marvel have the debut issue of X-Men: Kitty Pride: Shadow & Flame (Paul Smith art!) and new issues of Machine Teen (#2) and Runaways (#5).

Viz have the seventh volume of the second edition of Fushigi Yugi.


Plenty of good stuff this week. Happy reading!

Runaways Contest Reminder

There are less than four days left in the YACB Runaways Contest. Entries are due by 11:59 pm EDT this Friday (July 1).

Response has been pretty underwhelming so far, so at this point your chances of winning are pretty good. But you have to enter to win...

King Kong

I had huge reservations about Peter Jackson's King Kong remake, but the trailer reveals a Giant Monkey vs. a Tyranasaurus Rex. I'm so there!

New Library Comics: Week of June 20, 2005

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

Abel, Jessica. La Perdida : by Jessica Abel.Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2001- no. 2

Abel, Jessica. Soundtrack : short stories 1989-1996 /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, c2001.

B., David, 1959- Epileptic /New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.

Bagge, Peter. Buddy bites the bullet /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2001.

Bagge, Peter. Buddy's got three moms /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 1999.

Burns, Charles. Black hole /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphic Books, 2002-2004. no. 1-12

Chadwick, Paul. Salimba : deluxe graphic novel /El Cajon, Calif. : Blackthorne, 1989.

Cooper, Dave (David Charles) Crumple : the status of Knuckle /Seattle : Fantagraphics, c2000.

Crumb, R. The complete Crumb /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, [1987?]- v.8

French, Renee. The soap lady /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, Inc., 2001.

Gauld, Tom. Move to the city /Geneve : Bulb Comix, 2004.

Gregory, Roberta. A bitch is born /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 1996.

Gregory, Roberta. As naughty as she wants to be! /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 1995.

Gregory, Roberta. Bitchy's college daze /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 1997.

Griffith, Bill, 1944- Are we having fun yet? : Zippy the Pinhead's 29 day guide to random activities and arbitrary donuts /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 1994.

Hart, Tom. Collected Hutch Owen /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2000-

Hernandez satyricon /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Book, 1997.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Blood of Palomar /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2002.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Chelo's burden /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2001.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Duck feet /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2002.

Hernandez, Gilbert. House of raging women /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2002.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Luba conquers the world /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 1996.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Luba in America /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, c2001.

Hernandez, Gilbert. Poison river /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 1997.

Hernandez, Jaime. Chester Square /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, c1996.

Hernandez, Jaime. Flies on the ceiling /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2003.

Hernandez, Jaime. Las mujeres perdidas /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c1990.

Hernandez, Jaime. Wigwam bam /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2001.

Ito, Junji, 1922- Uzumaki. San Francisco, CA : Viz Communications, 2002, c1998. v.2-3

Jodorowsky, Alexandro. The white lama /Hollywood, CA : Humanoids Pub., c2000. v.1

Kochalka, James. American elf : the collected sketchbook diaries of James Kochalka, October 26, 1998 to December 31, 2003 /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, c2004.

Kochalka, James. Magic Boy & the robot elf /Marietta, Georgia : Top Shelf Productions, 2003.

Kochalka, James. Monkey vs. Robot and the crystal of power /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2003.

Kochalka, James. Pinky & Stinky /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, c2002.

Kochalka, James. The perfect planet & other stories /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 1999.

Kominsky, Aline. The complete dirty laundry comics : a true family comic strip /[San Francisco : Last Gasp of San Francisco], 1993.

Kuper, Peter, 1958- Topsy turvy /New York, NY : Eye Press ; Marietta, GA : Distributed by Top Shelf Productions, c2000.

Leo Nuevo rodeo. Marseille : Le Dernier Cri, 2005.

Moebius, 1938- Icaro /New York : Ibooks ; London : Simon & Schuster, 2003-2004. v.1-2

Sacco, Joe. Notes from a defeatist /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2003.

Scheibner, Reinhard. Lino-metal : compilation gravures /Marseille : Dernier Cri, [2002?]

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- Maison ikkoku /San Francisco, CA : Viz Comics, c1993- v.1-9

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Nextworld /Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2003- v.1-2

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Phoenix /San Francisco, CA : Viz, c2003- v.1, 2, 4, 5

Tyler, Carol. The job thing /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 1993.

Ware, Chris, 1967- Quimby the mouse /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2003.


(I warned you that there were going to be a lot!)


As a reminder, there are just 5 days remaining in the YACB Runaways Contest...

Monkey Covers

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

From January 1974 it's Jungle Twins #8: "Tono and Kono confront a fearsome fugitive from the gorilla cult of Dr. Strangekind!" What more could you ask for out of a comic?

(standard disclaimer about gorillas not really being monkeys applies)

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

Runaways Contest!

It's time for a new contest here at YACB!

I'm giving away two prize packages related to Marvel's acclaimed Runaways series by Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona:

The Grand Prize is all three volumes of the Runaways digests, collecting all 18 issues of the first volume of the series.

Second Prize is the first six issues of the first Runaways series (the ones that are collected in the first digest).

What do you have to do to enter? It's simple:

In the series, a group of kids discover that their parents are secretly super-villains. To enter the YACB Runaways contest, just email me a paragraph addressing the topic: If your parents were super-villains, which super-villains would they be, and why? (Please put 'Runaways Contest' in your email subject.)

Fine Print: Deadline for entries is next Friday, July 1st, at 11:59 pm EDT. Due to postage costs, only U.S. and Canada residents are eligible. The decision of the judge (me) is final. Only one entry per person. Your name and entry may be used on this blog when the contest winners are announced.

So what are you waiting for? Enter today!