YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Everybody else has already linked to it, but just in case you haven't seen it, here's a link to the Superman Returns trailer. I'm so there.

ITEM! Looking for more chances to win free comics? Comic Book Galaxy is teaming up with cool new publisher First-Second Books to give away five complete sets of their inaugeral graphic novel line.

ITEM! More free comics? Must be something in the aether! Mark Fossen is celebrating his birthday by giving away copies of Gray Horses, Midnight Kiss, and Battle Royale.

ITEM! More FCBM2 linkage from David and Rob. Thanks!

Yet Another Music Moment

I'm totally digging the video for Sandi Thom's "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)". It looks like the single and the album will be UK only for the time being, but thankfully QuickTime and the Interweb know no international boundaries. (if you don't like QuickTime, you can view it other formats here.)


Speaking of UK only, Sing-Sing and I is the second album from the group Sing-Sing. You can't buy it in the U.S., but you can listen to the whole darn thing via streaming QuickTime from Sing-Sing's site. I highly recommend it for alt-pop fans of all stripes.

I really wish that record companies would stop with this whole business of trying to restrict music to certain geographical regions; it just pisses fans off.

FCBM2 Day 3

It's day three of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Dave Prosser. The five comics that Dave listed are:

1. Scott Pilgrim
2. Acme Novelty Library
3. Anything by Jack Kirby
4. All Star Superman
5. Runaways

Dave seems like just the type who will get a kick out of Steve Emond's Emo Boy #1, so that's what I'll be sending on to him.

And like all the selected entries, Dave will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case The Goon 25¢ Edition by Eric Powell.

Dave's comics should be in the mail by the end of the week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
24 entries
8 free comics sent so far
28 days remaining

New This Week: May 3, 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 the finale of DC's Infinite Crisis. Worlds will live, worlds will die, etc. etc. Sure to both delight and enrage fanboys in equal quantities (and sometimes within the same person!)


In other comics:

Amaze Ink have the fourth issue of super-cool librarian Rex Libris.

Antarctic have the fourth issue of Rod Espinosa's Alice in Wonderland adaptation, plus the 75th issue of Fred Perry's Gold Digger.

Archaia Studios have the second issue of Mouse Guard.

Boom! Studios have the second issue of War of the Worlds: Second Wave.

Dark Horse have the second issue of BPRD: Universal Machine; a collection of Concrete: The Human Dilema; and the 3rd volume of one of my favorite current manga series, Eden.

DC have collections of Gotham Central (vol. 3) and Sandman Mystery Theatre (vol. 4), two great books that you should have been reading, but now have a second chance. There are also new issues of Action Comics (#838), Detective Comics (#819), JSA (#85), Justice League Unlimited (#21), Swamp Thing (#27), and Y, the Last Man (#45).

Digital Manga have the second Robot anthology.

Fantagraphics have a new issue of Love & Rockets (vol. 2 #16).

Image have their debut of the former Speakeasy title Rocketo (#7). Which is cool if you read the trade and are up to speed; however, if you were trying to read it in floppies you're screwed, because issues #5-6 were never published...

Marvel kick off Infinite Crisis Civil War, their big crossover event for the summer. There's also a third Hulk Visionaries: Peter David volume; a collection of Punisher Max: The Slavers; and new issues of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (#8), The Punisher (#33), and Ultimate Spider-Man (#94).

TokyoPop have the 13th Kindaichi Case Files: House of Wax.

Viper have a new issue of The Middleman (#2.3).


Which brings us to the end of another week in comics. Enjoy!

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Jen Contino at The Pulse talks to Marc Sumerak about Avengers and Power Pack Assemble! It looks like Marvel will be making available special editions with library bindings.

ITEM! The new PW Comics Week has an article about Top Shelf's forthcoming collection of the complete Lost Girls by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie--I'm willing to bet that this doesn't end up on the shelves at the San Bernardino County library system!

ITEM! Thanks to everyone who has linked to Free Comic Book Month 2 so far, including Gordon, Johanna, Mark, TangognaT, Redhead Fangirl, and Lyle. There's still plenty of time to enter, so don't be shy!

FCBM2 Day 2

It's day two of the second annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Today's selected entry comes from Kevin Donlin. The five comics that Kevin listed are:

1. Hellblazer
2. Fables
3. Star Wars
4. Superman
5. Batman


With Hellblazer & Batman among his faves, Kevin seems like a good bet to like Man-Bat. So I'm sending Kevin the first issue of the 1996 Man-Bat mini by Chuck Dixon, Flint Henry & Eduardo Barreto; as well as the first issue of the new Man-Bat mini by Bruce Jones & Mike Huddleston.

And like all the selected entries, Kevin will be receiving a special Dark Horse promo-priced comic, in this case The Goon 25¢ Edition by Eric Powell.

Kevin's comics should be in the mail by the end of the week. Enjoy!

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

Current FCBM Statistics:
19 entries
6 free comics sent so far
29 days remaining

New Library Comics: Week of April 24, 2006

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


Crosland, Dave. Slop : analecta /Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2005.

Free radicals /Providence, RI : Paper Rodeo ; [New York] : Distributed Art Publishers, c2005.

Gudel, Benjamin. Blood sweat & tears /Berlin : Die Gestalten Verlag, c2005.

Jis, 1963- Cats don't exist /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2004.

Knight, Keith, 1966- What a long strange strip it's been : yet another K chronicles compendium /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, c2002.

McSweeney’s quarterly concern. No. 13, An assorted sampler of North American comic drawings, strips, and illustrated stories, etc. /San Francisco : McSweeney's Quarterly, 2004.

Motter, Dean. Mister X : the definitive collection /New York : Ibooks : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2004- vol. 1

Stein, Leslie Anne Mackenzie. Yeah, it is! /[S.l. : s.n.], c2003.