New This Week: April 19, 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 MR Comics' Big Max #1. It's a creator-owned title by Dan Slott. And it has monkeys! Should be good.


In other comics:

Antarctic have a new issue of Ninja High School (#137).

Ape Entertainment have the debut of Horrorwood.

Dark Horse have a new issue of The Goon (#17).

DC have two digest collections of Justcie League Unlimited (vols. 2 & 3); the debut of Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit; an Ex Machina Special (with Chris Sprouse on art); and new issues of Birds of Prey (#93), Hellblazer (#219), JLA Classified (#20), JSA Classified (#11), Manhunter (#21), and Testament (#5).

Disney have a colelction of Art Balthazar's Gorilla Gorilla.

IDW have the final issue of Angel: Old Friends (#5)

Kyle Baker Publishing have a hardcover collection of Kyle Baker's The Bakers: Do These Toys Belong Somewhere?

Marvel ahev your Power Pack goodness, with a digest collection of X-Men & Power Pack and the debut issue of Avengers & Power Pack. They also have new issues of The Book of Lost Souls (#6), Captain America (#17), Daredevil (#84), Nextwave (#4), Squadron Supreme (#2), and X-Statix Presents Dead Girl (#4).

Newcomics debut several manwha titles all at once...

Oni have trade collections of volumes 2 & 3 of Queen & Country Declassified.

TokyoPop have several tankōbon, including the fourth volume of Dead End.

Viper have a trade collection of Random Encounter.


That oughta do ya for this week. Enjoy your new comics!

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Mike Wieringo on why Spidey's classic costume works. (no direct link, so go to entry #216, for April 17).

ITEM! Mike Sterling on FCBD tips for comic store owners.

ITEM! Neil Cohn on Why Superheroes are not Mythology.

ITEM! Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. (via Sara)

ITEM! Just two weeks until we kick off Free Comic Book Month here at YACB; can you feel the excitement?!

New Library Comics: Week of April 10, 2006

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


Comics as philosophy /Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Flight /Orange, CA : Image Comics, c2004- vols. 1-2

Hergé, 1907-1983. Cigars of the pharaoh /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1975.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Destination moon /Boston : Little, Brown, c1976.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Explorers on the moon /Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Co., c1976.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Flight 714 /Boston : Little, Brown, [1975], c1968.

Hergé, 1907-1983. King Ottokar's sceptre /Boston : Little, Brown, c1974.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Prisoners of the sun /Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Co., c1975.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Red Rackham's treasure /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1974.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The Black Island /Boston : Little, Brown, [1975], c1966.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The blue lotus /Boston : Little, Brown, c1984.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The broken ear /Boston : Little, Brown, c1978.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The Calculus affair /Boston : Little, Brown, c1976.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The Castafiore emerald /Boston : Little, Brown, c1975.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The crab with the golden claws /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1974.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The Red Sea sharks /Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company, c1976.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The secret of the unicorn /Boston : Little, Brown and Company, c1974.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The seven crystal balls /Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Co., c1975.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The shooting star /Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown and Company, c1978.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Tintin and the picaros /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1978.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Tintin in America /Boston : Little, Brown, c1979.

Hergé, 1907-1983. Tintin in Tibet /Boston : Little, Brown, [1975], c1962.

Killoffer. Six hundred and seventy-six apparitions of Killoffer /London : Typocrat Press, c2005.

Micheluzzi, Attilio. Avventura in Manciuria /Milano : Edizioni l'Isola Trovata, c1985.

Napier, Susan Jolliffe. Anime from Akira to Howl's moving castle : experiencing contemporary Japanese animation /New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Runton, Andy. Flying lessons /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, 2005.

Monkey Covers

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

In honor of his recent passing, here's good ol' Kon-El getting his butt handed to him by an ape of the future on the cover of Superboy #53 by artists Tom Grummett & Karl Kesel.

(Standard disclaimer about apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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

Super Egg

My friend Nancy makes Pysanky--traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs--and this year she made me a really cool Superman Egg:



Thanks Nancy!

Borders Manga Sale

Now through May 1, Borders is having a manga sale: buy 3, get 1 free.

(Borders isn't paying me or anything, I just thought some would like to know...)

Dave's Dozen: Indy Comics

Continuing my look through the April Previews (for comics supposedly shipping in June), here are a dozen indy comics that I feel are worth your attention:


Strangers in Paradise #83
(Abstract, $2.95, p. 212)

The final story arc in Terry Moore's long-running soap opera begins. Worlds will Live! Worlds will die! And nothing will ever be the same! Okay, not really. You've either been in this for the long haul, or not.



Midnight Sun #1
(Slave Labor, $2.95, p. 224)

Ben Towle has the story of a 1928 airship expedition mysteriously lost at the North Pole. An newspaper reporter goes in search of them. What could possibly go wrong?



Ursa Minors #1
(Slave Labor, $2.95, p. 224)

Slackers get super-powered high-tech bear suits! (Stephen Colbert would not be happy...)



DragoPro #0
(Antarctic, $3.50, p. 228)

Rob Espinosa teams up with Joe Dunn for his latest fantasy comic. Pygmy orcs!



Action Philosophers #6: The People's Choice
(Evil Twin, $2.95, p. 290)

You voted, and these are your choices: Aquinas! Keirkegaard! Wittgenstein! Just like American Idol, but with philosophers!



Supermarket #4
(IDW, $3.99, p. 307)

I'll keep plugging it until y'all start buying it. This is Wood's strongest work yet, and the art by Kristian Donaldson is darn snazzy besides.



Leading Man #1
(Oni, $3.50, p. 318)

Actually I'll probably wait for the trade on this, but B. Clay Moore & Jeremy Haun's story of a Hollywood star slash international super spy looks right up my ally.



Amelia Rules! Super Summer Special
(Renaissance, $4.95, p. 321)

A double-sized summer special with the return of Jimmy Gownly's critically acclaimed all-ages comic. Lots of guest creators too.



Okay, you got me; that was only eight comics. Sorry, but there doesn't seem to be much happening in indy floppies this month. Don't worry; I'll have plenty of stuff to spend your money on when I hit the collections & graphic novels...

(A couple days ago I highlighted mainstream comics.)