Thor: For Asgard
Like most people who shop regularly at a comic store I have a pull list that I submit when a new Previews magazine comes out. Items are picked two months in advance and occasionally you forget what’s coming. Last week…
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Elektra Lives Again
I’m going to provide some insight on Elektra Lives Again from Epic Comics and Graphitti Designs. This was a huge book for 1990: Frank Miller had collaborated with Janson and Mazzuchelli to produce epic runs on Daredevil and Batman, but…
The Arctic Marauder
Fantagraphics keeps the hits rolling throughout 2011 and The Arctic Marauder is the latest in their Jacques Tardi translations line. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: In our ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back…
Weapons Of The Metabaron
Anything by Travis Charest goes right onto my “must-have” list; he’s an amazing artist that seems to keep getting better. Unfortunately, he also seems to be getting slower with new work sorely lacking. I anxiously awaited Weapons Of The Metabaron from Humanoids:…
Umbrella Academy Limited Editions
In 2008 The Umbrella Academy took the comic world by storm, winning an Eisner for best limited series and cementing the creative team of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba as up and comers. It was followed up by a second…
King Of The Flies: Volume 1 Hallorave
This one caught me by surprise. As I read more and more collected editions my library of Fantagraphics books grows with new releases and older material “discovered” online and at my local comic shop. I was perusing their 2011 catalogue…
Spider-Man: Big Time
A new artist on an entire story arc of Spider-Man, in one hardcover package. Spider-Man: Big Time Premiere hardcover collects Amazing Spider-Man 648-651 by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: Big changes are happening for the Amazing Spider-Man: Bigger…
Superman: Secret Origin
Over Christmas, I had a chance to read Superman: Secret Origin The Deluxe Edition hardcover. I’ve been a long-term Gary Frank fan so I knew what to expect with the art, and Geoff Johns is a major powerhouse at DC…
Nemesis
Like most comic enthusiasts I saw the online campaign for Nemesis, a creator-owned series by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. Its four issues have finally been collected in a hardcover Premiere edition. I generally like both creators so I was…