Archive for the ‘Trade Paperback’ Category
Alterna Comics has announced that Jesus Hates Zombies: Those Slack-Jaw Blues has sold out from the company once again. This is the fourth time the book has sold out at the company level.
Creator and writer Stephen Lindsay had this to say in regards of the title’s latest success, “Having JHZ:TSJB sell out at the Alterna level is pretty amazing. For an anthology put together by a first time creator with a bunch of unknown artists to sell this well is really a testament to the level of talent out there just waiting to be given a shot. Lucky for us, Alterna gave us that shot!”.
Alterna said in a prepared statement that it has no plans to send the book back to press right now, instead it plans to focus on other Jesus/Lincoln series.
Press Release
Get ready for a summer of fun! Starting in May 2010, IDW Publishing will begin its extraordinary series of important Archie collections, offering fans an incredible range of must-have hard covers and trade paperbacks. Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo Volume One kicks things off in May by gathering the very best of this seminal Archie artist in one book, followed by Archie: The Classic Newspaper Comics, Volume One, a hardcover collection of strips from the 1940’s, in June. In July, true Archie fans will be delighted by a trade paperback of Archie: Pureheart the Powerful.
This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew returns to the year 1152, to check in with the wee critters inhabiting the Mouse Guard universe with Mouse Guard: Winter 1152.
From Amazon
In the Winter of 1152, the Mouse Guard face a food and supply shortage threatening the lives of many mouse through a cold and icy season. Some of the Guard’s finest – Saxon, Kenzie, Lieam, and Sadie, led by Celanawe, the legendary Black Axe – traverse the snow-blanketed territories acting as diplomats to improve relations between the mouse cities and the Guard, and find themselves on a race against time to deliver crucial medicines. This is a winter not every Guard may survive…
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If you are looking for a perfect holiday gift, then Red 5 Comics has you covered, as it is releasing all three volumes of Atomic Robo in December.
I am reading the news that the Boom Studios comic Irredeemable #6 has gone back to press for a second printing. To be honest, I have been away from comics for a while and some things have slipped past me in the last year or so, this being one of them. With a little research and a nice internet connection, I quickly found out that this was a series that I wanted to read.
Reason number one: the writer. I’ve enjoyed the work of Mark Waid since the days of The Comet for DC’s Impact Imprint. I enjoyed his spectacular Flash run with the Born to Run storyline, and I have bought his Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty complete run twice. I don’t believe that I even have to mention Kingdom Come or Empire, both of which put a new spin on the super hero genre as a whole. Also, he is from Alabama. As a native of Mississippi, that says something to me.
Reason number two: the reviews. Not only have I seen this series get mounds of praise from other industry sites, our own Stephen Schleicher gave the second and third issues four stars each, high praise indeed, and enough to warrant a pick-up.
We talked, you listened, then asked for more. During our last discussion of Y: The Last Man, we mentioned if listeners were interested, we’d continue our discussion of the series. This week, the Major Spoilers Crew is taking a look at Y: The Last Man, Volume 2 collected hardcover trade.
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- One Small Step (issues #11–17)
- In Oldenbrook, Kansas, Yorick, 355 and Dr. Mann help a Russian woman named Natalya Zamyatintwo male and one female astronauts forced to return to Earth after being trapped on the International Space Station the day the plague hit. recover
- Comedy & Tragedy has a travelling group of actresses find a wayward Ampersand, inspiring them to write a play called The Last Man (The main character’s name taken from Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man).
- Safeword (issues #18–23)
- Yorick and his companions travel to Allenspark, Colorado, where 355 and Dr. Mann fix up Ampersand, while retired Culper Ring agent 711 forces Yorick to confront his survivor guilt.
- In Widow’s Pass, the story moves to Queensbrook, set nine months after the One Small Step arc.
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DC Comics has sent Major Spoilers the rundown of collected trades arriving in November 2009.
The Marvel Super-Hero Team-Up trade paperback is headed your way in September, and it’s going to feature a new variant cover by Jorge Molina.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew are taking on Tank Girl from Titan Books.
As the name suggests, Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centers on her misadventures with her boyfriend, Booga, a mutant kangaroo. The comic’s style was heavily influenced by punk visual art, and strips were frequently deeply disorganized, anarchic, absurdist, and psychedelic. The strip features various elements with origins in surrealist techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very little regard or interest for conventional plot or committed narrative.
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With Blackest Night hitting full force over the next year, it really comes as no surprise that the Green Lantern: Rebirth story is getting the Absolute treatment from DC. Or at least that is what Geoff Johns is saying. And if you can’t trust Geoff Johns, you can probably trust DC when it made the announcement at the ComicsPRO meeting back in March.
There are plenty of really great tales coming out of DC, and many of them have yet to see an Absolute treatment. Is Green Lantern: Rebirth worthy, or should there be other stories that should get a bump on the list?
Occasionally, the publishers will take a collection of sold out issues, and combine them into a mini-trade that fits the budget and makes it easy for readers to get their hands on a collection of books. Such is the case with Ms. Marvel: War of the Marvels Must Have that includes Ms. Marvel #39-41.
The three issue mini-trade arrives August 19, 2009.
I know, you’re comic book shop is probably closed by now, but if you have one of them fancy new 24-hour comic book shops, you might want to head on down and pick up this collected web comic series.
Press Release
IDW Publishing is proud to release the first graphic novel collection of the award winning webcomic and acclaimed IDW miniseries The Dreamer by creator and author Lora Innes. A romantic and rich story told with well-researched historical detail, The Dreamer has been honored with two Harvey Award nominations for “Best New Series” and “Best New Talent,” plus a nomination for the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Award for “Outstanding Newcomer Comic” in 2008.
Equal parts 21st-century teenage slice-of-life tale and 18th-century adventure, The Dreamer tells the story of seventeen-year-old Beatrice Whaley, a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier in the chaos of the American Revolution. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures, but it is not long before Beatrice questions whether her adventures are simply dreams… or something more.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the Major Spoilers Crew is taking a peek at the first arc of Ed Brubaker’s Immortal Iron Fist from Marvel Comics.
Amazon Description
Many years ago, in the mystical city of Kun’ Lun, young Danny Rand stared at a suit behind glass – the garb of the “Immortal Iron Fist” – and knew that he was destined to wear it. But where did this costume come from? Why did it wait for Danny all those years like a shadow of his future? The answer to those questions will stun both him and his readers, as Danny Rand leaps from the pages of his breakout hit in Daredevil to his own history-spanning kung-fu epic that will shatter every perception of what it means to be the Immortal Iron Fist! Brought to you by top-ten writer Ed Brubaker and breakout talent Matt Fraction (Punisher War Journal), with action-packed art by David Aja (Daredevil, Giant-Size Wolverine). Collects Immortal Iron Fist #1-6.
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Press Release
THE SKY PIRATES OF NEO TERRA saga begins in a new five issue series with BURN illustrator Camilla D’Errico, FICTION CLEMENS writer Josh Wagner and SKY PIRATES creator Sean Megaw, setting the stage for the upcoming Nintendo DStm racer from Day 21 Studios and Big Sandwich Games, this September.
This will probably be of great interest to Ender’s Game fans, and more specifically fans of the Ender’s Game comic book series from Marvel Comics. The company announced fans can head on over to marvel.com/endersgame to see the pretty graphics, and read Ender’s Game: Battle School #1 and Ender’s Shadow: Battle School #1 for free. It’s all part of the promotion for the upcoming Ender’s Game: Battle School and Ender’s Shadow: Battle School Premiere HC editions arriving July 15, 2009.
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