Archive for the ‘Trade Paperback’ Category
Each week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, we take an in-depth look at a trade paperback, giving away all the details of the title selected, and ultimately telling you the listener if you should buy it, check it out from the library, or forget it completely.
Here’s yet another chance for you to be involved in the Major Spoilers experience by voting on one of the following trades we’ll be reading next.
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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew will take a look at Greyshirt – Indigo Sunset from America’s Best Comics.
Greyshirt originally appeared in Tomorrow Stories (1999), each issue consisting of a collection of short stories featuring a recurring cast of characters. These characters, like Greyshirt, were often inspired by pulp magazine and comic book archetypes, such as the boy genius and the masked detective. As such, Greyshirt’s stories often showcased Alan Moore’s take on the detective stories of such characters as The Spirit. Unlike most of the other ABC characters, Greyshirt is not so much a parody of comic book characters as a pastiche of classic masked detectives.
Greyshirt later appeared in Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset, a comic-book limited series and spin-off from Tomorrow Stories that was written and drawn by Veitch. The series explored the origins of the character, as well as showcasing contributions from Russ Heath, Al Williamson, David Lloyd, John Severin, Dave Gibbons, Frank Cho and Hilary Barta. The limited series ran for six issues and has since been collected into a trade paperback.
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Press Release
Inspired by Smith & Tinker’s new digital battling game, IDW Publishing will release the graphic novel Nanovor: Game Day in February 2010. In Nanovor, ancient silicon monsters have resurfaced in our computers to battle it out online and in handheld gaming devices called Nanoscopes. The game’s back-story sets the stage for a unique graphic novel that follows teenager Lucas Nelson and his friends through a fantastic battle all their own. Plus, hidden inside each issue of Nanovor: Game Day is a code that unlocks in-game content, including a new Nanovor.
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“Know also, O prince, that in the selfsame days that the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior-woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry.” -The Nemedian Chronicles
Ring in the New Year in January 2010 by reliving the adventures of the She Devil with a Sword in the first ever Red Sonja Omnibus Collection from Dynamite Entertainment! Five years in the making! Finally, fans and retailers can get over 18 issues of the critically acclaimed series featuring the incredible stories of Michael Avon (Powers) Oeming, Mike (X-Men: Legacy) Carey and J.T. (Blackest Night: Titans) Krul and gorgeous art of Mel Rubi, Pablo Marcos, Lee Moder and more!
This January, NBM is proud to bring volume three of Lewis Trondheim’s amazing LITTLE NOTHINGS series, “Uneasy Happiness,” to readers. Taken from Trondheim’s illustrated blog, these comics are his musings on the everyday ironies of life, his anxieties, funny travel observations, ways of finding clouds within the brightest sunshine, his obsessive hypochondria, and many other relatable nerdy preoccupations. As Trondheim himself will tell you, it’s a whole lotta not much… and people are loving it!
As an added bit of excitement for comics fans, the NBM Blog (http://www.nbmpub.com/blog) is now featuring installments of LITTLE NOTHINGS twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. Right now we’re showcasing some of the amazing strips featured in volume three, so those who check out the blog will not only see some great comics, but they’ll also view preview pages from this must-read book.
LITTLE NOTHINGS VOL. 3: 6×9, 128pp, full color trade pb with flaps, $14.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-576-4
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.
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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.
From the Wiki
- 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?
