Monday, May 30, 2016

Pre-orders are paramount...

Hi there and here's another call to talk to your friendly local comic shop staff about the books your wanting wether it's a monthly book like me or it your trade waiting... hell given the price point on things and that fact comic shops can return nothing on the average for the life of a project it can be a make or break kind of thing. If you need visual aids I will put a link here to the nice comic tutorial Kieron Gillen put together a couple years ago that still holds true... I try to put in the diamond order codes after the title where I can to help but knowing the publisher month it's out and the title can usually be enough...

 

Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited Hope Nicholson (JUN 160030)

I am likely to gush about this book because Hope managed to pull together such a a brilliant collection of talent to celebrate all things geek that are created by women... and look they even got Kelly Sue Deconnick to add a forward. This started out as a Kickstarter project and as with many of the ones that get attention it's been picked up for another publishing run by Dark Horse Comics. Naming all the writers and artists Hope hot to contribute would take far too much space as I would have to just copy the table of contents but I have to mention Ireve Koh, Jen Bartell, Margaret Atwood, Marguerite Bennettn Sam Maggs and from the look of things they added some more for this version including a new cover. This is one of those times I'm going to have two copies as it was a book worth having twice... look at the people mentioned in the cover... Books like this are a gift you should really give yourself, and others...

 

Lady Killer 2 (JUN 160017)

Anyone who caught the last two issues of Spiderwoman, the Mockingbird SHIELD 50th anniversary special or the First Lady Killer series will for sure tell you that you should not miss out in the sheer joy that is Joelle Jones' art and storytelling. Lady Killer is a wonderful mix of fifties/sixties family values kind of imagery thriller movie plotting and blacksploitation/Terintino levels of violence and blood gloriously well illustrated. Lady Killer was one of last years books I enjoyed a hell of a lot and it could only have been better if the writer of Grindhouse herself Alex De Campi had written it as it would have fit so well into that anthology. Somehow the juxtaposition of wholesome seeming images and pools of blood seems to work... Yeah sometimes I'm not such a safe for work kind of person....

Prince of Cats HC (JUN 160680)

This is a reprint of Ronald Wimberly's eighties hip-hop punk version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by way of Tom Stoppard as it takes the story for the view of Tybolt. The story plays out in an underground sword dueling club in late last century New York... I've never seen the art for this but given the acclaim and words I have read about it the 24.99 pricetag makes this real tempting and if the cover art is anything to go on its sure to please...

 

So there are more new projects in August I'm exited about and I'll get to those later in the month... This weekend I'm going back to July as the initial order cutoff is coming up fast... Remember if you have been reading about Kim + Kim the order cut off I believe is the 3rd of this month... Just a reminder...

 

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