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Here are five things that excited me over the past week: 1. The Princess and the Frog - It doesn't go wide until the 11th, but Disney's latest hand-drawn animated film is already getting great reviews. I think a Disney film that takes place in the South with Voodoo, and a bit of a ...
Indie
New books won't be available in comic shops until Thursday this week - here are the highlights! Pick of the Week The Comics Journal #300 - This special 300th issue of The Comics Journal features conversations between new creators beginning to earn a name for themselves, and ...
Marvel
Hiroyuki Asada Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee is a shonen manga that takes place in a fantasy world where the lands are lit by a manmade star, and the classes are separated into three lands, like rings, with water between them, the outer ring receiving the least amount of light and reserved for ...
Other
Diligently wading through the phone book that is Previews Catalogue so you don't have to...here are ten choice books shipping to comic shops in February that I think may get overlooked or that I'm just plain excited about... 1. Hernandez Brothers collections - There are several new ...
Fantagraphics
John Stanley
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David Small This memoir graphic novel has been
getting a lot of notice lately from outside of...
the comics community, most notably nominated for a National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category. It was also listed as ...
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Here are the highlights of books shipping to comic shops on Wednesday! Pick of the Week Image United #1 (of 6) - Finally Image Comics joins the other two big companies in experimenting with company-wide crossover events. Image United brings together the biggest superheroes from the ...
Marvel
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Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture (Volume 1) Masayuki Ishikawa
After a delay from the publisher due to legal...
reasons, I finally got my hands on one of my most anticipated manga of the year, Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture . The series ...
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Manga Monday: Moyasimon
Here are five things that excited me over the past week! 1. Star Trek on DVD - The latest Star Trek movie, rebooting the franchise after breathing new life into the characters and its universe, came to DVD and Blu-Ray this week. J.J. Abrams' science fiction film was largely successful ...
Marvel
Star Trek
Here are the highlights of books available in comic shops tomorrow! Pick of the Week Christmas Graphic Novels - HarperCollins is putting out adaptations of classic Christmas prose stories, adapted by some very exciting and talented creators, as graphic novels. There ...
DC
Hans Rickheit . This is a quirky, beautiful, sometimes frightening graphic novel. The Squirrel Machine is definitely not for everyone, but I really had a great experience reading it. The book is about two shunned brothers living in a small town and the grotesque art that they create that the ...
Other
Jacques Tardi Adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette . West Coast Blues is a graphic novel adapted by French cartoonist Jacques Tardi from the crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Fantagraphics is beginning to translate and publish these graphic novels by acclaimed artist ...
Marvel
Adam West
Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning & Kevin Walker . I've always enjoyed whenever the Imperial Guard would appear in superhero comics, which was usually in the random cosmic adventure the Uncanny X-Men would go on when I was growing up. Lately, they've been involved in quite a few conflicts ...
Marvel
Here are five things that got me excited over the past week. . 1. Fantastic Mr. Fox in theaters - While it's only going to be in select theaters this weekend (and none around me) I'm still excited to see this Wes Anderson-directed claymation film, and it's getting some pretty amazing reviews ...
Indie
Kieron Gillen, Steve Sanders & Jamie McKelvie . S.W.O.R.D. is a fun comic with a great premise. Spun out of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's excellent run on Astonishing X-Men , Agent Brand is running the S entient W orld O bservation and R esponse D epartment, the government's answer to ...
Marvel
X-Men
Lockheed
Here are the highlights of book available at comic shops tomorrow! . Pick of the Week . Sky Doll: Doll Factory #1 (of 2) - Marvel's publication of Soleil's Sky Doll sci-fi/fantasy series continues into material never before translated for American audiences. The first mini-series was ...
Marvel
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X-Men
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J. Michael Straczynski
Beast Master (Volume 1) Kyousuke Motomi . Get past that whole S & M vibe going on on the cover of this book and you get a pretty sweet story, actually. Beast Master follows high school girl Yuiko Kubozuka, who loves animals. In a smother-them-to-death sort of way that gives Elmyra from ...
Other
Greg Rucka & Matthew Southworth . This is a fantastic comic. It really surprised me, but it shouldn't have come as such of a shock since Rucka has really proven time and again that he can put forth some quality material. He's very gifted at writing complex female protagonists, and this ...
Other
Greg Rucka
Chris Roberson & Shawn McManus . Seemingly ditsy fashion aficionado by day, secret spy for Fabletown by night - that's the idea behind Cinderella in Fables , the Vertigo book that this six-issue mini-series spins out from. Cindy has been one of my favorite Fables characters because of ...
Other
Shawn McManus
Here are five things that excited me over the past week! . 1. Suckin' It For the Holidays by Kathy Griffin - Her latest television special on Bravo, Balls of Steel, may not have been up to her usual standards, but her new "Christmas" CD, recorded live in New Jersey, is a lot of fun. Within, ...

