markbernstein ([info]markbernstein) wrote,
@ 2008-04-24 09:46:00
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Hear my wallet groan
Yesterday, being Wednesday, was new comics day. A light week - I only took home three new comics. But it also included the new Previews, listing what's coming out in July. And there are way too many good books. If I got everything I wanted, it would be over two hundred dollars. The biggest hits:

Image is finally publishing the long-promised hardcover of "American Flagg!". Reprints the first 14 issues, plus a new story written and drawn by Chaykin. Fifty bucks.

Fantagraphics is putting out a hardcover of the complete "Humbug". What's Humbug? It's the humor magazine that Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth self-published after Kurtzman left Mad. Eleven issues, 400 pages, never before reprinted, now in a two volume, slipcased set. Also fifty bucks.

There's a new (fifth) volume of the wonderful anthology "Flight". These are comics done by animators, and the most consistently enjoyable anthology on the market. But they're big volumes, and cost $25 each.

IDW is publishing the first phonebook-sized volume of William Messner-Loebs' "Journey". Thirteen issues, 400 pages, twenty dollars.

The wonderful surprise of the month is from Harper Collins, a graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Coraline", illustrated by P. Craig Russell. $19.

Hell of a month.

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[info]drzarron
2008-04-24 02:12 pm UTC (link)
I can feel your wallet groaning from here.

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[info]filkertom
2008-04-24 02:16 pm UTC (link)
I couldn't care less about Flagg -- I thought it was pretty cool way back when, but I'm not enough of a Chaykin fan.

Journey, however.... mine mine mine mine mine.

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[info]markbernstein
2008-04-24 05:15 pm UTC (link)
My feelings on Chaykin are very specific. He's done a lot of stuff I don't care for, and certainly AF! got weaker as it went on. Nonetheless, I regard the first AF! storyline as one of the best SF stories I've seen in comics.

Oh, by the way, even though I'm sure you have the earlier, smaller volumes, you might be interested in knowing about this, which I believe is due out in June. :)

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[info]morganminstrel
2008-04-24 03:11 pm UTC (link)
I haven't gotten the new Previews yet, but I'd heard that the Humbug collection had been cancelled. Not sure if I was just confused and it had only been postponed, though. But you might want to google around and check it out just in case.

And I'm more than a little psyched about the Journey collection, yes. :-)

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[info]markbernstein
2008-04-24 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Well, Amazon has it.

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[info]morganminstrel
2008-04-24 05:19 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, maybe it was their proposed collection of "TRUMP" I was thinking of. In any case, good news! :-)

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[info]thatcrazycajun
2008-04-24 10:23 pm UTC (link)
I was and remain a huge fan of Chaykin's work, as much for his distinctive art style as for his writing (well, that and the fact that he loves to draw women in thigh-high stockings and garters a lot, and is way good at it...). Guess I'm gonna have to think long and hard about whether I can justify the $50. (And if it's only the first 14 issues of FLAGG, you can bet there'll be further expensive hardcovers coming that collect the later issues.)

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[info]markbernstein
2008-04-24 10:58 pm UTC (link)
As I said in my response to Tom, all I really want is the first volume. The first storyline was, IMO, much better than anything that came after.

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