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What we’re looking forward to at the comic shop
I’m just going to quote Tom Spurgeon’s consistently excellent Comics Reporter site outright here:
“I might not buy all of the following — I might not buy any — but were I in a comic book shop I would likely pick up the following and look them over, potentially resulting in mean words and hurt feelings when my retailer objected.”
This goes double for What’s Good - we’re not exactly made of money.
In stores tomorrow:
Comic Foundry Magazine Vol 1 #1, $5.98 - The first newsstand style magazine about comics I’ve seen in years. The idea is something between Wizard’s boosterism and the Comics Journal’s critique. Good luck with that, gents. No, really.
Complete Peanuts Vol 8 1965-1966 HC (Fantagraphics, $28.95), Kat Who Walked in Beauty Panoramic Dailies of 1920 HC (Fantagraphics, $29.95) - Two more volumes in Fantagraphic’s flagship reissues series, the two projects that ushered in the Golden Age of comic strip reprints we are currently in, an era that has birthed….
Complete Terry & the Pirates Vol 1 1934 1936 HC (IDW, $49.99) - The greatest adventure strip of all time? Yeah, probably. Worth $50? Well, can you afford it?
Amelia Rules #18 (Renaissance, $2.95) - A new issues of the best all-ages comics on stand is always cause for celebration.
Drifting Classroom Vol 7 TPB (Viz, $9.99), Naoki Urasawa’s Monster Vol 10 TPB (Viz, $9.99) - New volumes from two of Viz’s finest manga. Why on earth do they ship the same week? Aren’t they being purchased by the exact same audience? Manga nerds, help me out here.
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