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Swoon Soon-ish! Hellboy In Hell
Look who's back illustrating Hellboy...Mike Mignola's Hellboy In Hell #1 out in December. ComicBookResources had the exclusive (see here).
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Weekly Treats! Bulletproof Coffin, Crossed, AvX
Feels like we're taking a trip to the world of video nasties for books this week. First up is Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred (Image) by David Hine and Shaky Kane. Genuinely unlike anything you've read...
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Swoon Now! Space Race & Megaskull
 This week saw the release of another of Nobrow's justifiably popular Leporello series - double-sided, concertina works of art. For Space Race, Tom Clohosy Cole depicts two versions of the developments...
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Something For The Weekend! Signing, Toys, Adventures of a Japanese Businessman
Three thoughts for the weekend: Firstly; don't forget the signing tomorrow. Saturday 15th 1-3pmWarren Pleece and Gary Pleece will be signing copies of The Great Unwashed. It's a great collection of...
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Weekly Treats! The Nao of Brown & The Hive
A protagonist with an OCD, or any psychological affliction, is always strangely attractive in drama (see Hitchcock) and in The Nao Of Brown (SelfMadeHero) Glyn Dillon has created a character study that...
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Weekly Treats! Happy, American Vampire, Dr. Who
Well doesn't this cover just capture how we feel today in the shop - guns ready but where's the delivery? Due to an error at Diamond, this week's delivery will be a tad late getting on to the shelves....
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Swoon Now! Pachyderme
Pachyderme (SelfMadeHero) the story of a woman's journey through apparently inexplicable events as writer/illustrator Frederik Peeters takes a delicate line through a dream-like reality: Is the woman...
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Weekly Treats! AvX, Daredevil, Everything Together
And so it ends. Or begins if you're looking at it from the Marvel NOW! perspective. He's had the Phoenix data since about issue three and been locked away in his make-shift workshop for a couple of...
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Swoon Now! Building Stories
A new publication from Chris Ware is always a publishing highlight but the release of Building Stories (Jonathan Cape) has been receiving more press than usual (see here for TheTelegraph and here for...
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Weekly Treats! Saga, Batman: Odyssey, Uncanny Avengers
The big, nay enormous release of the week should, I reckon, be Saga vol. 1 (Image) the ongoing series illustrated with a nice eye for colour by Fiona Staples and which sees the return of Brian K....
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Shaun Tan Signed & Finger-printed!
Feels like Christmas every week at the moment (just look over recent posts) and today we have Shaun Tan books... SIGNED! Not only that but above each signature is delicate red thumb print. I'm suddenly...
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Weekly Treats! Dockwood, Mudman, Mind the Gap
"There are few younger comic artists with whom I feel a genuine aesthetic kinship, but the radiant and glowing Dockwood is Jon McNaught's loveliest argument yet for the beauty of just simply being...
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Reasons To Be Cheerful! Marvel, Image & Dynamite
In case you hadn't noticed, there's been a right royal shake-up in the comics world over the last twelve months. DC blew the top off their universe with last years re-launch and NOW! Marvel NOW! is...
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Swoon Now! Sailor Twain
Yet another case of a web strip becoming successful enough to enter the world of publishing and even making it onto the New York Times bestsellers list. This really is a viable route into the game from...
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Weekly Treats! Mrs Webers Omnibus, Multiple Warheads
Have you ever thought that Tamara Drew has something of a kinship with Bridget Jone's Diary? Well in 1977 Posy Simmonds began work on a regular strip for The Guardian about middle-aged, middle-classed...
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Signing! Glenn Fabry
Get your Halloween off on the right note next week by picking what is bound to be the most beautifully illustrated horror comic of the year. Seriously, you will be pouring over the detail in the...
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Weekly Treats! Lot 13 (SIGNING!), Superman Earth One vol. 2, August Moon
Good Eeeeevning to you. Come with me if you dare to a comic written by horror maestro Steve Niles and illustrated by detail-king Glenn Fabry titled Lot 13 #1 (DC) of 5. After a nasty accident, a family...
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Publishers Weekly Best of 2012 Lists
The year is barely into November but Publishers Weekly has got to the table first with their list of the best graphic novels of 2012 (see here). See here for my post on Are You My Mother?, see here for...
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Weekly Treats! Marvel NOW! Spaceman & Scott Pilgrim
NOW! things are starting to move. This week sees the release of to titles in the Marvel NOW! relaunch: Iron Man #1 (Marvel) by Keiron Gillen& Greg Land features a waaay cool-looking new armour...
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Swoon Now! Super Crooks, The Essential David Shrigley & All The Wrong Questions
How about this threesome of books for an eclectic mix and if at least one of them doesn't vaguely tickle your fancy I'll come round your house and rip up your X-Men comics. In no particular order, Mark...
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