Monday, October 31, 2022

New Comics For Week Of THURSDAY 3RD November

    



BEHOLD!
This week's new comics list of wondrous reads.
A little heads up, we will be open tomorrow for the public holiday from
11am-5pm.
We've got something extra special planned to make the day even more exciting for you, just keep an eye across our socials for announcements later today.
If there is something extra you are after make sure to get your requests to us before 5pm Monday to give us the best chance to secure you what you are after as we'll have limited shelf stock available.


Until we next see or hear from you, stay safe, live life and read comics!

HIGHLIGHT LIST

BEHOLD BEHEMOTH #1 (OF 5)

ONES #1 (OF 4)

QUICK STOPS #1 (OF 4)

BATMAN & THE JOKER THE DEADLY DUO #1 (OF 7)

VAMPIRELLA VS RED SONJA #1 

HELL TO PAY #1

KROMA BY DE FELICI #1 (OF 4)

CROSSGEN TALES #1

DEADPOOL #1

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY COSMIC REWIND #1

SECRET INVASION #1 (OF 5) (RES)

TIGER DIVISION #1 (OF 5)

AVATAR HIGH GROUND HC VOL 01

BATGIRLS TP VOL 01

BATMAN SHADOW WAR HC

BRILLIANT TP

COVER TP VOL 01

CRITICAL ROLE VOX MACHINA ORIGINS TP VOL 03

GIRLFIEND IN PARIS A BLOODTHIRSTY BEDTIME STORY HC

ICE CREAM MAN TP VOL 08 SUBJECTS & OBJECTS (MR)

MAESTRO WORLD WAR M TP

MARVEL STUDIOS LOKI ART OF SERIES HC

MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01

SPIDER-MAN 2099 TP EXODUS

STAR WARS HALCYON LEGACY TP

TALES OF THE AMAZONS HC

TASK FORCE Z HC VOL 01 DEATHS DOOR

VENOM BY AL EWING RAM V TP VOL 02 DEVIATION

WITCHER RONIN TP

X-MEN RED BY AL EWING TP VOL 01

ARGUS #1 (MR)

NATURES LABYRINTH #1 (OF 6) (MR)

ADVENTUREMAN HC VOL 02

ART & MAKING OF THE BOYS HC (MR)

BLUE BOX GN VOL 01

COMPLETE EIGHTBALL TP VOL 1 - 18

ELLES TP VOL 01 NEW GIRL

HAYAO MIYAZAKI SHUNAS JOURNEY GN

HENRY AND GLENN FOREVER & EVER RIDICULOUSLY COMPLETE

INVISIBLE KINGDOM LIBRARY ED HC

NOTTINGHAM TP VOL 02 KINGS RANSOM (MR)

ONE PUNCH MAN GN VOL 24

RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE TP VOL 02 (MR)

SCULPTOR GN HC W DUSTJACKET (MR)

TECHNOPRIESTS HC NEW ED (MR)

THERMAE ROMAE COMP OMNIBUS HC

TRESE GN VOL 05 MIDNIGHT TRIBUNAL

GARGOYLES HUDSON ULTIMATE 7IN AF

MASTERS O/T UNIVERSE REVELATION HE-MAN NENDOROID 


BOOM ENTERTAINMENT

BEHOLD BEHEMOTH #1 (OF 5)

MAGIC THE GATHERING (MTG) #20

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

 

 

DARK HORSE COMICS

COUNT CROWLEY AMATEUR MIDNIGHT MONSTER HUNTER #4

NIGHT OF THE GHOUL #2 (OF 3)

ONES #1 (OF 4)

QUICK STOPS #1 (OF 4)

SURVIVAL STREET #4 (OF 4)

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)


 

DC COMICS

BATMAN #129

BATMAN & THE JOKER THE DEADLY DUO #1 (OF 7)

BATMAN KNIGHTWATCH #3 (OF 5)

DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL #8 (OF 12)

GOTHAM CITY YEAR ONE #2 (OF 6)

JOKER THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #2

MONKEY PRINCE #8 (OF 12)

NEW CHAMPION OF SHAZAM #3 (OF 4)

POISON IVY #6

SWORD OF AZRAEL #4 (OF 6)

 

 

DYNAMITE

VAMPIRELLA VS RED SONJA #1

 

IDW

EARTHDIVERS #2

MY LITTLE PONY #6

STAR TREK PICARD STARGAZER #3

TMNT SATURDAY MORNING ADVENTURES #2

TRANSFORMERS SHATTERED GLASS II #3

 

IMAGE COMICS

ANTIOCH #2 (MR)

BLOOD STAINED TEETH #6

GOLDEN RAGE #4 (OF 5)

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

HELL TO PAY #1

KING SPAWN #16

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

LITTLE MONSTERS #7

NITA HAWES NIGHTMARE BLOG #9

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

OLD DOG #2

THAT TEXAS BLOOD #18

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

THAT TEXAS BLOOD #19

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

TIME BEFORE TIME #18

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

WALKING DEAD DLX #50

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)


 

MARVEL PRH

AVENGERS FOREVER #10

BLACK PANTHER #11

CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH #6

CAPTAIN MARVEL #43

CROSSGEN TALES #1

DAMAGE CONTROL #3 (OF 5)

DEADPOOL #1

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY COSMIC REWIND #1

HULK #10 (RES)

PREDATOR #4

PUNISHER #7

SAVAGE AVENGERS #7

SECRET INVASION #1 (OF 5) (RES)

SHE-HULK #7

STAR WARS #29

STAR WARS BOUNTY HUNTERS #28

STAR WARS MANDALORIAN #5

TIGER DIVISION #1 (OF 5)

X-MEN RED #8

 

MISC

ARGUS #1 (MR)

ASTRONAUT DOWN #4

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

BELIT & VALERIA #5

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

BLADE RUNNER BLACK LOTUS #4

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

DOGS OF LONDON #5

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

END AFTER END #3

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

EVANESCENCE ECHOES FROM VOID #3

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

GREAT GATSBY #6

HEART EYES #3

HORROR COMICS #17

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

NATURES LABYRINTH #1 (OF 6) (MR)

NEVERENDER #6 (OF 9)

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

POTIONS INC #5 (OF 5)

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

TRISKELE #5

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)

VAMPIRESS CARMILLA #12 (MR)

(PRE-ORDERS ONLY. ASK ABOUT RE-ORDERS)


 

TRADES

ADVENTUREMAN HC VOL 02

ART & MAKING OF THE BOYS HC (MR)

AVATAR HIGH GROUND HC VOL 01

AVENGERS VS X-MEN OMNIBUS HC CHEUNG IRON MAN MAGNE

BATGIRLS TP VOL 01

BATMAN SHADOW WAR HC

BERSERK TP VOL 41

BLUE BOX GN VOL 01

BLUE LOCK GN VOL 03

BPRD OMNIBUS TP VOL 02

BRILLIANT TP

CARDCAPTOR SAKURA CLEAR CARD GN VOL 12

COMPLETE EIGHTBALL TP VOL 1 - 18

COVER TP VOL 01

CRITICAL ROLE VOX MACHINA ORIGINS TP VOL 03

DAREDEVIL BY CHIP ZDARSKY HC VOL 03 TO HEAVEN THRO

DAREDEVIL EPIC COLLECTION TP IT COMES WITH CLAWS

EC ARCHIVES INCREDIBLE SCIENCE FICTION TP

ELLES TP VOL 01 NEW GIRL

ELUSIVE SAMURAI GN VOL 03

GIRLFIEND IN PARIS A BLOODTHIRSTY BEDTIME STORY HC

HAYAO MIYAZAKI SHUNAS JOURNEY GN

HENRY AND GLENN FOREVER & EVER RIDICULOUSLY COMPLETE

ICE CREAM MAN TP VOL 08 SUBJECTS & OBJECTS (MR)

IM NOT MEAT GET YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF ME GN VOL 02

INVISIBLE KINGDOM LIBRARY ED HC

INVISIBLE WOUNDS HC (MR)

JENNIFER BLOOD TP VOL 01 BLOODLINES

MAESTRO WORLD WAR M TP (RES)

MARVEL STUDIOS LOKI ART OF SERIES HC

MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 ANDREWS

NO LONGER HUMAN COMPLETE ED GN (MR)

NOTTINGHAM TP VOL 02 KINGS RANSOM (MR)

NYX TP VOL 01 DADDYS GIRL

ONE PUNCH MAN GN VOL 24

ORIENT GN VOL 10

PLAY LIKE A GIRL GN

POWER MAN AND IRON FIST EPIC COLLECTION TP HARDBALL

RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE TP VOL 02 (MR)

SCULPTOR GN HC W DUSTJACKET (MR)

SIN CITY TP VOL 07 HELL & BACK (4TH ED) (MR)

SKYGRAZER GN (MR) (C: 0-1-1)

SPIDER-GWEN GN TP UNMASKED

SPIDER-MAN 2099 TP EXODUS

STAR WARS HALCYON LEGACY TP

TALES OF ETERNIA HC NOVEL HE-MAN & MOTU

TALES OF THE AMAZONS HC

TASK FORCE Z HC VOL 01 DEATHS DOOR

TECHNOPRIESTS HC NEW ED (MR)

THERMAE ROMAE COMP OMNIBUS HC

TRESE GN VOL 05 MIDNIGHT TRIBUNAL

VENOM BY AL EWING RAM V TP VOL 02 DEVIATION

WANDANCE GN VOL 03

WHO WILL MAKE THE PANCAKES FIVE STORIES HC

WITCHER RONIN TP

X-MEN RED BY AL EWING TP VOL 01

X-TREME X-MEN BY CLAREMONT OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 FIRST

 

MERCH

GARGOYLES HUDSON ULTIMATE 7IN AF

MASTERS O/T UNIVERSE REVELATION HE-MAN NENDOROID A


Saturday, October 29, 2022

All New All Star Recommends #7 : Halloween 2022 Mixtape

 

All New All Star Recommends #7

Halloween 2022 Mixtape

By Cameron Ashley

 

Happy Halloween!

 

I hope you’re healthy and well-rested so that you can have some spooky late nights over the next few days as Halloween 2022 draws as inescapably near as Michael Myers to Laurie Strode in the good movie from 1978.

 

This year, I thought I might put together something of a Trick or Treat snack bag of comics for you to empty out all over the floor and pore over.  Or if you prefer a less clumsy metaphor, a spooky comics mixtape. Innumerable horror comics await reading by all of us, and below are five. I’ve kept them short and sharp and largely accessible – but there would be no fun without something you have to hunt for…!

 

Each is, in my opinion, well worth your time. Each offers something completely different from the others. Each is crafted to an extraordinarily high level by a variety of creators. All are spoooooooooky in alternate ways.

 

Please enjoy the below and enjoy your Halloween even more. May you be treated more than tricked and haunted only by friendly spirits and the knowledge that there are more comics out there than you could ever possibly read in a number of lifetimes.

 

OROCHI: “PRODIGY”

Kazuo Umezz

Viz

 

Created between 1969 and 1970, Orochi by Japanese horror manga legend, Kazuo Umezu (Umezz) should come with a warning for potentially causing some slight psychic trauma. Almost all of Umezz’s work features bubbly, cherubic youths doing awful things to each other or, even worse, having awful things done to them by adults. If Umezz himself didn’t embody such a childlike joy for life or his youthful protagonists weren’t so frequently capable of handling themselves, you’d think the guy utterly hated kids. At the very least, in Umezz’s world, families are demented and people in them are, at best, secretive and at worst, violently disturbed. It’s quite a worldview. Somehow despite the grimness, more often than not, his manga somehow also manages to be fun.

 

I’ve written extensively about Umezz’s work previously – I once read 10,000 pages of his manga in as rapid a fashion as I could manage for a horror magazine I was putting together (subsequently also plopped on this blog HERE 

and since that time, it’s been awesome to see more and more of his work appearing in English. Umezz is wonderful with a twist, perfectly at home in the horror genre and capable of crafting monstrous characters that have haunted the minds of readers for decades (I once taught English to a Japanese lady who recounted the horror that his Snake Girl left on her twenty years after first reading it).

 

Umezz’s English publishers, Viz, seem to finally understand they are on to a good thing here and are presenting for the first time in English Umezz’s complete run of Orochi in handsome new hardback editions.

 

The blurb for Orochi is slightly misleading: “A mysterious young woman slithers her way into the lives of unsuspecting people like the legendary multitailed serpent for which she is named – Orochi.” However, Orochi is frequently a compassionate, helpful figure. Armed with her undefined powers, Orochi frequently turns from onlooker to tragic events to participant in the unfolding violence and tragedy.

 

You can’t go wrong with any of these stories, but volume 2 contains the especially memorable Orochi tale, “Prodigy,” about a family (the Tachibanas) destroyed by the arrival of a violent intruder one dark night. The intruder’s break-in leaves young Yu Tachibana with a scar on his neck and his father an alcoholic wreck. Yu’s mother transforms into a nightmarishly overbearing and abusive figure, desperately pushing Yu to achieve the academic brilliance that is his birthright – there is horrible scolding, far worse physical abuse. Orochi befriends the boy and is witness to his attempts at desperate revenge against the man who left the mark on his neck that symbolises so much of the ruin in his family.

 

 

Umezz’s art is just glorious throughout – beautifully-detailed backgrounds, lovingly-rendered characters, incredible visual storytelling throughout. Family squabbles are gut-wrenching even if the melodrama is fever pitched. Snow falls against jet-black night in winter scenes, checkerboard tiles under the feet of characters provide mild disorientation, adding to the total oddness unfolding in the narrative – this is a brilliantly constructed comic.

 

The twist is tremendous, and I’ll not spoil it here. Perfect for horror readers looking for something a little different and who aren’t afraid to feel a tad uncomfortable, “Prodigy” is a psychodrama that still somehow maintains a visceral punch despite being over 50 years old. Seek this one out. Hell, seek the whole series out.


THEY LIVE IN ME

Jesse Jacobs

UDWFG

 

The haunted house is as much of a horror staple as any monster or slasher you might care to name. From “true” horror (Amityville) to the fictions of countless authors spiraling all the way back to Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764, the haunted house has stuck firmly with us. “Extreme” haunted house experiences are now a thing, although why anyone would put themselves through such an event is kind of beyond me – I’ll do my catharsis sessions on the couch through the TV or book or comic, thank you very much.

If you could get most of these fictional haunted houses together in some kind of group session (don’t steal this idea, I may use it), the common theme would most likely be – We Hate People and Want to Be Left Alone. And with this in mind, we come to Jesse Jacob’s They Live in Me – his short, mind-bending 2017 horror comic – about a house that was “built bad” and cannot, will not change.

Published in a run of a scant 500 copies by an imprint of Italian publishers Hollow Press, Under Dark Weird Fantasy Ground, They Live in Me is a triumph of weird, creepy psychedelia about a haunted house (sentient house might be a more fitting term) perpetually on the market. An agent shows a young family through who quickly become captivated by the house’s unique spaces.

“A house like this won’t stay listed for long,” coos the agent in a tone I’m sure we can all just hear in our brains, as the home quickly suppresses its toothy doorway and wet tongued-welcome mat.

Through the house this family goes, as the house begins a bit of a monologue – “Life will be very difficult for all who attempt to occupy me. Human presence is incompatible with my energy frequency.  I do not grant them permission to enter. All trespassers shall be infected with painful illnesses of my own invention.”

Time begins to pass in strange ways; the agent remains the same but the couple ages, the child becomes an adult. Unseen, appliances and furniture shift into monstrous shapes. Yet the agent, ever keen to make the sale, lost in the pitch, seemingly oblivious to the weird horrors unfolding in front of her, leads the family ever-onwards. But she knows the house is bad – at one point she burns sage leaves to “cleanse the space.” As we all know, real estate agents are awful.

Jacobs is a master of eye-popping, colourful psychedelia – his Crawl Space (also 2017) is an example of this (about teenage friends who find an interdimensional portal in a washing machine) – but They Live in Me, told in stark black and white, is equally as striking.  Its ending is inevitable, but still clever. The cycle of real estate desperation continues ever onward, and this horrible house grows fat on it.

They Live in Me is a short little masterpiece by a cartoonist deserving of far more attention than he gets. It will be hard to find, but I encourage you to go on the hunt for it – as mortgage payments go up and rental spaces are in awfully short supply, it’s a book likely to only get more potent over time.


HELLBOY: “THE CORPSE”

Mike Mignola

Dark Horse Comics

 

Surely the coolest evil Irish child-stealing fairy story ever (this might sound insincere, but there are loads), Mike Mignola’s 1996 Hellboy short story, “The Corpse” has gone on to become one of the single greatest Hellboy stories and a recognised comics classic. Ironic, as Mignola himself initially believed this to be one of his single worst efforts.

Originally published in 1995 in two-page installments in the now-defunct Advance Comics catalogue, “The Corpse” is yet another example of great works retroactively expanded to become even greater (see Jim Woodring’s One Beautiful Spring Day for the most recent, and possibly best example of this). A year later, Mignola added a new opening and eight new concluding pages, finally landing on 25 perfect pages of comics.

More than just a classic Hellboy story, “The Corpse”, along with other shorts produced around this time, really shows Mignola’s confidence growing in terms of voice. John Byrne scripted the first appearances of the character and he himself admits that Mignola’s storytelling and dialogue was already so good that his own contributions were essentially worthless outside of supporting a burgeoning writer’s confidence by filling in some word balloons that were already partially, if not totally, filled by the time he got to them.

To the story – it’s 1959 and Hellboy is in Ireland trying to find Alice, a missing baby body-swapped with Grugach, a fairy. Under duress, Grugach tells Hellboy to get to “The Corpse Tree” at midnight, where three other fairy folk will be able to tell him where Alice has been taken. This Corpse Tree turns out to be an old, haunted gallows and, at the stroke of midnight – and illustrated by Mignola in one of his single most heralded sequential passages – a corpse appears and begins to swing from a noose.

The corpse is Tam O’Clannie, “as fine and lovely a man as ever was,” we are told. Tam’s corpse needs a proper, Christian burial, something our fairy folk claim they are unable to do. If Hellboy buries Tam properly, Alice shall be returned to him. However, at every old church and graveyard that Hellboy visits, angry spectral occupants claim of overcrowding, yelling, “No Room! No Room! No Room!”

This is the tip of the iceberg of the Gothic happenings of “The Corpse”- Grugach, of course, is not playing fair and a dead witch named Jenny Greenteeth and a pig-headed “War Monster” named Grom are all set to appear, all strikingly rendered by Mignola.

I would guess that “The Corpse” is the most widely read story in this list, but if you haven’t read it in a while, Halloween is the perfect time to revisit it. Steeped in myth, Gothic and gloomy, packed with imaginative twists, Mignola’s wry dialogue and, of course, his astounding artwork, I’d personally put this on the short list of all-time great horror comics.

If you’ve not read this story, the most accessible way to access it is in HELLBOY OMNIBUS SEED OF DESTRUCTION TP VOL 01.

. Dim the lights and get on this one ASAP.

 

“THE CATACOMBS”

Bernard Krigstein

EC Comics

 

As sumptuously drawn as almost all the classic EC Comics are, by an utter murderers’ row of comics artists, perhaps none pushed at the rigidity of the typical EC story structure and page layout than Bernard Krigstein.

 

There’s as much tension on Krigstein’s EC pages as there is Zipatone, his scripters (all just doing their job – and doing it very well) are constantly trying to box the artist into standard panel grids with huge narrative captions in that endearing but clunky EC typeface but Krigstein clearly was having none of it.

The most famous of his works during this period is the now-classic “Master Race”, in which a concentration camp survivor recognises a former Nazi commander on a subway train. Krigstein depicts the story’s climax in astonishingly cinematic style, particularly for an EC Comic of the ‘50s.

My personal favourite Krigstein EC story, however, is “The Catacombs” from a 1954 issue of Vault of Horror. Scripted by Carl Wesser, “The Catacombs” really sees Krigstein in full flight throughout, packing so much invention and detail on each and every page of this twisty little shocker.

Pietro and Gino are Italian career criminals and they’ve just landed their biggest score, snatching a sack full of silver from its owner. On the run, the pair holes up in a slummy little flat but aware that the cops are on their tail – these criminals have done time before and are very much the usual suspects in such a situation - they need somewhere to hide out until the heat dies down.

Pietro, the younger, more handsome and wily of the pair, suggests they take some wine, their silver and go hide in the catacombs. However, nervous – people have been lost in the catacombs before, however will they find their way out? Pietro has a plan and it just so happens to involve doubling his take…

So begins some incredibly tense work from Krigstein, doing so much with so little – a pair of crooks fumbling their way through the darkness has never looked so good. Interesting angles, great use of tone to create gradients of darkness and cramped panel spaces generate some serious claustrophobia.

Most easily available in Fantagraphics’ beautiful black and white compilation of Krigstein’s EC work, Master Race and Other Stories, “The Catacombs” is a showcase for just how far ahead of his time Krigstein was. The book presents his EC work in the order in which he turned it in, incredible growth demonstrated and increased throughout. The book’s introduction is peppered with quotes from the artist which are absolute gems of knowledge. Such as:

“The analogy between comics and another art to me is just as frequent with opera as it is with movies. It’s a pertinent analogy because a comics story is a composition that is visual and extremely musical. Because of the rhythmic content of it, the element of timing is profoundly important.”

Experience this doom-laden, operatic little comics number, so thoughtfully constructed and conducted by a master of the form we do not talk about anywhere nearly enough.


THE BATMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #2: “DEMONS”

Paul Dini, Bruce Timm & Glen Murakami

DC Comics

 

From 1992-1995, The Batman Adventures produced Batman top-notch stand-alone comics featuring the caped crusader and friends. Perhaps at the tippy top of this pile of goodness is the series’ second Annual in 1995, co-written by Batman: The Animated Series (the continuity and aesthetic of which this comic series follows) creators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm and illustrated by Timm and Glen Murakami (another animation vet who directed episodes of the cartoon).

Dedicated to Jack Kirby, the story, “Demons,” features not just Kirby creations Jason Blood and Etrigan the Demon, but also Kirby-inspired monsters and Timm and Murakami indulging their artistic Kirby influences.  This is a ripping, incredibly energetic and fun Batman caper, with the creators clearly having a blast working on actual Batman comics and simultaneously riffing on Kirby’s powerful work.

Ironically, the scuttlebutt is that this issue was actually jammed on Marvel style – with the artists fleshing out the plot on the page from a brief outline and working things out as they go. It was apparently put together, beginning to end, in under a month.

Revealing the unexplored, 200-year long history and rivalry between virtually immortal Batman villain Ra’s al Ghul and similarly long-lived, Jason Blood/Etrigan, “Demons” also explores the relationship between Batman and Talia al Ghul and culminates in Ra’s, Talia and some unfortunate henchmen standing in a pentagram and raising a massive demon named Haak during a black magic ceremony that Batman and Etrigan must defeat.

As wild as this is, the absolute highlight is Murakami going bonkers on an elaborate seven-page dream sequence that he apparently belted out when the creative team realised they couldn’t just have Batman and Etrigan punching a monster-demon for the last half of the book.

Having been drugged by Talia to keep him out of her father’s hair, Batman has an intense Bat-trip featuring an enormous, underwater Kirby-styled goddess, a romantic interlude with Talia before her face melts off, and Ra’s exploding out of a Lazarus Pit that forms from the melting bones and effluvia of his daughter. It’s awesome.

Most easily found in volume 4 of the collected The Batman Adventures, “Demons” is remarkable for many reasons, perhaps chiefly for how successfully it further integrates the “blockiness” of Jack Kirby’s style with the aesthetic of the animated series. It’s a bold, hallucinogenic, thoroughly fun effort from the team of seasoned animators, who seem clearly thrilled to be able to cut loose and push their art forward while simultaneously looking back and paying tribute to one of their artistic heroes. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. It doesn’t get much more Halloween than this.

NEXT TIME

If not before, I’ll see you for the (almost) annual 2023 comics forecast column in December.

Stay safe. Read indie.

Sunday, October 23, 2022

New Comics For Week Of THURSDAY 27TH OCTOBER

   


Oh lordy, what a list!

Fans of Hellblazer, don't snooze on Damn Them All, which Hellblazer with a slightly new spin on the idea from Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard and Simon Spurrier. 

Also the Riddler from new Batman film, actor Paul Dano writes a origin tale for his Riddler, nuts!

And finally a bunch of new TKO books too and a cutie little Optimus Prime toy too...what a lovely week this is.
GET INVOLVED!

If there is something extra you are after make sure to get your requests to us before 5pm Monday to give us the best chance to secure you what you are after as we'll have limited shelf stock available.


Until we next see or hear from you, stay safe, live life and read comics!

HIGHLIGHT LIST

DAMN THEM ALL #1 (OF 6)

CRIMINAL MACABRE COUNT CROWLEY HALLOWEEN ONESHOT

DEAD MALL #1 (OF 4)

BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS GILDED CITY #1 (OF 6)

PUNCHLINE THE GOTHAM GAME #1 (OF 6)

RIDDLER YEAR ONE #1 (OF 6)

AMERICAN JESUS REVELATION #1 (OF 3)

LOVESICK #1 (OF 7)

STRANGE ACADEMY FINALS #1

CAREER SHOPLIFTER #1

MR EASTA #1 CVR A KIT WALLIS

AMERICAN VAMPIRE 1976 TP (MR)

FANTASTIC FOUR BY BYRNE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 ANNIVERSARY CVR

FILTH & GRAMMAR THE COMIC BOOK EDITORS SECRET HANDBOOK SC

GHOST RIDER TP VOL 01 UNCHAINED (RES)

HARLEY QUINN (2021) HC VOL 02 KEEPSAKE

HELLIONS BY ZEB WELLS HC

JOKER TP VOL 01

JUSTICE LEAGUE INCARNATE HC

MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS HC DAVIS VAR

STAR WARS BOUNTY HUNTERS TP VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA TP VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

STRANGE ACADEMY FIRST CLASS HC

STAR TREK #1

NIGHTFALL DOUBLE FEATURE #1

SARA LONE #1

ART OF STAR WARS VISIONS HC

ART OF TIKI HC

BLACK MASS RISING GN

BLACK PARADOX GN (MR)

DETENTION #2

DISSOLVING CLASSROOM COLL ED HC (MR)

FORGOTTEN BLADE GN

FRAZETTA BOOK COVER ART HC

GRAVENEYE GN

HOME TO STAY COMPLETE RAY BRADBURY EC STORIES HC

MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH HC

STAR WARS DARTH VADER BY GREG PAK VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

TALLI DAUGHTER OF THE MOON TP

TRANSFORMERS OPTIMUS PRIME NENDOROID AF G1 VER


BOOM ENTERTAINMENT

DAMN THEM ALL #1 (OF 6)

HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER #10

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #101

(PRE-ORDER ONLY, ASK ABOUT REORDER)

STUFF OF NIGHTMARES #2 (OF 4)

VAMPIRE SLAYER (BUFFY) #7

(PRE-ORDER ONLY, ASK ABOUT REORDER)

WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEYRE DEAD #14

 

DARK HORSE COMICS

CRIMINAL MACABRE COUNT CROWLEY HALLOWEEN ONESHOT

DEAD MALL #1 (OF 4)

PEARL III #6 (OF 6)

ROADIE #2 (OF 4)

 

DC COMICS

ACTION COMICS #1048 (KAL-EL RETURNS)

BATMAN BEYOND THE WHITE KNIGHT #6 (OF 8)

BATMAN FORTRESS #6 (OF 8)

BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS GILDED CITY #1 (OF 6)

BATMAN THE AUDIO ADVENTURES #2 (OF 7)

CATWOMAN LONELY CITY #4 (OF 4)

DC HORROR PRESENTS SGT ROCK VS THE ARMY OF THE DEAD #2 (OF 6)

DC MECH #4 (OF 6)

DC VS VAMPIRES #10 (OF 12)

DEATHSTROKE INC #14

DETECTIVE COMICS #1065

HARLEY QUINN #23

HUMAN TARGET #8 (OF 12)

PUNCHLINE THE GOTHAM GAME #1 (OF 6)

RIDDLER YEAR ONE #1 (OF 6)

TIM DRAKE ROBIN #2

YOUNG JUSTICE TARGETS #4 (OF 6)

 

DYNAMITE

AOD VS REANIMATOR NECRONOMICON RISING #4

SAMURAI SONJA #5

 

 

IDW

GODZILLA BEST OF MOTHRA ONESHOT

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #54

STAR TREK #1

TMNT ARMAGEDDON GAME #2

 

IMAGE COMICS

20TH CENTURY MEN #3 (OF 6)

AMERICAN JESUS REVELATION #1 (OF 3)

CREEPSHOW #2 (OF 5)

FIRE POWER BY KIRKMAN & SAMNEE #24

FLAWED #2 (OF 6)

IMAGE 30TH ANNV ANTHOLOGY #7 (OF 12) (MR)

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LOVESICK #1 (OF 7)

MAGIC ORDER 3 #4 (OF 6)

ROGUES GALLERY #4

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SINS OF BLACK FLAMINGO #5 (OF 5) (MR)

SPAWN SCORCHED #11

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VANISH #2

 

MARVEL PRH

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12

AXE JUDGMENT DAY #6 (OF 6)

IRON CAT #5 (OF 5)

MECH STRIKE MONSTER HUNTERS #5 (OF 5)

MOON KNIGHT ANNUAL #1

NEW MUTANTS #31

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #25

STRANGE #7

STRANGE ACADEMY FINALS #1

THUNDERBOLTS #3 (OF 5) (RES)

ULTRAMAN MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #3 (OF 5)

VARIANTS #4 (OF 5)

VENOM #12

WILD CARDS DRAWING OF CARDS #4 (OF 4)

WOLVERINE #26

X-MEN LEGENDS #3 (RES)

X-TERMINATORS #2 (OF 5) (RES)

 

ONI

ACTION JOURNALISM #2

BLINK #4

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RICK & MORTY #100

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VALIANT

BLOODSHOT UNLEASHED #2

 

MISC

ABSOLUTION #4 (OF 5) (MR)

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BARBARIC AXE TO GRIND #3

BLUE BARON #3 PERIL OF PROFESSOR WRATH

BOOGYMAN #2

CAFFEINATED HEARTS (ONE SHOT) (MR)

CAREER SHOPLIFTER #1

CHICKEN DEVILS #1

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CRADLE OF FILTH #4

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HAWK THE SLAYER #5 (OF 5) (MR)

LOCUST THE BALLAD OF MEN #3

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LOVECRAFT UNKNOWN KADATH #2

MOTHER RUSSIA WINTER SPECIAL (ONE SHOT)

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MR EASTA #1

NEWTHINK #5 (OF 5)

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NIGHTFALL DOUBLE FEATURE #1

RETURN OF CHILLING ADV IN SORCERY ONE SHOT

SARA LONE #1

SPACE LADY #4 (MR)

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WEST #2 (OF 8)

 

 MAGAZINES

2000 AD MAY 2022 PROG PACK

DC CONNECT #30 

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #446 (MR)

STAR WARS INSIDER #214 NEWSSTAND ED

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TRADES

AMERICAN VAMPIRE 1976 TP (MR)

ANCIENT MAGUS BRIDE GN VOL 16

ARCHIE GIANT COMICS FLASH TP

ART OF STAR WARS VISIONS HC

ART OF TIKI HC

BEETHOVEN A STAND FOR FREEDOM TP (MR)

BLACK MASS RISING GN

BLACK PARADOX GN (MR)

CAT NINJA HC GN VOL 04 WELCOME TO THE BURBS

CREEPY GN

CRUMRIN CHRONICLES TP VOL 02

CRUNCH GN

DEADPOOL EPIC COLLECTION TP MISSION IMPROBABLE

DEMON SLAYER KIMETSU NO YAIBA THE FLOWER OF HAPPIN

DETENTION #2

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID HC VOL 17 DIPER OVERLODE

DISSOLVING CLASSROOM COLL ED HC (MR)

DRAGON KINGDOM OF WRENLY HC GN VOL 08 SHATTERED

EVIL SECRET SOCIETY OF CATS GN VOL 01

FANTASTIC FOUR BY BYRNE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 ANNIVERS

FILTH & GRAMMAR THE COMIC BOOK EDITORS SECRET HANDBOOK SC

FORGOTTEN BLADE GN

FRAZETTA BOOK COVER ART DLX SLIPCASE PREVIEWS EXC

FRAZETTA BOOK COVER ART HC

FREESTYLE HC GN

GHOST RIDER TP VOL 01 UNCHAINED (RES)

GLAM PRIX RACERS FAST TO FINISH GN

GO GO POWER RANGERS DELUXE EDITION HC BOOK 01

GRAVENEYE GN

HARLEY QUINN (2021) HC VOL 02 KEEPSAKE

HELLIONS BY ZEB WELLS HC

HISTORY COMICS GN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

HISTORY COMICS HC GN TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

HOME TO STAY COMPLETE RAY BRADBURY EC STORIES HC

HOW DO WE RELATIONSHIP GN VOL 07 (MR)

JOKER TP VOL 01

JOY OF QUITTING TP (MR)

JUSTICE LEAGUE INCARNATE HC

KILLADELPHIA TP VOL 04 END OF ALL (MR)

KRAMPUS A YULETIDE ADV TP

MACANUDO WELCOME TO ELSEWHERE HC

MAN AND HIS CAT GN VOL 07

MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH HC

MARVEL VOICES TP HERITAGE

MICKEY MOUSE MONSTER OF SAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN HC

MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS HC LEACH DM VAR

MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS HC NOWLAN DM VAR

MOCHIS PUGPYHOOD GN

MUTTS TREASURY TP MUTTS WALKING HOME

MY AUNT IS A MONSTER GN

OUR LITTLE KITCHEN BOARD BOOK

POWER RANGERS UNIVERSE HC

PUP DETECTIVES HC GN VOL 08 BATTLE OF BANDS

RICK & MORTY CORPORATE ASSETS TP

RICK AND MORTY VS DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMP ADV TP

SENSEIS PIOUS LIE GN VOL 04 (MR)

SKYGRAZER GN (MR)

SMURF TALES HC VOL 05 GOLDEN TREE & OTHER TALES

SPAWN ORIGINS TP VOL 23

SPIRIT WEEK HC GN

STAR WARS BOUNTY HUNTERS TP VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

STAR WARS DARTH VADER BY GREG PAK VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA TP VOL 04 CRIMSON REIGN

STRANGE ACADEMY FIRST CLASS HC

TALLI DAUGHTER OF THE MOON TP

TEX IN LAND OF THE SEMINOLES HC

THE MARVELS TP VOL 02 UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (RES)

ULTIMATE X-MEN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 KUBERT WOLVERINE

WITCHS THRONE GN

WORLD OF BLACK HAMMER LIBRARY ED HC VOL 04

X-TREME X-MEN BY CLAREMONT OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 DM VA

YONA OF THE DAWN GN VOL 37

 

 

MERCH

TRANSFORMERS OPTIMUS PRIME NENDOROID AF G1 VER




Sunday, October 16, 2022

New Comics For Week Of THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER

 


EVERYBODY, SHUT UP!!! Ok, ok, ok. Calm down...shut up! I said SHUT UP! Ok..alright, just breathe...deep breath. Ok...this week...this week...I almost can't type the words...this week, there is a new graphic novel coming out...ah huh...umm and umm well it's based on an idea from...ahh Oscar...Oscar Isaac I mean. OSCAR ISAAC!!!...kinda...and the main character kinda looks like him with Christian Ward doing the art!!! It's called HEAD WOUNDS SPARROW...what does that even mean?!!?!

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!

Yeah, other comics are coming too...by HEAD WOUNDS SPARROW is gonna be where we are at!

If there is something extra you are after make sure to get your requests to us before 5pm Monday to give us the best chance to secure you what you are after as we'll have limited shelf stock available.

Until we next see or hear from you, stay safe, live life and read comics!

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EVE CHILDREN OF THE MOON #1 (OF 5)

ALPHA BETAS #1 (OF 4)

FEAR THE FUNHOUSE ONE SHOT

POSTMASTERS #1 (MR)

A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS HC

BLACK PANTHER BY TA-NEHISI COATES OMNIBUS HC

FRIZZY GN

HEAD WOUNDS SPARROW HC GN

IM STILL ALIVE OGN HC (MR)

IT TOOK LUKE HC

KAIJU NO 8 GN VOL 04

MILES MORALES STRANGER TIDES GN

MISSION YOZAKURA FAMILY GN VOL 01

NEW MASTERS TP

NEW TEEN TITANS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 (2022 EDITION)

PTSD RADIO GN VOL 01

RADIANT BLACK TP VOL 03

REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS HC (MR)

SENSORY LIFE ON THE SPECTRUM AUTISTIC COMICS ANTHO

STUDIO GHIBLI COOKBOOK UNOFF RECIPES HC

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES COMPENDIUM HC

VUZZ HC (MR)

WHEN EVERYTHING TURNED BLUE HC

WONDER WOMAN BY GEORGE PEREZ OMNIBUS HC (2022 EDITION)

YOUNG AVENGERS BY HEINBERG AND CHEUNG OMNIBUS HC

MOTU ORIGINS TEELA & ZOAR AF 2PK CS


BOOM ENTERTAINMENT

ALL NEW FIREFLY #9

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EVE CHILDREN OF THE MOON #1 (OF 5)

WYND THRONE IN SKY #3 (OF 5)

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DARK HORSE COMICS

CASTLE FULL OF BLACKBIRDS #2 (OF 4)

HELLBOY IN LOVE #1 (OF 5)

PARASOMNIA DREAMING GOD #3 (OF 4)

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SHAOLIN COWBOY CRUEL TO BE KIN #6 (OF 7)

 

DC COMICS

AQUAMAN ANDROMEDA #3 (OF 3)

BATMAN ONE BAD DAY PENGUIN #1 (ONE SHOT)

BATMAN SUPERMAN WORLDS FINEST #8

BATMAN THE KNIGHT #10 (OF 10)

BLACK ADAM #5

CATWOMAN #48

DARK CRISIS YOUNG JUSTICE #5 (OF 6)

DC VS VAMPIRES ALL-OUT WAR #4 (OF 6)

DCEASED WAR OF THE UNDEAD GODS #3 (OF 8)

DUO #6 (OF 6)

FABLES #156 (OF 162)

FLASH #787

FLASHPOINT BEYOND #6 (OF 6)

GCPD THE BLUE WALL #1 (OF 6)

HARLEY QUINN THE ANIMATED SERIES LEGION OF BATS #1 (OF 6)

I AM BATMAN #14

MARVEL FAMILY #1 FACSIMILE EDITION

NIGHTWING #97

ROGUES #4 (OF 4)

TITANS UNITED BLOODPACT #2 (OF 6)

 

 

DYNAMITE

IMMORTAL RED SONJA #7

MADBALLS VS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS #4

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VAMPIRELLA STRIKES #6

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IDW

CRASHING #2

GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #299

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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SCRAPNIK ISLAND #1

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TRANSFORMERS BEST OF GRIMLOCK ONESHOT

TRVE KVLT #3

 

IMAGE COMICS

ABOVE SNAKES #4 (OF 5) (MR)

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BONE ORCHARD BLACK FEATHERS #2 (OF 5)

DEADLIEST BOUQUET #3 (OF 5) (MR)

DEADLY CLASS #56

GUNSLINGER SPAWN #13

LEGO NINJAGO GARMADON #5 (OF 5)

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MARKED HALLOWEEN SPEC #1 (ONE-SHOT)

NITA HAWES NIGHTMARE BLOG #9

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PUBLIC DOMAIN #5 (MR)

SHIRTLESS BEAR-FIGHTER 2 #3 (OF 7)

SILVER COIN #15

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WALKING DEAD DLX #49

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MARVEL PRH

ALIEN #2

AVENGERS #61

CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH #6

CARNAGE #7

CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1

DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #1 (OF 5) (RES)

DEFENDERS BEYOND #4 (OF 5)

IRON MAN #24

MIDNIGHT SUNS #2 (OF 5)

MIRACLEMAN SILVER AGE #1

MOON KNIGHT #16

PREDATOR #3

SHANG-CHI AND TEN RINGS #4

STAR WARS DARTH VADER #28

THOR #28 (RES)

X-FORCE #33

X-MEN #16

 

MISC

AGENT OF WORLDE #3 (OF 4)

ALPHA BETAS #1 (OF 4)

AZZA THE BARBED #1 (OF 5)

AZZA THE BARBED #2 (OF 5)

CODE 45 #4 (OF 5)

DESTINY NY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #1

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FEAR THE FUNHOUSE ONE SHOT

FLESH EATING CHEERLEADERS FROM OUTER SPACE #1 (MR)

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FOREVER FORWARD #2 (OF 5)

FRANK FRAZETTA DEATH DEALER #6

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HORROR COMICS #14

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HORROR COMICS #15

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HORROR COMICS #16

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KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #297

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MINDSET #4

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PHANTASMAGORIA #2

POP STAR ASSASSIN 2 #2

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POSTMASTERS #1 (MR)

PROMETHEE 1313 #4

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SACRAMENT #3 (MR)

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SEA OF TIME #1 (OF 4)

TRISKELE #5

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TRADES

2000 AD REGEND TP VOL 04 (MR)

A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS HC

ACID NUN HC

AGGRETSUKO OUT OF OFFICE TP

ALL-NEW FIREFLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JAYNE HC VOL 01

AQUAMAN GREEN ARROW DEEP TARGET TP

ARDEN HIGH GN VOL 01 TWELFTH GRADE NIGHT

AVENGERS BY JASON AARON HC VOL 03

AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION TP COLLECTION OBSESSION

BATMAN HUSH 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION HC

BLACK PANTHER BY TA-NEHISI COATES OMNIBUS HC

BLACKWOOD LIBRARY ED HC

CHILDREN OF WHALES GN VOL 20

CRITICAL ROLE TALES OF EXANDRIA TP VOL 01 BRIGHT QUEEN

DARK AGES TP

DOOM PATROL BY RACHEL POLLACK OMNIBUS HC

DRIP DRIP GN

ENOLA HOLMES MYCROFTS DANGEROUS GAME GN

F*CK OFF SQUAD TP REMASTERED EDITION

FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECTION TP MYSTERY BLACK PANTHER

FELLSPYRE CHRONICLES BOOK 01 HC

FRIEREN BEYOND JOURNEYS END GN VOL 06

FRIZZY GN

FRUITING BODIES (ONE SHOT)

FUNGIRL TP YOU ARE REVOLTING

GREEN LANTERN ALLIANCE TP

GUNNING FOR RAMIREZ TP VOL 02 (MR)

HEAD WOUNDS SPARROW HC GN

HULK VS THOR TP BANNER OF WAR

ILLUMINATI TP

IM STILL ALIVE OGN HC (MR)

INCREDIBLE HULK EPIC COLLECTION TP AND NOW WOLVERINE

IT TOOK LUKE HC

KAIJU NO 8 GN VOL 04

KLAW HC VOL 04 CYCLE REBORN

MATRIX COMICS 20TH ANN DLX ED HC POD CVR NEW PTG

MILES MORALES STRANGER TIDES GN

MIRACLEMAN GAIMAN BUCKINGHAM TP BOOK 01 GOLDEN AGE

MISSION YOZAKURA FAMILY GN VOL 01

MS TREE DEADLINE GN (MR)

NEW MASTERS TP

NEW TEEN TITANS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 (2022 EDITION)

PERSONA 5 GN VOL 09

PHOEBE & HER UNICORN GN VOL 16 UNICORNADO

POKEMON TRAINERS MINI ART ENCYCLOPEDIA

PTSD RADIO GN VOL 01

RADIANT BLACK TP VOL 03

RECORD RAGNAROK GN VOL 04 (MR)

REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS HC (MR)

SENSORY LIFE ON THE SPECTRUM AUTISTIC COMICS ANTHO

SOUL EATER PERFECT EDITION HC GN VOL 08 (MR)

STRANGER THINGS OMNIBUS AFTERSCHOOL ADVENTURES TP

STUDIO GHIBLI COOKBOOK UNOFF RECIPES HC

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES COMPENDIUM HC

TRIALS OF X TP VOL 01

UNDEAD UNLUCK GN VOL 09

VUZZ HC (MR)

WHEN EVERYTHING TURNED BLUE HC

WONDER WOMAN BY GEORGE PEREZ OMNIBUS HC (2022 EDITION)

YOUNG AVENGERS BY HEINBERG AND CHEUNG OMNIBUS HC

 

 MERCH

MOTU ORIGINS TEELA & ZOAR AF 2PK CS



Sunday, October 9, 2022

New Comics For Week Of THURSDAY 13TH OCTOBER



I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you
Laughing in the purple rain

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you
Bathing in the purple rain

I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend (hey)
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you
Underneath the purple rain

Honey, I know, I know
I know times are changing
It's time we all reach out
For something new, that means you too

You say you want a leader
But you can't seem to make up your mind
I think you better close it
And let me guide you to the purple rain

Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your hand

Purple rain, purple rain
I only want to see you
Only want to see you
In the purple rain

Damn...what a banger.

Oh also new comics...but you really should go listen to some Prince...like right now.

  If there is something extra you are after make sure to get your requests to us before 5pm Monday to give us the best chance to secure you what you are after as we'll have limited shelf stock available.


Until we next see or hear from you, stay safe, live life and read comics!

HIGHLIGHT LIST

APPROACH #1 (OF 5)

BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES #1

BATMAN INCORPORATED #1

DARK CRISIS WORLDS WITHOUT A JUSTICE LEAGUE GREEN ARROW #1 (ONE SHOT) 

DCS TERRORS THROUGH TIME #1 (ONE SHOT)

SCARLET SISTERS ONE SHOT

HACK SLASH HOT SHORTS (ONE-SHOT)

HALLOWEEN PARTY (ONE-SHOT)

HITOMI #1 (OF 5)

AXE ETERNALS #1

AXE IRON FIST #1

NAMOR SUB-MARINER CONQUERED SHORES #1 (OF 5)

PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL BROTHER #1

STAR WARS HIGH REPUBLIC #1

STAR WARS VISIONS #1

WAKANDA #1 (OF 5)

AMERICAN VAMPIRE OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 (MR)

BLACK PANTHER BY TA-NEHISI COATES OMNIBUS HC

CLOSET TP VOL 01 (MR)

DC HORROR PRESENTS SOUL PLUMBER HC (MR)

FARMHAND TP VOL 04 (MR)

FOLLOW ME DOWN HC A RECKLESS BOOK (MR)

MARVEL-VERSE GN TP SHURI

MOON GIRL TP ENDANGERED SPECIES

MS MARVEL GN TP GENERATIONS

SEA SERPENTS HEIR GN BOOK 01

SLUMBER TP VOL 01 (MR)

SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN TP VOL 05

STAN LEE ALLIANCES ORPHANS HC

TEEN TITANS ACADEMY HC VOL 02 EXIT WOUNDS

THE BATMAN BOX SET

VENOM EPIC COLLECTION TP CARNAGE UNLEASHED

WONDER WOMAN EVOLUTION HC

X-CELLENT TP VOL 01 NEW BLOOD NEW WORLD

CHILLING ADV OF SALEM ONE SHOT

LEGACY OF VIOLENCE #1 (MR)

YEAR ZERO VOL 0 #1 (OF 5)

AKIRA ART OF WALL BOX SET

ART MAKING OF TRANSFORMERS WAR FOR CYBERTRON TRILOGY

DANDADAN GN VOL 01 (MR)

HIS NAME IS BANKSY GN

HYPERVENTILATION GN VOL 00 (MR)

ILLUMINATIONS STORIES BY ALAN MOORE HC

JONESES TP (MR)

LORE OLYMPUS GN VOL 03

NIGHT EATERS GN VOL 01 SHE EATS AT NIGHT


BOOM ENTERTAINMENT

APPROACH #1 (OF 5)

ONCE & FUTURE #30

 

DARK HORSE COMICS

MASKERADE #2 (OF 4)

 

DC COMICS

BATGIRLS #11

BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES #1

BATMAN INCORPORATED #1

BATMAN URBAN LEGENDS #20

BATMAN VS ROBIN #2 (OF 5)

DARK CRISIS WORLDS WITHOUT A JUSTICE LEAGUE GREEN ARROW #1 (ONE SHOT)

DCS TERRORS THROUGH TIME #1 (ONE SHOT)

FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE #2 (OF 3)

FUTURE STATE GOTHAM #18

JURASSIC LEAGUE #6 (OF 6)

SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #16 (KAL-EL RETURNS)

WONDER WOMAN #792

 

DYNAMITE

007 #3

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NINJETTES #2 (OF 5)

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SCARLET SISTERS ONE SHOT

VAMPIRELLA MINDWARP #2 (OF 5)

 

IDW

DARK SPACES WILDFIRE #4

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GODZILLA MONSTERS & PROTECTORS ALL HAIL KING #1

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STAR TREK LOWER DECKS #2

TMNT ONGOING #133

 

IMAGE COMICS

DO A POWERBOMB #5 (OF 7)

HACK SLASH HOT SHORTS (ONE-SHOT)

HALLOWEEN PARTY (ONE-SHOT)

HITOMI #1 (OF 5)

LEAST WE CAN DO #2

LOVE EVERLASTING #3

PRODIGY ICARUS SOCIETY #4 (OF 5)

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SEVEN SONS #5 (OF 7)

SPAWN #334

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STARHENGE DRAGON & BOAR #4 (OF 6)

STILLWATER BY ZDARSKY & PEREZ #15 (MR)

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MARVEL PRH

ALL-OUT AVENGERS #2

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #11

AXE DEATH TO MUTANTS #3 (OF 3)

AXE ETERNALS #1

AXE IRON FIST #1

BLACK PANTHER #10

CAPTAIN MARVEL #42

DAREDEVIL #4

FANTASTIC FOUR #48

GAMBIT #4 (OF 5) (RES)

GENIS-VELL CAPTAIN MARVEL #4 (OF 5)

GHOST RIDER #7 (RES)

IMMORTAL X-MEN #7

LEGION OF X #6

NAMOR SUB-MARINER CONQUERED SHORES #1 (OF 5)

PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL BROTHER #1

STAR WARS #28

STAR WARS HIGH REPUBLIC #1

STAR WARS VISIONS #1

VENOM #11 (RES)

WAKANDA #1 (OF 5)

WOLVERINE #25

X-FORCE #32

 

MISC

CHICKEN DEVILS #1

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CHILLING ADV OF SALEM ONE SHOT

E RATIC RECHARGED #2 (OF 4)

HIGHBALL #2 (OF 5)

LEGACY OF VIOLENCE #1 (MR)

LITTLE RED RONIN #3

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LOCUST THE BALLAD OF MEN #2

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MAD CAVE STUDIOS LEGACY BATTLECATS #2

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NINJA KAIDAN #3

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SHERLOCK SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA PART 2 #3

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YEAR ZERO VOL 0 #1 (OF 5)

 

MAGAZINES

FANGORIA VOL 2 #17

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MARVEL PREVIEWS VOL 06 #13 OCTOBER 2022

RETROFAN MAGAZINE #23

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TRADES

AKIRA ART OF WALL BOX SET

AMERICAN VAMPIRE OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 (MR)

ART MAKING OF TRANSFORMERS WAR FOR CYBERTRON TRILO

ATOM BEGINNING GN VOL 01

AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP BOX SET

BEAUTY AND FEAST GN VOL 04

BIG SCOOP OF ICE CREAM GN

BLACK PANTHER EARLY MARVEL YRS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01

CAT MASSAGE THERAPY GN VOL 03

CLOSET TP VOL 01 (MR)

COLLECTED TOPPI HC VOL 08 (MR)

CREEPY CAT GN VOL 04

DANDADAN GN VOL 01 (MR)

DC HORROR PRESENTS SOUL PLUMBER HC (MR)

EXCALIBUR BY TINI HOWARD HC VOL 02

FARMHAND TP VOL 04 (MR)

FOLLOW ME DOWN HC A RECKLESS BOOK (MR)

FOLLOW ME INTO THE DARKNESS TP (MR)

GHOST IN THE SHELL HUMAN ALGORITHM VOL 03

GI JOE RAH SATURDAY MORNING ADV TP

GIRL FROM OTHER SIDE SIUIL RUN DLX ED OMNIBUS HC VOL 2

HIS NAME IS BANKSY GN

HYPERVENTILATION GN VOL 00 (MR)

ILLUMINATIONS STORIES BY ALAN MOORE HC

JONESES TP (MR)

KOMI CANT COMMUNICATE GN VOL 21

LORE OLYMPUS GN VOL 03

LORE OLYMPUS HC GN VOL 03

MARVEL-VERSE GN TP SHURI

MINIONS MINI BOSS TP (RES)

MONSTABOO GN VOL 02 (MR)

MOON GIRL TP ENDANGERED SPECIES

MS MARVEL GN TP GENERATIONS

NIGHT EATERS GN VOL 01 SHE EATS AT NIGHT

SAKAMOTO DAYS GN VOL 04

SEA SERPENTS HEIR GN BOOK 01

SLUMBER TP VOL 01 (MR)

SOMETHING IS KILLING CHILDREN TP VOL 05

SONIC HEDGEHOG IMPOSTER SYNDROME TP

SPIDER HAM HOLLYWOOD MAY HAM GN

SPLATOON GN VOL 15

STAN LEE ALLIANCES ORPHANS HC

STRANGER THINGS OMNIBUS TP VOL 01

SUZANNE JAZZ AGE GODDESS OF TENNIS GN

TEEN TITANS ACADEMY HC VOL 02 EXIT WOUNDS

THE BATMAN BOX SET

VENOM EPIC COLLECTION TP CARNAGE UNLEASHED

WANDANCE GN VOL 02

WOLVERINE EPIC COLLECTION TP BACK TO BASICS

WONDER WOMAN EVOLUTION HC

WRONG EARTH TP THE ONE SHOTS

X-CELLENT TP VOL 01 NEW BLOOD NEW WORLD