Sunday 14 June 2015

Indie Pull List - Week of June 17th, 2015


The Indies are definitely the most difficult of the three columns.  There's more to choose from and there's less that I'm familiar with.  I do the column in a sort of "improv" style of writing.  Nothing I write is pre-planned or crafted, (which I'm sure is painfully obvious sometimes).  I start the new post and about two to sometimes four hours later it's all formatted and my witticisms have either fallen very flat or have maybe scaled a height or two.  Every time I see the Indie list there's a deer in the headlights moment of, "I have no idea what to say about ANY of this", (as opposed to Batman or Spider-Man where I can draw on a minor knowledge and a great love of the characters). 


Dark Horse had a couple of books that were either pushed back or I had the wrong date.  The infamous, (well, mostly to me, which is referenced here), Return of the Gremlins is now listed for this week not last week.  I think the Usagi Yojimbo volume was pushed back, too.  In fact a lot of the Dark Horse list looks pretty similar to last weeks..... Didn't find anything about those particular books but Jeff Lemire's new series Black Hammer has been indefinitely postponed while artist Dave Ormston recovers from his cerebral hemorrhage.  Don't know what's up with the other delays but here's a teaser image for Black Hammer since I loves me some Lemire.



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San Hannibal - The City Of Love And Fear 


What caught me first about this was the publisher - Pop! Goes The Icon.  I'd never heard of them and the exclamation point after the Pop.  That's the same thing Funko does with their ridiculously popular Pop! Figures.  They don't or at least not that I could see.  They've been publishing books since 2009 and they're based out of Las Vegas.  As for the series itself it 's called a neo-noir and it's a mini-series, so no waiting for future volumes or tracking down back issues to find out who dunnit.  It's about a private detective investigating the disappearance of a photojournalist that leads him to uncover the city of San Hannibal's secrets.  Sounds fairly routine but it has some pretty great reviews; one name-dropping critic said it was like: "Andy Warhol shot an Elmore Leonard movie but he never finished it and Ridley Scott and David Lynch got together and wrapped it all up."  If it's even half of that it should be a good read.

Publisher: Pop! Goes The Icon
SRP: $14.99
Contains: San Hannibal #1-5
CRD:  May 26th, 2015 (it's also more expensive in Canada by a few dollars)


Star Trek - New Visions Vol. 2


I just grabbed this because I've never covered a Star Trek comic before despite being a fan. What I got was a fumetti style book set in the Original Series universe by John Byrne. Apparently fumetti is Italian for comic book but has been co opted by the North Americans to describe a photonovel.  Photonovel's employ film negatives to do an adaptation of said movie or TV series and were popular in the late 70's and early 80's before VCR's made this sort of thing fairly redundant.  The twist on these Star Trek books is the film negatives are used to create original stories written by Byrne.  Interesting idea. 
  
Publisher: IDW
SRP: $19.99
Contains: Star Trek - New Visions #3-6
CRD: June 30th, 2015

THE REST


ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
Beyond The Western Deep Vol. 1

ALTERNA COMICS
Metaphase 

ALTERNATIVE COMICS
Clover Honey - 20th Anniversary Edition
Me Likes You Very Much

ARCANA STUDIO
Darkham Vale 

BALLANTINE BOOKS
You’re Golden Charlie Brown - 65 Years Of Peanuts 

BLACK LIBRARY
Warhammer - Imperial Creed 

BLACK WATCH COMICS
Soul Stealer - The Collector’s Edition (HC)

BOOM! STUDIOS
Adventure Time - Banana Guard Academy Vol. 1
Amazing World Of Gumball Vol. 1
Clockwork Angels 
Sons Of Anarchy Vol. 3

DARK HORSE COMICS
Aw Yeah Comics Vol. 2: Time For Adventure 
Colder Vol. 2: The Bad Seed 
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jungle Tales Of Tarzan (HC - Limited Edition available for $30 more)
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan Omnibus
New Lone Wolf And Cub Vol. 5
Return Of The Gremlins (HC)
Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 29: Two Hundred Jizo 

DK PUBLISHING
Lego Ninjago - The Path Of The Ninja (HC)

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
Mercy Thompson Hopcross Jilly (HC - Signed edition available for $15 more)

FANFARE PRESENTS PONENT MON
Summit Of The Gods Vol. 5

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Alexander Theroux Collected Poems (HC)
Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 16: The Mid-1980s - More Years Of Valiant Struggle (HC)
Complete Eightball Volumes 1-18 (HC - Boxset)
Complete Peanuts Volume 23 1995-1996 (HC)
Grave Business And Other Stories (HC)

GEN MANGA ENTERTAINMENT
Eden Vol. 1

HUMANOIDS PUBLISHING
Child Of The Storm (HC)
Redhand - Deluxe (HC)

IDW PUBLISHING
Creeple Peeple TP, $17.99
Dungeons And Dragons - Abraxis Wren Of Eberron
Library Of American Comics Essentials Vol. 7: Tarzan - The Original Dailies (HC)
Little Nemo - Return To Slumberland
My Little Pony - Fiendship Is Magic

IMAGE COMICS
Drifter Vol. 1: Out Of The Night
Ghosted Vol. 4: Ghost Town 

KODANSHA COMICS
xxxHOLIC Omnibus Vol. 6 

NBM
Dungeon Monsters Vol. 5: My Son The Killer
Treasury 20th Century Murder Vol. 4: The Lives Of Sacco And Vanzetti 

PANINI PUBLISHING
Doctor Who - The Good Soldier

REBELLION
2000 AD Pack May 2015 (1929-1932)

RENEGADE ARTS ENTERTAINMENT
Loxleys And Confederation (HC)

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT
Freezing Omnibus Vol. 1
Haganai I Don’t Have Many Friends Vol. 11
Nurse Hitomi’s Monster Infirmary Vol. 2
Servamp Vol. 2

SIMON AND SCHUSTER
Miles Taylor And The Golden Cape Attack Of The Alien Horde (HC)

SQUARE FISH
Brain Camp 

TITAN COMICS
Third Testament Vol. 4: The Day Of The Raven (HC)

TJ COMICS
Patriot-1 Vol. 1

UDON ENTERTAINMENT
Manga Classics - Emma (HC)

VIZ MEDIA
Dogs Bullets And Carnage Vol. 10 
Fragments Of Horror
Gene Mapper 
Master Keaton Vol. 3
One Piece: 3-In-1 Vol. 12
Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1

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