Archive for: July 2007

• Jack Kirby’s Silver Star and Captain Victory will continue at Image! The Silver Star Trade is out now and Captain Victory will be out August 1
• Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragonés said that there will soon be a collected trade paperback of the Magnor series
• The long sold out OOP book Tim Sale: Black and White will get reprinted as Tim Sale: Black and White, Revised and Expaned due in December

DAY 3

• Eisner Award Winners I’ll go over all of these in the next show
• Christos Gage and wife (and writing partner) Ruth Fletcher Gage to write The Lion of Rora, a historical graphic novel Let’s give it up for the Greek!
• Joe Quesada on the Spider-Man “Brand New Day” storyline and its future trades Also this story has a strange hint to a letter Bob Gale (screenwriter of Back to the Future) wrote in 1967 copy of Tales of Suspense. A new collected edition of his work? I don’t know if it means anything, but I thougt I would point it out.
• The Complete Monkeyman & O’Brien reprinted in one of those “gigantic, mind-numbingly big” volumes

DAY 2

• Image and Rob Liefeld announce a Youngblood Hardcover collection
• Joe Hill and IDW will publish a new edition of his “20th Century Ghosts”
• IDW has even a few more editions too, including a new Harlan Ellison work
• By the end of this summer, BOOM! will be offering a line of trade paperback graphic novels collecting their popular series, including TALENT, HERO SQUARED, TAG, DEATH VALLEY, and X ISLE.
• Recap of the Graphic Novel Panel
• Jamie Delano and his new “Hellblazer: Pandemonium” GN
• Viz to release Slam Dunk, serialize Bleach

DAYS 0 and 1

• DC Gets Heroes Hardcover Coming this Fall
• Creepy and Eerie to get the Archive treatment from Dark Horse
• Indiana Jones Omnibuses from Dark Horse
• :01 First Second will release Paul Pope’s sprawling four-volume sci-fi epic, Total THB, in 2009. Also look for a two volume set of Battling Boy
• Top Shelf Productions will release Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s Marshal Law in a deluxe omnibus edition.
• Matt Wagner and a good bit of Grendel reprint news
• Jeff Smith’s brand new oversized black and white series “Rasl” and its 2009 smaller color collected edition
• Ed Burns, Jimmy Palmiotti and Virgin announce the new series “Dock Walloper” and its May 2008, 114 page collected edition
• Ultimate Blade Runner DVD announcement. Now that is a collected edition!!!

Thanks to all of you who nominated me, you work has paid off, but now comes the tuff part.

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Today’s show is packed full of trade paperback goodness; from Frank Miller’s Bad Boy, Jonah Hex, Showcase Presents Secret Society of Super Villians and Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, The Spider-Man Masterworks, and even a Fouth Wotld follow up. I also have some great e-mail and audio clips, too.
For the feature at hand, I go over a topic that was started on the CCL Forum: Sold Out and Out Of Print books. As I say in the show, there are way too many to cover, so I go over what I want to have on my bookshelf. I think you’ll agree that some of these masterpieces should come back to print.

Chris

Music by Hot Club of Detroit

Links of Note:
CCC on CCL: Podcast #56
Comic Timing
Rock and Roll Geek Show
Plan Nine Rock Show

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• Erik Larson, CBR, discusses mistakes in comics including, the colors of Devil Dinosaurs’ eyes in the new Marvel Omnibus
• Everyone seems to have an opinion on Tintin and the Congo. Joe, at FPI, is one of them
• Geoff Hoppe ,Comic Book Bin, reviews Conan: The Beast King of Abombi and Other Stories
• Bill Sherman, Blog Critics Magazine, reviews The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen
• Is there a cover controversy with the new Showcase Presents Batgirl collection, Beau Smith, Silver Bullet Comics, ponders the question
• Stephen Holland, also from Silver Bullet Comics, reviews Hellblazer: The Devil You Know
• Collected Editions Blog reviews, Checkmate A King’s Game TPB and Green Arrow Crawling Through the Wreckage TPB. I rally have to pick the Checkmate one up
• HarperCollins is publishing three Simpsons titles to coincide with the release of the movie
• Douglas Wolk, over at the awesomely newly revamped, Savage Critics, reviews Giant-Size Marvel Adventures The Avengers #1, which feature The Agents of Atlas

First up I want to thank everyone who nominated me for a Podcast Award. I’ll have more news on that on this Blog later in the week. I also hoped all of you had a chance to download and listen to the latest CCL Comic Book Page May 2007 Stats Podcast. Comments are always welcome!
On today’s show I go over a small bit of news from Image, Dynamic Forces and the CrossGen/Checker Book Collected Edition Reprint Team-Up. It’s nice to see those finally getting published.
The CCL interior website has two new Checklists for you to download: The EC Archives and The Dark Horse Archives. I also hope to have all the individual pages for the DC Archives, Marvel Masterworks, Showcases, Essentials and everything else all updated by the end of the week And don’t forget to check out the Release Schedule; it’s all updated with the latest solicitations from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and others.
For the feature today, I cover Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Epic, but not in the usual way. I do go over the Omnibus editions a bit, but really it’s a rundown of the monthly and collected edition publication history for all the Fourth World related titles from 1971-2005!
Time to enter the Boom Tube! Hop on in!
Chris

Music by Hot Club of Detroit

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• David Crumm at the Detroit Free Press has a great article on two Bible related graphic novels: Dust and Stories of The Saints
• Tony Isabella, World Famous Comics, reviews a bunch of books including Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes Vol. 1 and Catwoman: The Replacements and The Black Diamond Detective Agency and reprints of Dick Tracy, Peanuts, Dennis and Popeye
• Marvel Comics has provided CBR News with Dan Brereton’s variant cover and a recap for the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus due out August 8th
• Newsarama carries the Press Release on the newuniversal Premiere Hardcover also due out August 8th

This weeks show is all about the Atlas Era Masterworks, well on the surface anyway. I go over all the titles and a few more that I’d like to see.
I also have a wonderful audio comment from Ralf of Germany, talk about the Podcast Awards (again) and go over The New Releases of the Week.
Chris

Music by Hot Club of Detroit

Links of note:
Max und Moritz Awards PDF
Atlas Tales

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• The Hero Initiative and Marvel Comics have teamed up to bring you The Ultimate Spider-Man #100 Project, the great art book collecting all 100 Hero Initiative Ultimate Spider-Man pieces this September
• Image Comics has released more info on the just released Meltdown TPB
• R.J. Carter over at The Trades reviews Mouse Guard: Fall 1152
• Marvel is reporting through their Marvel Masterworks site that October will bring us Marvel Masterworks: Avengers Volume 7 (variant 84) collecting Avengers #59-68 and Marvel Super-Heroes #17 and also Atlas Era Strange Tales Volume 1 (variant 85) collecting Strange Tales #1-10. Now that’s cool!
• Dave Wallace from Silver Bullet Comics reviews Absolute DC: The New Frontier HC
• Collected Editions Blog reviews Robin: Wanted TPB and Outsiders: The Good Fight TPB

Happy Independence Day to everyone!
Today I have a great conversation with Jeff Bogumil of the Graphic Novel Archive. Jeff and I go over his life in comics, the GNA website and his series on the Transformers. Then we dive into the Transformers movie. Yes, we do talk in-depth and so beware of spoilers.
I also talk about the Podcast Awards and go over The New Releases of the Week.
Chris

Music by Hot Club of Detroit

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