Comic Book Blog browsing on a Tuesday afternoon
10 minutes ago I finished reading Volume 3 of Annihilation. I’ll be featuring it on this week’s podcast. I was interrupted briefly because I received my DCBS shipment for the month of January 2008. Among the few monthly comics I subscribe to, it contained the collected edition of Sword of the Atom TPB, Marvel Masterworks Spider-Man Volume 9 and the Golden Age Daring Mystery Comics Volume 1, The Essential Luke Cage Volume 2 and Power Man and Iron Fist Volume 1, and lastly The Daredevil Omnibus Companion. All this will undoubtedly keep me busy during the month of February. Thanks God 2008 is a Leap Year. On with today’s links:
- Tom Brevoort, Marvel Comics, blogs on the winners of the 2007 Golden Loeb Awards. I found this to be ridiculous. Best Collected Edition turned out to be the Captain America Omnibus by Ed Brubaker. Nice choice. I would have voted for Planet Hulk, but it wasn’t on the list of nominations. Runner Up was Annihilation, another nice choice. But what gets me is that one of the write-ins included The Essential Fantastic Four Volume 3. OK. I know it was a new edition, but is was originally released in 2004. All the new version got was a new cover. Who ever wrote this in needs a lobotomy.
- A lot is being made of the upcoming Gary Panter (The Book). An intimate look at the work and life of a legendary artist. Gary Panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s. From his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, he has left his mark on every medium he’s touched. Working in close collaboration with the artist, PictureBox has assembled the definitive volume on Panter’s work from the early 1970s to the present. This monumental, slipcased set is split into two 344-page volumes. The first is a comprehensive monograph featuring over 700 images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters and comics, alongside essays by Robert Storr, Mike Kelley, Edwin Pouncey, Richard Klein, Richard Gehr, Karrie Jacobs and Byron Coley, as well a substantial commentary by the artist himself. The second volume features a selection from Panter’s sketchbooks, the site of some of his most audacious work- most of which has never been published in any form. Keep in mind that is has been delayed until Spring of 2009. Shoot!
- By way of Mark Andrew, Comics Should Be Good, blogger Dick Hyacinth has put together a very cool Top 10 list of 2007. He gathered up all the lists he could find, (excluding some) and came up with a meta-top top based on rankings. Exit Wounds came in at #1. It’s unknown to me if he used my Top 10 list from December.
- Kevin Melrose, Blog@Newsarama Can’t Wait for Wednesday goes over some past monthly and collected editions; they include: Diana Prince: Wonder Woman, Vol. 1, The Complete 30 Days of Night Trilogy HC, and Krazy & Ignatz, 1941-1942: A Ragout of Raspberries
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