Archive for: May 2008

Collected Comics Library Podcast #173

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This week marks a special week in the world of comic books and podcasting, along with several other shows, the CCL is covering Diamond Distribution and the Direct Market. All of the participating podcasts are focusing on this one very important and often understood (or misrepresented) company and system. For my part, I went on location to Detroit Comics and sat down with owner Brian Kelly to talk about what it takes to open a new comic book store including the good and bad and his relationship with Diamond. I want to thank Brian for being so candid in his assessment. I found it to be insightful, straight forward and honest. To find a listing of all the other shows and their exact take, please visit our unofficial host, Comics Related.

Also in this week’s installment, I give a quick rundown of some books scheduled to be coming out in August and throughout the 4th Quarter and even some DC Comics Collected Editions for 2009 which includes a Deluxe Hardcover of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing.

Lastly, I want to congratulate Jeffery Grill of Miami, FL who won the Annihilation Conquest Book 1 giveaway contest. My oversight is his advantage. All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of Note:
2008 Eagle Awards
Image and Red Rocket 7

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 CCL Podcast #173 - Diamond mining with Brian Kelly, Detroit Comics [61:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I hope all of you had a great Memorial Day Weekend. As you can see from my pervious post I was rather busy. But it’s a wonderful sense of accomplishment when you get everything done that needs to get done. Sure, the work never stops when it comes to yard work, but I can look out my window and see the flowers bloom and that makes it all worthwhile.
As for comics, this weekend, things are pretty slow, but I did manage to read the Complete Shmoo (Dark Horse); a fantastic book that I will be reviewing for an upcoming podcast in the next few weeks. I’ll even let you in on a little secret - it’s a front runner for The CCL Collected Edition of the Year!!!
Same old stuff in the Collected Edition Blogosphere. So let’s get to it now:

• Fantagraphics has posted images of the newly released Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952 Softcover
• My pal Joe, FPI Blog, talks with Blank Slate Books
• BOOM! Studios‘ hardcover collections of their critically acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Damnation Crusade and Warhammer 40,000: Forge Of War can now be purchased exclusively through the BOOM! Studios web store as both signed-and-numbered and signed-and-lettered editions.
• Marc-Oliver Frisch gets right to the point on Brian Wood
• Graeme McMillan tries uncover what is up with the Millar/Hitch Fantastic Four Hardcover
• Red Rocket 7 10th anniversary collection on the way
• Top Shelf will release a collection of Corey Barba’s YAM comics, both new and previously published in Nickelodeon Magazine
• About Comics Collects Gail Simone’s You’ll All Be Sorry. A collection of her hilarious prose pieces. Featuring a mixture of classic entries culled from her popular online column and brand new pieces, this About Comics paperback will delight Simone’s growing legion of fans.
• Marvel Collects Ultimates 3 #1-#3. I really don’t like these “mini-trades” I think it’s just a money grabber. Keep in mind that Ultimates 3 #1 has already received an 2nd Printing and we can expect a trade and/or hardcover by Christmas. Too much of a good thing…
• Not really comics related, but I found this list very interesting: 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library. I’ve read only 10. Which I think is pretty good.
• Eagle Awards 2008 Results. Among the many categories are Favourite Original Graphic Novel The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman: Black Dossier and Favourite Reprint Compilation Absolute Sandman Volume 2
• Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on the Secret Six: Six Degrees of Devastation TPB (DC Comics) and Birds of Prey: Dead of Winter TPB (DC Comics), which also feature the Secret Six
• Getting ready for the Trade: Christopher Butcher reviews Project Superpowers #0-#3 and the 2008 FCBD Special (Dynamite)
• Preview, Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter, on Jules Feiffer’s The Explainers (Fantagraphics) Books. Note: this book is in stores now.

Go to Lowe’s – Check
Yard work – Check
Back to Lowe’s – Check
More yard work – Check
Watch Red Wings, Pistons and Tigers – Check
Patrick’s Little League – Check
Again to Lowe’s – Check
Even more yard work – Check
Grill meat and drink beer – Check
Sleep – Check
Wake up and finally update CCL blog – a constant work in progress

Collected Comics Library Podcast #172

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The Motor City Con has come and gone and today on the show I go over what I saw, what I bought and who I met. With all that in mind, I have a brand new giveaway of Annihilation Conquest Book 1 HC; details on how to enter are in the show.

Also, today I go over some major Marvel shipping changes and new solicitations from both DC and Marvel. I also have an e-mail from Joe, Forbidden Planet International, introduce you to two new collected edition themed podcasts and give a tease as to what you can expect on the next TwoMorrows Tune-In, all this and the New Releases of the Week.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of Note:
Marvel Noise
Waiting For The Trade
Shawn Amberger

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #171

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Sometimes I can get real ornery, but it takes a lot to get me that way. This week Marvel puts me in a mood. It has to do with their shipping schedule and the changes that have been made. Not only that, but as I run down the New Releases of the Week, some other questions arise from other companies, as to just what the heck is going on with content and price per page.

I calm down later on in the show with Greg Rucka’s early work Whiteout. I cover both Definitive Editions from Oni Press, which were published last summer.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of Note:
Whiteout from Oni Press
Greg Rucka’s Official Website

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 CCL Podcast #171 - Whiteout 1 and 2 - Definitive Editions [33:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I’ve got a very busy weekend coming up. Friday kicks off the Motor City Comic Con. I’ll be there when it opens to pick up my Press Credential and I’ll stay for a few hours, but I’ll have to get home to get the kids off the bus and get Patrick ready for his baseball game. Saturday at 9:30am is baseball picture day. The cool thing about this is, former Tiger star Willie Horton will be there signing autographs. I hope to get him to sign my bat (I have it signed by many Tiger greats). Then quickly I have to run the kids over to my moms and head on up to Lansing for my fraternity alumni golf outing for a 2:00 shotgun. Then at about 5:15, I’ll have to skip out of that, change my clothes and drive 20 minutes west to meet Patty at a wedding (she’s going up with her sister), we’ll then drive home together. Sunday I should be at the Con most of the day. Shoot me an e-mail if you will be there and want to meet up. Here are some links:

• In January Dark Horse will publish an omnibus edition collecting all four volumes of the Clamp manga series Clover. It will be 512 pages with 32 pages of color and a cover price of $19.95.
• Web Comics Goodness: Archaia Studio Press will be releasing a 304 page, full color, digest, of Tom Siddell’s webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court for $26.95, sometime this summer. It’s being touted as the next Mouse Guard. That’s a tall order. We’ll see.
• More Web Comics Goodness: In August of 2009 Pantheon will publish a 200-page volume collecting Josh Neufeld’s A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge, which is about Hurricane Katrina.
• Even More Web Comics Goodness: Moonbase Press has announced that it will be releasing the thirteenth collection of cartoonist Bill Holbrook’s webcomic Kevin & Kell on June 26, 2008. The book, which features the strips from 2006.
• Alias Comics has announced that it will be publishing a Deal With the Devil TPB ($14.99) this fall, which will include a six-page prologue in addition to the five issues of the original mini-series. Lionsgate has picked up the option for the film.
• Heidi MacDonald comments on Kramers Ergot #7, the new issue of Sammy Harkham’s epic and influential avant garde comics anthology. Get this: it will cost $125 for 96 pages!!!
  And people think the Masterworks are too pricey!
• The guys over at Collected Editions need your help with the Final Crisis reading order and the also have a nice but very sad list of collected editions we probably won’t see.
• Review: Tom Spurgeon, the Comics Reporter, on Essential Thor, Vol. 3 which collects Thor #137-166.

I sit down with John Mayo, once again, and discuss the sales estimates for the Top 100 graphic novels and collected editions for March 2008.

Email John at MayoReport@ComicBookPage.com with any questions or comment you have on the episode or post on the Comic Book Page Forum.

This podcast episode originated on the Comic Book Page website

 

 Mayo Report: 2008-03 Trades [64:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Collected Comics Library Podcast #170

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Long time listeners of the Podcast will remember that last year I did a show devoted to Free Comic Book Day. In that particular episode, I went over all the books that were given out and then I gave recommendations as to what collected editions would go well with that title. Due to the concept of the show, it was a hit and remains one of my most downloaded shows ever! Now it’s 2008 and I’m back for Round 2. This episode was fun to record (I don’t say that enough) and I hope you’ll enjoy it too, and save it for future reference.

Also, I go over what I read, and watched, over the weekend, some shipping updates, and The New Releases of the Week.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of Note:
Free Comic Book Day
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 CCL #170 - Free Comics 2008! Now What? [37:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I meant to blog a few times since I uploaded the podcast last Wednesday, but life just gets in the way. Thursday I had to deal with my eye insurance and while I was driving around, I got a flat tire 20 minutes before the kids got off the bus! Patrick also had a baseball game. I got everything fixed and all was OK, I was planning on recording with John Mayo that night, but everything came crashing down. Friday I had to take Patrick to the doctor, don’t fret, he’s doing just fine. Good thing, too, because we all had to get up at 6:00am on Saturday and go to Chicago for my nephews first communion. Thank goodness Patty drove, which allowed me to relax and read Whiteout Definitive Editions Volumes 1-2 by Greg Rucka. It was a long day but I did manage to get away and get to a local comic book store for FCBD, I’ll talk more about that on the next podcast. Sunday was a whole lot easier. Patty drove most of the way home and I read the first story from Queen and Country Definitive Edition 02 (also by Rucka – see a pattern?) and watched Night at the Museum and part of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The kids and I agreed that Museum was a much better movie. I never did get to see Iron Man this weekend, perhaps this week. So now that I caught you up with my life, let me catch you up on a bunch of links:

• Top 100 Graphic Novels Actual–March 2008. The Killing Joke Special Edition HC came in at #1, I’m not surprised. John and I are working out our schedules and plan on recording sometime this week. As always, I’ll post when it is available for download.
• DC’s Paul Levitz doesn’t say much about Collected Editions; which leaves all of us to speculate.
• Another mini-collection from Marvel. This time it’s X-Force #1-#3 ($4.99 on sale 5/28/08). this is called “Wait for Half of the Trade”.
• Star Wars and Indiana Jones Mad Libs Books. Why wasn’t this put out sooner? Like in the 1982?!
• Download a free copy of Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force: Betrayal. Free as in: free digital PDF, free Audiobook, free Amazon Kindle e-book, and/or free Sony Reader e-book. Hurry, offer expires at midnight, May 13, 2008.
• PB Weekly has some hardcore information on the upcoming Jules Feiffer’s Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-66, the first of four dense hardcover books collecting the all of Feiffer’s strips, which contains roughly 500 strips from the series’ first decade. Initial printing is 5,000 copies.
• A collected edition of the first series of Cla$$war is coming out soon. I meant to blog about this weeks ago, but I lost the URL in my bookmarks and forgot about it. Thanks to an e-mail from listener Mark, I remembered.
• Now available Mome Vol. 1-10 Mega-Bundle and the beautiful The Complete Love and Rockets Library Vol. 1, both from Fantagraphics.
• Hermes Press to reprint entire Buck Rogers newspaper run. This is great news, but am I alone in thinking that this was announced before? Ah yes it was, by Dynamite Entertainment, who will be publishing anew series of Buck Rogers. The initial Press Release reads: Dynamite’s agreement with the Dille Estate allows for the creation of Buck Rogers comics, collections, including classic material, comics-based fine art prints, posters, action figures, trading cards, statues, and other high-end collectibles.
• Bob Greenberger’s work schedule. Damn! is he ever busy.
• Good friend of the CCL, Jeff from the Graphic Novel Archive revisits the Transformers graphic novels.
• A 20th anniversary Dilbert book is set to released in September according to E&P. The book will be about 600 pages, 4,000 strips and a CD that contains every ‘Dilbert’ strip and that can be updated as new comics are released. The cartoons were personally selected by Scott Adams and offers his comment and humorous asides throughout the book.
• Mark Anderson has released his first cartoon collection, Rub My Tummy and It’s a Deal. 109 pages of business related cartoons.
• Review: Randy Lander, Comic Pants, on Too Cool To Be Forgotten HC (Top Shelf)
• Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 2 (DC Comics), Bizarre New World: Population Explosion GN (Ape Entertainment) and the highly underrated series Manhunter: Unleashed TPB (DC Comics)