Category: Dark Horse
June 4, 2008
Collected Comics Library Podcast #174
44,768Kb; 37m 59s
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I mentioned on last weeks show (#173) that sometime in the upcoming weeks I would be reviewing Al Capp’s Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books (Dark Horse Archives). That idea got the better of me and I decided, why wait? So I’m presenting it for you today. Let me start by saying that this book is truly exceptional. Readers of this blog and podcast know the value of a well packaged collected edition. This book sets a new standard as far as backups and extra features go. It is a solid lock for a place on the CCL Top 10 Books of the Year. Come listen and hear about all the goodness the Shmoos will bring you.
Secondly, I touch on two other great hardcovers that I received from DCBS on Monday: The Starman Omnibus and Jack Kirby’s OMAC. I was curious to know just exactly what is collected in these books and what sorts of extras are included. I share that information with you today, as well.
Not much in the way of news this week, but I did manage to find an interview Newsarama did with Dark Horse regarding their Archive program and the results from David Stepp’s DC Archive Survey are available. All this and the New Releases of the Week.
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Chris
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February 24, 2008
 Here is a rundown of Collected Edition news from Wonder-Con this past weekend. If you know of anymore, please e-mail them to me.
DC Comics
- Absolute Ronin and Absolute Justice
- Ambush Bug, is being considered as some sort of collected edition
- No plans to bring out trades of the earlier issues of Birds of Prey
Vertigo
- James Jean’s covers to Fables will be collected in a coffee table book next year
Wildstorm
- Absolute Planetary and Absolute Authority may get reprinted
Dark Horse
- Creep Magazine Archives Creepy magazine will collect the entire 20 year run in either 13 or 14 volumes and should be released by Comic-Con International. None of the original artwork will be altered. The first volume will come out in July, and three volumes a year are planned, with Eerie due to start next year.
- Bernie Wrightso’s Frankenstein (1983). The Dark Horse 25th anniversary edition of the illustrated novel will be in hardcover
- The K Chronicles in an omnibus collection of the first four collections by Keith Knight. The collection will be 8 ½ x 11 and over 500 pages long. The collection will feature an introduction by Kyle Baker.
- Re-publishing the first volume of The Perry Bible Fellowship with new material in a new reprint edition. Other Dark Horse webcomics will be both Achewood and Wonder Mart later this year in a similar format to Perry Bible Fellowship.
- The second collection of Emily the Strange will be coming in the fall
Aspen
- Fathom Vol 2 in June, and the Definitive Edition is still in the works.
Iron and the Maiden trade is coming soon
February 20, 2008
 Collected Comics Library Podcast #160
27,347Kb; 28m 54s
As I wrote on Monday’s blog, I went to Chicago this past weekend and sat in with the guys from the Around Comics podcast. While I was there I picked up a few books. One shall remain nameless since I’ll be covering it for next week’s show and I don’t want to give anything away, the other two were Jeffery Brown’s Be A Man for only $3 and The Grendel Archives by Matt Wagner; which is what I feature for today’s show. Like I say in the podcast, there is so much to the history and mythology of the character(s) that I can’t do it justice. But I can go over, in detail, all the collected editions that have been published throughout the years and some upcoming books, too.
Also covered in the show is some podcasting news at this weekends Wonder-Con, shipping updates for upcoming books, TwoMorrows Publishing’s Press release on discounting their entire catalog and finally, The New Releases of the Week.
Chris
Links of Note:
Vivat Grendel - The Devil’s Homepage Grendel Fansite
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February 14, 2008
 If any of you listened to my podcast for this week, you’ll know that a sore throat was coming on. We’ll it hit me full bore this morning. Coughing, redness and I even feel run down. This is not unusual for me. It seems for as long as I can remember I always get till – really ill - around my birthday (January 25). This year it just came three weeks late. The kids are off of school until Tuesday for mid-winter break. I’ll probably take it easy and spend the day away from the computer. In fact, I may be off all weekend. The whole family is going to Chicago for the weekend and with that I am suppose to be meeting up with Chris (Around Comics) and John (Wordballoon). I hope I’m up for it. On with today’s links:
- Dark Horse will be releasing the 2-issue series of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this May. If you are like me, you can just go out and buy the Trade Paperback.
- ICv2.com reports that Titan Books will be releasing Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee in September, 2008.
- Our own paper, The Detroit News, finally got around to covering the The American Comic Book: A Detroit Perspective (on February 9) which had its opening night January 26. A little late, don’t you?
- The other paper in town, The Detroit Free Press, picked up a story via USA Today, had a nice article about the popular online strip Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.
- Here’s a press release from The New York Center for Independent Publishing on CBR. They are having a Symposium On Graphic Novels Saturday, March 15, 2008. Scott McCloud (Zot! and Making Comics) will be conducting a Q&A.
- mckenzee from ComixTalk reports that his Cthulhuvida, and an anthology from the North Carolina WebComic Coffee Clatch are both now in print.
- Matt Blind, Comic Snob (manga), has a very informative article on Borders Bookstores. In a related article, Borders opens up it’s New Concept store in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. (photo by Kathleen Galligan/Detroit Free Press)
- Review: Collected Editions on two trades: Birds of Prey: Perfect Pitch and Checkmate: Pawn Breaks. I have to say that the new white background through me for a loop. At first I thought my web browser was acting up . After refreshing the page - more then once - I figured they changed their scheme.
- Review: Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter, on Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa (:01 First Second)
- Top Cow has launched a new website as a promotion tool for their new Witchblade trade paperbacks
- Review: Read About Comics, on the Dark Horse Heroes Omnibus Vol. 1. I think this blog just convinced me to pick it up - at a discount, of course.
November 9, 2007
 Lot’s on my plate this weekend. Patty and I are going to try to take the kids ice skating Saturday and then we have to drop them off at the grand parents home so we can go to some sort of neighborhood bowling/ beer league. On Sunday, I’m sure we have something going on and in between it all I have to get some football in and try to read half of the Fourth World Omnibus Volume 2. Did I mention today, Friday, I’m updating the entire site?; from Books, Checklists and the Release Schedule (including the DVDs). Next weeks I plan on being even more busy with projects that will benefit everyone that comes to the CCL. On to today’s links:
- A couple of new Star Wars books are coming out in 2008: Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection (Fall) and Master of Deception, book nine of the Last of the Jedi series (February)
- Random House has acquired world English rights to four Iron Man book titles; two of which will tie in directly with the Iron Man movie, the other two will be original Iron Man novels, which will release after the movie
- On the heels of yesterdays Masterwork news, Marvel by way of their Marvel Masterworks website, has announced Atlas Era - Heroes Volume 2 Featuring Human Torch, Captain America and Sub-Mariner (Variant Volume 92). It will collect Men’s Adventures #27-28, Captain America #76-78 and Human Torch #36-38 and be released February 28, 2008. Looks like Cap lives after all
- Collected Editions Blog speculates about the newly announced Starman: The Complete Saga. I agree with everything, but I’d like to see an eight volume set and not four (or two!)
- What’s Bob Greenberger up to?
- Heidi MacDonald blogs about the many hardcovers and collected editions to make this week’s comics bestsellers on Amazon
- Review: Dave Wallace, Silver Bullet Comics on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume One: The Long Way Home (Dark Horse)
- Review: Rack Raids on Heroes HC (DC/Wildstorm)
- Review: Tom Spurgeon on Popeye Vol. Two: “Well Blow Me Down!” (Fantagraphics)
- Review: Joe “Jog” McCulloch on Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volumes 1-2 (Dark Horse Archives). Look for my comment at the end
July 18, 2007
Collected Comics Library Podcast #130
33,811Kb; 36m 03s
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
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May 9, 2007
Collected Comics Library Podcast #120
31,531Kb; 33m 37s
You went out to the LCS on Saturday and you picked up your free comics. But now that you have them, where can you go to find out more about the Titles, Characters, Artists and Writers? This is the CCL episode for you. I go over every title from this past Free Comic Book Day and I give recommendations on what to get next. The Complete Show Notes, so you can read along, are on the Forum.
There is not a whole lot of news this week, so I go over some of my Blog posting from Friday. However, Dark Horse has released their August solicitations, which includes one very cool Star Wars Omnibus.
Lastly, I always rundown the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
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