Comic Book Blog browsing on a Tuesday afternoon

April 8, 2008
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Its springtime here in Michigan and with the blooming of flowers comes more sunshine, longer days, and a shorter time spent on the computer. I’ve been wanting to blog, I just have a hard time doing so. Yes, I know it only takes a few minutes a day, but I find myself reading other blogs, news items or just plain surfing. However, I have been getting all the little things around the CCL to keep it updated. I have also been busy scheduling interviews, which from all the feedback you are enjoying very much. With all this said, let’s get to a few of the items that have gone on around the net for the past few days:

  • It’s being reported that Dave Gibbons will be publishing a new Hardcover retrospective titled Watching the Watchmen. This will go nicely next to my Absolute version.
  • As you know, I freelance with TwoMorrows Publishing as their host for the TwoMorrows Tune-In Podcast One bit of info that was late to me after the latest episode with Danny Fingeroth, is that the Kirby Five-Oh! (the 50th issue of The Jack Kirby Collector) will be available in as a Limited Hardcover Edition. The hardcover version features all the original contents of the softcover version, but with a full-color wrapped hardcover, and an individually-numbered extra Kirby art plate not included in the softcover edition! This hardcover edition is ONLY AVAILABLE FROM TWOMORROWS, is not sold in stores, and we’ll set the number of copies printed based on pre-orders placed in the next 24 hours. So if you’re interested, go to this link right away to order your Hardcover copy for $34.95
  • I e-mailed friend of the CCL, Joe Rybandt, Dynamite Publishing, about the status of the long overdue Dreadstar: The Beginning Hardcover. He wrote me back, Dreadstar is in process, though will most likely be resolicited. Film is being worked on now for final art files to print form.
  • Dark Horse Comics in their latest solicitations has announced The Nemesis Archives Volume 1. Nemesis ran in the pages of Adventures into the Unknown starting with #154 to #170 (1965-1967) originally published by American Comics Group. The book touts that this will be a complete run of the character, although there is no mention if it will contain the two Nemesis crossovers from Forbidden World’s #136, where he meets the Magicman or Herbie #14 where Nemesis and Magicman meet The Fat Fury. You’ll recall that Dark Horse recently announced The Herbie Archives, too. It would be nice if Dark Horse would collect Magicman for an archival series, thus completing ACG’s “Superhero Trinity”. The Nemesis Archives Volume 1 will have an introduction by Scott Shaw!; 264 pages; $59.95 and be available September 24, 2008.
  • Review: Tom Spurgeon The Comics Reporter, on Willie and Joe The WWII Years (Fantagraphics)
  • Review: Brian Hibbs, The Savage Critics, Showcase Presents Legion of Superheroes Volume 1 (DC Comics)
  • Review: Randy Lander, Comic Pants, on Aqua Leung Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
  • Reviews: Collected Editions Blog, Green Arrow: The Road to Jericho TPB (DC Comics) and Ion Volume 2: The Dying Flame TPB (DC Comics)

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