On the show this week, I talk about my adventures at the Motor City Comic Con including what I bought, what I should have bought and what I saw. Overall it was a good Con and even the kids enjoyed it.

Lots of other news this past week including, that hulking Woman of Marvel Omnibus, Big Ben Bolt and Batman/Starman/Hellboy. All this including the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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• The Motor City Comic Con starts today and runs through Sunday. If you go, please support the real industry professionals in Artists Alley and say hello to Guy Davis and ask if he has any copies of his Modern Masters book from TwoMorrows. I should be there on Sunday.
• Nest week, for one day only Saturday May 22 is the Summit City Con in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. As it stands right now I won’t be able to make it.
• DC’s Wildstorm Blog has announced that it will be publishing WildCATS 3.0: Year One which is a double sized trade paperback collecting the first two long out of print trades (Brand Building #1-6 and Full Disclosure #7-12). A second book will follow shortly thereafter, but with so much disparity with the title after Volume 3 it’s hard to speculate just what it will collect.
• DC’s Vertigo Blog, on the other hand, has announced a full slate of title coming out in Spring 2011. It’s nice to know these books are coming, but can we just all slow down?

Collected Comics Library Podcast #220

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On the show this week, I talk about my adventures at the Motor City Comic Con; who I saw, what I bought and what other convention was going on at the same time.

Also, I have some feedback and corrections from last weeks Star Trek show and some important Product and Shipping Changes to report on.

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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• Archaia Comics (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press or ASP) Plans Hardcovers: The Awakening and Some New Kind of Slaughter in June and The Engineer (at a $9.99 price point) and the second volume of Mouse Guard in July.
• The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons 1913-1940
  By Nell Brinkley; edited by Trina Robbins from Fantagraphics (136-page full-color 9.75″ x 13.25″ hardcover – $29.99) is now in stock.
• Also in stock from Fantagraphics is the Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938 – the imported black & white version. It’s limited to 300 copies. The full-color Fantagraphics edition of Prince Valiant 1937-1938 is due out in June 2009.
• ICv2.com has a neat ongoing list of Mobile Comics Directory, an attempt at a comprehensive list of comics available to mobile devices. Help out if you can.
• Greg Burgas, CBR, has a new column on Comics You Should Own – The Incredible Hulk #347-367. Good news, it’s all been collected in Hulk: Peter David Volumes 2-5.
• Alan Gardner from Daily Cartoonist has the rundown of the 2009 Doug Wright Awards winners. I have to admit, I don’t know any of them.
• Review: Collected Editions Blog on Wonder Woman: The Ends of the Earth HC (DC Comics). And check out the new site design!

No messing around today, let’s get right to it:
• Apparently over $10,000 in CGC-slabbed comics were stolen from the Graham Crackers Comics booth at Motor City Comic Con on Sunday, May 18th. I’m guessing all of the plastic covers will be opened and sold E-Bay or some other market. One good note comes out of this: these books will now be read and not covered in iron-clad packaging just so people can look at the covers. Don’t agree with me? Go watch Toy Story 2.
• CBR is reporting that Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales will be collected in hardcover format (144 pages, $24.99, June 12). IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone graphic stories adapted from Doctorow’s short stories into comic books, each featuring cover art by some of the industry’s top talent. IDW continues to grow and is slowly becoming one of the premiere comic book and collected edition publishers.
• CBR is also reporting that IDW has landed the license to GI Joe. I first heard this rumor back in November. I really hope it doesn’t spell doom for Devil’s Due Publishing, but I’m not sure what other big name property they have. Just looking at the Top 300 comics for April (thanks to John Mayo) no comic, not even GI Joe Elite cracked the top 100 (#116). In fact, only 3 of the eight books published cracked the Top 200. I still have yet to check out Golden Age Sheena: The Best of the Queen of the Jungle TPB, a book that I’m really looking forward to. On the flip side IDW promises to publish classic collected edition of GI Joe. Hopefully, they mean the old Marvel books. Cool news.
• ICv2.com is reporting that the first volume of IDW’s collection of Little Orphan Annie, due for release June 11th, will include a previously unpublished strip from the first month, found in the Harold Gray Archives at Boston University. I told my daughter, Erin, about this book and showed her pics of classic Annie strips on the internet. She wants me to buy this book the day it comes out. Oh, one more thing — have I mentioned what a kick-ass company IDW is?
• The Collected Editions Blog found this Dr. Fate book on Amazon.com. Check out the title. Perhaps Mr. T is under that helmet?!
• Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, is reporting that Titan Publishing Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to a range of books celebrating the work of Golden Age comics legend, Joe Simon. The titles include: Joe Simon: The Man Behind The Comics, The Best Of Simon & Kirby, and The Simon & Kirby Superheroes.
• Remember the Marvel Vault book from 2007? Now publisher Running Press is going to do The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book ($49.95) in October. This chronicle of America’s oldest comic publisher contains more than 25 plastic-encased archival pieces for readers to pull out and examine. Included in the collection are exact reproductions of early sketches, covers, memos, press materials, a working model of a 1942 Junior Justice Society of America Decoder, plus original pencils and inks from Wonder Woman #63.
• Review: Stephen Pakula, Sequart, on X-O Manowar: Birth (Valiant Entertainment)
• Review: John Hodgman, New York Times, on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volumes 1-4 (DC Comics).
• Review: Scott Cederlund, Pop Syndicate, Host of Wednesday’s Haul Podcast and overall good friend on Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight: No Future For You TPB (Dark Horse).

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.

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Chris

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