Collected Comics Library Podcast #181

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Only one thing to talk about this week – San Diego! Today is the Con Collected Edition news wrap up.

I also go over a few books that have errors: Showcase Presents Haunted Tank Volume 2 (DC Comics) and Weird Science Archives Volume 3 (EC/Gemstone).

Finally, go pick up the hottest selling book, and one of the biggest surprises at the Con the Tori Amos inspired Comic Book Tattoo (Image)!

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• Marvel is launching an new ongoing series of Cloak and Dagger. I smell a collected edition.
• DC Comics things we know: Bob Wayne said the The Archives collections are morphing into newly titled projects, including an original (Absolute) version of Captain Marvel and the Monster Society of Evil to go alongside the new version.
• Dan Didio hinted at a collection of the past stories Grant Morrison’s been referencing in his current Batman work. “We’re working on something along those lines,”.
• An oversized “Art of Wanted” book will be coming out, a new movie edition of the trade featuring interviews with the cast and filmmakers and a bunch of other movie-related extras.

• DC Comics is adding the Milestone Universe (from the 1990′s) into the mainstream DCU. Static will be joining Teen Titans. Now that is cool. To commemorate the event, DC will be collecting the old Milestone material, and reissuing that in trade paperback form over the course of next year.
• The Star Wars Vector crossover storyline will be collected into it’s own Trade Paperback at the end of the year.
• Dark Horse news: The long awaited 20 Years of Dark Horse will be retitled to 25 Years of Dark Horse and be released in 2011. and Serenity: Better Days is being collected, and early next year.
  Also, in manga news, Dark Horse announced that next summer the company will create a series of 80-page manga that will be simultaneously released in Japan and the United States by the group of creators called Clamp. Dark Horse will also be releasing an Omnibus collecting all the Clover stories next year.
• DC has acquired the rights to many of the 1940′s Archie heroes including The Shield, The Web, The Comet, The Fly, The Jaguar, and The Black Hood. Let’s hope they got the reprint rights, too.
• IDW and Chris Ryall announced collections of Violent Messiahs, The Dreamer, and Thom Zahler’s Love and Capes. They are slated to be released from late 2008 to early 2009. Also, a collection of the ’80s strip Torpedo is slated for 2009. Originally written in Spanish and translated to English for American audiences, Jimmy Palmiotti will be “translating the translation.”
• In Top Cow news, William Harms’ Impaler, previously published via Image Central will be finished and collected by Top Cow, and a new series will start afterwards.
  Also, Madame Mirage will come back next year in a new series, Paul Dini announced. The collection of the first storyline hits in September, though the publisher has copies available at the show. The was no date given for the debut of volume 2.
• DC Comics is bringing back The Warlord. I smell a collected edition.

It’s also good to see so many cool announcements and news items. Let’s hope it continues all weekend long. Look for The Eisner Award Winners – Collected Editions – in a separate post Saturday.

On with today’s news from The Con:

• More news on Mister X with creator Dean Motter. Don’t forget Dark Horse is celebrating the character’s 25th anniversary with an Archive edition due out October 22. It will collect issues #1-14 (Series 1; June 1984-August 1988); 384 pages, $79.95. There is also an Official Press Release to this story.
• Here is the Official Press Release for The Life and Times of Martha Washington (Omnibus) as reported the other day.
• And…Here is the Official Press Release for Guy Davis’s, The Marquis also as reported the other day.
• Sublife published by Fantagraphics and making its world premiere at Comic-Con this weekend, Sublife is a one person anthology series by John Pham featuring one single, serialized story (221 Sycamore St.) backed up by smaller, hopefully more self-contained strips. It should hit bookstores some time in the Fall, and the first issue will be squarebound, 64 pages, two-color.
• Image Comics and Frank Frazetta on Complete Death Dealer, Death Dealer II and The Fantastic Worlds of Frazetta, Volume One. An oversize hardcover compiling Dark Kingdom, Swamp Demon, Creatures, and Dracula Meets the Wolfman. That book is due out at the end of 2008.
• From Cup ‘O Joe Panel: Any chance of a trade for Bob Gale’s “Daredevil” issues, given his current work on “Amazing Spider-Man”? No plans yet, but maybe.
• Boom! Studios announced the formation of Zoom, a new children’s comic book imprint for licensed Disney properties. The new line, which launches in spring 2009, will publish original comics based on Pixar films like the animated hit movie Wall-E, and also on The Muppet Show.
• Vertigo things we know: Fables collection of covers, a “coffee table art book collecting all of James Jean’s covers.” The book will come out in the fall and will include all the covers through Issue #75 and the covers for the trades. The Complete Death is coming out as a hardcover collection with all the death mini-series and a few short stories that were in various Vertigo mini-series over the years. Swamp Thing is going to be released as a series of hardcover books. And Preacher will be in hardcover starting next fall.
• Vertigo things we did not know: A new Vertigo Crime imprint, a line of graphic novels in black and white hardcover that will be “all crime thriller, smart, sexy, edgy books,” Karen Berger said. The imprint will feature writers known for work in crime fiction as well as Vertigo writers. “Interest in the genre is very big,” Berger said. “Our writers really want to tackle more crime thrillers and mysteries.”
• Dan Didio said at the Final Crisis Management Panel that they will collect the FC Tie-Ins, “…in the order that makes the most sense to everybody”.

• Agents of Atlas is getting an ongoing series! Jeff Parker hinted at this way back in April 2007 when he came on the podcast. Expect a relisting of the Hardcover – which I chose as the #1 Collected Edition of 2007! All comic books fans, young and old, should have it sitting on their shelf. Besides the great six issue series it’s loaded with extras and the characters original appearances from the 1950′s and it’s all for only $15.
• Following up on my Roy Thomas interview, Marvel has announced that Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson will be added to the Marvel Illustrated line of books.
• David Mack will be adapting the Philip K. Dick short story “The Electric Ant,” with Paul Pope covers.
• Marvel has also announced a follow-up to the classic X-Men crossover event Inferno titled Inferno II: X-Infernus. It will begin in December. I say this because this may give way to a new X-Men Inferno Collected Edition (Premiere?) Hardcover. To the best of my knowledge, Inferno has only been released in trade paperback and that was back in 1996. The entire storyline consists of Uncanny X-Men 239-243, New Mutants 71-73 and X-Factor 36-39. Well worth a read if you get the chance.
• Guy Davis and Dark Horse has plans to continue The Marquis, first published by Davis in 1997. A new upcoming collection, The Marquis: Inferno, a trade paperback collection of the first two “Marquis” stories, “Danse Macabre” and “Intermezzo, is due out summer/fall 2009. Alongside reprinting both original series it will have a new expanded sketchbook section, a color cover gallery including the guest covers on ‘Danse Macabre’ with really incredible artwork by Matt Wagner, Mike Mignola, Teddy Kristensen, Kelly Jones, Charles Vess and Michael Gaydos, along with the other covers done for the original stories and French editions. The stories are specifically drawn in black and white and grey with the scenes in Hell done in full color reds, and Dave Stewart who does his magic on ‘B.P.R.D.’ will be coming in to recolor the Hell scenes for the new collection too. The upcoming latest installment in the series, The Marquis and the Midwife. should follow in 2010.
• ICv2 has learned that, based on the overwhelming response to the Watchmen movie trailer accompanying The Dark Knight, DC Comics has ordered a huge new printing of 200,000 copies of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.
• Rumor: Steven Grant is doing a Vertigo GN. More news on this as I get it.
• Sneak Peak at Chip Kidd’s slideshow presentation Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
• Devil’s Due announced a publishing partnership with French comics house Les Humanoides Associes (commonly known stateside as Humanoids) and may even publish an Omnibus of Humanoids material.