This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and
contact your local shop to confirm availability.
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[Tim Lane] is part of the tradition of American authors, like Nelson Algren, John Fante and Raymond Carver, able to carve out small slices of down-and-out despair with sensitivity, perception and pathos, and, quite often, a touch of sinister, damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't humor." –Harris Smith,
comiXology
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Visually, Lane seems to channel parts of Dan Clowes, Charles Burns and various American Splendor contributors. Lane's stories are admittedly dark, but also keenly aware that there is something inherently nostalgic about traveling America, alone or with complete strangers. The result is a book that is, like a road trip, as freeing as it can be unsettling." –Seth Peagler,
Heroes Online Doctors by
Dash Shaw
96-page full color 6" x 8" softcover • $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-803-8
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[Doctors] reaffirms my faith in the importance of stories. Dash Shaw captures the complexity and contradictions of being alive, and places that alongside an incredible portrait of the art of survival, which we all practice with varying degrees of success." – Sam LeBas,
Multiversity Comics Supertrash
Broken Frontier's Frederik Hautain enjoys "
how little genre boundaries mean to a restless experimenter like Shaw."
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Piskor reconceives hip-hop's formative years as a vast collective awakening, a shift in consciousness, as if – as in the New York Dolls' "Frankenstein" or George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards novels – something happened over Manhattan, spreading mutant powers across the city and the world like a benign pandemic." –Alex Pappademas,
Grantland
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A superhero-riffing, world-building, toe-tapping, beat-hitting story of a whole lot of people, some brilliant, some lucky, some crazy, and some all of the above. And if you like hip-hop, and nice things, go buy the cased edition because there's a special secret ‘zine in it about Rob Liefeld and Easy E that is just super fabulous. Ed's art is clear, full of personality, and utterly meticulous in how it is presented." –Alex de Campi,
13th Dimension
"Novelty Peanuts books are the best kind of novelty book." – The Comics Reporter
SuperTrash by
Jacques Boyreau
220-page full color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3
"[Editor Jacques Boyreau] has a knack for picking images; much like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and hardcore porn, Boyreau knows it when he sees it. And luckily, he shares it, this time from the visual-presentation experts of Fantagraphics Books – a match made in poster-art heaven." – Bookgasm
"Makes Antonin Artaud look like a picture of mental health." – Dr. K. Malcolm Richards, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Derrida Reframed: A Guide for the Visual Arts Student
