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.
Maria M. Book 1
by Gilbert Hernandez
140-page black & white 5.75" x 8.5" hardcover • $22.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-719-2
"I liked this one the best of the pulp-stories that feature the movies made by his character Fritz in the Palomar/Post-Palomar universe he depicts in Love And Rockets… An amazing year for Hernandez." -Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter
Vip: The Mad World of Virgil Partch
by Jonathan Barli
208-page full-color 10.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $49.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-664-5
"a career long retrospective of a comic genius that is long overdue." -Andy Mansell, Heroes Online
"A nice new treatment of the VIP work has been long overdue…" -Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter