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.
Celebrated Summer
by Charles Forsman
68-page 7.75" x 10.25" black & white flexibound softcover • $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-685-0
"With an art style that combines the animated simplicity of Charles M. Schulz and the detailed linework of Chester Brown, Forsman establishes himself as one of the most promising alternative-comic creators." –Oliver Sava, The A. V. Club
"Completed before Forsman began work on TEOTFW, this promises to be an intriguing tale of youth banging up against the world of adulthood." –Tom Murphy, Broken Frontier
The Complete Peanuts Vol. 5 1959-1960 (New printing)
by Charles Schulz
344-page 8.5" x 6.5" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-56097-671-4
"Now that Schulz's classic is finally getting its bibliographic just desserts, consider replacing those tattered old Peanuts paperbacks with this definitive series." – Booklist
"This reissue project is a triumph for the cornucopian wonders of the wealthy west over the forces of cultural dissolution." – The American Spectator