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.
(And keep those clicking fingers warmed up because this means they'll also be available from us via mail-order starting tomorrow!)
Jason Conquers America
by Jason et al.
32-page black & white/color 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $4.99
"A $5 pamphlet-format thing with some previously unpublished strips and other material about the great Norwegian cartoonist Jason." – Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance
"If I had $30, I’d also grab Fantagraphics’ Jason Conquers America ($4.99), a collection of some of the cartoonist’s work that’s so far gone unseen in the US, along with pin-up tributes from fans like Mike Allred and Rich Tommaso." – Graeme McMillan, Robot 6
"Following Graeme’s lead I’d pick up that Jason Conquers America book, as I’m trying to be as much of a Jason completist as possible." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
"…the Jason Conquers America one-shot… features previously unpublished Jason strips and artwork, interviews and a tribute gallery by various artists." – J.K. Parkin, Robot 6
"As a Jason fanatic I'm happy to announce that @fantagraphics' Jason Conquers America is out today! Interviews, cartoons, a must for fans." – Secret Headquarters
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7
by Michael Kupperman
32-page full-color 6.75" x 9.5" comic book • $4.95
"I’d also nab the latest issue of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Michael Kupperman’s ongoing, frequently hilarious comic. This one features a riff on Inception and Quincy. Lots and lots of Quincy." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
"CONFLICT OF INTEREST RESERVOIR: What the hell, a pair of comic books? Yes, your holiday-battered pockets may rejoice at the prospect of Jason Conquers America, a 32-page fan-fest dedicated to the Norwegian cartoonist in the title on the occasion of his 10th year in American publishing, with unseen strips, a checklist, interviews, tribute art and more included; $4.99. And then there’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7, which is simply the newest thing from Michael Kupperman, about which you’ve likely made up your mind; $4.95." – Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal