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.
Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 by
Jaime Hernandez and
Gilbert Hernandez
100-page black & white 7.25" x 10.5" softcover
$14.99 | 978-1-60699-770-3
"Jaime has always been brilliant at investing his characters with personality & emotion, and his illustration of Maggie speaks volumes….the latest edition of Love and Rockets: New Stories has a wealth of material from both of the Hernandez brothers. Jaime and Gilbert continue to develop their large casts of characters and unfold numerous plotlines in an intriguing manner. And the artwork from both of them is gorgeous." -Ben Herman, In My Not So Subtle Opinion
"
Love and Rockets is incredible, and a complete about face from superhero comics if you find yourself growing tired of the Big 2." –
Comic Book Herald
"
Sweatshop is entertaining stuff, and, as a bonus, it's fairly self-reflexive." –Hillary Brown,
PASTE Magazine
"Unsurprisingly, Bagge's latest from Fantagraphics sounds highly intriguing…Peter Bagge is up there with Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez as alternative comics creators from the 80's and 90's that you're cooler just for knowing." –Comic Book Herald
by
Lucy Knisley
168-page full color 5.5" x 7.5" softcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-810-6
"
No one out there is Knisley, who always finds a way to create a narrative out of diverse thoughts and ideas – turning a musing sort of travelogue or blog into something wholly satisfying and meaningful. Expect a moving look at aging, 'The Greatest Generation' and love." –Menachem Luchins,
13th Dimension
"
Knisley's able to achieve an impressive balance between humor and poignancy, juxatposing observations on the bizarre line-up of nighttime entertainment and the strangeness of her fellow passengers with thoughtful observations on aging and excerpts from her grandfather's World War II journals." –Brian Heater,
Paper Mag
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