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.
Stranger Than Life: Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013
by M.K. Brown
248-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-708-6
"Brown has a natural feel for the kind of raised-consciousness-twist gags on which so much of the best panel cartooning depends after 1960, but she also has a unique sense of color and pacing and very sweet outlook on what people value and why that makes her longer narratives a joy." -Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter
Young Romance 2: The Early Simon & Kirby Romance Comics
by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
200-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-732-1
"…a testament to our culture's appetite for kitschy, kitschy love. The only surprise is that, somehow, these comics don't feel passé…Sexual attraction, like other forms of danger, is doled out in carefully measured portions. And that's really the secret behind romance comics' continuing retro appeal. Like their very first readers, we crave a paradox: Passion united with control." -Etelka Lehoczky, NPR