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.
Wandering Son (放浪息子 / Hourou Musuko) Vol. 4
by Shimura Takako; edited and translated by Matt Thorn
224-page black & white 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-605-8
"Wandering Son is not the kind of manga in which a happy ending is guaranteed… You'll thus be grateful for the moments of realistic, untempered joy Shimura allows her two protagonists here, as you wait with nervous anticipations for the travails that lie ahead for them…" –Glen Weldon, NPR
Praise for the Series:
One of ALA/YALSA's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2012
Named to the ALA GLBT Round Table's 2012 Rainbow List of recommended books for young readers
One of MTV Geek's Best Manga Series of 2011