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.
32 page full color 6.5" x 10.25" comic • $3.99
"3 New Stories is a fascinating work, a book knocked me back on my heels with its tremendous inventiveness, playfulness and intriguing approach to the comics page." –Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin
Peter Bagge's Other Stuff
by Peter Bagge et al.
144-page color/black & white 7.25" x 10.25" softcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-622-5
"While this is an odds-and-ends compilation of a number of the creator of Hate's shorter works, it is by no means a "b-sides and outtakes" collection." –Benn Ray, Atomic Books
Castle Waiting Vol. 2: Definitive Edition
by Linda Medley
472-page black & white 5.75" x 8.25" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-633-1
"Castle Waiting creates a vibrant fantasy world not unlike The Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth but with a focus on the lives of women…. Fun to read and look at, Castle Waiting will enthrall fantasy readers of both genders." – Time
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 5: Happy Hippy Comix
by Robert Crumb
144 page black & white with color 8/5" x 11" softcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-0-930193-92-8
"Fantagraphics' Crumb project advances into wilder, woolier, scarier, more fantastic, and lewder and still lewder territory in [Volume 5]… This is definitely X-rated material — make that triple-X! — but it's brilliant, scabrously hilarious, absolutely basic to understanding the 1960s American counterculture, and authentically mind-blowing." – Booklist