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.
Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Volume 1
by S. Clay Wilson, edited by Patrick Rosenkranz
232 page color and black & white 8" x 11.25" hardcover • $34.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-747-5
"Part biography, part retrospective, part collected chronicles of a comic legend, this is a huge undertaking that pays off in every way you could expect, and a million ways you couldn't. Stay tuned." –Forbidden Planet
Judgment Day and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)
illustrated by Joe Orlando; written by Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury et al.
92-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-727-7
If you're not familiar with his magnificent EC art, do yourself a favor and order the book. Joe was a deserved member of comics' Hall of Fame for his work as an artist, editor, teacher and industry leader…and mentor to so many of us." –Paul Levitz
"[Orlando's] technical skill, editing abilities, breadth of work throughout the industry's formative years, and the subsequent influence that he left on everyone that ever picked up one of his comics, is true to the core." –Forbidden Planet