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.
212-page full color 6" x 8.75" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-743-7
"Simon Hanselmann is the real deal, for sure. He captures that stoner stay-at-home life so accurately that I actually find his comics really depressing and thank God I don't ever have to hang out with anybody like that ever again." – Daniel Clowes
"Megahex is basically about a bunch of people (and "people") watching TV and getting wasted and fighting and fucking and pranking each other. Oh, and depression. What's not to love?!" – Peter Bagge
It's not listed on the Diamond Previews list for 8.20.14 but we check it's individual book page and it says August 20th!
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2: 1981-1983
by Ed Piskor
112-page full color 9" x 13" softcover • $27.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-756-7
"The book is an absolute essential for any hip hop head to read and any comic book fan to gander over." – Mass Appeal
"…Presents the facts in a nostalgic, faded-ink and rubbery realism of '70s Marvel Comics style, turning raps early innovators into larger than life heroes of history." – Spin Magazine
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
by Charles M. Schulz
64-page black & white with spot color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-772-7
"Novelty Peanuts books are the best kind of novelty book." – The Comics Reporter