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The following is a list of books scheduled to ship to The Beguiling Books & Art<\/a> in Toronto next week. This doesn’t mean they’re shipping to every store, but it’s probably at least worth asking about if these books don’t show up in your local shoppe.<\/p>\n …finally, a big week for comics. It seems like the last couple of weeks saw a lot of ‘oddball’ titles that made our subscribers happy, but very few of the broad-ranging, broad-interest titles that drive customers into the store. What are those titles? Well, because of the handy-dandy ‘read more’ function on WordPress, I’m going to put the list as a whole behind a cut and just list my picks for the week. Lemmie know what you think of the format…<\/p>\n Chris’s Picks of the Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n NOV063549\u00c2\u00a0CALVARIO HILLS #1\u00c2\u00a07.95 NOV062292\u00c2\u00a0DAREDEVIL #93\u00c2\u00a02.99 NOV063327\u00c2\u00a0GARTH ENNIS CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD #1 (OF 6) \u00c2\u00a03.99<\/strong> NOV060011\u00c2\u00a0USAGI YOJIMBO #100 (NOTE PRICE)\u00c2\u00a03.50 OCT060288\u00c2\u00a0DOOM PATROL VOL 5 MAGIC BUS TP \u00c2\u00a019.99 NOV063235\u00c2\u00a0RED EYE BLACK EYE GN \u00c2\u00a019.95 NOV063863\u00c2\u00a0HEAVEN!! VOL 1 GN (OF 3)\u00c2\u00a09.99 I’m gonna get in trouble for this…<\/p>\n NOV063489\u00c2\u00a0MUSHISHI VOL 1 GN \u00c2\u00a012.95
\nNOV063560\u00c2\u00a0REFLECTIONS #2\u00c2\u00a07.95
\nNOV063562\u00c2\u00a0THE END #1\u00c2\u00a07.95
\n<\/strong>The new IGNATZ books are shipping this week, for reals. Fantagraphics is always a little eager to announce their book releases, counting “it’s in stores” as “It’s in our store, Diamond will get it 2-4 weeks from now.” It’s a little frustrating explaining this to our customers, but I can understand their enthusiasm: there’s no line of books out right now as consistantly attractive both aesthetically and authorially as the Ignatz line. By no means is every book a success, but I certainly enjoy the successes a great deal. This selection of books features the debut titles from American Anders Nilsen and Spanish creator Marti, and the second installment of Italian Marco Corona’s Reflections<\/em>. Cool beans.<\/p>\n
\nOCT060273\u00c2\u00a0EX MACHINA #26 \u00c2\u00a02.99
\nSEP061832\u00c2\u00a0WALKING DEAD #34 \u00c2\u00a02.99
\n<\/strong>A bunch of ongoing genre comics that I enjoy reading, though primarily in trade paperback (or in hardcover as Walking Dead goes…). Still, if I didn’t have the luxury of waiting for the collection, these are three titles I’d be picking up every week thanks to the visceral and immediate satisfaction they provide… I guess it’s no surprise that Brubaker, Vaughan, and Kirkman are have die-hard fans; they write comics that people want to read, not feel that they have<\/em> to read because they tie into 300 other titles…<\/p>\n
\nI’ll give this a shot, it feels like more Garth Ennis Hellblazer<\/em>, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I just wanted to take the opportunity to once again commend Dark Horse for bringing these trade paperbacks back into print to celebrate the anniversary of this great series. It makes this issue considerably less shameful than just a few short months ago. Congrats to Stan Sakai on an amazing run!<\/p>\n![\"Beasts!\"](\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/recent\/bks\/beastc.jpg\" "\\"Beasts!\\"")
JUN063099\u00c2\u00a0BEASTS HC\u00c2\u00a028.95
\n<\/strong>Well, the Fanta blog has been talking up this collection of illustrations by top artists for so long that I’m genuinely curious to see if it can live up to the hype. Looking at the list of participants, it’s not hard to imagine that it’ll be excellent. For the record, that includes: Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Anders Nilsen, Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, Brian Ralph, Bwana Spoons, Colleen Coover, Jason Miles, Jesse LeDoux, Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane, Keith Shore, Kevin Scalzo, Marc Bell, Martin Cendreda, Mat Brinkman, R. Kikuo Johnson, Richard Sala, Sammy Harkham, Stan Sakai, S. Britt, Steven Weissman, Ted Jouflas, Tom Gauld (and many more…).<\/p>\n
\nNOV060237\u00c2\u00a0SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY VOL 4 TP \u00c2\u00a014.99
\n<\/strong>You know Grant Morrison is cursed when even his trade paperbacks are delayed. Poor guy. I hope 2007 is much kinder to him. It’s already going to be kind to us though, with the publication of this classic and acclaimed series, and the conclusion to the most interesting (and successful…) superhero project of 2006. It’s all out in trade paperback now folks, no messing about. Make sure to pick it up!<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Apparently this is a post-9\/11 journal comic about rediscovering America, by Thor Jensen<\/a>. I have so many conflicting ideas about what this could be like… I’m curious to read it though. It’s apparently got a blurb from Perez Hilton <\/em>of all people too. Just… wierd. Worth flipping through in the store I think.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>This is the first of Tokyopop’s “Direct Market Exclusive” titles… I’m curious if that affected sales at all. I know we’re gonna do a little thing in store to help promote it and track the sales pretty closely, but… yeah. If you happen to be curious about it though… it sounds like stereotypical manga. Seriously, if I was going to describe popular manga to someone who had never heard of it, I’d say “Well, it’s a bit like… a girl who can see and exorcise ghosts, right?\u00c2\u00a0The school punk saves her from getting hit by a truck, but ends up in a coma himself, and so she, and his disembodied spirit must defend his prone body from being possessed by this, that and the other local spirits. Unfortunately, she fails in her task, and an ancient playboy takes over the punk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body, leaving him to inhabit a pink stuffed monkey. Hilarity ensues.”<\/p>\n![\"Mushishi](\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/mushishi.jpg\" "\\"Mushishi")
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\n<\/strong>I was really curious about this one myself, but then Jog went and saved me the trouble of wondering and wrote up an extensive, glowing review of this first volume<\/a>.<\/p>\n