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Staff Pick (December09): Atomic Robo And The Revenge Of The Vampire Dimension #1
Recommended by Jay Spence
The fourth volume of the adventures of Atomic Robo is coming. The humorous story of this wisecracking Robot and his decades of battles with anything and everything imaginable has become the break-out hit of Red 5 Comics!
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Staff Pick (December09): Buck Rogers Volume 1 HC & Zorro: Matanzas #1
Recommended by Jim Kuhoric
The type of comics I most enjoy are bigger-than-life fantastic stories, with characters that are able to transcend the daily grind and open the imagination. And this month there are two Dynamite books that I can’t wait to get my hands on.
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Staff Pick (December09): Ignition City Volume One SC/HC
Recommended by Keith Davidsen
While Pagliarani masterfully handles the majority of art chores on Ignition City, I’d be remiss not to mention the wealth of cinematic history that Felipe Massafera’s brush strokes evoke for the front cover and interior art gallery.
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Staff Pick (December09): Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches Of Alex Ross
Recommended by Steve Leaf
This book gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Alex Ross’ design process. Ross’ strength is in cover design and making each character visually important whether they are hero or villain.
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Staff Pick (December09): Skim GN
Recommended by Robert Randle
With a fresh multi-faceted storytelling style and a unique aesthetic that blends wonderfully into work of surprising depth and feeling — love and loss, shame and confusion, metamorphosis and mystery — I dunno, it reminded ME of my high school years.
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Staff Pick (December09): Smile SC/HC
Recommended by Kate Henning
It’d be easy to write off Smile as a graphic novel about braces, but there’s more to this ordeal than orthodontics. If anything, Raina’s braces serve as a framework for the larger coming-of-age narrative.
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Staff Pick (December09): The Invincible Gene Colan
Recommended by Jim Meyer
Gene Colan has gone from Timely to Marvel, from Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and from propaganda comics for the greatest generation to album art for Rob Zombie. He is a true original.
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Staff Pick (November09): Almost Silent TP
Recommended by Jim Meyer
This collection focuses on Jason’s pantomime-style of simple, elegant, and wordless stories featuring the artist’s quirky cast of anthropomorphic actors. It’s graphic storytelling at its best.
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Staff Pick (November09): Kazu Kibuishi’s Copper GN
Recommended by Steve Leaf
Now Scholastic Books, under their Graphix imprint, has collected Kazu’s webcomic Copper in both softcover and hardcover editions. Here you get to meet Copper, and his best friend Fred the dog.
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Staff Pick (November09): Local HC
Recommended by Jay Spence
Brian Wood has created another anthology series that can take the simplest, most mundane events in our lives and remind readers that they can sometimes effect our lives most of all.
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Staff Pick (November09): Mister Amperduke GN
Recommended by Kate Henning
Touching on themes of community, perspective, grief and heroism, Byrne takes what he admits is a “weird story” and turns it into an interesting, well-paced read — all without forming a single sentence.
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Staff Pick (November09): Swordsmith Assassin TP
Recommended by Robert Randle
Ono seeks to reclaim every blade he ever forged and discard them forever. He will spend his entire fortune on this quest; but what is he to do when the owners are not interested in selling them back?
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Staff Pick (November09): The Kids Of Widney High
Recommended by Keith Davidsen
Escapist fantasy at its best, shifting gears from larger-than-life action with super-cops and winged heroes to poignant tales of relationships, from lyrics that challenge stereotypes and discrimination.
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Staff Pick (November09): Ultimo Volume 1
Recommended by Jim Kuhoric
Needless to say, when I heard that Viz had teamed up these two powerhouses to tell the story of a scientist that creates ultimate good and evil beings in an attempt to determine which aspect is stronger, I was hooked!
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Staff Pick (October09): Chimichanga #1
Recommended by Jim Kuhoric
Every once in a while a book comes along that is so singularly unique that it defies standard description. Chimichanga #1 from Albatross Exploding Funny Books fits that quirky and strange gelatin mold to a crooked “T.”
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Staff Pick (October09): Dugout
Recommended by Jim Meyer
The L.A. Pioneers are the worst team in baseball -- they can’t win for trying, their ace pitcher got caught in the wrong kind of line up and now he’s eating innings in the State Penn. To make matters worse, Manager Cookie Palisetti is nearing the end of his rope.
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Staff Pick (October09): Sullengrey — Sacrifice TP
Recommended by Keith Davidsen
Let me quickly summarize everything that makes this book cool. Gun-toting skeletons in green glowing top hats! Goth girls aplenty, each cute as buttons! Power-mad occultists in red robes and skull masks! Blood sacrifices of fuzzy animals and zombie girl scouts!
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Staff Pick (October09): The Last Days Of American Crime #1
Recommended by Jay Spence
In the near future, the American government has created a technological means to prevent everyone from ever committing a crime and, in the two weeks leading up to the flick of the switch, everything is chaos. The streets run rampant with crime and mayhem as everyone tries to get their “fun” in while they can.
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Staff Pick (September09): Anchor #2
Recommended by Robert Randle
Imagine a bastard child of Mike Mignola and Eric Powell, whose uncles are Jeff Smith, Jack Kirby, plus a number of extended cousins, and you might have some idea of what this book looks like. It’s the best of all worlds and honestly, in the end it just looks cool.
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Staff Pick (September09): Fearless Dawn #1
Recommended by Jim Kuhoric
Steve Mannion has created a character that has the moxie of The Goon, the audacity of Mr. Monster, and the looks of Angelina Jolie. The sequential art in the book is an incredible mix of Dave Stevens' old-fashioned good-girl flare combined with the insane sensibilities of Eric Powell.
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Staff Pick (September09): Hotwire TP
Recommended by Jay Spence
“Ghost hunting” is a fairly straight-forward job for Hotwire until the most dangerous ghosts Hotwire has ever seen start behaving outside the norm, and the technology created to stop them no longer has an effect. She finds herself at a loss as ghosts stop following “the rules” of science.
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Staff Pick (September09): The Complete Alice In Wonderland #1
Recommended by Keith Davidsen
I love Leah Moore and John Reppion's faithful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic in The Complete Alice In Wonderland #1, available for order in this month's catalog from Dynamite Entertainment. Moore and Reppion have meticulously studied the source material of Alice, and understand just how magical the original tale was for readers.
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Staff Pick (September09): The More Than Complete Action Philosophers TP
Recommended by Kate Henning
This award-winning series is smart, funny, and finally collected (with new material!) in a single volume. It’s a perfect pick for bookworms who want to loosen up, or for philosophobes who’d, just once, like to walk into a liberal arts college party and woo some cute girl with Derrida.
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Staff Pick (September09): The Wolverine 100 Project
Recommended by Jim Meyer
This month, The Hero Initiative through the auspices of the good folks at Marvel Comics (heard of them?) presents The Wolverine 100 Project. This book is packed with 100 original cover images from numerous Wolverine comics.
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