I’m thinking of dropping DARK HORSE PRESENTS>. All my favorite serials are being released in collected format, anyway. This month it’s Tom Yeates’ ONCE AND FUTURE TARZAN. Speaking of Tarzan, Dark Horse has finally gotten around to releasing TARZAN: THE RUSS MANNING YEARS (to complement the Jesse Marsh Years and the Joe Kubert Years). Volume one kicks off with Mannig’s adaptations of Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar and Tarzan the Untamed.
Speaking of Joe Kubert, don’t you think a series titled JOE KUBERT PRESENTS (from DC) should showcase only Joe Kubert stories? The first issue also features work by writer/artists Brian Buniak and Sam Glanzman. Dark Horse is also releasing archive editions of SILVER STREAK (#2), SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON (#5), and FORBIDDEN WORLDS (#1, but I’m already collecting the PC Artbooks series).
November will see the release of GREEN LANTERN: SECTOR 2814. The first volume collects stories by Len Wein, Dave Gibbons and others from issues #172-176, 178-181. That’s just around the time I started reading GL regularly. Good stuff. I may buiy it depending on the paper stock. Heck, at 17 bucks, I may buy it regardless of the paper stock.
KAMANDI Vol. 2 collects #21-40 and completes the Kirby issues.
METAL MEN ARCHIVES Vol. 2 collects #6-10.
I’ll certainly buy THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN: GIL KANE hardcover collection.
STAR TREK: THE NEWSPAPER STRIPS. How come I didn’t know about this? Because the paper we took didn’t carry it? the first volume collects 10 stories from Dec. 2, 1979 through Oct. 25, 1981. By Thomas Warkentin, Sharman DiVono and Ron Harris. (I’ve heard of one of them.)
GIL KANE’S AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: ARTIST’S EDITION: More Gil Kane! We’ve already discussed the solicitation of this volume (collecting #96-102 & 121 elsewhere, but it bears repeating!
IDW’s SCARY #1. The cover to this issue was originally solicited as the cover to the hardcover collection Bob Powell’s Terror, and I was disappointed when they used another. This comic book series represents a more affordable way to collect the kind of things IDW is reprinting in their “Chilling Archives of Horror” anthology series.
CAPTAIN AMERICA’S SHIELD BOTTLE OPENER: A tie with the Silver Surfer’s Surfboard bottle opener as the least appropriate use of an iconic comic book accessory.
SPACE:1999—AFTERSHOCH AND AWE: An updated retelling of the cheesy TV origin. Has possibilities!
THE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH TOASTER: It makes toast with Roschach blots. Really? Alan Moore would spin in his grave.
STEVE CANYON COMIC BOOK SERIES VOL. 2: Watered down in comparison to the strip, but I enjoyed the first volume. It from Hermes Press, so we’ll be lucky to see it before the end of 2013.
PS Artbooks has added a new series to their already impressive output: THE HEAP!
GOLDEN AGE OF DC COMICS. Evidently, this is the first (of five) volumes broken out of 75 years of DC Comics: the Art of Modern Myth-Making and supplemented with new material. Future volumes will include Golden, Silver, Bronze, Dark and Modern Ages. I must research this further.
Finally, a zippered SPIDER-MAN SWEATJACKET HOODIE which zips all the way up the hood. Again, I must ask, “Really?”
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I dimly remember the Star Trek newspaper comic. Can't remember if it was any good or not.
The Archives are way too expensive for me now at $75!!
Maybe Joe Kubert edited the stories by Brian Buniak and Sam Glanzman in Joe Kubert Presents?
The solicitation doesn’t say.
Hey, I just realized I forgot to mention Marvel!
Ed Brubaker leaving CAPTAIN AMERICA (and Grant Morrison leaving Action Comics) I will soon be two steps closer to eliminating periodical comics from my life.
We’ve already discussed MMW KA-ZAR in the “Sneak Peeks, Solicitations & PR” forum, and I find myself giddily awaiting its release.
Whereas I am pleased to see the tpb collection MARVEL TALES BY ALAN DAVIS (collecting this summer’s Clandestine annuals plus the Thor: Truth of History one-shot), I’m a bit disappointed there’s no hardcover on the horizon to match the format of my other Clandestine material.
My first thought after reading Previews was how happy I am that I will finally have all the completed Doctor Who TV stories in one format or another now that Planet of Giants is being released.. I thought about the Gil Kane book but it is more than I am willing to stretch to. It is HC so if/when it comes out in SC then I will be picking it up. I mean I am interested but not $40 interested. ;)
That's the second comment this month about price. I'm sure if one were to ask DC or Marvel about it they would say they sell so few that the price point needs to be high in order to make a profit. OTOH, if they brought the prices down a bit, I'll bet they'd sell more of them!
Incidentally, I don't buy everything I think about; these are just my "Thoughts while filling out Previes," after all. I go through the catalog once, tearing out every page I want to comment on, leaving me with a small pile of torn paper in my lap. Then I go back, measure my needs, make some cuts, and place my order.