Dark Horse from Diamond Distributors for December 2 2010

DARK HORSE COMICS

DEC090037 ACHEWOOD HC VOL 03 HOME FOR SCARED PEOPLE $16.99

OCT100017 BALTIMORE PLAGUE SHIPS #5 $3.50

OCT100014 BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER #39 LAST GLEAMING PT 4 (OF 5) JEANTY CV $2.99

OCT100013 BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER #39 LAST GLEAMING PT 4 (OF 5) JO CHEN $2.99

JUN100020 CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 20 NIGHT OF WOLF $18.99

JUN100045 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 08 $49.99

AUG100056 DEVIL TP $14.99

AUG100071 DOMO 4 INCH DECO VINYL FIG BLACK LIGHTENING $14.99

AUG100072 DOMO 4 INCH DECO VINYL FIG GREEN FILIGREE $14.99

AUG100073 DOMO 4 INCH DECO VINYL FIG LEOPARD $14.99

AUG100074 DOMO 4 INCH DECO VINYL FIG PARTLY CLOUDY $14.99

AUG100075 DOMO 4 INCH DECO VINYL FIG PINK STAR BLOSSOM $14.99

AUG100017 STAR WARS CLONE WARS YR TP VOL 06 DEADLY HANDS OF SHON JU $7.99

OCT100036 STAR WARS OLD REPUBLIC #6 (OF 6) BLOOD OF EMPIRE PT 3 (OF 3) $2.99

AUG100018 STAR WARS OMNIBUS TP QUINLAN VOS JEDI IN DARKNESS $24.99

Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for December 2 2010

IMAGE COMICS

AUG100442 BLACK HARVEST TP (IMAGE ED) $15.99

SEP100464 IMAGE COMICS 2010 SDCC YEARBOOK HC $29.99

OCT100442 MARINEMAN #1 $3.99

AUG100471 SKY PIRATES OF NEO TERRA TP $17.99

MAY100517 VELOCITY #1 (OF 4) SGN ED $19.99

Comics and Magazines from Diamond Distributors for December 2 2010

WIZARD ENTERTAINMENT
OCT100727 WIZARD MAGAZINE #233 $5.99

COMICS
OCT101109 AMELIA RULES TP VERY NINJA CHRISTMAS (O/A) $7.99

SEP100786 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #214 $3.99

SEP100970 ATHENA TP $14.99

OCT101040 BABY SITTERS CLUB SC VOL 01 KRISTYS GREAT IDEA (O/A) $8.99

SEP100787 BETTY #189 $2.99

SEP101167 BLEACH TP VOL 33 $9.99

SEP101160 BLUE AGAVE AND WORM GN $7.95

OCT100931 BRING THE THUNDER #1 $3.99

OCT100886 CHIP N DALE RESCUE RANGERS #1 $3.99

JUL100946 DEEPAK CHOPRA PRESENTS BUDDHA HC TALE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $24.99

AUG101000 DF OCTOBER STARTER SET $19.93

AUG100856 DO ANDROIDS DREAM DUST TO DUST #7 (OF 8) $3.99

APR101108 FAIRY IDOL KANON GN VOL 04 (OF 4) $7.99

AUG100764 FEEDING GROUND #2 (OF 6) $3.95

OCT100895 FINDING NEMO LOSING DORY TP $9.99

AUG101051 FLYWIRES GN $19.95

FEB100650 GIRL GENIUS TP VOL 02 AGATHA & THE AIRSHIP $22.95

JUL100744 GOLD DIGGER BOOKS OF MAGIC #3 $3.99

JUL100922 GREEN HORNET STRIKES #5 $3.99

JUN101202 GRIMM FAIRY TALES #52 $2.99

JUN100813 GUNDAM 00F GN VOL 04 $10.99

OCT101054 HAGAKURE CODE OF SAMURAI GN $14.95

OCT100867 IRREDEEMABLE #20 $3.99

SEP100841 ISLAND TALES #1 NANAUES BITE $3.99

AUG101083 KOLCHAK NIGHT STALKER FILES #1 $3.50

OCT100911 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #0 $3.99

OCT100912 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #0 WRAP CVR $3.99

SEP108192 LADY MECHANIKA #0 CVR G 3RD PTG (PP #945) $2.50

JUN101130 LAGOON ENGINE GN VOL 07 (OF 7) $12.99

SEP100792 LIFE WITH ARCHIE MARRIED LIFE #5 $3.99

AUG101052 METAL HC $29.95

OCT101071 MIJEONG GN (O/A) $19.95

JUL101144 NG LIFE GN VOL 07 (OF 9) $12.99

OCT101077 PAPERCUTZ SLICES GN VOL 01 HARRY POTTY AND DEATHLY BORING $6.99

OCT100993 PHINEAS & FERB EARLY COMIC READER #1 NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (O/A) $4.99

OCT100994 PHINEAS & FERB EARLY COMIC READER #2 CHRON OF MEAP (O/A) $4.99

AUG100732 PINOCCHIO VAMPIRE SLAYER GN VOL 02 $14.95

OCT100933 RAISE THE DEAD II #1 $3.99

OCT100883 ROBERT E HOWARD HAWKS OF OUTREMER TP $12.99

OCT101072 RUN BONG GU RUN GN (O/A) $15.95

AUG101119 SHRAPNEL TP VOL 02 HUBRIS $14.95

SEP101152 STREET FIGHTER GAIDEN TP VOL 01 $12.95

SEP101085 TICK GIANT CHRISTMAS CAVALCADE TP $9.99

JUL100897 TOY STORY TALES FROM TOY CHEST #3 $2.99

OCT101030 TRICKSTER NATIVE AMERICAN TALES GN ANTHOLOGY $22.95

JUL101002 VALHALLA CINDERMANE #1 CVR A $2.99

JUL108223 VALHALLA CINDERMANE #1 CVR B POLICE LINEUP $2.99

OCT101169 VAMPIRE KNIGHT BOX SET VOL 1-10 $99.99

AUG100944 VAMPIRELLA MASTERS SERIES TP VOL 02 WARREN ELLIS $14.99

SEP100914 WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #713 $2.99

MAGAZINES
OCT101260 CEREAL GEEK MAGAZINE #7 $15.00
AUG101273 CLASSIC MARVEL FIG COLL MAG #134 SON OF SATAN $12.00
AUG101274 CLASSIC MARVEL FIG COLL MAG #135 NOMAD $12.00
AUG101272 CLASSIC MARVEL FIG COLL MAG SPECIAL SASQUATCH PUCK $38.00
AUG101282 DC SUPERHERO FIG COLL MAG #68 CAPTAIN ATOM $14.00
AUG101283 DC SUPERHERO FIG COLL MAG #69 DET CHIMP $14.00
AUG101281 DC SUPERHERO FIG COLL MAG SPECIAL KILOWOG $38.00
SEP101265 FANGORIA #299 JAN 2011 $8.99
SEP101232 JUXTAPOZ VOL 17 #12 DEC 2010 $5.99
JUL101240 LEES TOY REVIEW #215 NOV 2010 $5.95
JUL101343 STAR WARS VEHICLES COLL MAG #55 V WING $18.00
JUL101344 STAR WARS VEHICLES COLL MAG #56 LANDSPEEDER $18.00
SEP101288 SUPERNATURAL MAGAZINE #21 SPECIAL NEWSSTAND ED $9.99
SEP101289 SUPERNATURAL MAGAZINE #21 SPECIAL PX ED $9.99

I Reads You Merry Christmas All Month Long Edition

Welcome to I Reads You, my blog about the things I read (mostly comic books, comics, and related books) and about the things I come across worth reading (mostly about comic books, politics, and entertainment). Sometimes I’ll comment on “real” books and the mass media.

I’m Leroy Douresseaux, and I have another blog: http://www.negromancer.com/. I also write for the Comic Book Bin (which has smart phones apps).

All images appearing on this blog are copyright © and/or trademark their respective owners.

Leroy Douresseaux on "Aya: The Secrets Come Out"

AYA: THE SECRETS COME OUT

DRAWN & QUARTERLY

WRITER: Marguerite Abouet
ARTIST: Clément Oubrerie
TRANSLATION: Helge Dascher
LETTERS: Rich Tomasso, John Kuramoto
ISBN: 978-1-897299-79-1; hardcover
144pp, $19.95 US, $22.95 CAN, Color

In their graphic novel, Aya, writer Marguerite Abouet and artist Clément Oubrerie transported readers back to the African country of the Ivory Coast. Set in the late 1970s, Aya introduced a cast of characters that lived in and around Yopougon, also known as Yop City, a working class neighborhood in the city of Abijan. The star of this colorful ensemble was Aya, a studious, middle class girl whose levelheaded ways were in stark contrast to her contemporaries.

In the second graphic novel, Aya of Yop City, Aya is the calm eye of a storm of personal calamities. Her friend, Adjoua, struggles with being a single mother, and her other girl friend, Bintou, ignores her friends to chase a mysterious Parisian lothario. The biggest bombshell of all is that Aya’s father, Ignace, has two children by another woman, and his mistress, Jeanne, arrived at the family’s doorstep with the two children in tow.

In the third (and final?) graphic novel, Aya: The Secrets Come Out, clandestine desires, conspiracies, secrets, and lies are brought to light. This time, Aya manages to be counsel to almost all and problem solver for many.

Aya is one of the great graphic novels of the first decade of this century (2001-2010). Aya of Yop City was a good, not great work, but as I said in my review, “it is great that something like it is available to comic book and graphic novel readers in North America.” Aya: The Secrets Come Out delivers a wonderful comic, character drama that completely justifies the subplots and set-ups offered in Yop City.

Like Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez were over a quarter-century ago, Marguerite Abouet is a greatly needed fresh voice in comic books, spinning tales about people who are different from the cookie cutter characters and culture offered by North American comic books – from superhero comics to yes, alternative comics. Her keen insight into human motivation with its changeability and fickle nature allows her to create characters that are uncanny in their resemblance to real people.

Artist Clément Oubrerie uses vibrant colors to bring his quirky cartoons to life. He gives his characters faces that capture a wide range of human emotion, feeling, and expression. His backdrops and sets are what really capture the sense that these stories take place in a different world.

Together, Abouet and Oubrerie have created something that is not only delightfully refreshing, but is also magical in its ability to make an African-set story universal. The only bad thing about Aya: The Secrets Come Out is that this excellent conclusion is the end. Encore!

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Morning Glories TPB to Have Special Introductory Price

Image Comics and Shadowline thank MORNING GLORIES fans with specially priced trade

 

Morning Glory Academy is one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. But behind its hallowed doors, something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers in a place where nothing is what it seems to be!

MORNING GLORIES VOL. 1: FOR A BETTER FUTURE TP (DEC100470), a 192-page full-color graphic novel for the special introductory price of $9.99, will be in stores February 16, 2011. MORNING GLORIES #7 (DEC100486), a 32-page full-color comic for the new low price of $2.99, will be in stores February 23, 2011.

Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit http://www.imagecomics.com/.

Marcus Boas Covers Indie Comics Magazine

Marcus Boas Paints Cover for the New Indie Comics Magazine

Indie Comics Magazine Editor Gary Scott Beatty announced today that a Marcus Boas painting will appear on the first issue of the new comic book, scheduled for preorder in Diamond Comic Distributors' January 2011 Previews catalog and available only through Previews.

From paperback book covers to movie posters to Heavy Metal magazine, Marcus Boas has been leaving his mark on sword and sorcery illustration since the 1970s. Boas' style is defined by a skill and tension reminiscent of the pulp magazines and movie posters of the '40s and '50s.

"Indie Comics Magazine is 64 pages of the best story and art from today's independent comic book creators," said Beatty. "It's only fitting that an illustrator with such a long history of impressive genre painting should appear on the cover of our new book."

Just out of art school, Boas painted for Calvin Beck, publisher of Castle of Frankenstein magazine. Influenced by Frank Frazetta and Jim Steranko, Boas illustrated fantasy, adventure, romance and Western paperbacks, and Kung Fu movie posters. Comic book conventions in the '70s and'80s brought him comic book cover work.

Boas is particularly adept at depicting strong, gorgeous females, as on the premiere Indie Comics Magazine cover. Each issue of the comic will feature eight full stories from eight different independent comic book creators, said Beatty. Short biographies and contact information are included with the stories so readers can easily seek out more of the creators' work.

Boas posters and prints, and his latest book, "Enter the Worlds of Heroic Fantasy - Paintings by Marcus Boas" is available at KasoComics.com.

Indie Comics Magazine is available only through the Previews order magazine at your local comic shop. The first issue premieres in Previews January, 2011. Find your local comic shop at 1-888-COMICBOOK (1-888-266- 4226) or online at http://www.comicshoplocator.com/. Information about Indie Comics Magazine is online at http://indiecomicsmagazine.com/.

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