Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for September 4 2013

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MAY130550 A DISTANT SOIL #41 [DIG] $3.50
JUL130518 BLACKACRE #10 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
JUN130435 CHEW #36 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
JUL130526 HOAX HUNTERS #10 [DIG] $3.50
MAY130556 INVINCIBLE #105 [DIG] $2.99
JUL130527 INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #6 [DIG] $2.99
JUN130485 LEGEND OF LUTHER STRODE TP VOL 02 (MR) [DIG] $17.99
JUL130432 LOVE STORIES TO DIE FOR #1 CVR A BONK [DIG] $4.99
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JUN130486 MORNING GLORIES TP VOL 05 $12.99
JUL130410 REALITY CHECK #1 [DIG] $2.99
JUL130539 SATELLITE SAM #3 (MR) [DIG] $3.50
JUL130543 SHELTERED #3 [DIG] $2.99
JUL130544 SPAWN #235 [DIG] $2.99
JUL130491 WALKING DEAD HC VOL 09 (MR) $34.99
JUN130570 WITCHBLADE #169 CVR A CHRISTOPHER [DIG] $2.99
JUN130571 WITCHBLADE #169 CVR B BERNARD $2.99

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Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for September 4 2013

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JUN131379 DIM SUM WARRIORS GN VOL 01 $12.99
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JUL130839 GOD IS DEAD #1 (MR) $3.99
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JUL131165 HEAVY METALS DRACULA HC (MR) $14.95
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MAR131101 LONE RANGER TP VOL 06 NATIVE GROUND $19.99
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JUL130996 LORDS OF MARS #2 ROSS CVR (MR) $3.99
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JUL130993 MOCKING DEAD #1 $3.99
JUN131355 MONSUNO GN VOL 02 $7.99
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JUN131352 NARUTO 3IN1 ED TP VOL 06 $14.99
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JUL131038 OWL #3 $3.99
JAN131054 PANTHA TP VOL 01 GODDESS & DANGEROUS GAME $19.99
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JUN131187 SANKAREA GN VOL 02 UNDYING LOVE $10.99
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JUN130863 SHAHRAZAD PROLOGUE $1.99
MAY130926 SIMPSONS COMICS COLOSSAL COMPENDIUM TP VOL 01 $16.99
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APR131422 AMAZING FIGURE MODELER #55 $8.00
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JUL131453 MARVEL CHRONICLE YEAR BY YEAR HC $50.00
JUN132395 OF DICE AND MEN HC $26.00
JUN131518 STAR WARS KENOBI HC $27.00

Review: MIDNIGHT SECRETARY Volume 1

MIDNIGHT SECRETARY, VOL. 1
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia

CARTOONIST: Tomu Ohmi
TRANSLATION/ENGLISH ADAPTATION: JN Productions
LETTERS: Joanna Estep
ISBN: 978-1-4215-5944-5; paperback (September 2013); Rated “M” for “Mature”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK

Manga creator Tomu Ohmi made her debut with the romantic supernatural series, Kindan no Koi wo Shiyou (Let’s Make Forbidden Love), in the June 2000 issue of the popular Japanese shojo magazine, Petit Comic.  Her shojo manga, Midnight Secretary, was also featured in Petit Comic.

Midnight Secretary focuses on 22-year-old Kaya Satozuka.  She prides herself on being an excellent secretary and a consummate professional at Tohma Corp., a tableware manufacturer.  So, when she is reassigned to the office of the company’s difficult Managing Director, Kyohei Tohma, Kaya is unconcerned.  Then, Kaya discovers Kyohei’s secret.

As Midnight Secretary, Vol. 1 (Chapters 1 to 5) begins, Kaya gets a new assignment at Tohma Corp.  She is Kyohei Tohma’s new executive secretary.  The young managing director is rumored to be prickly and quite attractive, both of which turn out to be true.  However, Kaya is unfazed… until she discovers that Kyohei is a shameless womanizer and a vampire.

Although I’ve only just read the first volume of the Midnight Secretary manga, I am a fan, and I can’t wait to read more.  It is more humorous than racy, but the “biting scenes” can come across as intensely passionate as a romance scene in a yaoi manga.  Midnight Secretary’s sex-by-vampiric-innuendo may be why it is rated for mature readers.

Visually and graphically, Midnight Secretary sometimes looks as if it comes from some pre-World War II era.  Much of that is due to Kaya’s conservative look – in terms of her clothing and hairstyle.  Creator Tomu Ohmi seems to want to make sure that Midnight Secretary does not look like just another vampire manga.  It isn’t.

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Review: DRAGON BALL 3-in-1 Edition, Volume 1

DRAGON BALL 3-IN-1 EDITION, VOL. 1
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia

CARTOONIST: Akira Toriyama
TRANSLATION: Mari Morimoto
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Gerard Jones
LETTERS: Wayne Truman
EDITOR: Annette Roman, Jason Thompson (manga edition)
ISBN: 978-1-4215-5564-5; paperback (June 2013); Rated “T” for “Teen”
576pp, B&W, $14.99 US, $16.99 CAN, £9.99 UK

Akira Toriyama is a hugely influential Japanese mangaka (manga creator), and his signature creation is Dragon Ball, the long-running shonen manga (comics for teen boys).  Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995, Dragon Ball is comprised of 519 individual chapters.  Various anime series have been adapted from Dragon Ball, most notably "Dragon Ball Z," which some believe boosted the popularity of Japanese anime amongst Western audiences.

VIZ Media is Dragon Ball’s North American publisher, and it has been publishing individual graphic novel collections of the series for some time.  Now, VIZ Media is republishing the series in its “3-in-1 editions,” which collect three individual graphic novels in one large-sized paperback edition.

Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 1 contains Dragon Ball Volume 1: The Monkey King (Chapters 1 to 11), Volume 2: Wish Upon a Dragon (Chapters 12 to 24), and Volume 3: The Training of Kame Sen’nin (Chapters 25 to 36).  Chapters 1 to 36 cover the introduction of the hero, Son Goku, and the start of his adventures to the beginning of a famed martial arts tournament in which Goku is participating.

In Dragon Ball, Vol. 1, Bulma, a young woman and genius inventor, meets Son Goku.  Goku is a monkey-tailed boy who both learned kung-fu and inherited a magic staff from his late grandfather, Son Gohan.  Bulma is looking for the seven Dragon Balls, precious orbs that when put together summon a powerful dragon.  This dragon is Shenlong, the Dragon Lord, and when he appears because of the union of the seven Dragon Balls, he grants one (and only one) wish.  Bulma convinces Goku to join her on her quest, and they meets lots of strange, new people:  Kame Sen’nin “the Turtle Master,” Oolong the shape-shifting pig, and Yamcha and Pu’ar, among many.

In Dragon Ball, Vol. 2, Goku, Bulma, and Oolong meet more strange people:  some good, some bad.  The quest for the Dragon Balls reaches an unsatisfying conclusion.  In Dragon Ball, Vol. 3, Goku meets Kuririn, a young martial artist and Shaolin monk.  They become rivals and then, friends as they train under Kame Sen’nin.  After some truly grueling training, Goku and Kuririn enter the 21st Tenka’ichi Budokai (“Strongest Under the Heavens”) martial arts tournament.

I first heard of Dragon Ball as an anime, having no idea that it was also a manga.  Years later, VIZ Media sent me an Akira Toriyama manga for the first time (maybe Dr. Slump).  Then, I learned that Dragon Ball was not only an anime franchise, but that it was also a hugely-influential manga.  After reading Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Edition, Volume 1, I am ready to be a regular reader of Dragon Ball, if not also a Toriyama fanboy.

Dragon Ball is wild and silly like an old American Saturday morning cartoon.  Toriyama is as inventive and as imaginative as classic American and European comic books; think of someone who blends Carl Barks, Jack Kirby, and Peyo into one super-cartoonist.  Dragon Ball is sprawling and epic in the way we’ve come to expect of shonen manga like Naruto and One Piece, whose creators Dragon Ball both inspired.

Mississippi, goddamn!  Dragon Ball is one of the best manga and comic books I have ever read.  Take that for your recommendation.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Review: ANGEL FALLING

ANGEL FALLING TRADE PAPERBACK – (Original Graphic Novel)
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT/Big City Comics Studio – @Zenescope

WRITER/CREATOR: Jeffrey Kaufman
PENCILS: Kevin West
INKS: Mark McKenna, Bob Wiacek, Jack Purcell, Kevin Yates
COLORS: Tom Chu and Peter Pantazis with Nik Sardos and Wilson Ramos, Jr.
LETTERS: John Hunt
COVER: Jeffrey Kaufman, Dave Stewart, and Stan Johnson
VARIANT COVER: Billy Tucci and Felix Serrano
ISBN: 978-1-939683-22-9; paperback (August 2013)
104pp, Color, $9.99 U.S.

Angel Falling is a new original graphic novel from writer Jeffrey Kaufman and artist Kevin West.  Kaufman’s previous comic book works include the graphic novels Terminal Alice (2011) and Whore (2012).  West has been drawing comic books since 1991 for a variety of publishers including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Image Comics, among many.  Angel Falling focuses on a woman with no memory of who she is and her protector – a gifted young man who is autistic.

The story:  She wakes up in a dumpster.  She has no memory of who she is.  She has a pair of large angel wings tattooed on her back.  She is naked from the waist up.  A gang of goons, thugs, and would-be rapists decide to take advantage of her predicament.  He arrives in a flurry of kicks and blows.  She calls him “Connor.”  He calls her “Angel.”

However, Angel is really “Number Three,” and Connor is “Number Five.”  Connor, who is autistic, has photographic physical memory or “Eidetic Kinestheisia” (perfect physical memory).  That means Connor sees the physical movements of other people and his body can copy those movements – which includes everything from playing the violin like a prodigy to mastering hand-to-hand combat.  Angel is also quite good at the kick-ass art.  They share a past in a place called “The Sanctuary,” and that past is now sending teams of killers to destroy them.

As it is a graphic novel from a small publisher and a writer-artist creative team that is relatively not well known, I want to compare Angel Falling to some recent films that are fairly familiar to audiences.  Certain aspects of the story that deal with Connor/Five are similar to elements in the Jason Bourne film series.  Some things about Angel/Three are reminiscent of the film, Salt (starring Angelina Jolie in the title role).  The action scenes and shoot-‘em-up sequences in Angel Falling recall RED (the 2010 film adaptation of Warren Ellis’s comic book miniseries).

To put it simply, Angel Falling is one of the best action-oriented and espionage comic books of the last decade.  And it’s quite good.

With that said, Angel Falling is essentially character driven.  The search for identity and the need to unravel memory play a big part in the narrative.  Angel Falling confronts the characters with that thing that defines who they are in the eyes of others – their actions.  The conflict or tension in the story rests mostly in the struggle between what the characters say or think about themselves and what they do.  This is a fun and engaging thing that Kaufman does; he offers the interior of the characters, while splashing their assault on the exterior world in bloody, living color.

Jeffrey Kaufman is a unique and bold voice in comics simply because rather than pander to popular taste and opinion, he offers his own ideas.  I like that.  Kevin West seems like the perfect artist for Kaufman.  West’s sturdy anatomy belies his knack for knowing which moments require being poignant and which require being cruel, crass, or comic.

Obviously, I like and want to recommend Angel Falling.

A

If you order Angel Falling through your local comic book shop, this is its Diamond Order Code: JUL131419

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Review: MONSTER ON THE HILL

MONSTER ON THE HILL - (Original Graphic Novel)
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS – @topshelfcomix

CARTOONIST: Rob Harrell
ISBN: 978-1-60309-075-9; paperback (July 2013)
192pp, Color, $19.95 U.S.

Audience: All ages (10+)

Cartoonist and illustrator Rob Harrell is known for his former newspaper comic strip, Big Top (which was syndicated from 2002 to 2007), and the currently syndicated strip, Adam@Home.  Harrell enters the world of comic books with the original graphic novel, Monster on the Hill, which was recently published by Top Shelf Productions.  Monster on the Hill is the story of a sad-sack monster learning to become a real, scary monster with the help of an eccentric doctor and a sardonic newspaper boy.

Monster on the Hill is set in a fantastical version of 1860s England.  In this world, each quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster, and the citizens love it, because its monster is a great source of local pride and tourism.  Yes, every town has its own monster except Stoker-on-Avon.

Well, Stoker-on-Avon has a monster, but he’s not really a monster.  He doesn’t do anything monstrous or even terrifying, and no tourists come to see him.  His name is Rayburn, and instead of scaring up some tourists, he lets loose enormous sighs and groans that shake the buildings in town.  And frankly, Rayburn’s attitude is a downer, man.

Enter disgraced doctor and scientist, Dr. Charles Nathaniel Wilkie.  The town fathers want Dr. Wilkie to “fix the monster.”  Wilkie gets some unexpected help from plucky street urchin and newspaper boy, Timothy.  The duo meets Rayburn and thus, begins an epic journey of self-discovery and redemption, guest-starring the awesome Tentaculor (a.k.a. “Noodles”).  Time is short, however, as something worse than a monster threatens to destroy Stoker-on-Avon and its people.

Readers, creators, publishers, retailers, etc:  everyone involved with American comic books on some level talks about the need for comic books for children or comics that can be read by everyone (“all ages”).  Monster on the Hill is not just a children’s comic book; it is an entire awesome children’s graphic novel, and it is a monster.  The story borrows from several genres; it is everything from a faux Victorian children’s story and grand adventure to a road trip story and plain old monster comic book.  Harrell summons the hoary ghosts of Marvel/Timely’s old monster comic books, complete with full-splash pages in order to depict epic battles between humongous monster foes.  It’s like Jack Kirby meets Japanese monster movies.

The characters are hugely likeable, and no one character dominates, which allows all the players to shine – even the dastardly villain.  Little Timothy provides easy-going, sarcastic one-liners, and Dr. Wilkie is the steady narrator.  The monsters are witty and surprisingly original; you will wish that other comic books had characters like these.

Obviously, I am big on this graphic novel.  I plan on introducing my niece and nephew to Monster on the Hill.  It’s monstrously good.

A

Neil Gaiman and Jeff Smith (Bone) provide cover quote blurbs for Monster on the Hill.

Public info on Monster on the Hill: http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/monster-on-the-hill/732

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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