Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 8 2014

Digital Comics: Digital new releases available from your local comic book shop are marked below. [DIG] = Digital version available. [DIG/P+] = Print-Plus digital/print combo pack available. For more information, go to www.digitalcomicsreader.com.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
OCT131295 2000 AD PRES SCI-FI THRILLERS TP (MR) $31.00
NOV130903 ADVENTURE TIME FLIP SIDE #1 [DIG] $3.99
SEP130883 AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #3 REG FRANCAVILLA CVR [DIG/P+] $2.99
SEP131288 ALEX DELAWARE GN BOOK 01 KELLERMAN SGN BOOKPLATE ED $23.00
OCT131304 ALICE I/T COUNTRY HEARTS MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY GN VOL 02 (MR $13.99
OCT131134 ALICE THE 101ST GN VOL 03 $12.95
OCT130860 ARCHIE #651 REG CVR [DIG/P+] $2.99
OCT130862 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #247 [DIG/P+] $3.99
NOV130973 ASH & THE ARMY OF DARKNESS #3 $3.99
OCT131229 ATTACK ON TITAN GN VOL 10 $10.99
OCT131317 AWKWARD SILENCE GN VOL 03 (MR) $12.99
AUG130919 B PLUS F HC (MR) $19.95
OCT131409 BAR MAID #1 A CVR TUCCI (MR) $3.50
OCT131410 BAR MAID #1 B CVR SPAY (MR) $3.50
OCT131411 BAR MAID #1 C CVR QUALANO (MR) $3.50
OCT131412 BAR MAID #1 D CVR FRANCHESCO (MR) $3.50
NOV131201 BEN 10 OMNIVERSE GN JOYRIDES $7.99
SEP131305 BETTIE PAGE IN DANGER #11 (MR) $9.95
NOV131153 BLACK BARD GN $18.95
NOV130990 BLACK BAT #8 $3.99
NOV130991 BLACK BAT #8 TAN SUBSCRIPTION CVR $3.99
NOV131294 BLEACH 3IN1 TP VOL 07 $14.99
NOV131273 BLOODSHOT & HARD CORPS #18 PULLBOX LAROSA $3.99
NOV131272 BLOODSHOT & HARD CORPS #18 REG CRAIN $3.99
NOV131275 BLOODSHOT TP VOL 04 HARD CORPS $14.99
SEP131211 BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY #4 $3.99
NOV131222 BUZZBOY SIDEKICKS RULE TP $14.95
SEP130848 CAVEWOMAN LABYRINTH DEVON MASSEY SP ED PI
SEP130847 CAVEWOMAN LABYRINTH ONE SHOT $3.75
OCT130816 CAVEWOMAN LABYRINTH ONE SHOT BUDD ROOT SP ED PI
OCT131135 CENTURY OF TEMPTATION GN (MR) $12.95
OCT130788 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE & BARDS OF NEMETON GN (MR) $18.99
NOV131154 CRAYON SHINCHAN ONE PEACE ED GN VOL 04 (MR) $12.95
OCT130931 CROSSED BADLANDS #44 (MR) $3.99
OCT130933 CROSSED BADLANDS #44 TORTURE CVR (MR) $3.99
OCT130932 CROSSED BADLANDS #44 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
NOV130994 CRYPTOZOIC MAN #3 $3.99
SEP131003 DAY MEN #1 SDCC EX CVR $9.99
OCT131136 DEPRESSION O/T ANTI ROMANTICIST GN VOL 02 (MR) $12.95
MAY131112 DF AVENGERS AI #1 HUMPHRIES SGN ED $19.99
AUG131290 DF DEJAH THORIS GREEN MEN OF MARS #9 RISQUE RED CVR $19.99
SEP131165 DF GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #5 LEE SGN ED $499.99
JUL131111 DF INFINITY #1 DF EXC STAN LEE SGN ED $499.99
SEP131162 DF IRON MAN #9 LEE GOLD SGN ED $699.99
OCT131165 DF LONGSHOT SAVES MARVEL UNIVERSE #1 HASTINGS SGN $19.93
OCT131164 DF MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN #1 REVEL SGN ED $19.93
SEP131163 DF OCCULTIST #1 SEELEY SGN ED $14.99
JUN131104 DF REVIVAL #12 SEELEY SGN ED $19.99
MAY131094 DF SHADOW YEAR ONE #1 COMICSPRO EXC $19.99
OCT131163 DF SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 JONES SGN ED $19.93
AUG131282 DF THE STAR WARS #1 MAYHEW SGN CVR $29.99
AUG131283 DF THE STAR WARS #1 MAYHEW SGN CVR SILVER SGN CPY $69.99
APR131097 DF WARLORD OF MARS #31 EXC RISQUE RED CVR $19.99
JUL131110 DF X MEN #1 DF EXC STAN LEE SGN ED $399.99
JUN131085 DF X-MEN #1 BROOKS CVR WOOD SGN ED PI
AUG131284 DF X-MEN BATTLE O/T ATOM #1 STAN LEE SGN ED $449.99
OCT131162 DF X-MEN GOLD #1 LEE GOLD SGN ED $699.99
OCT131161 DF X-MEN GOLD #1 LEE SGN ED $399.99
OCT131305 DICTATORIAL GRIMOIRE GN VOL 02 SNOW WHITE (MR) $13.99
NOV131232 DIGGER COMP OMNIBUS ED TP $39.95
NOV131221 EXPOSURE TP VOL 01 $19.95
NOV130849 EXTINCTION PARADE #1 ARMY OF BRAWN 3 BOOK SET (MR) $29.99
NOV130850 EXTINCTION PARADE #2 LAST STOP CVR (MR) $5.99
AUG131061 EXTINCTION PARADE #4 LEATHER CVR (MR) $14.99
OCT130856 FOX #3 REG HASPIEL CVR [DIG/P+] $2.99
OCT130792 FRACTURE #1 $2.99
APR131076 GAME OF THRONES #18 (MR) $3.99
OCT131437 GFT REALM KNIGHTS TP $15.99
NOV131348 GFT WONDERLAND #19 A CVR LASHLEY (MR) (NOTE PRICE) $3.99
NOV131349 GFT WONDERLAND #19 B CVR CALDWELL (MR) (NOTE PRICE) $3.99
NOV131350 GFT WONDERLAND #19 C CVR PANTALENA (MR) (NOTE PRICE) $3.99
NOV131345 GFT WONDERLAND TTLG #5 A CVR ERIC J (MR) $3.99
NOV131346 GFT WONDERLAND TTLG #5 B CVR NUNES (MR) $3.99
NOV131347 GFT WONDERLAND TTLG #5 C CVR MASSAFERA (MR) $3.99
SEP130832 GHOST TOWN #4 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
OCT131206 GI JOE VS COBRA SPECIAL #6 NOCTURNAL FIRE $4.95
NOV130847 GOD IS DEAD #1 GOD OF WAR CVR (MR) $5.99
SEP138219 GOD IS DEAD #2 ENHANCED ED (MR) $3.99
NOV130848 GOD IS DEAD #2 GOD OF DESTRUCTION CVR (MR) $5.99
NOV131002 GRIMM WARLOCK #2 $3.99
NOV131307 HANA KIMI 3IN1 TP VOL 07 $14.99
SEP131280 HARVEY HORRORS BLACK CAT MYSTERY SLIPCASE ED VOL 02 $119.99
JUL131245 HARVEY HORRORS WITCHES TALES SOFTIE TP VOL 03 $24.99
NOV130888 HAWKEN MELEE #4 [DIG] $3.99
NOV131199 HELLO KITTY GN DELICIOUS $7.99
NOV131025 JENNIFER BLOOD TP VOL 04 TRIAL OF JENNIFER BLOOD (MR) $19.99
NOV131155 JOURNEY BY STARLIGHT TIME TRAVELERS GUIDE LIFE UNIVERSE SC ( $18.95
SEP130891 KEVIN KELLER #12 REG CVR [DIG/P+] $2.99
NOV131300 KIMI NI TODOKE GN VOL 18 FROM ME TO YOU $9.99
OCT131025 LAMENT OF THE LOST MOORS GN VOL 01 SIOBHAN $15.95
SEP130972 LEGEND OF OZ THE WICKED WEST ONGOING #14 $3.50
OCT131256 LETTER 44 #3 $3.99
NOV130961 LIL VAMPI #1 $3.99
NOV130962 LIL VAMPI #1 EXC SUBSCRIPTION CVR $3.99
NOV131016 LORDS OF MARS #6 MALAGA SUBSCRIPTION CVR (MR) $3.99
NOV131015 LORDS OF MARS #6 ROSS CVR (MR) $3.99
SEP131323 LOST PLANET FIRST COLONY HC $9.99
NOV131156 MANGA CLASSIC READERS GN VOL 01 MOBY DICK $9.95
NOV131157 MANGA CLASSIC READERS GN VOL 02 WAR OF WORLDS $9.95
NOV131158 MANGA CLASSIC READERS GN VOL 03 DON QUIXOTE $9.95
NOV131159 MANGA CLASSIC READERS GN VOL 04 JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES (MR) $9.95
NOV131204 MAX STEEL GN HERO OVERLOAD $7.99
OCT131300 MEDUSAS DAUGHTER HC $24.95
NOV131299 MIDNIGHT SECRETARY GN VOL 03 (MR) $9.99
SEP130828 MISSING HAVE YOU SEEN THE INIVISIBLE MAN ONE SHOT $5.00
SEP131458 MITCH BYRD WOMEN DINOSAURS & RANDOM ILLUSTRATIONS SC $19.99
OCT131308 MONSTER MUSUME GN VOL 02 (MR) $12.99
SEP131137 MR MINI MART GN $12.95
NOV131302 NARUTO 3IN1 TP VOL 07 $14.99
NOV131293 NARUTO GN VOL 64 $9.99
NOV131308 NATSUMES BOOK OF FRIENDS GN VOL 15 $9.99
NOV130742 NIGHT O/T 80S UNDEAD TP (MR) [DIG/P+] $8.99
NOV131292 NISEKOI FALSE LOVE GN VOL 01 $9.99
NOV131100 OLYMPIANS GN VOL 06 APHRODITE GODDESS OF LOVE $9.99
NOV131101 OLYMPIANS HC GN VOL 06 APHRODITE GODDESS OF LOVE $16.99
NOV131309 OTOMEN GN VOL 17 $9.99
OCT131223 PANG WANDERING SHAOLIN MONK HC VOL 02 (MR) $19.95
NOV131203 POKEMON ADV GN VOL 20 RUBY SAPPHIRE $9.99
SEP131138 PRESIDENT MOMOI KUN GN (MR) $12.95
NOV131083 PRISON PIT GN VOL 05 (MR) $12.99
NOV130866 PROTOCOL ORPHANS #3 [DIG] $3.99
NOV131303 PSYREN GN VOL 14 $9.99
NOV131288 QUANTUM & WOODY #7 REG DOYLE $3.99
NOV130909 REGULAR SHOW SKIPS #3 MAIN CVRS [DIG] $3.99
SEP138303 RICHELLE MEAD VAMPIRE ACADEMY GN VOL 03 SHADOW KISS $12.99
NOV130871 ROBOCOP LAST STAND #6 (MR) [DIG] $3.99
JUL130747 ROGUES #6 (MR) $3.99
SEP131283 ROY THOMAS PRESENTS CLASSIC PHANTOM LADY TP VOL 02 $29.99
NOV131296 RUROUNI KENSHIN RESTORATION GN VOL 01 $9.99
NOV131295 RUROUNI KENSHIN RESTORATION GN VOL 02 $9.99
OCT131232 SANKAREA GN VOL 04 $10.99
OCT131024 SCORPION GN VOL 04 TREASURE OF TEMPLARS (MR) $11.95
OCT131085 SHADOW #21 BOLSON CVR $3.99
OCT131086 SHADOW #21 CALERO SUBSCRIPTION CVR $3.99
OCT131084 SHADOW #21 ROSS CVR $3.99
NOV131280 SHADOWMAN #14 REG DE LA TORRE $3.99
OCT130956 SHAHRAZAD #2 $3.50
NOV130860 SIMPSONS COMICS SHAKE UP TP $15.99
NOV130736 SKYWARD TP VOL 01 INTO THE WOODS $8.99
NOV131160 SMUGGLER GN $14.95
AUG131002 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG LEGACY VOL 03 [DIG] $16.99
NOV130872 SONS OF ANARCHY #5 (MR) [DIG] $3.99
NOV130861 SPONGEBOB COMICS #28 $2.99
SEP130872 STEAM ENGINES OF OZ VOL 2 #2 GEARED LEVIATHAN [P+] $3.99
NOV131301 STROBE EDGE GN VOL 08 $9.99
SEP131285 STUFF OF LEGEND TP VOL 01 SGN BOOKPLATE ED $13.00
SEP131004 SUICIDE RISK #1 SDCC EX CVR $9.99
NOV130877 SUICIDE RISK #9 [DIG] $3.99
NOV131161 SUPERZELDA GRAPHIC LIFE OF ZELDA FITZGERALD GN $16.95
SEP131139 TAKASUGI SANS OBENTO GN VOL 01 $12.95
SEP131324 TOMORROWLAND HC $19.99
OCT131207 TRANSFORMERS TIMELINES #8 TERMINATION $4.95
NOV131233 TROUBLESHOOTERS INCORPORATED GN VOL 01 NIGHT STALKINGS $11.95
NOV130840 UBER #4 NIGHT TERROR CVR (MR) $9.99
NOV130841 UBER #6 WAR CRIMES CVR (MR) $5.99
NOV131200 UGLYDOLL GN EAT DAT $7.99
NOV131088 WANDERING SON HC VOL 06 $24.99
JUN130724 WESTWOOD WITCHES #4 (MR) $3.99
SEP130877 WILL O THE WISP HC $24.95
NOV131297 YU GI OH ZEXAL GN VOL 04 $9.99
OCT131310 ZEROS FAMILIAR OMNIBUS TP VOL 03 (MR) $18.99
OCT130798 ZOMBIE TRAMP VOL 2 #2 MAIN COVER (MR) $2.99
OCT130799 ZOMBIE TRAMP VOL 2 #2 RISQUE COVER (MR) $2.99

MAGAZINES
OCT131293 2000 AD PROG 2014 $10.00
NOV131440 CHARLTON SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE #7 $7.95
NOV131441 CHARLTON SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE #8 $9.95
NOV131882 COLOR INK DIY ART PERIODICAL VOL 19 $10.00
NOV131883 COLOR INK DIY ART PERIODICAL VOL 20 $10.00
NOV131443 COMIC SHOP NEWS #1386 PI
OCT131527 COMICS REVUE PRESENTS DEC 2013 $19.95
SEP131531 DC BATMAN AUTOMOBILIA FIG COLL MAG #23 DETECTIVE COMICS #394 $20.00
AUG131690 DC BATMAN AUTOMOBILIA FIG COLL MAG SPECIAL DARK KNIGHT RETUR $38.00
SEP131525 DC SUPERHERO CHESS FIG COLL MAG #48 AQUAMAN WHITE ROOK $16.00
SEP131523 DC SUPERHERO CHESS FIG COLL MAG SPECIAL SUPERMAN DAILY PLANE $30.00
AUG131714 FANGORIA #330 $10.99
OCT131216 HEAVY METAL #266 (MR) $7.95
AUG131700 ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #43 $15.00
SEP131532 ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #5 $24.99
OCT131294 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #343 $12.25
SEP131518 MARVEL FACT FILES #5 CAPTAIN AMERICA COVER $6.00
SEP131519 MARVEL FACT FILES #6 THOR COVER $6.00
SEP131520 MARVEL FACT FILES #7 STORM COVER $6.00
SEP131521 MARVEL FACT FILES #8 HULK COVER $6.00
SEP131549 SCREAM MAGAZINE #21 $8.99
AUG131696 STAR TREK STARSHIPS FIG COLL MAG #4 ENTERPRISE NX-01 $20.00
SEP131526 STAR TREK STARSHIPS FIG COLL MAG #5 ROMULAN WARBIRD $20.00
SEP131527 STAR TREK STARSHIPS FIG COLL MAG #6 USS VOYAGER NCC-74656 $20.00
NOV131462 WALKING DEAD MAGAZINE #6 NYCC EXCLUSIVE COVER (MR) $9.99

BOOKS
NOV131407 ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA HC $16.99
NOV131366 ART OF CLAUDIO ABOY TP VOL 02 (MR) $9.95
NOV131416 ASSASSINS CREED IV BLACK FLAG POSTER COLLECTION $24.99
NOV131367 CLAUDIO ABOY SEDUCTION PORTRAITS OF DESIRE SC (MR) $9.95
NOV131368 CLAUDIO ABOY VOLUPTUOUS SC (MR) $9.95
AUG131470 DARK SOULS DESIGN WORKS HC $39.99
NOV131417 DIABLO III BOOK OF TYRAEL HC $39.99
NOV131403 DOC SAVAGE NEW ADV SC VOL 06 MIRACLE MENACE $24.95
AUG131594 DOCTOR WHO 11 DOCTORS 11 STORIES SC $15.99
NOV131389 DOCTOR WHO DOCTORS LIVES & TIMES SC $19.99
SEP131338 EYES OF BAYONETTA ART BOOK HC WITH DVD $49.99
NOV131369 FRESH NATURAL GIRLS HC (MR) $39.95
NOV131362 FROHLICH HC $40.00
NOV131418 GEARS OF WAR POSTER COLLECTION $24.99
NOV131370 HELLO KITTY FOREVER CUTE CREATIVE & COLLECTIBLE SC $19.95
SEP131340 HISTORY OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SC $34.99
APR131425 HOW TO DRAW HC $54.95
NOV131364 LOWBROW TAROT ARTISTIC COLLABORATIVE EFFORT HC $34.99
NOV131411 STAR WARS SUPER COLLECTORS WISH BOOK HC $34.99
NOV131412 STAR WARS TOYS SUPER COLLECTORS WISH BOOK HC $39.99
SEP131418 SURPRISE OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA HC NOVEL $17.99
NOV131402 UNDRESSING ART OF PLAYING DRESS UP COSPLAY DEVIANTS HC (MR) $50.00
NOV131371 WORLD OF MY LITTLE PONY UNAUTH GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS SC $24.95

Kimi Ni Todoke: Happy Moment

I read Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 18

I posted a review at the ComicBookBin (which has free smart phone apps and comics).

Book Review: SPIDER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER

SPIDER WOMAN’S DAUGHTER
HARPERCOLLINS/Harper – @HarperCollins

AUTHOR: Anne Hillerman
ISBN: 978-0-06-227048-1; hardcover (October 1, 2013)
320pp, B&W, $26.99 U.S.

The late author Tony Hillerman (1925–2008) was best known for his series of “Navajo Tribal Police novels,” which began with The Blessing Way (1970).  The series main protagonists are Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.  These two characters were last seen in The Shape Shifter (2006), Hillerman’s final book.

Spider Woman’s Daughter is the debut novel from award-winning reporter and nonfiction book author, Anne Hillerman.  Anne is the daughter of Tony Hillerman, who was a New York Times bestselling author.  In Spider Woman’s Daughter, Leaphorn and Chee are back for the first time since The Shape Shifter.  However, Spider Woman’s Daughter is not quite a “Leaphorn and Chee” novel (although the copy “A Leaphorn & Chee Novel” graces the cover).  The book’s central character, the one through which the bulk of the narrative is told, is Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette “Bernie” Manuelito, who is also Jim Chee’s wife.

Set in New Mexico, Spider Woman’s Daughter opens one ordinary morning at the Navajo Inn during a breakfast gathering of select Navajo Nation cops.  This is how the promotional material for Spider Woman’s Daughter describes what happens during this meeting:

It happened in an instant: After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan career into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood.

Perhaps, I am not supposed to reveal this, dear reader, but the book has been out for three months, (as I write this review).  Plus, the shooting happens on page three of the story, anyway.  That someone very close to Bernie is Inspector Joe Leaphorn.

With Leaphorn fighting for his life in a Sante Fe hospital, every Navajo Nation cop and also the local FBI office is determined catch the unidentified gunman.  Bernie wants in on the investigation, but regulations strictly forbid an eyewitness to the shooting from being involved in the investigation.  Bernie’s superior, Captain Largo, orders her to take a leave of absence from the job and to not get involved in the case.  He threatens to fire her if she disobeys his direct orders.

Of course, Bernie is not going to sit this investigation out, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.  Bernie and Chee discover that the shooting is tied to an old case upon which Leaphorn worked.  This case, which could unveil the shooter’s identity, may have involved Chee.  Leaphorn has had a decades long career and has been involved in countless cases, so which case is it?

Spider Woman’s Daughter is part police procedural and part murder mystery, both wrapped inside of a cop drama that follows a female Native American police officer.  I want to describe this book as a character drama because Bernie, as a character, is far more interesting than the plot, which alternately simmers and meanders for 200+ pages.  It is only in the last five or so chapters of this book’s 22 chapters that the mystery really starts to hop.

Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette “Bernie” Manuelito is an intriguing character.  There is a lot to her.  Her thoughts and actions are unpredictable, but not in some wild and chaotic way.  To me, Bernie seems human.  Anne Hillerman gives her weight and substance, so that I find her sticking to my imagination.  I want to get to know her, and, most of all, to follow her around.  Fiction, especially novels, needs to have a character worth following.  Spider Woman’s Daughter has that in Bernie, and hopeful we can follow her in future novels, as Leaphorn and Chee take a backseat to her.

B+

www.annehillerman.com

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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Fantagraphics Books Announces "Massive" Look at Gay Erotic Manga

MASSIVE: GAY EROTIC MANGA AND THE MEN WHO MAKE IT

Release — October 2014
Format — Softcover, 272 pages
Edited & Translated by: Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins
Designed by: Chip Kidd

UNPRECENDENTED INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF GAY MANGA

Featuring works by Jiraiya, Tagame, Ebisubashi, Ichikawa +more. Designed by Chip Kidd.

Fantagraphics Books is thrilled to welcome the team behind The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame (PictureBox) to the family. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It due out October 2014. This is the most recent entry in Fantagraphics’ queer comics lineup, which also features the anthology No Straight Lines, the graphic novels 7 Miles a Second and Bread & Wine, and manga by Moto Hagio and Shimura Takako.

The Massive anthology showcases Japan’s most talented and influential gay manga artists, including Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Gai Mizuki, Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, and Kumada Poohsuke. In Massive, many of these artists’ works are featured in English for the first time; this collection offers an intimate, in-depth look at a criminally overlooked component of Japanese queer culture. In addition to comics and illustrations, Massive features photographs of the artists and their workspaces; cultural and historical context; and interviews with the creators about what it’s like to be a gay erotic artist in Japan.

Edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins, and designed by Chip Kidd, this unprecedented survey of manga "made by gay men for gay men" is an essential addition to the queer comics canon; it will introduce the genre often referred to as "bara" (a misnomer for gay manga that has taken on new meanings online) to a new, international audience.

Massive was originally scheduled as a PictureBox Spring 2014 release until its publisher, Dan Nadel, announced that he is ceasing operations. Although we’re sad to see PictureBox shutter its doors, everyone involved is delighted to give Massive a new home. "I'm thrilled that Massive, an essential guide to the world of gay manga, is going to see print next year. Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins, and Chip Kidd are the best guides imaginable to this fascinating work and the men who make it," says Nadel.

For more information on the production team behind Massive and its artists, please visit gaymanga.tumblr.com and fantagraphics.com/massive.

New Orleans Comic Con Has Neal Adams "Miracleman #2" Variant

Marvel Comics & Wizard World Reveal 'Miracleman 2' Exclusive Variant Interlocking Cover By Neal Adams For New Orleans Comic Con

Marvel Will Offer Exclusive Books At All 16 Wizard World Shows Including 'Miracleman #2' At New Orleans Comic Con, February 7-9; VIP Attendees Receive Free Color Version; B&W Limited Edition Available For Purchase

NEW YORK, January 2, 2014 – Marvel Comics and Wizard World, Inc. (OTCBB: WIZD) have announced a program by which VIP attendees at each of the 16 scheduled 2014 Wizard World Comic Con pop culture conventions will receive exclusive variant covers of the best Marvel titles, continuing with Miracleman #2 at New Orleans Comic Con (Feb. 7-9). The limited-edition book, with cover illustrated by comics legend and Eisner Award Hall of Famer Neal Adams, features an interlocking cover with Adams' Miracleman #1 from Portland Comic Con (Jan. 24-26), and will be available in both color and black & white sketch editions.

The colored version of Miracleman #2 will be limited to 3,000 copies and provided free at registration to all Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con VIP attendees, including any celebrity VIP packages. The Black & White sketch version is limited to just 2,500 copies and will be available for sale at the Wizard World Store on the convention floor. Quantities per purchase may be limited.

Adams is scheduled to be on site at the event to sign copies (autograph fees may apply). Leading professional comic grader CGC will also be on hand to accept books for grading and Signature Series.

Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming, television, sci-fi, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. A first-class lineup of topical programming takes place at each event, with celebrity Q&A's, comics-themed sessions, costume contest, movie screenings, evening parties and more. Sunday is also Kids Day, with an array of activities and programming specially designed for the younger Wizard World fans.

Wizard World Comic Con is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor, often stopping by the Show Stage, the ideal place to see and be seen.

For more on the 2014 Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, go to http://www.wizardworld.com/home-neworleans.html.

About Wizard World:
Wizard World, Inc. (OTCBB: WIZD) produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate graphic novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, gaming, technology, toys and social networking. The events often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists and writers, and events such as premieres, gaming tournaments, panels, and costume contests.

About Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information, visit marvel.com.

The full event schedule can be found at www.wizardworld.com.

Wizard World 2014 Schedule

January 24-26 – Wizard World Portland Comic Con

February 7-9 – Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con

March 7-9 – Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con

March 28-30 – Wizard World Louisville Comic Con

April 4-6 – Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con

May 2-4 – Wizard World Minneapolis Comic Con

May 30-June 1 – Wizard World Atlanta Comic Con

June 19-22 – Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con

August 1-3 – Wizard World San Antonio Comic Con

August 21-24 – Wizard World Chicago Comic Con

September 12-14 – Wizard World Richmond Comic Con

September 26-28 – Wizard World Nashville Comic Con

October 2-4 – Wizard World Austin Comic Con

October 31-November 2 – Wizard World Ohio Comic Con

November 7-9 – Wizard World Tulsa Comic Con

November 21-23 – Wizard World Reno Comic Con


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Oresama Teacher: Ghosts of Banchos Past

I read Oresama Teacher , Vol. 15

I posted a review at the ComicBookBin (which has free comics).

Happy New I Reads You Year

Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2014 and welcome to I Reads You, a ComicBookBin blog and sister publication (www.comicbookbin.com).  We write about the things we read:  mostly comic books, comics, and related books.  Sometimes, we’ll write about or link to other topics:  typically books, politics, and entertainment.

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