Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for August 5, 2015

IMAGE COMICS

MAY150533     8HOUSE ARCLIGHT #2 (MR)     $2.99
JUN150492     AIRBOY #3 (MR)     $2.99
JUN150499     DARK CORRIDOR #1 (MR)     $3.99
MAY150534     DEADLY CLASS #15 (MR)     $3.50
JUN150502     HUMANS #7 (MR)     $2.99
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MAR150578     MORNING GLORIES #47 (MR)     $3.50
JUN150507     NAILBITER #15 (MR)     $2.99
MAY150562     OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #11 (MR)     $2.99
FEB150630     SAVAGE DRAGON #205     $3.99
MAY150564     SEX #23 (MR)     $2.99
JUN150510     WE STAND ON GUARD #2 (MR)     $2.99
JUN150511     WICKED & DIVINE #13 (MR)     $3.50
MAY158169     WICKED & DIVINE #13 CVR B LOTAY (MR)     $3.50

Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for August 5, 2015

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

APR151248     ADVENTURE TIME MARCELINE SCREAM QUEENS ENCHIRIDION HC     $49.99
JUN151201     ADVENTURES OF DRIPPY THE NEWSBOY TP VOL 01 (MR)     $12.00
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JUN151658     BLEACH 3IN1 TP VOL 12     $14.99
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APR151502     BRIGHT EYED AT MIDNIGHT HC     $22.99
JUN151122     BROKEN WORLD #3     $3.99
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MAY151481     BUNKER #13 (MR)     $3.99
MAR151281     CAPTAIN KEN GN VOL 02     $13.95
MAY151542     CHRONICLES OF LEGION HC VOL 04 THREE FACES OF EVIL     $15.99
JUN151128     CLUSTER #6     $3.99
APR150983     DEATH IN OAXACA #2 (MR)     $4.99
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MAY151521     EVERGREEN GN VOL 02     $12.99
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MAY150919     FOX (DARK CIRCLE) #5 HASPIEL REG CVR (MR)     $3.99
MAR151704     GFT REALM WAR #11 A CVR PANTALENA (AOFD) (MR)     $3.99
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JUN150882     GIRL GENIUS SECOND JOURNEY HC VOL 01 BEAST OF THE RAILS     $50.00
JUN150881     GIRL GENIUS SECOND JOURNEY TP VOL 01 BEAST OF THE RAILS     $25.00
JUN151011     GOD IS DEAD #40 (MR)     $3.99
JUN151013     GOD IS DEAD #40 CARNAGE WRAP CVR (MR)     $3.99
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APR151159     GODKILLER WALK AMONG US #7 (MR)     $3.99
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JUN151675     JAMES PATTERSON ZOO TP     $17.00
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MAY151053     LADY MECHANIKA TABLET OF DESTINIES #4 MAIN CVRS     $3.99
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JUN151236     LOOKING FOR GROUP #5 CVR A MARTIN & DESOUZA     $4.99
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JUN151391     MICHAEL MIDAS CHAMPION BOOK ONE     $19.95
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MAY151524     MONSTER MUSUME GN VOL 07 (MR)     $12.99
MAR151543     MORE PEANUTS TP VOL 02 1952-1954 (TITAN ED)     $6.99
JUN151643     MY HERO ACADEMIA GN VOL 01     $9.99
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JUN151353     PARALLEL MAN TP     $24.99
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MAY151255     PATHFINDER ORIGINS #6 CVR B OLIVEIRA     $4.99
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FEB151471     PHANTOM COMP DAILIES HC VOL 08 1947-1948     $50.00
MAY151258     PS BLACKCROSS #5 CVR A LOTAY     $3.99
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JUN151152     REGULAR SHOW #26     $3.99
JUN151113     REGULAR SHOW ORIGINAL GN VOL 02 NOIR MEANS NOIR BUDDY     $14.99
MAR151391     SCRATCH9 CAT OF NINE WORLDS TP     $24.99
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JUN151665    SPELL OF DESIRE GN VOL 05 (MR)     $9.99
JUN151120     SPIRE #2     $3.99
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JUN151260     WILL EISNER SPIRIT #2 CVR A POWELL     $3.99
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JUN151649     YU GI OH 3IN1 TP VOL 03     $14.99
APR150975     ZOMBIE TRAMP VS VAMPBLADE #2 MAIN CVR (MR)     $3.99

MAGAZINES
JUN151773     COMIC SHOP NEWS #1468     PI
APR152015     DC BATMAN AUTO FIG MAG #62 BATMAN #244 ROBIN BIKE     $21.00
JUN151781     FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #281     $9.99
MAR151802     HOBBY JAPAN JUN 2015     $18.00
APR152020     MARVEL CHESS FIG COLL MAG #36 MYSTIQUE BLACK BISHOP     $17.00
APR152021     MARVEL CHESS FIG COLL MAG #37 NIGHTCRAWLER WHITE PAWN     $17.00
MAY150889     STUDY GROUP MAGAZINE 3D (MR)     $16.00

BOOKS
JUN151741     ADVENTURE TIME ORIGINAL CARTOON TITLE CARDS HC VOL 02     $19.95
MAY151817     BATMAN ARKHAM UNIVERSE ULTIMATE VISUAL GUIDE HC     $30.00
JUN151727     COMICS OF JOE SACCO JOURNALISM IN VISUAL WORLD HC     $60.00
MAY151419     EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES GN (MR)     $19.99
APR151900     GOLDEN AGE MASTERWORKS FROM GOLDEN AGE ILLUSTRAT HC VOL 02     $44.95
JUN151740     LEGO NINJAGO BUILD YOUR OWN ADVENTURE     $24.99
APR151003     PEARLS BEFORE SWINE SKIP SCHOOL FLY TO SPACE TP     $9.99
JUL141628     PSYCHEDELIC ROCK ART OF CARL LUNDGREN HC     $60.00
JUL141629     PSYCHEDELIC ROCK ART OF CARL LUNDGREN LTD S&N ED     $125.00
MAY152736     WARHAMMER 40K NECROPOLIS SC     $14.00

Magi: The Fourth Magi

I read Magi, Vol. 12: The Labyrinth of Magic

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Review: WAYWARD #9

WAYWARD #9
IMAGE COMICS – @ImageComics

STORY: Jim Zub – @jimzub
ART: Steve Cummings – @stekichikun
COLORS: Tamra Bonvillain – @TBonvillain
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon – @MarshallDillon
COVER: Steve Cummings with Tamra Bonvillain
VARIANT COVER: Gurihiru
28pp, Color, $3.50 U.S.

This review comes with an “editor's note.”  I forgot to post this back at the end of June when I was supposed to do so.  I gotta be anal about it and post it...

The latest issue of Image Comics' Wayward is the second-to-last issue of the series' second story arc.  The comic book, which launched late Summer 2014, is set in Japan and features those creatures and spirits of Japanese folklore, Yokai.  Wayward is the creation of writer Jim Zub and artist Steve Cummings.  Wayward focuses on Rori Lane, a half-Irish/half-Japanese teen girl, who is trying to start a new life in Japan.  Instead, Rori and a small band of fellow magically-touched folks battle a secret war of magic in the shadows of Tokyo.

Wayward #9 (“Chapter Nine) opens in the past, as we witness the “Great Tengu,” Daranibo and his forces destroy a village.  What's going on?

Back to the future:  Ohara Emi (the narrator of much of this story arc) and Nikaido meet cat-girl Ayane's new pals, the Tsuchigumo – the Earth Spiders.  They offer to help the trio in the battle against the Yokai, Nurarihyon, and his allies, but Ohara is suspicious.  Meanwhile, Rori is on a mission, and she is feeling the full extent of her powers, which leaves her companion, Shirai, troubled.

Wayward writer/co-creator, Jim Zub, is still sending out advanced review PDF copies of Wayward, nine issues into the series, which one comics reviewer called “the next Saga.”  The ComicBookBin receives these complementary PDFs, and I am glad that I received this one.  I had planned on not reviewing Wayward for a while.  What more can I say about the comic book that should have received a “best new series” Eisner nomination, I thought?

Well, what I don't want to say is that Wayward is getting better.  That's too easy.  It is actually getting bigger.  The more Zub opens this world to his readers, the more he will ensnare them in the weave and the more they will buy into Wayward's conceit.  In fact, it will be increasingly harder for readers to walk away.  Steve Cummings and Tamra Bonvillain's graphical storytelling blazes, conjuring Wayward in a furious story of imagination and wild magic.

Also, an integral contributor to Wayward is Zack Davisson, a writer and scholar who is an expert on Japanese folklore and culture, including manga.  His essays, which appear after the last story page of each issue of Wayward, are must-reads for manga readers who are interested in Japan outside the comics pages.  This issue's essay, “The Secret History of Dirt Spiders,” is startling, and it also expands on information I have encountered in passing.  This is info I need as a fan of Japanese comics and literature, and also of Japanese film and television.

A+

[Wayward #9 contains another engrossing essay, “The Secret History of Dirt Spiders,” by Zack Davisson (@ZackDavisson).]

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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Deadman Wonderland: Earthquake Party

I read Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 9

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I Reads You August 2015

It's August 2015, and well, we can hope for the best in the new Fantastic Four movie, can't we?

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Review: CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #4

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #4
ARCHIE COMICS – @ArchieComics @ArchieHorror

STORY: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
ART: Robert Hack
LETTERS: Jack Morelli
COVER/VARIANT COVER: Robert Hack
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (September 2015)

“The Crucible” Chapter Four: “Harvey Horrors”

Rated Teen + (Violence and mature content)

When writer George Gladir and artist Dan DeCarlo created Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch and her world in the early 1960s, did they imagine or could they have imagined how much it would all change decades later?  It's a chilling thought.

The comic book series, Afterlife with Archie, is a re-imagining of the world of Archie Comics as a zombie apocalypse, and it is a hit with readers.  Last year, Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch, a traditionally lighthearted, Archie Comics publication, also received a horror comics makeover.  Now, we have Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, drawn by Robert Hack, and lettered by Jack Morelli.  It is a genuine and genuinely good horror comic book.  Say what!

This darker series is set in the 1960s, with the current story line largely taking place in 1967.  Sabrina Spellman is a 15-year-old who lives in Greendale with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda (two witches of the Satan-serving variety), and her cousin, Ambrose (a warlock).

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #4 (“The Crucible” Chapter Four: “Harvey Horrors”) opens after Sabrina's interrupted “Unholy Baptism,” in which she was preparing to accept the life of a witch.  Now, Sabrina's boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle, a fellow student and football stud at Greendale High School, is running for his life.

In the tragic aftermath, Sabrina struggles to accept what seems like fate.  In the meantime, her aunts warn her that she must face the coven.  However, a sympathetic teacher at Greendale High, Evangeline Porter a.k.a. Madam Satan, may have a way to make things better for Sabrina.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack have created a horror comic book that it is so good that they could make it work without using a well-known Archie Comics character.  That they have re-imagined Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch simply makes the book that much more wickedly divine and salacious.

The bucolic 1960s setting is appropriate as this comic book has the occult and ominous vibe of such 1970s occult films like Carrie, The Omen, Race the Devil, and Rosemary's Baby, among others.  Every time I read this comic book, I also think about Rob Zombie's recent half-ridiculous/half-brilliant, Satanic art movie, The Lords of Salem.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is mad and brilliant.  If EC Comics and the 1950s copy-cat horror comics that the publisher influenced had created graphic novels, they would look like this first story arc of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, “The Crucible.”  Sometimes, the witchery is so shocking in this comic book, I think that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack might need some inquisition face-time, or perhaps to be dunked a time or two.

[This issue includes a bonus Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch story, “Double Date,” from writer by Dick Malmgren and artist Dan DeCarlo.]

A

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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