Comics and Magazines from Diamond Distributors for March 2 2011

PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS
JAN110059 PREVIEWS #270 MARCH 2011 PI

COMICS
NOV101003 ABATTOIR #3 (OF 6) (MR) $3.50

JAN110980 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON #1 (OF 4) NEW YORK CON ED (MR) $3.99

JAN110981 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON #2 (OF 4) NEW YORK CON ED (MR) $5.99

JAN110937 AN ELEGY FOR AMELIA JOHNSON HC $14.95

DEC100737 ARCHIE #618 $2.99

DEC100738 ARCHIE & FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #3 $3.99

JAN111281 ASTERIOS POLYP GN (MAR094389) $29.95

JAN111240 BINKY GN VOL 01 SPACE CAT $8.95

NOV100907 BLUE SHEEP REVERIE GN VOL 03 (MR) $12.95

OCT101033 BODYSNATCHERS #1 (OF 6) $2.99

NOV101061 BOKURANO OURS GN VOL 03 $12.99

JAN111118 BOYS #52 (MR) $3.99

DEC100905 BRING THE THUNDER #3 $3.99

JAN111258 BROADCAST GN (O/A) $13.99

OCT100759 CHAOTIC SOLDIERS GN $19.95

OCT101197 CHARMED #7 A CVR SEIDMAN $3.50

OCT101198 CHARMED #7 B CVR ESQUEJO $3.50

DEC101103 CHI SWEET HOME GN VOL 05 $13.95

JAN111051 CHIP N DALE RESCUE RANGERS #4 $3.99

DEC101050 CLASSIC DAN DARE HC VOL 13 TRIP TO TROUBLE (RES) $22.95

DEC100775 CROSSED FAMILY VALUES #1-7 BAG SET (MR) $25.99

JAN110978 CROSSED FAMILY VALUES #3 (OF 7) SHOPPING CVR (MR) $5.99

JAN110979 CROSSED FAMILY VALUES #4 (OF 7) NEW YORK CON ED (MR) $5.99

JAN111054 DARKWING DUCK ANNUAL #1 $4.99

OCT100765 DAYS MISSING KESTUS #4 (OF 5) $3.95

AUG100957 DEAN KOONTZ FRANKENSTEIN PRODIGAL SON VOL 2 #4 $3.99

JUL100997 DF THOR #615 FRACTION SGN ED $29.99

NOV100803 DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #20 (OF 24) $3.99

DEC101033 EARP SAINTS FOR SINNERS #2 (OF 5) (MR) $3.50

OCT101034 ETHAN #2 $2.99

JAN110991 FEVRE DREAM #1-10 BAG SET (MR) $34.99

DEC101118 GFT MYTHS & LEGENDS #2 A CVR MEDINA $2.99

DEC101119 GFT MYTHS & LEGENDS #2 B CVR DEBALFO $2.99

JUN101205 GFT PRESENTS NEVERLAND HC $24.99

OCT101201 GRIMM FAIRY TALES #56 A CVR QUALANO $2.99

OCT101202 GRIMM FAIRY TALES #56 B CVR $2.99

JAN111034 HEXED TP $14.99

NOV100712 HEXEN HAMMERS GN $14.95

JAN111039 IRREDEEMABLE #23 $3.99

JAN110894 JOHNNY HIRO TP VOL 01 (MR) $14.95

NOV100908 KIZUNA GN VOL 02 DLX ED (MR) $19.95

JAN111218 KOKO BE GOOD GN (O/A) $18.99

JAN111070 LADY DEATH (ONGOING) #0 REPOSE ED $9.99

JAN111322 LENORE NOOGIES HC COLOR ED (O/A) $17.95

NOV101018 LENORE VOLUME II #1 REISSUE $3.99

NOV101019 LENORE VOLUME II #2 $3.99

NOV100941 LEWIS & CLARK GN $16.99

JAN111060 LIFE & TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK HC VOL 02 (O/A) $24.99

DEC100745 LIFE WITH ARCHIE MARRIED LIFE #8 $3.99

NOV100909 LOVE SYNDROME GN (RES) (MR) $12.95

SEP100780 LUCID #4 (OF 4) $3.95

AUG100991 MILK TEETH GN (NEW PTG) $16.95

JAN110989 NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD #1 (OF 5) MID OHIO CON ED (MR) $5.99

SEP101039 ONE #3 (OF 5) $2.99

OCT101168 ORPHEUS GN VOL 01 (MR) $7.95

JAN111222 OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #1 $3.99

SEP100772 POE & PHILLIPS GN $14.95

NOV101073 POKEMON ADVENTURES PLATINUM VOL 01 $7.99

OCT101016 POPEYE HC VOL 05 WHAS A JEEP $29.99

SEP100959 RED SONJA #55 $3.99

DEC101028 REED CRANDALL READER TP $25.00

NOV100793 ROGER CORMAN PRESENTS DEATHSPORT #3 $3.99

SEP101040 ROUTE DES MAISONS ROUGES #3 (OF 4) (MR) $2.99

JUL101014 ROY CRANE BUZ SAWYER HC WAR I/T PACIFIC VOL 01 $35.00

DEC101087 SHONEN JUMP APRIL 2011 $4.99

JAN111289 SIDE B GN (O/A) (MR) $22.99

OCT101035 SKELETON STORY #3 (OF 5) $2.99

JAN110896 SKYSCRAPERS O/T MIDWEST HC (O/A) (MR) $19.95

JAN111220 SLOW STORM GN $17.95

JAN111267 SMURFS GN VOL 05 THE SMURFS AND THE EGG $5.99

JAN111268 SMURFS HC VOL 05 THE SMURFS AND THE EGG $10.99

DEC100749 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #222 $2.99

OCT100849 STYX & STONE #1 (MR) $3.99

DEC100850 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #63 S/N EDITION (MR) $10.00

NOV100836 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #66 DLX ED (MR) $19.99

NOV100910 THEN COMES LOVE GN (MR) $12.95

NOV100987 TICK NEW SERIES #8 $4.95

JAN111065 UNCLE SCROOGE #401 $3.99

OCT100764 UNIMAGINABLE GN $14.95

OCT100929 VAMPIRELLA MASTERS SERIES TP VOL 03 MARK MILLAR $19.99

OCT101149 VIETNAM JOURNAL TP VOL 06 BLOODBATH AT KHE SANH $18.95

JAN110955 WULF #1 $2.99

MAGAZINES
OCT101270 AVENGER DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 05 $14.95
NOV101128 COMICS BUYERS GUIDE #1675 MAR 2011 $5.99
DEC101142 COMICS REVUE PRESENTS FEB 2011 $19.95
JAN111469 DOC SAVAGE DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 45 $14.95
NOV101137 DR WHO MAGAZINE #430 $8.99
NOV101163 FILMFAX #126 $9.95
DEC101150 PACESETTER THE GEORGE PEREZ MAGAZINE #11 $12.95
JAN111470 SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 46 $14.95
DEC101187 VIDEO WATCHDOG #161 $8.95
DEC101665 WHITE DWARF #374 PI

Bleach King of the Kill

I read Bleach, Vol. 34

I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps).

I Bewares Those Ides of March

Welcome back 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).  And now, let's do this March 2011 thing.

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

Leroy Douresseaux on THE ORIGINAL JOHNSON Book Two

THE ORIGINAL JOHNSON BOOK TWO

IDW

 

CARTOONIST: Trevor Von Eeden

ADDITIONAL INKS: Don Hillsman II
COLORS: George Freeman, Glenn Hauman
LETTERS: Marc Alan Fishman
AFTERWORD/EDITOR: Mike Gold
ISBN: 978-1-60010-664-4; paperback
136pp, Color, $19.99 US

The Original Johnson was first published as a webcomic at the site Comicmix.com. Written and drawn by Trevor Von Eeden, a comics veteran of over three decades, The Original Johnson is a comic book biography about John Arthur “Jack” Johnson (1878-1946). An American boxer, Jack Johnson was the first Black man to win the “World Heavyweight” boxing championship, a title he won in 1908 and held until 1915.

IDW recently published the second of two trade editions collecting Von Eeden’s 240-page graphic novel. The Original Johnson Book Two can be described as the education, maturation, triumph, and fall of a great boxer and of a greater man. Early in Book Two, Jack reaches the turning point in his career that takes him to the next level as a true professional boxer. He faces his first opponent who, rather than rely on brute force, has developed a science and system to boxing, Joe Choynski. Book Two also details Jack’s complicated relationship with women and his reasons for preferring white women as his mates. The story recounts his triumph as world champion and also makes a case for why he chose to lose the world title in 1915.

I found that The Original Johnson Book One presented Jack Johnson’s life (from the age of 13 to 22) as being like a coming-of-age story about a young superhero – a kind of Black Superboy/Superman. Book Two is more a straight biography, but it is also an essay and treatise on racism, both national and internationally, against Black people.

With his pencil art, Von Eeden captures the physicality and musculature of Jack Johnson. With his inking, he depicts power and dynamism that marries Burne Hogarth’s love of anatomy and the intensity of Michelangelo’s David. At times, Von Eeden turns Jack Johnson’s figure into a blunt instrument to batter his bigoted opponents and the virulently racist spectators at boxing matches. At other times, Von Eeden transforms Johnson and his perfect physique into a precision machine, undulating waves of ecstasy into the white women he frequently beds (Mandingo!).

Much of Book Two is both philosophical and even informative about the racism African-Americans and Black people faced in the United States and abroad in Johnson’s time. The reason for the hate was because many people who did not have black skin refused to see Black people as anything other than less than white people. Black people were subservient half-citizens who were often beasts of burdens. Not only does Von Eeden present the story of Jack Johnson the boxer, but he also uses Jack Johnson as a fictional paladin through which Von Eeden boxes against racism.

The over-arching theme of The Original Johnson is that of taking freedom no matter what others may say or do. That permeates Trevor Von Eeden’s comic book. This is the work of a free man unafraid to speak his mind and to present his work as he sees it. The graphical style, the design, the formats, the compositional qualities, the storytelling feel as if these are all Von Eeden’s choices, made free of other’s prejudices and expectations.

The Original Johnson doesn’t read as if it followed the rules for comic book writing that fans and critics think Alan Moore established in Watchmen. Nor does the art slavishly ape Jim Lee or some photorealist. Jack Johnson was a man, and Trevor Von Eeden is man enough to tell his story the way he wants. Johnson and Von Eeden did it their way, and the result of each man’s effort is greatness.

A+

http://www.trevorvoneeden.com/
http://www.comicmix.com/

Kamisama Kiss the New Boy

I read Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 2

I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps).

Monte Schulz Tours in Support of "The Last Rose of Summer"

MONTE SCHULZ TOURS WEST COAST IN MARCH TO PROMOTE THE RELEASE OF THE NEW NOVEL, THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER

Last Rose Of Summer

By: Monty Schultz
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Price: $29.99 • ISBN: 978-1606994016

SEATTLE, WA, FEB. 2, 2011 --- This March, Fantagraphics Books will publish The Last Rose of Summer, a novel by Monte Schulz. To support the release, the author will tour several cities on the West Coast in late-February and March:

Sat., Feb. 26, 4PM • Tecolote Book Shop, Santa Barbara, CA
Tues., March 1, 7:30PM • Warwick’s Books, La Jolla, CA
Thurs., March 3, 6:30PM • Bay Books, Coronado, CA
Fri., March 4, 6PM • Latitude 33 Bookshop, Laguna Beach, CA
Sun., March 6, 5PM • Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA
Sat., March 19, 4PM • Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Seattle, WA
Wed., March 23, 7PM • Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR
Sat., March 26, 1PM • The Book Seller, Grass Valley, CA

"Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, a veritable time-machine that whirled me through time to the dirty back roads of the American midwest in the year before the Depression. … Did I mention how good the writing is? The writing is excellent… a masterpiece of setting and storytelling…" – Cory Doctorow, BOINGBOING

With the Great Depression looming and about to define America’s next decade, three strong-minded women related by marriage form an uneasy household in the summer of 1929. Forced by her husband Harry to uproot their two small children from Illinois and take up residence in East Texas, Marie Hennesey struggles to find a place not only within her mother-in-law’s home but in a Southern town whose troubling unfamiliarities compound her marital woes and homesickness.

Maude Hennesey has little patience for Marie and her children, and even less for her own pretty but petulant daughter, Rachel, who fights and flirts with a dashing pilot from New Orleans. Colliding issues of faith and sexual mores, racial proprieties and class distinctions, fuel a constant bickering through the narrow corridors of the house, all three women heedless of the love that has brought them together. Maude seems cold and distant except toward the ladies of her club; Rachel’s affection for her doting aviator rises and falls capriciously; and Marie seeks to understand an absent husband, while deciding how to receive her employer’s slow seduction.

As summer wears on, the conflicts among these women are exacerbated by a child murder that sends shockwaves of fear and mistrust throughout the community, particularly between the town’s white residents and a black shantytown across the river. An ever-increasing sense of dread culminates in the arrival of a terrible storm whose aftermath reveals poignant and unexpected truths about these three women living at a time when America was poised on the brink of economic catastrophe.

In The Last Rose of Summer, Monte Schulz has created a story about three women and their interior and exterior lives, each of whom symbolize quintessential American notions of family, love and community. In so doing, he reminds us all where we come from and how we got here. With an elegiac voice that evokes an era in its final bloom, and a thoughtful rendering of the public and private contentions that ruled the day, The Last Rose of Summer becomes an instant American classic.

Monte Schulz published his first novel, Down By The River, in 1990, and spent the next twelve years writing a tapestry of the Jazz Age, of which The Last Rose of Summer and 2009’s This Side of Jordan are two of three parts. He received his M.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he continues to reside. He is the eldest son of Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts).

For more information or to arrange an interview with Monte Schulz, contact Eric Reynolds, Associate Publisher, Fantagraphics Books: 206.524.1967 x218 or reynolds@fantagraphics.com.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 4PM
Tecolote Book Shop
1470 E Valley Rd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
805.969.4977

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 7:30PM
Warwick’s
7812 Girard Ave.
La Jolla, CA 92037
858.454.0347
http://www.warwicks.com/

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 6:30PM
Bay Books
1029 Orange Ave.
Coronado, CA 92118-3405
619.435.0070
http://www.baybookscoronado.com/

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 6:00PM
Latitude 33 Bookshop
311 Ocean Ave.
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949.494.5403
http://www.latitude33bookshop.com/

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 5PM
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.660.1175
http://www.skylightbooks.com/

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 4PM
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.)
Seattle, WA 98108
206.658.0110
http://www.fantagraphics.com/

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 7PM
Tsunami Books
2585 Willamette Street
Eugene, OR 97405
541.345.8986
http://www.myspace.com/tsunamibooks

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1PM
The Book Seller
107 Mill St.
Grass Valley, CA 95945
530.272.2131
http://www.grassvalleybooks.com/

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Shojo Manga "Oresama Teacher" to Debut March 1st

PLENTY OF LAUGHS ARE IN STORE WHEN A HIGH-SCHOOL BAD GIRL TRIES TO BE GOOD IN THE NEW VIZ MEDIA MANGA SERIES ORESAMA TEACHER

New Shojo Beat Series Follows A Reformed Teenage Delinquent As She Tries To Lead A Normal And Peaceful High School Life

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, brings the hilarious high-school hijinks of Izumi Tsubaki’s manga (graphic novel) series, ORESAMA TEACHER, to North American audiences on March 1st. The new title will be published under the Shojo Beat imprint, is rated ‘T’ for Teens, and will carry an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $12.99 CAN.

Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country. Determined to make the best of the situation and make her mother proud, Mafuyu decides to turn over a new, feminine, well-behaved leaf. But her fighting spirit can’t be kept down, and the night before school starts she finds herself defending some guy who’s getting beaten up. One slip wouldn’t have been a problem, except the guy is…her teacher?! How can Mafuyu learn to be a good girl if her teacher won’t let her forget her wicked past?

“Mafuyu is going to have to try very hard to be the well-behaved, ultra-shiny, super-feminine high school student she longs to become,” says Pancha Diaz, Editor. “But along the way, she will have to contend with a homeroom teacher who blackmails her, an unruly classmate who likes to fight, and her own tendency to still find trouble. We invite readers to jump into her latest story and follow Mafayu as she strives to live like a normal high school girl.”

Izumi Tsubaki began drawing manga during her first year of high school. She was soon selected to be among the top ten of Hana to Yume's HMC (Hana to Yume Mangaka Course), and she subsequently won Hana to Yume's Big Challenge contest. Her debut title, Shrink the Distance, ran in 2002 in Hana to Yume magazine. In addition to THE MAGIC TOUCH (published in North America by VIZ Media), she is working her current manga series ORESMA TEACHER (I'm The Teacher).

For more information on ORESAMA TEACHER, or other shojo titles from VIZ Media, please visit http://www.shojobeat.com/.


About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), is one of the most comprehensive and innovative companies in the field of manga (graphic novel) publishing, animation and entertainment licensing of Japanese content. Owned by three of Japan’s largest creators and licensors of manga and animation, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media is a leader in the publishing and distribution of Japanese manga for English speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa and is a global ex-Asia licensor of Japanese manga and animation. The company offers an integrated product line including the popular monthly manga anthology SHONEN JUMP magazine, graphic novels, and DVDs, and develops, markets, licenses, and distributes animated entertainment for audiences and consumers of all ages. Contact VIZ Media at 295 Bay Street, San Francisco, CA 94133 and website at http://www.viz.com/.