COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #36

Super GREEEN! is the theme of the scene this week as Morgan and Casey put the razzle dazzle on this heavy heavy week of comic overload!!! Image, Marvel and DC drop some high profile titles including Batman/Superman, Jupiter's Legacy, Lazarus, X-Men and of course, a little Mr. Burns never hurt anything...Oh yeah, and Copra #7 shows up to kick other comics' asses off the shelf. What, you thought a bunch of degenerate, amoral super criminals would play well with others?

COPRA RETURNS TO KICK OTHER COMIC'S ASSES!

COPRA #7

(W/A) Michel Fiffe

 You’ve made it this far… six issues of carnage, fisticuffs and shoot ‘em ups. Our first arc is behind us but the story is far from over. This time around we take a chance to find out a little more about our Copra guys and gals. The story’s called “Personal Files” and it’s… well, I hate to describe it as quiet because someone gets shot, someone gets burned, and someone is violently choked (as opposed to gently choked). You get the idea: the title says it all.

NEW LOCAL COMIX!!

 From Seattle local, John Kantz, whose resume includes Monkeybug Madness, Hipster Wizard and Scott Pilgrim!! (he designed the bad ass girlfriend incubator thing towards the end of the last volume), comes JKSFZ!! A black and white zine of delightfully humorous and exciting adventure strips that showcases a very odd part of a very odd man's imagination.

Check out his website for more info www.jackmo.com

JKSFZ

(W/A) John Kantz

NEW INDY COMIX!!

From the very talented and prolific Steven Kraan, comes his exclusive mini comics made for this year's Vancouver Comics and Arts Festival!! Very fun mini comic weirdness from our talented neighbors to the north!

Check out his website/tumblr/facebook for a sampling of his style as well as a new drawing EVERY DAY! Talk about commitment...

http://stevenkraandrawingdaily.tumblr.com/

DRAWING DAILY VANCAF 2013 #1-3

(W/A) Steven Kraan

NEW INDY COMIX!!

Straight from the exiting comic frontier that is South Dakota comes Marc Wagner, a graphic design student keen on making multi colored artbook/comics of the strange and bizarre. I suppose this is what happens when you spend too much time in South Dakota...

Check out his website for more psychedelia!
www.marcmakesthings.com

SUBCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS WE ALMOST LOST FOREVER

(W/A) Marc Wagner

  Full color zine that plumbs the depths of our half remembered dreams.

NEW COLORS OF EYES AND LEAVES #5

(W/A) Marc Wagner

  Full color zine of art and design

NEW COLORS OF EYES AND LEAVES #6 & 7

(W/A) Marc Wagner

#6, "I've Made A Huge Mistake" is a collection of previously abandoned ideas while #7, "The Endless Wait is Over" collects several new drawings and doodles. This 4.25"x5.5" zine features 24 pages in full color.

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X-MEN #2

(W) Brian Wood A) Oliver Coipel

 • The school is on lockdown...but if the bad guys can't get out, neither can the X-Men!
•  John Sublime is back, but is one of the X-Men's scariest villains not who we should be afraid of?
•  Who or what is Arkea?

Ok, look, I know its the X-Men, I know how much crap I talk about them, but...damn. That first issue was friggin' gorgeous!! Coipel sets up what should be the definitive look for these fabulously amazing X-Women with a sense pizazz and style that you can't help but flip through the book 50,000 times, trying to understand the magic and skill of Oliver Coipel! Plus, Jubilee finally looks like an awesome anime kid instead of some 90s Disney movie reject from Southern California.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

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HAWKEYE #11

(W) Matt Fraction A) David Aja

• THE breakout character of 2012... becomes the breakout character of 2013... as PIZZA DOG gets his own issue.
•  Literally... the entire issue... it's all from the dog's point-of-view.
•  Pizza Dog gets hired to solve a crime -- the grizzly murder that shocked Team Hawkguy -- and the only thing more shocking than THAT... is what happens the end of THIS.
•  Seriously. This is not a joke! Even the coloring. Dog issue. We're all gettin' fired. PLEASE READ...
"Pizza is my Business" ...before it's too late for us.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!!

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JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #653

(W) Kathryn Immonen A) Valerio Schiti

 • After the devastation of last issue, death and destiny come crashing down in deep space.
•  Can the burly Beta Ray Bill and the scorching Sif deny their fiery past?
•  Do they want to?

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

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BATMAN/SUPERMAN #1

(W) Greg Pak (A) Jae Lee

A new epic begins with the debut of this new, ongoing series! Don't miss the first fateful meeting of Batman and Superman in The New 52!

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!!

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MOUSE GUARD: LEGENDS OF THE GUARD 2 #1

(W/A) David Peterson and Various

 The 2011 Eisner Award winner for best anthology is back with a second volume! In the mouse tavern the June Alley Inn, a new round of storytelling begins between the patrons. Their goal is to be declared the best story of the night in hopes of having their outstanding debt to the barmaid forgiven. Legends of the Guard continues the tradition of featuring handpicked artists and storytellers by series creator David Petersen. This issue features Stan Sakai (Usagi Yokimbo), Ben Caldwell (The Dare Detectives!), and the Awakening team of Nick Tapalansky and Alex Eckman-Lawn!

RECOMMENDED BY ERIN.

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MALEVOLENT MR. BURNS #1

(W) Ian Boothby, Gail Simone (A) Nathan Kane

 Because he demanded it, Bongo Comics offers up a Simpsons One-Shot Wonder for the aged... er, we mean... the ages. A senior citizen centenarian spectacular. Mr. Burns, the megalomaniacal scourge of Springfield, grants you permission to enter the billionaire boy's club with a miserly masterpiece of penny-pinching proportions. It's the humor comic of the year for the young at heartless.

RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!! bwahahahahahaha!!!

LOCAL COMICS SPOTLIGHT

 KILL THE WIZARD #1

(W/A) Mark Allender

Prologues and Kill the Wizard by Mark Allender

Having whet your appetite with his character studies in his book PROLOGUES from last year, Mark Allender comes through with the first installment of his epic tale, KILL THE WIZARD. This mostly wordless story of wizards, dragons, warriors and common folk is reminicent of the work of Brian Ralph (Cave In) and Kazimir Strzepek (Mourning Star). Drawn in stark chiaroscuro, Allender has a great sense of pacing and captures amazing emotional depth in his characters.

Kill the Wizard by Mark Allender

SHIPPING LIST FOR 6/26!!

Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, June 26th! 

LAZARUS #1

(W) Greg Rucka (A) Michael Lark

 "FAMILY," Part One
In a dystopian near-future government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and posession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there....

COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #35!

On this week's exciting episode, the monkeys are foolishly given an edged weapon and, well...you can guess how things may degenerate from there. It's Battle Royale meets Fight Club, but without a budget, so don't expect more than the usual array of stellar recommendations from the two deadliest comic clerks this side of the Savage Land!!

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Little by little, XIII has reconstructed most of his life and figured out who he is. With one exception: There is still a gap in his college years, when Jason McLane became Kelly Brian. A gap that may mean the amnesiac adventurer is in fact an Irish terrorist, Seamus O'Neil. This flashback brings us back to Boulder, Colorado, and before that to Northern Ireland, to reveal the last piece of the XIII puzzle, and his final identity

I'm gonna keep it short and sweet this week. Moebius, at age 68, showing that he is better than every other artist in the industry. Because he is.

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

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CRATER XV HC

(W/A) Kevin Cannon

 Straight from the pages of the hit digital series Double Barrel! All systems are whoa! In Crater XV, Kevin Cannon weaves together an intoxicating tale of swashbuckling adventure, abandoned moon bases, blood-thirsty walruses, rogue astronauts, two-faced femme fatales, sailboat chases, Siberian pirates, international arctic politics, and a gaggle of horny orphans. And mixed up in all of it is Army Shanks, the salty sea dog still reeling from the death of his nephew, and Wendy Byrd, the plucky teenager who wants nothing more than a one-way ticket off the face of the Earth.

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!! 

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100 BULLETS: BROTHER LONO #1

(W) Brian Azzarello (A) Eduardo Risso

 BROTHER LONO is a brand-new 8-issue miniseries set in the world of 100 BULLETS! The Eisner award-winning team behind 100 BULLETS-writer Brian Azzarello, artist Eduardo Risso, colorist Trish Mulvihill, letterer Clem Robbins and cover artist Dave Johnson-reunites to tell the story of the baddest Minuteman of all. When last we saw Lono in 100 BULLETS, Dizzy Cordova had shot him through the chest...but Lono always was too tough to die. Now, after the final events of 100 BULLETS, Lono finds himself in Mexico working on the side of the angels. But there's always more to a 100 BULLETS story, so pick up this EXTRA-SIZE first issue to see what's really going on with BROTHER LONO, the cold-blooded killer you hate to love!

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!!

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SAGA TP VOL 02

(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A) Fiona Staples

Collecting the epic second storyline of the smash hit series Entertainment Weekly called "the kind of comic you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic."  Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet:  the grandparents.

Collects SAGA #7-12

recommended by erin.

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WONDER WOMAN #21

(W) Brian Azzarello  (A) Cliff Chiang

 Wonder Woman's already reeling from the battle of a lifetime. How can she possibly withstand an all-out attack from her eldest brother, the deadly First Born? London's in ruins, Diana's family is shattered, and gods old and new will feel the First Born's wrath!

RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!

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Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, June 19th!! 

DOMOVOI GN

(W/A) Peter Bergting

In the Old Town of Stockholm, where myths are alive and creatures of folklore haunt the night, an extraordinary young woman named Jennie is caught in the scheme of a cadre of villains who control the means to free the Domovoi - the lethally dangerous, poltergeist-like spirit of the entire city!