The advance details are now live on our graphic novel site for DC’s December releases. There are some choice selections you may wish to add to you wish list for your Christmas stocking, from the superheroic, such as Batgirl: Kicking Assassins and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, to fantasy (the twelfth volume of ElfQuest) and the Python (John Cleese’s input on Superman if he had arrived in middle-class Britain with True Brit).
One of my old favourites is in there with Kyle Baker’s Plastic Man (admit it, I bet a lot of you have a soft spot for ole’ Plas too, don’t you? Go on, you can tell me) while Grant Morrison’s weird and wonderful (two words often heard in conjunction with Grant’s work) Vimanarama is out in paperback (sub-continent fantasy/mythology let loose in Bradford – brilliant!).
The Light Brigade which features WWII Tommy-gun-toting GIs trying to retrieve the Sword of God and battling nasty Nazis, demons and angels sounds like terrific fun (I half expect Hellboy to enter the story) and I just have to draw your attention to The Best of the Spirit.
The late, great, Will Eisner’s most famous creation, the fedora-hatted crime fighter of the 1940s has been available for a while in collections like the DC Archive Editions, to be sure, but those are quite expensive (although we generously offer a good discount on them to help ease the pain!). The Best of the Spirit is, as the name implies, a collection of Spirit strips and is in an extremely affordable paperback edition, giving anyone who has been curious about this early master of the genre’s most famous work a great chance to sample it. It’s certainly going on my list.
Mon, Sep 19, 2005
Comics and cartoons