Yes, it is Thursday; the day when our staff join hands and perform the ancient ritual known as the New Comic Day Dance. There are quite a few choice new graphic novels released today, but there are three hardbacks from DC which are especially tasty.
V For Vendetta gets a nice new hardback edition in the run-up to the film adaptation, with a bonus eight pages of design sketches by David Lloyd. If you still haven’t read this seminal work then this is a good time to pick it up in a fetching hardback. Another Alan Moore classic gets the hardback treatment from DC, but in this case it is the full on Absolute Edition of Watchmen. Okay, yes, at that price it certainly isn’t an impulse buy book, but it is an extremely gorgeous slipcase edition hardback, choc-full of extra material with an over-sized format so you can really appreciate Dave Gibbons’ superbly cinematic artwork, so you will want to look, but please don’t drool over it.
On the new front from DC the latest Harvey (American Splendor) Pekar arrives on our shelves with the Quitter hardback. Harv is famed for bringing real, blue-collar life into comics; here he, along with Daniel Haspiel, takes us back to Pekar’s mis-spent youth. As you’d expect from Harvey it is a warts and all approach; he’s never been one to try and airbrush events to make himself look better, after all. I think I must have one of these for my collection.
Thu, Oct 6, 2005
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