The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Second time around for the regular FPI Most Wanted feature, where several members of the FPI blog team nominate a selection of the titles they’re particularly looking forward to reading in the coming months….

JUNE 2010

(Dorkin & Thompso’s Beasts Of Burden, the first Rucka/Williams Batwoman collection and a reissue of Howard Cruse’s classic Stuck Rubber Baby)

(The first, and sadly last, collection of the Kieron Gillen written outer space X-Men saga of S.W.O.R.D. Temperance – first book Percy Gloom was pretty wonderful in parts this promises even more. And Scott Pilgrim – which is a must!)

(Classic Miller and Romita Jr Daredevil, The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens; cartoonist, visual artist, and musician based in Belgium, his first graphic novel in English (From D&Q, preview here). And Adam Hughes’ DC covers all in one book)

(More returns in Green Arrow #1 and Avengers: Prime #1 and SelfMadeHero bring us The Hot Rock – adapted from the original by Donald Westlake, who, writing as Richard Stark was responsible for one of the books of 2009 – Parker: The Hunter.)

JULY 2010

(Matt Kindt’s new Vertigo book, classic Ezquerra artwork in The Stainless Steel Rat and the second of Garen Ewing’s excellent Rainbow Orchid series)

(The Playwright – Eddie Campbell – that should be enough to get you to buy it. And this could be amazing – AX Volume 1; a collection of Alternative Manga)

(Fraction & Ba’s Casanova series reissued and coloured at Marvel’s Icon imprint and the first look at what Marvel are planning for Marvelman – with the Marvelman Classic Volume 1 (not the final cover) and the classic primer comic)

(This year’s Marvel event kicks off in the Andy Diggle written Shadowlands #1 and finishing off our selections is the new book from Kevin Huizenga, the author of Curses and Ganges.)

AUGUST 2010 – save the pennies for these boys and girls – this month’s a bumper crop!

(The third SelfMadeHero Sherlock Holmes – the drug fuelled one – looks like it will be just as great as previous volumes. Fogtown – new from Vertigo Crime – a 50s noir detective thriller with very dark sexual secrets. And a bit of Classic Dredd in the latest of the casefiles)

(Volume 2 of Carey and Gross’ Unwritten – review of Vol 1 here, the latest from the wonderful Mark Kalesniko featuring the return of his marvellous character Alex – more on which here, and Harlem Heroes a Pat Mills classic from the early days of 2000AD)

(SelfMadeHero bring us the Conrad classic, Japanese dream comics by Al Davison in Hokusai and Seth’s Palookaville makes the step up from irregular comic to irregular hardback serial with Volume 20)

(Timed for what looks like a stunningly mad Luc Besson movie, here’s the first volume of Adele Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi. Classic Ditko 50s comics and Fantagraphics present a primer for one of the most beloved  of Shojo Manga artists; Moto Hagio)

(Dave McKean’s huge and brillaint Cages gets a new and ridiculously cheap new edition, the earliest Flash Gordon comics come to archive editions from Dark Horse and Will Dinski’s haunting mini comics burst into his first graphic novel.)

(The Broadcast from NBM – a wispy almost ephemeral art style from a fecund time for storytelling.)

And that’s it for this month (hope the wallets can take that lot!), more selections next month, but of course, feel free to drop ideas of what to look out for in the comments.