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In this week’s new releases: ducks, zombies and classic Brit boy’s war comics

Joe — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:01:17 +0000

It’s a bumper week for new releases, with a slew of graphic novels hitting our shelves for New Comic Day this very morning. But purely for the sheer visual fun of it this cover for Marvel Zombies Volume 5 made me smile, big time – I mean it’s Howard the Duck and he’s kicking undead arse! How can you not smile at that?

(I’m your worst nightmare, I’m a duck with a gun… cover art for Marvel Zombies 5, art, as always for this series, by the great Arthur Suydam, (c) Marvel Comics)

There’s a real blast from the past this week too, with this 50th anniversary collection of strips from the long-running British boy’s comic Victor, home to Braddock, Tough of the Track and Gorgeous Gus among others. Sudden nostalgic sigh for that now gone era where literally millions of British school kids would be reading this and its sister publications each and every week…

(a page from I Flew With Braddock, proper old school boy’s wartime adventure from the Victor, (c) DC Thomson)

And I can’t resist sharing another of this week’s new releases with you, because it is from the wonderful Lynda Barry via the lovely folks at Drawn & Quarterly, the near-sighted monkey returns with Picture This. Go on, you know you want to pick this up…

(Picture This by and (c) Lynda Barry, published Drawn & Quarterly)

Hungry zombies? You need Hostess Pies!

Joe — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:01:34 +0000

Since this is apparently from a 2006 Wizard magazine it’s probably old news to some of you, but I don’t remember seeing it before and it’s pretty cool (via Tokka’s Flickr, hat tip to Crowbar for the link):

(Marvel zombies (c) Marvel Comics, art by Sean Phillips)

Go stake yourself

Joe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:02:28 +0000

“Dude. You just staked the zombie version of yourself. You are going to be in therapy for the rest of your life.” That has to be one of my favourite lines of the week as Morbius the Living Vampire stakes his zombie counterpart in Marvel Zombies 3, paperback edition hitting shelves this very day. Written by Fred Van Lente, art by Kev Walker, (c) Marvel