This Week’s Recommended Picks: July 29, 2009

RECOMMENDED!!!!

CITIZEN REX #1 (OF 6)
Mario Hernandez (W) and Gilbert Hernandez (W/A)
On sale July 8
b&w, 24 pages
$3.50

“What compels life without a soul?”

Comics legends Gilbert and Mario Hernandez join forces to present a bizarre, sexy view of the future and what it means to be human. Twenty years ago, the most famous, lifelike robot in the world was engulfed in scandal, arrested, and deactivated. Since then, an anti-robot movement has developed, while body modification is in and prosthetic limbs have become hot, black-market items.

Stories like these are the stock-in-trade of gossip columnist Sergio Bauntin, whose startling revelations earn him the constant scrutiny of both the mob and the city’s mysterious investigators, the Truth Takers. When Sergio catches wind of sightings of the long-missing robot celebrity CTZ-RX, all of these interests will collide in violence and intrigue.

It’s sci-fi adventure with beautiful women by Los Bros. Hernandez!

HOT PICK!!!

ULTIMATUM #5 (OF 5)
Written by JEPH LOEB
Pencils & Cover by DAVID FINCH

Fallen Heroes Variant by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
Is this what the end of the world looks like? You better believe it!! As only Emmy & Eisner award-winning writer Jeph Loeb and superstar artist David Finch can deliver, it’s an apocalyptic conclusion where every, and we mean EVERY, score is settled! The Ultimate heroes have faced their final judgment…and when the dust settles will they be found wanting?  If you can handle the growing body count, stick around as ALL is answered in this explosive series finale that will shock fans for years to come!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Comics shipping July 29, 2009

PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases

Shipping This Week: 7/29/2009

Every Monday, PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving this week to your local comic shop.

Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.

PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS

JUN091675	GAME TRADE MAGAZINE #114 	PI
JUN090002	PREVIEWS #251 AUGUST 2009 	PI

DARK HORSE COMICS

FEB090137	BETTIE PAGE 11 OZ LEOPARD MUG	$12.99
MAY090060	CITIZEN REX #1 (OF 6)	$3.50
SEP080032	FEAR AGENT #27 1 AGAINST 1 (PT 6 OF 6)	$2.99
MAR090028	LOBSTER JOHNSON NOVEL BOOK 01 SATAN FACTORY	$12.95
MAY090065	RAPTURE #3 (OF 6) OEMING CVR	$2.99
MAR090088	STAR WARS ADV TP VOL 02 PRINCESS LEIA & ROYAL RANSOM	$7.95
MAY090013	STAR WARS LEGACY #38 TATOOINE PT 2 (OF 4)	$2.99
AUG080092	TIM BURTON STAIN BOY 11 OZ HEAT SENSITIVE MUG	$14.99
AUG080091	TIM BURTON TOXIC BOY 11 OZ HEAT SENSITIVE MUG	$14.99

DC COMICS

MAY090209	BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #7	$2.50
MAY090208	BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #6	$2.50
APR090206	BIRDS OF PREY PLATINUM FLATS TP	$17.99
MAY090120	BLACKEST NIGHT TALES OF THE CORPS #3 (OF 3)	$3.99 

2009 Eisner Award Winners Announced

2009 Eisner Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 21st Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (a.k.a. the Eisners) were announced on Friday, July 24 at Comic-Con International: San Diego, offering retailers a golden opportunity to promote some of the most popular and respected products on the market to their customers!

Encompassing 26 different categories, this year’s slate of Eisner Award winners features talent from all corners of the comics spectrum, including humor, action, horror, all-ages and more!

Lauderhill, FL’s Tate’s Comics was named the winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing Award. Eleanor Davis (Stinky) was named winner of the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award. Additionally, Harold Gray, Graham Ingels, Matt Baker, Reed Crandall, Russ Heath and Jerry Iger were named to the Hall of Fame.

For more information on 2009′s Eisner Awards, click here.

• Best Short Story: “Murder He Wrote,” by Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy, in Bongo’s The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14

• Best Continuing Series: DC’s All Star Superman. by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

• Best Limited Series: Dark Horse’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben

• Best New Series: Marvel’s Invincible Iron Man, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca

• Best Publication for Kids: DC’s Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco

• Best Publication for Teens/Tweens: HarperCollins’ Coraline, by Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDED PICKS: July 22, 2009

RECOMMENDED!!!!!

YOU SHALL DIE BY YOUR OWN EVIL CREATION TP #2
By Fletcher Hanks
Edited by Patrick Rosenkranz

Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. He completed an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As a one-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique and unified artistic vision. He was a true comics visionary. In the earliest days of the comic book, before censorship, it was “anything goes!”-and in the tales of Fletcher Hanks, anything went!

The superhero Stardust gazes down at evil-doers from space and doles out ice cold slabs of poetic justice with his wizardry. A villain out to kidnap all the heads of state gets turned into a giant head, himself…no body, just a head! The jungle protectress, Fantomah, looks like Jean Harlow in a skin-tight black negligee. But when she sees an evil scientist drugging gorillas to become slaves, her head transforms into a flaming skull and she tosses the villain to the gorillas who proceed to graphically tear the guy limb from ragged limb.

Comics Shipping July 22, 2009

PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases

Shipping This Week: 7/22/2009

Every Monday, PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving this week to your local comic shop.

Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.

DARK HORSE COMICS

APR090030	ADV OF MASK OMNIBUS TP	$24.95
MAY090062	ALIENS #2 (OF 4)	$3.50
MAR090053	BEANWORLD HC VOL 02 GIFT COMES	$19.95
MAR090086	BERSERK TP VOL 30 (MR)	$13.95
MAR090087	BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL TP VOL 21 DEMON LAIR II	$19.95
MAY090064	CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #12	$2.99
FEB090115	CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 04	$49.95
MAY090053	DETHKLOK VS THE GOON (ONE SHOT)	$3.50
MAY090059	EMILY THE STRANGE III #1 (OF 4)	$3.99
APR090023	MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS TP VOL 03	$19.95
APR090031	NEXUS ARCHIVES HC VOL 09	$49.95
APR090117	STAR WARS OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 MENACE REVEALED	$24.95
MAR090075	USAGI YOJIMBO TP VOL 23	$17.95

DC COMICS

JUN090255	100 BULLETS #1 VERTIGO CRIME SAMPLER (MR)	$1.00
DEC080271	AME COMI BLACK CANARY PVC FIGURE	$55.00
DEC080272	AME COMI HUNTRESS PVC FIGURE	$55.00 

Cool Links and Stuff

1 IT’S ANOTHER RELAUNCH FOR THE PUNISHER. Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon are relaunching Punisher MAX. This time around though, Aaron is bringing in the Kingpin and Bullseye. Hopefully this doesn’t open up a can of worms and they start bringing in a bunch of other Marvel Characters that don’t belong in the Punisher MAX universe.

2 FIRST LOOK. Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in the new Iron Man movie.

3 MORE BLACK WIDOW GOODNESS. Paul Cornell is writing a Black Widow origin mini-series with Tom Raney doing the art.

4 FOR THOSE WHO FELT THERE WASN’T ENOUGH TENTICLES IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK. If you thought that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was cool, Quirk Classics latest is Sense and Sensibilites and Sea Monsters.

Empowered volume 1

Empowered volume 1

Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Adam Warren
Art: Adam Warren

BW, 248 pgs
$19.99 CAN / $14.99 US

Adam Warren returns to creator owned work
by Shane Hnetka

“Bahh. Like all too many females, the alpha wench fails to appreciate a well-timed movie quote!”

Adam Warren was writing and drawing manga before it was popular here in North America. In the late 80′s, Warren began drawing and eventually writing an American adaptation of the popular anime The Dirty Pair. I discovered his work after he had already completed several Dirty Pair series and found I enjoyed them immensely. Later, when he took over Gen 13, I felt he had produced some of his best work on the title. I try and pick up Adam Warren’s work whenever he does something new. Lately, he has been finding work with Marvel, such as his enjoyable Livewires miniseries, but Empowered is a return to creator owned work.

Marvel Teams With Madhouse & Ellis for Anime

Press Release

Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of two of the planned four series at this year’s Comic-Con International, the country’s leading comics and popular arts convention. The Marvel Animation Panel will be held on Friday, July 24, and will include an exclusive first look at official teaser trailers for two of these new series, hosted by writer and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis, who will appear to discuss writing the all new adventures of these re-imagined Super Heroes.

These Marvel Anime TV series are being created as a way of merging the beloved Marvel Super Heroes of western culture with the bold animation tradition of Japan. The resulting product will be four visually groundbreaking anime series featuring popular Super Heroes redesigned and repurposed as emerging from the fabric of Japanese culture. The series is expected to begin appearing on the Animax channel in Japan in spring of 2010.

The Marvel Animation Panel with run from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 24, at the San Diego Convention Center. An autograph signing with Ellis will follow the panel at Marvel’s Comic-Con booth #2429.

‘Fear Agent’ in ‘Early Development’

‘Fear Agent’ in ‘Early Development’
Published: 07/15/2009 02:05am

Dark Horse’s Fear Agent, by Rick Remender, is in early development at Universal, according to Hollywood Reporter. It’s an open-writing assignment, with the possibility that Jonathan Shestack (Air Force One, Escape from Planet Earth) could come on to produce, according to the report.

Four Fear Agent trade paperbacks are in print, with a fifth due in December.

Yen Press Will Publish Twilight Graphic Novels

From ICv2:

In the closest thing to printing money that we’ve heard about this year, Yen Press has the rights to graphic novels based on Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, according to Entertainment Weekly.  Art will be by Korean artist Young Kim, with Meyer “deeply immersed in the project, reviewing every panel,” according to the report.

This weekend’s issue of Entertainment Weekly will include finished illustrations of Edward, Bella, and Jacob.

This is the kind of deal that could be a transformational event for Yen, which has already been getting some titles in the top ten of late (see “Top 25 Manga Properties”).  Like the first time the fledgling Fox network got NFL rights, Yen’s other properties will enjoy something of a halo effect from a property with the strength of Twilight (and it certainly wouldn’t hurt sales of Yen Plus if it included Twilight stories).

The impact of Twilight on the teen girl book buying audience has been cited as one reason for the decline in manga sales in the U.S. last year.  Now the property has a chance to bring a new generation of readers to the art form.