Comics Shipping This Week: November 4, 2009

Shipping This Week: 11/4/2009

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

SEP091533 GAME TRADE MAGAZINE #117

DARK HORSE COMICS

SEP090014 AGE OF REPTILES JOURNEY #1 $3.50
SEP090026 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #30 ADAM HUGHES CVR $2.99
SEP090027 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #30 JEANTY CVR $2.99
AUG090014 CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #15 $2.99
JUN090068 CREEPY FAN CLUB EMBROIDERED PATCH $4.99
SEP090021 END LEAGUE #9 (OF 9) $3.99
AUG090025 ESCAPISTS TP $14.95
SEP090036 STAR WARS INVASION #5 (OF 5) $2.99
JUL090075 TUROK SON OF STONE ARCHIVES HC VOL 04 $49.95
JUL090054 USAGI YOJIMBO HC YOKAI $14.95
SEP090029 WITCHFINDER IN THE SERVICE OF ANGELS #5 (OF 5) $2.99

FVZA #1

FVZA #1
Radical Comics
(w) David Hine
(a) Roy Allan Martinez
FC 64 pgs w/ ads $4.99 US / Higher in Canada

Radical’s newest series is another comic in the long line of vampire / zombie comics. The plot has to do with the fact that vampires and zombies have always existed throughout the centuries and in the 1800′s an agency was set up to deal with the threat – the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency or FVZA. Over the years a couple of vaccines were created to deal with the threats and both the zombie and vampire threat diminished. In the 1970′s the FVZA was put to rest. Dr. Hugo Pecos was once a member of the FVZA and since its disbandment he has been training his grandchildren for the day when vampires and zombies return. And of course they do.

The comic is based on a website created by Ricard S. Dargan in 2001. It had a fictional history on it that’s briefly covered in this issue. Writer David Hine has the tough job of making an interesting comic out this. He manages to tell an intriguing story without it being silly. Like all of Radical’s comics, the art is painted, here Roy Allan Martinez’s art is painted over by Kinsun & Jerry Choo. It looks good. There is nothing really outstanding about the comic though. It does hold my interest so I’ll see how the series ends but I can’t imagine the rest of the issues are going to be any different from this issue. (Shane Hnetka)