Nemesis #1

Nemesis #1
Icon / Marvel Comics
(w) Mark Millar
(a) Steve McNiven
FC 32 pgs w/ ads $2.99 US / Higher in Canada

The tag line on the cover of the comic proclaims that Mark Millar’s latest “Makes Kick-Ass Look Like Shit”. It’s the kind of statement that Garth Ennis made when he started up The Boys. He was going to out Preacher Preacher. Millar likes to hype up his work. It’s good for business. But does this latest venture actual surpass Kick-Ass? Or Millar’s previous work.

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X-Men: Second Coming #1
Marvel Comics
(W) Christopher Yost & Craig Kyle
(A/ Variant Cover) David Finch
Cover by Adi Granov

Many Will Be Wounded. Several Will Die. The climax of four years of X-Men stories is the X-Event of 2010! What started in House Of M with the Decimation of mutantkind and erupted with the first new mutant birth in Messiah Complex finishes here. In the epic crossover Second Coming, Cyclops’ faith pays off when Cable returns to the present with Hope, the girl he believes to be the mutant messiah. But will she be the savior or destroyer of mutantkind? We may never know, as she is the target of an initiative for mutant eradication unlike anything they X-Men have ever experienced. Many will be wounded. Several will die. Is Hope worth it?

FC $3.99

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IT WAS WAR O/T TRENCHES HC
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
(W / A) Jacques Tardi

World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardi’s defining, masterful statement on the subject, a graphic novel that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles. Like Remarque, he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, he brings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Yet he also delves deeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical political exploitation of patriotism. And in a final, heartbreaking coda, Tardi grimly itemizes the ghastly human cost of the war, and lays out the future 20th century conflicts, all of which seem to spring from this global burst of insanity. Trenches features some of Tardi’s most stunning artwork. Rendered in an inhabitually lush illustrative style, inspired both by abundant photographic documentation and classic American war comics, augmented by a sophisticated, gorgeous use of Craftint tones, Trenches is somehow simultaneously atypical and a perfect encapsulation of Tardi’s mature style. It is the indisputable centerpiece of Tardi’s oeuvre.

128 PGS BW $24.99

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Wednesday News Bites: March 24, 2010

Let’s get right to it this week:

• In case you needed yet another example of the huge fan following of Twilight, volume 1 of the comic adaptation of the book sold 66,000 copies during its first week of sales, which is the largest debut of a graphic novel in the U.S.  Its first print run was 350,000 copies, which is the largest first printing of a graphic novel in the U.S.
• IDW has obtained the rights to produce a new line of licensed comics based on the Jurassic Park franchise. You can learn more at icv2.com.
• Chris Evans has been offered the role of Captain America, which includes a deal of three Captain America movies, three Avengers movies, and various smaller appearances in other upcoming Marvel movies. As of the writing of this post, Evans has NOT yet accepted the deal.
•  More Marvel Zombies are on the way!

American Vampire #1

American Vampire #1
Vertigo / DC Comics
(w) Scott Snyder & Stephen King
(a) Rafael Albuqyerque
FC 40 pgs w/ ads $3.99 US / Higher in Canada

This isn’t the first time that a famous writer has supplied his name to a comic. Over at Marvel, several Stephen King novel’s are currently being adapted into comics. The Dark Tower, The Stand and his short story N. But someone else is always writing the actual comics – Peter David, Marc Guggenheim, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa are just a few of the names of the scripters for those stories. In fact back in the ’90s there was a comic company called Tekno Comix that had a whole line of comics featuring people like Neil Gaiman, Gene Roddenberry, Isaac Asimov and Leonard Nimoy coming up with ideas and then having someone else write the comics. So when I heard that Vertigo had a Stephen King comic with a writer named Scott Snyder I just assumed that it was just more of the same.

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Justice League: The Rise Of Arsenal #1
DC Comics
(W) J.T. Krul
(A) Geraldo Borges & Marlo Alquiza|
Cover by Greg Horn; 1:25 variant cover by Mike Mayhew

In Justice League: Cry For Justice, Roy Harper lost everything at the hands of Prometheus, barely surviving the brutal severing of his arm.

But when he finally awakens from his coma, Roy will find that his dangerous journey into despair is just beginning.

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Nemesis #1
Marvel Comics
(W) Mark Millar
(A/Cover) Steve Mcniven

Civil War? Nothing. Kick-Ass? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He’s systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he’s now set his sights on Washington, DC. Between you and me, the police don’t have a chance.

Do not miss the book that EVERYONE will be talking about by the creative team that made Civil War the biggest book of the decade. Mature Readers.

FC $2.99

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Maximum Fantastic Four

Maximum Fantastic Four
Marvel Comics
Writer: Jack Kirby w/ Walter Mosley & Mark Evanier
Art: Jack Kirby
FC, 224 pgs, $49.99 US / More in Canada

There have been thousands of words written about the first issue of Fantastic Four and the impact this comic book had on the modern day superhero. It changed everything– how comics were made, read and enjoyed. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s team book, essentially a rip off of their competitor’s Justice League of America, revolutionized an entire industry.

Sgt. Rock: Between Hell & A Hard Place

Sgt. Rock: Between Hell & A Hard Place
DC Comics / Vertigo
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Artist: Joe Kubert
FC, 144 pgs, $24.95 US / Higher in Canada

One of the most consistently talked about and read comic series in the last 50 years has been Sgt. Rock from DC Comics. Along with The Unknown Soldier and G.I. Combat, the three titles had been printed in various forms during the 50s and down through the 80s. Most people can remember reading a Sgt. Rock comic when they were a kid, carrying their beat-up copies around and sharing them with their friends. But since DC’s war line ended in the mid-80s, most of the characters within those books faded into obscurity, popping up now and again in unlikely places like the 90s The Demon (with the “Haunted Tank of G.I. Combat” fame by Garth Ennis!).