Here are the highlights for this week’s NWR 28 Feb 08. It’s an unconfirmed guess the shipment’s arriving on time this week. Stay tuned to this blog, true believers. So, without further gibberish, here are the books I look forward to
this coming Thursday, so long as our freight forwarder doesn’t muck up.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #35
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Penciled by STEVE EPTING & BUTCH GUICE
Cover by STEVE EPTING
THE NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA FIGHTS FOR THE HEART OF HIS COUNTRY IN A CITY GONE INSANE! Last issue was just the tip of the iceberg, as the Red Skull’s master plan kicks into motion, and chaos begins to take hold of the US, with only one man to stand in its way, but is he up to the task? By Harvey and Eisner Award-Winning Best Writer Ed Brubaker with art by master storytellers Steve Epting and Butch Guice!
GRAVEL #1 WRAP CVR (MR)
by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer & Raulo Caceres
It’s never a dull day, being a Magician. The mad mind of Warren Ellis is once again unleashed on combat magician William Gravel, this time on a full-color, on-going monthly series! Magic. Everyone thought that he was dead, including the Minor Seven, the secret enclave of Britain’s Occult Detectives. But Combat Magician William Gravel is very much alive and looking for the answers to how and why his place in the Minor Seven was filled by another and what the secret society is doing with the Sigsand Manuscript, an ancient supernatural text of unparalleled power. In a quiet, country cottage, Gravel will find the first clues to the Sigsand’s location and in the darkness of the cottage’s basement, a disturbing, unnatural thing that slithered into our dimension by the power of the ancient tome… Brought here from somewhere that mortal man could not possibly comprehend. The kind of magic that can strip the skin from a screaming man’s skull, or direct the path of a shrieking bullet through a maze of city streets, striking its target between the eyes with pin-point accuracy. This is not just magic… This is Combat Magic, wielded by Sergeant Major William Gravel, Warren Ellis’ cult-hit sensation from the pages of STRANGE KISS and STRANGE KILLINGS, now in his own, ongoing, full-color monthly series!
HALO SERIES 1 Action Figures
McFarlane Toys proudly presents our first series of HALO 3 action figures.
Poseabale, playable, and HIGHLY ARTICULATED!
McFarlane Toys unleashes HALO Action Figures-annihilating your expectations and defying what you thought was possible. Each figure has McFarlane-standard detail; warriors have weapon-stow capability on back and right thigh, and Cortana features an LED mechanism to illuminate her shapely holographic form!
* MASTER CHIEF
* CORTANA
* BRUTE CHIEFTAIN
* JACKAL SNIPER
* SPARTAN SOLDIER
* GRUNT (Two Color Variations)
HALO SERIES 1 VEHICLES ASST
McFarlane Toys proudly presents our first series of HALO 3 vehicles.
McFarlane Toys launches our first line of playable vehicles. The assortment features 4-inch, plastic vehicles with removable bases and include rotating gun turrets and whens (when applicable).
* WARTHOG
* BRUTE CHOPPER
* GHOST
KICK ASS #1 (MR)
Written by MARK MILLAR
Pencils & Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Variant Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
The greatest super hero comic of all-time is finally here. WOLVERINE: ENEMY OF THE STATE’s team of MARK MILLAR (ULTIMATES) and JOHN ROMITA JR. (ETERNALS) reunite for the best new book of the 21st century. Have you ever wanted to be a super hero? Dreamed of donning a mask and just heading outside to some kick-ass? Well, this is the book for you–the comic that starts where other super hero books draw the line. KICK-ASS is realistic super heroes taken to the next level. Miss out and you’re an idiot!
NEMI VOL 01 GN
by Lise Myhre
Meet Nemi Montoya - the vegetarian, cynical/romantic, hilariously honest twenty-something goth - in this brand new collection from artist Lise Myhre! A superstar in her native Norway, this gorgeous hardcover collects for the first time over 200 Nemi newspaper strips in the English language and is perfect for goth-tinged fans of Emily the Strange and Ruby Gloom! Hang out with Nemi and her friends, including her roommate, the blue-haired Cyan; hear opinions on romance and dating; learn how she feels about birch trees,
spiders, and blondes; and generally experience the highs and lows of being Nemi!
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS #1 Of(6)
by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger & Carlos Paul
REGULAR COVER BY ALEX ROSS
1:25 VARIANT COVER BY MICHAEL TURNER
The story of Superpowers begins here! After the super-selling #0, Dynamite launches Alex Ross’ Superpowers #1! Can the modern world handle the greatest heroes ever lost to history? This powerful series is overseen by Alex Ross who has designed every hero within these pages; scripted by Jim Krueger with art by Carlos Paul, this is the most powerful comic book event of the year! Cover by Alex Ross! Look for the Michael Turner variant incentive cover as well!
PRODUCT UPDATE (012308): Dynamite Entertainment has renamed its Superpowers limited series Project Superpowers. Please note that no editorial content for these books has changed.
RASL #1
by Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith, the visionary writer and artist behind the epic fantasy Bone and Shazam: Monster Society of Evil, unveils his newest series, the stark sci-fi series, Rasl! Meet Rasl, an art thief searching for his next big score - and trying to escape his past! Where other thieves plan their heists with breathtaking precision, Rasl has an ace up his sleeve - he can travel through the light between dimensions, affording him access to museums that no ordinary thief could access! In this issue Rasl faces an assassin’s bullet and stumbles across a mystery that not only threatens to expose his own illicit activities, but could also uncover one of the world’s most dangerous and sought after secrets. Smith’s first major independent work since the critically acclaimed and award-winning Bone will be 32 pages long.
Here’s an excerpt of the Jeff Smith interview with Publishers Weekly about Rasl:
PWCW: What can you tell me about the story of the book?
JS: First of all, I have to stress that it’s not for the same audience as Bone. It’s a little bit more grown up. I don’t think there’s going to be anything pornographic in it or anything like that. I’m picturing more, you know, adult entertainment. It’s science fiction, so I’ve been describing it as Blade Runner meets Jason Bourne, so that gives you the flavor of it. And the story idea is, well, I’m very interested in science. That’s what I read when I’m trying to relax. I’ll read Brian Greene or Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking. I love physics and I’ve always been really interested in certain parts of physics that get to the extreme edges of what we know and what we can theorize about.
And one of the things we theorize is that there are other dimensions. That’s what RASL is. He’s a dimension jumper. He’ll steal art. He’s an art thief. So, if you have enough money, I mean stupid money, like Bill Gates money, and you want your own original Picasso to hang in your living room, you can pay RASL and he’ll strap these giant engines on his shoulders—this special suit he’s invented—and he’ll step through the dimensions. It uses thermal magnetic power to bend reality so he can step into another dimension.
But it hurts. It hurts so bad that it takes him days to recover. He usually spends those days drinking and smoking and womanizing. But once he’s recovered enough, he can go about his thievery, steal the object he’s been sent for. But to return, he has to do the opposite. He has to clean himself mentally, physically. He almost has to become centered, like a Zen-Buddhist monk. Only then can he actually step back through the dimensional barrier. But then once he steps back through he’s on the ground, writhing in pain, and it takes him five more days to recover. So that’s why he wants a lot of money.
That was kind of a long explanation. You can’t really tell that from the preview, but that’s the background for his life.
PWCW: How big in scope is this story? Is it going to be another 15-year opus?
JS: No. Bone took 15 years. It was a single story, but it was 1,443 pages. I knew the ending when I set out, but it was a long and unfolding process. I think this one’s going to be shorter, at least by my standards. It’s probably going to be about 250 pages. I’ll probably do it for two, two and a half years. It’ll still be a graphic novel, but it’ll be serialized.
Read on for the full interview.
THOR #6
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
50/50 Variant Cover by ART ADAMS
Asgard stands once more. Thor has reclaimed his role as the God of Thunder, and key members of his Norse pantheon stand by his side. Now, the blockbuster first arc by fan-mega-favorites J. Michael Straczynski (SPIDER-MAN: ONE MORE DAY, THE TWELVE) and Olivier Coipel (HOUSE OF M) comes to an end. What will be the new status quo for the Odinson? Just be sure to get this one before it sells out like the rest!!
X-MEN LEGACY #208 DWS
Written by MIKE CAREY
Penciled by SCOT EATON
Cover by DAVID FINCH
“LEGACY”
CLASSIFIED UNTIL THE END OF MESSIAH COMPLEX.
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