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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
POOD #3 Jim Rugg, Hans Rickheit, Adam McGovern, Paolo Leandri and more ... Big If POOD $4.00
($4.50 list)
Pood3
Read more and comment... 		And then there's this!  sixteen mammoth 16" x 22" newsprint pages in alternating full color and black & white.  Each gigantic page offers up a complete work by an individual creator or creative team – 15 in all, along with one page of editorial content.  There's some really worthwhile work here.  First off two of the top teams in indy comics are on hand here:  Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca deliver another cartoon deconstruction of US foreign policy in their latest US APE tale, "Chernobyl," while Adam McGovern & Paola Leandri splice 60's Kirbyisms onto Orphic lyrics to create a poetic comics evocation of the primal muse in "Spirit Media."  Hans Rickheit brings us once again into his finely rendered dream world with "Cochlea and Eustachia."  And, there's plenty more before the book closes out with two pages of full color splendor with "Zizmo and the Escapists" by Tobias Tak and "World Excursion" by Bishakh Som.
Dr. Id: Psychologist of the Supernatural Adam McGovern, Paolo Leandri Indie Ink Studios $2.50
($2.95 list)
Idcover
Read more and comment... 		When we first listed this title on our new arrivals page it sold out in the blink of an all-seeing eye, so we contacted the publisher and secured a supply of this Copacetic Certified Instant Classic™ sufficient to add it to our ongoing offerings.  With Dr. Id, co-creators McGovern and Leandri have put a sophisticated spin on the iconic Lee and Kirby formula to give us a series of psychologically astute tales that are simultaneously fantastic fun.  Seven tales -- both tall and short -- make up this cosmic compendium of cryptic capers -- elegantly unravelled by the piercingly perceptive analytical intelligence of the suave and debonair Dr. Id -- all rendered in a cataclysmic Kirby style that will have True Believers reaching for their hankies.  As an added bonus, we're treated to a copy of the Doctor's dossier to clue us in to his highbrow history.  This is a comic book.  All we have to say is, "Be there or be square!"
Project: Romantic Ash Wood, Hope Larson, Jim Rugg, Nick Craine and more ... AdHouse Books $25.00
($40.00 list)
Ad
Read more and comment... 		This is the final installment of the "Project Trilogy" which provides the up-and-coming generation of cartoonists to work with traditional comics themes. Inititated by Project: Telstar, which dealt with science fiction themes with a focus on robots, and continued by Project: Superior, which had super heroics as its unifying theme, this time around, as the title suggests, the same generation of cartoonists is given a chance to tackle the romance comics genre. As with the first two anthologies, the works assembled here bear little semblance to their generic progentiors in the mainstream comics of yore, a guided tour of which we are given in the introductory essay by Bill Boichel (which is currently available online as a downloadable .pdf). "True" romance seems mostly a thing of the past in the stories that follow, which here primarily focus on -- at best -- snatching a moment of happiness with a fellow being. Many of the pieces center on unrequited love, heartbreak, romantic disaster, murder, mayhem and confusion. Sometimes it's played for laughs and sometimes for tears. Exceptions include Aaron Renier's "Reflectors and Rutabegas," which comes closest to being a traditional romance, and McGovern & Leandri's Dr. Id story, which employs a 1960s-Dr.-Strange-as-sex-therapist narrative that is certainly traditional in its form, if not in its content. As with all AdHouse Books, the production values are excellent and the quality of the artwork is uniformly high. Stand-outs for us include the contributions of Paul Rivoche, Hope Larson, Roger Petersen and Junko Mizuno, but doubtless every reader of this anthology will find their own favorites. And there's no way we can avoid singling out Robert Goodin's contribution: if there were an award for excellence in the service of perversion, this one would have the comics category all wrapped up.  PLEASE NOTE:  This is the limited edition hardcover edition that we are offering here.  Limited to 500 individually numbered copies, it features front and back covers, as well as endpapers that consist of four apocryphal romance comic book covers featuring Afrodisiac, all by Pittsburgh's own megatalent, Jim Rugg!  We are offering this at half off it's original price – need we say it? – while supplies last! (LIMIT:  ONE PER CUSTOMER)
Dr. Id - Psychologist of the Supernatural Adam McGovern, Palo Leandri Indie Ink Studios $2.50
($2.95 list)
Drid1
Read more and comment... 		We listed this one a month or two back and it sold out in the blink of an all-seeing eye, so we contacted the publisher and secured a supply of this Copacetic Certified Instant Classic™ sufficient to add it to our ongoing offerings.  With Dr. Id, co-creators McGovern and Leandri have put a sophisticated spin on the iconic Lee and Kirby formula to give us a series of psychologically astute tales that are simultaneously fantastic fun.  Seven tales -- both tall and short -- make up this cosmic compendium of cryptic capers -- elegantly unravelled by the piercingly perceptive analytical intelligence of the suave and debonair Dr. Id -- all rendered in a cataclysmic Kirby style that will have True Believers reaching for their hankies.  As an added bonus, we're treated to a copy of the Doctor's dossier to clue us in to his highbrow history.  All we have to say is, "Be there or be square!"