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MOME #22 Kurt Wolfgang, Tom Kaczynski, Joe Kimball, Eleanor Davis and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $17.77
($19.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited by Eric Reynolds Say it isn't true!  Sadly, this is the end of the road for the most innovative and challenging regularly published English language comics anthology of the twenty-first century.  But they're going out with a bang!  MOME 22 is a wallopin' 240-page double issue that is a veritable gathering of MOME alumni (along with some notable last-minute newcomers) featuring 30 artists, including Kurt Wolfgang, Tom Kaczynski, Joe Kimball, Eleanor Davis, Anders Nilsen, Tim Hensley, Paul Hornschemeier, Gabrielle Bell, Zak Sally, Jesse Moynihan, Malachi Ward, James Romberger, Nick Drnaso, Joseph Lambert, Nick Thorburn, Victor Kerlow, Jim Rugg, Chuck Forsman, Sergio Ponchione, Steven Weissman, Sara Edward-Corbett, Laura Park, Josh Simmons, Derek Van Gieson (with collaborator Michael Jada), Tim Lane, Nate Neal, Lilli Carré, T. Edward Bak, Dash Shaw, Ted Stearn and Noah Van Sciver.  Whew!  Get a heaping helping of PDF preview, here.
MOME #19: Summer 2010 Edward Bak, Robert Goodin, Conor O'Keefe, Tim Lane and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Whew!  This issue of MOME is a frantic roller coaster ride of graphilocity that left our mind reeling.  The journey begins with this issue's bifurcated cover, which sets the stage for the lead story:  the first part of Josh SImmons new serial, The White Rhinoceros.  We are then treated to "The Imaginist," Olivier Schrauwen's most fully realized work to date.  Next up is Gilbert Hernandez with a new tale of the one and only Roy!  Then hold onto your hats for the precipitous plunge that is the tale of "Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt."  Within this work's 21 tumultuous pages, author/artist, D.J. Bryant has penned a demonically deft deconstruction of "Driven to Destruction," a 1970s Steve Ditko story originally published in Haunted #4 published by Charlton Comics, that infers (with a little help from Ditko's sideline of bondage comics) a torturous sexual repression at the heart of Ditko's seventies sensibility.  So as not to give anyone the wrong idea,  let us be clear and state that "ED-H" is a story that is fully capable of standing on its own merits, that can (and will) be wholly appreciated without any knowledge of the work of Steve Ditko; the Ditko angle is, however, vertigo inducing to all long time fans of his work.  Then we have Tim Lane's "Hitchhiker," a tale full of Lane's trademarked dark and foreboding pen and ink work, but one that takes an unexpected turn.  We then take a pastoral pass through the pastel colorings of Conor O'Keefe in "Vote Lily at the Dog Show" before being put through the twisted sensibility of Robert Goodin in "The Spiritual Crisis of Carl Jung."  MOME 19 then closes with the latest chapter in T. Edward Bak's Wild Man.  Whew, indeed.
Abandoned Cars Tim Lane Fantagraphics $16.99
($18.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Here's another softcover edition of a previously released hardcover.  Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars is a hardboiled, hard-drawn, hard-livin' look at the underbelly of America that deserves a look, and the new, attention grabbing cover for the softcover works hard to get you to do just that.  We'll do our part by offering up this major league 16-page PDF preview, and referring you to our review of the hardcover.
MOME: Spring 2010 #18 Eric Reynolds, Nate Neal, Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This issue's editorial claims that, with the publication of MOME 18, MOME has now published over 2000 pages of comics, and that this "may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology."  Who knew?  To start off the celebration we have Nate Neal's cover feature, the multi-layered and multi-levelled, "Neurotic Nexus of Creation."  This one should leave you with much to ponder, especially regarding its innovative formal qualities, but as well as for its worldview.  Of special interest to Copacetic customers is the latest message from the Cold Heat universe, brought to you by the combined powers of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and John Vermilyea.  This feature is a vigorously rendered and sumptously colored tale of drugs, rock 'n' roll, sex, and gruesome horror.  Also in this issue we have:  an all-new Tim Lane tale, "The Passenger"; a surprise new Pip and Norton adventure from Dave Cooper and Gavin McInnes; "Burrow World," wherein Joe Daly does Mat Brinkman;  three short pieces by Nicolas Mahler; the third installment of Fuz & Pluck in "The Moolah Tree"; the second installments of both T. Edward Bak's WIldman – "A Barvarian Botanist in St. Petersburg," and Michael Jada & Derek Van Gieson's "Devil Doll"; a four-pager by Lilli Carré that had us thinking of old Rick Geary; the pastoral "Autumn" by Conor O'Keefe; more René French; and the Chris Ware homage, "The Jerk Machine," by Jon Adams.  MOME!
Hotwire #3 Glenn Head, Tim Lane, R. Sikoryak, Daid Sandlin and more ... Fantagraphics Hotwire $19.99
($22.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Hotwire 3 edited by Glenn Head If ever the third time is the charm, this is it.  Hotwire, the king-size comic book anthology of all new work marches forward in its unique, self-established tradition of wacky hi-jinx pieces designed to frazzle and freak. Highlights include a career high for Rick Altergott, an amazing new piece by Tim Lane, a rare full color Mack White work, a classic Mary Fleener tale, and the first new "masterpiece comic" by R. Sikoryak since his 2009 anthology of the same name – this one engaging Dennis the Menace to fill the shoes of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – new pieces by Michael Kupperman, Max Andersson, Johnny Ryan, and editor Glenn Head, as well as a brand spankin' new David Sandlin story, "Infernal Combustion," that continues in the vein of his fabulous Swamp Preacher one-shot comic book of a couple years back. 
Abandoned Cars Tim Lane Fantagraphics $20.00
($22.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		OK, true believers, step right up for a dose of hardboiled comics that will take you on a ride outside of yourself and into "The Great American Mythological Drama."  Think Jim Thompson & David Goodis, Sam Fuller & Robert Aldrich, yes, but also think of a travelling carnival populated by the ghosts of Elvis, Stagger Lee, John Dillnger and their cronies:  the detritus of the American Dream.  These are stories that grab you and don't let go, put down on paper in page after page of firm, tight, highly controlled and relentless pen and ink comics powered by coffee, cigarettes and alcohol.  Do yourself a favor and give this 160 page hardcover the once over by visiting the massive page devoted to it  on the jackienoname Weblog.