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Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Simon & Kirby Crime	Jack Kirby, Joe Simon	Titan Books		$44.44 ($49.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Kirby fans (and everyone else, for that matter), hold onto your hats! Kirby's work here is the most dynamic and powerful work of the first half of his career – some might even say of his entire career! – and will knock your socks off! Clear your mind of any preconceptions and prepare yourself for the dynamic action of Headline Comics, Justice Traps the Guilty and more. While certainly not complete, Simon & Kirby Crime provides a very healthy portion of the classic crime comics produced by Jack Kirby with Joe Simon from 1947 through 1955. These are great stories with art that really puts you back in the day, providing an uncanny sense of the seamy side of post-WWII life. But most of all, it is the amazing daring of Kirby's art here that will impress. The level of pure formal abstraction, the way he breaks down pages – splashes (and double-page splashes) as well as his riffs on the standard six-panel grid – and, especially, what he manages to accomplish within each panel – the incredible bravura compositions and black placements that are at times so intense as to seem to almost prefigure Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell – this is what astonishes. Yes, the paper stock of this volume, while flat, is a tad too reflective, and, yes, the colors are as a result a bit too bright to accurately capture the darker tone of the original comics, but these are mere quibbles next to the work itself on display here. Really, they're that good. Do yourself a favor and get your mitts on this one.
Tank Girl: Apocalypse	Andy Pritchett, Alan Grant	Titan Books	Tank Girl	$15.75 ($16.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Tank Girl goes out on her own, unleashed from both of her original creators for the first time. Does this mean she's all grown up? Doubtful, to say the least.
Tank Girl: Odyssey	Jamie Hewlett, Peter Milligan	Titan Books	Tank Girl	$15.75 ($16.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Jamie Hewlett's swan song on Tank Girl is piloted by Peter Milligan.
The Simon and Kirby Superheroes	Jack Kirby	Titan Books		$44.44 ($49.95 list)
Read more and comment...	<<•>> introduction by Neil Gaiman <<•>> Wow! 469 – count 'em! – pages of eye-popping, brain-blasting, Golden Age, Atomic Age and Silver Age Jack Kirby artwork! Here we have the complete Kirby runs (which in most cases is the run in its entirety) on Stuntman, Fighting American, Captain 3-D (speaking of which, here's an online preview of a full-length Captain 3-D story, courtesy of the fine folks at BoingBoing), The Double Life of Private Strong, The Adventures of The Fly, and more, all in full color, printed on flat white stock from scans of the original comics. All in full color, printed on flat white stock from scans of the original comics. AND, as if this weren't already more than enough, there are a pair of previously unpublished covers, a pair of previously unpublished double page splashes and a pair of complete stories, one of which, "Stuntman Crowns a Jungle Lord," is, intriguingly, caught mid-process, in which, at least according to an editor's note, only Kirby's actual pencil lines have been inked, before the heavy chiaroscuro detail inking was laid down. The publishers' in house production team has then, evidently, created an era-appropriate color scheme that seamlessly blends in these unpublished pieces into the rest of the book, the last page of which promises further volumes that promise to focus on the great Kirby Romance, Crime and Horror comics that Simon packaged for Prize Comics during their great Atomic Age partnership. Yes!
Tank Girl 3 (remastered)	Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett, Philip Bond	Titan Books	Tank Girl	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Here it is, the new and improved, "remastered" edition of the third volume of that pop/punk icon, Tank Girl. While we have to admit to preferring the in-your-face covers of the original series of trades to the more discreet packaging on the new editions, we must say that the interiors are superior. The pages have been re-proportioned to bring them closer to the Deadline originals, the art that was intended for black and white reproduction is printed here as intended, while the color work receives much better reproduction; and there are two extra stories that don't appear in the original edition, making for 16 additional bonus pages. Not only that, this edition costs LESS than the old one. All in all, it's hard to knock.
Tank Girl Two: The Remastered Edition	Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin	Titan Books	Tank Girl	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This new editions of Tank Girl features: superior reproduction (especially of the color pieces) printed on a larger paper size, enabling a greater appreciation of Jamie Hewlett's fine ink stylings; a new introduction by Tank Girl co-creator, Alan Martin, filling in some details about various behind-the-scenes creative goings on; rare photos, alternate covers, promo posters, early drawings and the like; ALL the original Deadline Magazine covers in which these stories first appeared (although we must inform you that these reproductions are thumbnail size); full-size reproductions of all the original covers to the Dark Horse Comics editions in which (most of) these stories first saw print stateside; and, last but certainly not least, bits of of work not collected in the first edition of these Titan trade collections. What's not to like?
Tank Girl One: The Remastered Edition	Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett	Titan Books	Tank Girl	$15.25 ($16.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This new editions of Tank Girl features: superior reproduction (especially of the color pieces) printed on a larger paper size, enabling a greater appreciation of Jamie Hewlett's fine ink stylings; a new introduction by Tank Girl co-creator, Alan Martin, filling in some details, about Tank Girl's origins and early days; rare photos, alternate covers, promo posters, early drawings and the like; ALL the original Deadline Magazine covers in which these stories first appeared (although we must inform you that these reproductions are thumbnail size); full-size reproductions of all the original covers to the Dark Horse Comics editions in which (most of) these stories first saw print stateside; and, last but certainly not least, bits of of work not collected in the first edition of these Titan trade collections. What's not to like?
The Best of Simon and Kirby	Jack Kirby	Titan Books		$35.00 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Just say no to those horribly overpriced and poorly produced Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives editions and say hello to this sumptuous oversize hardcover edition that does it right. Not only is this 240 page book, at 9" x 13", a full 30% larger than these volumes, but the images are taken from excellent resolution scans of the original comics and it is printed on high quality flat white stock, and, as if that weren't enough, it is priced 20% less! Kudos to the fine folks at Titan Books for a job well done. And then there's the work itself. The over two dozen tales taken from this two-decade-long partnership that are contained in this volume amply display the breadth of vision and amazing ability of this dynamic duo. The work is divided by genre and then presented chronologically within each of the categories, which are: "The Heroes," "Way Out Science Fiction," "War and Adventure," "The Birth of Romance," "Crime Drama," "The Great Western," "Oh! The Horror!" and "Sick Humor." Simon and Kirby really could do it all! While we here at Copacetic will always maintain that the creative engine was primarily powered by Kirby while the business brains and marketing savvy were Simon's, Mark Evanier, working with the still living Simon to put out this volume simply repeats Jack's consummately diplomatic response to the question of who did what – "We both did everything" – and leaves it at that. No matter how you look at it, though, this team was one of the most important in the history of comics, and this is a book that no self respecting comics fan should be without (unless, or course, they already own the original comics, in which case our hat's off to them). • edited by Steve Saffel, with essays by Mark Evanier and an introduction by Joe Simon
Hewligan’s Haircut	Jamie Hewlett, Peter Milligan	Titan Books		$10.77 ($11.99 list)
Read more and comment...	by Jamie HEWlett and Peter MilLIGAN <<•>> NEW SOFTCOVER EDITION <<•>> While we’re on the subject of re-issues, we’d be remiss not to mention this dandy item. Originally appearing in 2000AD in 1990, this was collected once before about ten years ago, but has long been unavailable. This new edition is, to the best of our knowledge, the first time this work has appeared in hardcover form. The art contained in this volume was executed between Hewlett’s stints on Tank Girl, the work for which he is most widely known, and is among his best. He really goes to town here with wild colors, daring layouts, and a clever homage to Andy Warhol. Fun! (please note that the new softcover edition offered here has a slightly different cover image)
Tank Girl: Apocalypse		Titan Books		$14.44 ($16.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Tank Girl 5: Apocalypse! Well, she’s back again, only this time no Hewlett, no Martin. Instead we have scripting duties performed by Alan Grant and Andy Pritchett, with the art chores handed in by Philip Bond and Phil Gascoine. This time around, Tank Girl gets pregnant. Yoiks!

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