ANDY’S PICKS: There’s just too much this week!!!

LOVERBOYS HC by the great Gilbert Hernandez. If you are wondering what the deal with the Los Bros and why every casual Love and Rockets reader become fanatics, just pick up this new tour-de-force  original GN by Gilbert– love, lust, poison and intrigue in a small town– and you will figure out why and you will become a convert as well.

SPIRITS of THE DEAD collects of all the Edgar Allan Poe stories adapted by the one-and-only comic master Richard Corben. This HC includes The Conqueror Worm, The Fall of the House of Usher #1-#2, The Raven, The Red Death (worth the price of admission alone!), Morella, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and more.

FABLES DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 09 brings together the final story arcs (issues 70-82) that chronicle the war between Fabletown and the Worlds of the Adversary. This volume presents a true high water mark for creative team Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham who have been delivering consistently terrific stories for almost 150 issues.

COMPLETE CHESTER GOULD DICK TRACY HC VOL 17 collects one of the last great storylines featuring our stoic detective. Tracy’s greatest villain Flattop had a son, Flattop Jr. and he is hell bent on revenge in a tale that deals directly with juvenile delinquency. If you’ve been on the fence about the great Chester Gould, this is an ideal volume to wet your whistle. It’s weird, it’s twisted, it is great comic art.

Not enough? (it never is!) then don’t forget… PUCK WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE HC–a history of the first great venue for political cartoons, BATMAN 75TH ANNIVERSARY  TP COLLECTION— Dark Knight Returns, Hush and The Court of the Owls all in one edition. Plus dozens of floppies.

Chow!