SPOTLIGHT ON NEW RELEASES :: JANUARY 25

January 24, 2012 at 4:12 pm By:

Thanks again to all our guests and attendees who were a part of this year’s Charlotte MiniCon.  We all had a great time and hope you did as well.  It makes us all the more focused on making HeroesCon’s 30th Anniversary better than ever!  Now on to this week’s spotlight.

1) Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1

The first Bulletproof Coffin miniseries was a mindful blend of pop culture aestheticism and wry commentary on comics’ history and functionality.  Or you could just call it a really well done comic by David Hine and Shaky Kane.  The first issue tells the origin of an archetypal character called The Shield of Justice, and features a detective named Johnny P. Sartre.  The philosophical among you will enjoy surely enjoy it, as will fans of filmmaker David Lynch.  And with one of the future issues being titled “Tales from the Haunted Jazz Club,” there’s a lot of variety to enjoy here.

2) Silence of Our Friends GN

Writer Mark Long joins popular cartoonist Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire) to recount the tumultuous events of Texas in the late 1960’s.  Recounting the struggles to free five men wrongly accused of murder, Silence of Our Friends looks to be a fine example of how the comics form can be used to document Civil Rights history.  I haven’t seen much publicity for this book, but it’s one that rightly deserves our attention.  Plus, the book is co-written by our friend (and Emerald City Comic Con founder) Jim Demonakos!

3) Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm HC

Just a reminder, this is a book for mature readers.  This volume collects 300 pages of Timm’s good girl art, and covers a wide range of subjects in a variety of locales.  There’s even a nice, tasteful section of Timm’s illustrations of female superheroes.  Combine that with the fact that there are both color and pencil illustrations, and you have quite the art book.  Plus, legendary artist Jim Steranko provides an introduction!  Oh, and we also have a limited, signed hardcover edition available.  Get it while you can!

4) Justice League #5

As the first arc from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee nears it’s conclusion, their initial roster gets assembled in this issue.  It happens just in time, too, as Darkseid shows up to threaten humanity.  While this week is unique for all of the non-superhero titles hitting the stands, it’s hard not to mention this book’s arrival.  Johns and Lee have maintained and developed strong new readership, and with next issue’s big throwdown between the League and Darkseid, expect lots of people to continue to pick up this title over the coming months.

5) Secret Avengers #21.1

This .1 issue acts as the lead in to the Secret Avengers’ new direction.  Watch as Cap hands the reins of this covert team over to Hawkeye and the two wrap up a few loose ends.  The other big reason to pick up this issue is that it’s the first to be written by Rick Remender, who has been doing fantastic work over on Uncanny X-force.  In fact, since he’s now writing both of these covert team books, expect them to have some parallels.  Secret Avengers could very well be the Avengers version of Uncanny X-force, and it all starts here, so don’t miss it!

> Bonus Picks of the Week: Absolute Kingdom Come HC (new printing), All Star Western #5, Aquaman #5, Astonishing Spider-man and Wolverine TP, Batman Beyond: Industrial Revolution TP, Irredeemable vol. 8 TP, Vertigo’s A.D.D. HC, Hawkman by Geoff Johns vol. 1 Omnibus HC, and the Manara Library vol. 2 HC.

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