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Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 29 March 2017

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HELLBLAZER TP VOL 01 THE POISON TRUTH (REBIRTH)
UNHOLY #3 (MR)

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 29 March 2017

ADAM STRANGE FUTURE QUEST SPECIAL #1

ADVENTURE TIME ORIGINAL GN VOL 09 BRAIN ROBBERS | Preview
(W) Josh Trujillo (A) Zachary Sterling (CA) Scott Maynard
In this new original graphic novel adventure from Josh Trujillo (Love Machines) and Zachary Sterling (Adventure Time), it’s the most important moment of Lumpy Space Princess’s life, and it’s all going to slip through her fingers if she doesn’t get help. Tree Trunks comes out of her mystery-filled retirement for one last job as she agrees to help LSP on a wild west treasure hunt. Finn and Jake secretly follow along to protect their friends but discover that LSP knows more than she is letting on about this particular treasure.

AFAR TP
ALIENS DEFIANCE #10
ALIENS VS PREDATOR LIFE AND DEATH #4
ALL NEW X-MEN #19
ANIMOSITY #6 (MR)
ASIAN COMICS SC
ASTONISHING ANT-MAN TP VOL 03 TRIAL OF ANT-MAN
AVENGERS #5.1
BATGIRL ANNUAL #1

BLACK HAMMER TP VOL 01 SECRET ORIGINS | Preview
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Dean Ormston
Once they were heroes. Now, banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City lead simple lives in a timeless farming town. But as they attempt to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure! Collects issues #1-6 of the series.

BLACK WIDOW #12
BLAKE & MORTIMER GN VOL 24 TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM S
BOOSTER GOLD FLINTSTONES SPECIAL #1
BPRD HELL ON EARTH TP VOL 15 COMETH THE HOUR
CAPTAIN AMERICA FALCON SECRET EMPIRE TP NEW Printing
CARTOON UTOPIA GN
CASTOFFS TP VOL 01
CINEMA PURGATORIO #9 (MR)

CLEAN ROOM #17 (MR) | Preview
(W) Gail Simone (A) Walter Geovani (CA) Jenny Frison
The barrier between the known world and what lurks beneath crumbles as the Entities’ true malevolence is unleashed on the world, and the moment Astrid Mueller has been preparing for comes with a wave of fire from above. The death that reaches for you may be coming from the mirror!

CLOUD RIDERS GN PRINCESS LEILANI & THE WIND SPINNERS
COMPLETE JIM APARO CHARLTON PHANTOM HC
CONAN THE SLAYER #7
CRYPTOCRACY TP
DAMOCLES GN VOL 04 EROS & THANATOS
DARK KNIGHT III MASTER RACE #8 (OF 9)
DEADLY CLASS #27 (MR)
DEADPOOL AND MERCS FOR MONEY #9
DIVINITY III STALINVERSE #4
DOC SAVAGE RING OF FIRE #1 (OF 4)
DOCTOR WHO 11TH HC VOL 06 MALIGNANT TRUTH
DOCTOR WHO 9TH #11
DOOM PATROL DIRECTORS CUT #1 (MR)
DOOM PATROL TP BOOK 03 (MR)
ELFQUEST FINAL QUEST #19
EMILY AND THE STRANGERS HC VOL 03 ROAD TO NOWHERE TOUR
GALAXYS FOR HIRE #2 (OF 4)
GARTH ENNIS RED TEAM DOUBLE TAP #8 (OF 9) (MR)
GENERATION ZERO #8
GFT VAN HELSING VS THE MUMMY OF AMUN RA #3 (OF 5)
GHOST RIDER #5
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #238
GRAND PASSION #4 (OF 5) (MR)
GREEN LANTERN SPACE GHOST SPECIAL #1
HADRIANS WALL #5 (MR)
HARLEYS LITTLE BLACK BOOK #6
HAUNTED HORROR HC VOL 05 SCREAMING SKULLS

HEAVENLY NOSTRILS CHRONICLE GN VOL 05 UNICORN CROSSING | Preview
(W) Dana Simpson (A/CA) Dana Simpson
Time flies in this fifth volume of Phoebe and Her Unicorn! Follow the lovable duo as they experience somewhat-spooky Halloween parties, ecstatic snow days, and looming summer reading assignments. Although the journey of growing up can sometimes be difficult, along the way Phoebe and Marigold discover something more enduring than goblin fads, unicorn spa vacations, and even a Spell of Forgetting – their one-of-a-kind friendship.

HEAVY METAL #285 (MR)
HENCHGIRL TP
HILLBILLY TP VOL 01
ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #55
IMAGE PLUS #12 (WALKING DEAD HERES NEGAN PT 12)
INFAMOUS IRON MAN #6
INHUMANS PRIME #1
INSEXTS #10 (MR)
INVINCIBLE TP VOL 23
IRON FIST LIVING WEAPON TP COMPLETE COLLECTION
JAMES BOND HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6)
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS #24
JUGHEAD THE HUNGER ONE SHOT
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #3
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #3 (OF 12)
LADYCASTLE #2
LAZARUS #26 (MR)
LEGION OF REGRETTABLE SUPERVILLAINS HC
LOBSTER JOHNSON PIRATES GHOST #1
LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY GILBERT GN VOL 03 BEYOND PALOMAR
LUCKY LUKE TP VOL 62 CURSED RANCH
MARVEL PREVIEWS #21 APRIL 2017
MERCY SPARX YEAR ONE #2 (OF 3)
MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL #3
MOONSHINE #6 (MR)
NINJAK #25
OCCUPY AVENGERS #5
OLD GUARD #1 2ND Printing (MR)
OLD GUARD #2 (MR)
OLD MAN LOGAN #20
ORPHAN BLACK DEVIATIONS #1 (OF 6)

OTOMO GLOBAL TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS BEHIND AKIRA HC | Preview
With the manga and anime Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo changed art and pop culture worldwide. Now some of the most admired illustrators and comics artists in the world have come together to pay tribute to this master, in a beautiful tribute art book.This 168-page collection began life as a limited-edition tribute to Otomo given only to attendees of the prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival, where Otomo was recipient of the Grand Prize in 2015. Now it’s available to readers and collectors around the world, with additional content from a list of more than 80 fine artists, illustrators, and comics legends, including Stan Sakai, Jiro Taniguchi, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, and many others. In full color at a large size.

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #26 (MR)
PEANUTBUTTER & JEREMY BEST BOOK EVER TP (Offered Again)
PREVIEWS #343 APRIL 2017
REGGIE AND ME #4 (OF 5)
ROM #8
RUE MORGUE SPECIAL SHARKS
SAGA TP VOL 07 (MR)
SERENITY NO POWER IN THE VERSE #6 (OF 6)
SPACE RIDERS GALAXY OF BRUTALITY #1 (MR)
SPIDER-MAN MILES MORALES TP VOL 02
SPIDER-WOMAN #17
STAR WARS ROGUE ONE MISSION DEBRIEF MAGAZINE
STAR-LORD #5
SUICIDE SQUAD BANANA SPLITS SPECIAL #1
THANOS #5
THUNDERBOLTS #11
TITANS ANNUAL #1
TOPPS 2017 HERITAGE BASEBALL Trading Card BOX
TORCHWOOD TP VOL 01 WORLD WITHOUT END
UNFOLLOW #17 (MR)

VALERIAN GN VOL 14 LIVING WEAPONS | Preview
(W) Pierre Christen (A/CA) Jean-Claude Mezieres
Valerian and Laureline, no longer members of any organisation, are down to doing space deliveries. With Galaxity gone and money getting scarce, their aging spaceship is becoming a hazard, which is pushing Valerian into accepting questionable cargo. After a somewhat rough landing, our two exagents, on their way to deliver their goods, meet some individuals with very surprising gifts who claim to be itinerant artists. But is that really all they are?

VELVET DLX ED HC (MR)
VISITOR HOW AND WHY HE STAYED #2 (OF 5)
WEIRD LOVE #17
WHAT PARSIFAL SAW GN
X-FILES (2016) #12
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION TP SECOND GENESIS
X-MEN PRIME #1

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A Conversation with Joel Christian Gill & John Jennings

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A Conversation with Joel Christian Gill & John Jennings

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Monday, March 27, 2017

Location:
Main Library
449 Broadway
Lecture Hall
Cambridge

Join Joel Christian Gill & John Jennings for a conversation about identity politics, popular media and comics. Gill is the author and illustrator of Strange Fruit: Vol. 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History and the Chair of Foundations at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Jennings is the co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection Blacker Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art.

Cambridge Public Library Event Calendar entry

Will Eisner Week Comics Workshop for Kids & Teens

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On Saturday, March 11th the Million Year Picnic and the Boston Comics Roundtable are sponsoring a Will Eisner Week Comics Workshop for Kids and Teens!

What: Workshop on Making Comics for Kids & Teens
Where: Cambridge Public Library (main branch, 449 Broadway)
When: 3/11/2017, 1-3pm
How: FREE

Please pass the word to any of your friends with kids! This is a great event with lots of support from local comics creators with real world experience!

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 8 March 2017

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Shortages

DC COMICS DARK HORSE COMICS JUSTICE LEAGUE TP VOL 02
HELLINA SCYTHE #2 STUNNING CVR (MR)
MICRONAUTS #10
STAR TREK WAYPOINT #4 (OF 6)

Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 8 March 2017

ACTION COMICS #975
ADVENTURE TIME TP VOL 11
ALL NEW FATHOM #2
ALL NEW WOLVERINE #18
ASSASSINS CREED AWAKENING #5 (OF 6) (MR)
ASSASSINS CREED REFLECTIONS #1 (OF 4) (MR)
ASSASSINS CREED UPRISING #2 (MR)
ASTRO CITY #42
ASTRO CITY HONOR GUARD TP
ASTRO CITY REFLECTIONS HC
AVENGERS AND X-MEN TP AXIS
BACK ISSUE #95
BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #8
BLEACH GN VOL 69

CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI #1 | Preview

(W) Diego Olmos (A/CA) Diego Olmos
Based in the classic and revolutionary movie! The carnival has arrived to Holstenwall, and with it, the mysterious sideshow of the Doctor Caligari and the sleepwalker Cesare, who can foresee the future. And a shocking wave of murders terrify the city and will take young Frances to a spiral of death and madness.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN CASS ELLIOT BEFORE MAMAS & PAPAS HC
CANNIBAL TP VOL 01 (MR)
CAPTAIN AMERICA STEVE ROGERS #13
COPPERHEAD #11
D4VEOCRACY #2
DARK SOULS WINTERS SPITE #4 (OF 4) (MR)
DEATHSTROKE #14
DEATHSTROKE TP VOL 01 THE PROFESSIONAL (REBIRTH)
DETECTIVE COMICS #952
DIE KITTY DIE HC
DISCIPLES TP (CALIBER)
DISNEY DARKWING DUCK #8
DOCTOR STRANGE SORCERERS SUPREME #6
EARTH 2 SOCIETY #22
ELEPHANTMEN #75 (MR)
FLASH #18
GFT DAY OF THE DEAD #2 (OF 6)
GFT GRIMM TALES OF TERROR VOL 3 #2 (MR)
GIANT DAYS TP VOL 04
GIRRION #4
GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #7
GRANT MORRISONS 18 DAYS #21

GRASS KINGS #1 | Preview
(W) Matt Kindt (CA) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Tyler Jenkins

From The New York Times bestselling writer Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and Peter Panzerfaust artist Tyler Jenkins comes a rural mystery series chronicling the tragic lives of the Grass Kings, three brothers and rulers of a trailer park kingdom, a fiefdom of the hopeless and lost, of the desperate poor seeking a promised land.
Eldest brother Robert leads a grief-stricken life, having lost his daughter to a tragic accident, followed by his wife disappearing one morning never to return.
When an enigmatic young woman named Maria flees to their community in search of safe haven, Robert takes her in. Will his decision lead to ruin and retribution dooming the Kingdom?
Perfect for fans of True Detective Season One or Scalped.
NOTE: Oversized, prestige format first issue featuring 30 pages of story!

GREEN VALLEY #6 (OF 9)
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #1.MU
GWENPOOL #13
HAIKYU GN VOL 09
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #16
HARROW COUNTY #21
HATTER M LOOKING GLASS WARS TP VOL 06 CROSSFIRE
HELLBOY AND BPRD 1954 GHOST MOON #1
HELLCHILD THE UNHOLY #4
I THOUGHT YOU HATED ME GN (MR)
ICHI F WORKERS GRAPHIC MEMOIR OF FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT
INTERVIEWS WITH MONSTER GIRLS GN VOL 03
IVX #6 (OF 6)
JESSICA JONES #6
JIM HENSON STORYTELLER GIANTS #4
JOHN CARTER THE END #2
JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS #5
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #2
JUXTAPOZ #195 APR 2017
KIMI NI TODOKE GN VOL 26 FROM ME TO YOU
KINGPIN #2
LADY KILLER 2 #4
LOW #16 (MR)

MAN-THING #1 (OF 5) | Preview

(W) R. L. Stine (A) German Peralta, Daniel Johnson (CA) Tyler Crook
MARVEL WELCOMES R.L. STINE!
Beloved writer R.L. STINE (Goosebumps, Fear Street) brings his special brand of horror to MAN-THING!
After working for years, MAN-THING has regained his ability to speak and has taken Hollywood by storm…But when an ancient and mysterious danger threatens the swamp, Man-Thing is going to have to choose between his new life and celebrity, and the world he used to call home…
PLUS! A bone-chilling new horror story, written by the master himself, R.L. STINE, and illustrated by the incomparable Daniel Warren Johnson!
Parental Advisory

MANARA LIBRARY TP VOL 01 INDIAN SUMMER (MR)
MMW DAREDEVIL HC VOL 11 DM VAR ED 242
MOSAIC #6
MOTHER PANIC #4 (MR)
MOTOR CRUSH #4 (MR)
MY LITTLE PONY DEVIATIONS

NANCY DREW HARDY BOYS #1 | Preview
(W) Anthony Del Col (A) Werther Dell’Edera (CA) Fay Dalton
THE BIG LIE is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery unlike any other you’ve ever read…

When the teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy are accused of the murder of their father – a detective in the small resort town of Bayport – they must team up with the femme fatale Nancy Drew to prove their innocence (and find the real guilty party in the process) in a twisting, hard-boiled tale, complete with double-crosses, deceit and dames.

Inspired by new crime classics like Ed Brubaker’s Fatale and Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series, writer Anthony Del Col (Assassin’s Creed, Kill Shakespeare) and artist Werther Dell’Edera (Batman: Detective Comics, House of Mystery) bring the iconic teen detectives into the modern age, and redefine noir for a new generation of readers!

NEW MUTANTS EPIC COLLECTION TP RENEWAL
NEW SUPER MAN #9
NICHIJOU GN VOL 07
NISEKOI FALSE LOVE GN VOL 20
NOVA #4
OLD MAN LOGAN #19
ONE PUNCH MAN GN VOL 11
PLANETOID PRAXIS #2 (OF 6) (MR)
POPEYE CLASSICS ONGOING #56
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #14
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST TP VOL 02 CIVIL WAR II
RED DOG #3 (OF 6)
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #8

REDLINE #1 (MR) | Preview

(W) Neal Holman (A/CA) Clayton McCormack, Kelly Fitzpatrick
MARS. The near future-ish. A bomb takes out a city block on Harrison Station. The media rush to blame the local terrestrials (re:aliens,) however Superintendent Denton Coyle has a feeling that it may not be so simple… or maybe that feeling is Coyle’s hangover gut bomb. It’s unclear… like a 50/50 shot, it’s a mistake or explosive diarrhea. Maybe it’s both? In other words, it’s yet another Tuesday on Mars.

REGGIE AND ME #3 (OF 5)
RIVERS OF LONDON BLACK MOULD #5 (OF 5)
ROM #7
RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE #175
SCOOBY APOCALYPSE #11
SECRET CODERS GN VOL 03 SECRETS & SEQUENCES
SHADOWS ON THE GRAVE #3
SILVER SURFER #9 NOW
SIZZLE #72 (A)
SKIP BEAT GN VOL 38

SKYDOLL SUDRA #1 (OF 2) | Preview

(W) Alessandro Barbucci, Barbara Canepa (CA) Barbara Canepa (A/CA) Alessandro Barbucci
Noa and her band of followers have settled on the beautiful planet of peace, Sudra, where religions and people co-exist in harmony. As Noa secretly plays at being a priestess, she begins to learn things about Sudra that suggest all is not as it seems…

SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #15
STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #5
SUICIDE SQUAD #13
SUPERGIRL #7
SUPERWOMAN #8
TITANS #9
TOPPS 2017 HERITAGE BASEBALL Trading Cards BOX
TORCHWOOD 2 #2
UBER INVASION #4 (MR)
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #18
WACKY RACELAND TP
WICKED & DIVINE #27 (MR)
WONDER WOMAN #18

Jules Feiffer at BU

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Portrait of an Artist: The Life and Work of Edward Sorel
Sunday, March 19
3:00 pm
BU at 771 Commonwealth Avenue, Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery, 1st Floor, Boston
FREE
Speaker: Jules Feiffer

The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University is proud to open “Portrait of an Artist: the Life and Work of Edward Sorel”, a retrospective exhibition devoted to the career of the celebrated cartoonist, satirist, author and illustrator. In addition to his more than 40 covers for the “The New Yorker”, Sorel’s art has appeared on the covers of “The Atlantic”, “Harper’s”, “Fortune”, “Forbes”, “The Nation”, “Esquire”, “American Heritage”, “The New York Times Magazine” and “Vanity Fair”. He has illustrated numerous children’s books, three of which he also wrote. “Unauthorized Portraits” (Knopf 1997) is the most recent of several collections of his work. His latest book, “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: the Great American Sex Scandal of 1936”, was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. In 2001, the Art Directors Club of New York elected Sorel to their Hall of Fame; he is first cartoonist since John Held, Jr., to be so honored. Sorel’s papers are part of the holdings of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

The opening will feature remarks by Sorel’s colleague, the satirist, cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer, best known for his 42-year career as an editorial cartoonist for The Village Voice. Sorel will sign copies of his books at the event; selected titles, including “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary”, will be available for purchase.