Previews Wishlist Αύγουστος 2012

Δεν μπορώ να πώ ότι με ενθουσιάστηκα από τις προσφορές του συγκεκριμένου καταλόγου, ωστόσο ορισμένα πράγματα (όπως το box set της Nausicaa) μου τράβηξαν αμέσως την προσοχή.



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EERIE PRESENTS EL CID HC

Budd Lewis (story)
Gonzalo Mayo (art), Sanjulian (cover art)
Black and white, 96 pages, Hardcover, $15.99
Publisher: Dark Horse
Σελίδα στο Previews: 37

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—also known to historians as El Cid—was an eleventh century Spanish military commander who led both Christians and Moors into battle. In the pages of Eerie magazine, however, writer Budd Lewis and artist Gonzalo Mayo transform El Cid into a larger-than-life fantasy warrior, battling dragons, trolls, and sirens for his life—and demons for his soul! This deluxe hardcover collects every El Cid adventure that ran in Warren Publishing’s Eerie magazine in the mid-1970s, featuring the elaborately detailed artwork of Mayo, plus Eerie’s original historical background feature.

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MULTIPLE WARHEADS:
ALPHABET TO INFINITY #1 (OF 4)

Brandon Graham (story/art)
Full color, 48 pages, $3.99
Publisher: Image
Σελίδα στο Previews: 190

Sexica and her Werewolf boyfriend Nikoli travel across a sci-fi, fantasy Russia smoking singing cigarettes.
Meanwhile the organ hunter Nura is sent out with a severed head and instructions to find its body.

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CEREBUS - HIGH SOCIETY
30TH ANNIVERSARY GOLD EDITION

Dave Sim (story/art)
Black and white, Softcover, 500 pages, $30.00
Publisher: Aardvark Vanaheim
Σελίδα στο Previews: 234

A Previews Exclusive!
Hard to believe that it's the 30th anniversary of the serialization of High Society in the pages of Cerebus (#26 to 50). Even harder to believe that there's never been a signed-and-numbered edition of Comics' first 500-page graphic novel! Well, now there is!
The edition will be limited to number of orders received before PREVIEWS' order deadline. All this and a snazzy gold logo!

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MOOMIN'S WINTER FOLLIES
και
MOOMINVALLEY TURNS JUNGLE

Tove Jansson (story/art)
Full color, 48 pages, $9.95
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Σελίδα στο Previews: 303

Due to the resounding success of the hardcover Moomin comics by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, D+Q is reissuing this classic comic in an all-new format. Available in an affordable kid-proof but kid-friendly flexicover, and in full color for the first time, these books are slimmer versions of the hardcovers, with one story in each volume while previous editions collected four.

Moomin wakes up one morning to find the pond frozen over, and rather than hibernate, the family decides to brave the winter weather. At first, their wintry adventure seems to be going swimmingly, until Mr. Brisk of the Great Outdoors Club takes over and forces everyone to embrace the winter sports, whether they want to or not.

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WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE VOL.4
"HOUSE OF THE SEVEN HAUNTS"

Floyd Gottfredson (story/art)
Black and white, Hardcover, 280 pages, $29.99
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Σελίδα στο Previews: 313

In this volume, Mickey Mouse and the gang ghost-bust and discover an island in the sky.
Who says dead men tell no tales? When grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize, they’ll find fearless Mickey all ready to rumble — as soon as he’s done fighting gangsters, bandits, and international men of mystery, that is! From Africa to Eastern Europe, our favorite big cheese is in for terrifying thrills — and he’s bringing Goofy, Donald Duck, and that big palooka Pegleg Pete along for the ride! When Mickey sets out to eject “The Seven Ghosts” from Bassett Manor, he finds more than just specters providing the scares! Next, moving smoothly from horror to science fiction, our hero discovers an awesome “Island in the Sky”— and meets its maker, the powerful atomic scientist Dr. Einmug! Lovingly restored from Disney’s original negatives and proof sheets, House of the Seven Haunts! also includes more than 50 pages of spooky supplementary features!

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THE LITTLE PRINCE

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (story)
Joann Sfar (story/art)
Full color, Softcover, 112 pages, $19.99
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Σελίδα στο Previews: 316

Adapting a classic tale, especially one in which the original illustrations are such a key part of the story and its lasting appeal, might seem an iffy prospect, but it is hard to imagine a better candidate to pull it off than Sfar and his widely admired comics sensibility. On the surface, this is a straight graphic-novel retelling of the narrator pilot getting stranded in the desert, where he meets a curious little boy who claims to be from a wee planet very far away. Their conversations and interactions—delicately touching on the nature of love and friendship, deviously exploring the absurdity of grown-up pursuits and the fleeting qualities of beauty—capture the whimsy that makes the story’s gravity so strong, and the innocence that cuts the world-weary adultness to the bone. The ultimately tricky task is to honor the source but not sound like an adaptation (otherwise, why not just read the original?), and Sfar nails it on both counts. From the vain rose and towering baobabs on the boy’s planet to the pilot’s drawings of an elephant swallowed by a boa constrictor and a sheep in a box, everything is handled with both reverence and ingenuity.

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THE HIVE

Charles Burns (story/art)
Full color, Hardcover, 56 pages, $21.95
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Σελίδα στο Previews: 332

Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing ex-boyfriend.
Doug warily seeks answers in a nightmarish alternate world that is a distorted mirror of our own, where he is a lowly employee that carts supplies around the Hive.
The second part of Charles Burns's riveting trilogy, this graphic narrative will delight and surpass the expectations of his fans.

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NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
Deluxe Box Set

Hayao Miyazaki (story/art)
Part color, 2 Deluxe Hardcovers, 1104 pages, $60.00
Publisher: VIZ Media
Σελίδα στο Previews: 361

In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens, a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes, and home to Nausicaa.

Box Set Includes: The complete Nausicaa series by Hayao Miyazaki in 2 deluxe hardcovers. Gorgeous sepia-tone pages. 8 color pages per volume and an exclusive 2-sided fold-out full-color poster.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle.

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Και ως συνήθως, μερικά εξώφυλλα που μου τράβηξαν την προσοχή, αλλά δεν έχω να πώ κάτι για το περιεχόμενο (επειδή είτε δεν το γνωρίζω, είτε δε μου αρέσει, είτε είναι ήδη αρκετά γνωστό και δε χρειάζονται περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες):

BATMAN AND ROBIN #13, PATRICK GLEASON and MICK GRAY, DC Comics, page 99
FABLES #122, JOAO RUAS, DC/Vertigo, page 138
GHOSTS #1, DAVE JOHNSON, DC/Vertigo, page 139

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Για όσους δεν το γνωρίζουν ήδη, η Diamond Comic Distributors είναι ο μεγαλύτερος προμηθευτής (χονδρέμπορας) των εξειδικευμένων καταστημάτων με κόμικς στα αγγλικά. Μέσα από τον κατάλογο Previews της εν λόγω εταιρείας, τα καταστήματα λιανικής έχουν τη δυνατότητα να προπαραγγείλουν προιόντα που θα κυκλοφορήσουν στην αγορά δύο μήνες αργότερα (σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις μπορεί και παραπάνω). Ο κατάλογος έχει συνήθως γύρω στις 400 σελίδες και συνοδεύεται από έναν δεύτερο κατάλογο 100 σελίδων αποκλειστικά για τα προϊόντα της Marvel Comics.

Οποιοδήποτε ελληνικό κατάστημα με κόμικς κι αν επισκεφθείτε (δείτε τη λίστα στα δεξιά), θα μπορέσετε είτε να αγοράσετε το συγκεκριμένο κατάλογο (5 ευρώ περίπου) είτε να τον ξεφυλλίσετε στο κατάστημα, και αν βρείτε κάτι που σας ενδιαφέρει να το παραγγείλετε.

Εάν δεν θέλετε να αγοράσετε τον κατάλογο μπορείτε να επισκεφτείτε το comicbreak.com και να τον κατεβάσετε σε μορφή PDF! Αν και νομίζω ότι είναι "πειρατικό" σκανάρισμα, δεν θεωρώ επιλήψιμη πράξη το "κατέβασμά" του, καθώς σε τελική ανάλυση τα χρήματά σας θα στηρίξουν τόσο τους καλλιτέχνες όσο και τις εκδοτικές εταιρείες εφόσον αγοράζετε τα κόμικς τους...