First Off

Here's the titles and Diamond codes for the books I'm looking forward to this week:

APR060057V OLD BOY VOL 1 TP (C: 1-1-2) $12.95 DAR
Love the movie, haven't read the fanscans of this yet.  Looks good, though.

MAR060384D FABLES VOL 7 ARABIAN NIGHTS AND DAYS TP (MR) $14.99 DC
Woohoo! A storyline I haven't already read...  This book keeps getting better, for me anyway.  I hope the trend continues.

APR060282D TOP 10 BEYOND THE FARTHEST PRECINCT TP $14.99 DC
Hooray for more Top 10.

MAY062007D UNCANNY X-MEN #475 $2.99 MAR
Ed Brubaker starts his run on Uncanny.  I'm thinking yes.  Could be great...

APR063443E RUROUNI KENSHIN VOL 28 TP (C: 1-0-0) $7.95 VIZ
Woot, the last volume of Kenshin!  I'll be happy to have this series complete...  So, so great.

APR063014H FLIGHT VOL 3 GN (C: 0-1-2) $24.95 RAN
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY BRILLIANT!  I lurve Flight 1, Flight 2 was even better (and bigger!), so I hope Flight 3 will be simply amazing.  The first two were everything an anthology should be.

MAY063379F JAMES BOND MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN SC (NOV035064) (C: 0-1-2) $16.95 DIA
MAY063380F JAMES BOND SPY WHO LOVED ME TP (C: 0-1-2) $17.95 DIA
I know nothing about these, but they might be worth a look...

MAY062758F LICENSABLE BEAR #3 $3.50 ABO
Hooray for Licensable Bear!  We should all be wearing Licensable Bear merch.  Somewhoreone should license some, or something.

DEC053005F MONOLOGUES FOR THE COMING PLAGUE SC $18.95 FAN
This has me almost by title alone...  a quick google gets...  "Monologues for the Coming Plague is the longest and most ambitious work to date by Anders Nilsen...Taking a cue from the school of Automatic Writing, an aesthetic mode championed by Andre Breton at the beginning of the 19th century that became the foundation of the Surrealist Movement, Nilsen began work on Monologues for the Coming Plague. The process is born out of a stream of consciousness followed by limited editing and rearranging. The book ranges playfully from riffs on the gag cartoon to paranoid soliloquies of a surrealistic apocalypse, with references to contemporary politics, pop culture, and religion, plays on language, and sequential abstractions."  [from http://www.fantagraphics.com/recent/bks.html]
Looks like a lot of fun.

MAR063212F THEY FOUND THE CAR $7.95 FAN
Mmm.. more Fantagraphics goodness, this time from Gipi.  "a late-night telephone call about a mysterious car which went missing seven years ago and has now been recovered causes a chain reaction of violence." [from Last Gasp]


I'll try to chime in with notes on any or all of this that I get to pick up, later on.

--Ian