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Market Monday: March 20, 2013

Featured Book of the Week:

When David Lost His Voice HC by Judith Vanistendael

David has terminal cancer. His wife becomes progressively consumed by the looming shadow of death while his daughters struggle to be as helpful as possible. Meanwhile, David soldiers on, not wanting the tumor to rob him of everything, including the chance to see his granddaughter grow up. Vanistendael’s extraordinary art and sensitive text provide a powerful portrayal of a family preparing for life after unimaginable loss.

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Firsts this Week:

Christy Marx’s first issue!

Birds of Prey #18, written by Christy Marx, cover by Emanuela Lupacchino

Mr. Freeze is out of Arkham Asylum and looking for revenge on the Court of Owls! His first target? The newest member of the Birds team, Strix! And if that wasn’t enough trouble for the girls, this issue introduces The Daughters of the Dawn who are abducting people with super powers…starting with a certain prisoner at Belle Reve!

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First of a new series!

Star Wars: Legacy II - Prisoner of the Floating World #1, co-written by Corinna Bechko, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg

Despite her famous heritage, Ania Solo is just a girl trying to make her way in a galaxy gone bad. But it all gets worse when she comes into possession of a lightsaber and an Imperial communications droid - and discovers she has been targeted for death!

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Collection of the Week:

Doctor Who: The Forgotten HC, art by Pia Guerra

DOCTOR WHO: THE FORGOTTEN presented in an oversized hard cover collection! Stranded in a strange museum that’s dedicated to him, and with The TARDIS lost, The Doctor and Martha Jones must make sense of their surroundings, hindered by one small fact-The Doctor has lost the memories of every one of his previous incarnations! With items relevant to each Doctor in their possession, The Doctor and Martha must try to use them to regain total recall before it’s too late.

More of this week’s releases under the cut!

03/18/13

Market Monday

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #6, co-written by Corinna Bechko

Eight years before Astronaut George Taylor fell from the stars…the stars fell on the PLANET OF THE APES! As Ape City struggles to build itself back together, tensions between the ape races are reaching a boiling point as aid quickly runs out. Zira and Lucius struggle to find help before chaos descends, once again, on the planet of the apes!

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02/4/13

Market Monday

Dark Horse Presents #20, includes writing by Corinna Bechko and Caitlín R. Kiernan

Michael Avon Oeming’s twisted antiheroes head to the pages of DHP, as a three-issue arc of The Victories begins! Also in this issue, get shanghaied by the premiere of Geoffrey Thorne and Todd Harris’s Journeymen! Plus, the exciting conclusions of Resident Alien, Captain Midnight, Gamma, and White Suits, and all-new X! Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Alabaster and Michael Avon Oeming’s The Victories continue!

01/21/13

Market Monday

Dark Horse Presents #19, includes writing by Corinna Bechko and Caitlín R. Kiernan

Get a taste of Matt Kindt’s critically acclaimed series MIND MGMT, and see San Francisco under assault by giant monsters in Gabriel Hardman and Corrina Bechko’s Station to Station! Return of X by Duane Swierezynski (Birds of Prey, Bloodshot) and Eric Nguyen.

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12/17/12

Market Monday

Exile on Planet of the Apes TP, co-written by Corinna Bechko

Ape society is evolving, yet not all primates are considered equal. Humans alone lack the power of speech. Two years ago, Dr. Zaius banished all humans from Ape City, launching a campaign of eradication. But one among them was taught to communicate with his hands. Now the human rebellion has begun. They don’t need to speak to find their voice… Collecting the critically acclaimed series, find out what happens 18 years before the arrival of Colonel George Taylor from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes movie! Written by fan-favorites Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman and drawn by red hot artist Marc Laming (The Rinse).

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12/10/12

Market Monday

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #4, co-written by Corinna Bechko

With nowhere left to turn, Zaius must trust the one ape that has the most to hide… As Ape City continue to burn, will Zaius be reunited with his family before the final calamity arrives?

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12/3/12

Market Tuesday

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #3, co-written by Corinna Bechko

Running out of options, Cornelius, Prisca and the others try to find shelter before the fragments of the moon set off an even greater calamity: the destruction of the dam, and the only thing keeping Ape City away from the devastating waters…

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11/6/12

Market Monday

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #2, co-written by Corinna Bechko

Eight years before Astronaut George Taylor fell from the stars…the stars fell on the PLANET OF THE APES! As fragments of the planetary body that once was Earth’s moon begin to fall on Ape City, Doctor Zaius must find a way to bring the survivors together, before panic and fear plunges them all into chaos!

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10/1/12

Market Monday

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #1, co-written by Corinna Bechko

BRAND-NEW SERIES! GREAT JUMPING-ON POINT FOR NEW READERS! Acclaimed writers Corinna Bechko (HEATHENTOWN, FEAR ITSELF: THE HOME FRONT) and Gabriel Hardman (HULK, AGENTS OF ATLAS) start a new chapter of the PLANET OF THE APES saga, launching the fan-favorite franchise into its most exciting era yet! Eight years before astronaut George Taylor fell from the stars…the stars fell on the PLANET OF THE APES! Once the destroyer of human civilization, the Alpha-Omega bomb of yore has slept silent in the dark side of the moon. One mad monk seeks to wake the beast…and all of ape society is at risk. It’s a race against time as Doctor Zaius struggles to find an end to the madness that has engulfed all that he knows! Don’t forget to ask your retailer about the rare Alex Ross Black and White CGC 9.8 Near Mint variant!

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09/3/12

Market Monday

Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes TP, co-written by Corinna Bechko

The universally acclaimed miniseries from Corinna Bechko (FEAR ITSELF: THE HOME FRONT, HEATHENTOWN) and Gabriel Hardman (HULK, AGENTS OF ATLAS) is finally collected in trade with an introduction by Ed Brubaker! Taking place twenty years before the events of the landmark 1968 PLANET OF THE APES film, find out what happens when the Lawgiver’s most sacred commandment - Ape Does Not Kill Ape - is broken…

08/13/12

Market Monday

Planet Of The Apes Annual #1, co-written by Corinna Bechko

The PLANET OF THE APES ANNUAL leaves no stone unturned! Join superstar writer Jeff Parker (HULK, THUNDERBOLTS), acclaimed writer/artist Gabriel Hardman (HULK, AGENTS OF ATLAS), red hot writer Corinna Bechko (HEATHENTOWN, FEAR ITSELF: THE HOMEFRONT), and Apes mega-scribe Daryl Gregory as they pit man versus ape. And with art from Gabriel Hardman, Carlos Magno (TRANSFORMERS), and John Lucas (UNCANNY X-FORCE), this is a special issue you won’t want to miss. Discover the untold stories of the PLANET OF THE APES, with stories spanning from the first human rebellion, to Ape society’s glorious renaissance, to a simple story of a boy and his pet human. There’s something for every Apes fan in this Annual!

07/30/12

Market Monday

Exile on the Planet of the Apes #4, co-written by Corinna Bechko

Final Issue! With the full force of the ape army at their backs, Prisca and Tern must find a way to sway Aleron from the madness he has planned, for the Forbidden Zone, for ape and humanity combined. The epic from Gabriel Hardman (Hulk, Agents of Atlas), Corinna Bechko (Heathentown, Fear Itself: The Home Front) and red hot artist Marc Laming (American Century, The Rinse) reaches its jaw-dropping conclusion!

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07/23/12

Market Monday

Exile On The Planet Of The Apes #2, co-written by Corinna Bechko

In the clutches of feral humans, Timon the chimp must survive the terrors of the Forbidden Zone, while Prisca tries to seek help from the one ape that can uncover the secret behind the recent human attacks on apes! The epic from Gabriel Hardman (Hulk), Corinna Bechko (Fear Itself: The Home Front) and red hot artist Marc Laming (The Rinse) continues in this jaw-dropping issue!

04/23/12

Reviewsy Bits

I’m going back through links that I’ve saved since January, so some of these may be a blast from the past, but hopefully most of them are exposing you to a comic you missed!

The Beat has an advanced review of Saga #1
Zoe/Wolverina reviews Womanthology on her podcast “How I Got My Boyfriend To Read Comics”!
The Outhousers, BleedingCool, Kelly Thompson and Blog@Newsarama on Grace Randolph’s Supurbia #1
Arthur and Posy, and indie comic from the UK, written by Ella Risbridger, earned this praise from Forbidden Planet:
I’ve got to say, I was pretty much sold on it from the start. There’s a sweetness here, a delightful innocence about the pair. It’s got the feel of a somewhat off-kilter children’s book. Albeit a children’s book that looks like it’s going to be messing around with all sorts of gender roles and religious prejudices. And I’m intrigued and involved with the characters after just this short first issue to want to know much more.
Forbidden Planet has also looked at Karrie Fransman’s ambitious The House that Groaned, Magda Boreysza’s “dreamlike and beautiful” Toasty Cats #6, Jenika Ioffreda’s quirky gothic love story Vampire Free Style #6, Maura McHugh’s Róisín Dubh #2 (with “Celtic zombie-slaying action”), and Leeann Hamiliton’s “remarkably clever” Irish myth-inspired Finn & Fish.
Jamaica Dyer guest-posted on Robot 6, and she had this to say about the first Conan the Barbarian issue from Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan:
I picked up the first issue of the new Conan the Barbarian, and I’m kind of bummed out by how cool it is. Becky Cloonan’s art is amazing, Brian Wood’s writing is compelling, and not only is Conan pretty fun to look at, but the Queen is dead-hot. The fantasy sequences are really well-done, though the action sequences are a little hard to follow. Why am I bummed out by it? Because I was dreaming of doing an indie adaptation of Conan, and it appears that the king and queen of indie comics just took up the mantle. You know what they say, “Conan, what is best in life? …”
J. Caleb Mozzocco found Nancy Goldstein’s Jackie Ormes biography excellent despite its limitations due to lack of primary sources
Johanna Draper Carlson recommends Faith Erin Hicks’s Friends with Boys.
Pink Raygun’s Lisa “Alpha-Girl” Fary has some thought-provoking criticism of Phil and Kaja Foglio’s Girl Genius Omnibus vol. 1
iFanboy says that Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman’s Heathentown is “undead horror born again on the bayou, perfect for anybody looking for the modern response to Creepy and other classic black & white tales of terror.”
Spandexless says of John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s Dawn of the Jedi #1, ”For a first issue, it’s a well done beginning to a new chapter in the Star Wars saga, and though it has many elements that have been done before, when has that ever stopped anyone from enjoying more Star Wars?”
And Greg Burgas of “Comics Should Be Good” takes a look at Mary and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of her Father’s Eyes.

03/12/12

Market Monday

Exile On The Planet Of The Apes #1 co-written by Corinna Sara Bechko

From the team that brought you Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes comes an all new Apes saga! Gabriel Hardman (Hulk, Agents of Atlas) and Corinna Bechko (Heathentown, Fear Itself: The Home Front) team up with red hot artist Marc Laming (American Century, The Rinse) to take the fan-favorite franchise to all new heights in this new can’t-miss mini-series. With ape society gripped in uncertainty, Doctor Zaius must find a way to unite the warring factions before they rip the city apart. It’s up to one lowly chimp to seek out the famed, disgraced General Aleron deep in the heart of the Forbidden Zone, with a secret that might help - or destroy!

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03/12/12

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