September Solicitations Are Out (July Previews) | What Looks Good?

bralinator

Local comic shoppers, tighten up your pull-lists. Early birds, prepare to place your pre-orders here: DCBService.com. Online orders for July should begin around 7/5/16. That's about two weeks, so plenty of time to mull over your selections.

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Check out the following links:

+ 451 Media Group
+ AC Comics
+ Aftershock Comics
+ American Gothic Press
+ American Mythology
+ Archie Comics
+ Aspen Comics
+ Avatar Press
+ Bongo Comics
+ BOOM! Studios
+ Chapterhouse Comics
+ Dark Horse Comics
+ DC Comics
+ Devil's Due/1First Comics
+ Dynamite Entertainment
+ IDW
+ Image Comics
+ Marvel Comics
+ Moonstone Comics
+ Oni Press
+ SpaceGoat Productions
+ Storm King Productions
+ Titan Comics
+ Valiant Comics
+ Z2 Comics

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I get most of these solicits from FirstComicsNews.com, ComicBookResources.com, ComicList.com or ComicsContinuum.com

So what's going in your shopping cart?




P.S. Final day to edit your June DCBS order is tonight at midnight (6/22/16)

bralinator

nweathington

A few standouts and trades I'll be getting or at least will think about getting.

Josie and the Pussycats #1 — I’m not as excited about this one as I was Archie or Jughead, but the art looks nice.
Adventure Time vol. 10 TP
Doom Patrol #1 — I liked Umbrella Academy well enough, so I'll give this a shot.
Gotham Academy: Second Semester #1
Everafter: From the Pages of Fables #1 — Not a big fan of Sturges’ writing, and not sure I need Fables work not written by Willingham, but I might try the first issue.
The Art of Atari HC — Not sure if I'll pull the trigger on this one, but the Atari box art was really cool—much better than the games themselves, unfortunately.
East of West vol. 6 TP

CaptShazam

For Sure:

Flash by Geoff Johns vol 3
Man of Steel vol 9
Supergirl by Peter David vol 1
The Firefly tv show coloring book

Maybes:

Batman Elseworlds vol 2
Absolute Infinite Crisis hardcover.
There is almost always some book or toy that gets added right when I place my order.

The No's:

No Marvel, Image, or IDW this month.

After my next DCBS shipment and this order is placed, I will have less pending stuff on order than I have had since the end of 2012. It will continue to shrink for at least the next month or two.

Just not a lot of new stuff that I am interested in.

bralinator

At this point (and subject to change)

I am interested in the following:

Aftershock
The Alters #1

Archie Comics
Josie & the Pussycats #1
The Best of Archie Comics Vol. 1

BOOM! Studios
Skybourne #1 (all-new Frank Cho series)
Klaus HC

Aardvark-Vanaheim
Cerebus In Hell #0

Dark Horse
Ranx HC
Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1

DC Comics
Blue Beetle #1
Wonder Woman ’77 Special #4
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #18

IDW
Jingle Belle: The Whole Package by Paul Dini
Jack Kirby: Pencils & Inks Oversized pencil & ink comparisons of The Demon #1, Kamandi #1 and Omac #1

Valiant
Britannia #1

Again, nothing from Marvel or Image...

...but this pair of Frank Thorne's Red Sonja emblazoned pint glasses from Dynamite are tempting...

nweathington

bralinator said:

Jack Kirby: Pencils & Inks Oversized pencil & ink copraisons of The Demon #1, Kamandi #1 and Omac #1

I'll be interested to see how much—if any—touchup work they do to the pencils. Some of those photocopies were pretty rough when I scanned them 15 years ago. I know they’ve been rescanned at a higher res than what I scanned them at—storage space was an issue back in the early 2000s—but they’re practically impossible to restore completely.

bralinator

nweathington said:

bralinator said:

Jack Kirby: Pencils & Inks Oversized pencil & ink comparisons of The Demon #1, Kamandi #1 and Omac #1

I'll be interested to see how much—if any—touchup work they do to the pencils. Some of those photocopies were pretty rough when I scanned them 15 years ago. I know they’ve been rescanned at a higher res than what I scanned them at—storage space was an issue back in the early 2000s—but they’re practically impossible to restore completely.

Can you define "pretty rough" please? Did you scan the pencil pages or the inked pages or both? And would you have a problem with any level of touch-up work to the photocopies?

nweathington

bralinator said:

Can you define "pretty rough" please? Did you scan the pencil pages or the inked pages or both? And would you have a problem with any level of touch-up work to the photocopies?

Most of the photocopies Jack made were printed on thermal paper, which does not age well. The ink fades over time, sometimes unevenly. They also can become rather blotchy—almost like static on a TV screen in places, usually along the edge of a page but sometimes much more than that—and it can obscure the linework. I don’t remember how bad off those particular issues were, but odds are some of the pages don’t look very clean.

I never scanned original pages of the Kirby art, but for a few books we’d have photocopies of the pencils and the inks, and for those I would also scan the inks. And sometimes for the older Marvel stuff, we'd have photostats of the inks the office sent to Kirby for reference. Those were on a much nicer paper, and were always very clean, but they were almost always printed smaller than actual print size.

We do some touch-up work for the Kirby Collector—mainly adjusting levels in Photoshop to make the faded pages darker and look more like pencil marks, not so much cleaning up the blotches. With some of those blotches, it’s almost impossible to discern the line art from the blotches, so clean-up becomes guess work. In those cases, I think it’s best just to leave it as is, lest you erase something you shouldn’t.

bralinator

I wonder if IDW is going to be using the original pages for the three comics they're showcasing or if they've gotten photocopies or a combination of both? They may even have only gotten high-rez scans to work with. I'm curious about the process.

Torchsong

The only two definite pickups are Peter David's Supergirl TP Vol. 1 and the third Elfquest Omnibus (Dark Horse).

I really need a cheap month! :)

nweathington

bralinator said:

I wonder if IDW is going to be using the original pages for the three comics they're showcasing or if they've gotten photocopies or a combination of both? They may even have only gotten high-rez scans to work with. I'm curious about the process.

I’d be very surprised if they didn’t track down all the original art.

Mr_Cosmic

nweathington said:

East of West vol. 6 TP

Yup, me too. It's sad when East of West trades come out more often than his other "monthly" books.

SolitaireRose

bralinator said:

I wonder if IDW is going to be using the original pages for the three comics they're showcasing or if they've gotten photocopies or a combination of both? They may even have only gotten high-rez scans to work with. I'm curious about the process.

If they are comparing pencils and inks, it'll be from Kirby's original photocopies of his pencils and then the original art that was inked. It will be very interesting, however, not as cool as the pre-DC work would be, since Kirby told Royer not to add or remove anything, since he was aware that Colletta would erase things he didn't want to draw/

Seeing the pencils for his work before Sinnott inked his work is incredibly enlightening.

bralinator

SolitaireRose said:

bralinator said:

I wonder if IDW is going to be using the original pages for the three comics they're showcasing or if they've gotten photocopies or a combination of both? They may even have only gotten high-rez scans to work with. I'm curious about the process.

If they are comparing pencils and inks, it'll be from Kirby's original photocopies of his pencils and then the original art that was inked. It will be very interesting, however, not as cool as the pre-DC work would be, since Kirby told Royer not to add or remove anything, since he was aware that Colletta would erase things he didn't want to draw/

Seeing the pencils for his work before Sinnott inked his work is incredibly enlightening.

I concur. My preference would be to see this done with some key Fantastic Four books.

nweathington

bralinator said:

SolitaireRose said:

bralinator said:

I wonder if IDW is going to be using the original pages for the three comics they're showcasing or if they've gotten photocopies or a combination of both? They may even have only gotten high-rez scans to work with. I'm curious about the process.

If they are comparing pencils and inks, it'll be from Kirby's original photocopies of his pencils and then the original art that was inked. It will be very interesting, however, not as cool as the pre-DC work would be, since Kirby told Royer not to add or remove anything, since he was aware that Colletta would erase things he didn't want to draw/

Seeing the pencils for his work before Sinnott inked his work is incredibly enlightening.

I concur. My preference would be to see this done with some key Fantastic Four books.

The problem is that Kirby didn’t get a Xerox photocopier until the early ’70s. Marvel got an in-house photostat machine around 1966, ’67, but I don’t know if it was just before or just after the Galactus saga. Regardless, from what I understand it was a relatively difficult and time-consuming process to use, so they didn’t often make photostats of pencil pages.

bralinator

This website has the Previews catalogue in a digital PDF format for those that want to browse the catalogue online before picking up a paper copy.

http://www.alternateworlds.com.au/preorder-catalogues

bralinator

DCBService.com has updated their site with the new products for July.

https://www.dcbservice.com/

Torchsong

The order as it stands right now:

DC Goodness
Wonder Woman 77 Special #4
Supergirl TP Book 01 (Res) - Woohoo! The Peter David run! Take it all the way through, DC!
Supergirl #1 Blank Var Ed
Supergirl #1 *Special Discount*

Manga Goodness
Space Dandy GN Vol 02
Nisekoi False Love GN Vol 17
Nichijou GN Vol 04
Megatokyo Omnibus TP Vol 02 - Yeah, I know. Fred's an American so it's not technically a "manga" but close enough for me.
Master Keaton GN Vol 08
Land Rising Dead Tokyo School Girl Surviving Zombie (MR) - If I'm reading this right it functions as a technical manual for a schoolgirl to get out of a zombie apocalypse. I might need this down the road. I dunno. :)

Elven Goodness
Complete Elfquest TP Vol 03 (Res)

Day in Court Goodness
Alters #1 (MR) - I like the concept, and I've enjoyed a number of titles from Aftershock.
Josie & The Pussycats #1
Doom Patrol #1 (MR)
Skybourne #1 *Special Discount*

Guilty Pleasure Goodness
Jungle Fantasy Ivory #2

bralinator

Don't miss the Halloween Comic Fest selections available for pre-order this month on DCBS>

nweathington

bralinator said:

Don't miss the Halloween Comic Fest selections available for pre-order this month on DCBS>

A Squirrel Girl choose-your-own-adventure comic? How can you pass that up?

Also, if you haven’t tried Harrow County, this is a cheap way to do so.

bralinator

Agreed, on both counts. And at that price, buy several and give out to trick or treaters!

mwhitt80

I've finally gotten a chance to start looking over the dcbs spreadsheet.

Darkhorse
Elf Quest volume 3
I think I'm going to read Kingsway West digitally.

DC
Nope I forgot I'm getting the Hannah Barbera comics bundle from dcbs.

Marvel
I get 2 of my 3 books from Marvel digitally. Powerman & Ironfist
Black Panther
Total Awesome Hulk (floppy)

I recently dropped Daredevil. I have ordered DD every month since Ed Brubaker started writing; I've gone back and found every issue since the Kevin Smith relaunch. I'm not sure why now, but I'm done.

IDW
Nothing

Image
Here is a plug I always give, try Wayward I like reading it digitally (the back matter is great) but the trades are being solicited again. Also if you sword and sorcerery try Skullkickers; both are great books.

Hawaiian Dick vol 4

Other
Cerebus in Hell #0
KoDT #235 the March to #250 continues.
Space Dandy vol 2