FREE! Take One! Volume 13 #5 “News, reviews and opinions from the world of comics” September 2009 Indie Crossover! Strange Tales #1 first issue. Expect work doing it now, but The DC did it a few years from Kikuo Johnson, Simpsons do it every back with Bizarro Tony Millionaire, Paul year! The annual Tree- Comics – take all the Hornschemeier, Becky house of Horror comic crazy cutting-edge Cloonan and Stan Sakai has featured a plethora of comic book creators as well. 48 pages in indie comics luminaries out there and let them each issue. Dig in, true in the past, ranging from make their own stories believer! Gilbert Hernandez to with your characters. Peter Kuper, but this Now Marvel is doing a year’s version prom- 3 issue series with the ises to be one of the best same insanity, allowing ever. Edited by Sammy some great cartoonists Harkham (Crickets), to “re-imagine” some of Treehouse ’09 is like Marvel’s top characters. Kramer’s Ergot with Moe in it! Kevin Huiz- Peter Bagge will be enga (Ganges), C.F. doing The Incorrigible (Powr Mastrs), Jordan Hulk in all 3 issues, Crane (Uptight), and plus you’ve got comics Jeffrey Brown (various destroyer Paul Pope, depressing autobio weird manga creator commix)? Sounds good Junko Mizuno, goofy fun to me! Should be the James Kochalka, offensie best Simpsons book since Johnny Ryan (don’t Bart Simpson’s “Cooking Humans”! know how he got his Treehouse of (Or maybe that was work approved!), Nick Horror “Cooking For Humans”. Bertozzi and Norwe- Sure, DC got some indie I always get those mixed gian superstar Jason comics guys together a up.) – and that’s just in the few years back, Marvel’s Book of Genesis: Illustrated by R. Crumb HC When this project was first the preview, it looks to be just that, he possibly do to top this? Maybe announced, no one was sure exactly a straightforward adaptation--and a the Book of Revelations, as inspired what to expect. The #1 under- really good one at that. There is a by the biblical illustrations of Basil ground cartoonist of the 1960s reason that Crumb is a legend, and Wolverton? We can only hope. adapting Genesis? But after reading he proves it again here. What could 2 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890 the Archie clone Cloarch is the one Sweet Tooth #1 marrying Veronica. Jeff Lemire has exploded into stardom with his two great Chronicles of Wormwood: The previous works, Essex County Last Battle #1 for Top Shelf, and The Nobody Ennis continues his tale of the Anti- for Vertigo. Now he’s got a new Christ with art this time by Oscar Vertigo series, and it’s only a Jimenez, which looks pretty sweet! $1.00 for the first issue. A post- After cleaning up the afterlife, Worm- pandemic future, and the only wood is trying to sort out his life – but people who are immune are if Pope Jacko is taking over Hell, things human/animal hybrid children. aren’t gonna get better. Promises to be weird and cool. Check it out! Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories The Torch #1 # 6 9 9 / M i c k e y Alex Ross teams up with Mike Mouse & Friends Carey to write a tale of the orig- #296 inal Torch. Plus Toro and the Mad Disney comics are Thinker! Ah, I can’t believe they back--this time at a pay me to write sentences like kid-friendly price Superman: Secret Origin #1 that. Criminal: The Sinners #1 of $2.99! Brought Geoff Johns and Gary Frank Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips can to you by BOOM! did some amazing work on Ultimate Comics Armor do no wrong. Their Incognito run Studios, the people their recent run on Action Wars #1 has been a blast, but now there who’ve been doing Comics, so now they Ellis returns to the Ulti- back to doing good-old hard- all the wonderful Muppet and Pixar have a 6 issue series with mate Iron Man with boiled crime-fiction. At some comics. And thankfully, they’re not the “definitive origin of Steve Kurth on art for a point the publishers may burn out going to just reprint Barks and Rosa Superman for the 21st 4 issue series. Basically this hot new crime comics genre, again and again, but instead tap into century.” They’ll cover people start stealing Iron but for now they seem to only be the hundreds of wonderful Disney Lex Luthor, the Legion, Lois, Man suits to use against using A-list writers like Brubaker, stories from Italy and Denmark that Metallo, Jimmy, and a bunch of Stark, but who ELSE has some Rucka, Azzarello, and novelist have been done over the last 40 years! others too. Take that, Smallville! crazy armored battle suits? Can Ian Rankin, so enjoy ‘em while anyone say… Dr. Doom? they’re great. Brave and the Bold W o l v e r i n e : Archie #601 #27 Old Man Archie Marries Veronica All right. Logan Giant- continues, with the actual Let’s give Size #1 wedding in this one. But man, J. Michael In the about- even with 4 issues to go, I expect Straczynski freaking-time we’ll see a stroll down the one more category, Mark “what if Archie married Betty?” chance to Millar and Steve lane too. Just do Archie Secret r e d e e m McNiven finally Wars already! Hmmm, maybe himself. His finish their Red Circle amazing run on Bomb Queen VI #1 books weren’t too inspiring, and Wolverine. And it looks like the It had to happen! So a nice new he screwed up Spider-Man pretty old Wolverine is back, doing what Prez is in office, but does good, but maybe, just maybe, he he does best! Only this time he’s supervillain Bomb Queen like can do something with Batman really angry, and he’s got decades that? Not if Obama is trying to teaming-up with Dial H for of not-killing to make up for. close down her dictatorship of Hero...? Uh...okay. Next month Wow. Now if only they could get New Port City! 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I know she’s semi-nude All of Eddie Campbell’s autobio- Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus TP “the everywoman”, but I still can’t w o m e n . graphical Alec comics in a single In case the Freak Brothers get used to Nemi talking like a Bizarre and volume. Now if only someone Omnibus left you wanting more, young working class British girl. amazing! would reprint Bacchus, his other here’s every Fat Freddy’s Cat Sadly there’s no American transla- great comic form the 1980s. Neil comic by Gilbert Shelton. Kind of tion available, except for a handful Gaiman’s a big fan, so it may very disgusting, but always hilarious. of strips on the web. Oh well, you well happen. Hotline: 301.718.1890 www.bigplanetcomics.com | 3 create new stakes from, if that gives you an idea of the direc- tion they’re going with this. Mr. Stuffins TP At last, the entire series in a book, for those of you who kept missing the issues when they sold out. Super spy artificial intelligence – inserted into a teddy bear. Funny and action packed. Stuffins. Mr. Stuffins. Rip Kirby, Vol. 1 HC Alex Raymond is probably most famous for his lavish, full-page Sunday Flash Gordon comics from the 1930s. But post-WWII until his untimely death in 1956, he drew Blackhawk: Blood & Iron TP/ the adventures of an ex-marine Power & Glory TP private eye, named Rip Kirby. After the success of the Image Volume 1 collects 1946-48, the Comics American Flagg! reprints, strips that led to him winning a two other Howard Chaykin Reuben award in 1949. books are making their way back into print. Chaykin’s Torpedo, Vol. 1 take on the Blackhawks HC is a bit over-the-top, but Torpedo is classic fun, and has really nice gangster comic, art. Power & Glory is a written by Abuli, bit sillier, but still a good with early art by tongue-in-cheek treat- Alex Toth. Toth ment of super-heroes. quit after he got tired of the often misogy- Criminal: The Deluxe Edition nistic violence, but luckily running around massacring civil- HC Jordi Bernet (of recent Jonah Hex 3 Story: The Secret History of ians! Too cool. Just in case you weren’t sure – fame) took over drawing after the Giant Man Brubaker loves noir, and writes that.