Popz News June 3 2016
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Week Ending June 3rd 2016 In Stock – The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (ISBN 9780857665973 $9.99) In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead. In The Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations – and where nothing is quite as it seems. From Blastr - Kick back with White Sand, Spider-Woman, and ten more of June’s greatest graphic novels. Go HERE for the full article. You can order the titles below from this week’s SHOWCASE Brandon Sanderson's White Sand V01 (ISBN 9781606908853 $24.99) Outcast V03 This Little Light (ISBN 9781632156938 $14.99) Shadowman by Garth Ennis & Ashley Wood (ISBN 9781682151358 $19.99) DC Super Hero Girls V01 Finals Crisis (ISBN 9781401262471 $9.99) Fight Club 2 (ISBN 9781616559458 $29.99) Dark Night: A True Batman Story (ISBN 9781401241438 $22.99) Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears V01: Baby Talk (ISBN 9780785196228 $15.99) Saga V06 (ISBN 9781632157119 $14.99) Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties (ISBN 9781616559557 $17.99) Disciples V01 – No info Mythic V01 (ISBN 9781632157362 $16.99) Vision V01 Little Worse Than A Man (ISBN 9780785196570 $17.99) FX Networks ordered an eight-episode season one of X-Men drama Legion, about a troubled young man who may be more than human, to debut on FX in early 2017. Fargo’s Noah Hawley is showrunner; Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) star. Production on the first live-action cable Marvel series begins in Vancouver this summer. Go HERE for the full article Smoke by Dan Vyleta (ISBN 9780385540162 $27.95) England. A century ago, give or take a few years. An England where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours forth from their bodies, a sign of their fallen state. The aristocracy do not smoke, proof of their virtue and right to rule, while the lower classes are drenched in sin and soot. An England utterly strange and utterly real. An elite boarding school where the sons of the wealthy are groomed to take power as their birthright. Teachers with mysterious ties to warring political factions at the highest levels of government. Three young people who learn everything they’ve been taught is a lie—knowledge that could cost them their lives. A grand estate where secrets lurk in attic rooms and hidden laboratories. A love triangle. A desperate chase. Revolutionaries and secret police. Religious fanatics and coldhearted scientists. Murder. A London filled with danger and wonder. A tortured relationship between a mother and a daughter, and a mother and a son. Unexpected villains and unexpected heroes. Cool reason versus passion. Rich versus poor. Right versus wrong, though which is which isn’t clear. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric and intensely suspenseful. People Magazine – Review - 6/6 New York Times Book Review – 6/12 IN STOCK After overcoming a handful of hurdles, New Line’s reboot of Stephen King’s “It” (ISBN 9781501142970 $19.99) is back on track with a new face in the project’s most iconic role. Go HERE for the full article Preacher episode 2 - June 5th at 10pm AMC will air live after show Talking Preacher, following the season premiere and finale episodes of new series Preacher. Hosted by comic Chris Hardwick, the hour-long talk show will feature cast, creators, producers and celebrity fans discussing the supernatural, dark comedy. Talking Preacher debuts Sunday, May 29 at 10:30pm, after an encore airing of Preacher’s pilot episode at 9pm. The second installment will air after Preacher’s season finale on Sunday, July 31 at 10pm. Go HERE for the trailer With a little prayer, 'Preacher' might be AMC's best adaptation yet – Go HERE ‘Preacher’ Review: Comic Adaptation From Seth Rogen & AMC Is Fun Leap Of Faith. Go HERE for the full review AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ (Vol.1 ISBN 9781401240455 $19.99) Is Television’s Next Great Weekly Cultural Event - Go HERE Preacher premieres on AMC on Sunday, May 22 at 10 p.m. ET. Check out this week’s SHOWCASE for available titles Premieres June 3rd Outcast V01 A Darkness Surrounds Him (ISBN 9781632150530 $9.99) Outcast V02 A Vast & Unending Ruin (ISBN 9781632154484 $14.99) Check out the trailer HERE Warner Bros is back on track with its remake of the pulp sci-fi classic Logan’s Run (ISBN 9781101911372 $14.95). For more go HERE Brie Larson the Frontrunner to Play Captain Marvel – Go HERE Batman: The Killing Joke Tops Graphic Novel Sales Chart for Bookstores. Go HERE for the full article and make sure to check out Bookazine’s Graphic Novel bestsellers HERE July release - The first in a fantastic new space opera series from acclaimed author and scriptwriter of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The High Ground: Imperials BK01 by Melinda Snodgrass (ISBN 9781783295821 $14.99) Emperor’s daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League’s Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals—to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible. From a book to a movie and now an ABC series: ABC has picked up Time After Time (ISBN 9780765326225 $19.99). – Go HERE for the official trailer. Harley Quinn Spinoff Movie in the Works with Margot Robbie. Go HERE for the full article In Theaters Now X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men:Age of Apocalypse: Dawn (ISBN 9780785193500 $34.99) X-Men:Age of Apocalypse: Twilight (ISBN 9780785193449 $34.99) Check out this week’s SHOWCASE for X-Men titles Michael Keaton Back in the Mix for ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Villain. Go HERE A decade after John Crowley, best known for Little, Big, first queried Small Beer Press about publishing a 400-year-old science fiction novel, his English-language version of Johannes Valentines Andreae's The Chemical Wedding (1616) is scheduled for this fall. The original book (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) was written in German and set in the 1400s. Go HERE for the full article Releasing in June Infomocracy by Malka Older (ISBN 9780765385154 $24.99) A high-tech political thriller about a global information monopoly attempting to prevent election sabotage and world war. Little Brother meets The West Wing. It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line. With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain? All three begin to realize that not everyone plans to play fair at the next election. The Liberty party is ascending on the back of subtle promises of warfare, and Heritage will do anything to keep itself in power. A perfect storm is brewing, one that might bring the new world order to its knees. Killing it In Theaters Now!!! For titles go to our SHOWCASE Releasing in June THERE’S GOING TO BE HELL TOUPEE! The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America by Andrew Shaffer (ISBN 9781683310457 $14.99) On January 20, 2017, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., a tall, orange man with a dubious hairline places his hand on a paperback of The Art of the Deal and pledges to defend the Constitution of the United States, whatever that is. Before the sun sets on this hugely momentous day, the real-estate mogul-turned-reality show star-turned-leader of the hypothetically Free World reclines in the Oval Office, a glass of Trump Ice in his little hand. He Skypes in with his BFF Vladimir Putin; assembles his Cabinet and White House staff, including a former Miss Universe as chief of staff; and procures some sizzling new lingerie for the new First Lady. Two years later, as the increasingly ironically named United States of America barrels toward war with the United Kingdom, and the never-quite-finished Mexican wall is continually breached by refugees (risking their lives to get to Mexico), disgraced ex-tabloid reporter Jimmie Bernwood drags himself through his days freelancing for chump change...until The Donald plucks him from the depths of despair.