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Weekly Comic Shopping List 2/3/10

After Chris Marshall's interview with Fantagraphic's Kim Thompson, I ordered the new edition of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.  I've never read much of Foster's work even though I've always known about it.  I finally got the book yesterday and was easily blown away by it.  I spent all night looking at Foster's pages and realized that so many modern artists that I like were heavily influenced by Foster.  It's a fantastic looking book.

On to this week's haul...

  • Demo Vol 2 #1-- Sometimes I can't figure out the way that my comic shop works.  Many a moon ago, I had the original Demo on my pull list.  I wonder if this one will still show up on it.  If not, I'm just probably going to end up tradewaiting this series and will read it sometime during the summer.

  • Sweet Tooth #6-- Here's another title I'm stuck on.  It's by a creator that I want to support but I think my enjoyment of it will be so much more when I can read a huge chunk of it.  If I end up doing another purge, I think this will be dropped as monthly book while I sit out and wait for the trade.  That seems to be happening to me a lot lately.

  • Dominic Fortune It Can Happen Here And Now TP-- I'm a Howard Chaykin fanboy so I'm looking forward to having a nice collection of his most recent story.  It was a nice pulpy story from Chaykin that ultimately ended up with a showdown in the Oval Office and using FDR as a weapon.  Fun stuff.

  • Criminal Sinners #4--  Even if I'm down on single issues, I'll never be down on this book.  Any day that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip's Criminal is out is a good day.

  • Slam Dunk Vol 8 GN-- Still featuring fun basketball hijinks.