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Weekly Comic Shopping List 4/7/10

If you can get iPhone (or now iPad) comics from Comixology, look for an anthology there called House of 12 Monthly #1, featuring the storytelling of  Darryl Ayo, Sam Henderson, K. Jensen and Miss Lasko-Gross.  It's an interesting anthology that's great to see taking advantage of a new distribution method.  The only cartoonist in this anthology I'm familiar with is K. Jenson but the rest of the work in this book is compelling.  I would love to see Comixology (and all of the other digital initiatives) focus on putting out this type of little-seen work rather than being dominated by Marvel.  Hopefully I'll have a full review of House of 12 up sometime this or next week.

  • Batman And Robin Deluxe Edition Vol 1 Batman Reborn HC-- I'm looking forward to finally reading Morrison's Batman and Robin, even the Phillip Tan issues.  If I could get through the Tony Daniel's issues, I think I could get through anything. 
  • Area 10 HC-- I've only gotten one of the Vertigo Crime books, Filthy Rich, and wasn't horribly impressed with that book.  It felt like a pastiche of too many things I've already seen over and over again in comics.  Area 10 is Christos Gage (a writer I don't know if I've ever read anything by) and Chris Samnee (an artist I really admire) so I think I'll be picking this one up. 
  • Sweet Tooth #8-- Sweet Tooth is one of the few books out there right now that makes a good argument for the monthly serialization of comics.  Lemire really puts a lot of emotion into each issue.
  • Godland Vol 5 Far Beyond The Bang TP-- This is one of those series that I want to take a weekend out and just read it from beginning to as close to the end as I get in the trades. 
  • Slam Dunk Vol 9 GN-- A fun basketball manga but where's Inoue's Real?  That's his basketball manga that has heart and soul.  And every time that Slam Dunk comes out, I remember I have the first BigViz volume of Inoue's Vagabond sitting on my desk, waiting to be read.