2008 Eisner Nominees Announced!
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Whether you fondly remember his work from Superman or just recently caught his work on Ultimate Spider-Man, Stuart Immonen is an artist whose work belongs on everyone’s shelf. If you’re a process junkie like Josh, Immonen’s Centifolia is the book for you. “[My sketchbooks] get filled with unfinished work– really loose gesture poses, ideas I find funny but lack a larger context, experiments with various tools or styles, sketches ‘en plein air’, short sequentials and more formal work that eventually gets fleshed out for my website, or some other project. Centifolia contains the ‘best’ of that stuff.” (from an interview by Chris Arrant @ Newsarama.com)
Highlights This Week: The final issue of Annihilation Conquest (#6); the Dabel Brothers’ Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files; the DC/Wildstorm six-issue crossover Dreamwar; Kurt Busiek ends his Superman run in the oversized anniversary issue Superman #675; Fantagraphics brings their regular Spring release of The Complete Peanuts Volume 9 1967-1968; the first issue of new Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons from Devil’s Due; IDW’s Star Trek original series sequel mini-series Star Trek Year Four Enterprise Incident; Joe Lansdale’s new horror comic from Dark Horse: Pigeons From Hell.
Highlights this week: Serenity: Better Days #2 (of 3) the only book shipping by Joss Whedon this week! An original Batman manga tale Batman Death Mask #1 (of 4) by acclaimed artist Yoshinori Natsume. The all-new Titans #1 by the team of Judd Winick and Ian Churchill. A new DC/Wildstorm mini-series Number of the Beast #1 (of 6) by Scott Beatty and Chris Sprouse. Terry Moore’s Echo #2. The final issue of Sergio Aragone’s Groo Hell On Earth (#4) and Wizard Magazine #200 GOLD
Lots of big titles this week, but heads above them all has to be Marvel’s Secret Invasion #1 (of 8) the big Skrull crossover that’s been brewing in the pages of New Avengers recently. Chris Bachalo and Zeb Wells begin their arc in Amazing Spider-Man #555. The second issue of Stephen King’s all-new Dark Tower The Long Road Home #2 also ships, as well as BOTH new issues of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 and Angel After the Fall.