DECEMBER 2009 SHIPPING LISTS: "Dude, We're In The Future!"

"I Ham Gambeet!"

KING CITY, STRANGE (decent, but wow: I'm actually paying four bucks), and JONAH HEX (weeeeee Cooke).

POPEYE HC VOL 04 PLUNDER ISLAND
THE COMICS JOURNAL #300

Awesome week!!!

Will grab that Cooke Hex if I remember, too.

Also: new book-length Beanworld! $29 edition of "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary"! Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins doing "Blackest Night: The Flash," which I can only assume will carry on from their surprisingly terrific "Rogues' Revenge" mini from last year! WOO!

yay, was just wondering if there was gonna be a new popeye volume this year (i want to spell out p-o-p-e on my bookshelf!)

i have the original binky brown, do i really need a $29 bk of it?

Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins doing "Blackest Night: The Flash," which I can only assume will carry on from their surprisingly terrific "Rogues' Revenge" mini from last year! WOO!

Uh, have you read any of the Blackest Night crossovers yet, Doug? Let me summarize what will happen:

Dead Flash Villain: Hi, Flash! I'm back from the dead, wooooooo!
Flash: Oh, nuts. That sucks! (hits villain into pieces, pieces reform)
Dead Flash Villain: Not so fast, Flash! I am...indestructible! Ha ha ha!
Flash: Craaaaap! (hits villain harder into lots more pieces, seems to defeat villain)
Dead Flash Loved One: I'm back, too, Flash!
Flash: Dead Loved One! I love you and I miss you!
Dead Flash Loved One: Except I'm bad now that I'm dead! Ha ha ha!
Flash: Nooooooooooooooooo...
Impulse: Here look, Flash, just take their rings off. It makes them go away (takes dead dudes' rings off, they go away)
Flash: Oh. Cool.

I've wasted a lot of money on this trash already. I'm not happy about it.

i have the original binky brown, do i really need a $29 bk of it?

can't imagine so, especially since the 1995 expanded paperback is still in print for $19.95. what on earth is the new version supposed to contain? does it make rays actually shoot out of your penis?

Eli Horowitz, the McSweeney’s editor that oversaw the project, said the house is publishing 5000 copies of the hardcover. The work was brought to his attention by Spiegelman, Horowitz said, when the original artwork was made available. He said that he was “aware of the Binky Brown legacy, but one of the real pleasures of this project has been discovering the great depth and breadth of that legacy--both the work’s influence and its persistent power. Both Binky and Justin seem to be universally loved.” While the book has been reprinted before (most notably the Binky Brown Sampler, Last Gasp, 1996) this new edition features careful reproductions of the original artwork, shot to display the pages and the hilarious and complex drawings on them, just as they are: full size, discolored black & white pages still marked with white-out, tape and smudged erasures.

“For the production of the book, we wanted to show the physical pieces as accurately as possible, full-size, with all the white-out, zipatone, and pencil marks,” said Horowitz. “Everything is presented exactly as we found it. We’re hoping this will help readers reconnect with Justin’s act of creation and the artistic breakthrough that this work represents.”

Sounds terrible!

Wow, what? That's the dumbest shit ever. I'm sure the artist totally intended for all of that stuff to be visible in the final, printed piece. Ugh.

P.S. Just looked up Green on Wikipedia, and I must say his 2004 project, Justin Green's Amanda Bines, sounds hella intriguing.

Sounds hella Wikipranksterism, note the previous book's title.

I thumbed through that Binky Brown book in the shop today, just to give it the benefit of the doubt, and I really didn't see any justification for the 'warts and all' approach. It's just distracting and messy-looking in a way that I'm sure Green didn't intend for it to be.

Oh, also snatched up an old-school collection of Ed The Happy Clown for cover price! The cashier seemed a little taken aback that it was just out there sitting on the shelf at all.

Dark Avengers Annual and Siege:Cabal were pretty much a big sloppy wet one for Bendis fans (like me).

Oh, also snatched up an old-school collection of Ed The Happy Clown for cover price! The cashier seemed a little taken aback that it was just out there sitting on the shelf at all.

cool, the brown Vortex one with the Pekar strip?

Yeah, that's the one. And it's pretty much brown all the way through. That is some non-acid-free paper, for sure.