Yay! A reasonably inexpensive week of new comics arrivals! (For me, at least.) More money for manga! I can finally catch up on the most recent volumes of Fruits Basket and weep openly! (I browsed through the eleventh at Target the other day, and I’m fairly sure a full reading will kill me.)
Gail Simone will only be making me sacrifice my principles once this week, with a new issue of Villains United. (Action Comics is being written by Abnett and Lanning, and I still haven’t quite gotten over their Legion of Super-Heroes run. Plus, the issue seems to be a Day of Vengeance tie-in. Pass.) A new story arc starts in Fables, blissfully unencumbered by anything but its own back story.
A new issue of The Comics Journal (#271) hits the stands.
Over at Marvel, the very pleasant Gravity mini-series concludes. Looking back, I probably could have waited for the collection and enjoyed it a bit more, because the individual issues can seem a bit thin. I’m glad I didn’t wait for the trade of Livewires (which arrives in digest form tomorrow), because the thought of that tiny print reproduced at an even smaller size is enough to make my eyes cross permanently. If you aren’t given to spontaneous retinal detachment, you might give it a look. And since it’s relatively cheap, you can use the savings on a jeweler’s loupe.
The most recent issue of Amelia Rules (#14) seemed to veer into After-School Special territory. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because Jimmy Gownley has a really versatile handle on different tones. Still, it will be interesting to see how things proceed in #15.
It might be time for a little on-line shopping. I’m unlikely ever to see a copy of The Push Man and Other Stories (Drawn and Quarterly) on a shelf here in town, and I still haven’t been able to find a copy of Death Note. That’s bizarre to me, because it’s been published by Shonen Jump Advanced. If there’s one thing I can usually count on, it’s the ready availability of SJ titles in local bookstores.