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ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING UP FOR PRE-ORDER

by Canfield, November 9, 2009 4:06 PM

While I'm getting my holiday gift guide together I thought I'd make special mention of the amazing work being done over at Centipede Press. I was so intrigued at the variety and quality of work being done there that I...
 
 

Vertigo Crime Imprint shows strength with DARK ENTRIES

by Canfield, November 8, 2009 3:59 PM

DARK ENTRIES Besides the nifty small hardcover format this John Constantine novel catches me at a disadvantage. I can't imagine fans won't dig it and my own unfamiliarity with the character (I've only seen the movie and read one graphic...
 
 

To Hellboy And Back to get the Library Edition Volume 3

by Canfield, November 8, 2009 3:32 PM

Okay. First things first. I'm a bit of a freak about Hellboy. I have the Sideshow life-size bust, life-size replicas of Big Baby and The Samaritan (exclusive version). I also have a wearable life-size Right Hand of Doom, a faux...
 
 

A Purchase would be Sagacious: Saga of Swamp Thing Book 1

by Canfield, November 4, 2009 5:00 PM

This came out last February but since volume two will be coming down the pike this December I thought I'd remind everyone just how awesome this Swamp Thing series was. When it comes to monster comics Swamp Thing - especially...
 
 

STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: MISSION MURALISMO: Interview with Annice Jacoby

by Michael Guillen, November 2, 2009 5:54 PM

"Like the Loisada of New York or the Left Bank of Paris," Annice Jacoby writes in the introduction to her visually stunning publication Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009:29), "the Mission is a café society that scoffs... More >>
 
 

Fables The Deluxe Edition

by Canfield, October 27, 2009 4:33 PM

FABLES THE DELUXE EDITION Friends had been after me to read this Vertigo series for a long time. Now that I have, I'm sorry. I don't read comics as they come out, preferring to wait for collections. Now I have...
 
 

Got Vertigo? These Absolute Editions will be the Death of me.

by Canfield, October 27, 2009 4:26 PM

Does it get anymore absolute than Death? I certainly believe it does in a metaphysical sense but there is no doubt that Death makes a great Absolute Edition. Collecting all of Neil Gaimans Death stories is accomplishment enough but this...
 
 

NORTH 40 ISSUES 1-3 -WIldstorm Comics

by Canfield, October 13, 2009 5:26 PM

South of nowhere seems pleasant enough until two locals crack open a book which in turn cracks open reality. Soon the formerly good and simple folk of Conover County find themselves up to no good, turned into monsters, cursed and...
 
 

TRICK 'R TREAT TPB- Wildstorm Comics

by Canfield, October 13, 2009 5:11 PM

by Marc Andreyko, Mike Huddleston, Fiona Staples, and Grant Bond Trick R Treat is easily one of the best films ever made about Halloween and though it is major league sad to see it get a measly DVD release...
 
 

High Moon

by Canfield, October 13, 2009 5:00 PM

Written by David Gallaher; Art and cover by Steve Ellis Zuda Comics High Moon is the first winner in the Zuda Comics online monthly competition and follows bounty hunter Mtthew Macgregor to the god forsaken town of  Blest, Texas. What...
 
 
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