4/10/2023 0 Comments Dammit mom comicCinebook does have a pretty wide library of material, including a just- restarted effort at releasing the entirety of Pierre Christin's & Jean-Claude Mézières' Valérian and Laureline (as appears to be the new English title), and they're worth keeping an eye on. Needless to say, it's a choice opportunity to put more than $250 in the service of Eurocomics in English and your local economy, in the somewhat unlikely chance your comics store opts to navigate this wave of stuff. 4 and 5 of Roger Leloup's Yoko Tsuno, again bouncing from 1979 to 1986, book by book. Next there's the first seven volumes of Cinebook's new edition of Jean Van Hamme's & William Vance's suspense series XIII, which has already gotten farther than any past publisher in translating this material (including Marvel). 17-28 (that's twelve individual books) of Lucky Luke, jumping all around in the series' publication history in no order I can discern, though everything appears to be teaming artist Maurice "Morris" De Bevere with writer René Goscinny. I can't think of the last time so much BD showed up at once maybe those Guido Crepax omnibuses from Taschen? Most prolifically anticipated are vols. Specifically, Cinebook is releasing these materials one-to-one with the original European albums, all of them around 48 pages and retailing for $11.95 U.S. This brings me to a particularly odd sight this week - a number of sources (that aren't Diamond) are reporting a gigantic cache of releases coming in this week from Cinebook, a UK-based specialist in English translations of older Franco-Belgian comics. At least I can be sure a more definitive date will appear in the future, though that's not always guaranteed with smaller publishers, to say nothing of English-language publisher outside of North America. 1 Starring Shade the Changing Man is due out tomorrow, although Diamond don't have it listed for release and my usual cross-check with Midtown Comics (being an East Coast xenophobe) reveals nothing. For instance, a few sources (such as DC's homepage) claim The Steve Ditko Omnibus Vol. Features THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/24/11 – Fat, Fat Books)Ī lot of times while I'm putting together this column I'll run into contradictory or non-conclusive information, and I won't know what to do.
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