Comic Picks By The Glick

The most interesting news for me that came out of the C2E2 convention was that Carla Speed McNeil was signing up with Dark Horse.  This means that DH will now be publishing her long-running series “Finder,” first self-published as single issues, then as a webcomic, starting with a new volume “Voices” in February followed by two HC collections of the series thus far.  I’ve got a friend of mine who is a rabid fan of her work and this news was like mana from heaven for him.  I’ve only read the first two volumes of “Finder” and while I probably won’t be doing a podcast on it until the HC collections come out, I can say that the first two volumes are dense reads that reward your full attention as much as they demand it.

This isn’t news from C2E2, but the same friend was also glad to hear news that Paul Pope has a new book coming out from First Second Publishing later this year called “Battling Boy.”  Described as a superhero fight epic with the main character battling down hundreds of oncomers, it sounds like something that will work really well coming from an artist like Pope who specializes in action and motion.  He’s also working on a partial re-draw of his long-unfinished series “THB” and finishing up the series in the process.  And on that note…

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This time, I hope the movie is as good as the comic.

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The big news this week is that Marvel has ended its partnership with Diamond distribution… for distributing its comics to bookstores. Now they’ll be distributed by the Hachette Book Group, one of the largest book distributors in the country and the group behind Yen Press. I doubt that this is the “beginning of the end” for Diamond as they’ll still distribute Marvel’s comics to bookstores, but the real effect of this announcement probably won’t be seen for another year or so as the changeover won’t be happening until September. Marvel is banking on this move to bolster their bookstore sales, but I’m skeptical that’ll happen since superhero titles (unless they have a movie tie-in, sometimes) generally don’t sell as well as non-superhero titles outside of the direct market.  If nothing else, I’m hoping that it’ll at least reduce the delay between the time their collections arrive in stores and when they’re available through Amazon.

And in other news, the latest round of solicitations from Dark Horse reveal that vol. 4 of “Ghost Talker’s Daydream” will be out in September. I… am… in… shock! I’d thought this series had been put “on hiatus” after the third volume came out last year, but now it’s back? Had Dark Horse just caught up with the Japanese release, or was there some kind of behind the scenes wrangling that allowed it to make it back to us? This will require some research, and while I’m glad to see it back (it was getting better with each volume) I’d have been happier to see vol. 13 of “Eden” announced instead. Anyway, reviews start after the break:

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All I can say is that I hope the movie is more enjoyable than its source material.

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