New Trades out 17/09/14

AVATAR PRESS

Gravel is one of the lesser known titles from the glory days of Warren Ellis birthing books like a rabbit. Returning now under the superb penmanship of Mike Wolfer who did a great job on Avatar's Stitched, firstly on art duties for Garth Ennis and then taking over as write on volume 2. This book collects #1-4 as well as a reintroduction to the main man Bill Gravel. Hopefully this will mean an omnibus in the offing as the original series can prove difficult to complete in trades. As for the story itself? Well it had me at "SAS Combat Mage."

Gravel Combat Magician Volume 4 TP 

BOOM! STUDIOS

Sons Of Anarchy Volume 1 TP 

DARK HORSE COMICS

Authentic Accounts Of Billy The Kid's Old Timey Oddities Omnibus TP
Complete Silencers TP
Ghost Volume 2 The White City Butcher TP
Leaving Megalopolis HC
Red Moon HC Savage Sword Of Conan Volume 17 TP

DC COMICS

Something a little bit different from DC this week. Batman Unwrapped: The Court of Owls collects issues #1-11 in artists pencil form and extras of what is, in my opinion the best title from the New 52. I've already got the trade but I'll be tempted to get this just for the beauty of it.

Astro City Through Open Doors TP
Astro City Victory HC
Batman Unwrapped The Court Of Owls HC
Forever Evil Arkham War TP
Godzilla Awakening TP
New Teen Titans Volume 1 TP
Superman Wonder Woman Volume 1 Power Couple HC
Toe Tags Featuring George Romero TP
Unwritten Tommy Taylor And The Ship That Sank Twice TP

IDW PUBLISHING

Transformers Phase One Omnibus TP

IMAGE COMICS

Image don't often roll out deluxe editions but today sees the release of the Blue Estate hard cover. Featuring #1-12 an alleged bonus features I can't find any info on. Let us know in the comments if you picked this up.

Blue Estate The Graphic Novel HC
Peter Panzerfaust Volume 4 The Hunt TP
Undertow Volume 1 Boatman's Call TP

MARVEL COMICS

(Original 96 cover.)

A few Marvel Now titles finally make it to paperback this week, as always costing way too much. I mentioned a few weeks ago the infinity omnibus featuring all the Avengers tie ins so make sure you check that out before going for individual trades. The Adventures of Cyclops and Pheonix is an impressive collection that I'm surprised didn't get a release around AvX. It includes: Adventures of Cyclops and Pheonix #1-4. Askani'son #1-4. Phoenix #1-3. X-Men Book of Askani and material from Marvel Valentine Special.

Avengers Volume 4 Infinity TP
Indestructible Hulk Volume 3 S.M.A.S.H. Time TP
Sub-Mariner And The Original Human Torch TP
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man By Brian Michael Bendis Volume 5 TP
Uncanny Avengers Volume 3 Ragnarok Now TP
Uncanny X-Men Volume 4 Vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. HC (Premiere Edition)
X-Men The Adventures Of Cyclops And Phoenix TP

Todays New Trades 03/10/13

Not much out this week but there's still loads to talk about. DC release The Court of Owls arc, the first 7 issues of the New 52 Batman and includes a white PVC owl mask. Pretty sweet deal for £15.

Also at DC, JLA Earth 2 from superstar Scottish creators Morrison and Quitely gets a new deluxe hardcover featuring a new cover by Frank Quitely, plus previously unpublished sketch material and more.

The first volume of Image's Non Human is out, a bit pricier than Image's usual v.1's, especially for 4 issues but I'm led to believe the sketchbook and bonus material is going to be excellent. The second Skullkickers omnibus Collecting SKULLKICKERS #12-23, including the five 'unbooted' issues Uncanny, Savage, Mighty, All-New Secret and Dark Skullkickers Dark. (still giggling at these.)                
Marvel's march in to the OGN market continues with Avengers: Endless Wartime by Warren Ellis and Thor Season One. The season one books are really well packaged in my opinion but never worth the price to established readers, I wouldn't even recommend a new ready pays £20 for a slim HC.

I will finish off with two great Omnibus from Marvel. Firstly a book which I constantly recommend, Hickman's Fantastic Four, gets it's first oversized collection. Right now you can get it all 800 pages on Amazon for £35 (RRP £75) if you have been putting off reading this title for some insane reason, you're never going to get a better chance than this to pick it up cheap.  Collecting: Dark Reign: Fantastic Four 1-5, Dark Reign: The Cabal, Fantastic Four 570-588, FF 1-5

The second omnibus I wanted to mention is the oversized Halo HC, I've read some of the books including and personally loved Van Lente's stuff. Collecting: Halo: Uprising 1-4, Blood Line 1-5, Helljumper 1-5. Depending on where you buy from it might still work out cheaper to buy the 3 individual trades so be sure to check them out first.




BOOM! STUDIOS

Suicide Risk Volume 1 TP

DC COMICS

Batman The Court Of Owls Book And Mask Set HC
Earth 2 Volume 1 The Gathering TP
Earth 2 Volume 2 The Tower of Fate HC
Fables Werewolves Of The Heartland TP
JLA Earth 2 Deluxe Edition HC

IDW PUBLISHING

Chilling Archives Of Horror Volume 4 Jack Cole's Deadly Horror HC
Doctor Who Series I Winter's Dawn Season's End HC
G.I. JOE The Complete Collection Volume 3 HC
Judge Dredd The Complete Carlos Ezquerra Volume 2 HC
Miss Fury Sensational Sundays 1941-1944 HC

IMAGE COMICS

Age Of Bronze Volume 3.B Betrayal Part Two HC
Carbon Grey Volume 2 Daughters Of Stone TP
It Girl And The Atomics Volume 2 The World Is Flat TP
MacGyver Fugitive Gauntlet TP
Non-Humans Volume 1 Runaway American Dream TP
Skullkickers Treasure Trove Volume 2 HC

MARVEL COMICS

Avengers Endless Wartime HC
Dark Tower The Gunslinger Last Shots TP
Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Volume 1 HC
Halo Oversized Collection HC
Supercrooks TP (resolicited)
Thor And The Mighty Avengers
Thor By Walter Simonson Volume 2 TP
Thor Season One HC (Premiere Edition)
What If AvX TP
Wolverine Blood Wedding TP

Saturday night shelf porn because I don't have a life Saved a great one though. @Jon_Digital's collection is fantastic. Loads of lovely big hardcover collections, a SP first for Bendis' Powers. Some very expensive looking, sleeved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen breezeblocks and hidden in amongst the towering HC's are some absolute TPB gems. Freak angels, Fell, Scalped, Chew! I could sit at this shelf reading for days.

When I asked for a favourite Jon says "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibuses are pretty special as they're so rare to come by."