LAST GASP
BLAB WORLD VOLUME 1 HC
(W) Monte Beauchamp (A) Various
Blab World is the new incarnation of the celebrated art and comics annual Blab! The main feature, "Artpocalypse!" has several artists, including Mark Ryden and Joe Sorren, interpeting the end times. Blab World also presents a history of the skull motif on the covers of Pre-Code comics, pulps, and paperback books, lavishly illustrated throughout. "It's like the New Yorker for Mutants," proclaimed the Los Angeles Reader. (C: 0-0-1)
HC, 10x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $24.95
LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP
GUINEA PIG, PET SHOP PRIVATE EYE #2: AND THEN THERE WERE GNOMES
(W) Colleen A.F. Venable (A) Stephanie Yue
Join a furry, fishy, feathered, fanged, and funny cast of characters as they solve just-right mysteries in Mr. Venezi’s mixed-up pet shop. Sasspants, PI (G), the world’s fluffiest detective, is back on the case — or she will be, if her sidekick Hamisher can convince her there’s really a mystery afoot. But one by one the mice in Mr. Venezi’s pet shop are going missing, and all the spooky clues point to a ghost! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 7x7, 48pgs, FC SRP: $6.95
MR. BADGER AND MRS. FOX #2: A HUBBUB
(W) Brittie Luciani (A) Eve Tharlet
When a hunter's dog chases Mrs. Fox and her daughter, Ginger, out of their home, the Fox family move into the tunnel of Mr. Badger, his two squabbling sons (Bristle and Grub), and his toddler daughter, Berry. Ginger has a hard time adjusting to living with the Badgers. Meanwhile, Mr. Fox pays a brief visit and when he leaves, Ginger sneaks away after him! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, an8x11, 32pgs, FC SRP: $6.95
ON THE CASE WITH HOLMES & WATSON #1: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA GN
(W) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Murray Shaw, M.J. Cosson (A) Sophie Rohrbach
Get ready to jump on the case with Holmes and Watson! A photograph endangers the upcoming marriage of a king. Can the beautiful and clever woman who hides the photo fool Sherlock Holmes? This new graphic novel series presents the thrilling adventures of the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant John H.Watson. At the end of each book, readers examine the clues that helped Holmes solve each mystery. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x9, 48pgs, FC SRP: $6.95
NOLA'S WORLD #1: CHANGING MOON GN
(W) Mathieu Mariolle (A) MiniKim, Pop
Nola is excited to break away from the day-to-day when she meets Damiano, a star baseball player with the reflexes of a cat. She’s less excited to meet his sister Inés, a girl obsessed with looking pretty. When suspicious events surround the two, Nola decides to investigate — and discovers they’ve escaped from a book in the school library to live as normal kids in Nola’s hometown, which, it turns out, rests on the border between fantasy and reality. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x9, 136pgs, FC SRP: $6.95
LINSNER.COM
DAWN 2010 LINSNER SIGNED SKETCHBOOK
(W/A) Joseph Michael Linsner
Linsner.com is back with the Dawn 2010 Sketchbook! Lush color covers wrap 32 pages of beautifully rendered and printed Black & White Dawn art, with some other sexy Linsner sirens making an appearance. The Dawn 2010 Sketchbook has all-new artwork, is signed by Linsner, and strictly limited to initial orders.
SC, 7x10, 32pgs, B&W SRP: $20.00
Little Brown and Company
THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN GN
(W) Erich Origen, Gan Golan (A) Various
In this hilarious, poignant, and action-packed story, Unemployed Man and his sidekick, Plan B, team up with other down-but-not-out superheroes as they search for work and battle such dastardly villains as The Human Resource, Toxic Debt Blob, and The Invisible Hand. A rich parody of superhero comics, this brilliantly colorful book is as funny as it is timely. It features art by comics legends Ramona Fradon, Rick Veitch, Michael Netzer, Benton Jew, Josef Rubinstein, Terry Beatty, Clem Robins, and Lee Loughridge. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 8x10, 80pgs, FC SRP: $14.99