Beyond the LCS: G-Mart Comics Pre-Orders

I'm a veteran of mail pre-orders since I live an hour away from a comic book store, starting with Mile High Comics' N.I.C.E. (New Issue Comics Express, iirc) in the 80s and another outfit from which I bought all the 90s Alan Moore comics.

I've heard Chaos and Comics mention pre-ordering from G-Mart Comics several times in his videos, and always wanted to give it another try.

After seeing Comic Book Manifesto's February PREVIEWS (for comics coming out in April 2023) flip-through video, I noticed quite few books of interest that lead me to try the preorder route again.

First up, this DR. ATOMIC comic from Image. Outside of Fantagraphics or, maybe, Last Gasp it's unheard of for these old-school undergrounds to be reprinted, but I suppose it could be seen as a follow-up to last year's THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON WEED.

CBM also mentions THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE in his video. The page linked to has another link to a free PDF of this.

Later, Comic Book Manifesto says he's considering waiting for the collected edition of Noah Van Sciver's new series MAPLE TERRACE. I like the quality of Uncivilized Books single issues, so I think I'm going this way.

It's rare to see a new print edition of THE COMICS JOURNAL, two editions are coming in April. The TCJ proper is co-edited by Austin English, but I'm on the fence about buying that. However, I'm all in on this THE COMICS JOURNAL YEARBOOK: BEST OF 2022 supplement, look at co-editor Austin English's comment on the CBM video for a better idea of the contents.

Finally, Comic Book Manifesto and I do a flip flop on the Whatnot listings. Each (respectfully) dismissing what we choose to focus on from this new publisher. I'm extremely dubious about yet another incarnation of venerable institution HEAVY METAL, but I never read the old series so I'm going to try out this reboot.

The lesson we've learned today is "Watch more Comic Book Manifesto videos, spend more money on comics"! 

P.S. I do get a comic I don't think is mentioned by CBM: SANTOS SISTERS #4.

New Comics in February Part One

A COUPLE ON THE QUIMBYS.COM HOME PAGE:

IT'S HARD TO SAY WHAT SHAPE I'M IN by Johnny Sampson

TACTICAL HAND CREAM by Michael Sincavage III

BIG DROP OF NEW AND RESTOCKS AT DOMINOBOOKS.ORG 2/7/23:

SPEWEY

FAKE COMICS both by Jason T. Miles

BRAZILIAN WAX edited by Dan Heyer

KOMIKAZE #18 Croatian alternative comics! This is the sort of book you'll only find on Austin English's site.

KOMIKAZE #19

KOMIKAZE #20

KOMIKAZE #21 founded and edited by Ivana Armanini

REICH #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 by Elijah Brubaker patreon instagram

PREVIEWSWORLD.COM HAS A COUPLE TITLES TO LOOK FOR AT YOUR LCS:

from Floating World Comics by Jon Michael Frank

from Silver Sprocket by Raeghan Buchanan

New Comics in December

In the new year I'll be doing something different with "New Comic Book Day" listings. Instead of Previews and Lunar listings, I'll be taking as my starting point the weekly Quimby Blog new arrivals, the Domino Books newsletter, Broken Frontier reviews, and some of the more esoteric entries from Previews. I'm just burned out looking through a hundred or so very uninspiring mainstream comics every week. You might be also, so this listing will be chaotic and I don't exactly know where some of these are available.

NAKED RAYGUN 7" single with 14-page comic by Josh Bayer and James Romberger. Pre-order here.

(Quimby's blog)

FIVE MORE COMICS FROM QUIMBYS.COM LISTED 12/24:

FIVE MORE MINUTES by Jude Bettridge

THE ADVENTURES OF INDICO IN STONERLAND. Image.

OVERWINTERING: A ZINE ABOUT FUTURE EARTHS by Jam Doughty

HEY CAT #3 and reprints of earlier issues by Nacho Nova

ATOMKINDER: H.R GIGER CARTOONS 1960-1967 published by Rotland Press.

Image.

DOMINO BOOKS NEW AND RESTOCKS:

JAYWALK #3 (Domino Books) edited by Floyd Tangeman. Contributors include: Jade Mar, James Tonra, Nazir Hedgepeth, Marlene Frontera, Richard Alexander, Chaia Startz, and Nate Doyle. Available for Pre-order.

BLAH BLAH BLAH #3 published by Juliette Collet. Available from Domino Books.

HEELAGE #4 anthology edited by Ian Sundahl.

TSK! TSK! A STEVE DITKO TRIBUTE by Ian Sundahl.

REPTILE HOUSE #11 The famous Philadelphia underground comics anthology, many earlier issues are also available from Domino.

Missed this! THE GLASS CHAMBER #0 by the incredible Tia Roxae.

THREE RESTOCKS AND ONE NEW ISSUE OF THIS POPULAR SERIES BY NATE DOYLE:

All four issues available at dominobooks.org

Here are a couple holdovers from Previews World, you should be able to find them at your LCS:

A rare reissue of a Fantagraphics Underground title from a different publisher.

New Daria Tessler coming May 9, 2023 from Fantagraphics. 

My favorite mainstream title by far in 2022. I wish much future success to Nick Cagnetti.