After Chris Marshall’s interview with Fantagraphic’s Kim Thompson, I ordered the new edition of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. I’ve never read much of Foster’s work even though I’ve always known about it. I finally got the book yesterday and was easily blown away by it. I spent all night looking at Foster’s pages and realized that so many modern artists that I like were heavily influenced by Foster. It’s a fantastic looking book.
On to this week’s haul…
- Demo Vol 2 #1– Sometimes I can’t figure out the way that my comic shop works. Many a moon ago, I had the original Demo on my pull list. I wonder if this one will still show up on it. If not, I’m just probably going to end up tradewaiting this series and will read it sometime during the summer.
- Sweet Tooth #6– Here’s another title I’m stuck on. It’s by a creator that I want to support but I think my enjoyment of it will be so much more when I can read a huge chunk of it. If I end up doing another purge, I think this will be dropped as monthly book while I sit out and wait for the trade. That seems to be happening to me a lot lately.
- Dominic Fortune It Can Happen Here And Now TP– I’m a Howard Chaykin fanboy so I’m looking forward to having a nice collection of his most recent story. It was a nice pulpy story from Chaykin that ultimately ended up with a showdown in the Oval Office and using FDR as a weapon. Fun stuff.
- Criminal Sinners #4– Even if I’m down on single issues, I’ll never be down on this book. Any day that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s Criminal is out is a good day.
- Slam Dunk Vol 8 GN– Still featuring fun basketball hijinks.
Criminal is just about the only book that’s valuable to have in both single issues & collections. While the story is the thing, the backmatter is some of the best stuff I read every month (and usually leads to me immediately re-ordering my Netflix queue).
That Dominick Fortune book is so tempting this week, but it may have to wait until I can splurge on myself.
Glad I can help you spend your money, Scott.
You may also want to pick up The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion also from Fantagraphics.