This week’s highlights, with commentary from the NFNT gang:
Natsume’s Book of Friends – Season 3 Premium Edition (NIS America)
Jenny: I don’t think I can gush enough about Natsume’s Book of Friends. It’s a wonderful anime and and I hope NIS eventually releases streamlined editions so they’ll be more practical for libraries to pick up (though I totally covet the frilly ones for myself).
Strobe Edge Volume 3 (Viz, 9781421550701)
Jenny: Strobe Edge is shaping up to be an engaging shojo series about first love, thinking for yourself, and dealing with life’s one constant – change.
Trigun: Multiple Bullets (Dark Horse, 9781616551056)
Jenny: I’m excited to read Nightow’s new flashback story and interested to see what theother contributors do with his classic, lovable, doughnut-devouring hero and his wild west sci-fi setting.
AND NOW FOR THE COMPLETE LIST
The following list of new releases is compiled from Diamond Comic Distributors’ complete weekly shipping list and Anime News Network’s Releases encyclopedia
Graphic Novels
Action Lab Entertainment
- NFL RUSH ZONE GUARDIANS OF THE CORE TP
Archie Comics
- NEW CRUSADERS RISE O/T HEROES TP
- SONIC SAGA TP VOL 02 ORDER FROM CHAOS
Avatar
- CROSSED VOL 05
BOOM! Entertainment
- PEANUTS TP VOL 02
Conundrum Press
- FANNY & ROMEO GN
Dark Horse
- BLOOD C GN VOL 01
- TRIGUN MULTIPLE BULLETS TP
- VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL VOL 19 MERCENARY ROAD
- WILL EISNER LAST DAY IN VIETNAM MEMORY HC
DC Comics
- ALL STAR WESTERN TP VOL 02 LORDS & OWLS
- BATMAN GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT TP NEW ED
- JOE THE BARBARIAN TP
- RED LANTERNS TP VOL 02 DEATH OF RED LANTERNS
- SHADE TP
- SLEEPER OMNIBUS HC
- SUPERMAN REIGN OF DOOMSDAY TP
Fantagraphics
- MESSAGES IN BOTTLE TP COMIC STORIES KRIGSTEIN
Heavy Metal Magazine
- LORNA LEVIATHAN AZPIRI HC
- LORNA DART-AN-GOR BY AZPIRI HC
Humanoids
- LUMINOUS INCAL DLX HC
- MUSE DLX HC
IDW
- ARCHIE BEST OF DAN DECARLO HC VOL 04
- DANGER GIRL GI JOE HC
- DOCTOR WHO 3 TP VOL 01 HYPOTHETICAL GENTLEMAN
- KING AROO HC VOL 02
- ROCKETEER CARGO OF DOOM HC
- STEVE DITKO MONSTERS HC VOL 01 GORGO
- WIZARDS TALE TP
Image
- ART OF TODD MCFARLANE DEVILS IN THE DETAILS TP
- MICE TEMPLAR TP VOL 03
- NO PLACE LIKE HOME TP VOL 01
- SEVERED TP
Kettledrummer Books
- DOWNTOWN HC
- R.I.P.
Kodansha
- NEGIMA OMNIBUS GN VOL 06
Marvel
- AVENGERS INFINITY TP
- KICK-ASS 2 PRELUDE HIT-GIRL PREM HC
- MARVEL ZOMBIES DESTROY TP
- SPIDER-MAN DYING WISH PREM HC
- ULTIMATE COMICS IRON MAN TP
Monkey Rope Press
- IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS GN
Papercutz
- DANCE CLASS HC VOL 04 ON THE WAY TO PARIS
- GERONIMO STILTON HC VOL 12 FIRST SAMURAI
- NANCY DREW & CLUE CREW VOL 02 SLEUTHS
PS Artbooks
- HARVEY HORRORS CHAMBER OF CHILLS SOFTIE TP VOL 02
- ROY THOMAS PRESENTS PHANTOM LADY COLL WORKS HC VOL 01
- ROY THOMAS PRESENTS THE HEAP HC VOL 02
Seven Seas Entertainment
- ALICE IN THE COUNTRY CLOVER CHESHIRE CAT WALTZ GN VOL 04
- MAYO CHIKI! GN VOL 02
Sterling Publishing
- ASTERIX TP VOL 08 ASTERIX IN BRITAIN NEW PTG
Titan
- TANK GIRL EVERYBODY LOVES TANK GIRL HC
Valiant
- ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (NEW) TP VOL 01
- VALIANT MASTERS NINJAK HC VOL 01 BLACK WATER
Vertical
- HEROMAN GN VOL 03
Viz
- BAKUMAN TP VOL 18
- BARRAGE TP VOL 01
- DEMON LOVE SPELL GN VOL 02
- FUSHIGI YUGI GENBU KAIDEN TP VOL 11
- ONE PIECE TP VOL 66
- ORESAMA TEACHER GN VOL 13
- POKEMON ADVENTURES TP VOL 15
- POKEMON THE MOVIE KYUREM VS SWORD OF JUSTICE GN
- PSYREN GN VOL 09
- ROSARIO VAMPIRE SEASON II TP VOL 11
- SKIP BEAT 3-IN-1 ED TP VOL 04
- STROBE EDGE GN VOL 03
- VAMPIRE KNIGHT TP VOL 16
- WINX CLUB GN VOL 06
Yen Press
- BTOOOM GN VOL 01
Anime
NIS America
- Natsume’s Book of Friends – Season 3 Premium Edition
Sentai
- Bodacious Space Pirates – Collection 2
- Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc
Keep in mind that titles are not always available from book vendors on the same dates as they are released in comic book stores, so not all of these will be available everywhere at the same time. Check with your vendors, just to be sure!
