Posted by Scott VanderPloeg on Jun 27, 2011 in Pick Five | 0 commentsWe don’t focus on upcoming books enough here at Comic Book Daily so for the last Pick Five of the month I’ll be looking at the top July 2011 collections that are supposed to ship. It’s a solid month with a ton of great product. Descriptions in italics are from the publisher’s solicitations. Please note they’ll ship in July to comic book shops: online book retailers get theirs a little later if you’re buying off the links below.
5. Dave Stevens Complete Sketchbook Collection
I have a few of his original sketchbooks and they are truly wonderful. This hardcover collection will present them in all their glory at a good price and with much, much better production.
4. Turf
This one has it all with a mixture of genres so bizarre it has to work. Edwards’ art really shines.
3. Incognito: Bad Influences
This creative team can do no wrong these last few years. A great take on being the bad guy and what that life is really like for a super villian.
2. Like A Sniper Lining Up His Shot
A very violent and staccato story that must to seen. If you’re a fan of Incognito and Brubaker’s work then you owe it to yourself to pick this up and it’s prequel West Coast Blues.
1. Richard Stark’s Parker: Martini Edition
Darwyn Cooke’s first two Parker books, The Hunter and The Outfit, are collected in a tremendous, special oversized hardcover edition—with an ADDITIONAL 65 pages of Darwyn Cooke content—including a BRAND NEW story and a beautiful slipcase!
The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark’s classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own… and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave.
This very special collection measures an impressive 9 x 13 inches and weighs in at 334 pages. Extras include an extended art gallery section as well as a brand-new 8-page Parker story by Darwyn Cooke, unique to this volume.
It’s Cooke’s Parker at the size it was meant to be seen. Another example of IDW going all out to present material at its finest.
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