Upcoming Furry Comics for November 2003

Doodles and Treesong wiegh in with this month's upcoming comics list.Whew! Worldcon takes a lot out of a rabbit. But here it is, time for another listing of what's coming up in comics, based on the Diamond Comics catalog. Before I get into the list, let me just say that if you love comics, and indy comics especially, then The Beguiling in Toronto is Mecca. I could have walked in there with a suitcase full of cash and walked out broke. Happy, but broke. Check out their website: www.beguiling.com and see for yourself.

Speaking of websites, it has occurred to me that if I can give you site links to the publishers, you can see some of this stuff for yourself. Maybe if you can check out sample pages, you'll order a few more of these titles. And don't forget to check out back issues, either.

Lots of good stuff, including some holiday releases, so let's get going.

pg 22
DARK HORSE
Website: www.darkhorse.com
Usagi Yojimbo #71 - $2.99 - order #SEP030022
This issue's story is "Bells," a tale of the early life of Usagi's mentor Katsuichi.

pg 110
DC COMICS
Website: www.dccomics.com
Looney Tunes #108 - $2.25 - order #SEP030285
Foghorn plays detective, Bugs plays with motorbikes, and Charlie Dog plays with Santa. Gee, I only get to play with myself...

Cartoon Cartoons #24 - $2.25 - order #SEP030286
Featuring "Cow and Chicken." You've been warned.

Powerpuff Girls #44 - $2.25 - order #SEP030287
This issue goes to the dogs (and cats), as the talking dog of Townsville goes up against the evil mind-controlling kitty. Nice to see DC stopped requiring mandatory drug testing for their freelancers.

Scooby-Doo #78 - $2.25 - order #SEP030288
The gang chases ghost gold miners and dragons. You'll understand if I cheer on the dragons, hmmmm?

pg 113
Thundercats: Hammerhand's Revenge #2 - $2.95 - order #SEP030305
Lion-O is captured, just like in half the plotlines we've seen before. I'd like to see Snarf get captured, then left to die. That would be the most popular comic in ten years.

Superman/Thundercats - $5.95 - order #SEP030306
BECAUSE NOBODY DEMANDED IT! Judd Winick has done far better work than this. So have Ale Garza and Trevor Scott. But, Time Warner has to pay for those executive brunches _somehow._

pg 201
AARDAPPEL COMICS
Website: www.swabteam.com
Swab Team #1 - $3.50 - order #SEP031965
This title by Kristiaan Erlingen and Wim Tilkin stars a team of anthromorphs who travel the world fighting anuimal abuse. Will they be able to beat the Mary Kay Commandos? Oh wait, that's Berke Breathed.

ABOUT COMICS
Website: www.aboutcomics.com
Licensable Bear #1 - $2.95 - order #SEP031971
In this satire by Nat Gertler, with art by numerous creators, stars the title character, who's cute as a button and wants nothing more out of the world than to whore himself out for corporate interests. You'd think he'd have emigrated to Japan for that.

pg 206
AIRWAVE COMICS
Website: http://www.somuch.com/artistmb/home.htm
Yets! #1 - $3.50 - order #SEP031993
A new title by Mike Bocianowski. Daredevil guinea pig Sir Perry and his cuddlemutt Spec head off across the Omniverse in search of dragons, and they meet many strange creatures including the fire-breathing Yets.

pg 214
ANTARCTIC PRESS
Website: www.antarctic-press.com
Gold Digger #47 - $2.99 - order #SEP032029

Mangazine #49 - $9.99 - order #SEP032031

Ninja High School #111 - $3.50 - order #SEP032032

pg 232
BRASS BALL COMICS
Website: http://www.gistudios.com/Bubba/
Bubba The Redneck Werewolf #3 - $2.95 - order #SEP032139
Bubba's origin. Like this is difficult? Some cracker got his ass bit and now he's hairy every full moon. Well, hairy-er...

pg 236
BROCCOLI INTERNATIONAL
Website: http://wholesale.animegamers.com/
Di Gi Charat Theatre Vol. 1 & 2 - $9.99 each - order #'s SEP032142 & 2143
The manga adventures of Dejiko, Puchiko, Rabi en Rose and Piyoko come to the US, in two volumes of material from artist/writer Koge Donbo. It's Dejiko's world, folks. We're just livin' in it.

pg 272
DREAMWAVE PRODUCTIONS
Website: http://www.dreamwaveprod.com/
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6 - $2.95 - order #SEP032241

pg 285
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Website: www.fantagraphics.com
Alice in Sexland Extreme #5 - $3.50 - order #SEP032309
ADULTS ONLY The girls are still having lots of fun with their little bat-winged friend, so why don't we just watch and try not to get the pages sticky, okay?

pg 288
GEMSTONE PUBLISHING
Website: http://www.gemstonepub.com/
There's so much good stuff from this company, folks, that rather than try to
list it all in detail, just assume that whatever you get, you'll be pleased. I swear, half my comics budget goes to these guys.

Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #1 - $8.95 - order #SEP032320

Donald Duck Adventures TPB #3 - $7.95 - order #SEP032321

Donald Duck & Friends #310 - $2.95 - order #SEP032322

pg 290
Mickey Mouse and Friends #259 - $2.95 - order #SEP032323

Uncle Scrooge #324 - $6.95 - order #SEP032324

Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #639 - $6.95 - order #SEP032326

pg 304
KOMIKWERKS
Website: www.komikwerks.com
Komikwerks Vol. 2 TPB - $9.95 - order #SEP032392
This collection of numerous indy comics creators includes several funny animal stories, so it's a nice smorgasbrod of the unique and the unusual.

pg 306
MONKEYSUIT PRESS
Website: www.monkeysuit.com
Adventures of Mia #1 - $3.50 - order #SEP032400
This is a new title that premiered at ComicCon last July, and I was fortunate enough to get a copy for myself, as well as meet the primary artist, Enrico Casarosa. Also on the creative team are Mike Lapinski and Amy McNamara. It's a wonderful set of tales about a young female aviator living on the Italian Riviera in the 1930's, and I can't reccommend it highly enough. Please do give it a try.

pg 310
MU PRESS
Website: http://www.mupress.com/
Wild #3 - $3.75 - order #SEP032419
ADULTS ONLY "The Treasure of the De Lanceys" by Paul Kidd and Mark Moore
concludes, and Zephrey Hughes adds a tale of a hunter and his "Prey."

pg 312
ONI PRESS
Website: http://www.onipress.com/
Jingle Belle Volume 3: Dash Away All TP - $11.95 - order #SEP032439
In this tale by Paul Dini, with art by Jose Garibaldi, Jing has to take over from her father's job when Santa and the elves are all laid up with pneumonia. Christmas is doomed.

pg 313
RADIO COMIX
Website: www.radiocomix.com
Furrlough #131 - $2.99 - order #SEP032454
In this issue of the long-running anthology, a new epic by Gary Bedell called "Sky Lords" premieres. Add in more "Ebin and May" by Smudge and some shorts by David Goodman and Eddie Perkins, and you have a healthy part of a balanced breakfast.

pg 316
SHANDA FANTASY ARTS
Website: http://www.shandafantasyarts.net/
Furry Ninja High School Strikes Back #2 - $4.99 - order #SEP032481

Shanda the Panda #39 - $4.99 - order #SEP032482
A snowstorm descends on the denizens of Cedar Rabbits, both figuratively and literally, as Wing's plans take shape while the cast labors in the grip of a blizzard.

That's it for this month, gang! See you in 30!

From Treesong:

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
PAGE 220 SEP032079E SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #130 $2.19: color,
32pg
by Bollers, Butler, Higgins, Amash & Axer

DREAMWAVE
PAGE 273 SEP032242E TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ANIMATED
VOL 1 TP #1
$9.95: color, 7x10, 104p
Written by Peter David, Pencils by LeSean
Collecting issues #1-4.

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
PAGE 285 SEP032303F IRON WAGON SC #1 $ 12.95: 80p
by Jason
A reoffering (STAR18930), but we didn't mention it the first time. 'An evocative murder mystery set in the Norwegian countryside, boiling with passion, buried past crimes, revelations, and ambiguous characters. Translated into English, it recasts the story with Jason's iconic animal characters from his previous novel Sshhhh!'