Look on the bright side: most weeks there won’t be enough good new releases to bother with.

Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo is a supernatural adventure series about a boy who must recover 48 of his body parts from 48 devils. There’s a generous preview available online. Tezuka can make gore seem brutally charming. If anyone has played the PS2 adventure game based on this series, let me know if it’s worth tracking down. Thoreau at Walden is a departure for mini-comics king John Porcellino; a thoroughly researched children’s book about Henry David Thoreau. Wordless Books is a collection of early twentieth century woodprints, some of the earliest examples of sequential art. Gon is more than just a Tekken unlockable. It’s a silent, beautifully illustrated series about the most kick-ass theropod this side of Devil Dinosaur. And he’s back in print with Vol 4. released this week. Dave Sim marks his return to comics with Glamourpuss, which combines eighties fashion with straw (wo)man arguements. The artwork is gorgeous, but I expect the writing to be tedious. I hope to get my hands on it! I always look forward to the new Usagi Yojimbo, one of American comics best kept secrets. While it usually costs me three bucks to remember everything that’s messed-up about superhero comics, DC Universe Zero will do it for only fifty cents. No, you’re not having a flashback, they just can’t think of anything new: Youngblood #3, Marvel Comics Presents #8, New Warriors #11. No love for Darkhawk? And this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, I’ll be taking a look at the availble titles later in the week.

Support your local comics shop! Unless it sucks, then don’t!

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