And The Eisner Goes To... My Local Comic Shop

[filkertom]

If I bought comics these days, I'd do so at The Vault of Midnight, downtown on Main Street. Most of my local comic-buying friends go there. It's a hell of a space.

Good enough this year to win an Eisner award at SDCC. Specifically, "The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, given to a store that has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large".

Kudos to the home team. I really have to get down there and get some compilations and graphic novels (I didn't know David Mazzucchelli had a new one, for instance -- it also won an Eisner).

What good stuff are you reading lately?

Comments

[sdelmonte]

I've happier than I have been in some time with the Batman titles on my list. But if you don't like Grant Morrison's mainstream work, or the current events in Gotham, they aren't for you. And not all of the books are good. Most are, though. Red Robin - what they call Tim Drake now - is particularly good.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

That's cool. I picked up the first Scott Pilgrim graphic novel at Vault of Midnight last week, to read in preparation for the movie, but haven't actually read it yet.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Tim Drake is one of the best characters they've created in many years. But I have to shake my head in bemusement at how hard they've been trying to make Kingdom Come canon.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I'm incredibly pleased. Curt, Liz, and crew do a great job. Today I finished off this week's purchases: Red Mass For Mars, Brave and the Bold (the Legion of Substitute Heroes and the Inferior Five), Echo, Brightest Day, Prince of Power, PS 238, Legion of Super Heroes, Meta 4, and the trade paperback collection of Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

While I am cutting back on series, I still read Knights of the Dinner Table (half tabletop rpg comic, half rpg magazine), Billy Batson & the Power of Shazam (DC Kids title that is unfortunately ending in a few months), Legion of Super-Heroes (the series that I have been reading since I started reading comics), PS238 (GREAT independant comic that survived Diamond dropping most independants), and some tie-ins to other media I follow (like IDW's Dr Who series). A lot of my comic reading has converted over to web comics.

[the-yoyogod.livejournal.com]

Since I know the author and it's looking to be a pretty good horror title, I'd like to recommend Brian Keene's The Last Zombie. The first issue just came out a couple of weeks ago, and it was awesome.

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

The last comic store I set foot in was The Vault of Midnight sometime a couple of years ago when I was up that way. Yeah, I'm a lapsed comics nerd, but it was still a cool comics store.

[blindaurora.livejournal.com]

I just bought WashOut, one of the Firelfly comics one-offs from Darkhorse.