FOC, JUNE 24 - Walt's Comic Shop

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George R. Not Martin! Daddy Issues and Peter Parker’s Ex! Campfire-Level Chills! Gods, Not Heroes!

Happy solstice, everyone. I hope you're using the extra daylight hours to lie around, read, and stay out of this godforsaken heat. Before you pass out, here are a few more items to add to your stack:

Looks like he can’t handle the hard questions, man!

Unfinished Tales HC, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

Check it out, Brubaker heads: Our guy (and his artistic BFF, Sean Phillips) is dropping a big one just in time for the holidays. Unfinished Tales is about a fantasy writer who makes a dark pact to finish his new book, but, inevitably, things go off the rails. We’re told to expect a combination of Lord of the Rings and The Talented Mr. Ripley, which is music to my ears. While Brubaker can write pitch-perfect noir in his sleep, something really special happens when he applies his talents to unexpected genres. (Big nod to all the Friday fans out there.)

Unfinished Tales HC

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Or maybe you’re in the mood for something goofier?

Venom War Omnibus Carlos Gomez Cover HC

Ding ding! In Venom War, father and son Eddie and Dylan Brock battle for the right to wield the slobbery tongue and spooky teeth. But in charge of this title fight is your favorite writer, Al Ewing. So expect clever plotting, unexpected kindness, lovingly meta commentary on the goofiness that is comics...and pro wrestling. And that’s not even getting into the undead symbiotes, AKA Zombiotes! But the centerpiece, of course, is a star turn by perennial WCS employee of the month Jeff the Land Shark. Pick this one up immediately and let Al Ewing suplex your mind.

Venom War Omnibus Iban Coello Cover HC

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Venom War Omnibus Carlos Gomez Cover HC [DM Only]

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Or maybe you want something chilling in the summer heat?

Every line is so incredibly unsettling.

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition

In the dead of winter in 1913, Wilbur Whateley is born, shrouded in dread, in the decaying Massachusetts town of Dunwich. Wilbur is malformed, albino, and unnatural. Aging rapidly, he’s a full-grown man within just ten years.

Educated only by the rare occult books in the family farmhouse, Wilbur eventually seeks out the Necronomicon and, with it, the power to open a horrific portal and bring phantasmagoric alien beings to Earth. Gou Tanabe’s H.P. Lovecraft manga adaptation is so nightmarish that modern horror master Junji Ito ended up abandoning his own version, convinced it could never measure up.

H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror Deluxe Edition (Manga)

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But despite all these great options, for me, the big pick of the week has to be:

Thor By Jason Aaron Omnibus Vol. 1.

Less cape and gym time, more myth and sacrifice.

Thor By Jason Aaron Omnibus Vol. 1 Russell Dauterman Cover HC [New Printing, DM Only]

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I collected this run when it was coming out in single issues and was absolutely astounded by the scale of the work. It’s the best Jason Aaron story I’ve ever read, uniting various depictions of a character I’d honestly never much cared about into a single version embodying not just the power of a god, but the responsibility and scale as well. But as good as Aaron is here, it might not have worked without an artist of Ribic’s caliber. The density and weight in his work really make this feel like the stuff of myth.

Pick it up.