Paul's Picks - Wednesday 9th of July

ANIMAL MAN VOL 06: FLESH AND BLOOD 

[(W) Jamie Delano (A) Steve Pugh & Various (CA) Brian Bolland]

Delano's brilliant run on Animal Man collected for the first time. Delano remaining uncollected by Vertigo is one of the great travesties of modern comics publishing.

DEATH VIGIL #1 (OF 8) 

[(W/A/CA) Stjepan Sejic]

Forty pages of story and art in this contemporary fantasy adventure series written and painted by STJEPAN SEJIC. How do you pronounce STJEPAN  anyway?

GRAYSON #1 

[(W) Tim Seeley (A) Mikel Janin (CA) Andrew Robinson]

Do you like Dick?  I bet you love Dick? I bet you'd love to read a comic FULL of Dick. They should have done a double sized first issue so I could make big Dick jokes. Stop Dicking about and buy this comic.

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. DECLASSIFIED SLIPCASED HC [(W) Troy Benjamin (A/CA) Various]

MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL COLLECTION VOL 67: X-MEN: TWILIGHT OF THE MUTANTS HC 

[(W) Arnold Drake, Roy Thomas (A) Jim Steranko, Neal Adams

Steranko's brief X-Men run and the beginning of Neal Adams'.  'nuff said true believer.

ROBOCOP VS TERMINATOR GALLERY SERIES HC 

[(W) Frank Miller (A/CA) Walter Simonson]

It's like an IDW Artist's edition  but not from IDW.  That's why it's not called Artists's Edition but Gallery Series instead.

ROCKET GIRL VOL 01: TIMES SQUARED 

[(W) Brandon Montclare (A/CA) Amy Reeder]

Teenage sci sfi.

SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1 [(W) Peter David (A) Will Sliney (CA) Simone Bianchi]

Like Spider-Man but from the future.

STRAIN VOL 01 HC 

[(W) David Lapham (A) Mike Huddleston (CA) E.M. Gist]

Based on the novel by Guillermo Del Toro, the same as the imminent TV series.

SUICIDE SQUAD | NEW SUICIDE SQUAD #1 [(W) Sean Ryan (A/CA) Jeremy P. Roberts]

It's got HARLEY QUINN  in it!

USAGI YOJIMBO COLOR SPECIAL ARTIST ONE-SHOT [(W/A/CA) Stan Sakai]

If you've never read Usagi Yojimbo before this is a great place to sample it.