Previews also has incorrect information about the art on these books.

Ed Northcott is illustrating #1 – Turning Japanese.

However, Ramon Perez (ButternutSquash.net) is illustrating #2 – Suddenly Last Summer.

The Ice Wanderer [OT: Tôdo no Tabibito]
by Jirô Taniguchi
$21,99 (SC) / 240 pages / b&w
Fanfare / Ponent Mon
Taniguchi probably doesn’t need an introduction anymore, just more works in print. I bought this one last year, when the French edition was published, and it’s quite a nice collection of one-shots. Preview pages can be found at the French publisher’s site or with Ponent Mon (in Spanish).

Babysitters Club, vol.2
by Ann M. Martin and Raina Telgemeier
$16,99 (HC) or $8,99 (SC) / 144 pages / b&w
Scholastic / Graphix
I’m still miffed that Diamond originally solicited the first volume as HC only and didn’t list the SC until last month, but now I’ll stick with the hardcovers. It is that good. Unfortunately the publisher’s preview pages aren’t up yet.

Degrassi: Extra Credit
vol.1 – Turning Japanese
vol.2 – Suddenly Last Summer
by J. Torres and Ed Northcott
$10,99 (SC) / 128 pages / b&w
Pocket Books
Not by Arune Singh, as Previews apparently believes. I don’t know anything about these books apart from the one page shown here, but that looks easily good enough to make me try the first volume. Also Mr. Torres is a writer I have liked on quite a couple of other series.

All-Action Classics – Dracula
by Michael Mucci and Ben Caldwell
All-Action Classics – Tom Sawyer
by Tim Mucci and Rad Sechrist
$6,95 (SC) / 128 pages / full color
Sterling Publishing
I liked Caldwell on his own Dare Detectives, even though the story was a bit chaotic. And the preview pages he has on his site look very nice.

Gypsy [OT: Gipsy]
by Thierry Smolderen and Enrico Marini
$14,95 (SC) / 164 pages / full color
Heavy Metal Magazine
SF Action/Thriller. I remember reading a couple of the early volumes at the library when I was younger (some 8-10 years back). I remember it as being quite good (though I suppose I was more intrigued by the art than by the story), but I never had the chance to reread it. Interesting to see this collection of the first 3 albums (of 6 to date) out now. The HM site doesn’t have any previews (that I saw), but the covers can be viewed here and Dargaud, the original publisher, does show some pages from the sixth album.

~Sebastian

Yet now I’ll probably get Project: Romantic, Agnes Quill and Ragmop instead.

On the DH 20 years thing, I actually got a 25 cent book with a very similiar tile which was all pinups. That really ticked me off, as I thought it was a sample book.