The Gosh! Authority 11.11.26

Hello!

 

It's Thought Bubble Weekend! Yes, the UK's best comics festival (I said it) returns to Harrogate with a bevy of guests, vendors, panels and workshops. Details here. Sounds like an excuse for some events!

First up, Wednesday, 6-7pm, artist Raul Allen will be here to sign copies of his Abrams ComicArts graphic novel Doctor Strange Endless Nightmare! Details here. A signed standalone Doctor Strange graphic novel? Sounds like a good gift for the Strangeomaniac in your life. Just sayin...

But don't go home yet, because straight after that, Reads, the graphic novel reading group, will be descending on Gosh to chat about the Alan Moore & David Lloyd masterpiece V For Vendetta! It is November, after all. Details here.

Not enough? Then come back Thursday, 6-7pm, for a triple signing in association with Thought Bubble! Adam de Souza, Karl Stevens and Mahdi Khene will all be here to sign copies of their work and have a lovely chat before heading to Harrogate. Don't miss them! Details here.

Here's one for you fans of our yearly Best Of lists: look to Friday 20th November and Saturday 21st November for the announcement of our Best of 2026 Adult and Kids lists, respectively. Twenty of our favourite titles of the year for chin-stroking adults and feverish ankle-biters alike. Something for everyone in those lists, so keep your peepers open.

Alright, alright, let's get to the comics. It's a pretty decent week for the middle of the month!

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #21 - The big kahuna of literary comics is back, and as you might expect he's gone anything but conventional with the format. ANL #21 is a boxed set, containing three saddle-stitched pamphlet comics and a folded newspaper strip section that are as immaculately presented as you might imagine from Chris Ware. Filled with the usual mix of gently disappointed oddballs, this will undoubtedly be one of the great books of the year from one of comics' greatest talents.

• Oh, and did I mention we have a signing with Chris Ware coming up on the 23rd November? Because we do! Details here.

• UNFINISHED TALES HC - The latest from Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips (and just as the trailer for the Criminal streaming show finally dropped!). We're stepping away from the Criminal universe again for a tale of a writer, an unfinished fantasy novel, and an unhealthy collaboration that might end in murder.

• SCOTT PILGRIM EX: DAWN OF METAL SCOTT #1 - Bryan Lee O'Malley returns to his most beloved creation with a prequel comic to the sequel video game, Scott Pilgrim EX. Given the latter is a sequel to his unfinished animated series, I guess this is also a sequel to that? Which was a retelling of the original series. But was never finished. Man, I dunno, it's a new 16-page Scott Pilgrim comic written and drawn by O'Malley with a bunch of back matter to flesh it out, alright? Whattaya want from me?

• DEICIDIUM VOLUME 01 TP RETURNED - Ram V. and Evan Cagle unleash holy war in this sci-fi series which sees a future ruled by corporate religion sent into upheaval when the old gods return. But the new religions are prepared, enabling 12 orphans with god-killing abilities. Pretty ambitious: this is a series of original graphic novels that will embrace an epic scope.

• MOTHER, PLEASE DON'T GIVE BIRTH TO A MONSTER GN - Living the Line's "Smudge Manga" series continues with another translation of a classic Shirakawa Marina manga. His final work from 1988, this bizarro tale of a family who live off the fruits of half-human, half-cow hybrids will be right in the wheelhouse of many. Yes, you know who you are!

• SNAIL #1 - A one-shot horror tale by Garth Ennis and John McCrea, with all the potential for tongue-in-cheek genre-busting that creative team might imply. The moral of the story would appear to be "don't make deals with a talking snail", which I could have told you for nothing, honestly. But they'll probably tell you in a much more entertaining manner.

• PREDATOR VS PUNISHER #1 - It's P versus P on the streets of NYC! (I missed my calling.) Frank Castle is engaged in his battle against the ne'er-do-wells of New York when everybody's favourite tusked killers make an appearance. Frank Tieri and Jesus Saiz bop the toys together. 

• RIP KIRBY #1 - Alex Raymond and Ward Greene's legendary private investigator returns in a new series by writer Christopher Sebela and artist Tango. It's New York City in the post-war era, a place of booming business and incredible corruption, and Rip and his colleagues are having to adjust to the complicated new world in which they find themselves.

And that's me!

Andrew.

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November Catalogues

Catalogues for DC, Image, Titan and a number of others (in the "Next Phase" catalogue) can be found here each month. 

Catalogues for Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom, IDW and others (in the "PRH Panels" catalogue) can be found here each month.