The Gosh! Authority 15.01.25

Hello!

It's the first Reads of 2025 this week! This time around London's premier monthly graphic novel reading group is taking on the first volume of Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers (one of our books of the year). Whether it's your fist session or your 50th, all are welcome! Get the details here.

I've been asked a bit about what's happening with our sale this year. I can confirm we'll be doing the usual sale of heavily reduced graphic novels from early February for two weeks, so expect the tube table upstairs to be covered with boxes of bargains. In terms of back issues, I'm afraid we won't be doing a back issue sale this year. We're in the process of getting a couple of terrific collections out, and we've just got too much good stuff in the pipeline to be knocking anything down. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but hey: point that spending at those GN boxes!

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #1 (OF 12) - Chris Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio introduce us to the Maker's number one enforcer, the man known as the Winter Soldier. That's Wolverine to you and me, as his life takes a very different trajectory to the Wolvie of 616. Liking the sound of this. In interviews Condon talks about leaning into an action horror vibe, and it ties heavily into Deniz Camp's Ultimates run, so sounds like it'll hit that same realistic supes target.

• YOU WONT FEEL A THING #1 - Scott Snyder and Jock haven't quite gotten round to the next series of Wytches just yet (here's hoping the upcoming animated series hurries it along), but we can console ourselves with this new DSTLRY mini-series. A retired detective is suffering from cognitive impairment due a brain tumour. He's in slow decline in a retirement home, but when a cold serial killer case from his past resurfaces, he takes it on himself to track the murderer down. Trouble is, he's the only one who believes the killer is still out there. 

• GRAND ELECTRIC THOUGHT POWER MOTHER HC - A collection of six mini-comics by acclaimed North American artist Lale Westvind. Westvind's style is full of expressive dynamism, leading to some genuinely exciting art comics. Not for everyone, but absolute catnip if you're inclined to experimental work. 

• ROGUE THE SAVAGE LAND #1 (OF 5) - Revisit the halcyon days of Uncanny X-Men #274, where a depowered Rogue hangs out with Magneto and Ka-Zar in the Savage Land. Tim Seeley and Zulema Scotto Lavina dish out some Untold Tales of 1991 to scratch the nostalgia itch.

• HOWL #1 (OF 5) - A bit of 50's weird sci fi from Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet, as a young woman comes to Greenwich Village looking to become a writer. Falling in with a science fiction author, she begins to feel as though she might never be more than his muse in a male-dominated world of pulp authors and beat poets. That is until the small matter of an alien invasion spearheaded by parasitic spores rears its head.

• SHADOW OF THE GOLDEN CRANE #1 - BPRD agent Sue Xiang gets her own moment to shine as she's forced to investigate the Golden Crane Society, a centuries-old Chinese organisation which has battled supernatural threats (and to which her family has long belonged). Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson and Michael Avon Oeming are behind this one.

And that's it from me for another (rather tiny) week! Au revoir!

Andrew.