The Gosh! Authority 23.07.25

Hello!

In case you missed the news last week, we are hiring! Yes, after 3 years at La Casa Gosh, Emma is making a parallel shift in the industry out of retail and into other exciting endeavours! So we have a bookseller opening that we are now taking applications for until the 1st August. Get all the details here!

Still some delays happening with DC product, but we've been told this should be resolved in the next couple of weeks. It's all a bit of a SNAFU that's connected to all the distribution nonsense in the States, but rest assured the books are coming. We're deeply sorry for any disappointment in the short term. This week there's no sign of last week or this week's DC books, sadly. Expect an imminent DC tidal wave week.

It's not all negative, though: this week we've got a bunch of Twomorrows mags inbound, and Fantastic Four Fanfare #3 has a story by Dan Slott and Marcos Martin!

AUGUST CATALOGUES

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

No other publishers ready yet, but I'll update each week.

No events this week, so on with the comics!

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• THIS ENDS TONIGHT #1 - A three-issue series by Jae Lee and Gerry Duggan set in the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas, as two sisters do their bloody best to avoid a cadre of assassins on their tail. This a passion project for Lee, and he's poured a lot into it, making for the most gorgeous looking grindhouse tribute you ever did see. This actually snuck in last week as all the Image stuff turned up unannounced!

• VOICE SAID KILL #1 - Si Spurrier and Vanessa del Rey launch a 4-issue Louisiana-set crime thriller. You can almost feel the sweat in del Rey's moody art as all kinds of crazy gets unleashed around heavily pregnant park ranger Marie Burgau. A swampy crime treat!

• 10,000 INK STAINS HC - A memoir by Jeff Lemire going back through all of his creator-owned projects, looking at their origins and development. But as you might expect from Lemire, there's also a more personal element, tying each project to times in his life and how each impacted the other.

• LOOK INTO MY EYES #1 - A conspiracy-obsessed teen investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl in a small, sleepy town. She soon learns that things aren't quite right under Cravenwood's placid surface. What is the mysterious app the townsfolk all seem to use? And what are those strange shapes appearing in the shadows? Creepy horror stuff from writer & artist Rubine Cubiles.

• GHOST PEPPER #1 - A post-near-apocalyptic street food vendor teams up with a mysterious superhuman for business reasons, only to be caught up in trying to save the world from the same threat that nearly ended it last time. Ludo Lullabi writes and draws this one. (Another Image book which actually shipped last week!)

• POST MALONE'S BIG RIG #1 - Musician Post Malone appears to be a bit of a comics fan, co-creating this horror-fantasy-trucking series with Adrian F. Wassel & Nathan Gooden. Turns out a secret demon-fighting sect in the dark ages summoned an evil-smiting hauling machine that still rolls on! Ten four, good buddy!

• GODZILLA #1 - IDW launch what they're calling the Kai-Sei era of Godzilla comics, kind of a reboot by Tim Seeley and Nikola Čižmešija, with a new mythology underlying it all. Kai-Sei is the energy that the kaiju harness, and there's one boy who also has that ability, something the US military is keen to put to use. 

• TEXARCANUM #1 - The supernatural forces of the world gravitate to the American heartland, where they come face to face with each other, and a kind of cowboy John Constantine named Avery Belle. A twister of western horror noir by Christopher Monfette and Miguel Martos.

And that's it! See you next time!

Andrew.