The Innocents by Gipi. Fantagraphics. This is my pick for the week. A great book by an italian artist, about a young boy spending a day with his uncle going to see an ex convict. Its very slow and the washed out artwork is nice and sedative. The story doesn’t really go anywhere but it doesn’t really need to.

Loveless # 1 DC/Vertigo. A western by Azzarello(100 bullets). This is the most foul languaged mainstream comic I’ve ever seen DC publish and I’m in love with it. The nice sky colors and the weird post civil war west lend themselves well to this, one of the few western books even being published in any literary format.

Super F**ckers by James Kolchaka, Top SHelf. oh man. this book is funny, but i don’t know that im that into it. Kolchaka’s American Elf is a work of artwork and life, this seems like all the high school jokes you can think off crammed into one book for better and mostly worse.

New Avengers # 12 Marvel We still don’t know who Ronin is, and captain america told a joke! Still my favorite superhero book currently being published. Good week for the funny book store!