Upcoming Releases: June 2015

JUNE 2015

Devlin Waugh: Red Tide by John Smith & Sean Phillips.
2000AD Graphic Novels ISBN 978-1781083444, 18 June 2015, 176pp, £18.99.
Vampirism can be a bally intolerable nuisance to one's social life - ask Devlin Waugh. Having been transformed into a blood-sucking fi end when on a mission for the Vatican, the one-time Corinthian is now a shadow of his old, jovial self. But now a terrifying evil from Devlin's past has returned with an unquenchable thirst for mayhem. Will the former connoisseur of au courant be equipped to defeat this menace? Or is the world destined to suffer in the putrescent grip of this supernatural, degenerate force? This transcendent tome is brought to you by the considerable talents of John smith (Indigo Prime) Colin McNeil (Judge Dredd) John Burns (Nikolai Dante), Sean Phillips (Fatale), Peter Doherty (The Dreaming) and Jock (Batman).
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Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 10 by John Wagner & others.
2000AD ISBN 978-1781083697, 9 June 2015, 336pp, £13.20.
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Remembered Reading.  Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood by Mel Gibson.
Leuven University Press ISBN 978-9462700307, June 2015, 224pp, €55.00 [£48.00].
A reader's history exploring girls' comics.
    Girls' comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain and the most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers' history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context. 
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Troy Trailblazer and the Horde Queen by Robert Deas.
David Fickling Books (Phoenix Presents) ISBN 978-1910200469, 64pp, £7.99.
Troy Trailblazer and his team of intergalactic adventurers hold the future in their hands! Can they save the universe from the villainous Horde Queen before the past catches up with them?
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The V.C.'s: Hell in the Heavens by Gerry Finley-Day, Cam Kennedy, Mike McMahon, Garry Leach & Steve McManus.
2000AD Graphic Novels ISBN 978-1781083284, 18 June 2015, 144pp, £6.99.
By 2531, humanity had colonised the solar system. Warfare and barbarity had all but been forgotten. Then the 'Geeks' arrived - a deadly alien species with only one thing on their dark, unfathomable minds...the extinction of the human race! And so, humankind was forced to battle once more, this time amongst the stars, in space patrol ships crewed by the V.C.'S (aka Vacuum Cleaners). New recruit Steve Smith is ready for action, but first he must face a fight closer to home, and gain the acceptance of his combat-hardened crew mates.
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White Trash by Gordon Rennie & Martin Emond.
Titan Comics ISBN 978-1781168219, 16 June 2015, 128pp, £14.99.
A crazy journey across teh USA in one of the most unique and groundbreaking comics ever! The greatest buddy road comic EVER! Join slacker surfer dude Dean and The King, legendary gold-laméd rock'n'roller, as they take their pink Cadillac into the soft, white supremacist, Evangelical brimstone underbelly of the good ol' US of A!
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