Holiday on Monday means new releases get pushed back a day…

Return to Wonderland HC
Raven Gregory interview

Raven Gregory’s reimagining of Alice in Wonderland gets collected in a hardcover.

Also this week:
JSA Classified #38. Art by Shawn Martinbrough.
Justice V1 TP. Pencils by Doug Braithwaite.
Immortal Iron Fist #15. Pencils by Khary Evans.
New Warriors #12, Young Avengers Presents #5 (of 6). Written by Kevin Grevioux.
Thor #9, Marvel 1985 #1 (of 6). Pencils to the former and cover for the latter by Olivier Coipel.
Satchel Paige HC, SC. The two-time GCA winner is offered again.
Sentinels Anthology GN

Also notable:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull #2 (of 2)
Batman #677. “Batman: RIP” continues.
Final Crisis #1 (of 7), All-Star Superman #11. Grant Morrison writes two of the hottest comics on the market, including the former, DC’s big event mini-series for 2008.
Giant-Sized Astonishing X-Men #1. Whedon, Cassaday, mutants, blah blah blah.
King-Sized Hulk #1. Red Hulk fights a lotta heroes. Written by Jeph Loeb.
New Avengers #41. Secret Invasion tie-in.
Fathom #0. Michael Turner’s little side-project.
La Perdida TP, What It Is HC. Two GNs by two outstanding women creators – Jessica Abel and Lynda Barry, respectively.

Less than a week to go until The Big Move and yeah, I’m getting nervous. I’m still in the process of whittling down the things I’m gonna take with me to Columbus and throwing away the junk. you would not believe how much junk I’ve accumulated over the years – artwork, comics, clothes, books, assorted papers, CDs, tapes, art supplies – if nothing else, this move has forced me to finally get rid of all of it and it feels great. I’ve moved entire boxes of comics into one of my closets, knowing that there are more than a few I’ve yet to read and probably never will at this point. I suspect I’ll cut back on my comics buying for the first few months I’m in Columbus.

I feel I should stress the fact that I’m reserving the right to change my mind and return to NYC at some point in the future if things don’t work out. I’m treating this like it’s a permanent move, and technically it is, but I’d still like to have that back door available to me.

On Sunday I went to the superhero costume show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s not bad. They have fashion wear from big-name designers inspired by superhero costumes, past and present, along with costumes from superhero films and TV shows. I don’t know the first thing about high fashion, so I can’t critique the show properly – I mean, the fashion wear, to me, ranged from the utilitarian to the bizarre, but they were all kinda interesting interpretations, I guess. Lots of people were there to see it – young and old and in-between. If nothing else, this show has definitely come at just the right time in American pop culture history.

One on-topic item I wanna pass on here: One of the fixtures at ECBACC for the past few years has been filmmaker M. Asli Dukan, who is in the final stages of completing her documentary about blacks in science fiction, Invisible Universe. She still needs to raise some money, though, so visit her site and check out her trailer, and if you can, make a tax-deductible donation.