Weekly Treats! Welders, expensive men and a big trunk.

Afternoon! Lets go! Potential paper life partners lined up for the picking! A light flurry of new releases on the  trade front this week but a couple of  real gems in our opinion.

DAREDEVIL vol 1  BY MARK WAID Oh at last! we cry, the Hardcover has been unavailable for months and What a lovely treat for a Summer morning  sweet melon and Mr Waid and the  wonderful Paolo Rivera and Marcus Martin for company. Best Mainstream longtights boot currently  visiting us every 15 days or so. Anyway the whole world agrees based upon  the ego swelling Eisner award accolades  its been garnished with.

ELEPHANTMEN HC VOL 05 DEVILISH FUNCTIONS  Chunky book in the (Elephant) House! Look at the size of that fine spine! Glorious value and a hardcover to boot,  Mr Starkings Mr Merrick monikerd  non marsupial swaggers in  trench coat a’flappin!

Goodness its sweltering fancy a double dip? Not a long melted classic from Mr Walls or  Whippy's ice box but your second chance  to spend time way down # 52 Numerical Lane.

GREEN ARROW TP VOL 01 INTO THE WOODS

GRIFTER TP VOL 01 MOST WANTED         KEVIN SMITH BIONIC MAN  TP VOL 01 SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Kevin Smith tinkers under the biceps of  Colt Seavers lookalike y Steve Austin.

Will Maskatron RETURN for the first time,again?    The Underwater Welder  By Jeff Lemire Original Graphic Novel

The long awaited OGN by cavity man himself Mr Jeff Lemire.  As an underwater welder on an  oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph  is used to the immense pressures  of deep-sea work. Nothing, however,  could prepare him for the pressures of  impending fatherhood. As Jack dives  deeper and deeper, he seems to pull  further and further away from his  young wife and their unborn son.  Then one night, deep in the icy solitude  of the ocean floor, something unexplainable  happens. Jack has a mysterious and  supernatural encounter that will  change the course of his life forever. Equal parts blue-collar character  study and mind-bending mystery,  The Underwater Welder is a graphic  novel about fathers and sons, birth  and death, memory and reality,  and the treasures we all bury deep  below the surface. Lets listen in to what the  cool kids are saying... "With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire  has created a moving, brilliant, and  fiercely original work about loss,  longing, and love.  Full of piercing moments that will stay  with you for long after you've finished  reading, The Underwater Welder is a  testament to the basic truth that down  in the depths or up on land, there's  nothing more haunting and wondrous  than the human heart. A masterpiece  of visual storytelling." -- Scott Snyder  (Batman, Swamp Thing, American Vampire) It must be true Scott seems like a  charming chap, sparkling eyes and  square jawed like I’m not flushed  enough already… "A spectacularly unpredictable reading  experience... a roughly 220-page tour de  force with enough emotional resonance  that you might find yourself wiping away  a single tear while closing the book’s final  page. Thus far, this is my favorite original  graphic novel of the year." -- Erik Norris, IGN WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE. Sometimes levity can't make up for brevity... (See above for proof in pudding) Normal service and temperature will resume next weekx