1. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 ed. by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion Points) $29.95 – Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Tesco Vee and Steve Miller were at Quimby’s this past weekend signing copies of this collected edition. Tesco’s charmingly tattooed son came, and while here Tesco fielded a phone call from his daughter who had just in a fist fight. Ah, the next generation makes itself known.
2. Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea (Koyama Press) $5.00 – This amazing atomic ninja turtle meltdown with extra cheese includes a breakdown of Krang’s perverse relationship with his android body and putty portraits of Bebop and Rocksteady. Turdle Power! -EF
3. Al Burian Goes To Hell by Al Burian (Migraine) $6.00 – We just learned that this periodical is actually an unauthorized bootleg of one of Al’s college assignments from many years ago and have opted not to sell it anymore. For more information, see Al’s blog.
4. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF
5. Why Be Something That You’re Not Detroit Hardcore 1979 to 1985 by Tony Rettman (Revelation) $16.00 – chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties.
6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95
7. Stories vol 3: Catch Me If You Can by Martin Cendreda $3.00 – Eloquently drawn Giving-Tree-esque twists and turns of children growing and parents giving. -EF
8. The First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00
9. Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox)$2.00 – Cinematically paced and mostly outside the Darger-ian territories of Powr Mastrs, CF’s Core of Caligula slips in and out keeping its tape player close and its psychic mis-steps closer.-EF
10. Limbs of the Megalith by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug)$2.00 – Fraught focus on the myth-adventures of humanity and its xenophobic whims- Espey’s packed pages time travel from the city to the country, the beast to the chair, death to the rabbit hole and back again with a fluid language of modern hyroglyphics. -EF
