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The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Abstract Studios

Terry Moore How To Draw #5 (Comics), $4.99

Alternative Comics

Injury #4 (not verified by Diamond), $6.00

Amp! Comics For Kids

Mutts Bonk Sc, $19.99

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman Natural Selection #2 (Of 2)(Budd Root Special Edition), Ar

Andrews McMeel

Dilbert I Can’t Remember If We’re Cheap Or Smart Tp, $16.99

Antarctic Press

Eater’s Digest #1, $10.99

Last Zombie Neverland Tp, $14.95

Archie Comics

Archie Double Digest #234, $3.99

Archies Giant Kids Jokebook Tp, $6.99

Avatar Press

Crossed Badlands #13 (Raulo Caceres Auxiliary Edition), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #14 (Raulo Caceres Auxiliary Edition), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Regular Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Red Crossed Incentive Cover), Ar

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Torture Cover), $3.99

Crossed Badlands #16 (Raulo Caceres Wraparound Cover), $3.99

Freakangels Complete Collection Slipcase Edition, $99.99

Hero Worship #4 (Of 6)(Michael Dipascale Regular...

Above: Ricardo Iscar's Dance to the Spirits.

"When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow."

—William S Burroughs, Ah Pook Is Here.

Not to be morbid or anything, but the shadow of mortality has been a dominant theme of nearly all the best stuff I've seen so far at the 48th Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale for short), most inescapably in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Loong Boonmee raleuk chat), which clicked with me more than most "Joe" efforts, I suspect, mainly because of its surprisingly prominent horror-movie touches.

Certain spooky scenes involving ape-like jungle "beings" with bright red eyes recall "lowbrow" antecedents like John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead quartet (1971-5) and Eugenio Martín's Horror Express (1972), not to mention the more nightmarish alternate-realities of David Lynch - though Apichatpong has...