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SDCC '09 | 15 announcements that make us happy

Bone: Quest for the Spark

San Diego Comic-Con is always a wild ride filled with crazy cosplayers, Hollywood hype and just generally somewhat-controlled chaos. In the midst of it all, a few comic book announcements managed to sneak out.

Here are 15 of those announcements (in no particular order) that Kevin Melrose, Chris Mautner and I were happy to hear:

1. New Bone books
So it looks like one of those new books isn't going to be comics but a novel written by Tom Sniegoski and illustrated by Smith. Which is a bit of a bummer, but only a bit. I'm still pretty psyched to see more stories set in that universe and Sniegoski has proven himself to be an able and witty writer on stuff like the Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures mini series, which, by the way, will be included in the Tall Tales book. So yeah, this is great news all around. I'm eager for more Bone. --Chris Mautner

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SDCC '09 | Jeff Smith posts Bone: Tall Tales cover

Bone: Tall Tales

Next to Marvel's big news today, the best revelation coming out of SDCC for me so far is the announcement that Jeff Smith is going to do more Bone books. And, in case you were wondering what these new series will look like, Smith has the cover art up for Tall Tales and a rough for Quest for the Spark over at his Web site.

Send Us Your Shelf Porn!

Hello and welcome once again to Send Us Your Shelf Porn, the only Internet comics column where you, the reader, have the chance to be King (or Queen) Geek for a day! Wouldn't you like to be King (or Queen) Geek for a day? Sure you would! So send me photos of your comics collection, be it large or small, along with any commentary/explanations you see fit to give, to cmautnerATcomcastDOTnet and I'll post them here so everyone can go "Man, I always wanted that book. Howcum he has that book and I don't? Life is so unfair."

This week our special guest is Ryan Kirk of San Antonio, Texas, who has managed to accumulate quite an impressive array of books. Take it away Ryan!

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Revised 2008 bestseller list includes Bone, Dark Tower

Bone, Vol. 1

ICv2.com asks Nielsen Bookscan to revise its list of the Top 20 graphic novels sold in bookstores in 2008 to include kids and young-adult rankings. The result places two Scholastic volumes of Jeff Smith's Bone series -- Vols. 1 and 7 -- at Nos. 10 and 12, respectively, Marvel's The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home hardcover at No. 13, Tokyopop's Warriors: Warrior's Refuge at No. 15, and Viz Media's Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventures, Vol. 1, at No. 16.

The reshuffling means that two volumes of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto get squeezed off the list. So now there are seven volumes in the Top 20 instead of nine.

With the buzz surrounding the Watchmen adaptation and The Dark Knight, it's not surprising that the Watchmen collection is at the top of the chart -- as it has been for the past six months -- or that a couple of Batman books rest comfortably on the list. What's impressive, and encouraging, is that the first volumes of Bone, Naruto and Death Note are still picking up new readers in substantial numbers years after their release.