Thursday, August 30, 2007

PREVIEWS FOR NOVEMBER

Only a couple of Dark Horse to mention this time around, but they are both good bets by two of the best writers in the industry.

Hunter Rose returns in a new Grendel series, Behold the Devil. When Matt Wagner began doing Batman and the Monster Men for DC, I hoped this was just a way for him to set up time to start on his own stuff again. Its been about 10 years since the last time we saw original Grendel stories so many of you may not be familiar with the character but trust me, this book will sell quick. I would really like to know when we’ll ever see the third Mage story, but in the meantime, 8 issues of the greatest master criminal and assassin in the world will tide me over fine.

The Scream #1, doesn’t strike me as a typical Peter David book, the story seems to be about a young man manifesting bizarre reactions in others. Is he really bringing thoughts and dreams to life, or is he just crazy? I know I’ve liked everything Mr. David has done to date, so I’ll definitely be trying this one out.

DC COMICS is a little busier than Dark Horse this month, but still not as many new titles as usual. Maybe they’ve finally decided to take it a little easy on their customers.
Starting off are a couple more of those Countdown one-shots featuring Kyle, Donna, and BOB, travelling from Elseworlds to Elseworlds righting the wrongs that once went right. This time they pop up on the Gotham by Gaslight world and the Batman Red Rain reality. Its nice to see they got Kelley Jones to draw the Red Rain issue, I’m not sure they couldn’t have talked Mignola into another Gaslight story, ( then again he’s been pumping out a lot of Hellboy related titles lately).
The only real problem I have with these stories (besides the impossibly long titles) is the need to call them all #1’s instead of just running them as a mini-series. Anyone who isn’t in the store every week is going to lose track of how many and which ones they have. Numbering them as 1 of 6, 2 of 6 etc. would make it a lot easier to follow.
It’s the same with the other series of spinoff one-shots that fall under the Sinestro Corps Presents banner. This time Ion gets the spotlight, and while they all look great and could be important to the overall Green Lantern storyline, it would have been better to sell them as numbered issues of a mini-series rather than continuous one-shots.

Salvation Run looks like fun. A true “villains unite” as a host of DC bad guys (looks mostly like Flash’s rogues) get exiled to another world to fight for their lives against a population that doesn’t want them any more than Earth does.

Teen Titans East Special puts together a second group of Titans lead by Cyborg. Some of the characters look familiar and some not. I’m not sure the Titans franchise is solid enough right now to support a second regular title, but occasional specials like this are fine.

SHIPPING DELAY

Just a note to warn everyone that the new books will arrive on Thursday next week due to the Labour Day holiday.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Convention Wrapup

Well another convention season is over. I'd like to thank everyone who came to any of the shows the last few months and supported Comics & More. I'd also like to apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced by the odd hours and Sunday closing this last weekend, but it really was unavoidable.
The show was huge this year with even more fans in costume than ever. As we left on Saturday night we were witness to a gathering of Stormtroopers, I swear there must have been 40-50 of them along with various other Star Wars characters, all in the most amazing first rate outfits.

There's lots of great deals left over from the Expo that have come back to the store, the main thing being the packaged sets. There's about 4 long boxes of comics wrapped up in neat little sets and runs, a perfect way to read a whole story without missing any parts. The beauty is that many of these stories have never been collected in paperback format! Check out these gems on the bargain table in front of the "new" comic rack while they last.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Convention Weekend

Just a note to remind everyone that I will be attending the Comic Expo http://www.hobbystar.com/ComicConToronto2007/CC_Main.asp
this weekend from Friday 24th- Sunday 26th. As a result the store will be closing early on Thursday to allow us setup time at the show and closed all day Sunday.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, and hope to see you at the show.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

ON THE SHELVES AUGUST 8TH

A little busy yesterday and today with the 20 cent sidewalk sale happening, but I'll try to give you a quick look at next wednesday's delivery.

Some weeks its not so easy to find something to mention from the new delivery. Don't get me wrong, theres a lot of great stuff coming in as usual, just nothing out of the ordinary. The only first issues worth mentioning start with Black Adam the Dark Age. Teth had one of the best storylines running through "52" last year and a lot have people have been wondering how he got his powers back (as seen in Countdown). I'm still kind of wondering how the two weekly series fit in continuity as they seem to contradict each other on a few points. Countdown almost seems to take place right after the events of Infinite Crisis, and don't even get me started on the One Year Later stuff.
A little easier to understand is the BPRD Killing Ground which takes place right after the last mini-series Garden of Souls. Mignola seems to be working overtime with all the Hellboy universe stuff thats been hitting the shelves lately.

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