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Elfbytes February '07

(Note: this is not your average cut and paste, we actually write this stuff.)

This is for product starting to ship in April.

This months Elfbyte credit goes to James, Ethan, Craig & Jason

For your convenience, click links below to jump to a certain Publisher.

Independent Comics | Dark Horse Comics | DC Comics
Image Comics | Marvel Comics | Toys & Stuff

Remember to get your orders in by February 21st!

INDEPENDENT COMICS HIGHLIGHTS

ARCANA STUDIO

PHILLY #1. By Ryan McLelland & Jim Hanna. New York City…Los Angeles…the cities where villains most want to attack and where the biggest of the big heroes stand triumphant. But Brick, Quik, and Firestarter, the superhero team known as ‘THE TRIO’, find themselves already way over their heads in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ – Philadelphia.

PHILLY is the name of the comic that follows The Trio, detective Malik Owen, and the vigilante Katt as they try to keep the peace in a city full of vampires, Eagles fans, powerful supervillians, wannabe heroes, and cheesesteak sandwich wars.

ARCHAIA STUDIO PRESS

MOUSE GUARD VOL 1: FALL 1152 HC. By David Petersen. Sword-wielding mice persevere against other strange fantasy woodland creatures.

An Elfsar pick of the month!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #151. by Various. For a limited time only, Betty & Veronica get new, more “realistic” art styles.

D.E. DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

THE LONE RANGER VOL 1 TP. Written by Brett Matthews. Illustrated by Sergio Cariello. Cover by John Cassaday. Did you know that the Lone Ranger is the grand-uncle of the Green Hornet? But since both franchises have since been sold to different people, the family link is downplayed. Still, imagine if Dynamite could secure rights to the Green Hornet!

DEVIL’S DUE

XOMBIE #1 of 6. Written by James Farr. Illustrated by Nate Lovett. Devil’s Due is bringing the popular internet flash cartoon to comics! It’s a different kind of zombie, one who can’t spell.

CHUCKY #1 of 5. Written by Brian Pulido. Illustrated by Josh Medors. Devil’s Due is bringing the popular horror movie puppet to comics! Oh wait. Chucky is lame. Never mind.

DRAWN & QUARTERLY

OPTIC NERVE #11. Written and illustrated by Adrian Tomine. Adrian Tomine graces us with annual dose of indie comics ennui.

IDW PUBLISHING

STAR TREK: KLINGONS: BLOOD WILL TELL #1. Written by Scott and David Tipton. Illustrated by David Messina. Hey nerds! This issue also has a Klingon language variant! That’s right. You can read a whole comic in the Klingon language.

"jIH ta' ghobe' rur SoH!"

TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT: KUP. Written and illustrated by Nick Roche. Kup like that Grandpa Simpson of the Transformers world. He likes to tell stories and rambles on and on about the good old days when he used to get his muffler blown.

MARKOSIA

BREATHE #1 of 4. By John Sheridan and Kit Wallis. China, the late 1700's. In a village, high up in the mountains, a young innocent girl, whilst out gathering flowers, is called back home to discover that something dreadful has happened to her family. Who is to blame? The art looks like it has a very Josh Middleton-like flavour. Drop a book you are not enjoying and try this one out.

STARSHIP TROOPERS: ONGOING #1. Written by Tony Lee. Illustrated by Chris Dibari. Soft, fleshy people continue their endless war against giant bugs.

TOP SHELF

KORGI VOL 1 TP. By Christian Slade. Christian Slade, a former Disney animator and currently full-time freelance illustrator, has brought to Top Shelf a gorgeously illustrated woodland fantasy about a young girl Ivy, her dog Sprout, and their amazing adventures in Korgi Hollow. By an amazing coincidence, the dog is also a Corgi! That’s the kind of creativity it takes to work at Disney.

UDON

STREET FIGHTER ALPHA VOL 1 TP. By Masahiko Nakahira. Udon, in their attempts to earn money so they can produce comics on time, have translated a manga series based upon the excellent Street Fighter prequel game. If you’re missing regular Street Fighter comics, take a peek at Gen 13 #7, drawn by Udon’s Alvin Lee, which is also being offered this month.

DARK HORSE COMICS HIGHLIGHTS

HELLBOY: DARKNESS CALLS #1 of 6. Written by Mike Mignola. Art by Duncan Fegredo. Witches from all over the world are chasing Hellboy! They’re using their evil magic to make Vin Diesel play the role of Abe Sapien in the next movie.

HELLBOY: THE COMPANION. Written by Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola. Apparently, some of us aren’t smart enough to read comics and figure out what’s going on. So here’s a book to hold our hand and help us muddle our way through the intricate world of Hellboy. Although, one would think if you are not smart enough to read comics, God only knows how one would deal with a real book like this.

THE GOON - SATAN's ***** BABY By Eric Powell. A special notice to "trade-waiters": Eric Powell has a Goon one-shot so controversial and filthy it won't ever be collected in trade paperback. "Satan's ***** Baby" promises a no-holds-barred assault of a variety of sacred cows, ranging from politics to religion and all things in between.

PLEASE NOTE: The Goon Satan's ***** Baby will no longer be available in Canada due to international restrictions. Yes, the content was that strong. It has even been banned is some parts of the United States. We will be working very hard to fill all orders for this item. However the time will be longer and the cost greater to be able to meet the demand. Thanks in advance for your patience.

THE ART OF BONE. By Jeff Smith. No, it's NOT a dirty pictures book! So stop asking.

A lot can be said about this creators awesome book. The Art can say even more.

HARVEY CLASSICS VOL 1: CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST. Dark Horse jumps on board the “Let’s-collect-classic-comics” bandwagon. We all love Classic Comics don't we? We want to live in the THEN not live in the NOW, right?

MAXWELL STRANGEWELL. Written and illustrated by Matt and Shawn Fillbach. Photographer Anna Gilmour finds a ten-foot-tall alien after it crashes to Earth. She introduces it to her father. Then they fight alien accountants. Sareina (a.k.a Little Sar) is afraid of this book.

MPD-PSYCHO VOL 1. Written and illustrated by Eiji Otsuka. Police Detective Kobayashi Yousuke is not like the other detectives. After his wife was mutilated, he developed a multiple personality disorder. MPD. Get it? It’s in the title! One of the craziest mangas ever to be put on paper is finally available in all its twisted glory.Written and illustrated by S. Ji-Hyung.

XS HYBRID VOL 1. Written and illustrated by S. Ji-Hyung. In a strange future, where powered “hybrid” humans police the planet, a young boy named Hinchang falls into a coma after looking into psychic Mina’s eyes. When he wakes up, he’s in love with her and wants to protect her from the crazy violent Hybrid world.

DC COMICS HIGHLIGHTS

WORLD WAR III: #1: A CALL TO ARMS; #2: THE VALIANT; #3: HELL IS FOR HEROES; #4: UNITED WE STAND. Written by Keith Champagne and John Ostrander. Illustrated by Pat Oliffe, Andy Smith, Tom Derenick, and Jack Jadson. Wasn’t there already a World War III at the end of the Grant Morrison JLA run? Or did we get rid of that with a continuity punch? Speaking of, where are all of Grant Morrison’s comics? Is it really the artist's fault? I'm not so sure anymore as every book Morrison has touched has been late.

I think he's cheating on the comic industry as I have noticed a number of delays across the board. That two-timing hussy!

52 VOL 1 TP. Written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid. Breakdowns by Keith Giffen. Art by various. This trade will not be weekly. Monthly? Perhaps... we will see as of next month. If you want to save a few bucks we have a set of #1-4 on sale: Click Here!

AMAZONS ATTACK #1 of 6. Written by Will Pfeifer. Illustrated by Pete Woods. The amazons finally return to the DCU, and they are making their presence felt. Renouncing their oaths of peace, they invade that tiny little vulnerable country, America. What will the superhero community say? How will America respond? Where have the amazons been? Can you afford to miss this?

On paper, being overrun by a bunch of beautiful women in flowing robes who come from a tropical island sounds like an awesome time. Unless, of course, you just happened to send and army of killer robots to try and kill them all. Because then the beautiful women bring stabby-stabby things.

BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE VOL. 3 TP The third collection of the fantastic backstories that have appeared in previous batman titles. The first two were amazing. This one will likely be as well.

NIGHTWING ANNUAL #2. Written by Marc Andreyko. Illustrated by Joe Bennett. HEY NIGHTWING SUBSCRIBERS: If you want this, you must let us know as not everyone automatically wants the annuals. Communicate with us.

THE ORIGINAL ENCYCLOPDIA OF COMIC BOOK HEROES VOL 1: BATMAN TP. Written by Michael Fleisher. Learn everything you need to know to take the law into your own hands and avenge the murder of your parents. If your parents are still alive, you can still buy the book, but you cannot fight crime. You also cannot kill your own parents. It's all spelled out here in this book.

DOCTOR FATE #1. Written by Steve Gerber. Illustrated by Paul Gulacy. Variant Cover by Gene Ha. Now 100% monkey free as their is no more monkey business, the new Doctor Fate is revealed.

JLA CLASSIFIED #37. Written by Peter Milligan. Illustrated by Carlos D’Anda. Wow. This “Kid Amazo” storyline was solicited YEARS AGO as an original hardcover with a different artist. Carlos D’Anda is doing some amazing artwork on DEATHBLOW, which according to James, everyone should be checking out.

CROSSOVER ALERT!
JUSTICE LEAG OF AMERICA #8 By Brad Meltzer and Ed Benes
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #5 By Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham. The first two parts of the big cross over of the new and exciting series. As the two team search desperately for clues into Starman’s past and the identity of Trudent, evil cousin of Trident.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL 1 HC. Written by Brad Meltzer. Illustrated by Ed Benes. Read the first fantastic arc over and over and over again. Revel in the forming of the new team. Enjoy the story of Red Tornado’s humanity. All this and more! Collects #0-6 of the new kinda slow moving JLA series. BATMAN! SUPERMAN! WONDER WOMAN! JUST LOOK AT... PICTURES! FOR BASICALLY THREE MONTHS!

If Jay at HH (the Edmonton Store) was dead, he would be rolling in his grave which ironically has a tombstone with "JLA" sculpted at the top. Make fun at him by signing up to our joint message board: http://www.canadiangeek.org/forums/ And the Big Elf will shower you with stuff.

WILDSTORM

MIDNIGHTER #6. Written by Garth Ennis. Illustrated by Glenn Fabry. A one-shot story featuring a tale set in Feudal Japan. A great point to jump on for new readers. Also, Brian K. Vaughan is writing Midnighter #7!

GRIFTER & MIDNIGHTER #2. Written by Chuck Dixon. Illustrated by Ryan Benjamin. If that wasn’t enough Midnighter for you, you can always watch him kill Grifter again.

GEN 13 #7. Written by Gail Simone. Illustrated by Alvin Lee. Cover by Talent Caldwell. A solo-spotlight on Caitlin Fairchild. This is a good jumping on point for new readers, and for those of you who didn’t like Talent Caldwell, well, he’s not on the book anymore, so check it out.

STORMWATCH PHD #6. Written by Christos Gage. Illustrated by Doug Mahnke. Another great book that’s flying a little under the radar. Each issue is self contained, each issue has exceptional writing & art, each issue is just waiting for you to drop Uncanny X-Men and pick this up instead.

ALAN MOORE: WILD WORDS TP. Written by Alan Moore. Illustrated by Jim Baikie, Carlos D’Anda, Scott Clark, Michael Lopez & Al Rio. Reprints such Alan Moore classics as Spawn/WildC.A.T.s, Deathblow: Byblows, and Voodoo: Dancing in the Dark.

BATTLER BRITON TP. Written by Garth Ennis. Illustrated by Colin Wilson. As long as there is no superhero buttsex in Battler Briton, this trade won’t get cancelled by DC.

DANGER GIRL: BODY SHOTS #1 of 4. Written by Andy Hartnell. Illustrated by Nick Bradshaw. There’s a good chance that there’s no buttsex in here, either. Sorry perverts, we all loose!

VERTIGO

HELLBLAZER: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW TP. Written by Jamie Delano. Illustrated by Mark Buckingham, David Lloyd, and others.

THE OTHER SIDE TP. Written and illustrated by S. Ji-Hyung. In a strange future, where powered “hybrid” humans police the planet, a young boy named Hinchang falls into a coma after looking into psychic Mina’s eyes. When he wakes up, he’s in love with her and wants to protect her from the crazy violent Hybrid world.

MINX

THE PLAIN JANES. Written by Cecil Castellucci. Illustrated by Jim Rugg. A few months ago, DC begged girls to read comics and pointed them towards SUPERGIRL, possibly the most sexist and awful dreck mainstream comics have seen in some time. And that’s saying quite a bit.

Attmitedly, DC realised that it was a mistake, got smart and then decided to offer some young adult fiction by quality comics talent: Mike Carey (Lucifer, Wetworks), Sonny Liew (My Faith in Frankie), Andi Watson (Skeleton Key, Buffy comics), Josh Howard (Dead @ 17), Derek Kirk Kim (Same Difference), and more.

Try something Different as this is a first in a NEW LINE of Comics from the greatest Comic Publisher on Earth!

IMAGE COMICS HIGHLIGHTS

FRANK FRAZETTA’S DEATH DEALER #1 of 6 Written by Joshua Ortega. Illustrated by Nat Jones. Covers by Frank Frazetta and Nat Jones With a title like Death Dealer, you just know that this is one of those cookie cutter fantasy stories with waterfalls, and singing, and feasts of berries by gentle firelight.

MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #1. Written and illustrated by Mike Allred. Frank Einstein is back in a new comic from Image. My copy of Previews fell behind the toilet, so I'm going from memory here, but I seem to recall Madman wandering around a world littered with corpses, "Omega Man" style. For those unfamiliar with Mike Allred's creator owned Atomics universe, Madman is the reanimated body of Frank Einstein (deceased), a former hitman, now protector of Snap City. Pick yourself up a copy and groove on Allred's surreal artwork and characters.

INVINCIBLE VOLUME 3 COLLECTOR's HARD COVER. By Robert Kirkman. This is how Invincible, nay ALL comics were truly meant to be read. These hardcover collections of Kirkman's Invincible series are beautiful books priced to compete with most other companies softcover trades.

I'm looking at YOU Marvel, you $^%*&^% price gougers!

ALIEN PIG FARM 3000. Written by Todd Farmer. Illustrated by Don Marquez. Cover by William Stout. I just like the title of this one.

UNRAVEL #1 of 4. Written by Dan Wickline. Illustrated by Homeros Gilani. An overly aggressive cop must rely on an amnesiac stranger to save her. Chances are, she’s going to try and bash him in the head at least once. Because that’s what we learned about amnesia from TV. You fix it by bashing the head.

WITCHBLADE/THE PUNISHER. Written by Ron Marz. Illustrated by Adriana Melo. Who hasn’t waited years for these two crazy kids to hook up?

FELL VOL 1: FERAL CITY TP. Written by Warren Ellis. Illustrated by Ben Templesmith. Detective Richard Fell was transferred to Snowtown. He is one of three-and-a-half detectives working Snowtown. Very quickly, Fell learns that in Snowtown, everybody’s hiding something. Even Fell.

MARVEL COMICS HIGHLIGHTS

CIVIL WAR

CIVIL WAR: THE CONFESSION. Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Illustrated by Alex Maleev. Did you think that Civil War #7 was the end? Ha Hah hahahah... Nope. “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I run Marvel Comics, and I’ve been scamming Marvel Fanboys into thinking that Civil War would be so epic, and so good, and really, I’ve just been flooding them with sub-standard, tie-ins that don’t even make sense and in some cases contradict each other. And they bought them all! I…I don’t deserve to live! I don’t deserve forgiveness! I can’t be held responsible if I choke out better comics with my mega-event bullshit!”

Too bad DC has the trademark on "Infinite Crisis" eh? Has anyone trademarked the phrase "milking our fanboys to death"? Is this "event" ever going to end? Why didn't they just make this an ongoing series?

I am deeply surprised that Marvel did not even solicit a polybaged Captain America issue with a bloody Captain America shield on the cover to sell to the massive amount of speculators who believe that the "DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA" is gong to go through the roof. Sorry to break the ice so to speak but the death of Steve Rogers will not be permanent. You see Marvel has created there own nifty Negative Zone where they can bring back anyone from the dead. That, or there is always the Clone angle they seem to always fall back on. After all, It worked so well with Spider-man... and Thor... yep nothing is EVER the same in the Marvel Universe.

CIVIL WAR: FALLEN SON - WOLVERINE. Written by Jeph Loeb. Illustrated by Leinil Franics Yu. Variant Cover by Michael Turner. Civil War + Wolverine = "Snikt!" is the sound that the money makes as it flies out of our fanboy pockets.

It looks like Marvel has figured out a way to still have Wolverine smoke in comics again! ...minus the cigar.

CIVIL WAR: FALLEN SON – NEW AVENGERS. Written by Jeph Loeb. Illustrated by Ed McGuinness. Variant Cover by Michael Turner. Civil War + New Avengers = zzzzzzzzz ...are you noticing a trend here.

AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #1 of 6. Written by Dan Slott. Illustrated by Stefano Caselli. The Civil War is over... or is it? …. I’d tell you more but Marvel slapped this stupid Access Denied stamp over the rest of the write up. In fact they don’t even show us the final cover. I’m undecided if this was to build suspense or just because they don’t have any finished product to show. I’m hoping for the first option. I’m betting on the second.

Hey, Dan Slott id doing this! Dan Slott’s pretty awesome. To be more precise: Dan Slott’s SHE HULK is pretty awesome. Maybe Dan Slott’s Avengers will be too.

MIGHTY AVENGERS #2 Something about Frank Cho drawing Ultron with huge cans just feels so much less wrong than Rob Liefeld doing the same thing to Captain America.

BLACK PANTHER #27. Written by Reginald Hudlin. Illustrated by Manuel Garcia. Cover by Niko Henrichon. Watch as Marvel adds color to the new Fantastic Four! Wow, that was not funny. Marvel wants you to ask "Is the Black Panther running the new Fantastic Four?"

FANTASTIC FOUR #545. Written by Dwayne McDuffie. Illustrated by Paul Pelletier. Cover by Michael Turner. Marvel wants you to ask "Is the Silver Surfer running the new Fantastic Four?"

IRON MAN #17. Written by Daniel & Charlie Knauf. Illustrated by Patrick Zircher. Does anyone still like Iron Man after Civil War? Something tells me Stark’s name is going to be crossed off a lot of Xmas card lists… He is truly the new Captain America.

MS MARVEL #14. Written by Brian Reed. Illustrated by Aaron Lopresti. Ms Marvel survives cancellation for yet another month by desperately clinging to the Civil War Bandwagon.

NEW AVENGERS #29. Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu. Wolverine vs. Iron Man! Yay Marvel Hero vs Hero! Man, but Tony Stark is still a dick.

OMEGA FLIGHT #1 of 5. Written by Michael Avon Oeming. Illustrated by Scott Kolins. The latest attempt at giving Canada its own super-team. The leader of this new Canadian superteam? USAgent. Marvel FAILS AGAIN Alpha Flight.

Keys to making it likely Craig will love this book:
- Relaunch Canada’s premier super team.
- Have Micheal Avon Oeming Write it.

Ways to ensure Craig will not like this book :
- Stick a bunch of C list non Canadians on the team
(Beta Ray Bill, Spider Woman 2)
- Hand leadership over to Captain America wannabe US Agent
- Have Scott Kolins illustrate.

UN-WARLIKE MARVEL UNIVERSE

SPIDER-MAN/FANTASTIC FOUR #1 of 4. Written by Jeff Parker. Illustrated by Mike Wieringo. When Marvel Universe is threatened by a new alien threat Spidey, Stretchy and all the rest must team up to save the day. An exciting non-tie in to civil war, this book will offer a nice reprieve from the intense lateness of Marvel’s big event.

Spider-Man asks the Fantastic Four to help him fight aliens, because, well, lately, Spider-Man kind of sucks at EVERYTHING HE DOES.

SPIDERMAN POSTER BOOK By various artists. Look it's cheaper then wall paper!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #541. Spider-Man's back in black! A sniper's bullet has changed everything in Parker's life. Don't sweat it, Parker, whether it was your wife or your aunt who caught a bullet in the head from Kingpin's goons, I'm sure she will turn out to have been a surgically altered skrull actress clone anyways. No need to go all emo on us.

LONERS #1 of 6. Written by C.B. Cebulski. Illustrated by Karl Moline. Torn form the pages of Runaways, and featuring the beautiful work of one of the most under-rated artists in the industry. Five of Marvel greatest B-listers, all struggling to move on with their lives after the capes have been hung up. Can they kick an addiction to playing dress up, or will they pull on the mask and tights and prance about the streets like angry mascots? Don’t miss your chance to throw away a few more bucks on the continuing adventures of Turbo, Darkhawk, Ricochet, that kid who briefly played Green Goblin before getting smacked around by a sentinel, and Lightspeed. Yay!

They were originally going to call this book “THE LOSERS”, except DC owns the copyright. (And the DC/VERTIGO Losers book is really, really good).

NOVA #1. Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning. Illustrated by Sean Chen. Nova gets his own series! FINALLY! I mean, this would mean next to nothing if Nova had not appeared in three cancelled solo books, and three volumes of a crappy team book, and an appearance in an underrated space opera crossover. It’s about time Nova got the attention he deserves.

Most of the New Warriors got blown up to start civil war. Speedball went a little nuts and now dresses like an enraged procupine. Darkhawk and Turbo got stuck in a book with the second worst Spider book idea ever. They should all talk to Nova’s agent cause he gets headline the Annihilation arc and now gets his own book. More importantly the 90’s are back! I hope we get a Power Rangers book soon.

RUNAWAYS #25. Written by Joss Whedon. Illustrated by Michael Ryan. The Runaways move to New York, to make new friends and new enemies. Written by some jerk named Josh Whedon, who is clearly just trying to cash in on having a similar name to an awesome talent. Like that hack Bob Smiefeld.

Yes! that Joss Whedon… He and rising star Ryan take the Runaways to New York to make new friends and enemies, and hopefully new fans. Give it a try.

In all honesty, I really think Marvel screwed up by not letting a creator like Whedon do what he does best, and that's "Create". I would have rather liked to see Marvel give this talented writer the freedom to create something completely new for them with new characters as opposed to take over an already pre-existing creation.

DABEL BROTHERS

THE HEDGE KNIGHT 2: THE SWORN SWORD #1 of 6. Written by George R.R. Martin. Adapted by Ben Avery. Illustrated by Mike S. Miller. Cover by Renato Arlem. George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series, “A Song of Ice & Fire” might just be the best fantasy series EVAR. Adapted here is a story set in the same world of brutal fantasy. Well worth checking out.

MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVELS

SPIDER-MAN: REIGN PREMIERE HC. Written and illustrated by Kaare Andrews. The excellent, and rather under-read (although over exposed) story of Spiderman’s future by the exceptional Kaare Andrews.

Poor little Spider-Scrote. You were the most epic part of Reign. This book was originally going to be called “The Dark Arachknight Returns”, except Kaare Andrews isn’t as crazy as Frank Miller. However, look for Andrews’ next ongoing, ALL-STAR GODDAMN SPIDER-MAN, to be released next year, with one issue a year after that.

ETERNALS BY NEIL GAIMAN HC. Written by NEIL GAIMAN Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR. Put the jaw dropping fantasy epic on your shelf.

ALSO AVAILABLE FORM MARVEL:

ANNIHILATION BOOK 2 HC

RUNAWAYS VOL. 3 HC

PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL VOL. 1: CIVIL WAR PREMIERE HC

AGENTS OF ATLAS PREMIERE HC

CIVIL WAR COLLECTIONS

PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL VOL 1: CIVIL WAR PREMIERE HC. Written by Matt Fraction. Illustrated by Ariel Olivetti & Mike Deodato Jr. Possibly the only good thing that has happened because of Civil War: More comics written by Matt Fraction. Did you guys like it? Then you guys should check out CASANOVA.

CIVIL WAR: CAPTAIN AMERICA TP. Written by Ed Brubaker. Illustrated by Ed Brubaker & Lee Weeks. Typical Marvel cash-cow thinking. I mean, like Captain America has ANYTHING to do with Civil War. Marvel is bent on making him die for our sins. I only wonder if it will be an act of TERROR?!

ALPHA FLIGHT CLASSIC VOL 1 TP. Written and illustrated by John Byrne. Gotta represent Canada, yo. This is as authentic as you are going to get.

CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE BOOKS 1 & 2 TP. Written by Paul Jenkins. Illustrated by Ramon Bachs, Steve Lieber, and Lee Weeks. SUPER-EMO TEEN SUPERHERO! I hope Nova comes back from Space to see the mess his old pal Speedball has gotten into. Poor Speedball.

CIVIL WAR: PETER PARKER, SPIDER-MAN TP. Written by Roberto Aguirre- Sacasa. Illustrated by Angel Medina, Clayton Crain, and Sean Chen. See? This book in single issues weren’t even solicited with a Civil War tie-in! It just had Spider-Man running away from bad guys & crying a lot.

TOYS & MISC. HIGHLIGHTS

BETTIE PAGE STATUE. So you obviously will never be able to bring the real Bettie Page home, but this statue is trying to be the next best thing!

Apparently Bettie dose not like wearing clothes as she must be used to a very hot climate.

DF SIN CITY MARV AEON CRYSTAL COLLECTABLE. SOOO many people ask us about our Superman Neon Logo sign that hangs proudly in our Store Window. "Is that for Sale?" ...unfortunately no. We were only allowed to order one and it belongs to the store. However, Dynamic Forces is offering something equally as cool. The iconic shot of Sin City's Marv is captured here as a unique Aeon Crystal! Each piece is laser-sculpted, and when placed upon the lighted base, it comes to life! Standing 8" tall on a 6" wide base, this piece is strictly limited. So if you want one you better let us know because we won't be able to get more.

WOMEN OF THE DC UNIVERSE DONNA TROY BUST. Designed by Adam Hughes, Sculpted by Jack Mathews. Man, these things keep selling out!Every single Bust based off of award-winning illustrator Adam Hughs work has been selling like crazy. This month, Donna Troy from the Teen Titians is offered and she is sexy. The women of the DC Universe always seem to be either well endowed or like to tie people up. Anyway, this continues the amazing line of This limited-edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain busts measures (no, I am not giving her breast measurements) approximately 5.5" tall x 3" wide x 2" deep and is packaged in a four-color box

SUPERMAN BLACK & WHITE METAL BADGE SHIELD HAT. This is a one size fits all Superman Hat that will make you stylish enough to hang with us. Expose your inner Geek to the world and wear it with pride. By one size fits all, I mean it is adjustable.

MARVEL HEROES LEGENDS ICONS DR. DOOM & THE PUNISHER ACTION FIGURES. Big problems call for big heroes! These Marvel Heroes Icon action figures are Big Big, actually they come in at a whopping 12-inches tall and bring all the amazing sculpting work you've come to expect from toys of your favorite Marvel heroes. Choose from some guy in a metal suit named... get this, Doom and he proclaims himself some king of Doctor. Or your everyday, "Oh whoa is me the mob killed my family", psycho-somatic sociopath, who packs more heat than your average Big 5 store.

MARVEL HEROES LEGENDS ACTION FIGURES THE BLOB SERIES. Now whether you believe that this is this Series 17 from the Toybiz Marvel legends line or Series 2 of the Hasbro line, it is definitely known as the Blob Series! This one is jam-packed with some of the most anticipated figures to date! Each figure features a top-notch paint application as well as the sculpting and articulation you've come to know from Marvel Legends line (whatever series you want to call it)!

MARVEL MINIMATES 2-PACK SERIES 15 & 16 ASSORTMENTS. The Marvel MiniMates strike with a vengeance with this all-new assortment of poseable block figures, all based on characters from the upcoming Marvel movie blockbuster, Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage as The Spirit of Vengeance! This series will include the following 2-packs: Blackheart / Ghost Rider, Roxanne / The Caretaker, Johnny Blaze / Mephistopheles, and the limited Transformation Johnny Blaze variant!

Series 16: contains several fan-favorites and delivers more members of the much-requested Avengers! Featuring the Minimate debut of Thor, this 2-pack assortment consists of: Scarlet Witch / Quicksilver, She-Hulk / Wonder Man, Thor / Loki, and the limited Bearded Thor!

STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES ENTERPRISE. It's the love boat in space! This original design of the infamous ship Measures 16 inches long, features nifty light-up effects and new sound effects from the classic film and features an all-new paint scheme.

STAR WARS CLONE WARS YODA ON KYBUCK MAQUETTE. Hi ho, silver, away! Similar to the Tauntauns of Hoth, Yoda's Kybuck is a gift from the Wookiees of Kashyyyk-- and this mighty steed serves the Jedi Master in battle! The Clone Wars Yoda on Kybuck maquette stands over 9-inches tall and is made of poly-resin. This scene of Yoda and his trusty mount are from Cartoon Network's hit Star Wars animated cartoon Star Wars: Clone Wars.

STAR WARS BOBA FETT SUPER DEFORMED VINYL COLLECTIBLE FIGURE (BOBA FETT VCD). Introducing the Medicom VCD Vinyl Star Wars figures. From Japan, these cute, caricature versions of your Star Wars favourites are certainly pleasing to the eye. As they are super-deformed they have the normal head and then smaller body’s which are undeniably cute. Boba is very chunky with his angular yellow shoulder pads, huge gloved hands and big feet sticking out giving you a cartoon feeling straight away. This isn’t going to be everybody’s cup of tea, but if you are into Star Wars and the Japanese SD style, you can’t go wrong here. Check out the Tie Fighter Pilot & Wolverine VCD.

MY LITTLE CTHULHU VINYL FIGURE. Cthulhu C'Loves you! The 'Great Cute One' has come to give humanity tentacle hugs and maw kisses! This 8' vinyl toy, created by John Kovalic (creator of Dork Tower) also comes with two Little Victims that fit in My Little Cthulhu's snuggly grasp… and also pull apart to show their yummy red insides! Not intended for children under 13 as the Cthulhu might eat them.

DEKOBOKO BOYS VINYL FIGURE SET (LIMITED to 500). This is the first release of the exciting new collaborative series between Japanese design collectives 'Devilrobots' and 'Furi Furi'! The two-piece Dekoboko Boys Vinyl Figure Set is presented in a jet black version, strictly limited to 500 sets worldwide. The Dekoboko Boys are made of vinyl and come as a set - join at the head for best results!

NINJA ICE BAT, TOODEE & BIG TOE UGLYDOLL 24 INCH PLUSHES. They are ugly cute and so soft. Get one of these for that special someone in your life. It's okay to love yourself too.

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