09:36 pm - What's New for May 8, 2008
Hello everyone! Here's our update for Thursday, May 8, 2008.
FreeComic Book Day was a big success this year. We had a very busy day, and we gave away almost all of the free comics that we had. Thanks to everyone who stopped by .
World Wide D&D Day is now only 30 days away. Check out the UPCOMING EVENTS section for more info. We have our usual sections for this week's NEW COMICS and Graphic Novels, recent GAMING arrivals, what we have ON eBAY currently, and an in-depth REVIEW of a favorite comic or game.
New COMICS This Week:
24 TIMES TWO (MR) $5.00
ABE SAPIEN THE DROWNING #4 (OF 5) $2.99
ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND GN VOL 06 $8.99
ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #11 $4.99
ALL NEW ATOM #23 $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #558 $2.99
AMELIA RULES SC VOL 04 WHEN THE PAST IS A PRESENT $11.99
AMERICAN DREAM #1 (OF 5) $2.99
AMERICAN SPLENDOR SEASON TWO #2 (OF 4) (MR) $2.99
ANGEL AFTER THE FALL #7 $3.99
AVENGERS INVADERS #1 (OF 12) $2.99
BATMAN DEATH MASK #2 (OF 4) $2.99
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ORIGINS #5 $3.50
BEST OF DRAW MAGAZINE TP VOL 03 $29.95
BOMB QUEEN TP VOL 04 SUICIDE BOMBER (MR) $14.99
BUCK GODOT PSMITH SC $18.95
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #14 $2.99
CABLE #3 DWS $2.99
CALIBER #1 1.00
-MANAGER'S PICK. The Arthurian legend as retold in the American Old West, with all of its great symbolism, magic and spirit of adventure. The Knights of the Round Table are all gunslingers bound by a code of honor to protect the weak and defend the innocent until they are undone from within by their own moral corruption. In this tale, Caliber itself is a tattooed six-gun, given to Arthur by the Indians and imbued with supernatural power.
CAPTAIN AMERICA PREM HC VOL 02 DEATH CAPT AMERICA $19.99
CHERRY JUICE GN VOL 03 (OF 4) $9.99
COLOR OF RAGE TP VOL 01 $14.95
CONAN #50 (MR) $4.99
COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #7 (OF 8) $3.99
CRIMSON HERO TP VOL 08 $8.99
CROSSING MIDNIGHT #18 (MR) $2.99
DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #3 (OF 5) $3.99
DC SPECIAL RAVEN #3 (OF 5) $2.99
DEAD SPACE #3 (OF 6) $2.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #844 $2.99
DOCK WALLOPER #4 (OF 5) (RES) $2.99
DOCTOR WHO #1 2ND PTG $3.99
DOCTOR WHO #4 $3.99
DYNAMO 5 ANNUAL #1 $5.99
EDEN ITS AN ENDLESS WORLD TP VOL 10 (MR) $12.95
-Hiroki Endo's dystopian SF manga, set in 2112, continues. The Closure Virus has already wiped out about one-third of the world's population, but it mutates again to infect not only people and living creatures--but inorganic matter as well.
ESSENTIAL X-MEN TP VOL 01 NEW PTG $16.99
EXTERMINATORS #29 (MR) $2.99
EXTERMINATORS TP VOL 04 CROSSFIRE AND COLLATERAL (MR) $14.99
FANTASTIC FOUR TP NEW FANTASTIC FOUR $15.99
FOOLKILLER #5 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
FOUNDATION #5 (OF 5) $3.99
FRANKLIN RICHARDS NOT SO SECRET INVASION $2.99
HELL GIRL GN VOL 02 $10.95
HIGH SCHOOL DEBUT GN VOL 03 $8.99
HIKARU NO GO TP VOL 12 $7.95
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #1 (MR) $2.99
HULK TP WORLD WAR HULK $24.99
INFINITY INC #9 $2.99
INITIAL D GN VOL 30 (OF 35) $9.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 $2.99
IRON MAN WAR MACHINE TP $29.99
JACK STAFF #16 $3.50
JLA PRESENTS AZTEK THE ULTIMATE MAN TP $19.99
-Grant Morrison and Mark Millar create their own hero, a man raised by the Q Foundation to save the world from the great darkness which is coming soon.
JONAH HEX #31 $2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #45 $2.25
KAPUT & ZOSKY GN $13.95
-Lewis Trondheim and Eric Cartier bring us the hilarious adventures of Kaput & Zosky would-be conquerors of the universe and brutal tyrants over all living things. Sadly for them, they can't even win at hopscotch! KLASSIC KOMICS KLUB HC (MR) $14.95
LOGAN #3 (OF 3) $3.99
MACK BOLAN THE EXECUTIONER DEVILS TOOLS #2 (OF 5) $3.99
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #8 $2.99
MAN WITH NO NAME #1 $3.50
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #39 $2.99
MEGAS #3 (OF 4) (MR) $2.99
METAL MEN #8 (OF 8) $2.99
MIDNIGHTER #19 $2.99
MIGHTY AVENGERS #13 SI $2.99
MODESTY BLAISE TP VOL 13 YELLOWSTONE BOOTY $19.95
MOON KNIGHT #18 $2.99
MUMMY MOVIE PREQUEL RISE & FALL OF XANGOS AX #1 $3.99
MY INNER BIMBO #4 (OF 5) (RES) (MR) $2.99
NANA TP VOL 10 (MR) $8.99
NARUTO TP VOL 29 $7.95
NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI TP $14.99
NIGHTWING #144 $2.99
NOVA #13 $2.99
OH MY GODDESS RTL TP VOL 29 $10.95
OMEGA UNKNOWN #8 (OF 10) $2.99
POWR MASTRS GN VOL 01 (OF 6) (O/A) (MR) $18.00
PRINCE OF TENNIS GN VOL 25 $7.95
PS238 #31 $2.99
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #19 $2.99
QUESTION TP VOL 02 POISONED GROUND $19.99
RANN THANAGAR HOLY WAR #1 (OF 8) $3.50
REX LIBRIS #11 $3.50
SALT WATER TAFFY GN VOL 01 LEGEND OF OLD SALTY $5.95
-Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam and his eight-year-old brother Benny are being dragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family. And not to somewhere cool like Disney World, but to a little port town in Maine named Chowder Bay, far away from anyplace fun. But what promises to be a very bleak summer quickly becomes a series of exciting adventures in one of the most mysterious places on earth! Warring seagulls! Giant lobsters! Kleptomaniac Eagles! Ghosts from the Civil War!
SCUD THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN #24 $3.50
SECRET INVASION #2 (OF 8) SI $3.99
SHAMAN KING TP VOL 16 $7.95
STAR WARS LEGACY #23 $2.99
SUPERGIRL #29 $2.99
SUPERNATURAL ORIGINS TP $14.99
TALES FROM THE CRYPT GN VOL 03 ZOMBIELICIOUS $7.95
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE RAISING CAIN #1 (OF 3) (MR) $3.50
THREE SHADOWS GN $15.95
THUNDERBOLTS REASON IN MADNESS $2.99
TOR #1 (OF 6) $2.99
TRANSFORMERS MOVIE SEQUEL REIGN OF STARSCREAM #1 $3.99
UNCLE SCROOGE #375 $7.99
VERONICA #188 $2.25
VINYL UNDERGROUND #8 (MR) $2.99
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #690 $7.99
WAR THAT TIME FORGOT #1 (OF 12) $2.99
WASTELAND #17 (MR) $3.50
X OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 $24.95
X-FACTOR QUICK AND DEAD $2.99
YOUNG X-MEN #2 DWS $2.99
New GAMES this week:
We did not receive any new games this week. However, there were so many last week that I inadvertently forgot one, Last Night On Earth, a board game of the zombie apocalypse.
It is four weeks from tomorrow until the premiere of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, and today, we received a promotional packet from Wizards Of The Coast, which included an advance copy of H1 Keep On The Shadowfell, a new adventure for first to third level characters, as well as five sample characters (including a dragonborn paladin.) It's our first real look at the nuts and bolts of the new edition, and it looks terrific. We'll be taking full advantage of World Wide D&D Day to celebrate. Check out our EVENTS section for more info.
We have boosters, fat packs, theme decks and tournament packs for the brand new Magic The Gathering expansion set Shadowmoor, first of two in a series. We also have boosters & theme decks for Tenth Edition, Lorwyn and Morningtide, as well as boosters for Time Spiral, Planar Chaos, Future Sight, and Coldsnap. We still have starters and boosters for D&D minis new Dungeon of Dread set, as well as the older War Drums, Blood War, Night Below, Unhallowed and Desert of Desolation sets. We have boosters, starters and box sets for Heroclix, including DC Crisis, DC Icons, Justice League, Mutants & Marvels, Avengers, Hellboy, Invincible and Sentinels.
Also, in response to a number of customer inquiries: we will continue to carry the D&D 3.5 core books for as long as they remainavailable. We will also gladly special order any and all 3.5 expansion books (Complete Books, Monster Manuals, etc.) for as long as we can get them. Also, we're cool with folks who are running games in the store playing third edition, or older, versions of D&D or other games that we carry.
EVENTS:
World Wide D&D Day: June 7, 2008. We're very excited for the upcoming release of Fourth Edition of D&D (which goes on sale the day before), and we'll be running several sessions of the new game, absolutely free, for anyone who wants to sign up. Watch this space for more details.
Death Note movie screening: 7:30 PM, May 20 & 21, Showcase Cinema, West Springfield, MA. This is a special screening of a live-action adaptation the acclaimed manga and anime series, dubbed into English. Tickets are on sale now. For more information, including a list of screenings near you, click here.
Art Exhibitions: There are two noteworthy ongoing art exhibitions, both of which I should have mentioned before now.
1) Accounts of Events: Narrative Works by Connecticut Valley Artists: This is a group show by several local artists, including E. J. Barnes, Mark Martin, Mark Stacy, and Colin Tedford. The show is at the Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, 270 Main Street in Greenfield, Mon - Thu 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM, Fri 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, through May 29, 2008.
2) Lit Graphic: The World of the Graphic Novel: This exhibition features the work of over a dozen major comics creators, including Will Eisner, Jessica Abel, Howard Cruse, Frank Miller, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb, and many others. This show is at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through May 26, 2008.
Modern Myths Book Club: New for 2008, we will be hosting a comics discussion group on the last Thursday of every month at 7 PM. This month, we'll be reading and talking about With The Light, Keiko Tobe's touching story about a young mother raising an autistic son in modern Japan. Refreshments will be served. Thursday, May 29, 2008, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Board Game Night every Saturday: Join us for a wide range of European-style board and card strategy games. Newcomers welcome! We'll provide the games and teach the rules, but you can also bring your favorites. Every Saturday from 7:00 - 11:00 PM.
Western Mass Comics Creators Group: 1st Tuesday night ofevery month: Join other local comics creators, amateur and professional, for an informal roundtable of ideas, tips, and hopefully, inspiration! Newcomers (published and non-) always welcome. Meetings usually begin at 7 PM.
Looking further ahead, our next Bargain Comics Sale will begin on July 24 with the Northampton Sidewalk Sale, we'll be setting up a big booth once again this year at Connecticon August 1-3, 2008, and we'll be celebrating our sixth anniversary in September.
Current eBay Listings:
We have not one, but two exciting auctions on our eBay Store this week, variant cover versions of Angel After The Fall #7 and Secret Invasion #2. Both auctions are benefits for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which will receive 50% of the proceeds. In addition, we have just put up a complete set of all 17 volumes of the Ai Yori Aoshi manga series. We also have comics sets, used graphic novels, and used RPGs up at our store, as well.
Featured REVIEW:
100 BULLETS, written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso, ongoing with 11 volumes so far, color, paperback $9.99 to $17.99. RECOMMENDED.
One day a man you’ve never seen before approaches you and offers you an attaché case. In the case are a gun, a hundred rounds of ammunition, and an envelope that contains a person’s photograph and irrefutable proof that this person is directly responsible for ruining your life. The man informs you that both the gun and the ammunition are completely untraceable, and that any police investigation into their use will stop almost as soon as it starts. What do you do?
Such is the basic premise of the Eisner-award-winning Vertigo series 100 Bullets, written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso. The books feature gripping noir tales of crime, greed, espionage, and human weakness. Fans of old film noir movies or modern crime films such as Reservoir Dogs or The Usual Suspects will definitely find something to enjoy here.
A large part of what makes the series so hard to put down is the way it deftly balances self-contained, episodic story-telling with an over-arching mystery/espionage narrative that seems to get wider in scope with each new revelation. By continually examining how new characters react to the offer of the aforementioned attaché case, the series is able to keep from getting stale. Each new situation adds new twists to the basic premise and new characters to the cast. As the series progresses, we are allowed glimpses into “how” and “why” of the premise. Who is Agent Graves, the mysterious man with the attaché cases? What is the organization he works for, or used to work for? What are their goals? These threads tie one volume to the next and will keep you coming back for more.
A perennial favorite in our Mystery/Crime section, 100 Bullets is required reading for anyone with a taste for crime drama. It will not disappoint.
Mike I.
As always, please let us know if you have questions or we can help with anything, just e-mail us at modernmyths(at)aol.com, or feel free to IM if you see us online at AOL.
Thanks, and see you in the store!
-Michael Dow
Modern Myths, LLC
Current Location: 34 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/sam/excited.gif) excited
Current Music: Morrissey
|
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
modernmyths's journal
