Hey, we can’t be full of hilarity and deep commentary every week! We’ll just let the comics and games and toys speak for themselves this week. Read on…
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Featured Comic Books:
DOOMWAR #1
Wakanda has been conquered, its Vibranium reserves plundered. Storm faces execution in the next 48 hours. And Dr. Doom stands triumphant. It will take the combined forces of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the two Black Panthers to stand against him. A war has begun that will pit the world’s most relentless super-villain against a collection of the world’s most powerful super heroes — one that will span the globe, offering twists and turns and surprise players (hello, Deadpool!) that neither side will see coming.
ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS AVENTURES #1
Zombies vs Robots is back, retooled and rarin’ to go monthly in this new 4-part series. Chris Ryall scripts, Ashley Wood provides the covers, and a cadre of new artists tackle three serialized tales. Beginning in this issue, the war story of “Kampf” (art by Menton Matthews III); the growth of the human resistance in “Masques” (art by Paul McCaffrey); and a new form of zombies is born in “Zuvembies vs Robots” (with art by Gabriel Hernandez).
GREEN LANTERN #51
The most epic battle in BLACKEST NIGHT yet comes to a shocking conclusion as Hal Jordan makes the ultimate move to take on the Black Lantern Spectre. But what price comes with the unleashing of Parallax? And what does this mean for the future of the emotional spectrum’s avatars?
BLACKEST NIGHT: THE FLASH #3 (OF 3)
It’s a case of the chicken-or-the-egg as Barry Allen takes on the Black Lantern Reverse-Flash and seeks answers to the very nature of Professor Zoom’s impending resurrection. Plus, the Rogues witness an act so horrifying that it changes one of their own forever.
Featured Graphic Novels:
KICK-ASS PREMIERE HARDCOVER
The greatest super hero comic of all-time is finally here! WOLVERINE: ENEMY OF THE STATE’s team of MARK MILLAR (CIVIL WAR) and JOHN ROMITA JR. (WORLD WAR HULK) reunite for the best new book of the 21st century! Have you ever wanted to be a super hero? Dreamed of donning a mask and just heading outside to some kick-ass? Well, this is the book for you–the comic that starts where other super hero books draw the line. KICK-ASS is realistic super heroes taken to the next level. Miss out and you’re an idiot! Collecting KICK-ASS #1-8.
IGNITION CITY VOL.1
Where did the space heroes go to die? From Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics, comes a retropunk “future of the past” where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City, Earth’s last spaceport, to recover the effects of her dead father — or so people think. Mary really wants to know how he died, and who did it. Mary Raven is out to spoil a great many people’s days. Today might be her last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear. She has her dead father’s raygun, and that’s enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father’s diary. And when she finds out something no-one else in the settlement knows… they’ll want her dead for that, too! Featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics’ Gianluca Pagliarani, this full-color volume collects all five issues of the sci-fi epic with a gorgeous cover gallery full of design sketches, ray-gun fights and giant metal machines!
DC UNIVERSE: ORIGINS
Collecting the origins of over fifty characters from Animal Man to Zatanna, including Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and many more, from DC’s hit weekly series 52 and COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS as well as several first seen online, featuring the work of some of comics’ top talents!
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CHEZ CTHULHU
Prepare for an encounter with the most sanity-blasting entities in all the dimensions . . .Your roommates.Chez Cthulhu brings the horror of Lovecraft’s Mythos right into your apartment . . . as if the leftovers from the Pizza with Absolutely Everything weren’t bad enough. Work your job – will you be a Morgue Janitor, a Sanitarium Guard, or a Gravedigger? Buy things to give you Slack, like a comforting Straitjacket . . . or some Friendly Tentacles to make your day a little brighter. Invite people over to your room . . . and sacrifice them! And Nookie . . . don’t forget the Nookie. Preferably without the Ectoplasmic Slime.Chez Cthulhu combines the classic Chez Geek system with everyone’s favorite Elder God. . . and adds a new Madness mechanic. This set includes 110 cards and two blanks, a die, and counters for both Slack and Madness.Warning: Mixing Chez Cthulhu with Chez Geek can lead to bouts of giggling and excessive silliness. The game itself will play just fine, as long as your brain doesn’t break when you use “cigarette” and “tentacle” interchangeably.
WARMACHINE: RUTGER SHAW
Rutger Shaw enlisted in the Cygnaran Army as a young man and trained as a trencher, demonstrating a unique knack for marshaling warjacks as well as skill with a blade. Military service and long years of battle hardened him, even as his conscience chafed at fighting at the whim of callous officers. He opted out and turned sell-sword, spending recent years travelling the Iron Kingdoms guided by his taste for adventure and coin.
WARMACHINE CRYX: WARWITCH SIREN
For centuries the Orgoth tyrants used their warwitches as living implements of atrocity and mass destruction. Now, hundreds of years later, the Cryxian warwitches have become icy killers, as cold in spirit as the shadows in which they are clad. Their arcane powers have been refined over time, and the witches called sirens have learned ways to seduce their enemies into annihilation.
YU-GI-OH!: ABSOLUTE POWERFORCE
Absolute Powerforce features Jack Atlas’s Majestic Red Dragon – the latest and greatest upgrade for The Five Dragons! It also contains new Koaki Meiru, X-Sabers, Ritual Monster cards, Reptiliannes, Spellcasters, Machines, and more. Plus, a special treat for long-time Duelists, an old favorite has returned: It’s time to dust off their Necrovalley cards and add four brand-new cards to their Gravekeeper’s Decks! 9 cards per pack / 24 packs per box.
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BLACKEST NIGHT: SERIES 3
BLACKEST NIGHT continues to astonish as DC Direct introduces the third series of action figures based on this storyline!
Don’t get caught without these new action figures, including Aquaman, the third member of the Black Lanterns; Arisia, the Green Lantern charged with protecting Earth; Larfleeze, the only living member of the avaricious Orange Lantern Corps, who comes with the slain – and slavish – Glomulus; and Star Sapphire of the Zamorans, whose members battle using the violet power of love.
STREET FIGHTER IV : SURVIVAL MODE COLORS SERIES 1
From the best selling video game and arcade fighter comes this brand new collection of alternate costumes from the #1 selling video game. This assortment includes Ryu, Ken, and Guile. All 3 figures are highly detailed and highly articulated to allow for maximum posing and display.
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Hey, we can’t be full of hilarity and deep commentary every week! We’ll just let the comics and games and toys speak for themselves this week. Read on…
————————————–Comics————————————–
Click here for comics expected next Wednesday (opens in new window)
Featured Comic Books:
DOOMWAR #1
Wakanda has been conquered, its Vibranium reserves plundered. Storm faces execution in the next 48 hours. And Dr. Doom stands triumphant. It will take the combined forces of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the two Black Panthers to stand against him. A war has begun that will pit the world’s most relentless super-villain against a collection of the world’s most powerful super heroes — one that will span the globe, offering twists and turns and surprise players (hello, Deadpool!) that neither side will see coming.
ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS AVENTURES #1
Zombies vs Robots is back, retooled and rarin’ to go monthly in this new 4-part series. Chris Ryall scripts, Ashley Wood provides the covers, and a cadre of new artists tackle three serialized tales. Beginning in this issue, the war story of “Kampf” (art by Menton Matthews III); the growth of the human resistance in “Masques” (art by Paul McCaffrey); and a new form of zombies is born in “Zuvembies vs Robots” (with art by Gabriel Hernandez).
GREEN LANTERN #51
The most epic battle in BLACKEST NIGHT yet comes to a shocking conclusion as Hal Jordan makes the ultimate move to take on the Black Lantern Spectre. But what price comes with the unleashing of Parallax? And what does this mean for the future of the emotional spectrum’s avatars?
BLACKEST NIGHT: THE FLASH #3 (OF 3)
It’s a case of the chicken-or-the-egg as Barry Allen takes on the Black Lantern Reverse-Flash and seeks answers to the very nature of Professor Zoom’s impending resurrection. Plus, the Rogues witness an act so horrifying that it changes one of their own forever.
Featured Graphic Novels:
KICK-ASS PREMIERE HARDCOVER
The greatest super hero comic of all-time is finally here! WOLVERINE: ENEMY OF THE STATE’s team of MARK MILLAR (CIVIL WAR) and JOHN ROMITA JR. (WORLD WAR HULK) reunite for the best new book of the 21st century! Have you ever wanted to be a super hero? Dreamed of donning a mask and just heading outside to some kick-ass? Well, this is the book for you–the comic that starts where other super hero books draw the line. KICK-ASS is realistic super heroes taken to the next level. Miss out and you’re an idiot! Collecting KICK-ASS #1-8.
IGNITION CITY VOL.1
Where did the space heroes go to die? From Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning Ministry Of Space and Aetheric Mechanics, comes a retropunk “future of the past” where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has come to the interzone settlement in the middle of Ignition City, Earth’s last spaceport, to recover the effects of her dead father — or so people think. Mary really wants to know how he died, and who did it. Mary Raven is out to spoil a great many people’s days. Today might be her last day on Earth, trapped on the last spaceport where no-one cares about murder and the only real currency is fear. She has her dead father’s raygun, and that’s enough for space hero turned arms dealer Lightning Bowman to want her dead. But she also has her dead father’s diary. And when she finds out something no-one else in the settlement knows… they’ll want her dead for that, too! Featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics’ Gianluca Pagliarani, this full-color volume collects all five issues of the sci-fi epic with a gorgeous cover gallery full of design sketches, ray-gun fights and giant metal machines!
DC UNIVERSE: ORIGINS
Collecting the origins of over fifty characters from Animal Man to Zatanna, including Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and many more, from DC’s hit weekly series 52 and COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS as well as several first seen online, featuring the work of some of comics’ top talents!
————————————–Games————————————–
CHEZ CTHULHU
Prepare for an encounter with the most sanity-blasting entities in all the dimensions . . .Your roommates.Chez Cthulhu brings the horror of Lovecraft’s Mythos right into your apartment . . . as if the leftovers from the Pizza with Absolutely Everything weren’t bad enough. Work your job – will you be a Morgue Janitor, a Sanitarium Guard, or a Gravedigger? Buy things to give you Slack, like a comforting Straitjacket . . . or some Friendly Tentacles to make your day a little brighter. Invite people over to your room . . . and sacrifice them! And Nookie . . . don’t forget the Nookie. Preferably without the Ectoplasmic Slime.Chez Cthulhu combines the classic Chez Geek system with everyone’s favorite Elder God. . . and adds a new Madness mechanic. This set includes 110 cards and two blanks, a die, and counters for both Slack and Madness.Warning: Mixing Chez Cthulhu with Chez Geek can lead to bouts of giggling and excessive silliness. The game itself will play just fine, as long as your brain doesn’t break when you use “cigarette” and “tentacle” interchangeably.
WARMACHINE: RUTGER SHAW
Rutger Shaw enlisted in the Cygnaran Army as a young man and trained as a trencher, demonstrating a unique knack for marshaling warjacks as well as skill with a blade. Military service and long years of battle hardened him, even as his conscience chafed at fighting at the whim of callous officers. He opted out and turned sell-sword, spending recent years travelling the Iron Kingdoms guided by his taste for adventure and coin.
WARMACHINE CRYX: WARWITCH SIREN
For centuries the Orgoth tyrants used their warwitches as living implements of atrocity and mass destruction. Now, hundreds of years later, the Cryxian warwitches have become icy killers, as cold in spirit as the shadows in which they are clad. Their arcane powers have been refined over time, and the witches called sirens have learned ways to seduce their enemies into annihilation.
YU-GI-OH!: ABSOLUTE POWERFORCE
Absolute Powerforce features Jack Atlas’s Majestic Red Dragon – the latest and greatest upgrade for The Five Dragons! It also contains new Koaki Meiru, X-Sabers, Ritual Monster cards, Reptiliannes, Spellcasters, Machines, and more. Plus, a special treat for long-time Duelists, an old favorite has returned: It’s time to dust off their Necrovalley cards and add four brand-new cards to their Gravekeeper’s Decks! 9 cards per pack / 24 packs per box.
—————————————-Toys / Collectables—————————————-
BLACKEST NIGHT: SERIES 3
BLACKEST NIGHT continues to astonish as DC Direct introduces the third series of action figures based on this storyline!
Don’t get caught without these new action figures, including Aquaman, the third member of the Black Lanterns; Arisia, the Green Lantern charged with protecting Earth; Larfleeze, the only living member of the avaricious Orange Lantern Corps, who comes with the slain – and slavish – Glomulus; and Star Sapphire of the Zamorans, whose members battle using the violet power of love.
STREET FIGHTER IV : SURVIVAL MODE COLORS SERIES 1
From the best selling video game and arcade fighter comes this brand new collection of alternate costumes from the #1 selling video game. This assortment includes Ryu, Ken, and Guile. All 3 figures are highly detailed and highly articulated to allow for maximum posing and display.