Black Lanterns: careful — they’ll eat your face! Newsletter 1/15/10

Ugh! A face only his mother could love! Makes for a good story, though. Not only are the Black Lanterns resurrecting dead heroes and villains, but they’re resurrecting some dead comic book titles this month too! Come check ‘em out!

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Comics
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Featured Comic Books:

POWER OF SHAZAM #48
BLACKEST NIGHT infects the Black Adam family when Osiris returns from the dead as a Black Lantern to terrorize young Billy and Mary Batson! Now powerless after the wizard Shazam deemed them unworthy in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #25, can the Batsons even count on the aid of Freddy Freeman, the new Captain Marvel? Find out in another of this month’s one-issue revivals of classic DC Universe titles!

CATWOMAN #83
As if the chaos and mayhem of Gotham City’s blackout wasn’t enough, Catwoman faces a dead villain that she was responsible for killing – the original Black Mask!

Will this attack against the body and soul of Selina Kyle prove to be too much for the feline femme fatale? And can she come to grips with killing (again) a possibly unkillable foe? Find out in another of this month’s one-issue revivals of classic DC Universe titles!

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: THREE WORLD WAR #1
A centuries-old interstellar conflict threatens humanity’s very existence as a long-lost Predator clan stakes its claim for galactic dominance, intent on exterminating its rival clan, the selfsame trophy hunters who have plagued Earth’s history and every world they have touched. And if the advanced technology and military precision of this new threat weren’t enough, they have an even more terrifying weapon at their disposal — Aliens, weaponized and under their malefic control. This puts earthmen in the dangerous position of parlaying with the same alien warriors who have relentlessly hunted them, and who better to carry out the negotiations than Machiko Noguchi, the only human known to have spent time alongside the Hunters.

* Features the creative team of original AvP writer Randy Stradley and penciller Rick Leonardi (Cloak and Dagger, Uncanny X-Men, Vigilante), and stunning cover art by Raymond Swanland (Aliens, Predator).

* Ties together story threads introduced in the original AvP series and new Aliens and Predator storylines, setting the stage for the most epic AvP brawl ever imagined!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #617
The Gauntlet continues to close around Spider-Man in this heartbreaking story of love, loss and lust for power as the Rhino charges into Spider-Man’s life, out to make a name for himself…by killing the Rhino? Joe Kelly & Max Fiumara, who kicked off The Gauntlet in Amazing Spider-Man #600’s prelude, return for this pulse-pounding chapter!

Featured Graphic Novels:

NO HERO TPB
Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, the team behind the fan-favorite BLACK SUMMER, are revolutionizing masked heroes yet again in this blockbuster epic! Dead heroes in the dirt. A killer capable of almost supernatural tortures. Five generations of the world’s only superhuman group. A forty-year legacy of standing for the rights of freedom and safety. A young man obsessed with the need for street justice. How much do you want to be asuperhuman? How badly does he want it? Bad enough to bring on the last days of an American legend? If he even gets to survive that long? Forty years ago, a group of superhumans emerged in San Francisco, guided by the man whose unique new drugs gave them their incredible powers. But the team is not the only thing that’s advanced over the years, and there are no easy victories when their luck finally begins to run out… This huge collection features all eight issues of the series with a cover gallery under an all-new cover by Juan Jose Ryp.

HUMAN TARGET: CHANCE MEETINGS
Collecting the Vertigo title that inspired the upcoming Fox TV series! Christopher Chance makes his living by turning himself into a human target. A master of disguise, he cunningly takes on the appearance and persona of men and women with contracts out against them. But when a routine assignment to impersonate an African-American minister with a bounty on his head goes south, Chance finds himself caught between a lethal assassin and a vicious gang war. After the assignment changes his life completely, Chance’s next adventure takes him into the world of Hollywood as he impersonates an aging actor to find a missing boy and flirts with the idea of leaving his dangerous life behind him.

This volume collects the original 4-issue Vertigo HUMAN TARGET miniseries with art by Edvin Biukovic along with the follow-up, standalone, 96-page HUMAN TARGET: FINAL CUT OGN with art by Javier Pulido (ROBIN: YEAR ONE).

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Games
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CODEX: TYRANIDS
The Tyranids are a ravenous race of aliens that have traveled through the cold darkness of the intergalactic void in order to feed upon the galaxy. Vast swarms of scuttling creatures, winged horrors and towering monstrosities consume everything in their path, scouring whole planets of life and devouring entire civilisations. The Tyranids are the ultimate predators against which the galaxies mightiest armies are naught but prey.

This 96-page Warhammer 40,000 Codex contains all the rules you’ll need to field a Tyranid army, as well as detailed background information, bestiary, accompanying artwork and a full-colour ‘Eavy Metal showcase.

TYRANID TRYGON / MAWLOC
The Trygon is a colossal serpentine creature whose iron-hard carapace is proof against all but the heaviest of weapons and whose giant talons can scythe through even the most formidable battle-tank. In battle, a Trygon’s shifting mass generates lethal bio-electric energy that it unleashes upon its foes in vicious arcs of lighting.

Mawlocs are huge worm-like creatures with massive razor-toothed maws that act as the entryway to their equally cavernous gullets. Most of a Mawloc’s victims are swallowed whole, there to be painfully digested. Anything to large to swallow is pounded flat by the Mawloc’s muscular tail before being devoured.

This box set contains one large multi-part plastic miniature that can be assembled as either a Tyranid Trygon or Tyranid Mawloc. This 97-piece set contains a range of additional components that allow you to personalise your model. Model supplied with a large oval base.

TYRANID GARGOYLE BROOD
Gargoyles are often the first wave of a Tyranid swarm to be seen in battle. Thus a Tyranid attack is preceded by the beating of thousands of membranous wings as Gargoyle Broods descend upon the foe; blocking out the sun, and spitting death from their fleshborers and caustic venom from their fanged mouths.

This box set contains 10 multi-part plastic Tyranid Gargoyles. Models supplied with small flying bases.

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Toys / Collectables
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MARVEL MINIMATES SERIES 32 ASSORTMENT
A Diamond Select Release! Art Asylum Designs & Sculpts! Journey into comic history like never before with the latest Marvel Minimates release! Featuring a mix of characters, this assortment includes the Extremis Iron Man & Titanium Man two-pack, the retro X-Force Cable & modern X-Force X-23, the army building Kree Soldier & Yellow Jacket set and the variant Hank Pym as Goliath! Each Minimate stands two inches tall with 14 points of articulation and a variety of removable and interchangeable parts and accessories.