Highlights This Week: History is made this week as the BBC allows for the first-ever crossover involving their long-lived Time Lord in IDW’s Star Trek The Next Generation / Doctor Who Assimilation Squared #1 ( of 8 ). It’s a mashup of cosmic proportions when the crew of the Enterprise-D joins forces with Amy, Rory and The Doctor to foil the combined villainy of the Borg and the Cybermen! The long tradition of Summer Annuals begins: Batman Annual #1 is the final release of this month’s Night of the Owls crossover, but the story continues in next month’s Batman #10; Animal Man Annual #1 expands on the storyline in recent issues of Animal Man and Swamp Thing; Amazing Spider-Man Annual #39 finds our hero stuck in a world where Peter Parker never existed; Avengers VS X-Men tie-ins can be found in Wolverine and the X-Men #11 and X-Men Legacy #267; Superman Family Adventures #1 continues the fun of Art Baltazar and Franco’s much-missed Tiny Titans; Batman: Death By Design Hardcover is an original graphic novel written by Chip Kidd in which Batman must find out who is responsible for a spate of construction catastrophes;
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*Neal Adams returns to the X-Men this August with the 5-issue First X-Men mini-series.
*This September’s Joe Kubert’s Tarzan of the Apes Artist Edition is the next in line of this terrific, original art archive series from IDW.
*For reasons that will be apparent to most moviegoers, Marvel is issuing a new printing of the Silver Surver: Rebirth of Thanos Softcover. Look for it on June 20.
*R.I.P. Ernie Chan and Tony DeZuniga. You will both be missed.
*It’s been around for a couple of weeks but, if you missed it, check out this hilarious “Ren & Stimpy-style” Marvel Animated Short called Disassembled. More please!
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Highlights This Week: Another new “New 52″ joins the lineup this week as Grant Morrison returns to write Batman Incorporated #1, continuing Batman’s conflict with Talia Al Ghul, a.k.a. Leviathan; in the rest of the bat-titles this week, the Night of the Owls event continues in All-Star Western #9 and Batman: The Dark Knight #9; Avengers VS X-Men tie-ins can be found in Secret Avengers #27 and, if you missed it the first time, Avengers #25 2nd Printing; Astonishing X-Men #50 continues Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins’ current arc, but this issue features a surprise marriage proposal that is supposed to garner big media attention; Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #1 (of 5) details the first assassination attempt on the life of the Emperor; an all-new Nexus story by Mike Baron and Steve Rude begins in Dark Horse Presents #12; Felicia Day’s creation returns to comics with The Guild: Fawkes One-shot starring the rival Guild leader played in the web series by Will Wheaton;
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We don’t have to tell you how great The Big Bang Theory is, but it seems that some of the characters are getting short-changed in the merchandising department! The folks at Advanced Graphics are trying to remedy that with their upcoming new line of Big Bang Theory Life-Size Standups! Yes, you can now schedule your own Chinese food and Vintage Game Night with the whole gang! And yes, that would be weird, but it’s not like we would tell anybody.
Scheduled to be released at the end of July, we are now taking orders for the following character standups of Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Howard and Raj! Click on each image shown here to get a better view! Each standup retails for $34.95 and is currently scheduled for release at the end of July. Only orders placed with us by
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Highlights This Week: Jim Lee returns to doing the interior artwork on Justice League #9 that begins Part One of an all-new story arc The Villain’s Journey introducing a new, original nemesis for the Leaguers; Avengers VS X-Men continues in Avengers VS X-Men #4 (of 12), AVX VS #2 (of 6) and with tie-ins in Avengers #26, Avengers Academy #30 and Uncanny X-Men #12; the Night of the Owls crossover event is the following bat-titles: Birds of Prey #9, Catwoman #9, Nightwing #9 and Red Hood & The Outlaws #9; the Ends of The Earth story line in Amazing Spider-Man spins off an all-new Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth Special #1; DC Universe Presents #9 begins a 3-Part Vandal Savage arc by James Robinson and Bernard Chang; Alison Bechdel’s award-winning Fun Home spawns a second autobiographical tale in Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Hardcover and
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Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 5. Celebrate with Westfield! Here are details on what’s going on.
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Highlights This Week: To followup his star turn in Marvel Studios’ Avengers Movie, Marvel Comics releases the weekly Hulk Smash Avengers #1 (of 5) that has the Green Goliath taking on the Avengers from a different decade each issue! Issue #1 features the 1960s cast and #2 (also out this week) is set in the 1970s; Avengers VS X-Men continues in the pages of New Avengers #26, Wolverine and the X-Men #10 and X-Men Legacy #266; the Bat-titles’ Night of the Owls event is spotlighted in Batgirl #9, Batman #9 and Batman and Robin #9; John Byrne creates an all-new, original superteam for IDW in Trio #1; Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson team again for Frankenstein Alive Alive #1, a sequel to Mary Shelly’s original novel; DC gives us another one-shot anthology, this time a collection of SciFi/Fantasy stories called Mystery In Space #1 featuring Andy Diggle, Paul Pope and Mike Allred among others; Fury MAX #1 finds Garth Ennis returning to write a harder-edged, post-WWII Nick Fury trying to find his place in the world;
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Highlights This Week: DC’s New 52 line launches 6 new titles this month with 4 of them this week alone! World’s Finest #1 finds Power Girl and The Huntress trapped on an Earth that’s not their own by Paul Levitz, George Perez and Kevin McGuire, James Robinson and Nicola Scott are the creative team on Earth 2 #1, the two heroes’ original world, Dial H #1 updates the 1960s Dial H For Hero concept of a device that can give its owner super powers, and G.I. Combat #1 is a new war anthology featuring new chapters of the classic war comics War That Time Forgot and Unknown Soldier; the first title in the new Valiant Comics revival is X-O Manowar #1; Avengers VS X-Men #3 (of 12) has the 2 teams searching the globe for the mutant know as Hope and AVX crosses over into Avengers Academy #29; the Night of the Owls continues in Detective Comics #9; the hit CW series continues on in comic form with Smallville Season 11 #1; The Tick #100 celebrates its anniversary with a special appearance by Robert Kirkman’s Invincible;
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Highlights This Week: Been enjoying Avengers VS X-Men so far? Well, get ready for some action as this week sees the release of AVX VS #1 (of 6). This once-a-month book will see two “bouts” per issue expanding on the name-calling and hair-pulling between two rival characters. The first issue spotlights Iron Man VS Magneto and The Thing VS Namor, The Sub-Mariner! Other AVX crossovers this week include: New Avengers #25, Secret Avengers #26 and Uncanny X-Men #11; All-Star Western #8 is part of the Night of the Owls crossover; Star Wars: Blood Ties – Boba Fett Is Dead #1 (of 4) finds one of the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunters being declared dead, but then finds the team taking credit being picked off one by one; Daredevil #11 is the final part of The Omega Effect crossover; Eisner Award-winning Roger Landridge teams with artist Bruce Ozella for Popeye #1 (of 4), the first original comic of E.C Segar’s classic sailor man in over 30 years;
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*The creative team behind the short-lived, but well-received, Immortal Iron Fist, Matt Fraction and David Aja, are teaming up again for a new ongoing Hawkeye series, guest starring Young Avenger Kate Bishop beginning this August!
*Marvel is finally releasing Roger Langridge’s unpublished Muppet Show work from Boom! Studios!
*Dark Horse Comics is spinning off two Buffy mini-series. Spike in August and Willow in November!
* IDW is releasing a prequel series for Joe Hill’s super hero character called The Cape:1969 and is going to be releasing new Judge Dredd comics this fall!
*Sales on Boom! Studios’ Adventure Time comics are warranting an Adventure Time: Marceline And The Scream Queens mini-series this July!
*Marvel will be crossing over their Ultimate Comics line this July in an event called Divided We Fall!
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