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Holy crap people! Go here http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/high.html now! Don’t wait until tonight before the Dark Knight. Watch it now so you can appreciate it even more in digital or IMAX.
Wow!
And don’t forget we’ve got plenty of the trade paperback in stock. You know you read it years ago, now start sharing it with your friends.
SPOILER ALERT for The Dark Knight in the Comments
Just another reminder to you Rockers out there - CUBANE is performing in this year’s Spark Weekly Summer Music Fest on Friday, July 25th at the Union Tavern (formerly Bankshots at Union and Pennsylvania Ave) No Cover! Any Captain Blue Hen cutomer who shows up should get a valuable coupon from Paul, redeemable at the shop.You can also catch them this Saturday night at JB McGuiness (formerly Gators at the basin Shopping Center near Wm Penn HS - there is an opening band and cover charge) and at the Middletown Unicity Festival on August 2nd (John Waters and Sandra Bernhard will be there as headliners). If you enjoy true rock, we’re not talking pop or death metal, but true rock, you owe it to yourself to catch them live. They are the only band among the 15 described as hard rock. Free 3 song CDs at the shop! Voting is now through August on www.sparkweekly.com
Conan fans - I just picked up a nice collection. Most of these issues look like they were just plucked off the stands and put away - nice. The complete run from 23 - 275 has already sold, but we have a great run of Savage Sword magazines, as well as the complete run (55) of Conan the King and a few mini series left! Also, there are some mini series of “bad girl” detectives, like Flare, up for grabs.
Well, I thought I would strike a nerve about my thoughts (questions) on the “In Loving Memory of….” decals, but no response.
Wholesale gas prices have dropped considerably the last two days. When they went UP that much, there were immediate price bumps at the pump. Ah, what’s the delay, oil barons? No price gouging, my butt! The paper has published articles explaining that the local merchant makes very little and has practically no say in the price, as if gouging is not going on, but explain to me how two stations, both from the same company, and located a half mile from each other, can charge quite different prices. And why is gas cheaper as we travel AWAY from the local refineries down RT 1?
Speaking of gas, why does DelDot use a HUGE truck to tote the lights warning you that the HUGE street cleaner truck in front of it is going slow. Couldn’t they put those lights on a little S10 and save gas? Or, wait a minute, why not put them on the street cleaner itself and save all of that gas? Come to think of it, after all these years, do those street cleaners do much of a decent job anyway? Why not put to work some of our current citizens receiving free checks or free “room and board”? Just a thought - which I know lots of you have had, also.
That’s enough rants for today. Now your turn Joe?…
Avoid the lines: see The Dark Knight at the Newark Cinema Center tonight. It’s no IMAX, but the Cinema Center–on Main Street in the Newark Shopping Center–boasts one of the biggest screens in the Northeast U.S.! Call 302-737-3720 for details.
It’s hotter than heck outside, so cool off at the shop looking through the clearance items on sale at 90% OFF!Believe it or not, we still have dollar comics, trade paperbacks, and other back issues left. They are 90% OFF. That means the dollar comics are 10 cents each!
At some point either someone will buy the whole lot or we will have time to clean the section out. Either way, these items will be gone for good. Hurry in now!
MIGHTY AVENGERS #16 SECRET INVASION - Bendis’ Avengers titles are as good or better than the main mini-series.
SPIKE AFTER THE FALL #1 - What happened to Spike right after the last episode of Angel when L.A. literally went to Hell?
STAR TREK MANGA VOL 03 UCHU - New “episodes” of the Original Series featuring manga style art.
SUPERMAN AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES HC - One of the best Superman stories and one of the best Legion stories in recent comics history.
TRINITY #7 - Busiek and Bagley, the team behind Marvel’s original Thunderbolts series are the team for EVERY issue. And EVERY issue stars Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman together. Consistently good with no tie-ins!
Red Sonja will be returning to the big screen later next year. Dynamite Entertainment who has the rights to the red hair barbarian, said that they are now scouting filming sites and filming should begin in October. Robert Rodriguez will be producing and first time director, Douglas Aarniokoski, will be directing Rose McGowan as Red Sonja.
Warner Brothers is said to be shaking up the offices that are DC comics. They are talking to DC comics president and top artists about focusing on big name DC Movies and the quality of the content. The whole article can be read here.
There is also word out there that Marvel has finally secured Jon Favreau for the Iron Man sequel. There were reports earlier, that Marvel was slacking and didn’t want to pay Favreau as much as he asked. Well knowing a good think, Marvel went ahead and paid up.
Thats it for now, don’t forget about ‘Hellboy II: the Golden Army’ this weekend and possible the most anticipated comic book movie of all time, ‘The Dark Knight’, next weekend.
The Living Corpse #0 – 4Thank goodness we have a fun zombie book. With the super depression pill that is Walking Dead, it’s good to take a break from that once in a while. Though calling The Living Corpse a zombie book would be selling it short. It’s really a fun story following a man that is trapped keeping the other-worldly things from destroying the normal humans. The only problem with that man is that he’s already dead. So, calling this a fun story may also be misleading. This is a harder book to peg down than I thought…anyway, we follow him through his misadventures fighting all sorts of evil such as a Werewolf, Mad Scientist, Wendigo, and Zombies (the brain dead kind). All throughout he’s either cracking wise or cracking heads.
The art on this book is phenomenal. No, it’s not super realistic, instead Ken and Buz decided to go with an incredibly cool animated type of style that fits the “out there” vibe of the book. The colors fit perfectly and really help set the dark tone against the more lighthearted look of the characters. That is, if you can call a living corpse lighthearted. Just pick up any issue and flip through and you’ll find nothing but great action and clever writing throughout.
Speaking of writing, The Living Corpse definitely has a voice, and new characters introduced each issue are fleshed out enough that you immediately get what they want to accomplish. In terms of plot and story, each issue is a one and done. But throughout the whole thing is a running subplot that really comes to a head at the end of issue #4. There are laugh out loud as well as “oh man, that’s nuts!” moments peppered throughout every issue.
Really, when it comes down to it, the fact that this book jumps to the top of my pile every week it comes out has to say something. While this one might not be appropriate for the little ones, if you like to laugh and if you enjoy zombies, this book is worth every penny.
Check it out if you like: Old school horror, Zombies, and laughing
AGE OF BRONZE #27 (MR) - Re-telling the story of Troy at a personal level.
CRIMINAL TPB VOL 03 DEAD AND DYING (MR) - Collecting the third story from the best noir comic published today. By Ed Brubaker (Daredevil) and Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies).
INDIANA JONES & TOMB OF THE GODS #1 - New Indy comics!
RUNAWAYS PREM HC DEAD END KIDS - Collecting Joss Whedon’s story about this unique set of heroes.
TRANSFORMERS ALL HAIL MEGATRON #1 - Megatron takes over the Earth
Dave’s PREVIEWS PICKS - Cool comics from the JULY edition of Previews
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DARK HORSE COMICS
Solomon Kane #1 – Dark Horse has had success with Conan, and now they give another Robert E. Howard creation a try. This mini-series features Howard’s Puritan avenger as he faces supernatural menaces. [p. 26]
Star Wars: Clone Wars #1 – Set between Episode II and III, this series features new stories in the style of the upcoming CGI-animated TV show. [p. 43]
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