Saturday, May 3, 2008 was our first FREE COMIC BOOK DAY in our new location and was a rousing success. We had a record attendance and thank everybody who came for the free books and the many who saw our new store for the first time. We also thank the great talent that gave of their time to do sketches, show off their art and chat with our customers. We hope the line was never too long or moved too slowly. We welcome any

Highlights This Week: The original Invaders (Captain America, Bucky, Human Torch, Toro and the Sub-Mariner) return in Avengers/Invaders #1 (of 12) by the award winning team behind Earth X, Justice and Project Superpowers, Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Steve Sadowski. The second issue of Secret Invasion. The third issue of Dark Tower The Long Road Home .Because of the Iron Man movie, in theatres now!, we get an all-new ongoing series The Invincible Iron Man #1 and a new mini-series Iron Man Viva Las Vegas #1 (of 4). DC tries to resurrect the horror anthology with the all-new House of Mystery #1. Jim Starlin having finished his Death of the New Gods mini-series now takes on Rann/Thanagar Holy War #1 (of 8). Comics legend Joe Kubert returns with the all-new Tor #1 (of 6). The final issue of Scud the Disposable Assassin (#24). Also, the final issue of Dark Horse’s ongoing Conan series. And finally, once again, we get BOTH Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #14 AND Angel After the Fall #7.

This year, as in most previous years, will see thousands of people getting free comics all over the world on Saturday, May 3. Keep your browser pointed to this page as we finalize the details and schedules!

The summer’s first big movie IRON MAN roars into the multiplexes this weekend and promises to be a big box office winner as well as a worthy entry into the superhero movie genre. Bring in your ticket stub

Highlights This Week: DC Universe: Zero, the comic that will bridge the gap between Countdown and this summer’s Final Crisis for only 50 CENTS! New Avengers #40 continues the skrullification of the Marvel Universe. The first in a series of one-shots examining the triumphs and tragedies of Thor Ages of Thunder.The return of Todd Nauck’s Wildguard: Insider #1 (of 3). Dave Sim’s first new project since the end of Cerebus Glamourpuss #1. Two titles from the new company Radical Publishing Hercules #1 and Caliber #1. The second installment celebrating Wizard Magazine’s longevity Wizard #200 Platinum!

Warner Home Video has finally decided to release the short lived Birds of Prey TV series on DVD on Tuesday, July 15 to take advantage of the new Dark Knight movie opening just three days later in theatres on Friday, July 18.

Highlights this week include: Marz & Sejic’s re-envisioned & reinvigorated Witchblade #117; the late-shipping Hulk #3 (Loeb & McGuinness); the catching-up-to-it’s-schedule Thor #8 (JMS & Djurdjevic); just in time for Secret Invasion, the back-in-print Avengers: Kree Skrull War softcover; the also late-shipping Batman #675 (Morrison & Daniel); Vector continues in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic #27; also, the always-great Twomorrows’ publications Modern Masters and Rough Stuff both have new issues coming out. Also, don’t forget to check out the new Super Hero Squad figures coming in, as well as the Sinestro Corps T-shirts!

We’ve had a number of customers asking us when we were going to be getting more Japenese Import Godzilla Vinyl figures. That day is finally here! Following is a list of figures we received but quantities are limited.

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