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It’s Labor Day weekend, meaning half of the gamers in Seattle as well as many from around the world are at PAX, the Penny Arcade Gaming Expo held at the Seattle Convention center. I thought Seattle was doing great when Emerald City Comic Con broke the 10,000 people attendance level. When I found out that PAX attendees number 75,000+ I was blown away. That’s fantastic! I’m pleased that Seattle can support a convention at that level, and a niche crowd to boot. Gaming isn’t really a niche though, with so many types of games and PAX has them all. Video, on-line, RPG, card games, miniatures, and board games as well. There is a down side though. As a comic guy I can’t claim a reputation that we’re all hygienically correct, but gamers have an even worse rep in that area. 75,000 attendees’ means there’s a lot of stinky gamers in one place, especially when the convention lasts three days and gaming goes on 24/7. Last year there was the PAX Pox, as quite a few folks caught a flu type bug. I hope that doesn’t happen this year. Paula and her hubby are there, but I haven’t gotten any kind of update so we’ll have to wait for her to report next week.
Labor Day weekend also means comics will be delayed a day this week, out on Thursday Sept. 9th. It also means that we’re going to start our annual Spy Comics September Sales Extravaganza. This year we’re going to try something different and run three different sales, each for one week only, running Wednesdays through the following Tuesday. We’ll start this Wednesday Sept. 8th with a special book and comic set sale. Check this weekly newsletter or on our website for details on the following weeks. There’s a pretty good sized week of comics on the way, so let’s get started:
Don’t know why, but Marvel is shipping two Amazing Spider-Man issues, with parts of two different stories this week. The one week late issue #641 joins #642, ending ‘One Moment in Time‘ in #641, answering questions about Peter and MJ’s future and starting the new ’Origin of the Species’ in #642. The ‘Origin’ story is about the pursuit of pure Goblin blood. Original Green Goblin Norman Osborn has a child (don’t know who the mom is), and this pure strain of Goblin blood is key to somebody’s very evil plan. Daken: Dark Wolverine #1 debuts, starring another knucklehead whose dream it is to control the world. I thought for sure Marvel was going to kill this guy off after Dark Reign. At least in Daredevil #510 a Shadowland tie-in, D.D. is only trying to control New York City as his friends and even some of his enemies try to stop him. New Avengers #4 is all about the magic, and from the looks of the Previews picture, mutant cyclops Leela from Futurama would hit it off with Wolverine, as he sports a brand new, large third eye right in the middle of his forehead.
There’s a triple shot of Batman arriving, starting with a guest star laden Batman #703 that anticipates the ‘Return of Bruce Wayne’ has his friends look back at his legacy. Batman and Robin #14 is a couple months late and has Dick and Damien battling a couple of the original Batman’s more nasty villains, and Batman :Odyssey #3 (of 6) has Alfred helping and The Riddler along with Talia al Ghul hindering Batman’s plan to deal with what’s going on in this eventually 13 part total, Odyssey. Green Lantern #57, a Brightest Day tie-in features a male Star Sapphire called Predator, but not the ugly Aliens vs type, and he wants Carol Ferris. Who doesn’t ? She’s hot, and a superhero, but this guy has her in chains. Not cool. We’ve got a new video game comic, this one based on the Sony hit Ratchet and Clank #1 (of 6), a sci-fi adventure that looks pretty interesting to me. I’ve never seen the game, but we had some action figures a while back that I thought were pretty neat. The characters are done in a style that is slightly animated and I like that. Also, fans of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible rejoice as the new Dr. Horrible trade collecting the Zach Whedon written one-shot along with the three My Space Dark Horse Presents web comics and a BRAND NEW sixteen page story about the Evil League of Evil!!! To wrap up I want to mention we’ll be getting back in a great trade, also from a web comic, called Lackadaisy that I can’t really describe except to say I love it, it’s beautiful , a lot of fun and has cats as characters (and I’m not really a cat person, so that says something). Please check the list below for more of your favorites this week. Oh, and there’s a peanut gallery that wants to have it known that we’re holding a Heroclix game demo on Saturday September 18th at noon to celebrate the new Web of Spider-man set coming out this week. We’ll have causal play, teaching of the game and a good time for all
Shipping This Week 9-9-10
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Rick’s Writin’sTens of thousands of people gathered in our nation’s capital, Washington DC yesterday, in two separate rallies including one around the Lincoln Memorial, to participate in “Read Comics in Public Day”, a celebration to promote the awareness of the joy of reading comics and graphic novels. There were speeches and celebrities and everything!! Millions of pages of comics were read, stories and art, enjoyed. Discussions on who could take who, or which hero was more powerful were taking place all over. A grand time was had by all as it was like everyone Read the rest of this entry »
Rick’s Writin’sJust got back from visiting my mom down in the Vancouver/Portland area. Over the past 30 some years visiting family and friends I bet I’ve made that journey back and forth on I-5 at least 150 times and on 90% Read the rest of this entry »
August 22nd
Capture the Flag – 500 points – No Hypersonic speed.
September 12th
Sealed – Noon – Web of Spider-Man – 2 sealed boosters of Web of Spider-Man to play.
September 26th
Villains – Noon – 400 points – Event Dial in play.
All tournaments must use newer sets (Avengers and newer; sets with cards) unless otherwise stated.
Rick’s Writin’sAs a former movie theater manager, I have long followed the weekly movie grosses, or ticket sale money generated that week. I was very curious how the three big movie releases this week would end up, grosses wise, as the three were a diverse group, aimed at very different audiences. For the manly men, and guys like me as well, you had “The Expendables,” an action fest starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham and many more current and former action heroes. For the women, Julia Roberts in “Eat, Pray, Love.” Julia Roberts, ’nuff said. And then the hero of San Diego Comic Read the rest of this entry »
Larissa was kind enough to let us post pictures that she took while she was at San Diego Comic Con this year!
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Paula is off in Paul Bunyan country this week, visiting her parents in northern Minnesota. Supposedly, her pop was going to take her fishing in the land of 10,000 lakes, some of the best fishing in the country, maybe the world. She survived her white water rafting experience a few weeks ago, though she can’t swim, and I haven’t heard the loud “BLOOP!!” of her falling out of the boat, so she’s probably fine. Might’ve even caught a fish! All goes well in the shop while she’s gone. I’m thankful the weather cooled down for a bit even though it happened to do so on SeaFair weekend. I sure didn’t want to spend a week and a half without a break, constantly sweating in the hot box our shop becomes when the weather’s too warm. As you can see, the newsletter is done and to me looks like my best job yet of figuring out how to put it together. Practice will eventually make perfect. I promised San Diego Comic Con pictures from Larissa, and we’ll have them up next week. I’ve been writing captions and Paula needs to upload them as I don’t know how. Might learn that one some time along the way too. Nothing really exciting to talk about otherwise as all work and no play makes Ricky a dull boy. Looks like some interesting new comics coming though so let’s get to that:
Rick’s Writin’sThe brain isn’t functioning on all cylinders at the moment, so I’m going to go with a new edition of Rick’s Random thoughts: 1. This past week Puyallup hosted it’s annual event (I can’t recall the name) that brings out bunches of beautiful old time classic cars, from early 1900′s Ford Model T’s to 60′s-70′s muscle cars, plus customs jobs and works still in progress of all types. When I see and especially hear those muscle cars Read the rest of this entry »
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Rick’s Writin’sSan Diego Comic Con is just around the corner and again, I’m not going. Bummer. I’ve been lucky enough to go four times, but I haven’t for the last couple three years. Most of you know that Hollywood and many other non-comic entities have taken over the San Diego Comic Con, with the actual comic part of the con becoming almost forgotten and getting smaller and smaller show floor wise. I admit that the main Read the rest of this entry »
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