Shipping List for February 15th, 2012
The shiplist is up, take a look!
Clyde Heroclix: February 24th!
Hey guys, we’re having game 2 of our FIGHT FOR THE INFINITY GAUNTLET series Friday, February 24th at Clyde! Like last time, there’ll be limited seating, so call ahead or talk to use in store to guarantee yourself a spot! Here’s the details:
300 point sealed event
$20 to play (2 boosters provided)
6:00 PM start
You can talk to us in store, or over the phone at 613.228.8386 Sign up today!
Shipping List for February 8th, 2012
The shiplist is up, take a look through the link! keep an eye of SILVER STAR #3 and LOBSTER JOHNSON #2, they’ll be good!
HEROES OF THE NORTH @ BANK!
Hey kids, we’ve got some awesome, albeit last minute news! Sunday, Feb. 5th, The writers of HEROES OF THE NORTH are coming to Bank, to help launch their new comic series, and they’re bringing some of the fantastic actors from the web series! From 11-5 they’ll be at bank, doing autographs, talking with fans, selling merch, and doing photos, too!
If you’re thinking “Who the heck are the Heroes of the North?” you can find out at their website here: Heroes of the North OR follow them on Twitter here: @northernheroes But whatever you do, check their stuff out! It’s pretty awesome, and we’re all stoked to have these guys in store! So swing in, say hi, and find out what the fuss is all about!
Bank Street HeroClix for February 2012
Thursday, February 2nd – Star Trek Sealed Tournament and 500 Point Multiplayer. Players may purchase up to 6 single figure boosters and make a 300 point team from the pieces you receive. You may also include 1 figure from the starter set on your team. If you buy a box of 12, you may keep 6 of them sealed for the tournament. Rounds for the tournament will be 30 Mins. in length and the Champion and Fellowship will receive the Warship Voyager LE Figure.
For those not interested in Star Trek, there will be a 500 point multiplayer match as well. You can use any theme you want!
Saturday, February 4th – 500 Point Villains Tournament. Build a 500 point team using only “villain” characters. You know who they are, no ambiguous morality allowed. Prizes include LE #102 Major Glenn Talbot for both the Champion and Fellowship winners.
Thursday, February 9th – Generic. Build a 500 Point team where every character has the same generic keyword. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are a themed team, just that they all share the keyword.
Saturday, February 11th – Infinity Gauntlet Sealed Tournament. Players purchase 2 boosters of Incredible Hulk and/or Captain America and build a 300 point team out of the pieces they receive! Prizes for this event include the In-Betweener LE Figure for the Champion, Second, and Fellowship winners, and a Soul Gem 3D object to everyone upon completion of the event!
Thursday, February 16th - I Hate Dimensional Travel. Build a 500 point theme. No BFC’s or special objects are allowed. The game is played normally for the first hour, but at the turn of the second hour, players will be redistributed a second time and placed on mew maps or in new starting zones, along with whatever’s left of their team. All game effects that were in place before the switch are canceled. Maps are left as they were with objects and debris unmoved.
Saturday, February 18th – 400 Point Ladies Tournament. Build a 400 point team using only female characters. Prizes for this event include the Special Object #101 Gamma Bomb for Both the Champion and Fellowship winners.
Thursday, February 23rd – JLA vs. Avengers. Build a 500 point themed team based around either the Justice League or Avengers keywords. For this scenario, all Justice League keywords (JLA, Justice League of America, etc.) will be considered the same keyword .
Saturday, February 25th – 400 Point Modern Age Team-Up Tournament. Build a 400 point team based around the Modern Age construction rules. Your team must be either all DC, all Indy, or all Marvel. Team-up with a friend who is using a different universe from you and fight. Here’s how a Team-Up Tournament works:
- Two-player Team-Up events are multiplayer games of HeroClix, with four total players per game.
- Each Team-Up consists of two players. Players may choose their partners in advance. Any players without partners will be randomly assigned to a partner on the day of the event. Any players without partners should build two teams from different universes to be on the safe side.
- Alternate seating, so that team members are not sitting next to each other and are not taking consecutive turns.
- The listed point value is the number of points that each player on the team may bring. Feats are allowed but Battlefield Conditions are not.
- During the game, all characters in a Team-Up are considered to be friendly characters to all other characters in the Team-Up; they are not, however, part of the same force.
- In addition to all normal victory conditions, if either partner in a Team-Up has no characters remaining on the map, the game ends.
- The vitory points scored by both Partners during the game are totaled at the end of the game.
Up for grabs are a selection of LE Prizes.
Future events TBA.
Beware! Humans! – A Look at The Walking Dead #93
Title: The Walking Dead #93
Author: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Charlie Adlard
Publisher: Image Comics
Rating: 18+ (mature readers)
Release date: January 25, 2012
Verdict: 8.5/10
Not only is the Walking Dead one of the most popular television shows on cable since The Sopranos, and not only is it one of the best selling graphic novel series of all time, but The Walking Dead is inching closer and closer to the big issue #100, and to the bigger world that is just beyond the horizon. Since issue #1 of this book, the group that has surrounded our main character Rick has never really been that big of a group. This is to be expected in a situation like the one that the people in this particular world are stuck in. A massive amount of zombies…everyone on earth is infected with the disease…not much access to supplies. All in all, the world of The Walking Dead is a real downer. But things may not be like this forever.
In the last few issues, Rick’s group has been met by a man who says that he is an advanced scout for a group of people living about 20 miles away. According to this new dude, his group, along with people from other groups, are all part of newly formed web of groups that trade amongst each other and who offer protection to one another. What this actually boils down to is the restarting of civilization, albeit on a smaller scale.
This had to happen eventually. The world wasn’t destroyed; it’s just the people who have been affected. As soon as survivors have dug in and made their area safe, they start to expand. Just as we’ve observed Rick’s group do for the last 20 issues or so, it seems like the same thing has been happening in groups/communities in other areas as well. As things like canned foods become inedible (it’s been a few years afterall), and ammunition becomes more scarce, looking for other groups to trade with becomes a necessity. Even a group like Rick’s, who’ve run into some of the worst humanity has to offer, can’t stay hidden forever. They’d just be signing their death warrants.
I’ve been with this series since issue #1, and to me, this looks like a great place to shake things up. The group spent a long time at the prison, followed by some more time on the road, followed by spending the last year or so in this village outside of Washington DC. Moving the story along and finding the next big thing is probably on the horizon. Mr. Kirkman hasn’t been scared over the years to kill popular characters or to shake things up for his main group, so I’m thinking that issue #100 is going to be a hell of a ride. No guarantees on any of our favorites surviving.
For those of you who’ve never tried the monthly comic book series, and have only tried the television series, you don’t know what you’re missing! There are currently 15 graphic novel collections available collecting the first 90 issues, with a new one coming out twice a year. Each collection contains 6 issues and they are some of the best reads on the shelf. No wonder they were the biggest selling graphic novels of 2011! Come on in and get your copies today J .
Shipping List for February 1st, 2012
February 1st’ shiplist is up, take a look through the link!
A Superior Ending: A Look at Superior #7
Title: Superior #7 (of 7)
Author: Mark Millar
Artist: Leinil Francis Yu
Publisher: Icon (Marvel)
Rating: 18+
Release date: January 18, 2012
Verdict: 9/10
When Marvel announced that they would be launching their own creator-owned line of books, I was pretty excited. Especially when they announced that this imprint, known as ICON, would be small and exclusive. Marvel would let its big time guys launch their stuff though this line, with the creators being responsible for the same stuff they’d be responsible for over at a place like Image, but with the added bonus of Marvel’s media machine behind them. Right off the bat Marvel’s two biggest writers, Brian Bendis and Mark Millar, were making ICON home. Brian Bendis and Mike Oeming moved their long running Image series, Powers, under the banner and Mark Millar and John Romita launched Kick-Ass. From there Bendis brought in books like Scarlet and Takio, Millar brought us Nemesis, Superior and another Kick-Ass mini-series, with a few more mini-series (Supercrooks, Secret Service) on the slate for 2012. Also, creators like Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Incognito) and Matt Fraction (Casanova) make the imprint home.
This week saw the release of the finale to Mark Millar and Leinil Yu’s first Superior mini-series, a series where a boy with multiple sclerosis was granted his wish of being turned into a Superman-esque character named Superior. Simon Pooni, our main character, used these powers to do all kinds of good things across the world, but it turns out that the source of this amazing transformation, a talking monkey in a Russian space suit, could not be trusted. I know…I know…what’s the world coming too when a monkey-Cosmonaut can’t be trusted?! Well…it seems to be going to Hell; that’s where! You see…this monkey is from hell, and the only way for Simon to keep the amazing powers of Superior is to give up his immortal soul. Unlimited amazing powers for the rest of your life plus doing good deeds for all mankind…or an eternity in Hell being the personal toilet/condom to Hitler? It should be an easy choice, but the monkey is pulling out all the stops to ensure that Simon has no choice but to keep the powers. How do you solve this conundrum? With an extra-sized issue…that’s how!
This issue opens to the world being attacked by some kind of fantastic uber-bad guy that wouldn’t exist without the Hell Monkey’s help. This is a world just like our own, and it’s not used to super-heroes or Hell-sponsored villains. From there we get to one of the biggest fights I’ve seen in a comic book series and we also get a bit of closure at the end. The series didn’t quite tie everything up, which is good as a sequel to this is probably inevitable . I don’t want to give away the big Millar-esque finale (all his stories have them), but suffice it to say, the finale did not disappoint. As soon as the collection of this series comes out in hard cover, it’s going on the shelf toot sweet!
So, what did you all think? Too corny or predictable ending? Totally out of nowhere ending? Did you like the preview of Mark Millar and Leinil Yu’s next creator-owned series, Super Crooks? Let us know by sounding off in our handy comments section below. Have a great week and MAKE MINE ICON!!
Clyde Heroclix tournament
FIGHT FOR THE INFINITY GAUNTLET
Friday, January 27th We’ll be hosting a limited seating Heroclix tournament at Clyde! Here’s the details:
Starting at 6:00 PM, Friday
$20 to play, covers booster fee
300 Point Sealed Event, using Incredible Hulk Boosters
8 player limit
If you guys are interested, sign up now! You can get details in person, or call us at 613.228.8386. Do it quick, seats will fill fast!
DC’s got a new logo
So, some of the big news today is DC’s new logo. I’m not sure how many of you follow various geek news outlets, but rumours have been swirling for something like a week that DC was on the verge of unveiling a new logo, along with a leaked image:
Image from http://ifanboy.com
Today DC made the announcement official, with a bit of a subdued tweet from the @DCComics feed, and an announcement on their official blog calling it a “New Brand Identity”. Reading into blog post they’ve got there, it seems that they’re trying to unify the brand name, which I suppose really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering the recent changes that we’ve seen from them. Before I continue, here’s the official versions of the logo:
Originals courtesy of http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com
So those are a few examples; on their blog entry they mention that “The new identity is built for the digital age, and can easily be animated and customized to take full advantage of the interactivity offered across all media platforms.” To me it seems almost modular, that they’ll be mixing it up for promotional purposes. It’s a neat idea, and while it seems to be executed well, I’ll be waiting to pass judgement until March when they start rolling it out across major product lines.
As for the logo itself, I’m not sure how I feel about it. It doesn’t feel like DC anymore; there’s no star, the DC Entertainment logo (Which would seem to be the primary variant) is a white and gray as opposed to white and blue, and the peeling D obscures much of the C. That said, the examples above do show various colour variants, whether those will change from title to title, or just promotional materials I couldn’t say for certain, though it seems that it will. I threw in the Green Lantern variant as well, which I thought was an interesting execution. I’m just not sure that I like the idea of them having different colour variants on their major titles; it almost feels disjointed. Additionally, it seems that they’re making a point of stating that Vertigo and Mad are part of the DC Entertainment line as well, although we’ll see if they add that line to the logo permanently or again just for promotional materials.
All in all it looks like DC’s committed to the new directions it’s taking, and this is actually a pretty big step to take. How about you guys, what do you think? Drop us a line in the comments, and sound off on it!