This is because of Labor Day, the holiday honoring bad fashion jokes.

However, we will be having some awesome specials on Wednesday so those who make their weekly trip aren't disappointed!  The specials will be very similar to these specials that we are running today:

• 50% off All Marvel Back Issues
• 50% off Select Action Figures
• 25% off all Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon Decks
• All T-Shirts Reduced to $12.00 or Two for $20.00
• 20% off D&D Minis and Warmachine
• Buy One Comic Set, Get One Half-Off
• 20% off all DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Trade Paperbacks
• All Dollar Boxes Reduced to $.50

As a clue for what tomorrow's sepcials will be like, here's a hint: they will be like those specials, but backwards.  IF YOU CAN IMAGINE SUCH A THING.

Mostly war comics this week.  Check out this stuff: 

Strange Tales (Featuring Nick Fury and Dr. Strange): #131, 135-143
Doctor Strange (Formerly Strange Tales): #169 (First issue as Doctor Strange), #170-183
Our Army at War (Featuring Sgt. Rock): #163, 214, 228, 235, 237, 340
Sgt. Rock (Formerly Our Army at War): #317, 344, 345, 347, 350, 355, 370, 378, 381, 382, 386, 390, 391, 396, 400, 404, 410, 412, 422
Sgt. Rock (Late 1980s Series):#18, 20, 21
Star-Spangled War Stories (Featuring Enemy Ace and The Unknown Soldier): #139, 140, 145-149, 150, 156-158, 160, 161, 167, 172, 173, 179, 180, 186, 190, 196, 197, 200
Our Fighting Forces (Featuring the Losers): #51, 124, 133, 135-137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 146
The Unknown Soldier (Formerly Star-Spangled War Stories): #206, 208, 213, 216, 217, 228, 230-233, 243, 247-268
Four-Star Battle Tales: #1, 5
Weird War Tales: #55, 72
G.I. War: #4
G.I. Combat (Featuring The Haunted Tank): #158, 168, 173, 244, 273
Savage Sword of Conan: #1-81
Savage Tales: #1

Be one of the first to play the newest DC HeroClix set! Following on the success of the Avengers set, Wizkids is releasing a new set with some of the greatest DC characters of all time!

Entry: $20
Format: Sealed (Each Player Gets Two Boosters)

PRIZES
1st: Sealed Brick
2nd: 2 Boosters

And be sure to prepare yourself for...

September 22nd - Warhammer 40K 'Ard Boyz Tournament

Bring your baddest, brokest Warhammer 40K army and prove that you're the 'ardest of the 'ard!

September 29th - Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Sealed Event
First Prize: Legend of Drizzt Scenario Pack, Featuring Drizzt, Wulfgar, and the White Dragon Icingdeath!

Coming Soon: a Yu-Gi-Oh Hobby League and a release tournament for Lorwyn, the next set of Magic: The Gathering!

More information is available at our game room page!

Or, for those of you who don't speak confused, we have Pokemon cards in stock: both Diamond and Pearl and Diamond and Pearl: Mysterious Treasures. So get on the ball and start collecting the Pokemans!

We'll also be getting in the Pokemon trading figure game when it comes in later this month.  They're adorable.

It is on.  We had the first few games of our Warmachine Discountstruction league this past Sunday, and people are racking up the points.  Once this week ends, I'll start to post standings--but everyone who hasn't needs to come out and play!  It's a good way to save some money when you're filling out your Hordes army for the upcoming Hordes: Evolution Stampede!

Boosters: $9.99 Each
Brick of 10 Boosters: $89.99

WizKids' pseudo-relaunch of HeroClix that began with the Avengers set now makes its way to the DC side of the aisle with Justice League.  If Avengers was any indication, this set will have some cool figures of some of the best characters DC has to offer--but odds are, if you're interested in buying this stuff, you know more about it than I do.  So, just consider this a friendly reminder that this set is out this week.

$7.99 Each

Adam Hughes is known for drawing the pretty lady every once in a while.  Do you like the pretty ladies?  Well, if you do, here are posters of aforementioned pretty ladies: particularly Catwoman, Power Girl, Supergirl, and Zatanna.  If you like any of those characters, or if you like cheesecake art, and especially if you like both, these are the posters for you.

$17.95

Look, I have no idea what Hellboy stuff is in this trade paperback.  I'll let you know this, though: it doesn't matter.  My experience with Hellboy has been this: if it has the Hellboy logo and Mike Mignola's name on it, it's good.  That's more or less all there is to it.

$39.99

Woah, it's a miniatures game where you have everything you need to play in a forty dollar box set!  What is this, the early nineties?  In this box set you get rules, dice, miniatures, and a whole lot of bonus stuff to assist ease of play and flesh out the setting--and you're ready to play.  Not only that, but Battletech offers a wealth of customization options, and there's even a free program online that you can use to make your own 'mechs with a few mouse clicks.  Buy this box, and, before long, you'll have your light mech with a ridiculous number of lasers up against your friend's incredibly stupid and slow heavy with a ridiculous amount of armor.  That's the fun of Battletech--making incredibly stupid things and then doing stuff with them, and this box set is all you need to buy.

$19.99

Hey, I guess DC finally figured out that, heck, if they're going to release trade paperbacks for new crap like the one year later Nightwing story arc, they might as well put out some trade paperback collections of some of their classic comics that aren't really readily availalble.  Which is good.  I want to read some of these classic runs that I've only heard about, like this Gil Kane Atom stuff, and the upcoming collection of Denny O'Neill's Question.  Hopefully, we'll see this sort of stuff sell well, and it'll get easier and easier to find some of the more iconic writers who were writing before everything was collected in trade paperbacks.

If you have a car, you're qualified.  We generally pay in store credit for one-time jobs like this.  Email fanboycomics@bellsouth.net or call us at 452-7828 if interested.

What are these "Mini-Masters" tournaments?

The answer is simplicity itself: they are tournaments where each player buys a pack and builds a deck with that one pack! It's a fun, quick way to get a little extra bonus with a booster pack that you were probably going to buy any day! If you win your first round game, you get another pack for free to play in the next round and the round after that. The winner gets one pack for every two players, and the runner-up gets one pack for every four player.

That's a lot of free packs, for little pay-in!

What sort of awesome stuff does Fanboy Comics have on the Electronic Bay or "E-Bay," as the youth call it? Well, here's a sampling of the sort of stuff you might see on our store. Don't forget, if you buy any of this stuff, you can pick it up at the store and not pay shipping!  Let's see how our new E-Bay lister is doing:

Galaxy Science Fiction Lot of 6

This auction contains a 6 Book Lot of the vintage pulp digest bi-monthly magazine Galaxy Science Fiction Feb.-Dec.1962, published by Galaxy Publishing. These digests are great for collectors or researchers and contain hard-to-find stories and rare information.

Feb. 1962: Vol.20 #3, (VG-), stories: (Crtical Mass)Pohl & Kornbluth, (Place Where Chicago Was) Harmon, (Day After Doomsday) Anderson, (Shatter the Wall) Scyoc, (Rag and Bone Men) Budrys, (Big Engine) Leiber.

April 1962: vol.20 #4, (GD+). Stories: (Big Baby) Sharkey, (Planet for PLundering) Williamson, (Moondog)Clarke, (Founding Father) Bone, (Star-Crossed Lover) Stuart, (Tail-Tied Kings) Davidson, (long, silvery Day) Ludens, (Gourmet) Lang.

June 1962: Vol.20 #5, (VG-). stories: (On the Wall of the Lodge) Blish, (For Love) Budrys, (Seed of Earth) Silverberg, (Dreamworld) Lafferty, (Lamps of the Angels) Sabia, (Dawningsburgh) West.

Aug. 1962: Vol.20 #6, (VG-), Stories: (Dragon Masters) Vance, (3 Portriats and a Prayer) Pohl, (Matter of Protocol) Sharkey, (Always a Qurono) Jim Harmon, (1 Race Show) Jakes, (Handyman) Banta.

Oct. 1962: Vol.21 #1, (GD+), Stories: (Plague of Pythons) Pohl, (Come into My CEllar) Bradbury, (Roberta) St. Clair, (Earthman's Burden) Westlake, (Ballad of Lost C'Mell) C. Smith, (Who Dares a Bulbur Eat) Dickson, (City Near Centaurus) Doede, (How to Make Friends) Harmon, (Bimmie Says) Scyoc.

Dec. 1962: Vol.21 #2, (VG). Stories: (Creature from Cleveland DEpths) Leiber, (General Max Shorter) Neville, (Plague of Pythons) Pohl, (Dr. Morris Goldpepper Returns) DAvidson, (Droozle) Banta, (Sodom & Gomorrah, TX) Lafferty, (Glory of Ippling) Urban.

Don't miss out on these rare digests!!

Yesterday Magazine #3

This auction contains the movie nostalgia magazine Yesterday #03. Published in 1970. This issue features an article on the history of Fu Manchu films. In addition, it features pieces on the passing of Boris Karloff and a whatever happened to I. Stanford Jolley. This is a perfect magazine for movie collectors and sci-fi horror fans.

Staple bound, paper cover wrapper, black and white cover, cover and interior in excellent shape.

As usual, a great many comic books have been pushed back to a later date. This news is so shocking that we are now developing a weekly section where we announce comic delays, so you can better know when your favorite books are coming out. Or when the next delay announcement will be, whatever. We'll also include other schedule announcements, like different products coming back in stock, second printings, and the like. But this is the comic industry, and we all know which type of announcment we will see the most.

Changed Release Dates

	OLD DATE	NEW DATE
Transformers Bumblebee Bust	08/29/07	09/26/07
Welcome to Tranquility #10	09/05/07	09/12/07
Green Arrow: Year One #5	09/12/07	09/19/07
Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin Maker #11	09/12/07	09/19/07
Powers #26 (MR)	09/12/07	09/19/07
The Order #3 CWI	09/12/07	09/19/07
Sub-Mariner #4 CWI	09/12/07	09/19/07
Batman #669	09/19/07	09/26/07
Thunderbolts #117	09/19/07	09/26/07
White Tiger Heroes Compulsion TP	09/19/07	09/26/07
Dragonlance Chronicles Vol. 2: Dragons of Winter Night HC	09/19/07	09/26/07
Halo Uprising #2 (MR)	09/26/07	10/17/07
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24 OMD	09/26/07	10/10/07
Daredevil #101	09/26/07	10/10/07
Green Arrow: Year One #6	09/26/07	10/03/07
Superman Confidential #6	10/10/07	09/19/07
Superman Confidential #7	10/24/07	10/17/07
Halo: Uprising #3 (MR)	10/24/07	12/19/07
Superman Confidential #8	11/14/07	10/31/07
Halo: Uprising #4 (MR)	11/21/07	02/20/08
Moon Knight Annual #1	11/28/07	12/05/07

So, anyway, I recently heard about Todd McFarlane bringing his "edgy" take on Oz to the silver screen.  I immediately filed it away in the part of my brain where I file information that makes me want to kill Todd McFarlane--right now, it's up to more or less a whole hemisphere.  Then, while I was flipping through the latest previews, I stumbled upon Todd McFarlane's newest "edgy" re-imagining of a timeless classic.  This time, Todd sets his sights on Christmas.

That's right, Todd McFarlane must have had the employees at Todd McFarlane's Scary Company, LTD* working overtime to come up with what he was going to edgerize next.  I imagine the list went something like this:

• Spring (Oh no, here come the dreaded APRIL SHOWERS OF KNIVES)
• Plumbing (Imagine a plumber with a sword and a snake--THAT'S AN ACTUAL SNAKE!)
• The Arthur Series of Children's Books (They will have FANGS!  And BLOOD!)

Finally, they came up with Christmas.  Wow, what could Todd possibly do to edgify Santa Claus?  Why, this:

Wow, that takes a lot of creativity, there.  I imagine Todd McFarlane sitting in his home, trying desperately to think of a way to make Santa Claus "edgy."  He's surrounded by crumpled-up pieces of paper and broken pencils, and he is visibly sweating.  Suddenly, inspiration strikes!  He lifts his head from where it's buried in his arms on his desk and grabs a pencil and the first available sheet of paper and quickly writes down, "GAS MASK."  Todd doesn't stop there, though.  He takes it one step further--and this is where he separates himself from a fourteen year-old drawing genitals on Abraham Lincoln in a history textbook--and writes "CLAWS!"  Then, in a flash of brilliance, he underlines that not once, but twice.  Finally, he puts it in an envelope and has someone design the figure for him and put his name on it.

Todd looks at the next item on his list: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, sans all the copyrighted aspects of the name.  He immediately writes down "FANGS," but the block sets in again.  How long will it be before he can work out another masterpiece?  What could make Rudolph the--I mean, Reindeer Rudy, incredibly edgy?  Could it be, an axe?

Only time will tell. 

*Thanks to Nick for coming up with this joke.