That's right, we're going to be running specials on a huge range of our e-bay store items over the next month or so. They'll be 20-50% off! Also, we offer local pick-up, so there's no need to pay shipping if you can come by the store! Here's one of the items we've placed on sale.

The Best of Fritz Leiber HC

This auction contains the vintage hardcover The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber. This book was published by Nelson Doubleday in 1974. The dust jacket is in (VG-) condition with some lite edge wear and creasing on back cover and a small one inch tear on back cover. There's also a few spots of discoloration from dirt. The hardcover is in excellent shape, (FN-) condition. This is the book club edition. Leiber got his start writing for the pulp Unknown. This book contains the following stories:

Gonna Roll the Bones, Sanity, Wanted-An Enemy, The Who Never Grew Young, The Ship Sails at Midnight, The Enchanted Forest, Coming Attraction, Poor Superman, A Pail of Air, The Foxholes of Mars, The Big Holiday, The Night he Cried, The Big Trek, Space-Time for Springers, Try and Change the Past, A Deskful of Girls, Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee, Little Old Miss Macbeth, Mariana, The Man Who Made Friends with Electricty, The Good New Days, America the Beautiful.

We're also adding new items every Monday, so be sure to check our E-Bay store regularly!

Sure, there were a lot of conventions that had limited edition HeroClix figures, but who can go to all these conventions? For those of you out there who have, you know, jobs and lives or whatever, HeroClix is giving you an opportunity to get some of these LEs, and Fanboy Comics is a part of it! It'll be the only opportunity to get previously convention-exclusive miniatures like the Colossal Fin Fang Foom pictured above, a Mighty Thor LE, Dark Knight Batman LE, Vlad the Impaler LE, Sub-Mariner LE, or a Johnny Thunder LE! We'll be running events from February 1st to the 3rd as follows:

Friday, February 1st
6PM: Open Play and Pick-Up tournaments!

Saturday, February 2nd
4PM-6PM: Game Demos! Come learn to play and register to win some great door prizes! Experienced players who bring in new players can register to win exclusive LE Miniatures.

Sunday, February 3rd
1PM: Sealed Event! $22.00 Entry gets you 2 boosters you can use to build your team!
1st Prize: Colossal Fin Fang Foom LE!
2nd Prize: Set of 4 LE Figures - The Mighty Thor, Dark Knight Batman, Vlad the Impaler, Sub-Mariner
3rd Prize: Johnny Thunder LE

Also, Starting That Day After the Tournament, While Supplies Last: Anyone who buys 4 HeroClix booster packs gets a set of the four LE figures mentioned above! One set per person, and tournament participants get the first opportunities to take advantage of this awesome special!

Pre-Order Booster Boxes of Morningtide Now! Only $89.99!

The Extremely Popular Duelist Packs Are Back in 2008! Featuring Jesse from the GX Anime who utilizes Crystal Beast Monsters and Jaden is back with incredibly powerful new monsters! Last year Jaden & Aster both featured some incredibly powerful cards that saw their way into "Turbo Decks", this year it seems that more incredibly powerful monsters will make their way into the Competitive Tournament scene once again!

Each 25 card set is composed of: 13 common cards (4:1), 6 Rare cards (1:1), 4 Super Rare cards (1:5), 2 Ultra Rare cards (1:24), and 10 Strategy cards per Jaden 3 and Jesse sets.

Did you read New Avengers: Illuminati?  If not, you missed Brian Michael Bendis doing something no comic creator has done in nearly twenty years--acknowledged that Secret Wars II existed.  Not only that, but he also had the Beyonder wearing his awesome leisure suit and sporting a bitchin' rad jerry curl.  In a comic published within the last year or so!  How ballsy do you have to be to do that?

Oh, I also think that there's some other stuff in here, and it's all excellent as you would expect a Bendis-written (well, co-written with Brian Reed I suppose) and Jim-Cheung-Drawn comic book would be, but that really pales in comparison to the whole jerry curl thing.

Boosters: $3.99 Each
Theme Decks: $12.99 Each
Fatpacks: $35.00 Each

Conflict continues in the world of Lowryn as mighty races find common ground – and power – by forming new tribes based on their classes. Wizards, Warriors, Shamans, Soldiers, and Rogues give a boost to their “classmates” from Lorwyn and bring a new tool for battle: Tribal Equipment.

Whether you’re a fan of Elves, Giants, Goblins or Merfolk, on February 1st Morningtide will bring your tribe a whole new set of possibilities. Morningtide expands on the themes introduced in Lorwyn and unveils three brand-new mechanics: Kinship, Reinforce, and Prowl.

If you don't remember, Endangered Species was a series of back-up stories that ran throughout the four core X-titles (The surprisingly misogynistically-titled X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, New X-Men, and X-Factor-Men) starring Beast and recounting his attempts to save the mutant race from extinction.  It was a pretty good little story but somewhat choppy and a little difficult to follow what with the four different titles it was in.  However, this hardcover rectifies that situation with the full Endangered Species storyline in one place.  It's definitely worth a glance if you enjoyed Messiah Complex.

You're probably thinking to yourself, "Pfft, why's he spotlighting something like Manhunter?   Nobody read that book."  That's exactly why I'm spotlighting it, because it was an amazing book and if DC had considered that just maybe they should put out a trade paperback before the book was on, say, issue SIXTEEN, it might have been able to build more than the small cult following it did.  Oh, I'm also highlighting this becasue I'm a huge hypocrite and I didn't read Manhunter until recently either.  Still, it's really good.  At the very least you can help Marc Andreyko's street cred and maybe get him writing another book by picking up these trades, even if you can't bring the series back.

Oh, a quick note for jaded people like me: this isn't one of those "cult following" books like Spider-Girl that's actually terrible.  It's actually really good.

We haven't added any fancy stuff that's worth listing here, but we have been adding a ton of back issues to our regular back issue boxes, so check that out!  Also, we've been making room by taking out a bunch of back issues and adding them to our dollar boxes, so be sure to stop by on tuesdays and check out some of the new additions!

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
Terror Inc. #5 (MR)	02/06/08	02/20/08
Powers #28 (MR)	02/06/08	02/13/08
Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #5	02/06/08	02/13/08
Runaways #29	02/06/08	02/20/08
X-Force #1 -- Reg./Bloody/Charest Eds.	02/06/08	02/13/08
Halo: Uprising #3 (MR)	02/06/08	03/05/08
Fantastic Four: Lost Adventure	02/06/08	02/13/08
American Virgin #23 (MR)	02/06/08	02/13/08
Ultimates 3 #3 Reg./Charest	02/13/08	02/20/08
Marvel Fanfare TP Vol. 01	02/13/08	02/27/08
Penance: Relentless #5	02/20/08	03/05/08
Hedge Knight 2: Sworn Sword #5	02/20/08	03/12/08
Terminator Omnibus Vol. 01	02/20/08	02/06/08
Howard the Duck Omnibus Reg./Dir. Mkt. Eds.	02/27/08	03/12/08
Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #6	02/27/08	03/12/08
City of Others TP	02/27/08	02/06/08
Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope Photo Comic	02/27/08	02/06/08
Halo: Uprising #4 (MR)	03/26/08	04/09/08
Hedge Knight 2: Sworn Sword #6	03/26/08	04/09/08

Because I'm lazy and creatively bankrupt, I rewrote the dialogue for two preview pages from the latest Trial of Shazam comic.  Enjoy!