Starting February 17th: A New Warhammer Fantasy League
It's a standard 2000 point league.  Here's a flyer about it:

New to Fridays: Friday Night Magic!
Every month we'll be running free Type II tournaments with prize support from Wizards of the Coast, except on the final Friday of the month, when we'll have a special tournament.  This month we'll be doing a peasant tournament, where decks can only be constructed with commons!  More details about entry and prizes will be announced in the coming weeks.

Thursdays: Magic Drafts!
$13 Entry drafts with a pack and a half of prize support per player!  This month, the first five players to register get movie passes to Mayfaire Cinemas!

February 17th: HeroClix Fin Fang Foom Monster Mash!
Buy two boosters and use them to play against the colossal Fin Fang Foom!  If your team is wiped out, you can just buy another booster to get them back in the action!  The player who lands the killing blow gets to keep the huge Fin Fang Foom "miniature"!

WHEN: February 23rd at 8:00 AM (No Early Birds)
WHERE: 1508 S. 4th Street (Next to the Greenfield Lake Skate Park Entrance)

Thomas Sez:

I am opening up my personal collection and cleaning out a storage room.  There will be hundreds of records (45's, 33's, and 78's) including mainly Rock, Jazz, Country, and Soul albums with a little bit of everything as well.  There will also be lots of DVDs, Video Games, Pulps, Books, Artwork, Comics, and other oddities.

My next door neighbor is having a moving sale at the same time so make sure you check it out for furniture and household items.

We've still got sets of the Limited Edition HeroClix Figures from Convention Weekend--The Mighty Thor, Dark Knight Batman, and Vlad the Impaler--and they can be yours if you buy $30.00 worth of WizKids Merchandise!  Act now!  Supplies are limited!  Et cetera!

Also, if you want to get some of the next set, Crisis, you should probably pre-order now.  The initial printing of Crisis is already sold out.  That's right, and we're still nearly a month from the release.  Pre-Order your brick now to be sure you get one of the World's Finest Buy it By the Brick Promotional Figures featuring Superman and Batman on the same base!  If you pre-order now, you can get a brick for only $88.00, which is like getting two whole boosters for free!

$3.95 Per Booster

As near as I can tell, somebody on the internet who knows what they're doing wrote this:

The Madness continues as Phantom Darkness introduces yet another series of incredibly powerful monsters and support cards. PTDN will introduce a new class of Monster named Yubel who is featured on the cover of the box. Although the End-Form of Yubel is quite difficult to summon onto the field, his earlier forms are quite significant and much easier to summon making him quite viable for tournament decks.

Other noteworthy cards in the set would be cards like Super Fusion that allows for use of Fusion Material Monsters from either yours or opponent's side of the field to special summon your Fusion Monster. Cyber Vary, Volcanic Counter, Dark Horus Dragon, Dark Rainbow Dragon, and many other sweet cards grace Phantom Darkness. Overall a wonderful set that adds a lot of new firepower to cards from sets like Force of the Breaker, Tactical Evolution, and Gladiator's Assault! There's even some new support cards for Cyber Dragon!

If this is incredibly wrong...uh, sorry, I guess.  Upper Deck doesn't like to make information available to anyone.

$14.00

In this classic reprint of the seminal 1600s work by Kirk Robespierre, captain of the exploring vessel Gloria, the jovial "Captain Kirk" explores the temperments and habits of the women he has encountered in his explorations.  Using this vast data, he forms one of the first true "feminist" works, exploring the relationship between man and woman and the idea of womanhood in a way that would not be revisited for over three centuries!  Some have called him the "Male Glorian Steinem of the 1600s" for this and the companion volumes...

...oh, that Captain Kirk.  Yeah, it's about bagging alien chicks.  Buy it, if you want!

$19.99

This is one of those books that is about serious things and comes out from Vertigo.  If you aren't aware of the premise, it's about a renegade robot cop who doesn't play by the rules.  If you are aware of the premise, you know that's a lie and it's actually about a light-skinned black man who goes undercover as a white man to investigate racism.  Don't tell the people who aren't aware of the premise stopped reading at "renegade robot cop," though!  It'll be hilarious when they buy a book that they think will be terrible and wacky and it's actually serious and really good!  Ha ha!  Got you, people unaware of the premise of Incognegro!

$29.99

So anyway, there was this Serenity movie that came out.  You may have seen it--although, based on the Domestic Box Office numbers, probably not.  Anyway, in it there was a character that was a pretty lady, and she had a spaceship.  This is an ornament of that spaceship.  Are you following me?  Okay, awesome.  If you come into the store, you could give us some sort of abstract representation of wealth supported by our government--let's call it "money"--and we will give you this ornament provided you have given us the previously agreed-upon amount of "money."  I know, it's a little confusing, but that's okay.  Just give it a shot, and see what happens!

$19.99 Each

Look, more action figures based on the Superman/Batman comic book!  Who would have guessed?  Anyway, this time you've got your Supergirl, your Power Girl, your Joker, your Mr. Mxyzpltk, your...weird green Superman/Batman fusion?  Okay, I guess that's cool.  Anyway, these are action figures from DC.  If you're considering buying them, you already know what Action Figures from DC are like.  This time...YOU make the call!

$19.99

So it turns out that, before he was famous, Brian K. Vaughan wrote some comic books that weren't about feminism or politics or whatever the crap.  They were about Batman!  This book has those comics in them because, hey, Brian K. Vaughan.  The comics in this are Batman #588-590, Detective Comics #787, Wonder Woman #160-161 and Batman Gotham City Secret Files, and the story is apparently about Batman in his Matches Malone disguise!  I don't know anything about these, but, as I mentioned, Brian K. Vaughan.

If you're interested in earning some store credit by killing an evening or two, let us know!  Your best bet is to talk to Thomas when you come by the store, but you're still welcome to e-mail us at fanboycomics@bellsouth.net or call us at (910) 452-7828.

We're also always open to newsletter submissions like reviews, comic strips or other material--shoot me an email at editor@fanboycomics.biz and I'll let you know.

We've added a bunch of new dollar boxes lately, and we've also reduced a bunch of RPGs.  We're also going to be adding a bunch of reduced trade paperbacks and hardcovers in the near future.  Here's the notable stuff we've picked up recently.

Ka-Zar the Savage (1981): #1, 3, 4, 6, 22
Ka-Zar (1974): #3, 5, 7, 20
Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine: #1, 2
Mystery In Space (Silver Age): #104, 111
Weird Western Tales: #22 (Jonah Hex)
Strange Adventures (Silver Age): #119, 189, 191, 236, 243
Kull the Conqueror (1971): #3-20 (Several Duplicates)
King Kull (1980): #1
World's Finest: #205 (6 Pages of Frazetta Artwork on Shining Knight)
New Teen Titans (1980): #8, 9, 11, 12, 22, 42
Ghost Rider (Vol. 2): #1-31
Flash (2nd Series): #0-30, 52-55, 98-103, 230, Annual #1-3;
Secret Wars: #1-7
Wonder Woman (1987): #2-6, 99-124
X-Factor (Vol. 1): #26-75, 92, 100
X-Factor (Current Series): #1-6
Excalibur (Original Series): #1-5, 15, 38-45
Wolverine (1st Ongoing Series): #11-70
Wolverine Origins (Currently Ongoing): #1-5, 10
Fury of Firestorm (Becomes Firestorm: The Nuclear Man at Issue #65): #1-100, Annual #1-5

We've also added a bunch of stuff not mentioned here to our regular back issue boxes--mostly modern age DC and Marvel.

We're still reducing items in our E-Bay Store all the time! Here's just one of our recently reduced items:

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Vol. 3 #7-12

This auction contains a lot of 6 of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine by Davis Publications. These vintage pulp digests contain stories by some of the best science fiction writers of their time. These magazines are in great shape but there are address stickers on the front covers.

July 1979: Vol.3 #7, (VG+) condition. Contents include: Priest of the Baraboo (Longyear), Tanya Tackles Topology (Gardner), Rainbow Bridges (Payack), ...And Settle down with a Good Book (Girard), Initiation (Ringdalh), Quintessence of Galahad Sypher (Kosiewska), Through Time and Space with F. Feghoot V (Brairton), Merchant of Straford (Ramirez), Spectacles of Jorge Luis Broges (Cox), On the Shadow of a Phosphor Sheen (Wu).

Aug. 1979, Vol.3 #8 (VG+) condition. Contents Include: Dreams (Longyear), Explosion of Blabbage's Oracle (Gardner), Alex Schomburg (McCarthy), COD (Milos), Stone Crucible (Ford), Itch on the Bull run (Webb), Migration of Darkness (Payack), Where are you Stephanie Tobin? (Brantingham), Doo-Dah Chemistry (Tuning), Cool war (Pohl).

Sept. 1979: Vol.3 #9, (VG) condition, Contents Include: Backward Look (Asimov), Dracula Makes a Martini (Gardner), Jennings Operative Webster (Walters), Shawna LTD (Longbeard), Solo (Perry, Peel), Adventure of the Solitary Engineer (Ford), enemy Mine (Longyear).

Oct. 1979, Vol.3 #10, (VG) condition, no address sticker. Contents Include: Madalay (Ford), A Day in Mallworld (Sucharitkul), Mover (Payack), Through Time and Space with F. Feghoot (Briarton), Iron Man Plastic Ships (Modesitt), Degraded! (Moore), Homecoming (Longyear).

Nov. 1979, Vol.3 #11, (VG) condition. Contents Include: Eternal Genesis (Rothman), Erasing of Philbert the Fudger (Gardner), Twist Ending (Longyear), Raindrop's Role (O'Donnell), In Spring a Livelier Iris (Berman), From the Lunatech Admissions Commitee (Farber), Furlough (Wall), Flamegame (Perry), Fare (Roth), Autumn Sunshine for Moe Joost (Morressy), Sapphire as Big as the Marsport Hilton (Ford), Sharing Time in the Gallery (Webb), On the Midwatch (Minnion), Mtn. Wings (Scyoc), Gift of a Useless Ma (Alan Dean Foster).

Dec. 1979, Vol.3 #12, (VG) condition, Contents include: Written in Sand (Chilson), How Crock and Watkins Cracked a Code (Gardner), WEb Dancer (Sucharitkul), Horse Laugh (Askegren), Cow in the CEllar (Earls), hear the crash, Hear the Roar (Haldeman), Woman who Loved the Centaur Pholus (Wolfe), Like Unto the Locust (Pohl).

Don't miss out on these highly collectible pulp digests!!

Don't forget that if you order something in our E-Bay Store, you can come by and pick it up to avoid any shipping charge!

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
Powers #28 (MR)	02/22/07	02/20/08
Demons of Mercy #2 Free Copy (MR)	11/07/07	02/20/08
Powers #29 (MR)	12/12/07	04/23/08
Powers Annual 2008 (MR)	02/06/08	03/26/08
JLA Trophy Room: Multi Colored Kryptonite Replica	02/13/08	03/26/08
Kick Ass #1 Reg./Var./Romita Jr. Sketch (MR)	02/20/08	02/27/08
Hellblazer #241 (MR)	02/20/08	02/27/08
Hunter-Killer TP Vol. 01	02/20/08	02/13/08
Afro Samurai & Ninja Ninja Statue	02/27/08	03/26/08
Green Lantern #28	02/27/08	03/05/08
Afro Samurai AFs	02/27/08	03/26/08
Witchblade TP Vol. 01: Witch Hunt (Bk. Mkt. Ed.)	03/05/08	02/13/08
Afro Samurai: Justice Bust	03/12/08	04/23/08
Ultimate Iron Man II #4	03/12/08	03/26/08
Afro Samurai Bust	03/12/08	04/23/08
Hulk #3 Reg./Djurdjevic Var.	03/26/08	04/23/08
Powers #30 (MR)	03/26/08	05/28/08
Ultimate Iron Man II Prem. HC Reg./DM Eds.	04/02/08	07/16/08
Hulk #4	04/23/08	06/25/08

As a comic book store employee, I don't know about anything that isn't comic books at this point. So, how do I make informed political decisions? Well, I assign a comic book character to whatever candidates are involved, and then I make the decision based on the comic book characters, instead of the actual candidates. For example:

Hillary Clinton = Nightwing

WHY: Like Nightwing, Hillary Clinton's career has been in the shadow of her partner, Bill "Batman" Clinton. Also like Nightwing, hanging out with Batman makes whatever she's doing more interesting, but makes her more stale by comparison. The final piece of the puzzle is that, just like Nightwing, she was going to be killed in the initial planning stages of Infinite Crisis.

PROS: If Hillary Clinton stays around long enough, you know that Batman will make a cameos, and who doesn't love Batman?
CONS: Why don't we cut to the chase and just get rid of her in favor of more Batman?

Barack Obama = Wonder Woman

WHY: Much like Wonder Woman, Barack Obama is an ideal that appeals to everyone. And, much like Wonder Woman, people pretty much like Obama because it seems right, and not because there's a lot going on there. I mean, can you think of any amazing Wonder Woman stories? Okay, now can you think of any that don't have Batman or Superman? Just like Wonder Woman, Obama stands for hope, change, and equality--and more or less nothing else, as near as I can tell.

PROS: A lasso of truth is more or less politician Kryptonite.
CONS: Won't be able to accomplish anything on his own, but if Superman is her running mate...

John McCain = Cable

WHY: A decorated hero who's lived through a hellish war-torn future with mysterious motives and a cybernetic arm. If you replace the word "future" with "past" and maybe a few other words, that's John McCain in a nutshell. Strongly principled and gifted with exceptional telepathic and telekinetic powers, John McCain is compelling choice for the leadership of our nation.

PROS: Has seen a dark future and knows how to avert it.
CONS: Rob Liefeld.

Mitt Romney = Martian Manhunter

WHY: Mitt Romney is part of our world, yet separate. He is carries on an unfamiliar alien tradition about which little is known. While he tries to take the forms most pleasing to those he would join, there's something unnatural about his presence that people find unnerving. He's more powerful than those around him, yet uses his power in a primarily administrative role.

As for why I assigned him to Martian Manhunter, I hear he likes Oreo Cookies.

PROS: Incredibly intelligent, analytical, and precise.
CONS: Vision is cooler.

Mike Huckabee = Wolverine

WHY: He's the best at what he does, and what he does is rally an evangelical constituency that has mainly been pandered to on a few key issues in order to gain votes but whose overall viewpoint terrifies the ruling elite of the party that has used them for so many years...and it ain't pretty. Also, he'll pretty much show up everywhere, no matter how little sense it makes--and it'll work. (The Colbert Report? Really?)

PROS: Everyone likes him, in spite of his many, many flaws.
CONS: Canadian.

Ron Paul = Mr. Mxyzptlk

WHY:

PROS:

CONS: