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We've also got a Painting Demo on March 29th, with our new Game Guy, Zac!  He's a pretty talented painter, and he'll be focusing on Flesh and Leather techniques!

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So anyway, a bunch of years ago, Alan Moore wrote a comic book called Batman: The Killing Joke and I guess it was alright.  Moore has said of it, "I don't think it's a very good book. It's not saying anything very interesting."  A glowing review, to be sure.  Anyway, I guess DC is doing some sort of "Alan Moore: a Career of Mediocrity" tribute so they're relasing this hardcover so he can bask in his shame, or something.

Sure, this is mainly a bunch of comic book prices, but it also "is packed with all sorts of details from the world of comics including feature articles on the fabled DC ashcan comics, the Gaines file copies and the history of Star Wars in comics." Sounds exciting!

The Mighty Avengers were the pro-registration superhero team that appeared in the wake of Civil War.  That needlessly expository sentence is there not only to fill space, but also to remind you how long ago this book came out.  I guess that's one of the pitfalls of filling your book with Frank Cho's gorgeous artwork--it will never come out.  Hey, it's out now, though, so that's good!  Oh, and it was also pretty awesome, and brought back the oft-maligned thought balloons in a way that made sense and also set up some pretty funny jokes at times.

Check out the genesis of the current Batman and the Outsiders series with this collection of five one-shot issues where they pick the team!  Except most of the decisions are changed in the first or second issue of the series!  And also, a lot of the things don't make sense!  But I guess that's what happens when you change a comic book's entire creative team after it's solicited!  Good job, DC!

"These are still pretty good stories though," he begrudgingly admitted.

This is what I wrote before about Phantom Darkness: 

"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."

As near as I can tell, it's pretty much the same for the Special Edition!

Not a lot this week, but still some! 

Champions (Bronze Age): #11-17
Detective Comics (Silver Age): #430-432
Flash (Silver Age): #133, 151 (Barry & Iris Get Engaged), 156, 162, 167, 171, 172, 177, 181-186, 188-196, 203, 204, 209, 212, 214-220

We've got even more Silver Age Flash that we'll be putting out soon, so if that's your thing you should definitely check this stuff out!

Serial Pictorial Fanzine #8

This auction is for Serial Pictorial #8, a fanzine made up entirely of nice, full page, black and white stills from various Republic serials. This issue features Roy Barcroft in such serials as Ghost of Zorro, Purple Monster Strikes, Don Daredevil Rides Again, G-Men Never Forget, Radar Men from the Moon, and more. These stills are of a great quality and are perfect for framing.

Magazine is staple bound, black and white, 16 pages (counting covers). Magazine is in excellent condition with only minor overall wear.

Kitchen Sink Press Trading Cards Set

This auction is for a nearly complete set of Kitchen Sink Press 20th Anniversary trading cards. This set is only missing 5 cards. Cards feature original art and cover reprints of work by such artists as Steve Rude, Will Eisner, Charles Burns, Harvey Kurtzman; and such comics as Omaha, the Cat Dancer, The Spirit, BLAB!, Xenozoic Tales and more. This lot comes with several doubles of these cards.

Cards have overall minor wear.

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
Demons of Mercy #2 Free Copy (MR)	03/19/08	04/02/08
All Star Superman #10	03/19/08	03/26/08
Dawn Icons Bust	03/26/08	04/30/08
Kick Ass #2 (MR)	03/26/08	04/02/08
Young Avengers Presents #3	03/26/08	04/02/08
Powers Annual 2008 (MR)	03/26/08	04/02/08
Trials of Shazam #12	03/26/08	04/02/08
Action Comics #863 Reg./Var. Eds.	03/26/08	04/02/08
Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby #4	03/26/08	04/09/08
Faker TP (MR)	03/26/08	04/16/08
Kabuki: Reflections #10 (MR)	04/02/08	04/30/08
Marvel Advs.: Spider-Man TP Vol. 09-Foes Digest	04/02/08	04/09/08
Countdown to Mystery #7	04/02/08	04/09/08
Ultimate X-Men #93	04/16/08	04/30/08
Kick Ass #3 (MR)	04/16/08	04/23/08
Batman #676 Reg./Var. Eds.	04/23/08	04/30/08
All-New Off Hdbk. Mvl. Univ. A-Z Prem. HC Vol. 02	04/23/08	04/30/08

Bob Gale has written the two most recent issues of the now-thrice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man--but what qualifications does he have as a writer?  Well, he was a screenwriter for the excellent Back to the Future, but screenwriting and comics writing aren't exactly the same.  If you've been reading Gale's Amazing Spidey, you know that!  He's using all the tools comics provide that film doesn't, and his favorite tool in that toolbox is the thought balloon.  He's using it all over the place--Spidey thinks even more than he talks!

However, what if you could use such a versatile tool as the thought balloon in film?  Well, let's take a look at what Bob Gale's other greatest work, the Back to the Future Trilogy, might have looked like with this amazing tool (click for a larger, more legible version).