There are two events this weekend!

First, on Saturday, April 12th at 7:00 PM, we're holding a release tournament for Dungeons and Dragons miniatures!  For $25.00 entry, you get two boosters of D&D Miniatures: Dungeons of Dread (already a $5.00 savings over the retail price) which you use to build a 200pt warband.

First Prize: 5 Boosters (Min. 8 Players)
Second Prize: 2 Boosters (Min. 10 Players)

The next day, Sunday, April 13th at 1:30 PM, we have a HeroClix tournament where you can win that big Galactus figure.  The entry fee is $15.00 for this constructed event, but look at what you can win!

First Prize: Galactus Colossal Figure
Second Prize: 5 HeroClix Boosters
Third Prize: 2 HeroClix Boosters

Yes, there will be much gaming this weekend!  We'll also have a limited supply of DC HeroClix: Crisis back in stock!  But for how long, nobody knows!  So get yours before we're completely sold out again!

We've got a ton of stuff lining up for Free Comic Book Day! We'll be giving out hundreds of dollars in door prizes every hour, starting at 9:00 AM! We'll also be doing gift bags for the first 50 people in line, free Chick-Fil-A Biscuits and Cuppy's Coffee for the first 150 people, live music by local band Zoody, and a Super Smash Brothers Tournament sponsored by GameStop--and that's all before we even open the doors! Look at this website I made and find out more!

Anita Trivette is a 27-year-old female from Boone, North Carolina, and her heart doesn't work. She needs a heart transplant desperately, but it takes $20,000 to even get on the list to undergo the $365,000 operation from Duke University, and there are medications, cardiac rehab, and doctor's visit that are required after the operation that will cost even more money. As part of Free Comic Book Day, we'll be running a raffle and a silent auction, from which all proceeds will go towards the Anita Trivette Heart Transplant fund. For more information, please visit her website: http://anitashearttransplant.spaces.live.com/

Anywone wishing to donate can send their donations to:

The Anita Trivette Heart Transplant Fund
P.O. Box 16688
Wilmington, NC 28408

You can also order magazines from http://www.magfundraising.com/heart_to_heart and all proceeds will go towards Anita's heart transplant fund.

Superman.  Batman.  Wonder Woman.  Whenever a set of action figures comes out, we sell out of any of those characters if they're in the set.  Well, unless the figures are horrifically ugly.  So, in a stroke of genius, they've released a set containing those three figures!  Not only that, but based on designs by Matt Wagner, a guy whose art is much easier to turn into an action figure!  Oh, there's also Ra's Al Ghul, but he's cool too.

This comes out this week!  Here are words:

Caius the Shadow Monarch makes an arrival with the all new Yu-Gi-Oh! Structure Deck The Dark Emperor.

Introducing brand new cards and some highly desirable reprints.

This 40-card Deck is built around Caius the Shadow Monarch a Dark Monster that may be one of the most powerful Monsters found on a Structure Deck yet.

Combine The Dark Emperor with your Dark army from the Phantom Darkness booster set and you're on your way to victory.

Thanks, words!

At this point, I am so jaded by the Marvel Zombies I'm just going to copy and paste these words about it:

At last - experience the birth of the Marvel Zombies as told by the creative team of the best-selling limited series, and then witness their rise as they attempt to slake their hunger across two universes! First, Kirkman and Phillips pull out all the stops as they reveal the secret story of the day the Marvel Heroes became brain-eating monsters! Next, follow the Marvel Zombies into the pages of Millar and Land's ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR! Reed Richards has used his scientific genius to contact an Earth in a surprisingly familiar parallel dimension - and he's ready to visit! But nothing could have prepared him for the world he's about to enter! And when the zombiefied FF escape from their Baxter Building prison in the wake of Dr. Doom's return, get ready for the deadly debut of the Frightful Four! Finally, get out the hot sauce, True Believer - it's slobberin' time! In Hudlin and Portela's BLACK PANTHER, the mainstream Marvel Universe's New Fantastic Four just made a wrong turn on the dimensional super highway - and they've landed in the middle of Zombie-verse! And if that weren't bad enough, they've parked their butts on that universe's Skrull Planet! If the Black Panther, Storm, the Human Torch and the Thing can't come up with the perfect escape plan, they're going to be the next hors de'ourve for Zombie Galacti and Zombie Skrulls intent of eating the entire universe! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES: DEAD DAYS; ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #21-23 and #30-32, and BLACK PANTHER #28-30.

Wow.  That was a lot of words.

Hey, everyone knows Hellboy is cool, but imagine how much cooler it is...in hardcover form!  That's right, they're releasing Hellboy in a high-and-mighty fancy-man's hardcover, which is oversized with larger art, and also some new sketches and other unpublished materials.  If you've ever considered getting the collected Hellboy, then you could do a lot worse than picking up this great series in one of these awesome hardcovers.  This one collects the first two trades, even, so you're getting a lot of story and pretty art for your buck!

So, a couple weeks after releasing the Killing Joke, which posits one theory of the Joker's origin, we get this hardcover, which has the most recent idea by Heroes writer Michael Green.  The idea?  That the joker was a super-gunfighting hitman who was already a sociopath.  With some really weird-looking, disjointed art that makes the whole deal look like a Picasso drawing.  So, really, this whole thing is kind of the exact opposite of the Killing Joke.

Hey, we got in a copy of Avengers #4!  That's the first Silver Age appearance of Captain America--the issue where they fish him out of the ice and he joins the Avengers!  It's a little beat up, but if you're interested, you should act fast, because key silver age Marvel issues like that don't stick around for long!  Ask to see it; we're not just leaving it out in our back issue boxes.

Oh we also got in a ton of other Silver Age comics: 

Flash: #130, 131, 143, 145, 214, 217, 219, Annual #1 (Origin of Kid Flash, Grodd, and Elongated Man)
Showcase Presents: #39 (3rd Metal Men Appearance), 40, 44, 47, 48, 50, 51, 55 (First Solo Golden Age Green Lantern Appearance In Silver Age, origin of Dr. Fate and Hourman), 56,
60 (First Silver Age Spectre), #61 (2nd Silver Age Spectre)
Green Lantern: #30, 33, 35, 39, 40 (Origin of infinite earths, 2nd solo Golden Age Green Lantern Appearance in Silver Age, Origin of the Guardians), 88, 89
Adventure Comics: #312, 316-318, 320, 321, 323-326, 327 (First Appearance of Lone Wolf in the Legion), 328, 330, 334, 360
Batman: #149, 150, 152,-154, 155 (First Silver Age Penguin Appearance), 157, 158, 160-162, 165-167, 172, 174, 178, 179 (2nd Silver Age Riddler Appearance), 180, 182, 239, 240, 242-245, Annual #3, Annual #5-7
Detective Comics: #305-310, 311 (First Appearance Catwoman), 313, 314, 317, 318, 320-323, 325 (3rd Appearance Catwoman), 329-331, 335, 336, 342-344, 354, 355, 361, 420, 421, 424, 425, 428
80-Page Giant: #5 (Batman), #8 (JLA Origins)
World's Finest: #127, 129, 130, 132-134, 137-140, 142 (Origin of Composite Superman), 155, 175, 210-214
Justice League of America: #12 (Origin and First Appearance of Dr. Light), 14 (Atom Joins the Team), 15, 18, 19, 21 (First Silver Age Hourman and Dr. Fate Appearances), 22, 23, 25-28, 29 (First Silver Age Starman Appearance), 30, 31 (Hawkman joins team), 32, 35, 38, 39, 96, 97, 99, 100
Amazing Spider-Man: #114, 115, 116, 119, 193
Marvel Triple Action: #5
Marvel Team-Up: #5, 6, 14
Astonishing Ant-Man: #4-6
Mystery in Space: #87 (3rd Hawkman Try-Out Book), 89
Captain America: #155, 156, 158
Superman: #167 (New Origin of Braniac), 168, 170, 173, 185, 187, 207
Action Comics: #302, 325, 326, 329, 409-415
Spectre (1st Series): #1-5, 7

If you would like to help, please contact us as soon as possible!  Our email is fanboycomics@bellsouth.net.

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 Encyclopedia	07/05/07	05/21/08
Powers #29	12/12/07	05/07/08
Darkness #3 Cvrs. A-B (MR)	03/05/08	04/16/08
Ultimates 3 #4 Reg./Var. Eds.	03/12/08	06/11/08
Noble Causes Archives TP Vol. 01	03/19/08	04/16/08
Demons of Mercy #2 Free Copy (MR)	04/02/08	04/23/08
Strange Girl TP Vol. 04: Golden Lights (MR)	04/02/08	04/16/08
Scud the Disposable Assassin #23	04/02/08	04/16/08
Comic Book Cover Portfolio #1: Women of the DCU	04/09/08	04/16/08
Infinite Horizon #3	04/09/08	04/16/08
My Inner Bimbo #4 (RES) (MR)	04/16/08	04/23/08
Thor #8	04/16/08	04/23/08
Batman #675	04/16/08	04/23/08
Countdown to Mystery #7	04/16/08	04/23/08
Punisher Prem. HC: Circle of Blood Reg./Var. Eds.	04/23/08	04/30/08
Kick Ass #3 (MR)	04/23/08	05/07/08
Batman #676 Reg./Var. Eds.	04/23/08	05/07/08
Ultimates 3 #5	04/30/08	08/06/08
Queen & Country Definitive Ed. TP Vol. 02	04/30/08	04/23/08
Countdown to Mystery #8	04/30/08	05/07/08
Loveless #24 (MR)	04/30/08	05/07/08
Salvation Run #7 Reg./Var. Eds.	05/07/08	05/14/08
Criminal 2 #3 (MR)	05/07/08	05/21/08
All Star Superman #11	05/14/08	05/28/08
Fables #73 (MR)	05/14/08	05/21/08
Immortal Iron Fist Prem. HC Vol. 02: Cities of Heaven	05/21/08	05/28/08
Kick Ass #4 (MR)	05/21/08	06/11/08
Un-Men #11 (MR)	06/11/08	06/18/08
Fables #74 (MR)	06/11/08	06/18/08
Astonishing X-Men TP Vol. 4: Unstoppable	06/11/08	07/09/08

I worked on this Free Comic Book Day site and it's more or less done.  What do you want from me?