Tickets are on sale now for our Charity Raffle to benefit the Anita Trivette Heart Transplant Fund! You could win a Year's worth of Food, Coffee, Comics, and Movies! Tickets are $3.00 each or $10.00 for four. More information about the prizes can be found at our Free Comic Book Day Website!

We'll also be giving out door prizes every hour on the hour, starting at 9:00 in the morning, while people are still in line!  We'll be giving out nine door prizes at 9:00, including a $99 omnibus!  Yeah, that's a pretty good reason to get there early!

Mayfaire's being real good to us and helping out with Free Comic Book Day, so we're doing them a favor and making sure you folks are aware of the upcoming Iron Man Movie!

We just did that Galactus Tournament and the D&D Minis release, but there's still more stuff coming up after that!

Pre-Order the Harry the Hammer Figure NOW if you want to get one!  It won't be available past April 27th.  The last chance to pre-order is noon on Monday, April 21st!  The figure costs $24.95, and it looks like this:

The Game Room is also CLOSED on May 2nd and 3rd (Friday and Saturday) for Free Comic Book Day.  On Sunday, May 4th, the Game Room will be closed to everything that isn't the Magic: The Gathering Shadowmoor release tournament.  So plan for that.

He Lives!  He Walks!  He Conquers!  Well, they never really lived up to that latter part of that great cover, although there's still time for Tony Stark to just invade Turkey or something.  Still, if you're interested in Iron Man, this book contains the earliest days of the character, before he even had his own title!  Collected are Tales of Suspense #39-83 and Tales to Astonish #82, which include characters like Hawkeye and Black Widow in their first appearances--as villains!  Yes, this is one hefty volume with a bunch of comics history packed between the covers!

Hey, they've finally released a book about the most widespread villains in the entire Exalted game, the Abyssals.  I mean, seriously, they're the only ones who can match the power of a Solar, and they're the antagonists for pretty much every part of Creation that isn't the Realm of the Dragon-Blooded, and they're just now putting out the book about them?  Well, what's done is done, and now you'll finally have rules for these awesome antagonists--or protagonists, if you feel like running some dark tragic stories.  If you play White Wolf games, though, I can't imagine that would be the case.

Green Arrow's origin has been retold several times, from what I understand.  I hear Mike Grell's version was very good back in the day, but I'm not familiar with it.  So, as a fairly new reader to the whole Green Arrow deal, I have to say that this miniseries was awesome and I have trouble imagining a better version of Green Arrow's origin.  Between Andy Diggle's writing, which, in the aftermath of that mediocre Batman Confidential arc, reminded me he's actually a very good writer and Jock's art, which is probably about as dynamic as any I've seen, you have not just a good Green Arrow story, but a good comic book, period, on your hands.  Yes, I realize that last sentence was absurdly long and convoluted.  Sue me.

We've still got it!  None of you crazy folks out there have picked up this incredibly key Avengers issue, but that's okay, because it means the people who waited a week and were like, "Dang, I just waited a week, and now this book's probably gone," have a shot at it! 

We've also added some other Silver Age stuff, so here's a list of that:

Strange Adventures: #152, 158, 159, 161, 167, 168, 170-174, 180 (First Appearance and Origin of Animal Man), 188, 217 (Adam Strange Origin Retold), 218, 234, 235
The Atom: #2, 3, 11, 14, 15
80-Page Giant: #1, 6
Hawkman: #4 (First Appearance and Origin of Zatanna)
Mystery in Space: #82-86, 88, 90 (Adam Strange and Hawkman Team Up For the First Time), 91-96, 98, 107
Our Fighting Forces: #78, 82, 86, 136, 137
Our Army At War (Featuring Sgt. Rock): #120, 128, 129, 131-133, 135, 137-140, 142-148, 248, 249
Sgt. Rock's Prize Battle Tales (One-Shot)
G.I. Combat (Featuring the Haunted Tank): #96, 100, 104, 106, 116, 134, 136, 152, 153, 155
Star-Spangled War Stories: #108, 109, 143 (Enemy Ace), 145, 164 (Unknown Soldier)
Superman: #162, 171, 173, 176, 179, 249-251, 253, Annual #8
Forbidden Worlds (Silver Age Horror and Sci-Fi): #120, 122, 123
Unknown Worlds: #29, 32, 34, 53
Adventures into the Unknown: #147, 150, 151

If you got a Free Comic from Fanboy Comics on Azalea Festival, you may have won a $100.00 gift certificate!  Check to see if the ticket in your book has this number:

827561

If it does, bring your ticket by and pick up your gift certificate!

We're having a big sale at our E-Bay store!  We're offering 20-50% off many of the items we sell!  Holy smokes!

We need volunteers to help us out with Free Comic Book Day.  We need folks to hand out books, manage traffic, put up flyers, and review some comics for the site.  We also need someone who can help us take pictures of this year's Free Comic Book Day and maybe even some video of the event.

Also, we're always welcoming donations in our charity fund raiser to help Anita Trivette get a new heart.  Please tell all your friends about the raffle and silent auction.  Also, if your business or organization would like to donate items for the silent auction, please contact us.  Our email is fanboycomics@bellsouth.net and our phone number is (910) 452-7828.

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
Warhammer 40K: Blood & Thunder TP	03/26/08	04/23/08
Fall of Cthulhu #11 Cvr. A	03/26/08	04/23/08
Halo: Uprising #3 (MR)	04/23/08	05/07/08
Spider-Man: With Great Power #4	04/23/08	04/30/08
Demons of Mercy #2 Free Copy (MR)	04/23/08	04/30/08
Action Comics Annual #11 Reg./Var. Eds.	04/23/08	04/30/08
Thunderbolts #120	04/23/08	05/07/08
Countdown to Mystery #7	04/23/08	04/30/08
Black Panther #36	04/30/08	05/21/08
Loveless #24 (MR)	05/07/08	05/14/08
Batman #676 Reg./Var. Eds.	05/07/08	05/14/08
Countdown to Mystery #8	05/07/08	05/14/08
Salvation Run #7 Reg./Var. Eds.	05/14/08	05/21/08
Halo: Uprising #4 (MR)	05/21/08	06/18/08
Welcome to Tranquility TP Vol. 02	05/28/08	05/14/08
Black Panther #37	05/28/08	06/18/08
Black Panther #38	06/25/08	07/16/08
Spawn #177	N/A	04/23/08
Spawn: Godslayer #8	N/A	04/23/08

I don't know if you saw this, but check out these great stills from Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit!

SAMUEL L. JACKSON IS THE OCTOPUS:

THE ONLY WAY THE SPIRIT CAN STOP THIS IS BY FLYING STRAIGHT AT IT:

OH NO!  THE OCTOPUS HAS CHANGED HIS BODY TO AN EARLIER TIME TO DESTROY YOU, FRANK MILLER'S WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT: 

SAMURAIS MAKE IT SO THE SPIRIT MUST FEED HIS CATS!  BUT THE SPIRIT IS CAUTIOUS!  NOBODY WHO WATCHES HIM FEED HIS CATS WHILE SHIRTLESS WILL EVER KNOW HIS IDENTITY:

THE ONLY THING THAT CAN STOP THE SPIRIT FROM FEEDING HIS CATS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST IMAGE EVER:

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

IT IS A MYSTERY!