Sunday, May 21, 2017

Hello, all--

If you’re in town next weekend you could be in for a real treat: Richmond cartoonist DASH SHAW (Cosplayers, Bottomless Belly-button, Bodyworld, and so much more) created an animated film that will be screened at the Byrd Theater next Sat 5/27 and Sun 4/28 at 4:30PM! MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL  SINKING INTO THE SEA, with voice acting by Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, Reggie Watts, Susan Sarandon and more! It looks GREAT! Here’s the trailer:

And just the next day is MEMORIAL DAY. And we will be open for truncated hours (10-4) and having a targeted sale on specific items! There’ll be many boxes of variant covers at liquidation prices, and a bunch of other surprises! Come by before you do a kegstand at that cookout you’re planning to attend!

LAST CALL! Subscribers! Tell us ASAP if you want any of these books debuting in a few weeks so we order enough! Thanks!
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LEGION OF SUPER HEROES/BUGS BUNNY SPECIAL (DC) I’m pretty into all these DC/Looney Toons mash-ups. How wonderfully absurd.
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MARTIAN MANHUNTER/MARVIN THE MARTIAN (DC) I think I’ve waited my entire life for this one.
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KILL THE MINOTAUR (Image) Big monster fantasy action in ancient Greece!
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WINNEBAGO GRAVEYARD (Image) A family on vacation is confronted by horror on the road! By Steve Niles & Allison Sampson.
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DEFENDERS (Marvel) Bendis brings the Netflix team together in comics form, with art by David Marquez. This is one I don’t know the ceiling/basement on, so your input will be very helpful.
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SECRET EMPIRE UNITED (Marvel) There’s an uppity mutant territory in the new HydraCap America, and HydraCap goes to investigate.
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JIMMY’S BASTARDS (Aftershock) Garth Ennis’ riff on a James Bond style character. The title implies some level of impropriety, I guess we’ll have to read it and discuss after.
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JIM BUTCHER’S DRESDEN FILES: DOG MEN (D.E.) This is  great example of a book I’m not sure whether  to order, but will happily get you a copy if you’d like. Tell me!
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NORMANDY GOLD (Titan) 70s prostitution noir! Great cover.

SHIPPING! Here’s what’s on the way into your eager mitts on WEDNESDAY, MAY 24TH:
A SINGLE MATCH HC  24.95
A&A ADV OF ARCHER & ARMSTRONG TP VOL 03 ANDROMEDA 14.99
ACTION COMICS #980 2.99
ALL NEW GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #2 3.99
ALL NEW WOLVERINE #19 KUBERT 2ND PTG  3.99
ALTERS TP VOL 01  14.99
AMERICAN FLAGG DEFINITIVE COLL HC VOL 01 49.99
ANGEL SEASON 11 #5   3.99
ANNO DRACULA #3 (OF 5)   3.99
ARCHIES ONE SHOT   4.99
ASSASSINS CREED UPRISING #4   3.99
BATGIRL #11 3.99
BATMAN 66 MEETS WONDER WOMAN 77 #5 (OF 6) 3.99
BATMAN BEYOND #8 3.99
BATMAN DETECTIVE TP VOL 02 VICTIM SYNDICATE   16.99
BATMAN NEW GOTHAM TP 29.99
BATMAN THE SHADOW #2 (OF 6) 3.99
BEAUTY #15   3.99
BEN REILLY SCARLET SPIDER #2 3.99
BILLIE HOLIDAY HC  19.99
BLACK HAMMER #9   3.99
BLACK PANTHER #14 3.99
BLACK PANTHER #14 ROBINSON VAR  PI
BLUE BEETLE #9 3.99
BOOKS OF MAGIC TP BOOK 01  34.99
BRAVE GN  11.00
BRIGGS LAND TP VOL 01 STATE OF GRACE   19.99
BTVS SEASON 11 #7    3.99
BULLETPROOF COFFIN TP VOL 02 DISINTERRED  17.99
BUNKER TP VOL 04 19.99
BVS DAWN OF JUSTICE PLAY ARTS KAI SUPERMAN AF   149.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA STEVE ROGERS #17 SE 3.99
CONAN THE SLAYER #9 3.99
DARK CORRIDOR TP VOL 01  14.99
DC REBIRTH JUSTICE LEAGUE ACTION FIGURE 7 PACK 100.00
DC UNIVERSE BY MIKE MIGNOLA HC 39.99 Ahh, a modern master of the form’s earlier, hard-to-find superhero work. This is a treasure trove.
DEADLY CLASS #28   3.99
DEADPOOL WORLDS GREATEST TP VOL 07 DEADPOOL DOES   15.99
DEATH BE DAMNED #4 3.99
DEATHSTROKE #19 (LAZARUS) 2.99
DEPT H #14 3.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #957 2.99
DOC SAVAGE RING OF FIRE #3 (OF 4)   3.99
DOCTOR STRANGE AND SORCERERS SUPREME TP VOL 01 OUT 15.99
DOCTOR STRANGE SORCERERS SUPREME #8 3.99
DYING AND THE DEAD #4   3.99 NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM! THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING!
DYING AND THE DEAD SPEC ED TP 9.99
EAST OF WEST #33 3.99
ELEKTRA #4 3.99
END LEAGUE TP VOL 01 BALLAD OF BIG NOTHING   12.95
EVERYTHING IS FLAMMABLE GN   25.95
GARTH ENNIS RED TEAM DOUBLE TAP #9 (OF 9)  4.99
GHOSTBUSTERS 101 #3 3.99
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #240 3.99
GOLEM’S MIGHTY SWING GN 16.95
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY MOTHER ENTROPY #4 (OF 5) 3.99
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #21 2.99
HARROW COUNTY TP VOL 05 ABANDONED   14.99
HELLBLAZER #10 3.99
HELLBLAZER TP VOL 16 THE WILD CARD  24.99
HIGHLANDER AMERICAN DREAM #4 (OF 5) 3.99
I AM GROOT #1 3.99
INFAMOUS IRON MAN #8 3.99
INJUSTICE GROUND ZERO #12 2.99
JAMES BOND SERVICE SPECIAL 7.99
JASON I KILLED ADOLF HITLER HC  16.99
JASON LOST CAT HC  19.99
JASON ON THE CAMINO HC   24.99  For seminal cartoonist Jason’s 50th birthday, he walked 500 miles through northern Spain. This is the account of the highs and lows of that trip. Very excited to read this one!
JEAN GREY #2 3.99
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS TP VOL 02 19.99
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS TP VOL 04 ENTER THE STINGERS 19.99
JIM HENSON POWER OF DARK CRYSTAL #3 (OF 12) 3.99
JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS TP VOL 01 17.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #7 2.99
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #5 (OF 12) 3.99
LETTER 44 #33 3.99
LUMBERJANES #38 3.99
MAGDALENA VOL 4 #3 3.99
MARVEL LADY LOKI BISHOUJO STATUE   89.99
MASS EFFECT DISCOVERY #1 3.99
MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL #5 SE 3.99
MIGHTY TP   19.99
MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR #19 3.99
MOON KNIGHT TP VOL 02 REINCARNATIONS 15.99
MOONSHINE TP VOL 01  9.99 Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s new prohibition era gangsters n’ werewolves comic!
MOSAIC #8 3.99
MOTHER PANIC #7  3.99
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #54 3.99
NORMALS #1   3.99
OCTOPUS PIE TP VOL 01 14.99
OCTOPUS PIE TP VOL 03 14.99
OLD GUARD #4  3.99
ONE MORE YEAR HC MEGG & MOGG   24.99
OPTIMUS PRIME #7 3.99
PANTHER HC  26.95
PATHFINDER   4.99
PLASTIC #2 (OF 5)    3.99
PLEASE DESTROY MY ENEMIES GN  6.99
POP MARVEL DOC OCK VINYL FIG   10.99
POP MARVEL FALCON CLASSIC VINYL FIG  10.99
POP MARVEL SHE-HULK VINYL FIG   10.99
POWERPUFF GIRLS TIME TIE #1 (OF 3) 3.99
PSYCHO PASS INSPECTOR SHINYA KOGAMI TP VOL 02   11.99
RAPTURE #1  3.99 Valiant’s new mini-event with Shadowman, Ninjak and more!
RAT QUEENS #3  3.99
REBELS THESE FREE & INDEPENDENT STATES #3 3.99
REDNECK #1 2ND PTG  3.99
REDNECK #2  3.99
RINGSIDE #10  3.99
SAMARITAN VERITAS #1 3.99
SAUCER STATE #1 (OF 6) 3.99
SAVAGE DRAGON #224  3.99
SCIENCE COMICS FLYING MACHINES SC GN  12.99
SCOOBY DOO TEAM UP #26 2.99
SECRET WARRIORS #2 SE 3.99
SEVEN TO ETERNITY #6    3.99 Just a reminder: THIS BOOK IS AMAZING.
SHAOLIN COWBOY WHOLL STOP THE REIGN #2  3.99
SHATTERED WARRIOR GN   17.99
SIGNAL TO NOISE HC    24.99
SILVER SURFER EPIC COLLECTION INFINITY GAUNTLET TP 34.99
SOULFIRE #3   3.99
SPIDER-MAN BY TODD DEZAGO AND MIKE WIERINGO TP 39.99
STAR TREK BOLDLY GO #8 3.99
STAR-LORD ANNUAL #1 4.99
SUICIDE SQUAD #18 2.99
SUN BAKERY #3  4.99
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES TP VOL 03 19.99
TEEN DOG TP 19.99
TMNT TEA TIME FOR A TURTLE HC 12.99
TMNT UNIVERSE #10 4.99
TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #19 3.99
UNDERWINTER #3   3.99
UNWORTHY THOR TP 15.99
VANDROID TP  17.99
VENOM #150 5.99 The first Marvel book back to its original numbering (this time around)! Art by Tradd Moore!
VENOM #150 DELL’OTTO VAR   PI
VENOM #150 STOKOE VAR  PI
VENOM #150 YOUNG VAR  PI
VICTOR LAVALLE DESTROYER #1 3.99
VIOLENT LOVE TP VOL 01 STAY DANGEROUS  9.99
WARHAMMER 40000 REVELATIONS #3 (OF 4)    3.99
WONDER WOMAN #23 2.99
WONDER WOMAN BY GREG RUCKA TP VOL 01 29.99
X-MEN BLUE #4 3.99
X-O MANOWAR (2017) #3   3.99
YOUR BLACK FRIEND GN 5.00 Excellent cartoonist Ben Passmore’s contribution to the talk about race relations.

That’s it for now, see you soon!
PKG/VC
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Hello, all--

PARKING! I’d call it the elephant in the room, but it’s more like a freak giant mutant mastodon all sprawled out over blocks of the busiest thoroughfare in the city-- hard to miss. They finally went and did it this week, folks. The city and the GRTC shut down parking along my block, without much information on when or if it’ll come back. It’s imperative to me (and the well-being of my business) to advise you as best I can on what parking options you have. I hope this is helpful:
  1. The VCU parking deck! It’s just down a block westward, above the Barnes and Noble. It costs $1 for an hour or less, and effective immediately we will split that with any customers that use this option and spend more than $20.
  2. Metered parking is still open (for now) across the street on our block!
  3. There are blocks and blocks of free one hour parking just north of the shop: East/West on Marshall, Clay, and Catherine, and North/South on Goshen and Gilmore. As VCU lets out there’ll be a lot more spots up around there.
  4. The parking lot behind us, but be aware: that’s attached to the businesses next to us like 5 Guys, Tropical Smoothie, and 7-11, and it is policed pretty heavily. As long as you fold a visit to one of those other places into your trip, you’ll be fine.
  5. Across the street in front of 7-11 there is a loading zone. You are legally allowed to park there for up to 30 minutes.

In other, more fun news, DC announced yesterday what is sure to be a contender for my favorite book of the year: Tom King and Mitch Gerads are doing a year-long MISTER MIRACLE & BIG BARDA series!  Details are here:
...and Doom Patrol’s Nick Derington is on covers! Look at this!
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LAST CALL! These books are shipping in a few weeks, and in order to order the right amount we need you subscribers to tell us if you want to add any of them to your lists! And keep in mind: adding to your list now doesn’t commit you to anything past the first issue. If you don’t like it you can drop it!
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WONDER WOMAN: STEVE TREVOR (DC) That title makes it sound like Steve Trevor is taking over the mantle of Wonder Woman, but that’s not it. This is a one shot about Trevor timed to coincide with the WW movie.
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HASBRO HEROES SOURCEBOOK (IDW) Like the old Who’s Who and Official Handbooks of yesteryear, this time with the likes of Rom, Micronauts, Transformers and more! We will be ordering very lightly on these, speak up if you want!
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DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA (Image) Provocateur Howard Chaykin’s new series about the world we live in today.
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ICEMAN (Marvel) The older version of Bobby Drake embarks on solo adventures while he figures his stuff out.
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SECRET EMPIRE: BRAVE NEW WORLD (Marvel) This tie-in follows several characters as they decide to fight or fall in line with HydraCap.
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STAR WARS: DARTH VADER (Marvel) His prior ongoing was too beloved, so they’re bringing it back. Just with 100% less Kieron Gillen, and 100% more Charles Soule.
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BABYTEETH (Aftershock) Neonatal horror by the newly anointed hottest writer in comics Donny (Redneck, God Country) Cates!
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UNSOUND (Boom!) I’m convinced Cullen Bunn is actually like 3 people, he writes way too many comics to be just one guy. This one’s a psychiatric hospital horror thang.
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GAME OF THRONES: CLASH OF KINGS (D.E.) If you want this adaptation, sound off! Orders will be tight.
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GWAR: ORSMAGEDDON (D.E.) Hometown heroes are back in comics! I imagine this’ll do pretty well here.
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KISS/VAMPIRELLA (D.E.) There’s gotta be at least one person out there who has waited for this his or her or their entire life. If YOU are that person, let me know!
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MAGNUS (D.E.) A new take on an old favorite.
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MIGHTY MOUSE (D.E.) Do people under the age of 40 know who this is? I don’t know. But he’s got a new comic!
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LOST FLEET: CORSAIR (Titan) Based on the hit sci-fi novels!


4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK #4                           3.99  
ABANDON THE OLD IN TOKYO TP                         16.95
ADVENTURE TIME COMICS #11                      3.99
AMERICAN FLAGG DEFINITIVE COLL TP VOL 01                19.99
AMERICAN MONSTER #6                             3.99
ANIMAL NOIR #4 (OF 4)                                    3.99
ANIMOSITY #7                                         3.99
AQUAMAN #23                                              2.99
ARCHIE #20                          3.99
ASSASSINS CREED REFLECTIONS #3 (OF 4)      3.99  
ASTRO CITY #44                                           3.99  
BATMAN #23                                               2.99
BATWOMAN #3                                              3.99
BIRTHRIGHT #24                                       2.99
BRITANNIA WE WHO #2 (OF 4)                      3.99  
BULLETPROOF COFFIN TP VOL 01        17.99
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #8                  3.99  
CEREBUS IN HELL #4                                       4.00  
CURSE WORDS #5                           3.99
DAREDEVIL #20                                            3.99
DC BLUELINE WONDER WOMAN AF BY JIM LEE                  40.00
DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS #27                                 3.99
DEAD INSIDE #5 (OF 5)                                    3.99  
DEADPOOL BAD BLOOD OGN HC                               24.99
DEADPOOL VS PUNISHER #3 (OF 5)                           3.99
DEPT H HC VOL 01 PRESSURE                  19.99
DOCTOR WHO 10TH YEAR THREE #5                3.99  
DOCTOR WHO 12TH YEAR THREE #3             3.99
ECLIPSE #7                                               3.99
ELEANOR & THE EGRET #2                                   3.99
FEW #5 (OF 6)                                        4.99
FLASH #22 (THE BUTTON)                                   2.99  The finale to the hottest story of the year! There will be answers, I believe. I hope.
FLASH TP VOL 02 SPEED OF DARKNESS (REBIRTH)             14.99
FOREVER WAR #4 (OF 6)                  3.99
FREE COUNTRY A TALE OF THE CHILDREN’S  CRUSADE TP     19.99
GENERATION X #1                                          3.99 The student becomes the teacher as Jubilee trains a ragtag group of young mutants. She’s gotta be, what, like 2 years older?
GENERATION X #1 WADA HIP HOP VAR              PI    
GOD COUNTRY #5 CVR A SHAW                            3.99
GOD COUNTRY #5 CVR C SPAWN MONTH VAR    PI    
GOD COUNTRY #5 CVR D SPAWN MONTH B&W VAR      PI
GOLD DIGGER #242                                         3.99
GREATEST ADVENTURE #2
GREEN ARROW #23                                          2.99
GREEN ARROW TP VOL 08 THE HUNT FOR THE RED DRAGON       19.99
GREEN LANTERNS #23                                       2.99
GRRL SCOUTS MAGIC SOCKS #1             3.99
GRRL SCOUTS MAGIC SOCKS #1 (OF 6) SPAWN MONTH VAR   PI    
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY MOTHER ENTROPY #3 (OF 5)             3.99
HARLEY QUINN #20                                         2.99
HERMAN BY TRADE GN                       22.95
HORIZON #11                                          2.99  
INJUSTICE 2 #2                                           2.99
INVINCIBLE #136                                      2.99  
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #7                                   3.99
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS TP VOL 01 SHOWTIME                  19.99
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS TP VOL 03 DARK JEM                  19.99  
JOSEPHINE BAKER GN                        22.95
JUGHEAD #15                      3.99  
JUSTICE LEAGUE #21                                       2.99  
JUSTICE LEAGUE POWER RANGERS #4 (OF 6)                   3.99
KIM REAPER #2                                            3.99
KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #11                                 3.99
LAKE OF FIRE TP                                     16.99
LOW #18                  3.99  
LUCIFER #18                                          3.99  
LUKE CAGE #1                                             3.99 Luke’s all hoodied up and ready to fight a bunch of thugs in a hallway, Netflix-style!
MAGICAL TWINS DLX HC                     19.95
MAKING OF HC                                        29.95
MARVEL SELECT SPIDER-MAN AF             24.99
MARVEL SELECT SPIDER-WOMAN AF                24.99
MASK MOBILE ARMORED STRIKE KOMMAND #6                    3.99
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #15              3.99
MIGHTY THOR #19                                          3.99
MIKE MIGNOLA SCREW ON HEAD & CURIOUS OBJECTS ARTIST ED        
MONSTERS UNLEASHED #2                                    3.99
MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS GN    39.99
NANCY DREW HARDY BOYS #3                 3.99
NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS SHADOWS #3      3.99
NICK FURY #2                                             3.99  
NIGHTWING #21                                            2.99
NINJAK #27                                3.99
OCTOPUS PIE TP VOL 02                                   14.99
OCTOPUS PIE TP VOL 04                                   14.99
ODYSSEY OF THE AMAZONS #5 (OF 6)                         3.99
POP MARVEL CAPTAIN MARVEL UNMASKED VINYL FIG      10.99  
POP MARVEL DOCTOR STRANGE CLASSIC VINYL FIG       10.99
POP MARVEL NEMESIS PUNISHER VINYL FIG        10.99  
POP MARVEL SPIDER-GWEN VINYL FIG            10.99
POWERS #8                                            3.99
PUNISHER #12                                             3.99
REAL SCIENCE ADVENTURES FLYING SHE-DEVILS #2 (OF 6)      3.99
RED SONJA #5                               3.99  
REICH #6 (OF 12)                                     4.00
RESURRECTION PERVERTS HC VOL 01                     15.99  
REVOLUTIONARIES #4                                       3.99
REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA DELUXE HC BOX SET    49.99  
RISE OF DUNGEON MASTER GARY GYGAX & CREATION OF D&D      16.99  Artist of my favorite book from last year (Love Addict) Koren Shadmi illustrates this great-looking biography GN!
ROM #10                                                  3.99  
ROSE #2                                      3.99
ROYAL CITY #3                                        3.99
ROYALS #3                                                3.99
SECRET EMPIRE #2 (OF 9)                                  4.99  
SECRET EMPIRE #2 (OF 9) SORRENTINO HYDRA HEROES VAR   PI       
SHE WOLF TP VOL 01                                       9.99
SOVEREIGNS #1                               3.99
SPAWN #1 25TH ANNIVERSARY DIRECTOR’S CUT       4.99  
SPAWN #273                               2.99
SPIDER-MAN SPIDER-GWEN SITTING IN TREE TP               17.99
SPREAD #21                                           3.99
STAR TREK TNG MIRROR BROKEN #1 (OF 6)                    3.99
STAR WARS #31                                            3.99
STAR WARS #31 CHRISTOPHER ACTION FIGURE VAR    PI
STAR WARS #31 NOWLAN 40TH ANNIVERSARY VAR     PI      
STAR WARS POE DAMERON #15                                3.99
STREET FIGHTER VS DARKSTALKERS #1 (OF 8)     3.99 Two of your favorite video game properties hashing it out-- with punching and kicking and perhaps some energy dispersal!
SUPER SONS #4                                            3.99
SUPERGIRL TP VOL 01 REIGN OT CYBORG SUPERMEN      16.99
SUPERMAN #23                                             2.99
TANK GIRL GOLD TP                                   16.99
TEEN TITANS #8 (LAZARUS)                                 3.99
TORCHWOOD 2 #4                              3.99
TRASH MARKET GN                     22.95
TRIGGERMAN TP                                       19.99
TRINITY #9                                               3.99
ULTIMATES 2 #7 SE                                        3.99
UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #20                             3.99
US AVENGERS #6 SE                                        3.99  
WARHAMMER 40000 DAWN OF WAR III #1 (OF 4)      3.99  
WICKED & DIVINE 455 AD #1 (ONE-SHOT)        3.99  
WILD STORM #4                                            3.99  
WILL EISNER SPIRIT CORPSE MAKERS #3 (OF 5)        3.99
WONDER WOMAN 77 BIONIC WOMAN #4 (OF 6)       3.99  
WORLD READER #2                           3.99
X-MEN GOLD #4                                            3.99

That’s it for now, see you soon!
PKG/VC
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