Sunday, August 04, 2013

NEW BOOKS ARRIVING NEXT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7th!!!



ART BOOKS
*This Week's Highlights!*
- The third installment in the Battle Milk concept sketchbook series arrives! This time it's got the work of 4 new artists from artists working on Star Wars 1313 & the Clone Wars & Thor 2! Available now in Toronto!

- We also have the next issue of DRAW! Featuring the work of Lee Weeks, Yildiray Çinar & Joe Rubinstein! Learn how-to from the best in the industry!

- An indespensible poster collection containing all the iconic imagery from the xenomorph franchise is collected in one neat portfolio! Grab it this week!

- The fantastic artwork of Zhang Xiaobai is collected in 'Fantasy Tattoo Art' featuring her amazing compositions of painted tattoos, traditional Chinese iconography and detailed background scenes! Check it out this Wednesday!

- Al Feldstein's remarkable career is collected in a new book along with many unpublished photgraphs in the new 'Mad Life & Fantastic Art of FELDSTEIN'!

- Hi-Fructose enthusiasts will want to get their hands on the new Collection 3 Boxset featuring the 3rd hardcover collected edition with a Snow Yak mask by Mark Ryden, a fold out poster by McBess, a sticker book by Tara McPherson and others, Junko Mizuno's day-glo prints with even more in there! And its limited to only 2,500 copies! Don't miss it!

- Now available in Toronto is 'Punch Drunk Mustache' featuring the off-time work of eight animation industry artists showcasing concept art full of new ideas and unique styles!

- Star Wars fans who love their mechanical designs will want to get ahold of the new 'Star Wars Complete Vehicles' with updated desgns on all the inner workings of the spaceships and vehicles from both trilogies complete with cross sections and construction secrets in full color!

- 'Tales: The art of Christian Alzmann' features the narratives, digital paintings, sketches and pencils of, who else?; Christian Alzmann! Check out his stuff complete with his digital process in Photoshop & Painter at our Toronto Store!

ALIEN SAGA POSTER COLLECTION
BATTLE MILK 3 (Now available at Toronto!)
DC SUPERHERO CHESS FIG COLL MAG #35 GREEN LANTERN WHITE BISH
DRAW #25 
FANTASY TATTOO ART HC 
FELDSTEIN MAD LIFE & FANTASTIC ART OF HC
HI FRUCTOSE COLL 3 BOX SET
PUNCH DRUNK MUSTACHE (Now available at Toronto!)
STAR WARS COMPLETE VEHICLES HC UPDATED ED 
TALES THE ART OF CHRISTIAN ALZMANN (Now available at Toronto!)



COMICS
*This Week's Highlights!*
- Hit Girl's still stuck in prison while Kick-Ass is trying to keep the gang together with a  new threat on the horizon. Meanwhile Red Mist hangs with his mum. Pull on your tights and cowl and come pick up the second issue of 'KICK-ASS 3' this week; and then maybe go check out the second movie, I'm sure Mark Millar would like that too...

- The second issue of Matt Fraction's 'Satellite Sam' arrives this Wednesday where we find Mike burying his father while sorting through dirty and shocking photographs.

- What happens when a sidekick finds his superhero mentor assassinated? Can a sidekick live up to people's expectations? Follow the plight of one such fellow in the first issue of 'Sidekick' out this week!

- Villians are slowly learning to fear the new Superior Spider-Man who seeks to put a permanent end to every one of them, and the Hobgoblin is currently in his sights. Find out if he makes it out alive in issue #15, out this Wednesday!

- What happens when a man in the year 1921 falls in love with a woman in the year 3797 through some crazy time and space reality bending physics? Well it could be the end of the universe and theirs could be the last love story to ever be told! And Jeff Lemire is the one telling it! Check out his new mini-series 'Trillium' when the first issue comes out!

ACTION COMICS #23
ALL NEW X-MEN #15
AME COMI GIRLS #6
AVENGERS #17 INF
AVENGERS AI #2
BATWING #23
BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY #1 (OF 4) CHAYKIN CVR
BURN THE ORPHANAGE BORN TO LOSE #1 (OF 3)
CABLE AND X-FORCE #12
CYBER FORCE #5 
DAMSELS #9
DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #3 (OF 8)
DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #2 (OF 4)
DETECTIVE COMICS #23
DIAL H #15
EARTH 2 #15
FAIREST #18 
GEORGE RR MARTIN SKIN TRADE #2 WRAP CVR 
GREEN ARROW #23
GREEN LANTERN #23
HUNGER #2 (OF 4)
INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #5
IRON MAN #14
KICK-ASS 3 #2 (OF 8) 
LADY RAWHIDE #1 (OF 5)
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #11
MANHATTAN PROJECTS #13
MICHAEL AVON OEMINGS VICTORIES #4 (OF 5) TRANSHUMAN 
ROBOCOP LAST STAND #1 (OF 8)
SATELLITE SAM #2 
SIDEKICK #1 CVR A MANDRAKE 
SIDEKICK #1 CVR B ADLARD 
STORMWATCH #23
SUICIDE RISK #4
SUPERIOR CARNAGE #2 (OF 5)
SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN NOW #2
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #15
SWAMP THING #23
TEN GRAND #4 
TRILLIUM #1 (OF 8) 
X-FACTOR #260



MANGA
*This Week's Highlights!*
- Oh Alice, where will you wind up going next? Or perhaps it's a question of when? Well it's usually a question of who will she wind up with next? And in this case it's with Julius Monrey, the grim Clockmaker whose job it is to literally wind up the clocks of Wonderland!

- The FINAL VOLUME of Bakuman arrives this week concluding the story of our two hardworking young men with the fulfillment of promises and hit manga careers close at hand! Volume 20 arrives this Wednesday!

- Chiwa Takanashi enters into an arranged marriage in order to help her father, imagining that it won't be binding. unfortunately for her, her husband-to-be thinks differently. Can two strangers living together get along? Find out from the beginning when the first volume of 'Happy Marriage' arrives in store!

- Pokemon trainers Gold & Silver are back and so is Team Rocket! Check out the first of two volumes for 'Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver' when it wildly appears on our new manga shelf this Wednesday!

- Osamu Tezuka's sequel to Princess Knight, 'Twin Knight' releases this week. Queen Sapphire gives birth to twins who are torn apart when rival factions within her kingdom seek to place their favorite child on the throne.

ALICE I/T COUNTRY OF HEARTS CLOCKMAKERS STORY GN VOL 01
BAKUMAN TP VOL 20 
CERTAIN SCIENTIFIC RAILGUN GN VOL 08
DANCE IN VAMPIRE BUND OMNIBUS VOL 03 
DEVIL & HER LOVE SONG GN VOL 10
HAPPY MARRIAGE GN VOL 01 
KAMISAMA KISS TP VOL 13 
KANOKON GN COLL ED VOL 02 
KAZE HIKARU GN VOL 21 
KIMI NI TODOKE GN VOL 17 FROM ME TO YOU 
LIBRARY WARS LOVE & WAR GN VOL 10 
NARUTO TP VOL 62 
NURA RISE O/T YOKAI CLAN GN VOL 16
POKEMON ADV HEARTGOLD & SOULSILVER GN VOL 01 
POKEMON BLACK & WHITE GN VOL 11
SACRED BLACKSMITH GN VOL 02 
SLAM DUNK GN VOL 29 
TEGAMI BACHI GN VOL 14
TEZUKA TWIN KNIGHT GN VOL 01 
TORIKO GN VOL 17 
WORLD WAR BLUE GN VOL 02



GRAPHIC NOVELS
*This Week's Highlights!*
- The softcover trade for Batman Arkham Unhinged arrives this week along with the new hardcover for the second volume!

BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED HC VOL 02
BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED TP VOL 01
CROSSED HC VOL 06 
CROSSED TP VOL 06 
DISTANT SOIL TP VOL 01 THE GATHERING
DISTURBINGLY AWFUL MAD TP
JUDGE DREDD COMP CASE FILES TP (S&S ED) VOL 06 
RACHEL RISING TP VOL 03 CEMETERY SONGS
RUBICON HC 
SAUCER COUNTRY TP VOL 02 RETICULAN CANDIDATE 
THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR HC 
TORPEDO TP VOL 04



TOYS
*This Week's Highlights!*
- Fans of Adventure Time's Fionna can grab her hat this week! Also we've got Finn & Jake's swords back in stock along with new plushies of the Flame Princess and Lemongrab! Plus we're even getting a new calendar for 2014 and role play glasses for you to drink in on New Year's Eve!

- Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, arrives this Wednesday as an insanely detailed oversize action figure designed from his Batman Arkham City character model witha  removable heart and chest!

- A cute lil' figurine of Saber from Fate/Stay Night comes in from Kotobukiya with 17 points of articulation!

- Your toys will look puny beside the new 12" Hulk Titan Heroes figure with squeeze-leg-to-Hulk-Smash action!

- Those of you looking for plush Totoros will have two to choose from this week!

- Megaman fans will want to upgrade their collection with the new Bass & Treble toys from D-Arts with interchangeable arm, face and hand parts!

- Two great articulated and quality Power Ranger figures are morphin into our store this week, and it's the Green and Red Ranger!

- We've got a hot statuette of Persona 4's teen idol Risette coming in!

- Check out the new mini chibi Transformers figures!

ADVENTURE TIME 2014 CALENDAR 
ADVENTURE TIME ROLE PLAY GLASSES ASST 
DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL ED 2014 WALL CALENDAR 
ADVENTURE TIME DLX FIONNA HAT
GAME OF THRONES PIN SHIELD LANNISTER
ADVENTURE TIME 24-IN FINN SWORD
ADVENTURE TIME 24-IN JAKE SWORD 
ADVENTURE TIME 7-IN FAN FAVE FLAME PRINCESS PLUSH 
ADVENTURE TIME 7-IN FAN FAVE LEMONGRAB PLUSH
BATMAN ARKHAM CITY SOLOMON GRUNDY DLX AF
FATE/STAY NIGHT SABER CU-POCHE FIG 
GUND TOTORO 6-IN TOTORO PLUSH 
GUND TOTORO 9-IN TOTORO PLUSH
HULK 12IN TITAN HEROES AF CS 
MARVEL SPIDER-MAN MUNNY
MEGA MAN BASS & TREBLE D-ARTS AF SET 
MMPR GREEN RANGER S.H.FIGUARTS AF 
MMPR RED RANGER S.H.FIGUARTS AF 
PERSONA 4 RISE KUJIKAWA HIGH PRIESTESS PVC FIGSTAR WARS LIGHTSABER UMBRELLA
TLS X TRANSFORMERS MINI FIG 16PC BMB DS