Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Last Day of the Boxing Week Sale




LAST DAY for the Boxing Week Sale! Today till 5pm!

As promised, most everything in the store will be 20% off!

Also, come in today (the 31st) and get...

35% off Back Issues
30% off TPBs/HCs
30% off Board Games
30% off M:TG Singles

For those of you on Facebook, you can follow it here!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Remi's Top 10 Albums of 2010

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor



2. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit



3. Fishermans Mission - This is Therapy



4. Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards



5. Kayo Dot - Coyote



6. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis



7. The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship



8. Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder



9. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier



10. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante



Biggest Disappointment - Wolf Parade - Expo 86

Some of the other albums I liked this year!

Quest for Fire - Light From Paradise
Drive-By Truckers - The Big To Do
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Enemies - We've Been Talking
Aeon Now - Timless Outlaws
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
The Ocean - Anthropocentric
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
Neil Young - Le Noise
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Mogwai - Special Moves
Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
The Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter
Johnny Cash - America VI: Ain't No Grave
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Wovenhand - The Thresing Floor
Wintersleep - New Inheritors
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
Mother Night - Extinct Dialects
Creature with the Atom Brain - Transylvania
Brant Bjork - Gods and Goddesses
Karma to Burn - Apalachian Incantion
Tera Melos - Patagonian Rats
Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer
Devo - Something for Everybody
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
She & Him - Vol. 2
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern


Albums I'm interested in checking out!

Envy - Recitation
Black Keys - Brothers
The Sword - Warp Riders
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality
Circle - Rautatie
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
Daughters - Daughters
Tom Petty - Mojo
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
Kaki King - Junior
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Liars - Sisterworld
No Age - Everything in Between
Torche - Songs for Singles
A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
Down - Diary of a Mad Band
Cathedral - The Guessing Game

Remi's Top 10 Comics of 2010

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Comics Shipping Dec. 29th

ACTION COMICS #896
ALL NEW BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #2
ARCHIE & FRIENDS TP VOL 07 BETTY & VERONICA STORYB
ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN WOLVERINE #4 (OF 6)
ASTONISHING X-MEN XENOGENESIS #4 (OF 5)
AVENGERS #8
BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #1
BIGFOOT HC (MR)
BOONDOCK SAINTS HEAD OF THE SNAKE #2 (OF 2)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TALES HC
BULLETPROOF COFFIN #6 (OF 6) (MR)
BULLSEYE PERFECT GAME #2 (OF 2)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #613
CARNAGE #2 (OF 5)
CHAOS WAR X-MEN #1 (OF 2)
CIVIL WAR UNDERSIDE HC
CRICKETS #3 (MR)
DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #4
DARKNESS ACCURSED TP VOL 04
DC COMICS PRESENTS JLA #1
DC COMICS PRESENTS THUNDER AGENTS #1
DEADPOOL CORPS #9
DETECTIVE COMICS #872
ECHOES #1 (OF 5)
EMITOWN TP
FAME LADY GAGA #2
FLASH #8
GEARS OF WAR #15 (MR)
GI JOE #25
GI JOE DISAVOWED TP VOL 02
GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #18
GREEN ARROW #7
GREEN LANTERN #61
HALO FALL OF REACH BOOT CAMP #3 (OF 4) (MR)
HELLBOY SLEEPING & DEAD #1 (OF 2)
HEROIC AGE X-MEN #1
HULK #28
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #2 (MR)
JACK OF FABLES #49 (MR)
JIM SILKE JUNGLE GIRLS SC
JLA THE 99 #3 (OF 6)
JOHN CARTER OF MARS WEIRD WORLDS TP
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #46
LIFE WITH ARCHIE MARRIED LIFE #6
MAGDALENA ORIGIN TP VOL 01 (OF 2)
MARVEL SELECT MAGNETO AF
NEMESIS #4 (OF 4) (MR)
NEW MUTANTS #20
OSBORN #2 BIG
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR #2 (OF 4)
PREVIEWS #268 JANUARY 2011
RED EYES ONLY #1
SCALPED #44 (MR)
SECRET WARRIORS #23
SHIELD #5
SHREK #2 (OF 4)
SIEGE TP THUNDERBOLTS
SPIDER-GIRL #2
SUPER HERO SQUAD GN TP INFINITY SWORD QUEST
TEEN TITANS #90
THUNDERSTRIKE #2 (OF 5)
TINY TITANS #35
TOMB OF DRACULA OMNIBUS HC VOL 03
TRACKER TP VOL 01
TRANSFORMERS BEST OF STARSCREAM TP
TRANSFORMERS SECTOR 7 #4 (OF 5)
TRUE BLOOD #6 (OF 6)
ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS 3 #5 (OF 6)
ULTIMATE COMICS THOR #3 (OF 4)
VERONICA #204
WHAT IF 200
WIDOWMAKER #2 (OF 4)
WIZARD MAGAZINE #234
WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #3
X-23 #4
X-FORCE PREM HC CABLE & NEW MUTANTS
X-MEN FOREVER 2 #14
X-MEN TO SERVE AND PROTECT #2 (OF 4)

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Comic Reviews


Black Panther: The Man Without Fear

Read like bit of a strange title? Well that’s because it is sort of strange, but I’m going to go ahead and start this review off by telling you that this new book is absolutely great.

Following the events of Doomwar, King T’Challa’s empire in Wakanda has been reduced to poverty and has lost their vibranium, the very source of what their kingdom was once built upon. This has no doubt left the Black Panther shattered, seeing his people suffer, and though he had to do what had to be done, he wasn’t able to come out of the battle with Von Doom unscathed. Fast forward a few months to Shadowland; Matt Murdock attempts to manipulate the Hand for the greater good, and loses his soul in the process. Now we’re back to square one. Daredevil has some soul searching to do (quite literally) but doesn’t want to leave his territory to crumble amongst the criminal rabble: Cue T’Challa. Both men are searching for something that they have lost and both men need to search for it elsewhere, so Daredevil enlists Black Panther to look over his city. The concept may seem a bit trite, (the soul searching) and perhaps so, but the idea of Black Panther looking over Hell’s Kitchen? That’s just too cool.

David Liss is the writer, who I never recognized before, but let me tell you he does a marvellous job. The “Daredevil-out, Panther-in” scene in the comic’s first few pages seems a rushed passing-of-the-torch for a territory so entrenched in Murdock’s history, but it actually works. Liss doesn’t delve too deep into the self-loathing or melodrama; he just sets the scene and setting and then gets right into the story.

After the events of Shadowland, and the subsequent crumbling and dissipating of the Hand presence, crime has risen again and with it a new Gang threat. The disappearance of Daredevil is apparently well known, and those on the seedy side of the law are taking advantage. A Romanian family, lead by a man called Vlad the Impaler (who reveals a secret of his past), is trying to make an impression in Hell’s Kitchen, and the Black Panther wants to nip it in the bud. T’Challa quickly finds out that ruling Hell’s Kitchen isn’t quite like ruling a kingdom: nothing is off limits.

Liss weaves a sort of noir-ish tale, which works really well in the dark and gritty confines of Hell’s Kitchen, and the new villain is a welcome face as well. It would have been hard to swallow T’Challa going up against Fisk or the like, but this keeps the setting familiar but the people and events fresh.

I’m definitely looking forward to the unfolding of T’Challa vs. Vlad. Give it a read if you enjoy the darker streets of Marvel’s heroes.

Comic Reviews


Fables Volume 3 – Storybook Love

Willingham’s amazing series continues in this third volume, giving a bit of insight into some residents of Fabletown’s pasts. The volume opens with a one-shot tale involving Jack Horner, and his time spent with the Confederate forces during America’s civil war. The tale is clever and funny, Jack being a great character.

The volume then focuses on two separate arcs that involve threats posed to Fabletown, the first from an outside source, and the second from within. The first, a two-part caper, involves a journalist who believes Fabletown to be a secret society of immortal vampires. Though quite in the wrong, Bigby isn’t going to allow any sort of information getting out to the world about their clandestine community. He forms a crack squad involving Boy Blue, Bluebeard, Prince Charming, Flycatcher, Sleeping Beauty, and the anchor (not really) Jack Horner. Bluebeard believes their plan to be nonsense, but in a threatening scene, Bigby puts him in his place. This is a great bit that reminds how Big and Bad the Wolf can actually be.

In the second arc, Goldilocks, now a dangerous fugitive on the run from Fabletown authorities, apparently isn’t content with the way Snow White took the bullet to the head in their last encounter. A powerful spell makes Snow and a certain wolf companion delusional, taking a camping trip far away, while Goldilocks attempts to track them down and finish the job.

More like a series of small short stories than a powerful plot-driver, Storybook Love is a volume that tides us over before the next big arc, but it definitely does it well. There are a few large cliffhanger points, most importantly: Snow White becoming pregnant!

I hope you’re enjoying the series so far, because large and dangerous work is at foot, and the next volume exemplifies that to the fullest!

Friday, December 17, 2010

Bagley's Back at Marvel!


He will forever be linked to one of the greatest runs in comics history and now he's returning to that place which suits him so well.


http://marvel.com/news/story/14876/mark_bagley_returns_to_marvel

Besides the fact that they're promising to kill the main character, USM continues to be one of the best books you can buy month in and month out. It looks like it's going to hopefully stay that way for a long time to come.


Comics Shipping Dec. 22nd





















28 DAYS LATER #18
A SINGLE MATCH HC (MR)
ABATTOIR #2 (OF 6) (MR)
AGE OF BRONZE #31 (MR)
ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON #3 (OF 4) (MR)
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #10 (MR)
AMORY WARS KEEPING SECRETS OF SILENT EARTH 3 #7
ANGEL ILLYRIA #2 (OF 4)
ARCHIE #616
ART OF VAMPIRELLA HC
ARTIFACTS #4 (OF 13)
AXE COP TP VOL 01
AZRAEL #15
B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #210
BART SIMPSON COMICS #57
BATMAN ANNUAL #28
BATMAN INCORPORATED #2
BATMAN NO MANS LAND TP VOL 01
BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #18
BLACKEST NIGHT AF SER 6
BLUE BEETLE BLACK AND BLUE TP
BOMB QUEEN VI #3 (OF 4) (MR)
CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK #55
CHAOS WAR DEAD AVENGERS #2 (OF 3)
CHEW #16 (MR)
CLASSIC GI JOE TP VOL 10
DC COMICS PRESENTS SUPERMAN #3
DC COMICS PRESENTS YOUNG JUSTICE #3
DC UNIVERSE LEGACIES #8 (OF 10)
DEADPOOL #30
DEADPOOL PULP #4 (OF 4)
DYNAMO 5 HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2010 #1
FAME CAST OF GLEE
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #253
FANTASTIC FOUR #586
FRAZETTA DEFINITIVE REFERENCE HC REVISED ED
FX 2 LOST LAND TP
GIANT-SIZE GFT 2010 HOLIDAY ED
GREEN HORNET GOLDEN AGE REMASTERED #5
GREEN HORNET YEAR ONE #7
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #55
GREEN LANTERN LARFLEEZE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #1
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #54
GUILD VORK #1
GULLIVERS TRAVELS HC VOL 01
HAUNT #12
HELLBLAZER #274 (MR)
HIT-MONKEY TP YEAR OF MONKEY
HITMAN TP VOL 03 LOCAL HEROES NEW PTG
INCORRUPTIBLE #13
INCORRUPTIBLE TP VOL 03 (MR)
INCREDIBLE HULKS #619
INVINCIBLE #76 (MR)
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #33
IRON MAN RAPTURE #3 (OF 4)
JOE HILLS THE CAPE ONE-SHOT
JOHN MOORE PRESENTS DEAD SOLDIER #4 (OF 4)
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #16
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #52
KEVIN SMITH KATO #6
KILL SHAKESPEARE #8 (OF 12)
KLAWS OF PANTHER #4 (OF 4)
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #169
LAST ZOMBIE #3 (OF 5)
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #8
LOGANS RUN #5
LONE RANGER & TONTO #4
MAD MAGAZINE #507
MARVEL 2011 CALENDAR (FREE)
MARVEL SELECT DEADPOOL AF
MARVEL UNIVERSE VS PUNISHER HC
MARVELS TP EYE OF CAMERA
MASCOTS HC
MICE TEMPLAR VOL 3 #1
MICKEY MOUSE & FRIENDS #303
MORNING GLORIES #5
NAMOR FIRST MUTANT #5
NAOKI URASAWA 20TH CENTURY BOYS GN VOL 12
NEIL GAIMAN GRAVEYARD BOOK MMPB
OUTSIDERS #35
PETER & MAX A FABLES NOVEL TP (MR)
POWER GIRL #19
PREDATORS 7-IN AF SERIES 2
PUNISHER IN BLOOD #2 (OF 5)
RATCHET AND CLANK #4 (OF 6)
REID FLEMING WORLDS TOUGHEST MILKMAN HC VOL 01
ROBERT E HOWARDS SAVAGE SWORD #1
ROBERT JORDAN WHEEL OF TIME EYE O/T WORLD #7
ROTTEN TP VOL 01 REACTIVATED
SAVAGE DRAGON #167
SECRET AVENGERS #8
SINFEST VIVA LA RESISTANCE
SIXTH GUN #7
SKULLKICKERS #4
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #220
SPIDER-MAN #9
SPIDER-MAN TP REAL CLONE SAGA
STAN LEE TRAVELER #2
STAR WARS INVASION RESCUES #6 (OF 6)
STARGATE VALA MAL DORAN TP
STUFF OF LEGEND THE JUNGLE #3 (OF 4)
SUPERIOR #3 (OF 6) (MR)
SUPERMAN BATMAN #79
TALES FROM WONDERLAND TP VOL 03
TANK GIRL BAD WIND RISING #1 (OF 4)
TEEN TITANS COLD CASE #1
TEEN TITANS RAVAGER FRESH HELL TP
TELARA CHRONICLES #4 (OF 4)
THOR VS SETH SERPENT GOD TP
THOR WOLVES NORTH #1
TIKITIS HC
TOP COW HOLIDAY 2010 SPECIAL GN
TOY STORY TALES FROM TOY CHEST #4
TRAIN ME GAMBLE TP VOL 01
ULTIMATE COMICS DOOM #1 (OF 4)
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #151
UNCANNY X-MEN #531
UNTOUCHABLE ONE-SHOT
USAGI YOJIMBO #134
VAMPIRELLA ARCHIVES HC VOL 01
VIKING TP VOL 01 LONG COLD FIRE (MR)
WAKING TP
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #714
WARLORD OF MARS #3
WHAT IF DARK REIGN
WILDCATS #30
WONDER WOMAN #605
WORLD OF WARCRAFT CURSE OF THE WORGEN #2 (OF 5)
X-FILES 30 DAYS OF NIGHT #6 (OF 6) (MR)
X-MEN #6
X-MEN LEGACY #243
X-MEN NOIR TP MARK OF CAIN GN
ZATANNA #8
ZOMBIE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES SC

Thursday, December 16, 2010

New Board Game/RPG Arrivals!


NEW ARRIVALS (RPG = Role Playing Game books/supplements, BG = Board Games, BIS = Back In Stock, CCG = Collectible Card Game, NCCG = Non-Collectible Card Game)

Battletech: First Strike (Novel)
Defenders of the Realm: Dragon Expansion (BG)
Map Pack: Shops (RPG)
Munchkin Reloaded Mini Expansion (NCCG)
Pathfinder Companion: Inner Sea Primer (RPG)
Pocket Battles: Orcs vs. Elves (BG)
Railways of the World (BG-BIS)
Railways of the World: Railways of the Western USA Expansion (BG)
Reiner Knizia's Mmmmm.... Brains! (BG)
Savage Worlds: Fantasy Companion (RPG)
Settlers of Catan 15th Anniversary Edition (BG)
Starfleet Battles: Captain's Log 42 (RPG)
Thunderstone (BG-BIS)
Thunderstone: Doomgate Legion (BG, on sale on Tuesday)
Vampire: The Requiem-New Wave Requiem (RPG)
World of Warcraft: Worldbreaker (CCG)

Comic Reviews


Fables Volume 2 – Animal Farm

So there was a fake murder, and it didn’t take Bigby Wolf, Sheriff of Fabletown, very long to discover the culprits behind the scheme. After seeing Bigby dishing out the punishments to Rose Red and her (now ex) boyfriend Jack Horner, the series makes the journey from Bulfinch Street in NYC upstate to the Farm. Snow White has business to do up there, and brings her recently-scolded twin-sister along for the ride, but when they arrive it appears strange things are afoot.

In this second volume, Willingham introduces the readers to the Farm for the first time and the myriad of storybook folk who can’t pass in human society: Shere Khan the ferocious tiger, Henny Penny (‘The sky is falling!’) and the Billy Goats Gruff, to name a few. Not quite as perceptive as her office partner Mr. Wolf, Snow White doesn’t quite catch on to the fact that there is about to be a violent insurrection at the Farm, spearheaded by the ill-tempered Goldilocks. The Animals are fed up with being cooped up away from the city, and they plan to take matters into their own hands in an effort to get back to the glory of the homelands. But first they need guns. Lots and lots of guns. How are tortoises and hares going to pull triggers? Funny thing about that...And of course every great revolution needs a great leader, so this one has...Rose Red!?

Willingham’s second volume is every bit as good as the first, and then some. He introduces many new characters, while building upon the foundations of the first volume and fleshing out those characters as well. If you haven’t read it yet, grab it and join in. Things only keep getting better.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Fringe Moves to Friday Night

I know a lot of the Comic Hunter community watches Fringe. You may have heard that Fox is moving it to Friday nights. Friday night is where shows on the major networks go to die. Funnily enough, Fox acknowledges that fact in the following ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrwXij6HthY&feature=player_embedded

Pretty funny. Let's hope their claim to re-animate Friday nights is correct!

Iron Man #500 - the Death of Tony Stark

http://marvel.com/news/story/14844/iron_man_the_death_of_tony_stark

So, between this and the Fantastic Three, it looks like it's open season on heroes at Marvel.

In (un?) related news.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/jon_favreau_iron_man_3.html


That sucks. Especially this part if it's true:
In a recent interview with MTV News, Favreau explained that based on his conversations with Marvel Studios executives, he had no clarity as to what a third Iron Man film would even be about. “In theory, Iron Man 3 is going to be a sequel or continuation of Thor, Hulk, Captain America and Avengers,” said Favreau at the time, “This whole world … I have no idea what it is. I don’t think they do either, from conversations I’ve had with those guys.”


If there's one thing comic book companies have shown us through the years, it's that they know how to kill a good thing. Let's hope that's not the case here. (p.s. - again, that Thor trailer looks awesome!)